Basketball originated in America. 189165438+February 2 1 was invented by james naismith, a physical education teacher at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA.

189 1 year, james naismith taught at the YMCA International Training School (now Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts. Lu Se Gulick, director of the school's physical education department, commissioned naismith to design an indoor group game to implement the winter physical education class syllabus. Naismith was inspired by the game that local children like to throw the ball into the peach basket, and created a basketball game.

At first, naismith nailed two baskets to the railing of the stadium stands, with the upper edge of the basket 3.04 meters (about 10 yards) from the ground, and used football as a game tool to throw at the baskets. Throw the ball into the basket and score 1 point, and decide the outcome according to the score. Every time you throw the ball into the basket, climb the ladder, take it out and start the game again. In the future, the bamboo basket will be gradually changed into an iron basket with a movable bottom, and then a net will be hung under the iron ring. People call this game "naismith Ball" or "Basketball". After a long time, after repeated discussions between naismith and his colleagues, it was named "Basketball".

1892, naismith formulated 18 simple rules, and basketball entered the competition stage, resulting in the referee.

1893 has formed a nearly modern rebounding, hoop and nets, which determines that each team will play 5 people.

1896, basketball was introduced to China from the Chinese YMCA in Tianjin, and was later held in the YMCA in Beijing and Shanghai.

1904, the YMCA men's basketball team played the basketball exhibition match for the first time 1 at the 3rd St. Louis Olympic Games.

1908, the United States formulated a unified national basketball rule, which was published in many languages and distributed around the world. Basketball has gradually spread throughout America, Europe and Asia, becoming a worldwide sport.

1932 On June 8th, the International Amateur Basketball Federation (FIBA) was established in Geneva, Switzerland. In the same year, FIBA formulated the world's first unified competition rules based on the basketball rules used by American universities.