- James Naismith graduated as a medical doctor
- Naismith watched his sport, basketball, introduced in many nations by the YMCA movement as early as 1893.
- Basketball was introduced at the Berlin Olympics in 1936.
- The first game was played with a soccer ball and two peach baskets.
- He needed a game that could be played indoors in a relatively small space.
4-Questions
- Was the YMCA a big support of this movement?
- What made the olympics choose basketball for their events?
- Why was the first basketball game played with a soccer ball?
- Why did he create his own ball for basketball instead of using the soccer ball?
3-Vocabulary
- Foul shot (free throw): A throw from the foul line, given a player after a foul has been called against an opponent.
- Foul: Act of violation; When someone violates the rules and they're penalized for it;A person creating contact to another opponent.
- Turnover: When the offense loses possession through its own fault by passing the ball out of bounds or committing a floor violation.
1-Summary
- In this chapter it showed some of the violations that James made for the basketball game and how his creations had become this big popular sport that everybody liked.
