Game Changer
99% Invisible
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Introduction
When basketball was invented as an indoor sport that could be played during long New England winters, the basket was literally a peach. It took over a decade for someone to come up with the brilliant idea of cutting a hole in the bottom of the net. And it finally put an end to the practice of manually retrieving basketballs every time a goal was scored.
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