It was on this day, 134 years ago (1891), James Naismith invented the game of basketball.  Naismith, was a Canadian YMCA sports coach who was living in Springfield, Massachusetts. 

He was looking for a new indoor sport – during the winter.  So, he nailed two buckets on opposite ends of the Springfield College gym, and told his students to “toss soccer balls into them”.  He’s also credited as writing the original basketball rulebook.  He even lived to see the sport of BASKETBALL adopted in 1904 as an Olympic demonstration sport.  James Naismith was born just outside of Ottawa in 1861, passed away in Kansas when he was 78.

So, we’ll go with that: BASKETBALL is a Canadian invention.