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• The Olympics start in August. See the field for the 2008 Olympics here. To delve into the history of the Olympic Games, check out all the Olympics articles here.

• Who's the greatest young player you never heard of? Ricky Rubio of Spain will be playing for his country in |Beijing. He's only 17 years old and already has two pro seasons under his belt already.

Miller with the Fort Wayne Fury, 1998

• (Right) There's two things you have to admit about Percy Miller Sr. (a.k.a. Master P): 1. He's hugely successful in the Hip Hop entertainment industry. 2. He loves playing basketball like few others. Read about his basketball endeavors here.

• The 1936 Olympics were the first to include men's basketball. In the gold medal game "College Joe" Fortenberry (a graduate of West Texas State Teachers College) scorched the nets for eight points to lead the USA to a 19-8 win over Canada. The scoring was held down by a downpour in the second half of the outdoor game.

• Lenny Sachs took Loyola of Chicago from nothing to the NIT finals. He was also a founder of the National Catholic Interscholastic Basketball Tournament.

The Nankai Five Tigers: China's first dominating team, ca. 1896.

• Basketball is a world game. It is huge in China, and has been since the early 20th Century (left). Read about the beginnings of basketball in China. You might be surprised to learn that Professional Basketball in China started only in 1995.

• Having trouble keeping up with all the new players picked up in the 2008 NBA Draft? Check out the draft board that User Soxrock (and others) put up. Go to NBA Draft 2008.

This 12th Street YMCA team from Washington, DC was declared Colored Basketball World's Champions in 1910.

• The NBA traces its roots back to 1946 and the Basketball Association of America. But the first documented professional basketball game in the US took place in 1896, just five years after James Naismith wrote the rules. The first pro league -- the National Basket Ball League -- began operations in 1898.

It was a wild time, with barnstorming teams, leagues that came and went, and men who could play for three teams in three leagues at the same time. Read about the beginnings of pro ball in NBA Roots.

Nat Holman in his Original Celtics uniform, 1922.

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• Who was the first men's college national champ? Temple, winner of the 1938 National Invitation Tournament (NIT)? The Oregon Ducks, winners of the 1939 NCAA championship? The Helms Foundation picked mythical national champions for every season between 1901 and 1983. That expert panel picked Yale, 1901, as the first national champ. See if you agree with the Helms Foundation picks.

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• "Why are they so good at basketball? They dominate the sport. They must have some innate physical advantage that the rest of us don't have." Sound familiar? But in the first half of the 20th Century "they" were Jews. Many of the top players were kids who grew up playing ball on the tough streets of New York and Philadelphia. Kids like Nat Holman (right), Barney Sedran, Bennie Borgmann, Max Friedman and Eddie Gottlieb, who all grew up to be Hall of Famers. To learn more about race and hoops, read Questions of Race.

• In 1897 the Amateur Athletic Union organized a tournament to determine a national men's basketball champion. They've been holding such tournaments ever since. For most of the first half of the 20th Century the AAU was the most prestigious championship there was. For a listing of all the championship games, go to AAU Men's Champions.

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• Malice at the Palace: The feminine side. As a result of the fracas in the Los Angeles-Detroit WNBA game, ten players and a coach received suspensions. Shock forward Plenette Pierson roughed up Sparks star Candace Parker and will sit for four games as a result. Read the AP account here.

• Disgraced former NBA referee Tim Donaghy is sentenced to 15 months in jail. Read the AP wire service story here.

• The 2008 Olympics are only weeks away and the field for the men's tournament is finally set. Over in Athens twelve teams fought it out for the three slots left in Beijing. Croatia, Germany and Greece got their tickets punched and are heading to China. Read how they got there at the qualifying tourney's official website.

• 1948 - Former Phoenix Suns center Neal Walk is born in Cleveland, Ohio. He was the second player drafted in the 1969 NBA Draft, after Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. In 1990 he was honored by the President of the United States as Wheelchair Athlete of the Year.

• 1952 - Prolific NBA scorer and strict vegeterian Scott Wedman is born in Harper, Kansas.

• 1994 - The Orlando Magic sign Chicago Bulls star Horace Grant.

• 1999 - Ticha Penicheiro (right) of the Sacramento Monarchs dishes out 16 assists in a 75-67 loss vs. Cleveland to set a WNBA record. She tied her own record in 2002.

The first basketball card? Murad Cigarettes 1909 card for Williams College.

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