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Phoenix [80]
3 years ago
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What is a good, strong topic sentence for a paragraph explaining what/about basketball?

English
1 answer:
GenaCL600 [577]3 years ago
6 0

Answer:

Basketball is the best sport in the nation. It was created by a Canadian man named James Naismith and he was a PE teacher.The first basketball goals were peach baskets and they played in cages made of chicken wire and mesh. At the beginning of basketball, they used soccer balls before actual basketballs were created.They also did not dribble a lot at the beginning of basketball, they would catch the ball and take a couple of steps to slow down or stop. Since then the game of basketball has changed

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