Ancient Basketball

[jongib369]

Most people say basketball was created in December of 1891, but we are going to take a look back at the version of

[flipogb]

Kobe and Lebron would not be sacrificed to the gods , thats for sure

[Pushxx]

Inb4 someone says it's just a bunch of short white guys from the 50s/60s.

owait

[Psileas]

The guy in the 1st pic finger-rolls, and that's before Wilt.
What's his name, jongib369?

[Mr Know It All]

Wonder what Montezuma's PER was.

[Micku]

I instantly think of The Road to El Dorado.

Talk about hardcore.

[flipogb]

easy to tell who the MVP was back then, its the best guy on the team that isn't dead

[Nash]

Inb4 someone says it's just a bunch of short white guys from the 50s/60s.

owait

[lilgodfather1]

easy to tell who the MVP was back then, its the best guy on the team that isn't dead

Bravo sir, Bravo.

[Tmuston Beltics]

lol they already had floppers back then

[Colbertnation64]

Very little is actually known about the game. Any attempt at rules is just a guess.

Here are the things that we do know for sure:

Used a very heavy ball

You could only use your body and hips...not hands or feet.

Most agree that the "hoop" was the way to score points but we don't know how many is took to finish the game. Right now we have absolutely no information as to rules on scoring.

Sacrifice does seem to have a big part but there's not telling which team was sacrificed. Some believe the winning team may have been as an honor...but mesoamericans also enjoyed watching the game as a sport so killing the best team would be dumb.

Also, it seems treaties or wars may have been fought on the court. So instead of having a war to get <insert reason> it seems some states would actually play a game of the ball game.

[Theoo]

we need to bring back sacrifice to the nba

[SHAQisGOAT]

Those unathletic mothafcks, I'm sure they're breakin those papper bones just due to a slight touch.

[Nick Young]

lebron would be styling on these midgets

[jstern]

I think the being sacrifice is bullshit, because that's what happens when stories are passed down from people to people. It was the most popular game, meaning that a lot of people played it, and maybe one day somebody played for something really important, in the similar way on occasion someone might play for money.

If we had no media, in 3,000 years they might have said that we used to play basketball, and the losers had to fight a mountain lion, just because that Wilt story would confuse someone as the story gets told from person to person.