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    Nike Basketball Shoes: The Best for the Best In 1917‚ Chuck Taylor was the first to introduce the world to a shoe developed specifically for basketball; the Converse All-Star. They were all black‚ with a rubber sole and a canvas body that laced up over the top of the ankle. It’s hard to believe that for the next fifty years this basic design would be renowned as the world best basketball shoe. By the time the 70’s rolled around‚ Converse developed a slightly more modern version of their

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    I have a passion for basketball. Basketball is my favorite sport. I’ve been playing organized basketball since I was four years old‚ at least as long as I can remember. Basketball is a very big important part of me. This is something that I am really good at and makes me very happy when I play. My mom supports me playing basketball very rarely. It seems like my mom doesn’t care but I think she does deep down inside. My mom wants me to focus more on school then basketball. Her motto is “business

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    Baseball vs. Basketball Baseball and Basketball are the two games that my kids play. Which do I like best? It is hard to say which I prefer better. Any sport that my kid’s play‚ I genuinely love. If I have to choose I think it would be baseball; it is an outside sport‚ it is slower paced and has less “scoring” and it is not as aggressive. First of all baseball is an outside sport that starts in the spring and is played into the summer. Sometimes it is cold and rainy‚ but for the most part

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    be based on a year 7 middle school class who are beginning a new unit of basketball. This paper will attempt to show how teachers can educate students to acquire new skills in basketball and various ways to assess development and adaptation (by students) to the sport. Basketball is a diverse sport‚ played across the globe‚ that captures a variety of skills‚ which participants try to attain. The main skills used in basketball are dribbling‚ shooting‚ passing‚ and defending‚ but many other developmental

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    Pro Basketball vs. Pro Football If you had a choice‚ would you pick a career where injuries are less frequent and less severe along with a better salary or a career where injuries are frequent and sometimes severe‚ and salaries are not as good. Anyone in their right mind would choose the first option. This will now bring me to my topic‚ professional basketball is better than professional football. Professional basketball is more dominant than football in three critical areas‚ injuries sustained

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    I believe drugs can kill‚ but basketball will save me. I am a young adult‚ a teenager‚ a young man who has witnessed close family members deceased due to the presence of drugs. As I witness this‚ the game of basketball keeps me safe. I was born into a family‚ a loving caring family‚ one who did not think they were doing anything wrong because it was not around me. Soon enough I came to realize they would no longer be around me. I saw some do it as I grew older‚ they said it makes them feel better

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    Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time won the the championship really often division championships. In 1982 with scoring the final basket to defeating lots of other teams in the university he was also singled.Out as the college player of the year in 1983 and in 1984 during the summer of 1984 made his first. Appearance at the at doing games as a member of us basketball team the team won the golds that year which were. held in later helped the american bring home the

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    for being a professionally basketball player. While he made a name for himself through the game of basketball‚ the legacy he will leave behind will be much greater than being a phenomenal athlete. Dwyane is a man of many genres. He is a prime example of what being an exceptional parent is. He has made it evident that being a father comes before anything else in his life. Dwyane is also heavily involved in helping out the children in his community. The game of basketball has allowed him the chance

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    Michael Jordan once said “I’ve failed over and over and over again and that’s why I succeeded.” If you don’t even try in life you will never be successful. When you want to be successful as bad as you want to breathe then you be successful. Success is about developing personal wisdom and competence or what could be called personal mastery in the field you want to succeed in. Nothing is ever impossible to accomplish in life. You have to be determined that you can do the impossible. If you have determination

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    people would agree that he caught on pretty well in the end‚ winning the Nobel Prize and changing the face of modern physics. Most people wouldn’t believe that a man often lauded as the best basketball player of all time was actually cut from his high school basketball team. Luckily‚ Jordan didn’t let this setback stop him from playing the game and he has stated‚ "I have missed more than 9‚000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted

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