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I will present you the sport basketball. Everybody knows it, almost everybody played it once. I will you inform about the history of the game, some important facts and rules. History Fist some historical facts. Eighteen-hundred-and-ninety-one Dr. James Naismith, professor at the Springfield College in Massachusetts, invented the real basketball. The new sport should be without body-contact. At the beginning there were 9 players for each team but that didnŒt work. So Naismith reduced the teams to 5 players. Naismith formed a team and let them play against other college-teams. So other colleges began to play the new sport. This is the beginning of the modern basketball. The colleges founded a league called NCAA (thatŒs short for National Collegiate Athletic Association). Now the NCAA is the league for young players who want to go to the NBA, the most import