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in Springfield, Massachusetts, basketball was invented by Dr. James Naismith.
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Early years of basketball
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this was the first known professional basketball game was played in Trenton New Jersey between the Trenton YMCA and the Brooklyn YMCA.
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marked a landmark year for the game of basketball as the colleges began sponsoring games.
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Halfway though the game however William R. Chase during the game that he suggested a name for this new sport, Basketball.
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The first professional team Original Celtics where an offshoot of a team . they were called the New York Celtics, the New York Celtics began in the year 1914 but ended during world war I.
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the Commonwealth Five, was the first all-black professional team that was founded.
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The all-white National Basketball League began to racially integrate with 10 black players joining two teams, the Toledo Jim White Chevrolets, and Chicago Studebakers.
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1982 The First true basketball game was played on January 20th, in Springfield, Massachusetts.