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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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Walt Frazier Jr.

Photograph of Rebecca Lobo while playing basketball for the New York Liberty

Oscar Robertson

John Richard "Dick" Motta

Basketball, awarded to Bill Russell for 10,000 Rebounds

Basketball at Princeton

USA vs. USSR - men's basketball

Harlem Globetrotters Card

On the road with the Lakers

The Harlem Globetrotters Thermos

Detroit Pistons vs. New York Knicks

Walt Frazier Jr.

Walt Frazier and Walt Frazier Jr.

Walt Frazier Jr.

Walt Frazier

Washington Generals vs. Harlem Globetrotters

Baltimore Bullets Basketball Yo-Yo

Wilt Chamberlain

USA vs. USSR - men's basketball

St. Johns vs. Wake Forest

New York Knicks

Seattle Supersonics vs. Philadelphia 76ers

Chris Thomforde at Princeton

Detroit vs. Holy Cross

Walt Frazier and Walt Frazier Jr.

Basketball jacket worn by Ray Werner as a member of the Jersey Wheelers the National Wheelchair Basketball Association Champions, 1954

Connecticut Sun Basketball Team

Syracuse Nationals vs. New York Knicks

Jerry West on the road with the Lakers

Seattle Supersonics vs. New York Knicks

Asjha Jones

Taj Williams-Franklin

Jessica Brungo

NCAA 2015 Final Four Limited Edition model car

Basketball card of Rebecca Lobo while playing for the 1996 USA Basketball Women's National Team


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