Before the 2023-24 NBA season kicks off, some of the best basketball players in the world will gather in the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia for the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup. There will be no ...
The road to many of basketball's most prestigious international tournaments is well underway. The first window of qualifying for the AmeriCup, EuroBasket, AfroBasket and Asia Cup started back in ...
The National Basketball Association (NBA) (www.NBA.com) and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) today announced that the NBA App and www.NBA.com will carry FIBA’s digital platform, ...
When Dr James Naismith invented basketball in 1891, he couldn't have dreamed that the game would become the world's second most popular sport, played in more than 200 countries, and a multi-billion ...
Most people are familiar with at least a few details of basketball's humble origin story: the creative gym teacher who thought it up, the simple peach baskets for hoops, and the sport's initial lack ...
During the first basketball game played in 1891, players dunked balls and scored points in a basket normally used to collect peaches. To keep his students engaged, James Naismith, a 31-year-old ...
Frank J. Basloe's 1952 book, "I Grew Up With Basketball," argues that Lambert Will's team, not James Naismith's team, played basketball months before Naismith is generally credited with inventing the ...
Marian Bemis Johnson and Dorothy McIntyre, authors of "Daughters of the Game: The First Era of Minnesota Girls High School Basketball, 1891-1942," will speak at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Bethel Lutheran ...