''why is basketball called basketball?''?

Question

i mean exactly why it has that name and not some other name.

Answer 1

There is a basket, and there is a ball.

The ball is suppose to go through the basket.

Answer 2

From the usual sources:

In early December 1891, Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian physical education student and instructor at YMCA Training School[1] (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, so balls scored into the basket had to be poked out with a long dowel each time. A soccer ball was used to shoot goals[2].

Naismith's handwritten diaries discovered by his granddaughter in Spring 2006 indicate that he was nervous about the new game he had invented, which incorporated rules from a Canadian children's game called "Duck on a Rock", as many had failed before it. Naismith called the new game 'Basket Ball'.[3]

The first official basketball game was played in the YMCA gymnasium on January 20, 1892 with nine players, on a court just half the size of a present-day National Basketball Association (NBA) court. "Basket ball", the name suggested by one of Naismith's students, was popular from the beginning.

Answer 3

Dr. James Naismith put a peach basket on a pole and invented the game. At first, the players had to climb up there to get the ball. Eventually they cut the bottom out of the basket, and made the beginning of what we have today.

Answer 4

First Basketball hoop was large basket strapped up as a hoop, without a hole in it. Someone physically took ball out of Basket and put it back into play. You think they would have figured to cut the bottom out at some point..

Answer 5

When the game was invented by James Naismith in 1891, his original intent was to suspend two boxes above the YMCA gym floor...when no boxes could be found, he put two peach baskets up instead... that's how basketball got its name.

Answer 6

your putting a ball in a basket. A good question to ask is why is football called football when you only use your feet a total of prob 2 sec the whole game to kick. And why is the foul pole fair?

Answer 7

There's a ball, they shot it in a basket up in Springfield, MA. Now why don't you ask why the players in basketball were referred to as 'cagers' for som real old time fun,

It will suprise you that it is closer to WWE than you could imagine.

Answer 8

Because when he invented the game, Jim Naismith used real baskets. They may have been peach baskets, but I am not sure.

Answer 9

No, there IS NOT a Basket! It is a NET!!! A basket by definition has to have an ENCLOSED bottom (Oxford English dictionary!) This game is a derivative of the English SCHOOLGIRLS game of NETBALL!!!! Cal it what it IS!!!!

Answer 10

i believe that it used to be played with actual baskets at each end of the court. when someone got in it the basket(no hole in the bottom) youd have to retieve it to continue playing. an as for the ball, well thats cause you use a ball to play with.