The Evolution of the Basketball 🏀

What’s up with these balls this new basketball with holes is insane and this one does even make noise when you dribble so how do we ever get from the traditional basketball to these new wild Concepts well believe it or not the first ever basketball actually was just

An old soccer ball since the OG basketball back in the day didn’t involve dribbling eventually the father of basketball Joe nouth reached out to AG spaling to make the first ever basketball ball Spalding made American footballs and Baseball clubs and you can easily notice the inspiration from the

Design in 1937 the first ever national basketball was created called the MBL and they had to make a ball that was easier for tribling so the laces were removed and seams were added around it for gripping the next greatest modification to the ball came in 1950 this is when the ball was transformed

From its brown color to the now famous orange color we see and this change was made to make the ball stand out to be different than the hardwood Court then in 1971 they changed from four leather panels to eight leather panels and this has been the same style basketball we

Use today but now the NBA has teased an airless basketball that was 3D printed