American Basketball Association

The average salary of a professional NBA player is about 5.15 million dollars. When one takes this massive amount of dough and compares it to the average salary of a middle class citizen, which ranges from 42,000 dollars to 125,000 dollars, one would notice that the NBA player makes substantially more than the average citizen. Professional athletes should have smaller salaries because jobs that save lives get payed way less, ---, and the money they are getting could be used to help the community…

American professional basketball player Derrick Rose was the most electrifying player in the league. In 2008, Rose was the number one draft pick for his hometown Chicago and played for the bulls. Also he won many awards and won the rookie of the year in his first season playing professionally. Within his third season in 2010, he led the bulls with sixty-two wins and becoming the youngest MVP in the NBA history, he is currently the youngest who won the award at the age twenty-two. After making it…

some young basketball players that…

Kobe Bryant has done more for the game of basketball in his 20 year NBA career than any of his predecessors. Kobe changed the game and became an icon across the country as everyone was in awe of his work ethic, knowledge, and pure talent. He gave the youth of America a model of what it means to be a great person. Even after 5 NBA Championships, 18x All-Star, 2x All-Star MVP, 2x Finals MVP, NBA MVP, and even an Oscar, he never let himself slip away from who he truly is. A husband, a father, a…

Those included poverty as a child, and injuries as a professional basketball player. But nothing could compare to this, it ended what his life was based on. He had been diagnosed with HIV, a disease for AIDS according to Biography.com. It would end his career even though he attempted a comeback later and failed. He was devastated…

performed. It is very clear and easy to understand, smoothly written for the duration of the article. I would recommend this article to whoever is trying to learn more in depth about sports marketing and the impact it can have. Over the years, sports associations have been constantly trying to find new ways of increasing the amount of viewers and keeping the ratings up. This article makes clear depiction of how marketing in sports has modernized, how they use Neuromarketing,…

The (3-16) Los Angeles Lakers are in the D, set to battle, the (11-9) Detroit Pistons at The Palace of Auburn Hills. The purple and gold, had their moments against the Hawks, both good and bad, put on a fourth quarter push only to fall short, 100-87, for their 16th loss of the season. The game provided some positives; the Lakers out-rebounded the Hawks, had four players score in double-digits and an aggressive D’Angelo Russell posted his first career double-double with 16 points, 10 rebounds…

Today Michael Jordan is known as one the greatest basketball players to ever play the game. When he first started playing the game it wasn’t as easy as you think it would be. When he first tried out for the high school basketball team he was cut. Jordan’s sophomore year he was only 5’8 but eventually grew to 6’3 before his junior year. After high school the all American went on to play at the University of North Carolina. As a freshman in college he played in the shadows of other players until…

Without him the Clippers would still be in basketball mediocrity. G- Randy Smith: 1971-1979, 1983 Randy Smith spent eight and half of his 12 seasons as a member of the Clippers/Braves franchise. The prime of his career came as a member of the Braves/Clippers, making both of his All-Star appearances…

throughout games to see all of the talent. Two other basketball fanatics accompanied me, Dylan and Uriah. Looking at the schedule, we all piled onto the Mavericks and Pelicans game to be most interesting for the two o’clock slot. Piling into the bleachers, we were in awe, as professional basketball players scrimmaged only…