Originally Posted By: Zed
And many sources quote Canada as basketball's country of origin.


I'm a big hoops fan, and I've never heard this before. All the sources I've ever seen recount that the rules of basketball (I've seen a copy of Dr Naismith's original rules; pretty cool!) were first written, and the game first played, at a YMCA school in Springfield, Massachusetts.

The Canadian connection is that James Naismith was born in Canada.

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