Basketball is a sport enjoyed by millions of people in at least 100 countries. It’s one of the
26 sports in the world. It began in 1891.
Dr. James A. Naismith, the father of basketball, was a teacher of YMCA training school. It trained the people to work in YMCAs. Officials at the school were
27 about the low attendance during the
28 months. They
29 that people didn’t attend then
30 the school did not have a good sports program in winter. So they asked Dr. Naismith for
31 . He came up with a new indoor game.
Naismith studied games being played at that time. He found that all the most
32 games used a ball. So a ball would be part of his new game, he decided. But
33 the ball or hitting it would be too
34 for indoors. So he put two
35 up on the poles. The players had to try to
36 a ball into them. Naismith then made thirteen
37 for the game. Twelve of them are still in
38 today. Just seven
39 after the game began professional basketball teams were
40 . And that’s how basketball was born.
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