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Posted By: davidcycleback

Doing research of sports equipment I saw that the unique thing about basketball was that it didn't evolve from another sport, but was invented by one person at a point in time. An instructor at a YMCA was asked a YMCA director to come up with a game that could be played indoors during winner, so this instructor invented the game of basketball. The week before he invented it, basketball didn't exist.

The inventor of baskeball, James Naismith, asked the YMCA janitor to get a pair of boxes to nail to the gymnasium rafters. The janitor couldn't find boxes and came to Naismith with two baskets. Thus, the sport became basketball.