Fun facts about Basketball

Basketball was first played by a soccer ball until it was changed in 1929. At first, the official basketball was brown...

and it wasn't until in the late 1950s that an orange ball was introduced in order to make the ball more visible for players and spectators.

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In the very beginning of basketball, the color of most basketballs was brown, but lately, it's more common to see an orange basketball. The first...

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company to produce a basketball for official use was Spalding, and they have produced the official NBA game ball since 1983.

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The first basketball game took place in 1892, where the court was half the size of today's courts. The sport was...

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70 years later, the NBA generates more than $7 Billion in revenue and the average team in the NBA is worth around $1.25 Billion.

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Michael Jordan is considered to be one of the best basketball players in history. His record score of 32,292 points during...

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