North Americans invented basketball, baseball, and football and dominate them by divine right.

They were ahead of Hulk Hogan; they invented tag-team basketball.

This thought was later very important when he invented basketball.

James Naismith took aspects of many sports including rugby to invent basketball.

After rejecting other ideas, he invented basketball.

Football was soccer, somebody did invent basketball but there was cricket fields instead of baseball.

Among other things, it really hinders your spear-throwing, and it almost guarantees that you'll never invent basketball.

He then added this infamous dig: "I thought Naismith invented basketball, not Deansmith."

Riley didn't invent fast-break basketball any more than Red Auerbach did.

And it was in Springfield where a local physical education teacher, James Naismith, invented basketball in 1891.