🏀Did you know? Basketball was born at the YMCA. On 21 December 1891, at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, Dr James Naismith created a new game to keep young people active during the winter months. With a simple idea and a first tip-off, basketball began its journey from a YMCA gym to a global sport. More than a century later, the YMCA continues to use basketball worldwide as a tool for education, inclusion and youth development, shaping generations on and off