Basketball: Becoming More And More Popular Worldwide
By Dylan Miles
On any given day, all around the world, people are playing basketball. Today, rates as one of the all-time most popular sports worldwide. tournaments are played out between players of all age groups from little five and six year olds to adults of all ages and levels. Sports networks around the world, on any given day, will report on professional tournaments around the world and broadcast local and international games. continues to grow in popularity, because it is a relatively cheap game to get into, can be played indoors and outdoors, in summer and winter, by girls or boys, men and women, anywhere in the world. When one thinks of one normally associates it with the United States and the legendary Harlem Globetrotters. Americans have been playing professionally since

1896, but today, there are up to 300 million people playing all around the entire globe. In fact, these days, American teams even recruit foreign players into their teams. According to Wikipedia.com, didn't evolve from older more primitive versions of the game, but was invented by a man called Dr. James Naismith, in 1891, so that his college students could keep fit in the winter. In fact, that's how college began! The game was initially played with a soccer ball. Then a brown ball was designed. The characteristic orange ball that we know today was designed in the late 1950s. From American college to professional league, first evolved into an international sport in 1932 and became an Olympic sport in 1936. Since then, its popularity worldwide has grown exponentially.