History of Basketball Part 1

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1. What year was the NBA started?2. What year was Basketball Invented?3. Who invented the game of basketball?4. The game of basketball was developed as way to keep people active indoors during the winter.5. What were the original hoops made out of?6. What types of balls were first used?7. Where did the name "Basketball" come from?8. Why where the Peach baskets, replaced with todays medal hoops?9. What is the name of the organization Dr. Naismith worked for, that was instrumental in helping to teach/spread the game across the country?10. What year did Basketball start being played in High Schools?11. What year did Basketball start being played in colleges?12. Which University hired Dr. Naismith in 1898 as a teacher and coach of it's first Basketball program?13. By 1901 there were regular collegiate Basketball games all across the country.14. What is the biggest difference both then and now between Basketball & Football that helped make basketball so popular?15. What year did President Theodore Rosevelt try to due away with Football in colleges, because of the dangers of the sport?16. What is the name of the committee that was formed in 1905 to make Football safer and now governs all college sports?17. What year was the first college basketball championship played?18. What percent of the NCAA's annual revenue is now generated by Division 1 Men's Basketball?19. When did professional basketball leagues start forming?20. What basketball team (still in existence today) formed in the 1920s and helped to increase the popularity of the game?21. What was the name of the first professional basketball association formed in 1937?22. Other than a court, name some of the venues, the game was played originally played in?23. In 1946, Walter Brown and the Basketball Association of America, started using what types of arenas across the country for professional basketball games?24. On August 3rd, 1949 the NBA was formed when what two competing organizations merged?25. Which 5 current NBA teams can trace their roots all the way back to the NBL?26. In 1942, eight years before non-white players were not allowed in the NBA, which league signed multiple black players including Bill Jones?27. Which 2 players are considered the NBA's first superstars?28. After starting in the United States basketball quickly spread around the world. What year was FIBA the International Basketball Federation formed?29. What year was basketball first included in the Olympics?

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