up into huge puddles of tears buried in my pillow‚ asking myself why didn’t they pick me ? "why aren’t I good enough ?!". Making the school Basketball team is something that was a very huge goal for me at the start of every school year‚ and a motive at the start of every summer.Till this day I haven’t made neither my middle school nor high school Basketball team‚ I’ve only came very close. My freshman year of high school is where it hurt the most. I had finally started to get a
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The National Basketball Association is a big corporation. It offers the public competition at its best. The National Basketball Association or the NBA consist of 30 teams around the United States and Canada. Although during the NBA’s history‚ it wasn’t always one of the powerhouses in major sports leagues. The NBA started as the Basketball Association of America or BAA on June 6‚ 1946. The league later merged with rival‚ National Basketball League or NBL to create the National Basketball Association
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Someone once said‚ “When you feel like quitting think about why you started”. Many people don’t realize the smaller concerns in sports that people need to know about the sport they play. Sports have essential uniforms‚ positions‚ and playing surfaces to the game. Uniforms are one of the many elements sportsmen need to know about their sport. When participating in sports the uniform must be correct or there could be a chance that the player can’t play in the game because of different requirements
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Basketball is one of the most diverse sports when it comes to having different types of players. The beauty of the sport is that all of the players are needed to win and not just one player. There are countless ways a player can contribute to the team and the game. In fact‚ there are around a dozen skills a player can have. However‚ overall there are three main types of basketball players. First‚ there are pure shooters who excel in scoring from virtually anywhere. Secondly‚ there are highly gifted
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Basketball 101: Training Camps and Other Basics Michael Jordan‚ a basketball superstar‚ once said: “I can accept failure‚ everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” We all are destined for something great. There are people destined to be an Olympian. There are people who are destined to win an Oscar or to star in blockbuster movies. But there are people whose steps lead to the making of basketball legends. Following what Michael Jordan said‚ how can we prove our worth if we refuse
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Positive things about Love & Basketball Here’s the run-down. Love & Basketball is deceivingly simple in its structure. The movie is divided into the quarters of a basketball game and tells the story of a boy and a girl. Meeting at about the age 11‚ the film traces their lives as they run parallel and run apart from childhood‚ to high school‚ to college‚ and just after. Monica and Quincy each have their hopes and their dreams. They both want to play basketball on a professional level. For Quincy
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I stopped playing basketball frequently after my 6th year in the elementary school. At that time‚ I did not take basketball seriously and only played for fun. When I came to Portland earlier this spring‚ I made new friends and they asked me to join them and play basketball together. It has been a long time since my last basketball game then. As a result‚ my skills have dropped and did not play as well as I used to be while I was in elementary school. I was pretty disappointed with myself. However
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football or basketball in the United States. This is a big number of people participating. It is a great way to stay active. I am going to compare the two sports to each other. Obviously they are different but there are some similarities. I will talk about being active‚ being on a team‚ and how they are played. Being active is in both of these sports. They require a lot of energy. Basketball is a smaller playing area meaning the court is obviously smaller than a football field but in basketball you are
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students in high school. There are many sports in high school but football has always stood out to me. I am from a small town in Texas‚ and I must admit there is no greater feeling than playing high school football. I like that a single inspirational speech or an impactful player can make a difference in winning or losing. I like to see who stands up and takes charge or makes a difference when the game is on the line. When those lights come on and your town is there to support you and cheer for you it’s
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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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