MY REFLECTION ON MY BLOG

What I learned through all that I have done on this project is that Jordan is and will always be the greatest of all time and it was proven through science. I’ve had so much fun learning about the history of this sport was just amazing here how the first basket ball was made and how the history of basketball finds its way back to the year 1891. It was a Canadian physical education instructor by the name of James Naismith who introduced the game of basketball to the world. He was born in Ontario and taught physical education at McGill University and Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts. James Naismith, during his stint with Springfield College, a YMCA training school during that time, invented the indoor sport with able support and guidance from the American phys-ed specialist Luther Hasley. And now over the years we see how basketball has achieved as a popular sport along lined with baseball, football, soccer and hockey. I mean what more can u expect we’ve seen player come into the making seeing old school players walk on the floor now seeing young players follow in their footsteps. Not much has changed except for the clothing that the players wear. Now they’re a little bit better than they were before. Also let’s see look where basketball has gotten now they are all around the world little kids play they dream of being the greatest and what’s the words that come out their mouth is “I want to be just like Mike”.  Basketball is being played in little leagues and high school but the most exciting game besides the NBA is the NCAA college basketball which stars are born from. We have players all around the world coming in one spot and that’s the NBA all-star games where we have sides play each other east verses west and then we have slam dunk contests and three point shootouts. Some time if we get luck we just might be able to play teams in other countries. NBA commissioner David Stern would later call it "our biggest public relations disaster of the decade." At this moment, however, the league began its return to public popularity. Game six showcased the talents of Ervin "Magic" Johnson, the Lakers rookie who, along with the Boston Celtics' Larry Bird, had riveted public attention in the NCAA finals a year earlier. Johnson, filling in for the injured Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, put on a tremendous show. He collected 42 points, 15 rebounds, and 7 assists. It was a performance that foreshadowed the Lakers' nearly decade-long stranglehold on the championship. From 1980 to 1989 the Lakers played for the title eight times and won five of them. "Never fear," Johnson told his teammates as they boarded a flight for game six without their captain and star player, "E.J. is here." He might as well have been speaking to the entire league and most of its fans. In the years to come, clashes between Johnson's Lakers and Bird's Celtics would resuscitate fan interest and inspire fellow players toward remarkable individual and team accomplishments. As Golden State Warrior Chris Mullin later explained, "what they did, for the player and the spectator, was to give the lesson that you played hard on every play, every night, and every season. You were unselfish and you were fundamentally sound. And if you did those things, you won." In addition to the Lakers' success with Johnson, Boston with Bird in the lineup returned to the finals in 1981 and each year from 1984 to 1987, winning three titles. The level at which Bird and Johnson played and the heights to which they took their respective teams enthralled the basketball-watching public and inspired a financial and popular resurgence that carried the league toward astronomical revenue totals, player contracts, and television ratings as well as to expansion in new markets by the decade's end. And this is my reflection….

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History of Basketball

The history of basketball finds it way back to the year 1891. It was a Canadian physical education instructor by the name of James Naismith who introduced the game of basketball to the world. He was born in Ontario and taught physical education at McGill University and Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts. James Naismith, during his stint with Springfield College, a YMCA training school during that time, invented the indoor sport with able support and guidance from the American phys-ed specialist Luther Hasley.

The game commenced with 18 men at Springfield College in Massachusetts. Naismith was given a deadline of 14 days to create an indoor game that would provide “an athletic distraction” (in the words of Hasley) to the nasty and disorderly class. It was a tough call for Naismith, who had to exercise a lot of patience and infuse positive enthusiasm into the minds of his students to engage in an outdoor game that was to be played indoors in the best way possible. He recalled a game he used to play as a child and improvised on its concept.

Naismith was instrumental in laying down 13 rules for the basketball game. The rules stated that the ball should be thrown in any direction with one or both hands. He made it clear that a person could not run with the ball. The player should throw it from the place from which he caught the ball in the first place.  Players had to refrain from using the fist when handling or batting the ball. He had termed shouldering, holding, tripping, pushing or striking in any way of an opponent as a foul in the first instance. If things of this nature happened the second time, the person who caused the infringement of the rule would be disqualified or would not be substituted at all. If any side made three consecutive fouls, it was to be counted as a goal for the opposing side.

Naismith also made it clear that if the ball went out of bounds, it had to be thrown into the field of play by the person touching it. This player had the right to hold the ball for only five seconds. If held longer, the chance to throw went to the opposing side.  He gave special importance to the umpire who had to judge the player and report to the referee when players made three consecutive fouls. He defined the time period of the game as being comprised of two fifteen-minute halves with fifteen minutes breaks in between. Naismith concluded that the side making the most goals was to be termed as winner.
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