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a peach basket dream that became a billion-dollar ballet of gravity defiance.
means A team sport in which two sides of five players each try to throw a ball through a raised hoop on the opponent's end of the court.
from A transparent compound of "basket" and "ball," and the literal name fits the literal history: the game was invented in the 1890s by James Naismith, a physical education instructor in Massachusetts, who nailed peach baskets to a gymnasium balcony as the first goals. "Basket" itself is an old English word of uncertain ultimate origin, sometimes traced to a Celtic root but never proven; "ball" goes back to a Germanic word for a round object, a cousin of related forms across the northern European languages. So the name is just an honest description of what the early players were aiming at.
- first hoop
- Originally a literal peach basket with no hole.
- retrieval ritual
- Early games stopped to fetch the ball each score.
- global reach
- Played in over 200 countries worldwide.
- inventor's intent
- Created indoors to keep students fit in winter.
- dribble debut
- Dribbling wasn't even allowed in the original rules.
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