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Brief History of Basketball by glenwatkins048 is a document available to read on EtoBox.
1) The game of basketball was invented in 1891 by James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts where he used two half-bushel peach baskets as the first goals. 2) Basketball spread around the world through the US Army and YMCA, with the first international match occurring in 1893 as members took the game to places like India, China, and Japan. 3) A standard basketball court is a rectangle 50 feet by 94 feet, with markings like the free throw line and three-point line, and goals with rims 10 feet above the f
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