PARIS — If casual American basketball fans didn’t already know this, then the world made it loud and clear in Paris: The ...

Sculptor Elden Tefft, Lawrence, has completed his latest sculpture: a bronze casting of James Naismith, the inventor of basketball. The statue is headed to Springfield College, in Springfield, Mass.

One might expect a steady stream of basketball fans to pass the grave of the game’s inventor: Dr. James Naismith. Not so. “Since I have been working here, there has been nobody to come here ...

“Change Your Game / Cambia tu juego” at the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation ... local coach about slam dunks in college basketball that often resulted in shattered ...

It may be surprising to discover that women began playing basketball less than a year after the game was invented. The fact is that women’s basketball is steeped in tradition, some of it ...