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The location where all of this started was in a YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts where Dr.James Naismith accepted the job of an instructor.The main idea of the sport was it to be indoors and a small space.
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Gymnastics instructor Senda Berenson Abbott adapts James Naismith's basketball rules for women and introduces the game at Smith College. First inter-institutional contest between the University of California and Miss Head's School
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Dr. James Naismith created 13 different rules so that each team could have en equal opportunity to win. The first time people knew about these rules was in Springfield College school newspaper The Triangle
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The first ever college basketball game was played on January 18, 1896, when the University of Iowa invited student athletes from the new University of Chicago for an experimental game. Final score: Chicago 15, Iowa 12, a bit different from the hundred-point scores of today.
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It was the season that the 7-foot, ½-inch Wilt Chamberlain </a>grabbed hold of the game and the record book and twisted them like a pretzel beyond all recognition.
Playing for the Philadelphia Warriors, Chamberlain scored 78 points and pulled down 43 rebounds on Dec. 8 against the Los Angeles Lakers -- and that was just a warm-up routine.
On March 2, Wilt scored his staggering 100 points against the New York Knicks. -
The NBA's first three-point shot was made with 3:48 left in the first quarter by Chris Ford of the Boston Celtics on October 12, 1979 in a game against the Houston Rockets at Boston Garden. This was not the only historic moment in the game, it also marked the debut of Boston Celtics' rookie Larry Bird.
The Boston Celtics went on to defeat the Houston Rockets by a score of 114-106 -
The Houston Rockets Draft Yao Ming to be the first #1 overall pick to never play College ball in the US. Yao, the biggest import ever seen in the NBA, figuratively and literally, brought the expectations of an entire nation with him.
