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Playing Basketball." Timber Wolves Today. Web. 30 Mar. 2011. .2


 * [[file:///cgi-bin/id/A0834756|James Naismith,]]a teacher at a YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, is credited with inventing basketball in 1891.
 * The first “hoops” were actually just peach baskets and the first backboards were made of wire.
 * The game became an [[file:///cgi-bin/id/A0114922|official Olympic event]]at the Summer Games in Berlin, Germany in 1936.
 * Two leagues called the National Basketball League (NBL) and the Basketball Association of America (BAA) merged after the 1948-49 season to become today's National Basketball Association (NBA).
 * The Boston Celtics have won the most [[file:///cgi-bin/id/A0909478|NBA championships]](17), including seven straight from 1960 to 1966.
 * [[file:///cgi-bin/id/A0108956|Kareem Abdul-Jabbar]], who played 20 seasons in the NBA, holds the record for[[file:///cgi-bin/id/A0909481| most points scored in a career]]with 38,387.
 * On March 2, 1962, Philadelphia center [[file:///cgi-bin/id/A0109078|Wilt Chamberlain]] scored 100 points in one game against New York. That is the [[file:///cgi-bin/id/A0909482|most one player has ever scored in one game]].
 * Current Atlanta Hawks coach [[file:///cgi-bin/id/A0109751|Lenny Wilkens]]has won more basketball games than any other coach.
 * The American Basketball Association (ABA) was a 10-team rival league to the NBA that began play in the 1967-68 season and folded nine years later after the 1975-76 season. Four current NBA teams – Indiana, Denver, New York, and San Antonio – originated in the ABA.
 * The NBA instituted the three-pointer before the 1979-80 season, an idea it borrowed from the ABA.
 * The [[file:///cgi-bin/id/A0909478|Chicago Bulls]] have won all six NBA Finals in which they've appeared.
 * [[file:///cgi-bin/id/A0109333|Michael Jordan,]]who retired in January 1999 but returned to the league in 2001, has scored more points (5,987) in the playoffs than any other player.
 * The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is located in Springfield, Mass.
 * The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is located in Springfield, Mass.