The Miracle

Basketball

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A Anyone who’s seen a Canadian Heritage M Minute knows basketball was invented by C Canadian James Naismith. However, des spite being born in Ontario and educated a at McGill University, he didn’t invent it in C Canada. Rather, he invented the sport while working as a physical education instructor at a YMCA in Massachuse­tts in 1891. He came up with the rulebook the following year. He eventually moved to Kansas, where he became the University of Kansas’s first basketball coach.

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