Basketball is still a young game.It is over a hundred years old.In the winter of 1891 a certain college was having trouble with boy students.The weather was so bad that the students had to stay indoors.Because they could not enjoy their sports outside as usual,they were unhappy,and some of them even got into fight from time to time.
Finally one of the teachers at the college J.E Naismith,was asked to invent (发明 ) a new game for students.It was not as easy job because such a game had to be played indoors,and the court was not very large.
Naismith thought for a few days and invented a kind of ball games.It was a fast,exciting game.At first,Naismith had planned to have the ball thrown into a box..As they could not find boxes of the right size,he had to use fruit baskets instead.