Basketball was invented by a Scot – a crucial and often ignored part of the game’s history

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Basketball was invented by a Scot – a crucial and often ignored part of the game’s history

Tetra Images LLC / Alamy by Ross Walker, University of Stirling Tension, excitement, glamour and big bucks: basketball’s popularity is soaring around the world, with 3.3 billion people thought to be interested in the game according to one study. Strongly associated with North America, where players like LeBron James, Steph Curry and Caitlin Clark dominate … Continued

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