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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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Chicago, 1991

Bill Russell and Elgin Baylor, LA, 1965

LeBron James, San Francisco, CA, 2009

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Magic, 1991, L.A.

Studio Portrait of Two Girls Holding a Basketball

Group portrait of a young women's basketball team

Michael Jordan, Orlando, FL 1993

Red Green & Black, Chicago 1988

LeBron James, Akron 2005

Kevin Garnett, 2000 Minneapolis

Blue Dunk, Lisle, Ill. 1987

Wilt Chamberlin, Boston, 1967

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Kobe Bryant, N.Y.C. 2002

Wilt Chamberlin, Philadelphia, 1967

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Milwaukee, WI 1973

Charles Barkley, NYC, 1988

Kevin Garnett, 1999 Minneapolis

Photograph of Lusia Harris playing basketball in the 1976 Summer Olympics

Photograph of Lusia Harris playing basketball

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