Answer:
basketball has many positions like point guard, shooting gaurd,power forward, small forward, center,point forward, forward center, and lastly swingman
History: Basketball began with it's invention in 1891 in springfield, massachusetts by canadian physical education instructor James naismith as a less injury-prone sport than football.Naissmithwas a 31-year old graduate student when he created the indoor sport to keep athletes indoors during the winters.Tje place where James first introduced basketball was at the college was the international YMCA training school and the game was also ivented to provide an indoor activity for trainee YMCA leaders.
I'm sure you can look up the rules by your self