History of Basketball  

Online Research: Go online. Look for and provide the following information. Publish your information as a new post in your Electronic Portfolio and upload to drop box. 
1. Who invented Basketball? Basketball is the only major American sport with a clearly identifiable inventor. James Naismith wrote the sport’s original 13 rules as part of a December 1891 class assignment at a Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) training school in Springfield, Massachusetts. Born and educated in Canada, Naismith came south to pursue his interests of physical education and Christian ministry. Naismith expanded on an assignment to create a game that could be played in YMCA gyms during the winter.
2. Where?  Springfield, Massachusetts
3. When? December 1891
4. How?  Created 13 rules part of a class assignment and develop it to a physical education game.
5. Why? James Naismith devoted little effort to shaping the evolution of the game he invented, although he spent a decade as the University of Kansas’s founding basketball coach, losing more games than he won.
6. What were the circumstances at the beginning?  Knowing how to use the five main ideas and the 13 rules.
7. What was it like at the start? When the will shoot the ball the janitor will come with a ladder and get the ball out of the basket and  start the game again.
8. How is basketball different today than when it first started? From today they had more rules to the game and the court are updated without using a ladder.
9. Insert some few images about basketball.
10. What types of shots were done? Slam dunks, rebound, jump shot, and lay up.
11. Anything else of interest.  Michael Jordan, who retired in January 1999 but returned to the league in 2001, has scored more points (5,987) in the playoffs than any other player