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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

33c Basketball single

LeBron James, San Francisco, CA, 2009

Sheryl Swoopes

Dwyane Wade

Synthetic Basketball

LeBron James

Shaquille O'Neal

Kobe Bryant

LeBron James

LeBron James, Akron 2005

Guest pass badge for the NBA Finals, 2005

Kevin Garnett, 2000 Minneapolis

Program for the Maryland Women's Basketball, 2001-2002

Kobe Bryant, N.Y.C. 2002

NCAA 2006 Women's National Champions University of Maryland pin

UCONN Women's Basketball 1995

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