[Tebium]

Here is an interesting thought I had...

The Church encourages the well rounded individual, so you have dances in the Cultural Hall and Potlucks, and usually a stage that is rarely used, other than as an extra room for classes sometimes.

So what time period did the Church decide to stick a basketball court in every church building? Even the smaller units, if they have a cultural hall will have a half court. Some of the older stakes would even have a Stake Gym which had a basketball court that would rival any found in a high school.

Maybe it's cultural for the US. Do they have stake soccer fields in Brazil, or Stake Cricket Fields in England?

I have been in other Churchs and most of them don't have an attached basketball court.

Could the church just as easily chosen Football or Baseball or Badminton as the 'Church Sport'?

I remember my brother telling me when he was on his mission in Korea, he and his Zone ended up playing a college team there....AND WON. A bunch of American Mormon boys growing up on Church Basketball.