Shot some hoops solo before sunset and then played 21 with a couple of young guys who had just wrapped boxing training in the park. Lost to one of them at 17 points, next time…

19:57 Monday April 17, 2017

Hackney Downs, London

Fact: Dr. James Naismith (November 6, 1861 – November 28, 1939) was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, chaplain, sports coach and innovator. He invented the game of basketball at age 30 in 1891. He wrote the original basketball rule book and founded the University of Kansas basketball program. Naismith lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, as well as the birth of the National Invitation Tournament (1938) and the NCAA Tournament (1939).