Day 2: Get to know the game you love
September 2, 2010 in 30 Days
This article is part of the series “30 days to being a better basketball player“.
One of the best pieces of advice I’ve heard is “Never forget where you came from”. While this refers to our own personal history, I would guess that many basketball players don’t know much about the history of the game.
History can teach us a lot of things. Perhaps the biggest advantage of history is what we can learn from it – if we choose to. The philosopher George Santayana once said “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it”, so we would be wise to invest even a little bit of time learning the history of basketball.
If you have only a vague idea of where the game came from and you want to know more, here’s a short introduction to the history of basketball:
