Sociogenesis of Basketball:
Basketball originated in Springfield Massachusetts on March 11th,
1892.
James Naismith originally created it and then it was further
developed and spread by the YMCAs and the US Army. The original 18 players of
the game included John J. Thompson, Eugene S.
Libby, Edwin P. Ruggles, William R. Chase, T. Duncan Patton, Frank Mahan,
Finlay G. MacDonald, William H. Davis and Lyman Archibald, who defeated George
Weller, Wilbert Carey, Ernest Hildner, Raymond Kaighn, Genzabaro Ishikawa,
Benjamin S. French, Franklin Barnes, George Day and Henry Gelan. All of these men were white men. The YMCAs played a very big role in
spreading the game across the US, into Canada, and also across the world to
places such as China, India and Japan.
The initial rules were 9 players on a team, no dribbling the ball, and
the baskets used for hoops didn’t have a hole in the bottom of them so they had
to pause and get the ball out of the hoop each time someone scored. Of course, the rules were changed and
now the hoops are bottomless, there are more fouls, points and stats are monitored
more, and you have to dribble the ball when you move.
Uniforms
then:
Uniforms Now:
Jerseys now fit a lot more loosely than they did when the sport
was originally created, but both still have the fundamental aspects of a
jersey, shorts, and shoes with a ball and a hoop. Throughout history there have been struggles for equality for players of different races and genders. Also, on of the more significant thing that has happened in recent
basketball history was that there was a lockout because there needed to be
negotiations on how to pay the players among other things. This is an ongoing problem within the
NBA.
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