Basketball was invented in 1891 by a Canadian named James Naismith at the YMCA International Training School (now Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts. so to represent this I made a comic where Canada is house-sitting for America and invents the game cause America didn't pick up his trash
anyway America was very impressed by the game Canada made while he was gone and they both had fun shooting hoops
The smallest US state, Rhode Island (1,212 square miles), has a larger population than the largest US state, Alaska (663,300 square miles), with 1.055 million residents vs. 736,732.