- Fact 2 - James Naismith is the man
credited with inventing basketball in 1891
- Fact 3 - James Naismith was a
teacher at a YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts
- Fact 4 - Peach baskets were used as
the first “hoops” and the first backboards were made of wire
- Fact 5 - The National Basketball
Association (NBA) is one of the major sports leagues, of which
USA and Canada are members
- Fact 6 - The positions of players
in basketball are as follows:
- Point guard
- Shooting guard
- Small forward
- Power forward
- Center
- Fact 7 - The first basketball game
was held on 20th January, 1892
- Fact 8 - Michael Jordan is a world
famous basketball player with a record score of 5,987 in the
playoffs
- Fact 9 - Basketball became an
official Olympic event in Berlin, Germany in 1936
- Fact 10 - On March 2, 1962, center
Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in one game against the New
York
- Fact 11 - The first basketball was
actually a soccer ball. The modern basketball was introduced in
1929
- Fact 12 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar holds
the record for most points scored in his 20 year career at
38,387 points
- Fact 13 - March Madness began in
1939, when the first NCAA tournament was held at the University
of Illinois
- Fact 14 - Until 1937, the referee
tossed a jump ball after each basket
- Fact 15 - The Harlem Globetrotters
are an exhibition basketball team that combines athleticism,
theater and comedy
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