1984 NBA Draft

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    that… Westbrook didn’t receive his first college offer till his senior year in highschool. He won defensive player of the year .”Why not to everything”.Finally, In 2012-2013 Westbrook led the Thunder to the NBA finals but lost in 5 games to Miami Heat.Westbrook help lead the Thunder to the NBA finals but would lose in 5 games to the Miami Heat.Overall, Russell Westbrook pushes himself to get better and refuses to lose. First of all, Russell Westbrook had a interesting life with his best friend…

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    Thunder in seven games in the Western Conference Finals. Many sports fans were not happy with Durant’s decision and thought that he was taking the easy way out to win a championship. Fast forward to June 2018 and Durant is a two-time NBA champion and two-time NBA Finals MVP. Even though he has reached a certain success to this point, his decision still bothers some people wrong the way to this day. Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett is a part of that crowd that still feels a…

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    if the window for success with this team had closed. Some blame the loss of Kyrie Irving. Others feel as if the Eastern Conference has simply become too strong. The bottom line is, the Cavaliers were written off and deemed hopeless. Well, with the NBA playoffs right around the corner, the Cavaliers have ramped it up once again. The team has now won 10 of its last 11 games. Furthermore, the team is currently in the midst of a five-game win streak. This stretch has included two key games. First, a…

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    Stephen Curry is better than Kyrie Irving Damen Barner Did you watch the NBA finals last year? If you did, you might have wondered who is better Stephen Curry or Kyrie Irving. In the 2015-16 season curry average 30 points per game. Steph has set a record for most threes in a season with 400. In this paper I will state why Stephen Curry is better than Kyrie Irving. My first reason why Curry is better is because Stephen Curry just has the better career. He has won the MVP 2 times and Kyrie…

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    upcoming regular season? 2. San Antonio Spurs - Swap Tim Duncan for Pau Gasol and what do you get? Basically the same Spurs team as last year: still old, but still good. 3. Utah Jazz - The new kids on the block. The up-and-comers. The millennials of the NBA. The Jazz have been bad for a while, but that should stop now. 4. Portland Trail Blazers - Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollum are the forgotten Splash Brothers. If the duo keeps shooting they way they have, Portland should keep making the…

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    The Golden State Warriors just did what they needed to do, and now they're going home in the same shape as when they left to head to Cleveland — tied in the NBA Finals. Stephen Curry and Andre Iguodala scored 22 focuses a piece and the Warriors, demonstrating their profundity and why they were the association's best group all season, squared the finals at 2-2 on Thursday night with a 103-82 triumph over the Cleveland Cavaliers. LeBron James scored 20 points — 21 under his average in the…

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    The great debate of the NBA in the 1960s centered around two men who revolutionized the game of basketball in their own contrasting and unique ways. Bill Russell was a quiet warrior with unparalleled intensity. His primary concern was whether or not his team won. Everything else was secondary. Wilt Chamberlain was a once-in-a-generation athlete with an ability to seemingly score at will. His talent resulted in statistics and records that are unimaginable by today’s standards. Naturally, the…

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    tragic murder in 1993. Jordan continues on to play baseball in 1994, but retires after that season in 1995. He returns to the NBA wearing number 45, but later returns to his trademark number 23. In 1998, Jordan steals the ball from Karl Malone and shoots the game winning shot to win the Bulls sixth NBA title over the Utah Jazz. He retires after this season, but returns to the NBA in 2003 to play for the Wizards, and retired for good after this season for good. With nothing left to prove on the…

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    Both 'Half-past Two' and 'Hide and Seek' portray the theme of being left alone through the use of language, form, and structure of each of the two poems. In 'Half-past Two', a child is put into detention for doing “Something Very Wrong” until half-past two; he doesn't know how to tell the time. As a result, doesn't know when to leave, he stays there daydreaming until the teacher remembers him, and she sends him away. 'Hide and Seek' is also about a child who is left alone. The poem is a story…

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    Michael Jordan are both NBA legends acknowledged to ever play in the game, but both players hold contrasts and similarities in their basketball career. There are many people who believe LeBron will later be greater than Jordan. Since the age of eighteen, LeBron James is currently still putting in hard work in his legendary career. At the age of thirty, LeBron James has played twelve seasons, won two NBA championships with the Miami Heat, four MVP awards, and has five NBA final appearances.…

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