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Basketball · Faits intéressants

Chapitre 1 : Histoire et origines

10 tests · 100 faits · mis à jour le 24 octobre 2026 · markdown

Curiosities from basketball's past: the game's first months, Naismith's own life, cages and early rules, the game's first homes abroad, college firsts, the Black Fives and the barrier-breakers, the first foreign players, Canada, Springfield and the leagues and teams that vanished.

1.11The Game's First Months

How the game got its name, the first rules, the first public game and the first drawing of it.

Test 1the first months of the gameFaire un test

  1. Naismith laughed the idea off, and Mahan then proposed 'basket ball'.

    Source : Springfield College archives (springfield.edu); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  2. Players knocked a stone off a rock by throwing another stone in an arc.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  3. 'Pop' Stebbins had no boxes of that size and found the baskets in a storeroom.

    Source : Springfield College archives (springfield.edu); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  4. The rules gave five minutes' rest between the halves.

    Source : Springfield College archives (springfield.edu); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  5. The students won 5-1.

    Source : Springfield College archives (springfield.edu); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  6. They crowded into the small Springfield gym.

    Source : Springfield College archives (springfield.edu); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  7. Stagg went on to coach football at the University of Chicago for 41 seasons.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  8. Autumn 1891, December 1891 and March 1892.

    Source : Springfield College archives (springfield.edu); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  9. December 1891, March 1893 and February 1895.

    Source : Springfield College archives (springfield.edu); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  10. Genzabaro Ishikawa sketched the gym, the baskets and the players.

    Source : Springfield College archives (springfield.edu); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

1.12Naismith Away From the Court

Naismith the student, doctor, Kansas teacher and coach, and the rules he left behind.

Test 1James Naismith's life beyond the inventionFaire un test

  1. He was raised by an uncle near Almonte, Ontario.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  2. He was trained for the ministry before turning to physical education.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  3. He qualified as a doctor at Gross Medical College.

    Source : University of Kansas Athletics, 'James Naismith' and Allen Fieldhouse history (kuathletics.com) · restitution

  4. He lectured American troops on health and conduct.

    Source : University of Kansas Athletics, 'James Naismith' and Allen Fieldhouse history (kuathletics.com) · restitution

  5. He had lived in the United States for more than thirty years by then.

    Source : University of Kansas Athletics, 'James Naismith' and Allen Fieldhouse history (kuathletics.com) · restitution

  6. The two typed pages fetched $4,338,500 at Sotheby's in New York.

    Source : Sotheby's, 'James Naismith's Founding Rules of Basket Ball', sale result, December 2010 (sothebys.com) · restitution

  7. He had turned 30 in November that year.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  8. His boyhood home, McGill and the Presbyterian College, the YMCA school from 1890 and Kansas from 1898.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  9. 1941, two years after his death; 1968; and 2010.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  10. The arena honours the pupil and the floor honours the teacher.

    Source : University of Kansas Athletics, 'James Naismith' and Allen Fieldhouse history (kuathletics.com) · restitution

1.13Cages and Early Rules

Fenced courts, a free-throw specialist, the first time limits and the Buffalo Germans.

Test 1fenced courts and early rulesFaire un test

  1. From 1924 the fouled player had to take his own free throws.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  2. It was brought in to stop teams stalling in their own half.

    Source : NCAA, 'What we know about the first college basketball game ever played' (ncaa.com) · restitution

  3. The Buffalo club later won 111 games in a row.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  4. Players raced after loose balls into the crowd, one reason courts were fenced in.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  5. Tall centres had been parking under the basket for easy shots.

    Source : NCAA, 'What we know about the first college basketball game ever played' (ncaa.com) · restitution

  6. Opaque wooden boards blocked the view from seats behind the baskets.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  7. The mesh was hard and sharp, and bodies were thrown into it on loose balls.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  8. 1895, about 1914 and 1923.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  9. The 1890s, 1932 and the 1960s.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  10. The fence kept the ball in play, so there was no out of bounds.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

1.14Le jeu s'exporte

France, the YMCA in China, Brazil and the Philippines, the Far Eastern Games and the 1919 Inter-Allied Games.

Test 1basketball's first homes outside the United StatesFaire un test

  1. Rideout was one of Naismith's students in Springfield.

    Source : UCJG Paris (YMCA de Paris), 14 rue de Trévise: 'la plus ancienne salle de basket du monde' (ucjgparis.org) · restitution

  2. Basketball was on the programme from the very first games.

    Source : Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas, history (sbp.ph); Olympic World Library, Far Eastern Championship Games reports (library.olympics.com) · restitution

  3. Tianjin is often called the cradle of Chinese basketball.

    Source : FIBA, 'Basketball in China' (fiba.basketball); Tianjin YMCA history · restitution

  4. Augusto Shaw introduced it at Mackenzie College.

    Source : Confederação Brasileira de Basketball, 'História do basquete no Brasil' (cbb.com.br) · restitution

  5. The games were held about every two years until 1934.

    Source : Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas, history (sbp.ph); Olympic World Library, Far Eastern Championship Games reports (library.olympics.com) · restitution

  6. Brown organised the Far Eastern Games from 1913, where basketball was played.

    Source : Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas, history (sbp.ph); Inter-Allied Games official report, 1919 · restitution

  7. American servicemen had learned the game at YMCA huts during the war.

    Source : Inter-Allied Games official report, Paris 1919; International Encyclopedia of the First World War (1914-1918-online.net) · restitution

  8. 1913, 1919 and 1932.

    Source : Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas, history (sbp.ph); Olympic World Library, Far Eastern Championship Games reports (library.olympics.com) · restitution

  9. 1893, 1896 and around 1910.

    Source : FIBA (fiba.basketball); national federations' histories · restitution

  10. It was named after General John Pershing and handed to France after the games.

    Source : Inter-Allied Games official report, Paris 1919; International Encyclopedia of the First World War (1914-1918-online.net) · restitution

1.15College Basketball's First Steps

The first college games, five a side, the NAIA, the NIT and the first NCAA tournament.

Test 1the early college gameFaire un test

  1. Minnesota's School of Agriculture won 9-3 at Hamline, in Saint Paul.

    Source : NCAA, 'What we know about the first college basketball game ever played' (ncaa.com) · restitution

  2. Hamline lost on its own floor.

    Source : NCAA, 'What we know about the first college basketball game ever played' (ncaa.com) · restitution

  3. His side met Chicago in Iowa City in January 1896.

    Source : NCAA, 'What we know about the first college basketball game ever played' (ncaa.com) · restitution

  4. The Iowa line-up was a YMCA side that happened to study at the university.

    Source : NCAA, 'What we know about the first college basketball game ever played' (ncaa.com) · restitution

  5. It began for small colleges and is still played every March.

    Source : NAIA, 'Men's Basketball Championship history' (naia.org) · restitution

  6. Oregon, the 'Tall Firs', beat Ohio State in the final in Evanston.

    Source : NCAA, 'Men's Basketball Championship history' (ncaa.com) · restitution

  7. Temple beat Colorado in the final at Madison Square Garden.

    Source : National Invitation Tournament history (ncaa.com/nit) · restitution

  8. 1895, 1896, 1938 and 1939.

    Source : NCAA, 'What we know about the first college basketball game ever played' (ncaa.com) · restitution

  9. The 1940s, the 1950s and the late 1960s.

    Source : NCAA, 'What we know about the first college basketball game ever played' (ncaa.com) · restitution

  10. Neither side used a substitute in the whole game.

    Source : NCAA, 'What we know about the first college basketball game ever played' (ncaa.com) · restitution

1.16Black Fives and Breaking Barriers

The Black Fives era, the Rens and the players and coaches who broke the colour line.

Test 1the Black Fives and the barrier-breakersFaire un test

  1. Henderson learned the game at Harvard's summer school.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, 'New York Renaissance' and 'Edwin Bancroft Henderson' (hoophall.com) · restitution

  2. From 1904 to 1950 all-Black clubs and church teams played across the country.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, 'New York Renaissance' and 'Edwin Bancroft Henderson' (hoophall.com) · restitution

  3. Douglas ran the team for more than twenty years.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, 'New York Renaissance' and 'Edwin Bancroft Henderson' (hoophall.com) · restitution

  4. He played for the New York Knicks in 1947-48.

    Source : NBA History (nba.com/history) · restitution

  5. He won gold in London and later played in the 1953 NBA All-Star Game.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  6. The Rens often played well over 100 games a season on the road.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, 'New York Renaissance' and 'Edwin Bancroft Henderson' (hoophall.com) · restitution

  7. Russell, Sam Jones, K.C. Jones, Satch Sanders and Willie Naulls started together.

    Source : NBA History (nba.com/history) · restitution

  8. 1904, 1923, 1947 and 1950.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, 'New York Renaissance' and 'Edwin Bancroft Henderson' (hoophall.com) · restitution

  9. 1959, 1963 and 2002.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  10. The floor was cleared for dancing after the games.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, 'New York Renaissance' and 'Edwin Bancroft Henderson' (hoophall.com) · restitution

1.17The First Foreign Players in the NBA

Biasatti, Thompson, Marčiulionis, Sabonis and the first picks and MVPs from abroad.

Test 1the first players from abroad in the NBAFaire un test

  1. Born in Italy and raised in Canada, he played for the Toronto Huskies.

    Source : NBA History (nba.com/history) · restitution

  2. He played first base for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1949.

    Source : Canada Basketball (basketball.ca); NBA History, 'The first game: Toronto Huskies v New York Knicks, 1946' (nba.com) · restitution

  3. Portland took him first overall.

    Source : NBA History (nba.com/history) · restitution

  4. The Lithuanian guard joined the Golden State Warriors.

    Source : NBA History (nba.com/history) · restitution

  5. Soviet rules and injuries kept him in Europe for nine years.

    Source : NBA History (nba.com/history) · restitution

  6. The Italian forward went to the Toronto Raptors.

    Source : NBA History (nba.com/history) · restitution

  7. Parker's Spurs swept the Cleveland Cavaliers.

    Source : NBA History (nba.com/history) · restitution

  8. 1978, 1984 and 2006.

    Source : NBA History (nba.com/history) · restitution

  9. 1946, 1985, 1989 and 1995.

    Source : NBA History (nba.com/history) · restitution

  10. Houston picked the Chinese centre in 2002.

    Source : NBA History (nba.com/history) · restitution

1.18Basketball and Canada

The first NBA basket in Toronto, the one-season Huskies, the Raptors and Canada's first picks.

Test 1Naismith's homeland and the NBAFaire un test

  1. The Knicks guard scored a lay-up early in the game in Toronto.

    Source : Canada Basketball (basketball.ca); NBA History, 'The first game: Toronto Huskies v New York Knicks, 1946' (nba.com) · restitution

  2. It was the home of the Toronto Maple Leafs ice hockey team.

    Source : Canada Basketball (basketball.ca); NBA History, 'The first game: Toronto Huskies v New York Knicks, 1946' (nba.com) · restitution

  3. Part of the baseball stadium was curtained off for the court.

    Source : NBA History (nba.com/history) · restitution

  4. They folded after 1946-47; Toronto had no NBA team again until 1995.

    Source : Canada Basketball (basketball.ca); NBA History, 'The first game: Toronto Huskies v New York Knicks, 1946' (nba.com) · restitution

  5. The Vancouver Grizzlies moved to Memphis in 2001.

    Source : NBA History (nba.com/history) · restitution

  6. Cleveland took him; Wiggins went first a year later.

    Source : NBA History (nba.com/history) · restitution

  7. They beat the Golden State Warriors in six games.

    Source : NBA History (nba.com/history) · restitution

  8. 1946, 1995-96, 2001 and 2019.

    Source : Canada Basketball (basketball.ca); NBA History, 'The first game: Toronto Huskies v New York Knicks, 1946' (nba.com) · restitution

  9. 2013, 2014 and 2019.

    Source : NBA History (nba.com/history) · restitution

  10. Nostrand stood about 6 ft 8 in.

    Source : Canada Basketball (basketball.ca); NBA History, 'The first game: Toronto Huskies v New York Knicks, 1946' (nba.com) · restitution

1.19Springfield, Birthplace of the Game

Springfield College, the Hall of Fame's buildings and the city's ties to the game.

Test 1Springfield and the Hall of FameFaire un test

  1. It had been the International YMCA College since 1912.

    Source : Springfield College archives (springfield.edu); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  2. The first building stood on the Springfield College campus.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  3. The New York barnstormers of the 1920s were honoured as a team.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  4. Naismith, Phog Allen and George Mikan were among the first.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  5. Each class is enshrined at a ceremony in Springfield.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  6. The building looks out over the river in downtown Springfield.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  7. It is given each year at the enshrinement weekend.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  8. 1968, 1985 and 2002.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  9. 1975, 2009 and 2020.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  10. The silver sphere is lit at night.

    Source : Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

1.20Leagues and Teams That Vanished

The ABA's striped ball, the Spirits' deal and the early NBA teams that folded.

Test 1leagues and teams that no longer existFaire un test

  1. They had won the ABA title only the year before.

    Source : NBA History, 'ABA' and defunct franchises (nba.com); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  2. Julius Erving led them past Denver in the final.

    Source : NBA History, 'ABA' and defunct franchises (nba.com); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  3. They were paid for decades until a 2014 settlement.

    Source : NBA History, 'ABA' and defunct franchises (nba.com); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  4. He took them to the 1949 finals before moving on.

    Source : NBA History, 'ABA' and defunct franchises (nba.com); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  5. The Sheboygan Red Skins played only that one NBA season.

    Source : NBA History (nba.com/history) · restitution

  6. Stars of Kentucky's title-winning college side owned and played for the team.

    Source : NBA History (nba.com/history) · restitution

  7. Today's Washington Wizards are a later franchise that took the Bullets name.

    Source : NBA History (nba.com/history) · restitution

  8. 1947, 1950 (out of the NBA), 1954 and 1976.

    Source : NBA History (nba.com/history) · restitution

  9. 1946, 1961 and 1967.

    Source : NBA History, 'ABA' and defunct franchises (nba.com); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

  10. Mikan had been the first great centre of the NBA.

    Source : NBA History, 'ABA' and defunct franchises (nba.com); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · restitution

Sources

Primary/official sources only, no Wikipedia citations: the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, the NBA, FIBA, the EuroLeague, the NCAA, the WNBA, clubs' and universities' own histories, auction houses' published results and named reputable media.

  • Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com)26
  • NBA History (nba.com/history)20
  • Springfield College archives (springfield.edu); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com)9
  • NCAA, 'What we know about the first college basketball game ever played' (ncaa.com)9
  • Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, 'New York Renaissance' and 'Edwin Bancroft Henderson' (hoophall.com)6
  • Canada Basketball (basketball.ca); NBA History, 'The first game: Toronto Huskies v New York Knicks, 1946' (nba.com)6
  • NBA History, 'ABA' and defunct franchises (nba.com); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com)6
  • University of Kansas Athletics, 'James Naismith' and Allen Fieldhouse history (kuathletics.com)4
  • Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas, history (sbp.ph); Olympic World Library, Far Eastern Championship Games reports (library.olympics.com)3
  • Inter-Allied Games official report, Paris 1919; International Encyclopedia of the First World War (1914-1918-online.net)2
  • Sotheby's, 'James Naismith's Founding Rules of Basket Ball', sale result, December 2010 (sothebys.com)1
  • UCJG Paris (YMCA de Paris), 14 rue de Trévise: 'la plus ancienne salle de basket du monde' (ucjgparis.org)1
  • FIBA, 'Basketball in China' (fiba.basketball); Tianjin YMCA history1
  • Confederação Brasileira de Basketball, 'História do basquete no Brasil' (cbb.com.br)1
  • Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas, history (sbp.ph); Inter-Allied Games official report, 19191
  • FIBA (fiba.basketball); national federations' histories1
  • NAIA, 'Men's Basketball Championship history' (naia.org)1
  • NCAA, 'Men's Basketball Championship history' (ncaa.com)1
  • National Invitation Tournament history (ncaa.com/nit)1