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    Basketball is one of the world's most popular sports. It has a history of more than one hundred years.

    In 1891. James Naismith, a physical education professor in Massachusetts, created new game. He made some rules and asked his students to throw ball into a peach basket. Because of the peach basket this game was named "basketball". People used peach baskets until 1906 when they finally replaced them by metal hoops(金属框)with backboard(篮板). Basketball was first played with soccer ball. In the late 1950s, Tony Hinkle, a basketball coach, made the first ball only for basketball games.

    In 1932, people formed the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) . After that, Men's Basketball was first included at the Berlin 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1950, the first FIBA World Championship for Men was held in Argentina. Three years later, the first FIBA World Championship for Women was held in Chile. Women's Basketball was added to the Olympics in 1976.

    FIBA had only 8 member countries in 1932, It has divided into five continents-Africa, America. Asia, Europe and Oceania since 1989. In every continent, there are kinds of basketball games every year. Now FIBA has a total of 213 member countries.