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Article requests : Suggest adding an external link: http://www.nfhs.org/ National Federation of State High School Associations AZ-nate (talk) 19:03, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Expand : I find it curious that, like many teams on the floor, rebounding and exposition of the same is missing from this article.--Buckboard 01:27, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Update : The FIBA just changed the dimensions of the lane and the 3-point line. And you can hold the ball for two steps when going for a layup. Please update the page.
Other : What about basketball in other countries? Maybe the picture should show an actual basketball game in action (with all the players)?

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Changing the image description of an early basketball from "First basketballs used where actually association footballs" to "First basketballs used were association footballs" Bayonet point (talk) 01:28, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

Done PianoDan (talk) 01:54, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Introduction to Technical Writing

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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)

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