in Springfield, Massachusetts, basketball was invented by Dr. James Naismith.
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Early years of basketball
this was the first known professional basketball game was played in Trenton New Jersey between the Trenton YMCA and the Brooklyn YMCA.
marked a landmark year for the game of basketball as the colleges began sponsoring games.
Halfway though the game however William R. Chase during the game that he suggested a name for this new sport, Basketball.
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.
the Commonwealth Five, was the first all-black professional team that was founded.
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.
1982 The First true basketball game was played on January 20th, in Springfield, Massachusetts.