Early Days of Basketball

In 1891, James Naismith, a professor that went to Springfield College in Massachusetts, created basketball. He created a concept to control a ball, dribbling around the court and passing. Also, passing it to a teammate, and get the ball straight into the basket. First, couple of games they used a soccer ball and peach baskets. High school and colleges started to play the game of basketball. Since the game grew everyone started to play, it also grew to be an aggressive sport. Referees started calling fouls when a player was hit. Anywhere that you would shoot from it would count as 2 points, a free throw had a value of 1 point. However, now we have a 3 point line which is counted as 3 points, the rest remained the same. The game was pretty simple just had to pass the ball to get in a position to shoot well. Everyone on the court that were playing had 24 seconds to shoot the ball and if not it would be the other teams ball. Players on the court were usually tall, fast-speed, jump higher, and to get close to the basket to score points.  

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