The David Booth file David Booth moved with his family to Lawrence in 1959. The family lived at 1931 Naismith Drive, just south of Allen Fieldhouse. In 1968, David, a Lawrence High School graduate ...

David Thompson was awarded the Naismith at the end of his 1974-75 season with NC State. He helped lead the Wolfpack to their first national championship in 1974.

The gavel has come down. According to the AP, David and Suzanne Booth have purchased the original document of James Naismith's 13 basketball rules at a Sotheby's auction on Friday.. David Booth is ...

David Stern is going from the NBA commissioner’s office to the Hall of Fame. The recently retired Stern was elected Friday to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and will be enshrined ...

David Booth grew up in Lawrence, Kan., the college town where James Naismith began coaching basketball at the University of Kansas a few years after inventing the sport in Springfield, Mass., in 1891.

James Naismith's original rules of "Basket Ball" are displayed at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art on Friday, March 4, 2011, in Kansas City, Mo. David Booth and family purchased the rules at a ...

Ian Naismith, grandson of basketball inventor James Naismith, sold what was termed "the founding rules'' that had been in the family since the game's origin in 1891. Sotheby's handled the auction ...

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced that David Stern was elected to its 2014 class. They also announced finalists to be announced on April 7 during the Final Four.

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announces 2023 enshrinement ceremony presenters. ... • David Hixon, presented by Jim Calhoun (‘05), John Calipari (‘15) ...

Naismith enumerated 13 rules for a game that he hoped would appeal to students at the Y.M.C.A. Training School in Springfield, ... David N. Redden, the Sotheby’s vice chairman, added: ...

Duke's Zion Williamson is trending toward becoming just the second freshman ever to win the Naismith Award and become the No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft. Only three freshmen have ever won the award.

The 13 rules that Dr. James Naismith wrote in 1891 to govern his created game of "Basket Ball" were sold at auction on Friday for a final price of $4.33 million.