The Invention of Basketball Part 1 - Sports Bizarre

In 1891, teacher James Naismith, was given two weeks by his boss to invent a new sport to keep the students occupied during the long winter.

No one could have predicted how his new game, basketball, would spread across the globe and become one of the world's most popular sports.

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