Kobe Bryant's parents named him after the famous Kobe beef from Japan after they saw it on a restaurant menu. His middle name, Bean, came…

In the 1997-98 season, Michael Jordan earned $33.14 million, which was more than the entire payroll of 19 other NBA teams that season.

The average NBA player runs approximately 2.5 miles during a single game. During the 2019-20 season, Portland Trail Blazers guard CJ…

Before becoming an Olympic decathlon champion, Caitlyn Jenner, then known as Bruce Jenner, was drafted in the 7th round of the 1977 NBA…

In the early days of basketball, players could not dribble. They had to throw the ball from the spot where they caught it. The first…

Basketballs were originally brown, but in 1957, Coach Tony Hinkle of Butler University introduced the orange ball to make it more visible…

In 1891, James Naismith invented basketball using peach baskets as hoops and a soccer ball. After each basket, someone had to climb a…

The frisbee originated in the 1940s when Yale University students threw around pie tins from the Frisbie Pie Company.

In tennis, zero is called 'love,' deriving from French 'l'œuf' (the egg) which resembles the numeral zero.