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Surprisingly, unlike most sports whose origins are somewhat obscure, often being the combination of other sports and developed gradually through time, Basketball has a very precise and fully known origin.It was all started by Dr. James Naismith, the son of two Scottish immigrants to Canada. By 1891, Dr. Naismith was teaching physical education in Springfield, MA at the YMCA International Training School (which today is Springfield College). While there, he was asked by the director of physical education, Dr. Luther Gulick, to come up with a new game students could play indoors during the winter that would help keep Track and Field runners in shape and would be relatively safe to play (particularly that it would have a small amount of physical contact so that the players wouldn't get injured in this game).

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James Naismith had to invent a game indoors. He hung two peach baskets and used a soccer ball. It was invented in 1937 on November 17.

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Basketball was invented by James Naismith who was born in Canada. He invented this sport in the Unites States. Hope this can kind of answer your question.

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