Where did basketball start?
Basketball was invented in 1891 by James Naismith. He set out to invent a game to occupy students between the football and baseball seasons. The first formal rules were devised in 1892. Initially, players dribbled a soccer ball up and down a court of unspecified dimensions. Points were earned by landing the ball in a peach basket. Iron hoops and a hammock-style basket were introduced in 1893. Another decade passed, however, before the innovation of open-ended nets put an end to the practice of manually retrieving the ball from the basket each time a goal was scored.
2008 NBA Draft First Round - First 10
# Team Player Pos Ht Wt B-day College
1 Chi Derrick Rose .......... G 6-3 190 10/4/88 Memphis'11
2 Mia Michael Beasley ....... F 6-10 235 1/9/89 Kansas State'11
3 Mem O.J. Mayo ............. G 6-5 200 11/5/87 USC'11
4 Sea Russell Westbrook ..... G 6-3 187 11/12/88 UCLA'10
5 Min Kevin Love ............ C 6-10 255 9/7/88 UCLA'11
6 NY Danilo Gallinari ...... F 6-8 210 8/8/88 Italy
7 LAC Eric Gordon ........... G 6-4 215 12/25/88 Indiana'11
8 Mil Joe Alexander ......... F 6-8 230 12/26/86 West Virginia'09
9 Cha D.J. Augustin ......... G 6-0 180 11/10/87 Texas'10
10 NJ Brook Lopez ........... C 7-0 260 4/1/88 Stanford'10
2008 Hall of Fame
