History of Basketball

James Naismith invented basketball in 1891 in Springfield Massachusetts in the USA. Dr. James invented the game because he wanted the athletes to have something to play during the winter. The objective of the game was to throw the basketball, into the fruit baskets nailed to the lower railing of the gym balcony.  The funny part was that at first the basketball didn't have a hole to let the ball out so every time a point was scored, the game was stopped so the janitor could bring out a ladder and retrieve the ball. After a while, the bottoms of the fruit baskets were removed. Basketball is different today because now we have more than 100 rules while back then they only had 13. In addition back then they played basketball with a soccer ball now we have the right ball to play basketball. At the beginning the game was played with 18 players nine in each team the game was 30 minutes long 15 each half.