Basketball all started with an idea and a peach basket. It began in the town of Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891. The head of the International YMCA Training School asked James Naismith to think of some games that the kids can play inside during the winter. A few months later Naismith thought up the idea of basketball. He made thirteen rules and posted them up in the gymnasium. The kids of the YMCA took to the idea and the next day they set up two peach baskets, with the bottom cut out, on both sides of the gym balconies. The teacher, that was there when the game was about to start, set up two teams, assigning nine players to each team. A man by the name of Willi

In the game today the athletes are a different kind of athlete. Players are always in the gym today. They are always looking to get stronger and bigger. Most players take muscle gain supplements to get an edge on their opponent. Now players want to win at all costs, not always because they love the game, but because they want more money. The more they win the more money they can demand.

The players in the game today don't seem to have the heart that the players did in the past. It seems that most of the players have lost the true love for the game and developed a greater love for money and fame. The media plays a large roll in the fame and money aspect of the game. Today players make millions and millions of dollars and just keep asking for more money. It is harder for a player to stay with one team because they are now easily traded. That is another reason why the game has become so money centered. Everything is a business arrangement. Personal feelings are not taken into consideration.

The NBA started on June 6, 1946, as a man by the name of Maurice Podoloff was president of the league. Then the league was named the Basketball Association of America (BAA). Seventeen teams joined this league, including the New York Knicks and the Boston Celtics. Soon after joining six of those teams left the league because they faced financial difficulties. At the end of the first season Philadelphia had won the first championship. The league was still troubled with a lack of finances. At the same time another league, the National Basketball League (NBL), was facing financial problems too. The NBL filed for bankruptcy in 1949 and on August 3, the BAA picked up the six teams that were left from the NBL. After that the league adopted the name the National Basketball Association (NBA).

In the 1960's the NBA grew at a fast rate. The three point shoot was adopted by the NBA form the American Basketball League and the American Basketball Association in 1979. Both the ABL and the ABA declared bankruptcy in 1975. The end of those leagues were to the advantage of the NBA because they were able to get the players, coaches, and the referees that the ABA took from them.

As the years rolled by the rules of the game started to change. The NBA draft came into affect to give teams the opportunity to get the first picks at new players. The teams who did poorly throughout the season got the first picks in the draft. In 1954 a man by the name of Danny Biasone, came up wit

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