WHO INVENTED BASKETBALL? BY Bixen

               

The inventor of the basketball was Dr. James Naismith. He was born on the 6th November 1861.  He was Canadian. He was a Physical Education teacher, and he had 2 wives and 5 children.

He studied physical education, and one rainy day, he invented basketball. He invented it when he had a PE class. He invented the most important rules of this sport. 

Thanks to the basketball, now we can play an outdoor and indoor game, because it's an inside and outside sport. This sport is very good to keep yourself fit. Now, the basketball is one of the most famous sport in the world. Everybody can play it and it's famous in all  continents. It's very easy to play: you have to shoot an orange ball through  a ring.

His first wife died in  1937, and the other in 1939. They died before their husband.
He died on the 19th November 1939.