• the history of netball is linked to that of basketball, and that netball was primarily developed as a women's sport?

Facts on topics related to History of netball

Silver Ferns

• netball in New Zealand is the most popular women's sport in the country, led by its high-profile national team, the Silver Ferns?

Basketball

• Australian basketball player Patrick Mills is only the third Indigenous Australian male to ever play for his country's national team?
• basketball coach Bob Knight told a radio program that if he had not been fired from Indiana University in 2000, he would have fired his assistant Mike Davis, who replaced him as IU coach?
• basketball pioneer Lou "Lulu" Bender earned his nickname after scoring an outside shot while in high school when a spectator shouted "now that was a lulu of a basket"?
• basketball player Bill Spivey sued the National Basketball Association and its commissioner in 1960, claiming that the league blacklisted him?
• basketball player Jojo Duncil was prevented from playing for the UST Growling Tigers in his final year of eligibility when a birth certificate stated that he was overage?
• basketball player Mike Gansey is the only men's player in NCAA Division I shorter than 6 ft. 5 in. to figure in USA's top 50 in field-goal percentage for the 2005-06 season?
• Chicago Bulls founder Dick Klein rode on a flat bed truck with a live bull to promote his new basketball team?
• Czech basketball player George Zidek is the younger of the only father-and-son pair to have each played in European club basketball title games?
• George Mason University basketball coach Jim Larranaga motivated his players in their 2006 NCAA regional final by telling them their opponents from the University of Connecticut didn't know what conference they were in?
• Kentucky State Representative Sam B. Thomas coached fellow army soldiers in Olympic basketball trials in Japan after World War II?

Commonwealth Games

• bowls player Willie Wood was the first athlete to compete in 7 Commonwealth Games, despite being barred from the 1986 games in his home country of Scotland for refusing to reclassify as an amateur?
• Asif Hossain Khan, a Commonwealth Games gold medal winner at the age of just 15, was brutally beaten and seriously injured by the police of his own country?