Basketball Infomation Questions?!(14)?

Question

Okay, i need to know all these questons by tomorrow! I want these anwsers right, not any "i thinks" or "i guesses". Who ever gives me the most questons ansered correcly will recive 10points!

1. Where AND when was basketball invented?

2. By whom was basketball invented?

3. What were the first bastball goals made of?

4. How many ORGINAL rules were there?

5. When was the NBA founded?

6. How many ORGINAL teams were there?

7.How many African-Americans athletes were on the ORGINAL
teams?

8. What was the only way to pro basketball for an African-American team?

9. Who was the first Afican-American to sign with a pro team?

10. Who Who was the first African-American to ACTUALLY play? Why was he before #9?

11.Bastball made it's debut in the Olympics in 1904 as a Demonstration Sport. In what Olympic games did it become an actual sport?

12. How many fouls can an individual player accumulate?
Describe a basketball( size,covering,weight dif.between mens/women

Answer 1

The game of basketball was invented by Dr. James Naismith in 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts. The first basketball goals were peach baskets nailed to the railings of the balcony in the gymnasium. There were 13 original rules - 12 of which are still in use today - though heavily modified.

The NBA actually started as the NATIONAL BASKETBALL LEAGUE, and it was not until the 1948 - '49 season that it became the NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION with 17 teams. There were NO professional black basketball players until 1950 when the Boston Celtics chose Chuck Cooper but the New York Knickerbockers signed Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton to the first professional contract. Earl Lloyd was the first black player to actually compete in a NBA game due to scheduling.

Basketball entered the Olympics as an official sport in 1936.

In professional basketball, a player can accumulate 6 personal fouls before being disqualified. In both college and high school, a player can accumulate only 5 personal fouls.

An OFFICIAL college men's basketball is 30 inches in circumference and weighs 25 ounces. An official women's collegiate basketball is 29 inches and weighs 20 ounces.