{"id":2020,"date":"2026-01-20T00:20:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:43:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:43:31","slug":"first-basketball-game-was-played-in-1892","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2020","title":{"rendered":"First Basketball Game Was Played in 1892"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>First basketball game was played in 1892<\/strong>. James Naismith was working at the School for Christian Workers, now Springfield College, in Springfield, Massachusetts. He was told to develop a new game to keep athletes fit in the winter months. Using a soccer ball and two peach bushel baskets, he created the game of Basket Ball. Idea: Children could organize a basketball mini-tournament. Children can read more about the original rules of the game at: <a href=\"http:\/\/inventors.about.com\/library\/inventors\/blbasketball.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Basketball Rules<\/a>.\u00a0Children could also read John Coy\u2019s <em>Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First basketball game was played in 1892. James Naismith was working at the School for Christian Workers, now Springfield College, in Springfield, Massachusetts. He was told to develop a new game to keep athletes fit in the winter months. Using a soccer ball and two peach bushel baskets, he created the game of Basket Ball. <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2020' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4782,5088,5085,3807,5089,5086,5087],"class_list":["post-2020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4782","tag-basket-ball","tag-first-basketball-game","tag-james-naismith","tag-january-20","tag-school-for-christian-workers","tag-springfield-college","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21796,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions\/21796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}