History of Basketball The first game similar to basketball may have been played by the early people of ancient Mexico as early as 500’s. The Mayan people used the decapitated skulls of their enemies as the ball. They also made sacrifices if you did not win the game. James Naismith was a man born on In 1861‚ James Naismith invented basketball. The idea of basketball came from Naismith’s early school education. He used to play a game known as duck-on-a-rock. The idea was to knock a "duck"
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Game Day Game Day had arrived for the two rival basketball teams; the Eagles and the Tigers. The loud and passionate fans had been waiting in line for hours out in the freezing cold weather. As the warm ups started the players were getting nervous. Both teams wanted the state championship very bad and they were just hours away from winning it. Months and months of strenuous conditioning and closely won ball games had all come down to this one game. The referee threw the perfectly round orange rubber
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large dose of adrenaline as she takes the court for one of the biggest games in the state tournament. First round of the tournament they play the number one team in class A. Her former summer teammate‚ now known as the 2015-2016 Big Ten women’s basketball player of the year takes the court against her. They both fight to stay on top to continue on to the semifinals. My sister Marisa fought until the last minute in the game after losing earlier in the season to the undefeated Fremont tigers. She beat
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In my sophomore year of high school I was faced with adversity on the basketball team. The coaches showed a lot of favoritism and I was not one of their players they favored. They would put me in positions to fail‚ like placing me as a Center when I was more suited to play Small Forward or Power Forward. They expected me to not perform well and wanted to punish me and take playing time away‚ but instead I worked hard and performed well enough that they could not afford to keep me on the sidelines
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People tend to show their lack of consideration for those who they don’t show much sympathy towards. This lack of consideration can encounter many problems between individuals. Many differences are conveyed in the book Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll. Although both Scott Kalvert’s film and Jim Carroll’s novel portray Jim as a character who hides his true feelings from everyone in his life‚ their leads major barriers‚ Kalvert’s interpretation of the play while examining his own behaviour and change
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Bryce Evans Glen Starkey English 145 Section 28 November 4‚ 2012 Height Adjustments The high flying dunks‚ the ballooned final scores‚ the ankle-breaking crossovers: men’s basketball has it all‚ making it one of the most highly watched and most entertaining sports in the world. Women’s basketball on the other hand‚ is not quite as entertaining or highly watched. This is most likely due to the difference in athleticism and size between the two. The average man is slightly taller than five feet nine
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Basketball is probably my favorite sport to be in. This is not because of the actual game as much as being part of a team so close‚ we were almost like brothers. I had originally joined basketball in 6th grade to make friends and have fun. That is what it was like during that grade. When 7th grade rolled along‚ the 7th and 8th grade is one team and we would go to each other’s games‚ things started to get serious. We loved our coach‚ he pushed us hard to be good players but at the end of the day‚
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autumn forest. The further down the path‚ the darker the color‚ the heavier the tone‚ the smoother the texture. In the poem Old Men Playing Basketball‚ B. H. Fairchild suggests that there is an eventual downfall to all lives; they try to reclaim their competence but doing so only evokes the nostalgia for the lost youth. Through the scene of old men basketball‚ Fairchild captures the details of the old men’s unfitness and laments on the speed that life decays at and the inabilities that comes with
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Dad‚ I was wondering if you could get me a basketball hoop so I can play my favorite sport at home. Some of the reasons you should get me a basketball hoop is that I don’t like walking 5 blocks to go to the community basketball hoop‚ it can help me with exercising my body and doing a workout‚ and some of my friends can come over to my house to play on my very own basketball hoop. The reason that I don’t want to walk five blocks to the community basketball hoop is that sometimes there could be another
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Outline Topic: Basketball Central Idea: inform the history‚ rules and development of basketball Thesis Statement: The game of Basketball is very exhilarating and will keep your adrenaline plumbing. Communication and Strategic thinking is the key to teamwork. Hence you will need the help of your teammates to deliver a good pass to you to be able to score the ball into the basket. I. Introduction “To be successful you have to be selfish‚ or else you never achieve. And once you get to your
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