It’s Not The Story You’ve Been Told | Scott Flansburg From #241 | The Way I Heard It

Tonight, after weeks of March Madness, a national champion will be crowned. As you settle in to watch the final game, you might want to ask yourself a simple question: What if the story of basketball itself… isn’t true?

In this episode, I sat down with Scott Flansburg—also known as the “Human Calculator”—who stumbled into something he never saw coming: a 130-year-old mystery that calls the origin story of basketball into serious question. And I do mean serious.

What began as a harmless curiosity about Dr. James Naismith quickly turned into something far more unsettling—conflicting timelines, rewritten narratives, and a small village in upstate New York that may have been written out of history altogether.

We’re talking about Herkimer, a place most people have never heard of. A place that, according to Scott, may be the real birthplace of basketball—complete with the first game, the first rim, the first net… and a teenager named Lambert Will who never got the credit.

So, while millions tune in to watch the championship, this conversation asks a different kind of question: What if we’ve been cheering for a story that was wrong from the start?

If you like your sports with a side of mystery—and your history with a few loose threads—this one’s worth your time.

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