Inventor Of Basketball

Dr James Naismith, a gym teacher at a YMCA in Springfield MA is the one who is credited with giving birth to the modern invention which has unquestionably become the most popular indoor sport in the United States. Many would wonder how the inventor of basketball would have ever come up with such a random seeming set of things put in place as two nets, a ball, a court, and five on five action. But the inventor of basketball had a complete other set of ideas about the purpose of this game when it was invented. He didn’t want to make superstars out of 19 year old prodigies and he had no aims in merchandising; in fact, you could say that the inventor of basketball stumbled upon this new game very nearly by accident.

Many modern day fans, with all of our modern day luxuries and modern day things; may wonder why basketball was invented in the first place. Didn’t people have things to do? Not in New England in the late 1800’s apparently. The inventor of basketball was commissioned to find an activity that all the kids at the local YMCA could do in a confined space that would kept them active and not cost too much during the long New England winters; what a perfect conceit if there ever were one. This game sounds like the perfect thing for parents all over the world but the actual inventor of basketball, Dr. Naismith, did a fair job in making sure that this was an achievable affair and he came up with the loose rules for the game of basketball on the fly. They at first used peach buckets and had different team structures and different rules than the modern day game but it essentially was pretty well the same.

Many people who live in the northeast may wonder why the game of basketball was invented in the first place; there is plenty to do in New England and there is plenty of snow to shovel and mother nature shoves a great deal of natural protrusion in the way of the average citizen during these colder months; however the whole point of basketball was so that the students at this particular YMCA didn’t become lethargic and slow and compromised; you’ve got to remember that the winter months are long and often arduous and the experience to that point had been that people did get out of shape so the inventor of basketball was merely trying to add to the color of the landscape.