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NBA parting ways with the legendary Spalding. Why did the basketball turn orange? - Bank shot - Blogs

Editor's Note: This text was released on Sports.ru on September 10, 2019. We lift it up because today is the end of an era: the NBA has stopped working with Spalding, whose balls have accompanied the league since '83.

Today the ball is the most recognizable part of basketball. But initially it was not so.

When, on the morning of December 21, 1891, James Naismith, a physical instructor at Springfield College, fired up with a new idea, came to work, he did not particularly think about what qualities the projectile should have. All he understood was that for the new game he invented, he needed a large ball. So he tried on two football versions - for rugby and for soccer. The rugby ball is elongated so that it can be carried in the hands, but the rules of the new game just prohibited it, so he took the round one.

The third rule in Namesit's legendary manifesto was: A player may not run with the ball. He must throw it from the place where he caught it; some movement is allowed if the ball was caught at high speed.

At first, the students played only in this way - they could either pass or roll the ball on the ground. Dribbling was first used by students at Yale University in 1897, and from there it spread throughout the world. At first, only one hit to the floor could be made, from 1909 the restrictions were lifted. In 1903, players who dribbled were banned from throwing until 1915.

And throughout the first third of the 20th century, basketball purists did not stop trying to fight this heretical change of the 13 commandments of the prophet Naismith.

This was partly logical - and due to the fact that the game balls themselves were completely unsuitable for crossovers, shamgods and other Enduan things.

Basketball was first played with soccer balls .

The first basketball was made in the mid-90s by the bicycle factory Overman Wheel Co. from Massachusetts. It was lighter and larger than the soccer ball that had been played before.

And in the late 1890s, Naismith asked AJ Spaulding to develop an improved version of the basketball. True, even this was not very even, not very round and had lacing, which made dribbling difficult. In addition, such balls were 7-8 centimeters larger in diameter than modern ones, and much heavier than .

Well, they traditionally had an unpleasant dark brown color.

Naturally, basketball players were most infuriated by lacing, so Chuck Taylor could not ignore this problem. The founding father of Chuck Taylor All-Stars has always claimed to have played for professional and semi-pro teams for 11 years. And although this fact from his biography is poorly documented, it is obvious that he was rather tired of the crooked ball. In 1935, his company began to produce not only basketball shoes, but also released the first ball without lacing. Both the Converse All Star sneakers and the changed shell - for greater stability it now consisted of eight parts, and not four - at the official level akin to basketball in the next thirty years.

An unobvious moment: many people were convinced that a basketball has a natural color, skin color. In fact, this is not so: it was artificially dyed and given the traditional brown color.

Many players didn't like her, especially those with vision problems. But to make a radical change, it took the intervention of television.

In the mid-1950s, the TV crew insisted that the ball was hard to see from the stands and not very good on the television picture, and insisted on changing the color scheme . By 1957, it was decided that the balls would become light brown or even yellow.

And here another Indiana basketball representative had to intervene. Butler varsity head coach Tony Hinkle decided to develop an original color scheme and worked with Spalding to come up with the more radical orange colorway .

The new projectile debuted in the 1958 NCAA Final Four and won everyone over. The NCAA then switched to orange, and all other leagues gradually followed.

However, there has never been any stable variant - for half a century, about 50 gradations of orange / brown / dark brown have been used.

No one pissed off a dark brown ball more than center George Mikan, the first "greatest player in basketball history." To modern fans, he is known mainly for playing with thick glasses, and more like a militant nerd than a basketball player.

“I didn't see this crap at all,” Maikan said. - Then the arenas were even much worse lit, and the ball blended into the background. If you watched basketball on TV, then this shit-colored thing was not particularly visible.

Maikan was helpless to change anything as a player. But in 1967, the NBA had an aggressive competitor - the ABA - and the former bespectacled center was appointed its commission agent. So the first thing he decided to do was throw a brown ball out of the modern ship. The league was called American, and therefore they decided that the new ball would have the color of the American flag .

The owners of the ABA clubs disagreed for a long time: for them, a ball of this color symbolized almost the desecration of the national flag. But then Maikan balked and threatened to resign, and this is how the most legendary ball in the history of basketball appeared. In subsequent years, about 30 million shells of this color were sold in America - however, the ABA forgot to acquire a patent and practically did not earn anything from it.

In the 1980s, this color came back into fashion thanks to the efforts of the Beastie Boys. And it is still not clear why NBA commissioner David Stern, who knows how to make money on everything, tested many of the ABA's marketing moves, but never adopted the red-blue-white ball.

Maybe that's why.

“I came up with a trick that I used exclusively in the ABA,” said Roger Brown, one of the stars of that league. - The feint was associated with the color of the ball. When he spun in the air, he produced a kind of hypnotic effect. So I took the ball and started to twist it, as it were. Some defenders watched this as if spellbound, and one second was enough for me to break away from them.

The George Mikan Revolution not only destroyed the reverence for the traditional color of the ball, but also introduced various questions into the public plane about what qualities a projectile should have in general.

Players and coaches in the ABA constantly complained that the balls were supposedly made of a different material, and therefore slipped too much (this is how they explained the monstrous number of losses in the league).

It took a lot of time and almost specially organized trips to the factories to convince everyone that the only difference is the colors.

No one protested openly in the NBA. But various ancillary measures were taken covertly: for example, Phil Jackson said that his teams - Chicago and the Lakers - dropped balls so that he would not bounce far from the shield and so that Jordan or Shaq could grab him with one hand . He was taught this trick by his Knicks coach Red Holtzman, who himself had been performing since the era of the lace-up ball. And some said that they treated the balls with sandpaper so that they were not so slippery.

With the development of technology, designers have already become the players.

In the 90's there was a pitted version of the golf ball. But they still preferred pimples.

New components and structures have been introduced to wick away moisture so that the ball does not slip in sweaty hands.

With the use of synthetic materials, the color scheme has also become completely chaotic: on the streets you can find balls of a wide variety, from black and orange to the colors of any club.

Only professional leagues stick to the orange/brown tradition and dare to make minimal assumptions.