The history of basketball paved the way to a lot of significant events and people who made countless contributions for the evolution of basketball. Thanks to the very efforts of its founder, Dr. James Naismith, an instructor and a student in a Canadian school, basketball came into being.
Early History
It is said that the first court for basketball was situated in a YMCA Training School now known as Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts. Dr. Naismith needed something to pump up the energy level of his students and put them in proper shape as winter came.
He had numerous ideas but then after realizing how poor it suited the gymnasiums, he decided to establish the rules first. His idea of the first ring is a peach basket that is nailed on a 10-foot elevated track. But this peach basket didnt have a hole at the bottom.
Thats why balls have to be manually retrieved every once in a while every time the ball had hit a score. However, this proved to be tiring and inefficient for proper and fun gaming. Due to this, he decided to poke a hole into the bottom for the ball to go down whenever it is shot through it.
The ball that was used was...