Sport

basketball as a game appeared at the end of the

It ..................by James Naismith

James Naismith wanted........ ........his students between the end of the football season and the beginning of the baseball season.

He ............ fruit baskets on the walls at the opposite ends of the gymnasium.

James Naismith organized .............. teams who played with a ball used for football.

Each team tried to throw the ball into the other..............backet.

The students liked the game and called ...........basketball.

Nowadays there ........... five players in a team.

At first basketball was an indoor game, and in America it........ still indoors.

But almost in all........... countries it is an outdoor game.