Home Basketball is a game enjoyed by many different kinds of people. We see the sport played around the world. Any age group can get involved in the sport. It is not terribly difficult to understand. The basics of the game are easy, but people may find some of the rules challenging. I would first like to begin with a little bit of history on the sport of basketball. It was created in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith. He was a Canadian born physical education teacher in Massachusetts. He came up with the idea on a rainy day. He was trying to keep his students active despite the weather. He decided to nail in a peach basket 10 feet off the ground. Students would then have to shoot a soccer ball into that peach basket. He also made up some of the basic rules that same day. The peach basket proved to be inefficient though because the bottom was still there. So, every time someone would make the ball in the basket you would have to retrieve the ball. A hole was drilled in the basket l...