the first Basketball was a soccer ball
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A soccer ball.
no they used a real basket insted of a net and basketball players used to wear tights.
January 20, 1892
When Dr. Naismith invented basketball he didn't have a 'basketball' to use. So, he looked around his gymnasium and decided that a soccer ball was the right size and he used that.
Basketball doesn't have a first name- basketball is the name of a sport.