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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…

Sports Psychology Article Critique The article “How Should “Hot” Players in Basketball be Defended? The Use of Fast-and-Frugal Heuristics by Basketball Coaches and Players in Response to Streakiness”, by Peter Csapo, Simcha Avugos, Markus Raab, and Michael Bar-Eli seeks to explain how to cut down an offensive player’s scoring if they get a “hot hand”, or score consecutive baskets in a row in during the course of a basketball game. The fast and frugal heuristic helps someone create and keep the…

playing the sport of basketball. I also wanted to dig deeper as to why he chose to go to the NBA instead of pursing the chance he was given to play in the MLB. John Hegwood was my former AAU basketball coach and one of the greatest mentors in my city. A former recipient for Calgary’s 2009 Citizen of the Year Award. An award given to someone who has spent countless amounts of hours giving back to the community. Aside from being a mentor he’s one of the greatest AAU basketball coaches on Canada’s…

At one point the guy sitting behind me tapped me and Jordan on the back and said “Damn can you believe we are watching this live”. The interesting thing about important basketball games is your stars don’t win you those games, the supporting cast does. With 2:12 left in the fourth quarter, Matt Barnes hits a three-pointer to tie the game at 105-105, Jordan hugged some lady she never met before in her life and the woman kissed…

who the better shooting guard is, Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant. With this article the author doesn’t use straight statistics to determine who the better player is. He creates a total of fourteen categories. These categories are all aspects of the basketball game but aren’t measured by stats more like character. The goal of this essay is to give the reader a view of both players outside of complete statistics. However Ethan S does point out some statistics in specific areas. The author states…