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Professional basketball started in America, thanks to Canadian-born philosopher and inventor James Naismith, but that doesn’t mean kids from abroad didn’t figure it out too.
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Professional basketball started in America, thanks to Canadian-born philosopher and inventor James Naismith, but that doesn’t mean kids from abroad didn’t figure it out too.