Blog post #5

The History of basketball By: Diana Star Helmer, Tom Owens - chapter 1


- In the first ever basketball game the score was 5-1.
-First Olympic game was held out in the rain.
-The dunk was at one time outlawed.
-in the beginning there where 9 players on the court 
-Could not dribble the ball
-Had to pass the ball in order to score.
-First basket scored by William Chase.


In this book the authors talk about how the game has evolved over time.The one way this supports the main idea is by when it talks about how the game has changed over time and has come a far way since there where nine players and no dribbling.finally the authors inform the reader about how the style has come from no dunking or 3 point shooting to now having those two skills being the most jaw dropping of all moves.These Ideas are similar to my prior research because they both talked about how the style of play has changed