A strange little side quest
Before the next round of Crazy Baskets, here is a piece of the bigger picture. The earliest basketball games used peach baskets, and Naismith wrote 13 original rules for the new indoor sport. The same trail leads to another fact: Basketball became an Olympic medal sport in 1936, while women’s basketball joined the Olympic programme in 1976. That history is one reason familiar mechanics can still feel new when they are recombined well.