Basketball

• Basketball - a sport played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court.

  One of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports.
• OBJECTIVE OF THE GAME:

  Teams defend their own basket and score by shooting the ball into their basket.
• Dr. James Naismith (1891)

  
  

  December 1891, a Canadian Physical Education Instructor at McGil University and at YMCA’s (Young Men’s Christian Association) later Spring Field College in Spring Field Massachusettes invented the game, basketball.
• Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick

  Head of Physical Education at the school for Christian workers ordered James Naismith to create within 14 days an indoor game as a new recreational game.
• Dr. James Naismith

  Pressured to beat the deadline, Naismith hang two peach baskets on the erected post about 10 feet above the floor at either ends of the gymnasium.

  He experimented playing the game by tossing the soccer ball to the elevated peach basket.
• First Basketball Equipment

  Peach Basket

  Backboard

  Soccer Ball
• The Basket

  The first basket that were used were two peach baskets that were hung from the balcony of the gym

  By 1906, the peach baskets were replaced by metal baskets with holes in the bottom.

  In 1913, a hoop with a net was invented so the basketball could fall freely to the ground.
• Backboard

  In 1893, due to the overzealous spectators interfering with the basketball, the backboard was invented. The first backboard was constructed out of wire mesh, and then wood and now it is made out of glass so the backboard does not interfere with the viewing of the game.
• December 21, 1891

  • first contest of basketball

  January 1892

  • James Naismith introduced the first 13 rules of basketball

  March 12, 1892

  • First Public Game

  1915

  • Basketball Rules Committee was formed to standardize the rules.
• 1936

  • Basketball is added to the Summer Olympics
• June  18, 1932

  • International Basketball Federation was founded.
  • French: Federation Internationale de Basketball
• 1937

  • NBL (National Basketball League) was formed
• 1946

  • BAA (Basketball Association of America) was founded
• June 6, 1946

  • NBA (National Basketball Association) was founded.
• How was the NBA formed?

  NBL + BAA = NBA
• Basketball first came to the Philippines in the 1910s, when it was a U.S. colony. American teachers introduced the game to the public school system, initially just for girls.
• 1913

  • 1st Philippine National basketball team was formed.
• 1936

  • The Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP) was founded and became a part of FIBA later that year. Also in the same year, the BAP sent a team nicknamed "The Islanders" that participated in the first Olympic Basketball Tournament in Berlin.
• College and Universities also started to embrace the sport basketball, incorporating the sport in their Physical Education curriculum. Similarly, the collegiate leagues the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Universities Athletic Association of the Philippines were established in 1924 and 1938 respectively.
• 1950s–1960s

  • The Philippines was among the best in the world, producing world-class players like Carlos Loyzaga, Lauro Mumar, Mariano Tolentino, Francisco Rabat and Edgardo Ocampo.
• 1951

  • The Philippines won the first ever Gold Medal at the Asian games held in India
• 1960

  • The Philippines won the first ever Asian Basketball Confederation
  • Carlos Badion was named the first ever FIBA Asia Most Valuable Player
• 1975

  • Creation of the Philippine Basketball Association
  • In 1975, after disputes with the Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP), nine teams pulled out of BAP's jurisdiction and founded the professional Philippine Basketball Association (PBA), taking along all the best players with them. 
• 1977

  • The Philippines won the First ever Southeast Asian Games basketball Gold Medal.

  1979

  • Second Southeast Asian Games basketball Gold Medal.
• 2013

  • Gilas Pilipinas ended as second place in the FIBA Asia World Cup.