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Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls leaping into the air during the slam-dunk competition at NBA All-Star weekend in Chicago, February 6, 1988.
James Naismith’s original rules for basketball were first published in the January 15, 1892, issue of the Triangle, which was the campus newspaper for the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts.1