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The rise in patriotism prompted by the U.S. president is renewing focus on everything Canada has given the world,
and a small New Brunswick mill town wants people to know the sport of basketball belongs on that list.

A brick building nestled between an empty lot and a sports bar in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, is claimed to house the world’s oldest surviving basketball court,
with records of a game being played there on Oct. 17, 1893.
For years, locals have been trying to get the site properly recognized and converted into a museum,
and now there is hope that the surge in Canadian pride will make the dream a reality.
It is time, they say, for Canadians to have a new shrine to the sport invented by Canadian-born #James #Naismith while he was an instructor at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Mass
https://globalnews.ca/news/11140666/oldest-basketball-court/

Heute vor 131 Jahren hat Dr. James Naismith Basketball erfunden! ⛹️ Ich find es immer witzig, weil es komisch wirkt, dass man den Tag der Erfindung einer Sportart datumsgenau benennen kann, aber im Endeffekt wurde jeder Sport ja mal erfunden 🤓 #Basketball #naismith #basketballmomente1891