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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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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Kobe Bean Bryant (born August 23‚ 1978)‚ nicknamed the "Black Mamba"‚ is an American professional basketball player who plays shooting guard for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He entered the NBA directly from high school‚ and has played for the Lakers his entire career‚ winning five NBA championships. Bryant is a 15-time All-Star‚ 14-time member of the All-NBA Team‚ and 12-time member of the All-Defensive team. As of June 2012‚ he ranks third and fifth on the
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team. By 1936‚ they had played more than 1‚000 games and appeared in Wisconsin‚ Minnesota‚ Iowa‚ Michigan‚ Montana‚ Washington and North and South Dakota. (The Globetrotters didn’t actually play a game in Harlem until the late 1960s.) Their first national championship appearance came in 1939‚ when the Globetrotters lost to the New York Renaissance. That same year‚ the team began to add the silly antics they later became known for‚ including ball handling tricks and on-court comedic routines. The crowds
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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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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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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 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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Nicholas Farrell Year 11 Modern History Miss Campbell James Naismith The invention of Basketball was a complete change to sport and how sports can be played. James Naismith was a Canadian man who moved down to the United States seeking a job. James came across a job at the YMCA International Training School in Springfield‚ Massachusetts. He was given 14 days to create an indoor game that would provide an "athletic distraction". Naismith’s game of Basketball is now played by over 300 million people
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