History says that Basketball was invented in December, MDCCCLXLI. That would make CXV years between MDCCLXXVI and MDCCCLXLI.
five players
James Naismith invented the game of basketball which then led to many different organizations of basketball. At the end two organizations combined to as what we know right now, the NBA.
Yes, it is much older. It's origins can be traced back thousands of years, though rules were only really formalised in the mid-nineteenth century, to bring together the many variations of the game. Basketball was only invented in the late nineteenth century.
The Apple 1 computer was invented in 1976.
16 years
five players
James Naismith invented the game of basketball which then led to many different organizations of basketball. At the end two organizations combined to as what we know right now, the NBA.
Yes, it is much older. It's origins can be traced back thousands of years, though rules were only really formalised in the mid-nineteenth century, to bring together the many variations of the game. Basketball was only invented in the late nineteenth century.
16 years
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It was five years after they were invented
It was five years after they were invented
The origin of Basketball is actually a Canadian Sport with peach baskets from 1891, so 118 years old as of 2009
Basketball was invented in America by a P.E. teacher to begin with. Many people loved the new game he invented, and it started spreading rapidly. Eventually, the sport was made into a professional sport, the NBA, and caught on quickly.
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