History about Basketball
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Basketball is one fames game .You can play it buy your self and you dont need alot of equipment . All you do is bounds the ball into the hoop. You can play buy your self or with two players .
In the old days in Mexico the Olmec people would play with there enamy heads . Since 1892 in springfield Massachusetts Doctor James invented the game call Basketball with a ball and a hoop . For the hoop he used baskets .
For there first game you could have 18 players or less. James Naismth didn't have money to design a ball they decied to use a soccer ball . The game was only 30 minutes long.The first game score 1-0
The first competitive leagues
One of the first competitive of basketball where in the big citys in the eastern part of the united states . Some of the first Citys were the proffesional basketball , New York , Philadelphia , and Boston .
In 1898 there was six teams
diveded in to leagues .In 1901 colleges began to acept basketball. In the years early teams played less than 10 games but the lucky ones would play maybe 15 or 16 .
The early professional teams
In 1914 there was a team called The Original Celties ;this team ended buring war , after words two brotrhers ( Jim Fursey , Tom Furey )
The not so Roaring 20s
Basketball was a second choose as entertanment in the 1920s .
Small teams were usually owned by small coperachens , soon others teams joined the league , since most of the teams were owned by small corporations they played sparing ly .