The exact origination of wheel chair basketball or wheel chair sports in generic is an issue not completely agreed upon. In the opinion of a host of people though, it started with the Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Games in 1946. Stroke Mandeville was a hospital that devised an Olympics-like competition for twenty-six of its disabled patients. Basketball was added in 1956. A team called the Pan Am Jets was the Click here to read the rest of this article ...