A Commonplace Book

Category: basketball...

  • seeing your alma mater win the NCAA basketball tournament
  • a visit to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA
  • enjoying a summer basketball camp
  • The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief'. (James Naismith)
  • basketball being the only major sport strictly of U.S. origin
  • originally, players wore one of three kinds of uniforms: knee-length football pants, jersey tights as those of wrestlers, or short padded pants -- plus knee guards -- and in the beginning a ladder, pole, or chain fastened to the bottom of the net was used to retrieve a ball after a goal
  • the discipline of basketball and learning how to work well with others
  • dribbling, passing, driving to score, the layup, the set shot, the jump shot, the dunk
  • boxing out, guarding, rebounding, setting a pick or screen

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