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LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Tonight, Kobe Bryant, the black mamba, bids farewell to the NBA. Thousands of fans will fill the Staples Center to bear witness to Kobe Bryant’s last game. Applauded as the greatest player of his generation Kobe’s record grants him the title Legend. His career has been one for the books and his accomplishments overwhelming. At just 17, the Charlotte Hornets drafted Bryant at the 1996 NBA draft when he joined the league right out of high school. He was traded to the Lakers…

Detroit Pistons routed the visiting Portland Trail Blazer with a 123-103 victory at the Palace of Auburn Hills to hand the visiting team their third straight loss in a row on Sunday evening. Starting guard Reggie Jackson scored a game-high 30 points and an assists short to finished the game with a double-double to lead the Pistons to their 32nd win in 63 games played this season. "I think we played the way we wanted to play tonight," Jackson, who went 11 for 19 from the field and made a perfect…

The funniest incident in the film is his recreation of Carnesecca’s ugly sweater before “The Sweater Game” in 1985. But that means that the years that followed, and especially the years after Gavitt left as commissioner to join the Boston Celtics’ front office, don’t get as much time. This is arguably the most important segment of the documentary, because it picks apart the business end of a college athletic conference at the point when basketball dominance and multimillion-dollar…

Michael Jordan Michael Jordan wasn’t only an inspiration on the court, he was very courageous and very friendly off the court. Jordan is seen as a hero across the globe.Resources say “He was considered the most recognizable athlete in the world at the time.” MJ is especially an athletic icon to African-Americans and their culture. Many kids, and even adults look up to him for his perseverance and success. In his Sophomore year of high school, he got cut from the team. Michael Jordan didn’t let…

Albert was known for killing 13 women by strangling them In Boston in the 1960s (Biography 2016). This case is related to the developmental theory case, because Alberta was a sociopath, and this relates to a person cognitive development (Biography 2016). Albert being labeled as a sociopath was more than likely an…

The two authors in the book spend an entire chapter attempting to debunk the four most conventional theories that people assumed for ages have played the biggest factor in creating the mystique of home-field advantage. By looking at individual settings over the course of a game that pit players up against the home crowd, such as free throws in the NBA or penalty shots in hockey, the statistics concluded that the crowd did not make it that much harder for players to cash in on their opportunities…

finished the season 38–44, and lost in the first round of the playoffs in four games to the Milwaukee Bucks. the Bulls made the playoffs. Jordan recovered in time to participate in the playoffs and performed well upon his return. Against a 1985–86 Boston Celtics team that is often considered one of the greatest in NBA history, Jordan set the still-unbroken record for points in a playoff game with 63 in Game 2. The Celtics, however, managed to sweep the series. Despite Jordan's success, Magic…

The Charlotte Hornet stormed a heavy fourth quarter charge to crush the visiting Houston Rockets with a 125-109 victory at the Time Warner Cable Arena on Saturday night. Kemba Walker led the Hornets by scoring 17 of his 26 points in the second half of the game to claim the team’s seventh straight victory and registered Charlotte’s 37th win in 65 games played this season. Marvin Williams scored 25 points while shooting 9 of 16 from the field and with a perfect 4 for 4 from the free throw line.…

Have you ever thought who the best NBA player is? Well I think I can help you out right now. James Harden is the best basketball player in the NBA because he is the leading MVP candidate, his stats are very good, and he is a leader. James Harden has been a top MVP candidate this year even though Russell Westbrook has been putting up record breaking numbers. James Harden still is battling for the MVP award. To be able to even do what he has been doing to be a Top two MVP candidate, he had to…

As a child, I would often dress up as my mom. I would take her clothes out the closet and pretend to make dinner for my dolls and care for them like she cared for me. Mead would describe this as my play stage because by imitating adult behavior and roles (Ritzer, 2011, p. 432). In the process of pretending to play mommy, I was able to develop the ability to evaluate myself as a parent and other individuals (Ritzer, 2011, p. 432). When I started to attend school, there was a lot of pressure…