The backboard became part of Basketball in 1893 because before backboards, the players would run into the wall when they tried to do a lay up.(back then, the hoops just stuck out of the wall). so then, they decided to make a backboard and stick it out from the wall so the players could do lay ups and not crash into the walls and hurt themselves.
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Basketball backboards were invented in 1894 to help prevent spectators from interfering in the game. They were designed to stop people from throwing anything that would interfere with the basket.
because they were needed to put in back of the basket ball hoop and they found something hard to put there and that's how the back board was invented
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.
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The origins of basketball and the basketball net trace back to 1891, when an instructor at YMCA named Dr. James Naismith nailed a peach basket onto an elevated track. He also wrote basic rules for the game.
Dunking of the basketball in the American Basketball Association was banned from 1967 to 1976. It was brought back because of its popularity.
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