Gender Differences In The NBA

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This summer of 2017 for the NBA was a summer to remember; due to all the major changes and trades that came during that time. From Lavar’s Big Baller Brands continous social media rants and his first son emergence as the face of the Los Angeles Lakers, to the aftermath of the Warrior's triumph over lebron James Cleveland Cavaliers; the NBA is no longer the same. We have come into an era where the three pointer doesn’t reign superior, or where the big men; the power forwards and center would dominate the paint (rectangular area on the court close to the hoop). But the NBA has become a super team oriented organization where a out of the 30 teams, only a handful in the west are champion contenders while in the east there is a couple. Many would

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