正是在圣路易斯，篮球首次亮相奥运会，不过在当时它只是作为表演项目，因为它的历史只有短短的13年。而且只是美国才算是一个真正了解得的国家。

• It was in St. Louis that basketball was seen for the first time in the Olympic Games,although only as a demonstration sport since it was just 13 years since the game invention and since America was the only country that had any familiarity with it whatsoever.