History of Basketball Who is known world-wide as the inventor of basketball? His name is Dr. James Naismith, he was born in 1861 in Almonte, Ontario. Most people wonder were a young man would think of a game like basketball. The concept of basketball was born from his school days in the area where he played a simple child's game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room schoolhouse. The game involved attempting to knock a "duck" off …showed first 75 words of 710 total…

…showed last 75 words of 710 total…making the most goals in that time shall be declared the winners. Besides the creation of basketball, Naismith graduated as a medical doctor, interested in sports physiology and what we would today call a sports scientist. Naismith watched his sport, that was introduced to many nations by the YMCA as early as 1893. In 1963, basketball was introduced to the Berlin Olympics. Today basketball has grown to become one of the world's most popular, and loved sports.