Both Lithuania and Latvia (Baltic states) have Basketball as the national sport.
However, Latvia has two national sports: basketball in the summer, Ice Hockey in winter.
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This sport is popular in the U.S and there is a major league called the NBA for national basketball assosiation.
no basketball is not presently an Olympic sport today
Basketball doesn't have a first name- basketball is the name of a sport.
In 1892, women's basketball was introduced at Smith College in Massachusetts. The invention of basketball is credited to James Naismith, a Canadian coach, in 1891, who wrote the first rulebook for the sport. Senda Berenson, a teacher at Smith, modified the rules for women and taught basketball classes.
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