Swoosh! Ah basketball we can thank James Naismith for that. James had a amazing childhood, cool accomplishments. First you should read the childhood.

James Naismith had a creative childhood. He was born in Canada on November 6th, 1861. James loved playing sports and he was really good at them. James was the best at lacrosse and rugby. Playing sports helped James when he was growing and this helped with his later inventions.

James Naismith had  some cool accomplishments. In 1891 james  came up to invent a game in  springfeild,Massachusetts at the YMCA it was basketball. He also built  and designed a early football helmet in 1898. Iast he wrote and published a book called “basketball” in 1941. When james was inventing, creating, and writing it was not that easy he did have some obstacles.

James had some roadblocks. One was he was challenged to create a game. It had to be played in and outdoors because of the cold massachusetts winters. Last it had to distract a rowdy group of students. Two weeks was his deadline. But even though he invented many things, cool inventions, and had some roadblocks there are still some interesting facts about James Naismiths life.

James Naismith had a interesting life style outside of inventing. In college he studied to be a minister. He graduated from Mc gill university. He thought that he could help people in through athletics and the church. The YMCA agreed with James that they should combined church and religion. James Naismith had a creative and awesome life.

James Naismith had a challenging time inventing basketball. James Naismith had a creative childhood, cool accomplishments, and some roadblocks. “Basketball doesn’t build character it shows it”. - james Naismith.