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January 15, 2021 On January 15, 1892, the original rules of the game of basketball were released, devised by James Naismith a year earlier.



For the first time, the rules were published in The Triangle, a school newspaper in Springfield, Massachusetts. 



Today the

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to James Naismith

, inventor, teacher and basketball coach, born in Canada in 1861.