- Basketball was a sport in the 1920's that was one of the less popular sports rather than baseball or football but there still were many people interested in it.
James Naismith invented basketball in the 1890's - Basketball was created for the Rowdy class of young men to give them something to do as an alternative to rugby, football, and other contact sports
- After basketball was introduced to America then it lured other people to have interest in it like Latin America, Japan, and Australia