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  • Basketball became an official Olympic event at the Summer Games in Berlin,Germany in 1936.
  • The National Basketball League (NBL) was the first pro-league that was established in 1898, and only lasted for 5 years.
  • The first pro game was played in Toronto, Canada in 1946.
  • The regulation basktball cour in NBA and NCAA is 50 feet wide by 94 feet long.
  • Mugsy Bogues was the shortest NBA player with the height of 5 foot, 3 inches.
  • NBA players run as much as 6.4km (4miles) during a game
  • The tallest guy in the NBA was 7 foot 7 inches tall
  • The most points ever scored in an NBA game is 100 points which was scored by Wilt Chamberlain
  • Ray Allen's first name is actually Walter
  • Kobe Bryant's middle name is Bean
  • Jump Balls used to be after every basket
  • An exaggerated foul is called a flop
  • The NBA instituted the three-pointer before the 1979-1980, an idea it borrowed from the ABA
  • The first backboards were made out of wire
  • Repeated bouncing of the ball (dribbling) was illegal in Naismith's original rules
  • Hospital Emergancy Rooms in the U.S. in 2011, treated 249,650 cases aged 12-17 for injuries sustained by playing basketball
  • The idea of passing the ball by throwing it in the air, has been attributed to Lambert G Will, a YMCA director in Herkimer, Ney York

    • Sources

    http://www.softschools.com/facts/sports/basketball_facts/567/

    https://www.cbc.ca/kidscbc2/the-feed/cool-facts-about-the-most-popular-hoop-sport-basketball

    https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1095524-50-random-nba-facts-you-never-knew#slide48

    https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/top10facts/441397/Top-10-facts-about-basketball

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