started and grew in the United States‚ it is now played and watched in more than 150 countries. When Dr. Naismith invented the game basketball‚ he was a physical education teacher at the International Training School of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) in Spring Field‚ Massachusetts. It was winter‚ and his students needed a fast-paced game that could be played indoors. After a lot of thinking he finally decided of a game where players would be throwing a ball into baskets. So he attached
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Kevin Durant‚ NBA( National Basketball Association)‚ he is a 1 time Time MVP‚ Rookie of the year‚ 5 All-star‚ 2 time Gold Medalist. Number 35 for the Oklahoma City Thunder. He plays Small Forward. Kevin Wayne Durant was born on September 29‚ 1988‚ in Suitland‚ Maryland. Kevin durant success started with the PG jaguars‚ an amateur Athletic Union youth Basketball team in Prince George’s County‚ Maryland‚ the team won two national championships while kevin Durant was on the team. During high school
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The NBA-backed Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) began in what year? 1997. How many times did the Boston Celtics win the NBA championship between 1957 and 1969? A: 11. Q: How many NBA titles did Magic Johnson help the Lakers win as a player? A: Five. Q: What NBA hoopster is known as "The Worm"? A: Dennis Rodman. Q: What NBA coach got cosmic by penning the Zen book Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior? A: Phil Jackson Who invented the first basketball
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assignment that would last the entire term I cringed. However as I kept reading about the assignment I automatically thought about the 2011 NBA lockout. When I chose this topic I did not know a lot about how the NBA (National Basketball Association) and NBPA (National Basketball Players Association) functioned as a whole. I do know about basketball but this labor dispute had really nothing to do with basketball the game but everything to do with basketball the business. I had never thought of the NBA as
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Does the Toughest Job Deserve More Pay? A Rhetorical Analysis of Anna Quindlen’s “The Wages of Teaching”. In the job field‚ teaching has always been previewed as a nine to five‚ easy money career. It is salary based‚ with weekends and summers off. In the 2005 editorial of Newsweek Magazine called “The Wages of Teaching”. Anna Quindlen fights to boost teacher’s salaries. Quindlen’s ethical appeal combined with a strong emotional appeal ties her audience into her cause. With the use of strong
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Salary Caps in Athletics: How Much is the Game Really Effected? Should professional sports leagues‚ such as the MLB and NBA‚ implement a salary cap? This has become a rising issue in the last few years‚ involving players and the leagues and teams for which they play. Salary caps are an amount of money that a team is able to spend on its players. For instance‚ each team gets a 64 million dollar spending limit in which they have to divide between each player on the team. It has led to numerous
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the short lived American Basketball League played with the three point shot. In 1967‚ the three point shot was introduced into International basketball by FIBA. The three point shot was adopted by the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1977 and by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in
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Allen Iverson (a NBA basketball player) and Venus Williams (a tennis player) (Zerio 2005). Reebok has a long-term long-term strategic partnership with the National Basketball Association under which Reebok designs‚ manufactures‚ sells and markets licensed merchandise for the NBA‚ the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) and the National Basketball Development League (NBDL)‚ the NBA’s minor league (Reebok International n.d.). In 2002‚ Reebok launched a new collection‚ RbK‚ which was street-inspired
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Dumornay 1 Dumornay‚ Joab Dr.Rose AP English 5/29/13 NCAA or NBA The National basketball association is the worlds premiere basketballs association. Basketball players from around the world come to showcase their talent on the NBA’s stage. The sport of basketball is played by people of all ages‚ sexes‚ and races especially the youth. The youth of all nations have grown found to the sport of basketball and the NBA has inspired many young kids to follow their dreams and become NBA
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Basketball Association of America‚ and was made up of eleven teams. The first 11 teams were from New York‚ Chicago‚ Cleveland‚ Detroit‚ Philadelphia‚ Pittsburgh‚ Providence‚ St.Louis‚ Toronto‚ and Washington. In 1949 six teams from the NBL‚ the Denver Nuggets‚ the Anderson Duffy Packers‚ the Sheboygan Redskins‚ the Tri-City Blackhawks‚ the Waterloo Hawks‚ and the Syracuse Nationals joined the Basketball Association of America and the seventeen teams formed the National Basketball Association. This is
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