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Basketball: Smithsonian's Got Game

Enjoy these basketball-related finds from across the Smithsonian. A curator at the National Museum of American History, chooses top NCAA picks among basketball history. Read about 1970s basketball and Ray Werner, wheelchair basketball pioneer. In "Leveling the Playing Field: Women's Basketball," learn about women's basketball in African American history.


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Dawn Staley

Los Angeles Lakers uniform worn in NBA Finals by Kobe Bryant

Basketball used in American Basketball Association games

Basketball signed by members of the U.S. "Dream Team"

Jersey for the Milwaukee Bucks worn and signed by Kareem Abdul-Jabar

Chicago, 1991

Bill Russell and Elgin Baylor, LA, 1965

Magic Johnson

33c Basketball single

Michael Jordan

Practice jersey worn by Cheryl Miler

LeBron James, San Francisco, CA, 2009

Sheryl Swoopes

Untitled

Olympic uniform jersey and shorts worn by Lusia Harris

Dwyane Wade

LeBron James

Pair of red and black Air Jordan I high top sneakers made by Nike

Shaquille O'Neal

32c Men's Basketball single

29c Basketball single

Magic, 1991, L.A.

Shaq Attaq sneaker worn by Shaq

Kobe Bryant

Brigham Young University Basketball

LeBron James

U.S. Women's Basketball Team, Pan-American Games, Caracas, Venezuela, from the series Shooting for the Gold

Studio Portrait of Two Girls Holding a Basketball

Group portrait of a young women's basketball team

Wings

Michael Jordan, Orlando, FL 1993

Red Green & Black, Chicago 1988

The College Trap

Warm up jacket worn by Jerry Armstrong for Texas Western

Pat Riley


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