8 Interesting Facts About Basketball By McKayla A

1. In the very beginning, the color of the basketball was brown. It later was changed into a brighter color, which is now orange.
2. Basketball was first played with a soccer ball until it was changed in 1929.
3. The first hoop was a peach basket and every time a team scores, the referee would climb a ladder to get the ball.
4. The reason why a backboard was added to the hoop, was because the audience in the balcony used to interfere in the game by handling the ball.
5. The first basketball game took place in 1982, where the court was half the size of today's courts, and only one point was scored during the match
6. Basketball was invented in 1891.
7. Twice in Michael Jordans career, he played a game in which he only scored two points.
8. Basketball is a game loved and invented by Americans, but the first pro game was played in Toronto, Canada in 1946.