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Basketball, as we know it today, was created in 1891 by a physical education teacher. Which, he belonged to the YMCA University of Massachusetts, called James Naismith.


This teacher was trying to devise a sport that his students could play indoors during the harsh northern winters. Unlike disciplines such as athletics, soccer, rugby or baseball that were so successful at the time.


The idea of a ball going through a basket, as the objective of this sport, comes from a game that Naismith played in his childhood, as simple as it consisted of aiming with a stone at a target placed at a certain height.

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