However, how did the game first begin? Who invented basketball and, in turn the NBA, and why has it all been linked to Scotland? Before we get into the Scottish links to the NBA and basketball ...

One might expect a steady stream of basketball fans to pass the grave of the game’s inventor: Dr. James Naismith. Not so. “Since I have been working here, there has been nobody to come here ...

It may be surprising to discover that women began playing basketball less than a year after the game was invented. The fact is that women’s basketball is steeped in tradition, some of it ...

The actual first women's basketball game was played on March 22, 1893, in Smith's Alumnae Gymnasium. The Smith gymnastic instructor, Senda Berenson, adapted the game rules for women only a year after ...

First among these pioneers, it suggests, should be Smith gymnastics instructor Senda Berenson, "the matriarch of women's basketball," who in 1892, "less than a year after Dr. James A. Naismith ...