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Basketball was created when a teacher needed kids to stop climbing walls. So he gave them a ball and consequences.

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James Naismith invented basketball in 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts, as an indoor winter activity for students. It was not meant to stop climbing walls, and no record shows such motive.

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