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"Early history"
I do not rule out that there might have been native American influences on basketball (e.g. from lacrosse, which Naismith took as a starting point). However, the claim currently made in the article about an indigenous game played in Florida is dubious as that game's target was neither a basket nor a hoop, and it had no element of adversarial play, and there is no suggestion of how Naismith might know about a game played 300 years before him. It has no more relevance to basketball than piñatas do. ~2025-31640-38 (talk) 04:03, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
Wiki Education assignment: ENGL 120-06
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