Basketball Association of America

Great Earvin Johnson, better known as “Magic Johnson” was a star basketball player who has admitted to having sex with 300-500 different women. Because of this, Magic contracted HIV. Magic is also still the all-time NBA leader in assists in the post-season with an outstanding 2,346 assists. Magic Johnson has benefitted modern society by making the NBA more popular with fans and inspiring many African Americans to play in the basketball in the NBA, raising awareness, money, and knowledge…

originally from a different community. I am originally from Mali in West Africa I lived there until my age of sixteen and I when to Senegal for two years, and I am living here in United States for two years now where I am a student-athlete that plays basketball. I have had many different roles in all those places that I have lived. My roles have also continued to change the older I have gotten. Starting with my country Mali, when I was there I did not had many roles in my community because one I…

Ball was imagined in December 1891 by the Canadian pastor, instructor, and Doctor James Naismith. Naismith presented the amusement when we were a teacher at the Young Men 's Christian Association Training School (now Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts. At the solicitation of his prevalent, Dr. Luther H. Gulick, he sorted out an incredible amusement suitable for indoor winter play. The diversion included components of American football, soccer, and hockey, and the principal ball…

The salary cap in sports is nothing new. Its origin in basketball can be traced back to the league's $55,000 salary cap for the league's first season, 1946-47. Most players earned between $4,000 and $5,000, but there were a few exceptions. Tom King of the Detroit Falcons for example. He drew the league's highest salary, $16,500, not solely because of his playing ability, but also due to his front office duties as the team's publicity director and business manager. Philadelphia's star scorer, Joe…

Sheboygan Lutheran to their first Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association state title. In the title game, Dekker scored 40 points, including the three-point shot that won the game with 2 seconds left. After his senior year, he was named the Wisconsin Gatorade Player of the Year, the 2012 Parade All-American, the Associated Press All-State first team, and the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches’ Association’s Mr. Basketball Award. Overall, he held high recruiting rankings as he received…

profit. Professional sports are a part of this as well as big time collegiate athletes and dominant division 1 college programs that have begun to multiply with regard to generation of yearly revenue and profit. Both college football and college basketball have made the greatest advancements over the past twenty to fifty years in terms of revenue and profit. This is mainly due to television contracts and popularity among the general public with attending games and purchasing merchandise. The…

The great LeBron James is known as one of the greatest basketball players not only in the United States, but in the world. Through out his life he has accomplished many things in the sport of basketball, as well as influenced many peoples lives in what he does for communities all over the United States. In the world of Popular Culture, I see LeBron James as the hegemony of The National Basketball Association (NBA). Hegemony is the leadership or predominant influence of one group over another.…

The Great Wall What makes a player earn the nickname “The Great Wall”. Yao Ming is a basketball player from China who played for the Houston Rockets, reaches 7’6” tall, dominated the NBA during his short eight season career, and was named “The Great Wall” because of his size and his talent. Finally having a promising Asian player in the NBA, a lot of Asians, and especially Chinese people hopped onto the bandwagon and supported him. So even though Yao had to move to a new country where he…

well the organization is. Additionally, I would love to eventually work for an NBA organization in basketball operations, and I feel I am learning a great deal from my internship. a. Brett Greenberg: I chose Brett because I have worked closely with him in my time interning for the Wizards. I have already developed a strong relationship with him, and he has a very important position within the basketball operations department. Hopefully, I will be able to learn more from him. 2. Octagon: I am…

However, he is a senior instead of a junior. He is the best basketball player at his school and the National Basketball Association (NBA) scouts has been tracking his progress for two years. He is very popular at school, but also even with his popularity he is humble. He focuses a lot of his grades and bettering his basketball performance. He is aware that he is talented and intelligent, but he is also aware that there are people not as fortunate…