student presentation on basketball

BASKETBALL BY WWJ The origin of the basketball • Dr. James Naismith is known world-wide as the inventor of basketball. He was born in 1861 in Ramsay township, near Almonte, Ontario, Canada. The concept of basketball was born from Naismith's school days in the area where he played a simple child's game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room schoolhouse. The game involved attempting to knock a "duck" off the top of a large rock by tossing another rock at it. Naismith went on to attend McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. My favorite one is Kidd • CAREER TRANSACTIONS Selected by the Dallas Mavericks in the first round (second pick overall) of the 1994 NBA Draft....Traded by the Mavericks with Tony Dumas and Loren Meyer to the Phoenix Suns for Sam Cassell, Michael Finley, A.C. Green and a second round draft choice in 1997 or 1998 on 12/26/96....Traded by the Suns with Chris Dudley to the New Jersey Nets for Stephon Marbury, Johnny Newman and Soumaila Samake on 7/18/01. I think Yao is just so so • I think he is not a good player since he is not strong enough • I think he is not a good player since he is not spiritual enough • I think he is not a good player since he is not skillful • In a word, he is just so so end