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How did basketball get the name basketball?

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Basket means to put something in basket. Ball is the ball.
the goal is to throw the ball into the basket. So now we call it 'basketball'.

** Because the first basket was a peach basket by Dr James Naismith whom invented basketball** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith
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