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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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Kobe Bryant, N.Y.C. 2002

Wilt Chamberlin, Philadelphia, 1967

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Milwaukee, WI 1973

Charles Barkley, NYC, 1988

Kevin Garnett, 1999 Minneapolis

NBA Playoffs pin

Program for the Maryland ACC Champs Women's Basketball, 1978

NCAA 2015 Final Four Limited Edition model car

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

1965 NCAA Eastern Regional Tournament basketball ticket stub

Basketball program for Terrapin Basketball, 1977-1978

President Obama's 2015 Men's NCAA Basketball Tournament Bracket

NCAA 2006 Women's National Champions University of Maryland pin

Program for the First Annual Orange Bowl Women's Basketball Classic, 1978

Basketball card of Rebecca Lobo while playing for the 1995 University of Connecticut Huskies

Photograph of Lusia Harris playing basketball in the 1976 Summer Olympics

Make Your Shot Count. Vote

28c Women's Basketball single

Photograph of Lusia Harris playing basketball

UCONN Women's Basketball 1995

Program for the First Annual Women's ACC Basketball Championship, 1978

Basketball signed by Lusia Harris with wood base


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