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mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceyms_Neysmit" title="Ceyms Neysmit – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Ceyms Neysmit" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ban mw-list-item"><a href="https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Bali</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D1%8D%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BC%D1%96%D1%82" title="Джэймс Нейсміт – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Джэймс Нейсміт" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82" title="Джеймс Нейсмит – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Джеймс Нейсмит" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CE%AD%CE%B9%CE%BC%CF%82_%CE%9D%CE%AD%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%BC%CE%B9%CE%B8" title="Τζέιμς Νέισμιθ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Τζέιμς Νέισμιθ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AA" title="جیمز نیسمیت – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="جیمز نیسمیت" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A0%9C%EC%9E%84%EC%8A%A4_%EB%84%A4%EC%9D%B4%EC%8A%A4%EB%AF%B8%EC%8A%A4" title="제임스 네이스미스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="제임스 네이스미스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8B%D5%A5%D5%B5%D5%B4%D5%BD_%D5%86%D5%A5%D5%B5%D5%BD%D5%B4%D5%AB%D5%A9" title="Ջեյմս Նեյսմիթ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Ջեյմս Նեյսմիթ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%27%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%A1_%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%AA%27" title="ג'יימס נייסמית' – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ג'יימס נייסמית'" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82" title="Джеймс Нейсмит – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Джеймс Нейсмит" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%BEeimss_Neismits" title="Džeimss Neismits – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Džeimss Neismits" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%9C%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%82%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8D%E2%80%8C%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D" title="ജെയിംസ് നെയ്‌സ്മിത്ത് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ജെയിംസ് നെയ്‌സ്മിത്ത്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB" title="جيمس نايسميث – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="جيمس نايسميث" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D1%8D%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%9D%D1%8D%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82" title="Жэймс Нэйсмит – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Жэймс Нэйсмит" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8D%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B9" title="ジェームズ・ネイスミス – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ジェームズ・ネイスミス" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82,_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81" title="Нейсмит, Джеймс – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Нейсмит, Джеймс" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="James Naismith" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith – 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padding-left:0.3em; padding-right:0.3em;">Biographical details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1861-11-06</span>)</span>November 6, 1861<br /><a href="/wiki/Almonte,_Ontario" title="Almonte, Ontario">Almonte</a>, <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Canada#Canada_West" title="Province of Canada">Canada West</a>, <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Canada" title="Province of Canada">Province of Canada</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">November 28, 1939<span style="display:none">(1939-11-28)</span> (aged 78)<br /><a href="/wiki/Lawrence,_Kansas" title="Lawrence, Kansas">Lawrence, Kansas</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/McGill_University" title="McGill University">McGill University</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Springfield_College" title="Springfield College">Springfield College</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Presbyterian_College" title="Presbyterian College">Presbyterian College</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: lightgray; padding-left:0.3em; padding-right:0.3em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546">Coaching career (<a href="/wiki/Head_coach" title="Head coach">HC</a> unless noted)</th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="text-align: left;">Basketball</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap; padding: 0 1px;">1898–1907</th><td class="infobox-data" style="padding: 0 1px;"><a href="/wiki/Kansas_Jayhawks_men%27s_basketball" title="Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball">Kansas</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="text-align: left;">Track and field</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap; padding: 0 1px;">1900–1906</th><td class="infobox-data" style="padding: 0 1px;"><a href="/wiki/Kansas_Jayhawks_track_and_field" class="mw-redirect" title="Kansas Jayhawks track and field">Kansas</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: lightgray; padding-left:0.3em; padding-right:0.3em;">Head coaching record</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Overall</th><td class="infobox-data">55–60 (basketball)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: lightgray; padding-left:0.3em; padding-right:0.3em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546">Accomplishments and honors</th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="text-align: left;">Awards</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/FIBA_Hall_of_Famer" class="mw-redirect" title="FIBA Hall of Famer">FIBA Hall of Fame</a></li> <li>Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canadian_Olympic_Hall_of_Fame" title="Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame">Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canadian_Sports_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Canadian Sports Hall of Fame">Canadian Sports Hall of Fame</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ontario_Sports_Hall_of_Fame" title="Ontario Sports Hall of Fame">Ontario Sports Hall of Fame</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ottawa_Sports_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame">Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame</a></li> <li>McGill University Sports Hall of Fame</li> <li>Oklahoma State Sports Hall of Fame</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="background-color: #fb0; font-weight: bold;"><a href="/wiki/Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" title="Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">Basketball Hall of Fame</a><br />Inducted in 1959</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="background-color: #fb0; font-weight: bold;"><a href="/wiki/National_Collegiate_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" title="National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame">College Basketball Hall of Fame</a><br />Inducted in 2006</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>James Naismith</b> (<a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling">NAY-smith</i></a>; November 6, 1861 – November 28, 1939) was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain, and sports coach, best known as the inventor of the game of <a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">basketball</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-mcgill_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcgill-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Porter_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Porter-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After moving to the United States, he wrote the <a href="/wiki/James_Naismith%27s_Original_Rules_of_Basketball" class="mw-redirect" title="James Naismith's Original Rules of Basketball">original basketball rule book</a> and founded the <a href="/wiki/Kansas_Jayhawks_basketball" class="mw-redirect" title="Kansas Jayhawks basketball">University of Kansas</a> basketball program in 1898.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Naismith lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in <a href="/wiki/1904_Summer_Olympics" title="1904 Summer Olympics">1904</a> and as an official event at the <a href="/wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics" title="1936 Summer Olympics">1936 Summer Olympics</a> in <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>, as well as the birth of the <a href="/wiki/National_Invitation_Tournament" title="National Invitation Tournament">National Invitation Tournament</a> (1938) and the <a href="/wiki/NCAA_Men%27s_Division_I_Basketball_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship">NCAA Tournament</a> (1939). </p><p>Naismith studied and taught <a href="/wiki/Physical_education" title="Physical education">physical education</a> at <a href="/wiki/McGill_University" title="McGill University">McGill University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a> until 1890, before moving to <a href="/wiki/Springfield,_Massachusetts" title="Springfield, Massachusetts">Springfield, Massachusetts</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> later that year, where in 1891 he designed the game of basketball while he was teaching at the <a href="/wiki/Springfield_College" title="Springfield College">International YMCA Training School</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Porter_2005_pp._346–347_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Porter_2005_pp._346–347-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Seven years after inventing basketball, Naismith received his <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Medicine" title="Doctor of Medicine">medical degree</a> in <a href="/wiki/Denver" title="Denver">Denver</a> in 1898. He then arrived at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Kansas" title="University of Kansas">University of Kansas</a>, later becoming the <a href="/wiki/Kansas_Jayhawks" title="Kansas Jayhawks">Kansas Jayhawks</a>' athletic director and coach.<sup id="cite_ref-Porter_2005_pp._346–347_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Porter_2005_pp._346–347-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While a coach at Kansas, Naismith coached <a href="/wiki/Phog_Allen" title="Phog Allen">Phog Allen</a>, who later became the coach at Kansas for 39 seasons, beginning a lengthy and prestigious <a href="/wiki/Coaching_tree" title="Coaching tree">coaching tree</a>. Allen then went on to coach legends including <a href="/wiki/Adolph_Rupp" title="Adolph Rupp">Adolph Rupp</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dean_Smith" title="Dean Smith">Dean Smith</a>, among others, who themselves coached many notable players and future coaches.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_years">Early years</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Naismith&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Naismith_statue,_Almonte.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Naismith_statue%2C_Almonte.jpg/220px-Naismith_statue%2C_Almonte.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Naismith_statue%2C_Almonte.jpg/330px-Naismith_statue%2C_Almonte.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Naismith_statue%2C_Almonte.jpg/440px-Naismith_statue%2C_Almonte.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4064" data-file-height="2864" /></a><figcaption>Sculpture in <a href="/wiki/Almonte,_Ontario" title="Almonte, Ontario">Almonte</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ontario" title="Ontario">Ontario</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Naismith was born on November 6, 1861, in <a href="/wiki/Almonte,_Ontario" title="Almonte, Ontario">Almonte</a>, Canada West, <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Canada" title="Province of Canada">Province of Canada</a> (now part of <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Mills,_Ontario" title="Mississippi Mills, Ontario">Mississippi Mills, Ontario</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>) to Scottish parents.<sup id="cite_ref-kuhistory_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kuhistory-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite some sources to the contrary Naismith never had a middle name and never signed his name with an "A" initial. The "A" was added by someone in administration at the University of Kansas.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gifted in farm labour, Naismith spent his days outside playing catch, hide-and-seek, or <a href="/wiki/Duck_on_a_rock" title="Duck on a rock">duck on a rock</a>, a medieval game in which a person guards a large <a href="/wiki/Stone_skipping" title="Stone skipping">drake stone</a> from opposing players, who try to knock it down by throwing smaller stones at it. To play duck on a rock most effectively, Naismith soon found that a soft lobbing shot was far more effective than a straight hard throw, a thought that later proved essential for the invention of basketball.<sup id="cite_ref-museumtimeline_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-museumtimeline-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Orphaned early in his life, Naismith lived with his aunt and uncle for many years and attended grade school at Bennies Corners near Almonte. Then, he enrolled in Almonte High School, in Almonte, Ontario, from which he graduated in 1883.<sup id="cite_ref-museumtimeline_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-museumtimeline-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the same year, Naismith entered <a href="/wiki/McGill_University" title="McGill University">McGill University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a>. Although described as a slight figure, standing <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style>5 feet <span class="frac">10<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span> inches (1.791 m) and listed at 178 pounds (81 kg)<sup id="cite_ref-hofsummary_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hofsummary-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he was a talented and versatile athlete, representing McGill in <a href="/wiki/Canadian_football" title="Canadian football">football</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lacrosse" title="Lacrosse">lacrosse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rugby_union" title="Rugby union">rugby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Soccer" class="mw-redirect" title="Soccer">soccer</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Gymnastics" title="Gymnastics">gymnastics</a>. He played centre on the football team, and made himself some padding to protect his ears. It was for personal use, not team use.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He won multiple Wicksteed medals for outstanding gymnastics performances.<sup id="cite_ref-mcgill_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcgill-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Naismith earned a BA in physical education (1888) and a diploma at the <a href="/wiki/The_Presbyterian_College,_Montreal" title="The Presbyterian College, Montreal">Presbyterian College in Montreal</a> (1890).<sup id="cite_ref-museumtimeline_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-museumtimeline-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the end of his career, in 1938 and 1939, he would receive honorary doctorates from both institutions.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1888 to 1890, Naismith taught physical education and became the first McGill director of athletics, but then left Montreal to study at the <a href="/wiki/Springfield_College" title="Springfield College">YMCA International Training School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Springfield,_Massachusetts" title="Springfield, Massachusetts">Springfield, Massachusetts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Naismith played football during his one year as a student at Springfield, where he was coached by <a href="/wiki/Amos_Alonzo_Stagg" title="Amos Alonzo Stagg">Amos Alonzo Stagg</a> and scored a touchdown in the first exhibition of <a href="/wiki/Indoor_American_football" class="mw-redirect" title="Indoor American football">indoor college football</a> at <a href="/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden_(1890)" title="Madison Square Garden (1890)">Madison Square Garden</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Springfield_College:_Invention_of_basketball">Springfield College: Invention of basketball</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Naismith&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Springfield College: Invention of basketball"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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data-file-height="430" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a> has original text related to this article: <div style="margin-left: 10px;"><b><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Basket_Ball" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Basket Ball">Basket Ball</a></b></div></div></div> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Firstbasketball.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Firstbasketball.jpg/170px-Firstbasketball.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="239" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Firstbasketball.jpg/255px-Firstbasketball.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Firstbasketball.jpg/340px-Firstbasketball.jpg 2x" data-file-width="355" data-file-height="499" /></a><figcaption>The original 1891 "Basket Ball" court in <a href="/wiki/Springfield_College" title="Springfield College">Springfield College</a>. It used a peach basket attached to the wall.</figcaption></figure> <p>Naismith is credited with inventing basketball. Naismith was an outstanding football player at McGill University in Montreal when he realized he needed to invent an indoor game for the winter due to the weather conditions.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="It says later that he invented it in Springfield (October 2023)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> He later decided to become a physical education teacher at McGill University for his three postgraduate years and then went to Springfield, Massachusetts, to study at the YMCA International Training School in the 1890s. </p><p>After completing the <a href="/wiki/YMCA" title="YMCA">YMCA</a> physical director training program that had brought him to Springfield, Naismith was hired as a full-time faculty member in 1891.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the Springfield YMCA, Naismith struggled with a rowdy class that was confined to indoor games throughout the harsh <a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a> winter, and thus was perpetually short-tempered. Under orders from <a href="/wiki/Luther_Gulick_(physician)" title="Luther Gulick (physician)">Luther Gulick</a>, head of physical education there, Naismith was given 14 days to create an indoor game that would provide an "athletic distraction"; Gulick demanded that it would not take up much room, could help its track athletes to keep in shape<sup id="cite_ref-mcgill_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcgill-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and explicitly emphasized to "make it fair for all players and not too rough".<sup id="cite_ref-hofsummary_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hofsummary-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Naismith was later employed to teach physical education using two boxes. He told the superintendent he needed the two boxes to be put onto a pole so a large ball could be thrown into them.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his attempt to think up a new game, Naismith was guided by three main thoughts.<sup id="cite_ref-museumtimeline_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-museumtimeline-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Firstly, he analyzed the most popular games of the times (rugby, lacrosse, <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">soccer</a>, football, <a href="/wiki/Ice_hockey" title="Ice hockey">hockey</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Baseball" title="Baseball">baseball</a>); Naismith noticed the hazards of a ball and concluded that the big, soft soccer ball was safest. Secondly, he saw that most physical contact occurred while running with the ball, dribbling, or hitting it, so he decided that passing was the only legal option. Finally, Naismith further reduced body contact by making the goal unguardable by placing it high above the player's heads with the plane of the goal's opening parallel to the floor. This placement forced the players to score goals by throwing a soft, lobbing shot like that which had proven effective in his old favorite game, <a href="/wiki/Duck_on_a_rock" title="Duck on a rock">duck on a rock</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For this purpose, Naismith asked a janitor to find a pair of boxes, but the janitor brought him peach baskets instead.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Naismith christened this new game <i>Basket Ball</i><sup id="cite_ref-museumtimeline_10-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-museumtimeline-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and put his thoughts together in <a href="/wiki/James_Naismith%27s_Original_Rules_of_Basketball" class="mw-redirect" title="James Naismith's Original Rules of Basketball">13 basic rules</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13rules_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13rules-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first game of "Basket Ball" was played in December 1891. In a handwritten report, Naismith described the circumstances of the inaugural match; in contrast to modern basketball, the players played nine versus nine, handled a soccer ball, not a basketball, and instead of shooting at two hoops, the goals were a pair of peach baskets: "When Mr. Stubbins brot  [<i><a href="/wiki/Sic" title="Sic">sic</a></i>] up the peach baskets to the gym I secured them on the inside of the railing of the gallery. This was about 10 feet [3.0 meters] from the floor, one at each end of the gymnasium. I then put the 13 rules on the bulletin board just behind the instructor's platform, secured a soccer ball, and awaited the arrival of the class ... The class did not show much enthusiasm, but followed my lead ... I then explained what they had to do to make goals, tossed the ball up between the two center men and tried to keep them somewhat near the rules. Most of the fouls were called for running with the ball, though tackling the man with the ball was not uncommon."<sup id="cite_ref-firstgame_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-firstgame-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In contrast to modern basketball, the original rules did not include what is known today as the <a href="/wiki/Dribbling" title="Dribbling">dribble</a>. Since the ball could only be moved up the court by a pass early players tossed the ball over their heads as they ran up court. Also following each "goal", a <a href="/wiki/Jump_ball" title="Jump ball">jump ball</a> was taken in the middle of the court. Both practices are obsolete in <a href="/wiki/Rules_of_basketball" title="Rules of basketball">the rules of modern basketball</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-modernrules_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-modernrules-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a radio interview in January 1939, Naismith gave more details of the first game and the initial rules that were used: </p> <blockquote><p>I showed them two peach baskets I'd nailed up at each end of the gym, and I told them the idea was to throw the ball into the opposing team's peach basket. I blew a whistle, and the first game of basketball began ... The boys began tackling, kicking, and punching in the clinches. They ended up in a free-for-all in the middle of the gym floor. [The injury toll: several black eyes, one separated shoulder, and one player knocked unconscious.] It certainly was murder. [Naismith changed some of the rules as part of his quest to develop a clean sport.] The most important one was that there should be no running with the ball. That stopped tackling and slugging. We tried out the game with those [new] rules (fouls), and we didn't have one casualty.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Naismith was a classmate of <a href="/wiki/Amos_Alonzo_Stagg" title="Amos Alonzo Stagg">Amos Alonzo Stagg</a> at the YMCA School, where Stagg coached the football team. They became close friends and Naismith played on the football team and Stagg played on the basketball team. Naismith invited Stagg to play in the first public basketball game on March 12, 1892. The students defeated the faculty 5–1 and Stagg scored the only basket for the faculty.<sup id="cite_ref-Sumner_2021_53_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sumner_2021_53-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Springfield Republican reported on the same: "Over 200 spectators crammed their necks over the gallery railing of the Christian Workers gymnasium while they watched the game of 'basket ball' between the teachers and the students. The most conspicuous figure on the floor was Stagg in the blue Yale uniform who managed to have a hand in every scrimmage."<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 1892, basketball had grown so popular on campus that Dennis Horkenbach (editor-in-chief of <i>The Triangle</i>, the Springfield college newspaper) featured it in an article called "A New Game",<sup id="cite_ref-kuhistory_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kuhistory-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and there were calls to call this new game "Naismith Ball", but Naismith refused.<sup id="cite_ref-museumtimeline_10-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-museumtimeline-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1893, basketball was introduced internationally by the <a href="/wiki/YMCA" title="YMCA">YMCA</a> movement.<sup id="cite_ref-kuhistory_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kuhistory-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From Springfield, Naismith went to Denver, where he acquired a medical degree, and in 1898, he joined the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Kansas" title="University of Kansas">University of Kansas</a> faculty at <a href="/wiki/Lawrence,_Kansas" title="Lawrence, Kansas">Lawrence</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hofsummary_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hofsummary-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The family of Lambert G. Will, disputing Naismith's sole creation of the game, has claimed that Naismith borrowed components for the game of basketball from Will, citing alleged photos and letters. In an interview, the family did give Naismith credit for the general idea of the sport, but they claimed Will changed aspects of Naismith's original plans for the game and Naismith took credit for the changes.<sup id="cite_ref-VPR_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VPR-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Box_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Box-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Spalding_(company)" title="Spalding (company)">Spalding</a> worked with Naismith to develop the official basketball and the Spalding Athletic Library official basketball rule book for 1893–1894.<sup id="cite_ref-Spalding_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Spalding-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Digital_Commonwealth_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Digital_Commonwealth-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="University_of_Kansas">University of Kansas</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Naismith&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: University of Kansas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1034237262">.mw-parser-output .stack{box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .stack>div{margin:1px;overflow:hidden}@media all and (min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .stack-clear-left{float:left;clear:left}.mw-parser-output .stack-clear-right{float:right;clear:right}.mw-parser-output .stack-left{float:left}.mw-parser-output .stack-right{float:right}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-clear-left{float:left;clear:left;margin-right:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-clear-right{float:right;clear:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-left{float:left;margin-right:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-right{float:right;margin-left:1em}}</style><div class="stack mw-stack stack-right"><div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kansas_U_team_1899.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Kansas_U_team_1899.jpg/220px-Kansas_U_team_1899.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Kansas_U_team_1899.jpg/330px-Kansas_U_team_1899.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Kansas_U_team_1899.jpg/440px-Kansas_U_team_1899.jpg 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="555" /></a><figcaption>1899 University of Kansas basketball team, with James Naismith at the back, right</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Allen_Fieldhouse.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Allen_Fieldhouse.jpg/220px-Allen_Fieldhouse.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Allen_Fieldhouse.jpg/330px-Allen_Fieldhouse.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Allen_Fieldhouse.jpg/440px-Allen_Fieldhouse.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption>Basketball games at <a href="/wiki/Allen_Fieldhouse" title="Allen Fieldhouse">Allen Fieldhouse</a> take place on the James Naismith Court.</figcaption></figure> </div></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Kansas_Jayhawks_men%27s_basketball" title="Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball">University of Kansas</a> men's basketball program officially began following Naismith's arrival in 1898, seven years after Naismith drafted the sport's first official rules. Naismith was not initially hired to coach basketball, but rather as a chapel director and physical-education instructor.<sup id="cite_ref-untold_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-untold-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In those early days, the majority of the basketball games were played against nearby YMCA teams, with YMCAs across the nation having played an integral part in the birth of basketball. Other common opponents were <a href="/wiki/Haskell_Indian_Nations_University" title="Haskell Indian Nations University">Haskell Indian Nations University</a> and <a href="/wiki/William_Jewell_College" title="William Jewell College">William Jewell College</a>. Under Naismith, the team played only one current <a href="/wiki/Big_12" class="mw-redirect" title="Big 12">Big 12</a> school: <a href="/wiki/Kansas_State_Wildcats_men%27s_basketball" title="Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball">Kansas State</a> (once). Naismith is, ironically, the only coach in the program's history to have a losing record (55–60).<sup id="cite_ref-kurecord_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kurecord-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, Naismith coached <a href="/wiki/Phog_Allen" title="Phog Allen">Forrest "Phog" Allen</a>, his eventual successor at Kansas,<sup id="cite_ref-kshs_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kshs-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who went on to join his mentor in the <a href="/wiki/Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" title="Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When Allen became a coach himself and told him that he was going to coach basketball at <a href="/wiki/Baker_University" title="Baker University">Baker University</a> in 1904, Naismith discouraged him: "You can't coach basketball; you just play it."<sup id="cite_ref-mcgill_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcgill-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Instead, Allen embarked on a coaching career that would lead him to be known as "the Father of Basketball Coaching". During his time at Kansas, Allen coached <a href="/wiki/Dean_Smith" title="Dean Smith">Dean Smith</a> (1952 National Championship team) and <a href="/wiki/Adolph_Rupp" title="Adolph Rupp">Adolph Rupp</a> (1922 Helms Foundation National Championship team). Smith and Rupp have joined Naismith and Allen as <a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" title="List of members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">members of the Basketball Hall of Fame</a>. </p><p>By the turn of the century, enough college teams were in the East that the first intercollegiate competitions could be played out.<sup id="cite_ref-kshs_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kshs-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although the sport continued to grow, Naismith long regarded the game as a curiosity and preferred gymnastics and <a href="/wiki/Scholastic_wrestling" title="Scholastic wrestling">wrestling</a> as better forms of physical activity.<sup id="cite_ref-kshs_35-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kshs-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, basketball became a <a href="/wiki/Basketball_at_the_1904_Summer_Olympics" title="Basketball at the 1904 Summer Olympics">demonstration sport</a> at the <a href="/wiki/1904_Summer_Olympics" title="1904 Summer Olympics">1904 Summer Olympics</a> in <a href="/wiki/St._Louis,_Missouri" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Louis, Missouri">St. Louis</a>. As the <a href="/wiki/Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" title="Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame</a> reports, Naismith was not interested in self-promotion nor was he interested in the glory of competitive sports.<sup id="cite_ref-hof_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hof-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Instead, he was more interested in his physical-education career; he received an honorary PE master's degree in 1910,<sup id="cite_ref-museumtimeline_10-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-museumtimeline-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> patrolled the <a href="/wiki/Mexico_%E2%80%93_United_States_border" class="mw-redirect" title="Mexico – United States border">Mexican border</a> for four months in 1916, traveled to France, and published two books (<i>A Modern College</i> in 1911 and <i>Essence of a Healthy Life</i> in 1918). He took American citizenship on May 4, 1925.<sup id="cite_ref-Porter_2005_pp._346–347_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Porter_2005_pp._346–347-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1909, Naismith's duties at Kansas were redefined as a professorship; he served as the <i>de facto</i> athletic director at Kansas for much of the early 20th century. </p><p>Naismith had "strong feelings against <a href="/wiki/Racial_segregation" title="Racial segregation">segregation</a>," dating back to his World War I-era service in France and his service on the United States-Mexico border, and he strove for progress in race relations through modest steps. During the 1930s, he would not or could not get <a href="/wiki/African-Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="African-Americans">African-Americans</a> onto Kansas' varsity Jayhawks, but he did help engineer the admission of black students to the university's <a href="/wiki/Swimming_pool" title="Swimming pool">swimming pool</a>. Until then, they had been given automatic passing grades on a required swimming test without entering the pool, so it could remain all-white.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Through Naismith's association with Baker University Basketball Coach Emil Liston, he became familiar and impressed with Emil Liston's fraternity at Baker University, <a href="/wiki/Sigma_Phi_Epsilon" title="Sigma Phi Epsilon">Sigma Phi Epsilon</a> (SigEp). As a result, he started the effort to bring a Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter to his University of Kansas (KU). On February 18, 1923, Naismith, intending to bring a SigEp Chapter to KU, was initiated as a SigEp member by national office of the fraternity. Under Naismith's leadership, the University of Kansas Sigma Phi Epsilon Chapter was founded and officially Charted on April 28, 1923, with Naismith leading the new 40-member fraternity as "Chapter Counselor." Naismith was deeply involved with the members, serving as Chapter Counselor for 16 years, from 1923 until his death in 1939. During those 16 years as Chapter Counselor, he married SigEp's housemother, Mrs. Florence Kincaid. Members who were interviewed during that era remembered Naismith: "He was deeply religious", "He listened more than he spoke", "He thought sports were nothing but an avenue to keep young people involved so they could do their studies and relate to their community", and "It was really nice having someone with the caliber of Dr. Naismith, he helped many a SigEp." </p><p>In 1935, the <a href="/wiki/National_Association_of_Basketball_Coaches" title="National Association of Basketball Coaches">National Association of Basketball Coaches</a> (founded by Naismith's pupil Phog Allen) collected money so the 74-year-old Naismith could witness the introduction of basketball into the official Olympic sports program of the <a href="/wiki/1936_Summer_Olympic_Games" class="mw-redirect" title="1936 Summer Olympic Games">1936 Summer Olympic Games</a> in <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hof_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hof-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There, Naismith handed out the medals to three North American teams: the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, for the gold medal, <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>, for the silver medal, and <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a>, for their bronze medal.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the Olympics, he was named the honorary president of the <a href="/wiki/International_Basketball_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="International Basketball Federation">International Basketball Federation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-museumtimeline_10-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-museumtimeline-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When Naismith returned, he commented that seeing the game played by many nations was the greatest compensation he could have received for his invention.<sup id="cite_ref-kshs_35-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kshs-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1937, Naismith played a role in the formation of the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball, which later became the <a href="/wiki/National_Association_of_Intercollegiate_Athletics" title="National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics">National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics</a> (NAIA).<sup id="cite_ref-naia_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-naia-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Naismith became professor <i>emeritus</i> at Kansas when he retired in 1937 at the age of 76. In addition to his years as a coach, for a total of almost 40 years, Naismith worked at the school and during those years, he also served as its athletic director and was also a faculty member at the school. In 1939, Naismith suffered a fatal brain hemorrhage. He was interred at Memorial Park Cemetery in <a href="/wiki/Lawrence,_Kansas" title="Lawrence, Kansas">Lawrence, Kansas</a>. His masterwork "Basketball — its Origins and Development" was published posthumously in 1941.<sup id="cite_ref-museumtimeline_10-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-museumtimeline-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Lawrence, Naismith has a road named in his honor, Naismith Drive, which runs in front of Allen Fieldhouse and James Naismith Court therein are named in his honor, despite Naismith's having the worst record in school history. Naismith Valley Park, located at the south end of Naismith Drive in Lawrence is also named in his honor. Naismith Hall, a dormitory, is located on the northeast corner of the intersection of 19th Street with Naismith Drive on the KU campus is also named for him.<sup id="cite_ref-googlemaps_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-googlemaps-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Head-coaching_record">Head-coaching record</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Naismith&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Head-coaching record"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Basketball">Basketball</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Naismith&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Basketball"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:James_Naismith_at_Springfield_College_circa_1920.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/James_Naismith_at_Springfield_College_circa_1920.jpg/170px-James_Naismith_at_Springfield_College_circa_1920.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="210" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/James_Naismith_at_Springfield_College_circa_1920.jpg/255px-James_Naismith_at_Springfield_College_circa_1920.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/James_Naismith_at_Springfield_College_circa_1920.jpg/340px-James_Naismith_at_Springfield_College_circa_1920.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1080" data-file-height="1334" /></a><figcaption>Naismith as University of Kansas athletics director, c. 1920</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1898, Naismith became the first basketball coach of <a href="/wiki/Kansas_Jayhawks_men%27s_basketball" title="Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball">University of Kansas</a>. He compiled a record of 55–60 and is ironically the only losing coach in Kansas history.<sup id="cite_ref-kurecord_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kurecord-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Naismith is at the beginning of a massive and prestigious coaching tree, as he coached <a href="/wiki/Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" title="Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame</a> coach <a href="/wiki/Phog_Allen" title="Phog Allen">Phog Allen</a>, who himself coached Hall of Fame coaches <a href="/wiki/Dean_Smith" title="Dean Smith">Dean Smith</a>, <a href="/wiki/Adolph_Rupp" title="Adolph Rupp">Adolph Rupp</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Miller" title="Ralph Miller">Ralph Miller</a> who all coached future coaches as well.<sup id="cite_ref-kshs_35-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kshs-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition to Allen, Naismith also can be seen as a mentor and therefore beginning for the coaching tree branches of <a href="/wiki/John_McLendon" title="John McLendon">John McLendon</a> who wasn't permitted to play at Kansas but was close to Naismith during his time as an athletic director.<sup id="cite_ref-Breaking1_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Breaking1-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Amos_Alonzo_Stagg" title="Amos Alonzo Stagg">Amos Alonzo Stagg</a>, was primarily a <a href="/wiki/American_football" title="American football">football</a> coach, but he did play basketball for Naismith in Springfield, coached a year of basketball at <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Maroons_men%27s_basketball" title="Chicago Maroons men's basketball">Chicago</a> and had several football players who also coached basketball such as <a href="/wiki/Jesse_Harper" title="Jesse Harper">Jesse Harper</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mysterious_Walker" title="Mysterious Walker">Fred Walker</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tony_Hinkle" title="Tony Hinkle">Tony Hinkle</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Sumner_2021_53_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sumner_2021_53-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"> <caption>Statistics overview </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Season </th> <th>Team </th> <th>Overall </th> <th>Conference </th> <th>Standing </th> <th>Postseason </th></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#dddddd; border-bottom: 2px solid #aaaaaa;" colspan="9" align="center"><b><a href="/wiki/Kansas_Jayhawks_men%27s_basketball" title="Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball">Kansas Jayhawks</a> </b> <i>(Independent)</i> <small>(1898–1907)</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1898%E2%80%9399_collegiate_men%27s_basketball_season_in_the_United_States" title="1898–99 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States">1898–99</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1898%E2%80%9399_Kansas_Jayhawks_men%27s_basketball_team" title="1898–99 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team">Kansas</a> </td> <td>7–4</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1899%E2%80%931900_collegiate_men%27s_basketball_season_in_the_United_States" title="1899–1900 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States">1899–00</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1899%E2%80%931900_Kansas_Jayhawks_men%27s_basketball_team" title="1899–1900 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team">Kansas</a> </td> <td>3–4</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1900%E2%80%9301_collegiate_men%27s_basketball_season_in_the_United_States" title="1900–01 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States">1900–01</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1900%E2%80%9301_Kansas_Jayhawks_men%27s_basketball_team" title="1900–01 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team">Kansas</a> </td> <td>4–8</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1901%E2%80%9302_collegiate_men%27s_basketball_season_in_the_United_States" title="1901–02 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States">1901–02</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1901%E2%80%9302_Kansas_Jayhawks_men%27s_basketball_team" title="1901–02 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team">Kansas</a> </td> <td>5–7</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1902%E2%80%9303_collegiate_men%27s_basketball_season_in_the_United_States" title="1902–03 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States">1902–03</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1902%E2%80%9303_Kansas_Jayhawks_men%27s_basketball_team" title="1902–03 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team">Kansas</a> </td> <td>7–8</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1903%E2%80%9304_collegiate_men%27s_basketball_season_in_the_United_States" title="1903–04 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States">1903–04</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1903%E2%80%9304_Kansas_Jayhawks_men%27s_basketball_team" title="1903–04 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team">Kansas</a> </td> <td>5–8</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1904%E2%80%9305_collegiate_men%27s_basketball_season_in_the_United_States" title="1904–05 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States">1904–05</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1904%E2%80%9305_Kansas_Jayhawks_men%27s_basketball_team" title="1904–05 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team">Kansas</a> </td> <td>5–6</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1905%E2%80%9306_collegiate_men%27s_basketball_season_in_the_United_States" title="1905–06 collegiate men's basketball season in the United States">1905–06</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1905%E2%80%9306_Kansas_Jayhawks_men%27s_basketball_team" title="1905–06 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team">Kansas</a> </td> <td>12–7</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1906%E2%80%9307_IAAUS_men%27s_basketball_season" title="1906–07 IAAUS men's basketball season">1906–07</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1906%E2%80%9307_Kansas_Jayhawks_men%27s_basketball_team" title="1906–07 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team">Kansas</a> </td> <td>7–8</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr style="background:#dddddd"> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center"><b>Total:</b></td> <td>55–60 (.478)</td> <td colspan="7"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Naismith&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:James_Naismith.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/James_Naismith.jpg/170px-James_Naismith.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/James_Naismith.jpg/255px-James_Naismith.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/James_Naismith.jpg/340px-James_Naismith.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2112" data-file-height="2816" /></a><figcaption>Statue of James Naismith at <a href="/wiki/Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Basketball Hall of Fame">Basketball Hall of Fame</a> and Museum in Springfield, Massachusetts</figcaption></figure> <p>Naismith invented the game of basketball and wrote the original 13 rules of this sport;<sup id="cite_ref-hof_37-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hof-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for comparison, the NBA rule book today features 66 pages. The <a href="/wiki/Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" title="Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame</a> in Springfield, Massachusetts, is named in his honor, and he was an inaugural inductee in 1959.<sup id="cite_ref-hof_37-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hof-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association" title="National Collegiate Athletic Association">National Collegiate Athletic Association</a> rewards its best players and coaches annually with the <a href="/wiki/Naismith_Award" title="Naismith Award">Naismith Awards</a>, among them the <a href="/wiki/Naismith_College_Player_of_the_Year" title="Naismith College Player of the Year">Naismith College Player of the Year</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Naismith_College_Coach_of_the_Year" title="Naismith College Coach of the Year">Naismith College Coach of the Year</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Naismith_Prep_Player_of_the_Year" class="mw-redirect" title="Naismith Prep Player of the Year">Naismith Prep Player of the Year</a>. After the Olympic introduction to men's basketball in 1936, women's basketball became an Olympic event in <a href="/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a> during the <a href="/wiki/1976_Summer_Olympics" title="1976 Summer Olympics">1976 Summer Olympics</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-women1976_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-women1976-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Naismith was also inducted into the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame, the <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Olympic_Hall_of_Fame" title="Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame">Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Sports_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Canadian Sports Hall of Fame">Canadian Sports Hall of Fame</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Ontario_Sports_Hall_of_Fame" title="Ontario Sports Hall of Fame">Ontario Sports Hall of Fame</a>, the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame, the McGill University Sports Hall of Fame, the Kansas State Sports Hall of Fame, <a href="/wiki/FIBA_Hall_of_Famer" class="mw-redirect" title="FIBA Hall of Famer">FIBA Hall of Fame</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-museumtimeline_10-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-museumtimeline-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/FIBA_Basketball_World_Cup" title="FIBA Basketball World Cup">FIBA Basketball World Cup</a> trophy is named the "James Naismith Trophy" in his honor. On June 21, 2013, Naismith was inducted into the Kansas Hall of Fame during ceremonies in Topeka.<sup id="cite_ref-KSHF_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KSHF-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Naismith's home town of <a href="/wiki/Almonte,_Ontario" title="Almonte, Ontario">Almonte, Ontario</a>, hosts an annual 3-on-3 tournament for all ages and skill levels in his honor. Every year, this event attracts hundreds of participants and involves over 20 half-court games along the main street of the town.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> All proceeds of the event go to youth basketball programs in the area.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Today basketball is played by more than 300 million people worldwide, making it one of the most popular team sports.<sup id="cite_ref-mcgill_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcgill-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In North America, basketball has produced some of the most-admired athletes of the 20th century. <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a> both conducted polls to name the greatest North American athlete of the 20th century. Basketball player <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jordan" title="Michael Jordan">Michael Jordan</a> came in first in the ESPN poll and second (behind <a href="/wiki/Babe_Ruth" title="Babe Ruth">Babe Ruth</a>) in the AP poll. Both polls featured fellow basketball players <a href="/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain" title="Wilt Chamberlain">Wilt Chamberlain</a> (of KU, like Naismith) and <a href="/wiki/Bill_Russell" title="Bill Russell">Bill Russell</a> in the top 20.<sup id="cite_ref-espnvote_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-espnvote-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Naismith_Rules_of_Basketball_1892_first_draft.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Naismith_Rules_of_Basketball_1892_first_draft.jpg/220px-Naismith_Rules_of_Basketball_1892_first_draft.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Naismith_Rules_of_Basketball_1892_first_draft.jpg/330px-Naismith_Rules_of_Basketball_1892_first_draft.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Naismith_Rules_of_Basketball_1892_first_draft.jpg/440px-Naismith_Rules_of_Basketball_1892_first_draft.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1997" data-file-height="1217" /></a><figcaption>Typewritten first draft of the rules of basketball by Naismith</figcaption></figure> <p>The original rules of basketball written by James Naismith in 1891, considered to be basketball's founding document, was auctioned at Sotheby's, New York, in December 2010. <a href="/wiki/Josh_Swade" title="Josh Swade">Josh Swade</a>, a University of Kansas alumnus and basketball enthusiast, went on a crusade in 2010 to persuade moneyed alumni to consider bidding on and hopefully winning the document at auction to give it to the University of Kansas. Swade eventually persuaded <a href="/wiki/David_G._Booth" title="David G. Booth">David G. Booth</a>, a billionaire investment banker and KU alumnus, and his wife Suzanne Booth, to commit to bidding at the auction. The Booths won the bidding and purchased the document for a record US$4,338,500, the most ever paid for a sports memorabilia item, and gave the document to the University of Kansas.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Swade's project and eventual success are chronicled in a 2012 ESPN <i><a href="/wiki/30_for_30" title="30 for 30">30 for 30</a></i> documentary "There's No Place Like Home" and in a corresponding book, <i>The Holy Grail of Hoops: One Fan's Quest to Buy the Original Rules of Basketball</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The University of Kansas constructed an $18 million building named the Debruce Center, which houses the rules and opened in March 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Naismith was designated a National Historic Person in 1976, on the advice of the national <a href="/wiki/National_Historic_Sites_of_Canada#Historic_Sites_and_Monuments_Board_of_Canada" title="National Historic Sites of Canada">Historic Sites and Monuments Board</a><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1991, postage stamps commemorated the centennial of basketball's invention: four stamps were issued by <a href="/wiki/Canada_Post" title="Canada Post">Canada Post</a>, including one with Naismith's name; one stamp was issued by the <a href="/wiki/US_Postal_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="US Postal Service">US Postal Service</a>. Another Canadian stamp, in 2009, honored the game's invention. </p><p>In July 2019, Naismith was inducted into Toronto's <a href="/wiki/Canada_Walk_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Canada Walk of Fame">Walk of Fame</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On January 15, 2021, <a href="/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a> placed a <a href="/wiki/Google_Doodle" title="Google Doodle">Google Doodle</a> celebrating James Naismith on its home page in 18 countries, on five continents.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Naismith&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Naismith was the second child of two Scottish immigrants.<sup id="cite_ref-museumtimeline_10-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-museumtimeline-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father left Europe when he was 18, and also settled down in Lanark County.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On June 20, 1894, Naismith married his wife in <a href="/wiki/Springfield,_Massachusetts" title="Springfield, Massachusetts">Springfield, Massachusetts</a>. The couple had five children.<sup id="cite_ref-hofsummary_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hofsummary-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Pi_Gamma_Mu" title="Pi Gamma Mu">Pi Gamma Mu</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sigma_Phi_Epsilon" title="Sigma Phi Epsilon">Sigma Phi Epsilon</a> fraternities.<sup id="cite_ref-hofsummary_11-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hofsummary-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Naismith was a Presbyterian minister and was also a <a href="/wiki/Freemasonry" title="Freemasonry">Freemason</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-masons_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-masons-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His first wife died in 1937, and on June 11, 1939, he married his second wife. On November 19 of that year, Naismith suffered a major <a href="/wiki/Brain_hemorrhage" class="mw-redirect" title="Brain hemorrhage">brain hemorrhage</a> and died nine days later in his home in Lawrence.<sup id="cite_ref-museum_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-museum-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was 78 years old.<sup id="cite_ref-bookrags_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bookrags-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Naismith died eight months after the birth of the <a href="/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_men%27s_basketball_tournament" title="NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament">NCAA Basketball Championship</a>, which today has evolved to one of the biggest sports events in North America. Naismith is buried with his first wife in Memorial Park Cemetery in Lawrence.<sup id="cite_ref-LJWorld.com_2018_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LJWorld.com_2018-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Florence Kincaid died in 1977 at the age of 98 and is buried with her first husband, Frank B. Kincaid, in Elmwood Cemetery in <a href="/wiki/Beloit,_Kansas" title="Beloit, Kansas">Beloit, Kansas</a>. </p><p>During his lifetime, Naismith held these educational and academic positions:<sup id="cite_ref-hofsummary_11-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hofsummary-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th style="background:#ddf; width:25%;">Location </th> <th style="background:#ddf; width:25%;">Position </th> <th style="background:#ddf; width:15%;">Period </th> <th style="background:#ddf; width:35%;">Remarks </th></tr> <tr> <td>Bennie's Corner Grade School (<a href="/wiki/Almonte,_Ontario" title="Almonte, Ontario">Almonte, Ontario</a>)</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Primary_school" title="Primary school">Primary school</a></td> <td>1867–1875</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Almonte_and_District_High_School" title="Almonte and District High School">Almonte High School</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Secondary_school" title="Secondary school">Secondary school</a></td> <td>1875–1877, 1881–83</td> <td>Dropped out and re-entered </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/McGill_University" title="McGill University">McGill University</a></td> <td>University student</td> <td>1883–87</td> <td>Bachelor of Arts in Physical Education </td></tr> <tr> <td>McGill University</td> <td>Instructor in <a href="/wiki/Physical_education" title="Physical education">Physical Education</a></td> <td>1887–1890</td> <td>Gold Wickstead Medal (1887), Best All-Around Athlete; Silver Cup (1886), first prize for a one-mile walk; Silver Wickstead Medal (1885), Best All-Around Athlete; Awarded one of McGill's first varsity letters </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Presbyterian_College,_Montreal" title="The Presbyterian College, Montreal">The Presbyterian College, Montreal</a></td> <td>Education in <a href="/wiki/Theology" title="Theology">Theology</a></td> <td>1887–1890</td> <td>Silver medal (1890), second highest award for regular and special honor work in Theology </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Springfield_College" title="Springfield College">Springfield College</a></td> <td>Instructor in Physical Education</td> <td>1891–1895</td> <td>Invented "Basket Ball" in December 1891 </td></tr> <tr> <td>YMCA of Denver</td> <td>Instructor in Physical Education</td> <td>1895–1898</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/University_of_Kansas" title="University of Kansas">University of Kansas</a></td> <td>Instructor in Physical Education and Chapel Director</td> <td>1898–1909</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>University of Kansas</td> <td>Basketball Coach</td> <td>1898–1907</td> <td>First-ever basketball coach </td></tr> <tr> <td>University of Kansas</td> <td>Professor and University Physician</td> <td>1909–1917</td> <td>Hiatus from 1914 on due to <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>First Kansas Infantry</td> <td>Chaplain/Captain</td> <td>1914–1917</td> <td>Military service due to <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>First Kansas Infantry (Mexican Border)</td> <td>Chaplain</td> <td>1916</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Military and YMCA secretary in France</td> <td>Lecturer of Moral Conditions and <a href="/wiki/Sex_education" title="Sex education">Sex Education</a></td> <td>1917–1919</td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>University of Kansas</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Athletic_Director" class="mw-redirect" title="Athletic Director">Athletic Director</a></td> <td>1919–1937</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Emeritus" title="Emeritus">Emeritus</a> in 1937 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Naismith&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> 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According to Canadian basketball historian Curtis J. Phillips, other members of Naismith's family and friends also confirm this.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Naismith&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biography.com/people/james-a-naismith-9420059">"James A. 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Greenwood. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0313309526" title="Special:BookSources/978-0313309526"><bdi>978-0313309526</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Basketball%3A+A+Biographical+Dictionary&rft.pub=Greenwood&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-0313309526&rft.au=Porter%2C+David+L.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DDDO3sdV6ytsC%26q%3DJames%2BNaismith&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJames+Naismith" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSandomir2015" class="citation news cs1">Sandomir, Richard (December 15, 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/16/sports/basketball/basketballs-birth-in-james-naismiths-own-spoken-words.html">"Basketball's Birth, in James Naismith's Own Spoken Words"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331">0362-4331</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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(1996). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://curtisjphillips.tripod.com/id10.html">"The original Dr. J."</a><span class="reference-accessdate"> Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 16,</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+original+Dr.+J.&rft.date=1996&rft.aulast=Phillips&rft.aufirst=Curtis+J.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fcurtisjphillips.tripod.com%2Fid10.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJames+Naismith" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-museumtimeline-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-museumtimeline_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-museumtimeline_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-museumtimeline_10-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-museumtimeline_10-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-museumtimeline_10-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-museumtimeline_10-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-museumtimeline_10-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-museumtimeline_10-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-museumtimeline_10-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-museumtimeline_10-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-museumtimeline_10-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLaughead" class="citation web cs1">Laughead, George. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kansasheritage.org/people/naismith.html">"Dr. James Naismith"</a>. <i>Kansas Heritage Group</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 14,</span> 2013</span>. <q>In the late 1930s he played a role in what became the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Kansas+Heritage+Group&rft.atitle=Dr.+James+Naismith&rft.aulast=Laughead&rft.aufirst=George&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kansasheritage.org%2Fpeople%2Fnaismith.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJames+Naismith" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-hofsummary-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-hofsummary_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hofsummary_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hofsummary_11-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hofsummary_11-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hofsummary_11-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hofsummary_11-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDodd1959" class="citation web cs1">Dodd, Hellen Naismith (January 6, 1959). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071119053704/http://www.hoophall.com/history/naismith-resume.html">"James Naismith's Resume"</a>. <i>Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame</i>. 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New York: American sports Publishing Company. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1041046804">1041046804</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Basket+Ball&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=American+sports+Publishing+Company&rft.date=1894&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F1041046804&rft.aulast=Naismith&rft.aufirst=James&rft.au=Gulick%2C+Luther+Halsey&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fbasketball00nais&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJames+Naismith" class="Z3988"></span> <ul><li>Reprinted: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Naismith, James (1996). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/basketballitsori00nais"><i>Basketball : its origin and development</i></a></span>. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780803283701" title="Special:BookSources/9780803283701"><bdi>9780803283701</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/604260339">604260339</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Basketball+%3A+its+origin+and+development&rft.place=Lincoln&rft.pub=University+of+Nebraska+Press&rft.date=1996&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F604260339&rft.isbn=9780803283701&rft.aulast=Naismith&rft.aufirst=James&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fbasketballitsori00nais&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJames+Naismith" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Rob_Rains" title="Rob Rains">Rains, Rob</a>; Carpenter, Hellen (2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=xmashQbIYyMC&pg=PAPP1"><i>James Naismith : the man who invented basketball</i></a>. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781439901359" title="Special:BookSources/9781439901359"><bdi>9781439901359</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt14btb6m">j.ctt14btb6m</a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/489150081">489150081</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=James+Naismith+%3A+the+man+who+invented+basketball&rft.place=Philadelphia&rft.pub=Temple+University+Press&rft.date=2009&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F489150081&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2Fj.ctt14btb6m%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.isbn=9781439901359&rft.aulast=Rains&rft.aufirst=Rob&rft.au=Carpenter%2C+Hellen&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DxmashQbIYyMC%26pg%3DPAPP1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJames+Naismith" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Sumner, David E. <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/amos-alonzo-stagg/">Amos Alonzo Stagg, College Football's Greatest Pioneer</a></i>. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Books, 2021.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Naismith&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers/james-naismith">James Naismith</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" title="Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070930160126/http://www.halloffame.fiba.com/pages/eng/hof/indu/p/lid_9061_newsid/18082/contBio.html">FIBA Hall of Fame profile</a> (archived 30 September 2007)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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Christmas Tournament</a> (former)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#000000; color:#FFFFFF; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #DBC068, inset -2px -2px 0 #DBC068;;;width:1%">Women's club tournaments</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/FIBA_Women%27s_World_League" title="FIBA Women's World League">FIBA Women's World League</a> (former)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#000000; color:#FFFFFF; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #DBC068, inset -2px -2px 0 #DBC068;;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/FIBA#Presidents" title="FIBA"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:white">Presidents</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">James Naismith</a> (1936, honorary)</li> <li><a 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Greim">Willard N. Greim</a> (1948–1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_dos_Reis_Carneiro" title="Antonio dos Reis Carneiro">Antonio dos Reis Carneiro</a> (1960–1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdel_Moneim_Wahby" title="Abdel Moneim Wahby">Abdel Moneim Wahby</a> (1968–1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gonzalo_Puyat_II" title="Gonzalo Puyat II">Gonzalo Puyat II</a> (1976–1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Busnel" title="Robert Busnel">Robert Busnel</a> (1984–1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_E._Killian" title="George E. Killian">George E. 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Allen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nate_Archibald" title="Nate Archibald">Archibald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick_Barnett" title="Dick Barnett">Barnett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Beckman" title="John Beckman">Beckman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sergei_Belov" title="Sergei Belov">Belov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chauncey_Billups" title="Chauncey Billups">Billups</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Bing" title="Dave Bing">Bing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carol_Blazejowski" title="Carol Blazejowski">Blazejowski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bennie_Borgmann" title="Bennie Borgmann">Borgmann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Braun_(basketball)" title="Carl Braun (basketball)">Braun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Brennan_(basketball)" title="Joseph Brennan (basketball)">Brennan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kobe_Bryant" title="Kobe Bryant">Bryant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vince_Carter" title="Vince Carter">Carter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Cervi" title="Al Cervi">Cervi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Cheeks" title="Maurice Cheeks">Cheeks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zack_Clayton" title="Zack Clayton">Clayton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cynthia_Cooper-Dyke" title="Cynthia Cooper-Dyke">Cooper-Dyke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Cousy" title="Bob Cousy">Cousy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louie_Dampier" title="Louie Dampier">Dampier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Davies" title="Bob Davies">Davies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clyde_Drexler" title="Clyde Drexler">Drexler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Dumars" title="Joe Dumars">Dumars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teresa_Edwards" title="Teresa Edwards">Edwards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Endacott" title="Paul Endacott">Endacott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walt_Frazier" title="Walt Frazier">Frazier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marty_Friedman_(basketball)" title="Marty Friedman (basketball)">Friedman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikos_Galis" title="Nikos Galis">Galis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Gervin" title="George Gervin">Gervin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manu_Gin%C3%B3bili" title="Manu Ginóbili">Ginóbili</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gail_Goodrich" title="Gail Goodrich">Goodrich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hal_Greer" title="Hal Greer">Greer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theresa_Grentz" title="Theresa Grentz">Grentz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richie_Guerin" title="Richie Guerin">Guerin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Becky_Hammon" title="Becky Hammon">Hammon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vic_Hanson" title="Vic Hanson">Hanson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Hardaway" title="Tim Hardaway">Hardaway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marques_Haynes" title="Marques Haynes">Haynes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nat_Holman" title="Nat Holman">Holman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charley_Hyatt" title="Charley Hyatt">Hyatt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Isaacs" title="John Isaacs">Isaacs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allen_Iverson" title="Allen Iverson">Iverson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddy_Jeannette" title="Buddy Jeannette">Jeannette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fats_Jenkins" title="Fats Jenkins">Jenkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Johnson" title="Dennis Johnson">D. Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magic_Johnson" title="Magic Johnson">M. Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._C._Jones" class="mw-redirect" title="K. C. Jones">K. Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Jones_(basketball,_born_1933)" title="Sam Jones (basketball, born 1933)">S. Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Jordan" title="Michael Jordan">Jordan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jason_Kidd" title="Jason Kidd">Kidd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Lieberman" title="Nancy Lieberman">Lieberman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pete_Maravich" title="Pete Maravich">Maravich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hort%C3%AAncia_Marcari" title="Hortência Marcari">Marcari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%A0ar%C5%ABnas_Mar%C4%8Diulionis" title="Šarūnas Marčiulionis">Marčiulionis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slater_Martin" title="Slater Martin">Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bobby_McDermott" title="Bobby McDermott">McDermott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tracy_McGrady" title="Tracy McGrady">McGrady</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick_McGuire" title="Dick McGuire">D. McGuire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ann_Meyers" title="Ann Meyers">Meyers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reggie_Miller" title="Reggie Miller">R. Miller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Moncrief" title="Sidney Moncrief">Moncrief</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earl_Monroe" title="Earl Monroe">Monroe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pearl_Moore" title="Pearl Moore">Moore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calvin_Murphy" title="Calvin Murphy">C. Murphy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Nash" title="Steve Nash">Nash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harlan_Page" title="Harlan Page">Page</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Parker" title="Tony Parker">Parker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Payton" title="Gary Payton">Payton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dra%C5%BEen_Petrovi%C4%87" title="Dražen Petrović">Petrović</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andy_Phillip" title="Andy Phillip">Phillip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumberland_Posey" title="Cumberland Posey">Posey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitch_Richmond" title="Mitch Richmond">Richmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Robertson" title="Oscar Robertson">Robertson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guy_Rodgers" title="Guy Rodgers">Rodgers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Roosma" title="John Roosma">Roosma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Honey_Russell" title="Honey Russell">J. Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Schommer" title="John Schommer">Schommer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Scott_(basketball)" title="Charlie Scott (basketball)">Scott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barney_Sedran" title="Barney Sedran">Sedran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Sharman" title="Bill Sharman">Sharman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katie_Smith" title="Katie Smith">K. Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dawn_Staley" title="Dawn Staley">Staley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Steinmetz" title="Christian Steinmetz">Steinmetz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Stockton" title="John Stockton">Stockton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheryl_Swoopes" title="Sheryl Swoopes">Swoopes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isiah_Thomas" title="Isiah Thomas">Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Thompson_(basketball)" title="David Thompson (basketball)">D. Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michele_Timms" title="Michele Timms">Timms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fuzzy_Vandivier" title="Fuzzy Vandivier">Vandivier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dwyane_Wade" title="Dwyane Wade">Wade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Wanzer" title="Bobby Wanzer">Wanzer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teresa_Weatherspoon" title="Teresa Weatherspoon">Weatherspoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_West" title="Jerry West">West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Westphal" title="Paul Westphal">Westphal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lindsay_Whalen" title="Lindsay Whalen">Whalen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jo_Jo_White" title="Jo Jo White">J. White</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lenny_Wilkens" title="Lenny Wilkens">Wilkens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lynette_Woodard" title="Lynette Woodard">Woodard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Wooden" title="John Wooden">Wooden</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Forwards</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Arizin" title="Paul Arizin">Arizin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seimone_Augustus" title="Seimone Augustus">Augustus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Barkley" title="Charles Barkley">Barkley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rick_Barry" title="Rick Barry">Barry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elgin_Baylor" title="Elgin Baylor">Baylor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Bird" title="Larry Bird">Bird</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Bosh" title="Chris Bosh">Bosh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonny_Boswell" title="Sonny Boswell">Boswell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Bradley" title="Bill Bradley">Bradley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Brown_(basketball,_born_1942)" title="Roger Brown (basketball, born 1942)">R. Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swin_Cash" title="Swin Cash">Cash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamika_Catchings" title="Tamika Catchings">Catchings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Cooper_(basketball)" title="Chuck Cooper (basketball)">C. Cooper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Cooper" title="Michael Cooper">M. Cooper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Cunningham" title="Billy Cunningham">Cunningham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denise_Curry" title="Denise Curry">Curry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dra%C5%BEen_Dalipagi%C4%87" title="Dražen Dalipagić">Dalipagić</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Dandridge" title="Bob Dandridge">Dandridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adrian_Dantley" title="Adrian Dantley">Dantley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Davis_(basketball)" title="Walter Davis (basketball)">Davis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave_DeBusschere" title="Dave DeBusschere">DeBusschere</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dutch_Dehnert" title="Dutch Dehnert">Dehnert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Duncan" title="Tim Duncan">Duncan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_English" title="Alex English">English</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julius_Erving" title="Julius Erving">Erving</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_E._Foster" title="Harold E. Foster">Foster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Fulks" title="Joe Fulks">Fulks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laddie_Gale" title="Laddie Gale">Gale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Garnett" title="Kevin Garnett">Garnett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pau_Gasol" title="Pau Gasol">Gasol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pop_Gates" title="Pop Gates">Gates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Gola" title="Tom Gola">Gola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cliff_Hagan" title="Cliff Hagan">Hagan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Havlicek" title="John Havlicek">Havlicek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Connie_Hawkins" title="Connie Hawkins">Hawkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elvin_Hayes" title="Elvin Hayes">Hayes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spencer_Haywood" title="Spencer Haywood">Haywood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Heinsohn" title="Tom Heinsohn">Heinsohn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grant_Hill" title="Grant Hill">Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bailey_Howell" title="Bailey Howell">Howell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lou_Hudson" title="Lou Hudson">Hudson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lauren_Jackson" title="Lauren Jackson">L. Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gus_Johnson_(basketball)" title="Gus Johnson (basketball)">G. Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Jones_(basketball,_born_1951)" title="Bobby Jones (basketball, born 1951)">B. Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_King" title="Bernard King">King</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radivoj_Kora%C4%87" title="Radivoj Korać">Korać</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toni_Kuko%C4%8D" title="Toni Kukoč">Kukoč</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Lucas" title="Jerry Lucas">Lucas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hank_Luisetti" title="Hank Luisetti">Luisetti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Malone" title="Karl Malone">K. Malone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katrina_McClain" title="Katrina McClain">McClain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Branch_McCracken" title="Branch McCracken">B. McCracken</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_McCracken" title="Jack McCracken">J. McCracken</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_McGinnis" title="George McGinnis">McGinnis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_McHale_(basketball)" title="Kevin McHale (basketball)">McHale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vern_Mikkelsen" title="Vern Mikkelsen">Mikkelsen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Miller" title="Cheryl Miller">C. Miller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Mullin" title="Chris Mullin">Mullin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dirk_Nowitzki" title="Dirk Nowitzki">Nowitzki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Pettit" title="Bob Pettit">Pettit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Pierce" title="Paul Pierce">Pierce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottie_Pippen" title="Scottie Pippen">Pippen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Pollard" title="Jim Pollard">Pollard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Pullins" title="Albert Pullins">Pullins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dino_Ra%C4%91a" title="Dino Rađa">Radja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Ramsey_(basketball)" title="Frank Ramsey (basketball)">Ramsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Rodman" title="Dennis Rodman">Rodman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dolph_Schayes" title="Dolph Schayes">Schayes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Schmidt" title="Ernest Schmidt">E. Schmidt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Schmidt" title="Oscar Schmidt">O. Schmidt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Stokes" title="Maurice Stokes">Stokes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cat_Thompson" title="Cat Thompson">C. Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tina_Thompson" title="Tina Thompson">T. Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Twyman" title="Jack Twyman">Twyman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chet_Walker" title="Chet Walker">Walker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Webber" title="Chris Webber">Webber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nera_White" title="Nera White">N. White</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaal_Wilkes" title="Jamaal Wilkes">Wilkes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dominique_Wilkins" title="Dominique Wilkins">Wilkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Worthy" title="James Worthy">Worthy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Yardley" title="George Yardley">Yardley</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Centers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar" title="Kareem Abdul-Jabbar">Abdul-Jabbar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Barlow_(basketball)" title="Thomas Barlow (basketball)">Barlow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zelmo_Beaty" title="Zelmo Beaty">Beaty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walt_Bellamy" title="Walt Bellamy">Bellamy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain" title="Wilt Chamberlain">Chamberlain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarzan_Cooper" title="Tarzan Cooper">T. Cooper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kre%C5%A1imir_%C4%86osi%C4%87" title="Krešimir Ćosić">Ćosić</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Cowens" title="Dave Cowens">Cowens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joan_Crawford_(basketball)" title="Joan Crawford (basketball)">Crawford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mel_Daniels" title="Mel Daniels">Daniels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forrest_DeBernardi" title="Forrest DeBernardi">DeBernardi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vlade_Divac" title="Vlade Divac">Divac</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anne_Donovan" title="Anne Donovan">Donovan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Ewing" title="Patrick Ewing">Ewing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Gallatin" title="Harry Gallatin">Gallatin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artis_Gilmore" title="Artis Gilmore">Gilmore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yolanda_Griffith" title="Yolanda Griffith">Griffith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ace_Gruenig" title="Ace Gruenig">Gruenig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lusia_Harris" title="Lusia Harris">Harris-Stewart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Houbregs" title="Bob Houbregs">Houbregs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dan_Issel" title="Dan Issel">Issel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inman_Jackson" title="Inman Jackson">Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skinny_Johnson" title="Skinny Johnson">W. Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Johnston" title="Neil Johnston">Johnston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moose_Krause" title="Moose Krause">M. Krause</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Kurland" title="Bob Kurland">Kurland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Lanier" title="Bob Lanier">Lanier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lisa_Leslie" title="Lisa Leslie">Leslie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clyde_Lovellette" title="Clyde Lovellette">Lovellette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Lapchick" title="Joe Lapchick">Lapchick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ed_Macauley" title="Ed Macauley">Macauley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ubiratan_Pereira_Maciel" title="Ubiratan Pereira Maciel">Maciel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moses_Malone" title="Moses Malone">M. Malone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_McAdoo" title="Bob McAdoo">McAdoo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dino_Meneghin" title="Dino Meneghin">Meneghin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Mikan" title="George Mikan">Mikan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alonzo_Mourning" title="Alonzo Mourning">Mourning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stretch_Murphy" title="Stretch Murphy">S. Murphy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dikembe_Mutombo" title="Dikembe Mutombo">Mutombo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hakeem_Olajuwon" title="Hakeem Olajuwon">Olajuwon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shaquille_O%27Neal" title="Shaquille O'Neal">O'Neal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Parish" title="Robert Parish">Parish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willis_Reed" title="Willis Reed">Reed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arnie_Risen" title="Arnie Risen">Risen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Robinson" title="David Robinson">Robinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Russell" title="Bill Russell">B. Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arvydas_Sabonis" title="Arvydas Sabonis">Sabonis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Sampson" title="Ralph Sampson">Sampson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uljana_Semjonova" title="Uljana Semjonova">Semjonova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Sikma" title="Jack Sikma">Sikma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nate_Thurmond" title="Nate Thurmond">Thurmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wes_Unseld" title="Wes Unseld">Unseld</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ed_Wachter" title="Ed Wachter">Wachter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Wallace_(basketball)" title="Ben Wallace (basketball)">Wallace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Walton" title="Bill Walton">Walton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ora_Washington" title="Ora Washington">Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yao_Ming" title="Yao Ming">Yao</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_coaches_in_the_Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" title="List of coaches in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">Coaches</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rick_Adelman" title="Rick Adelman">Adelman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lidiya_Alekseyeva" title="Lidiya Alekseyeva">Alexeeva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phog_Allen" title="Phog Allen">P. Allen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Anderson_(basketball)" title="Harold Anderson (basketball)">Anderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Auerbach" title="Red Auerbach">Auerbach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geno_Auriemma" title="Geno Auriemma">Auriemma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leon_Barmore" title="Leon Barmore">Barmore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Barry" title="Sam Barry">Barry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gene_Bess" title="Gene Bess">Bess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Blair" title="Gary Blair">Blair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Blood" title="Ernest Blood">Blood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Boeheim" title="Jim Boeheim">Boeheim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Brown_(basketball)" title="Larry Brown (basketball)">L. Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Calhoun" title="Jim Calhoun">Calhoun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Calipari" title="John Calipari">Calipari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Cann" title="Howard Cann">Cann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doc_Carlson" title="Doc Carlson">Carlson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lou_Carnesecca" title="Lou Carnesecca">Carnesecca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Carnevale" title="Ben Carnevale">Carnevale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pete_Carril" title="Pete Carril">Carril</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Everett_Case" title="Everett Case">Case</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Van_Chancellor" title="Van Chancellor">Chancellor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Chaney_(basketball,_born_1932)" title="John Chaney (basketball, born 1932)">Chaney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jody_Conradt" title="Jody Conradt">Conradt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denny_Crum" title="Denny Crum">Crum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Daly" title="Chuck Daly">Daly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Everett_Dean" title="Everett Dean">Dean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_D%C3%ADaz-Miguel" title="Antonio Díaz-Miguel">Díaz-Miguel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Diddle" title="Edgar Diddle">Diddle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Drake" title="Bruce Drake">Drake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lefty_Driesell" title="Lefty Driesell">Driesell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pedro_Ferr%C3%A1ndiz" title="Pedro Ferrándiz">Ferrándiz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Fitch" title="Bill Fitch">Fitch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cotton_Fitzsimmons" title="Cotton Fitzsimmons">Fitzsimmons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clarence_Gaines" title="Clarence Gaines">Gaines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandro_Gamba" title="Sandro Gamba">Gamba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Gardner_(basketball)" title="Jack Gardner (basketball)">Gardner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lindsay_Gaze" title="Lindsay Gaze">Gaze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slats_Gill" title="Slats Gill">Gill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Gomelsky" title="Alexander Gomelsky">Gomelsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sue_Gunter" title="Sue Gunter">Gunter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Hannum" title="Alex Hannum">Hannum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marv_Harshman" title="Marv Harshman">Harshman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Haskins" title="Don Haskins">Haskins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sylvia_Hatchell" title="Sylvia Hatchell">Hatchell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Heinsohn" title="Tom Heinsohn">Heinsohn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddie_Hickey" title="Eddie Hickey">Hickey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Hixon" title="David Hixon">Hixon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Hobson" title="Howard Hobson">Hobson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Holzman" title="Red Holzman">Holzman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Huggins" title="Bob Huggins">Huggins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hughes_(basketball)" title="Robert Hughes (basketball)">Hughes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Hurley" title="Bob Hurley">Hurley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Iba" title="Henry Iba">Iba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Izzo" title="Tom Izzo">Izzo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phil_Jackson" title="Phil Jackson">P. Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doggie_Julian" title="Doggie Julian">Julian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Karl" title="George Karl">Karl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gene_Keady" title="Gene Keady">Keady</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Keaney" title="Frank Keaney">Keaney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Keogan" title="George Keogan">Keogan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Knight" title="Bob Knight">Knight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Krzyzewski" title="Mike Krzyzewski">Krzyzewski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Kundla" title="John Kundla">Kundla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ward_Lambert" title="Ward Lambert">Lambert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Leonard" title="Bobby Leonard">Leonard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guy_Lewis" title="Guy Lewis">Lewis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Litwack" title="Harry Litwack">Litwack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ken_Loeffler" title="Ken Loeffler">Loeffler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dutch_Lonborg" title="Dutch Lonborg">Lonborg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herb_Magee" title="Herb Magee">Magee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arad_McCutchan" title="Arad McCutchan">McCutchan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muffet_McGraw" title="Muffet McGraw">McGraw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_McGuire" title="Al McGuire">A. McGuire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_McGuire" title="Frank McGuire">F. McGuire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_McLendon" title="John McLendon">McLendon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Meanwell" title="Walter Meanwell">Meanwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Meyer" title="Ray Meyer">Meyer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Miller" title="Ralph Miller">Miller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billie_Moore" title="Billie Moore">Moore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kim_Mulkey" title="Kim Mulkey">Mulkey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Nelson" title="Don Nelson">Nelson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aleksandar_Nikoli%C4%87" title="Aleksandar Nikolić">Nikolić</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mirko_Novosel" title="Mirko Novosel">Novosel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lute_Olson" title="Lute Olson">Olson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rick_Pitino" title="Rick Pitino">Pitino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gregg_Popovich" title="Gregg Popovich">Popovich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Ramsay" title="Jack Ramsay">Ramsay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harley_Redin" title="Harley Redin">Redin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nolan_Richardson" title="Nolan Richardson">Richardson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pat_Riley" title="Pat Riley">Riley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cesare_Rubini" title="Cesare Rubini">Rubini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adolph_Rupp" title="Adolph Rupp">Rupp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cathy_Rush" title="Cathy Rush">Rush</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Russell" title="Bill Russell">B. Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bo_Ryan" title="Bo Ryan">Ryan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lenny_Sachs" title="Lenny Sachs">Sachs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Self" title="Bill Self">Self</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Sharman" title="Bill Sharman">Sharman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Everett_Shelton" title="Everett Shelton">Shelton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Sloan" title="Jerry Sloan">Sloan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Smith_(basketball_coach)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles Smith (basketball coach) (page does not exist)">C. Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dean_Smith" title="Dean Smith">D. Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marianne_Stanley" title="Marianne Stanley">Stanley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Stevens_(basketball)" title="Barbara Stevens (basketball)">Stevens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._Vivian_Stringer" title="C. Vivian Stringer">Stringer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pat_Summitt" title="Pat Summitt">Summitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddie_Sutton" title="Eddie Sutton">Sutton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Tarkanian" title="Jerry Tarkanian">Tarkanian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fred_Taylor_(basketball,_born_1924)" title="Fred Taylor (basketball, born 1924)">Taylor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bertha_Teague" title="Bertha Teague">Teague</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Thompson_(basketball)" title="John Thompson (basketball)">J. Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rudy_Tomjanovich" title="Rudy Tomjanovich">Tomjanovich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tara_VanDerveer" title="Tara VanDerveer">VanDerveer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Wade_(basketball)" title="Margaret Wade (basketball)">Wade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stan_Watts" title="Stan Watts">Watts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lenny_Wilkens" title="Lenny Wilkens">Wilkens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Williams" title="Gary Williams">G. Williams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Williams_(basketball_coach)" title="Roy Williams (basketball coach)">R. Williams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Wooden" title="John Wooden">Wooden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phil_Woolpert" title="Phil Woolpert">Woolpert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morgan_Wootten" title="Morgan Wootten">Wootten</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jay_Wright_(basketball)" title="Jay Wright (basketball)">Wright</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kay_Yow" title="Kay Yow">Yow</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame#Contributors" title="List of members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">Contributors</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Senda_Berenson_Abbott" title="Senda Berenson Abbott">Abbott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Val_Ackerman" title="Val Ackerman">Ackerman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Attles" title="Al Attles">Attles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Barksdale" title="Don Barksdale">Barksdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Baumann_(basketball)" title="Patrick Baumann (basketball)">Baumann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clair_Bee" title="Clair Bee">Bee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danny_Biasone" title="Danny Biasone">Biasone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hubie_Brown" title="Hubie Brown">H. Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_A._Brown" title="Walter A. Brown">W. Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bunn_(basketball)" title="John Bunn (basketball)">Bunn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Buss" title="Jerry Buss">Buss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nat_Clifton" title="Nat Clifton">Clifton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Colangelo" title="Jerry Colangelo">Colangelo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doug_Collins_(basketball)" title="Doug Collins (basketball)">Collins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Costello" title="Larry Costello">Costello</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Davidson_(businessman)" title="Bill Davidson (businessman)">Davidson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Douglas" title="Bob Douglas">Douglas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alva_Duer" title="Alva Duer">Duer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wayne_Embry" title="Wayne Embry">Embry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cliff_Fagan" title="Cliff Fagan">Fagan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_A._Fisher" title="Harry A. Fisher">Fisher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Fleisher" title="Larry Fleisher">Fleisher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Garfinkel" title="Howard Garfinkel">Garfinkel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Gavitt" title="Dave Gavitt">Gavitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddie_Gottlieb" title="Eddie Gottlieb">Gottlieb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russ_Granik" title="Russ Granik">Granik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luther_Gulick_(physician)" title="Luther Gulick (physician)">Gulick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Del_Harris" title="Del Harris">Harris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Les_Harrison_(basketball)" title="Les Harrison (basketball)">Harrison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chick_Hearn" title="Chick Hearn">Hearn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_Henderson" title="Edwin Henderson">Henderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ferenc_Hepp" title="Ferenc Hepp">Hepp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_J._Hickox" title="Edward J. Hickox">Hickox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Hinkle" title="Tony Hinkle">Hinkle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ned_Irish" title="Ned Irish">Irish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mannie_Jackson" title="Mannie Jackson">M. Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Jernstedt" title="Tom Jernstedt">Jernstedt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renato_William_Jones" title="Renato William Jones">R. Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._Walter_Kennedy" title="J. Walter Kennedy">Kennedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phil_Knight" title="Phil Knight">Knight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Krause" title="Jerry Krause">J. Krause</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meadowlark_Lemon" title="Meadowlark Lemon">Lemon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emil_Liston" title="Emil Liston">Liston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earl_Lloyd" title="Earl Lloyd">Lloyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rebecca_Lobo" title="Rebecca Lobo">Lobo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_McLendon" title="John McLendon">McLendon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Mokray" title="Bill Mokray">Mokray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Morgan_(basketball)" title="Ralph Morgan (basketball)">Morgan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pop_Morgenweck" title="Pop Morgenweck">Morgenweck</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Naismith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pete_Newell" title="Pete Newell">Newell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._M._Newton" title="C. M. Newton">Newton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_O%27Brien_(basketball,_born_1888)" title="John O'Brien (basketball, born 1888)">J. O'Brien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_O%27Brien" title="Larry O'Brien">L. O'Brien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Olsen" title="Harold Olsen">Olsen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Podoloff" title="Maurice Podoloff">Podoloff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._V._Porter" title="H. V. Porter">Porter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Raveling" title="George Raveling">Raveling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Reid_(basketball)" title="William Reid (basketball)">Reid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Reinsdorf" title="Jerry Reinsdorf">Reinsdorf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elmer_Ripley" title="Elmer Ripley">Ripley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satch_Sanders" title="Satch Sanders">Sanders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abe_Saperstein" title="Abe Saperstein">Saperstein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Schabinger" title="Arthur Schabinger">Schabinger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herb_Simon_(businessman)" title="Herb Simon (businessman)">Simon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lynn_St._John" title="Lynn St. John">St. John</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amos_Alonzo_Stagg" title="Amos Alonzo Stagg">Stagg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borislav_Stankovi%C4%87" title="Borislav Stanković">Stanković</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ed_Steitz" title="Ed Steitz">Steitz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Stern" title="David Stern">Stern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Taylor_(salesman)" title="Chuck Taylor (salesman)">Taylor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rod_Thorn" title="Rod Thorn">Thorn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oswald_Tower" title="Oswald Tower">Tower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Trester" title="Arthur Trester">Trester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Valvano" title="Jim Valvano">Valvano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick_Vitale" title="Dick Vitale">Vitale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clifford_Wells" title="Clifford Wells">Wells</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rick_Welts" title="Rick Welts">Welts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_West" title="Jerry West">West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Wilke" title="Louis Wilke">Wilke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tex_Winter" title="Tex Winter">Winter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fred_Zollner" title="Fred Zollner">Zollner</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame#Referees" title="List of members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">Referees</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dick_Bavetta" title="Dick Bavetta">Bavetta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Enright_(referee)" class="mw-redirect" title="James Enright (referee)">Enright</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Evans_(basketball)" title="Hugh Evans (basketball)">Evans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darell_Garretson" title="Darell Garretson">Garretson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Hepbron" title="George Hepbron">Hepbron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Hoyt" title="George Hoyt">Hoyt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_P._Kennedy" title="Matthew P. Kennedy">Kennedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lloyd_Leith" title="Lloyd Leith">Leith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Mihalik" title="Red Mihalik">Mihalik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hank_Nichols" title="Hank Nichols">Nichols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Nucatola" title="John Nucatola">Nucatola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_C._Quigley" title="Ernest C. 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Belov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sergei_Belov" title="Sergei Belov">S. Belov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miki_Berkovich" title="Miki Berkovich">Berkovich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ubiratan_Pereira_Maciel" title="Ubiratan Pereira Maciel">Bira</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pero_Cameron" title="Pero Cameron">Cameron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacky_Chazalon" title="Jacky Chazalon">Chazalon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kre%C5%A1imir_%C4%86osi%C4%87" title="Krešimir Ćosić">Ćosić</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Te%C3%B3filo_Cruz" title="Teófilo Cruz">Cruz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dra%C5%BEen_Dalipagi%C4%87" title="Dražen Dalipagić">Dalipagić</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivo_Daneu" title="Ivo Daneu">Daneu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mirza_Deliba%C5%A1i%C4%87" title="Mirza Delibašić">Delibašić</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vlade_Divac" title="Vlade Divac">Divac</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anne_Donovan" title="Anne Donovan">Donovan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margo_Dydek" title="Margo Dydek">Dydek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teresa_Edwards" title="Teresa Edwards">Edwards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juan_Antonio_San_Epifanio" title="Juan Antonio San Epifanio">Epi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panagiotis_Fasoulas" title="Panagiotis Fasoulas">Fasoulas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mathieu_Faye" title="Mathieu Faye">Faye</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isabelle_Fijalkowski" title="Isabelle Fijalkowski">Fijalkowski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Furlong" class="mw-redirect" title="Oscar Furlong">Furlong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikos_Galis" title="Nikos Galis">Galis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Gaze" title="Andrew Gaze">A. Gaze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panagiotis_Giannakis" title="Panagiotis Giannakis">Giannakis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atanas_Golomeev" title="Atanas Golomeev">Golomeev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ricardo_Primitivo_Gonz%C3%A1lez" title="Ricardo Primitivo González">González</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruperto_Herrera_Tabio" title="Ruperto Herrera Tabio">Herrera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hana_Hor%C3%A1kov%C3%A1" title="Hana Horáková">Horáková</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Concei%C3%A7%C3%A3o" title="Jean-Jacques Conceição">Jean-Jacques</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Jordan" title="Michael Jordan">Jordan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mieczys%C5%82aw_%C5%81opatka" title="Mieczysław Łopatka">Łopatka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dragan_Ki%C4%87anovi%C4%87" title="Dragan Kićanović">Kićanović</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radivoj_Kora%C4%87" title="Radivoj Korać">Korać</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanislav_Kropil%C3%A1k" title="Stanislav Kropilák">Kropilák</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toni_Kuko%C4%8D" title="Toni Kukoč">Kukoč</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hort%C3%AAncia_Marcari" title="Hortência Marcari">Marcari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%A0ar%C5%ABnas_Mar%C4%8Diulionis" title="Šarūnas Marčiulionis">Marčiulionis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fernando_Mart%C3%ADn_(basketball)" title="Fernando Martín (basketball)">Martín</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierluigi_Marzorati" title="Pierluigi Marzorati">Marzorati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dino_Meneghin" title="Dino Meneghin">Meneghin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ann_Meyers" title="Ann Meyers">Meyers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Miller" title="Cheryl Miller">Miller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Moglia" title="Oscar Moglia">Moglia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alonzo_Mourning" title="Alonzo Mourning">Mourning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Razija_Mujanovi%C4%87" title="Razija Mujanović">Mujanović</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Nash" title="Steve Nash">Nash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%81gnes_N%C3%A9meth" title="Ágnes Németh">Németh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shaquille_O%27Neal" title="Shaquille O'Neal">O'Neal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fabricio_Oberto" title="Fabricio Oberto">Oberto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hakeem_Olajuwon" title="Hakeem Olajuwon">Olajuwon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ortiz_(basketball)" title="José Ortiz (basketball)">Ortiz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maria_Paula_Silva" title="Maria Paula Silva">Paula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modestas_Paulauskas" title="Modestas Paulauskas">Paulauskas</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shin-Ja_Park&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shin-Ja Park (page does not exist)">Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dra%C5%BEen_Petrovi%C4%87" title="Dražen Petrović">Petrović</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manuel_Raga" title="Manuel Raga">Raga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antoine_Rigaudeau" title="Antoine Rigaudeau">Rigaudeau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Robertson" title="Oscar Robertson">Robertson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Robinson" title="David Robinson">Robinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emiliano_Rodr%C3%ADguez" title="Emiliano Rodríguez">Rodríguez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liliana_Ronchetti" title="Liliana Ronchetti">Ronchetti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Russell" title="Bill Russell">Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arvydas_Sabonis" title="Arvydas Sabonis">Sabonis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenichi_Sako" title="Kenichi Sako">Sako</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Schmidt" title="Oscar Schmidt">Schmidt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Detlef_Schrempf" title="Detlef Schrempf">Schrempf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uljana_Semjonova" title="Uljana Semjonova">Semjonova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zoran_Slavni%C4%87" title="Zoran Slavnić">Slavnić</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penka_Stoyanova" title="Penka Stoyanova">Stoyanova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sergei_Tarakanov" title="Sergei Tarakanov">Tarakanov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michele_Timms" title="Michele Timms">Timms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Tkachenko" title="Vladimir Tkachenko">Tkachenko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valdis_Valters" title="Valdis Valters">Valters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Volkov_(basketball)" title="Alexander Volkov (basketball)">Volkov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vanya_Voynova" title="Vanya Voynova">Voynova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohsen_Medhat_Warda" title="Mohsen Medhat Warda">Warda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natalya_Zasulskaya" title="Natalya Zasulskaya">Zassoulskaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jure_Zdovc" title="Jure Zdovc">Zdovc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zheng_Haixia" title="Zheng Haixia">Zheng</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Z%C3%ADdek_Sr." title="Jiří Zídek Sr.">Zídek</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#000000; color:#FFFFFF; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #DBC068, inset -2px -2px 0 #DBC068;;;width:1%"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#FFFFFF">Coaches</span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lidiya_Alekseyeva" title="Lidiya Alekseyeva">Alekseyeva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jorge_Canavesi" title="Jorge Canavesi">Canavesi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Daly" title="Chuck Daly">Daly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_D%C3%ADaz-Miguel" title="Antonio Díaz-Miguel">Díaz-Miguel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Donohue_(basketball)" title="Jack Donohue (basketball)">Donohue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pedro_Ferr%C3%A1ndiz" title="Pedro Ferrándiz">Ferrándiz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lindsay_Gaze" title="Lindsay Gaze">L. Gaze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Gomelsky" title="Alexander Gomelsky">A. Gomelsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evgeny_Gomelsky" title="Evgeny Gomelsky">E. 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