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    shut off on multiple occasions because his family did not have any money. He even remembers when a broken pipe leaked raw sewage into their rundown apartment complex in Hampton. He has came a long way and worked very hard to become one of the best basketball players of all-time. Allen Ezail Iverson was born on June 7, 1975. His parents Ann Iverson and Allen Broughton were only 15 at the time that they had Allen. His father left shortly after he was born. But another man by the name of Michael…

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    The Best Piston Player

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    He still played top level basketball each year. He has a career average of 20 points per game and won a scoring Championship in his second year in the league. With all of this scoring it led him to 7th all time among point guards in career total scoring. With a lack of a team in the…

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    The Person and the Behaviour: Kobe Bryant is one of the most successful NBA basketball players of all time, playing, his entire 20 year Basketball career for the Los Angeles Lakers. Career highlights for Bryant include but are not subject to 5x NBA Champion,18x NBA All-star, 4x NBA All-star game MVP, and 2x Olympic Gold Medallist. Coaches, teammates, psychologists and even Bryant himself thank his pre-game routine for the successes he has had throughout his career. Bryant was known for arriving…

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    1993 Jordan had found out that his father was killed on the highway because of a fatal gunshot wound. His body was found a couple weeks later in South Carolina swamp, two tennagers were later found guilty with the crime. He decided to retire from basketball to pursue…

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    NBA Memes is one of the most dramatically and controversy website. This website is about professional basketball league in North America, and considers one of the best professional basketball leagues in the world. The problem with this website involved criticism and discrimination against certain players. It is controversy because it pulls up statistic or humor joke about a player being overrated. Some of the picture they post in these website involved many social media people. People comment…

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    Apparently, basketball is not the only thing Michael Jordon does well. For the second year in a row, he has been named to Forbes' "World Billionaires" list. With an estimated net wealth of $1.14 billion, Jordon jumped 200 spots from 2015 to be listed as the 1,577th richest man in the word. While many would want to attribute his wealth to his ownership of the NBA's Charlotte Hornets, the reality is that only $500 millions is derived from his 90% stake in the team. That leaves over a billion…

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    A basketball is a round circular ordinary spear that has nothing extraordinary to it. The average MSHAA Men’s basketball has twenty-nine point five pounds of pressure in it. However, it's what you do with the basketball that makes it extraordinary, which gives ordinary people extraordinary joy. What someone does with a basketball consists of strength, willingness, determination, teamwork, blood, sweat and tears. Since all of these qualities are from the game of basketball, as well as other…

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    Andre's Life Story

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    This is a story about the greatest basketball player of all time. His name is Andre and he was the first basketball player to score fifty points in one game. Throughout this story, this represents a person with the passion to never give up. Even in the toughest of times, Andre pushed through it, and found his way out of stress, by doing what he enjoyed the most. Andre was born on October 14, 1926 in a small neighborhood in New York. Andre’s mom and dad took great care of him until his dad…

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    unique basketball player and a great person to be around. He has had a great career thus far, is considered one of the greatest centers of all time, and will more than likely be a Hall of Fame Inductee. Born December 9, 1985, Dwight Howard II grew up into an incredibly talented family. He was surrounded by great basketball players, including his sister, mother, and father who had all played competitively. His parents played high school basketball, however his sister played college basketball…

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    Famous and strict basketball coach Ken Carter is one of the most respected coaches known in college basketball history. Kenny Ray Carter was born on February 13, 1959, and throughout his life, he was an American business owner, education activist, and former high school basketball coach. Carter attended San Francisco State College and George Fox University. A movie was made to honor his famed basketball coaching career. In the movie "Coach Carter" Samuel L. Jackson instilled maturity, commitment…

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