Basketball History

5-Comments

- 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.