NBA Will Hold Games In London

[duncan228]

NBA will hold games in London (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/basketball/nba/10/12/nba.london.ap/index.html)

The league will likely have some regular season games in London before the 2012 Olympics.


It's fair to say that we'll see a minimum of one and possibly more regular-season games by 2012.

[Xylus]

With so many foreign-born players coming into the league, I think it's only right that the NBA start branching out and playing games that actually matter for an international audience. I love this idea.

[dallaskd]

National Basketball Association

[baseline bum]

This sucks. No NBA team should have to deal with that trip in the middle of their season.

[Xylus]

National Basketball Association

Toronto Raptors

[DPG21920]

That is going to be tough logistically.

[lefty]

Toronto Raptors

Didn't Canadians invent basketball?

[Xylus]

Didn't Canadians invent basketball?

Basketball is an American-made sport, just like baseball, football, soccer, cricket, and mini-golf.

[lefty]

Basketball is an American-made sport, just like baseball, football, soccer, cricket, and mini-golf.

Wrong

[Xylus]

Wrong

Obviously.

[lefty]

In early December 1891, Dr. James Naismith,[1] a Canadian physical education professor from McGill University of Montréal and instructor at YMCA Training School[2] (today, Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied and at proper levels of fitness during the long New England winters. After rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot (3.05 m) elevated track. In contrast with modern basketball nets, this peach basket retained its bottom, and balls had to be retrieved manually after each "basket" or point scored; this proved inefficient, however, so a hole was drilled into the bottom of the basket, allowing the balls to be poked out with a long dowel each time. The peach baskets were used until 1906 when they were finally replaced by metal hoops with backboards. A further change was soon made, so the ball merely passed through, paving the way for the game we know today. A soccer ball was used to shoot goals. Whenever a person got the ball in the basket, his team would gain a point. Whichever team got the most points won the game.[3]

Naismith's handwritten diaries, discovered by his granddaughter in early 2006, indicate that he was nervous about the new game he had invented, which incorporated rules from a children's game called "Duck on a Rock", as many had failed before it. Naismith called the new game 'Basket Ball'.[4]

[lefty]

Obviously.

:D

[Xylus]

:D

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[lefty]

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