Basketball players around the world like to say they're in it for the love of the sport, but the origins of the game itself aren't so romantic. It wasn’t exactly passion or inspiration that drove ...

When a young physical education teacher invented a new game in December 1891, he was looking for more than exercise. To James Naismith, basketball had loftier goals than that. In 1891, while working ...

With the season approaching its climax, we look at the players who have perfected the art of smack talking through the years Nikola Jokic ranks his impossible pass to Cam Johnson among the best of his ...

BASKETBALL inventor James Naismith was left an orphan after his Scottish parents tragically died amid a typhoid fever epidemic. It was game on, though, when the devout Christian aspired to help an ...

Now the story of a different extracurricular, in the winter of 1891, there was a brutal New England blizzard. James Naismith was a physical instructor phys ed teacher at what's now Springfield College ...

Truth be told, James P. Naismith’s favorite sport is baseball. “I could play a reasonable game of baseball. I tried basketball in high school because I was 6-foot-1, but I was forced out quickly,’' ...

Herkimer, N.Y. – Anyone with a passing interest in basketball knows James Naismith invented the game. They might have heard the quaint origin story of soccer balls and peach baskets, how Naismith ...

The original Dr. J. brought basketball to Denver for the first time in 1895. The Nuggets have elevated the game to a new level in Denver for the first time in 2023. The team in the dusty cowtown that ...