Have you ever played basketball? It's a limited contact sport that is played on a court that's a rectangle.
Yes, i used to play a little. It increases our stamina and strength.
Yes! It's a great team sport where five players face each other on two teams. There are also three on three, two on two, and one on one competitions!
Its very rare to hear three to three, i only know about five players for each team.
You're right! I'm sure that's how the game was envisioned by Dr. James Naismith, who invented the sport in 1891
Where would this games was introduced first?
James Naismith
James Naismith (November 6, 1861 – November 28, 1939) was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain, sports coach, and innovator. He invented the game of basketball at age 30 in 1891. He wrote the original basketball rule book and founded the University of Kansas basketball program. Naismith lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, as well as the birth of the National Invitation Tournament (
Win the next possession. That's our focus. It's boring. It's also the way championships are won", he says. In short, Stevens is a strong believer in "The Butler Way" – doing all the little things that transform a group of good basketball players into a great basketball team. "I tell the players 'the Butler Way' isn't easy to define," Stevens says, "but you can see it on the floor when we share the basketball, play with great energy