Basketball is a game for a rainy day from 1891

In early December 1891, Canadian Dr. James Naismith,^[2] a physical education professor and instructor at the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School^[3] (YMCA) (today, Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts was trying to keep his gym class active on a rainy day. He sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied and at proper levels of fitness during the long New England winters. After rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot (3.05 m) elevated track. In contrast with modern basketball nets, this peach basket retained its bottom, and balls had to be retrieved manually after each "basket" or point scored; this proved inefficient, however, so the bottom of the basket was removed,^[4] allowing the balls to be poked out with a long dowel each time.

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• 1 History
• 1.1 Creation
• 1.2 College basketball
• 1.3 High school basketball
• 1.4 Professional basketball
• 1.5 International basketball
• 1.6 Women's basketball
• 2 Rules and regulations
• 2.1 Playing regulations
• 2.2 Equipment
• 2.3 Violations
• 2.4 Fouls
• 3 Common techniques and practices
• 3.1 Positions
• 3.2 Strategy
• 3.3 Shooting
• 3.4 Rebounding
• 3.5 Passing
• 3.6 Dribbling
• 3.7 Blocking
• 4 Height
• 5 Variations and similar games
• 6 Social forms of basketball
• 7 Fantasy basketball
• 8 See also
• 9 References
• 10 Further reading
• 11 External links