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  • It started at 10 feet. It all started with two peach baskets affixed to a 10-foot-high railing and with a soccer ball in a YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) in Massachusetts. http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blbasketball.htm Note: The NBA tried a 12-foot basket in a March 7, 1954 game between Minneapolis Lakers and Milwaukee Hawks, and just as soon abandoned that for the traditional 10-foot basket.

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