Who Invented Basketball?
James Naismath with his new basketball team, the Kansas Jayhawks.
Who invented basketball? That guy's name was James A. Naismath. He wasn't just a inventor, he was also a coach/inventor! He invented and coached the Kansas Jayhawks and invented them too. The weird thing was that basketball was a mistaken accident. One of the most popular games right now was a mistake made! The first basketball hoop was actually a peach basket with no hole under the basket. So they had to retreive the basketball somehow. Then a few years later, the hoop finally got a net under it, but no hole still! Then in 1930, they made the the modern day basketball hoops with the hole and everything under it.