The game of basketball was invented in Springfield, Massachusetts by a man by the name of James Naismith.
Naismith was a teacher at the International Young Men’s Christian Association Training School in Springfield. At the school he was asked by the physical education teacher to invent a new indoor game, which could be played during the cold winter months in Massachusetts. He started working on the idea in December 1891. His ideas came from other sports he played as a child. Their favorite game “Duck on the Rock” involved one boy guarding the duck from the other boys throwing stones at the rock.
He also knew about ancient religious traditions involving the Mayan po-ta-pok and the Aztec tchlatchli. Po-ta-pok was played using a full inside ball made by rubber and a ring, place on a pole, as in the modern basketball but vertically. Tchlatchli was typically the same thing.
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