The history of basketball

The father of basketball.

Dec 21, 1891

Basketball was created by James Naismith a Canadian-American in Sringfield College in Springfield Massachusetts. James created the game when he was asked to create a activity to keep the students active during winter time, the game was set with certain rules and had peach baskets to shoot in wich you had to take the ball out .

Basketball joims the Olympics

Aug 7, 1936

Basketball joined the summer Olympics duing August 7-14 1936; the Uited Sates won the gold,Canada won the silver medals, and Mexico won the broze medals.

The NBA was founded.

Jun 6, 1946

The BBA was founded in 1996 after two professional leagues merged together.The National Basketball Association or "NBA" was founded on June 6th 1946 as the "BAA", or Basketball Association of America. The NBA monicker was adopted in 1949.

WNBA was founded.

Apr 24, 1996

The WNBA was fouded on april 24 1996, the league play started in 1997; the regular system is played from june to september with the finals in october. The WNBA is consisted of 12 teams not all teams in the league are owend by the NBA.

Yao Ming

Dec 6, 2002

Jeremy Shu-How Lin

Jul 21, 2010

Kobe Bryant

Jan 22, 2013

Bryant was the fourth guard on the Lakers, playing behind Eddie Jones, Nick Van Exel and Byron Scott. Bryant was the fourth guard on the Lakers, playing behind Eddie Jones, Nick Van Exel and Byron Scott.