This is especially true if you have unusually wide feet. Sometimes, trying to find the right kind of shoe can feel like trial and error. The modern basketball has no laces, just enough texture to be gripped easily with bare hands and is made of super springy rubber to give it that bounce. In 1959, athletic instructor Tony Hinkle made further improvements to the game, starting with making the ball bright orange to make it easier to see. When spectators tried to interfere with shots, the backboard was introduced. The soccer ball initially used had laces that made bouncing and dribbling difficult. Stopping gameplay to get the ball out of the basket was annoying, so he cut the bottom out of the basket. The first bug to knock out was the basket. Naismith got students to playtest his new game, he started working out the bugs, to compare the sport with video game development. Naismith decided to call the game basketball after the peach baskets that became the world’s first basketball hoops. Naismith felt like he had worked out what he wanted, he wrote out the thirteen rules for his game and nailed a peach basket to an elevated ten-foot track.Īs he thought no one would want to play a game called “Naismith ball” Dr.
He needed a game that was vigorous but not rough and suitable for a walled-in gymnasium. His inspiration was an old medieval game called Duck on a Rock that was very similar to Capture the Flag. James Naismith, a physical education professor (yes, they called gym coaches “professor” back then) from the YMCA of Springfield, Massachusetts, wanted a game his students could play in an indoor gymnasium during bad weather. The initial conception of the game known as basketball was an example of trial and error.
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