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James Naismith, a Rare card
James Naismith was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain, and sports coach, best known as the inventor of the game of basketball.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 84
- Power
- 161
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 320,000
Power 161 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
James Naismith quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the James Naismith card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
First developing the game in Canada, he wrote the original basketball rule book after moving to the United States and founded the University of Kansas basketball program in ____.
Answer
1890s. First developing the game in Canada, he wrote the original basketball rule book after moving to the United States and founded the University of Kansas basketball program in 1898. From the James Naismith article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Fighter aircraft. Fighter aircraft 88 · Jeffrey Sachs 82 · James Naismith 77 · Computer hardware 73 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Orion. Orion 840,000 · Cloud computing 650,000 · James Naismith 320,000 · Architecture 250,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- First developing the game in Canada, he wrote the original basketball rule book after moving to the United States and founded the University of Kansas basketball program in 1898.
- Naismith lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, and to see the birth of the National Invitation Tournament and the NCAA Tournament.
- He also lived to see the creation of half of the leagues that eventually became the present-day National Basketball Association, with the 1935 creation of the Midwest Basketball Conference before it became the National Basketball League in 1937.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The James Naismith article was read about 320,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 84: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get James Naismith
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, James Naismith (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
