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The history of basketball began with its invention in 1891 in springfield, massachusetts by canadian physical education instructor james naismith as a less injuryprone sport than football. From the first game in 1906 through the ncaa national championship following the 200910 season, 100 seasons of duke basketball provides fans with an insiders look at duke basketball and the people who have made it a national legendvic bubas, eddie cameron, art heyman, mike krzyzewski, and many others. Kids love reading about sports, but it can sometimes be a bit harder to get them excited about history. Although i did catch a few stat and information errors, the good far outweighs the bad on this book.
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The game became established fairly quickly and grew very popular as the 20th century. Naismith was a 31year old graduate student when he created the indoor sport to keep athletes indoors during the winters. It determines the champion of division i, the top level of play in the ncaa, and the media often describes the winner as the national champion of college basketball. History of basketball in early december 1891, canadian american dr. Magical badge system, change the home logo, strengthen the team. The nba according to the sports guy updated, reprint by simmons, bill, gladwell, malcolm isbn. From the origins of the league in the 1940s, stars have always shined bright in the nba. My incredible ncaa journey from the end of the bench to the end of the bench by mark titus, whe. Bjarkman presents entertaining and factfilled career summaries of the sports great players, its groundbreaking coaches and administrators, and its other oftenforgotten and lesspublicized figures who authored developments crucial to basketball s centurylong. Article its kind of hard because in the nba, the way its built, they want you to flop, antetokounmpo said of playing physically.
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