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There are many reasons why the NBA and the sport of professional basketball are so popular. ... Naismith without him professional basketball would not even exist today. ... He called his new idea basketball because it was originally played by nailing peach baskets onto the balconies at either end of a gymnasium and challenged his student to throw a soccer ball into them from below. The metal hoop (ring) was introduced in 1893 and soon thereafter the use of a soccer ball was replaced by the first basketball. ... Naismith was a professor at Springfield College in Massachusetts and was asked to invent a sport for the season in between baseball and football. Naismith figured that with the weather of this season, it would be best to invent an indoor game, basketball. On top of inventing the game, he also was admitted to the Basketball Hall of Fame, which none the less was also named after him. Basketball has come a long way since Mr. ...
James Naismith gave a great gift to the world of sports when he invented basketball, but he went even further.
Approximate Word count = 854
Approximate Pages = 3.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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