Kobe Bryant

Michael Jordan: The Greatest Basketball Player Ever In most professions there is always the question of who is the best at what they do, from Bill Gates all the way to Paul McCartney. But when it comes to basketball, the answer is clear. Michael Jordan because of what he did for the game of basketball. Some have said Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlin, Bill Russell, or Magic Johnson. Michael Jordan however completely changed basketball for the better, his desire to win, his talent and his…

on the team you take the last shot always, people with this logic are dumb because sometimes you just got to make the right play. Was Michael Jordan clutch yes but did he always make the right play or did he take circus shot’s a lot of the time? Kobe Bryant did he make the right play ever, I didn’t think so he would jack up shots with three defenders on him and that’s why nobody would want to play on his team for more than they had to. Another reason I like LeBron is the energy he brings to the…

coach and winning 13 NBA championships (6 championships with the Bulls) as a coach. He also played in the NBA so he had experience as a player so he knows what the players are going through. He also coached other legends like Shaquille O’neal and Kobe Bryant. Since I think the 95-96 Chicago Bulls were the best NBA team ever, we can see that they are because they had the greatest player of all time (G.O.A.T.), they had the toughest team at that time, and they had a successful…

decorated excellence the Lakers had in the league behind the heroics of Kobe Bryant, and the huge shoulders of Shaquille O’Neal. For me, my favorite playoff moment happened in 2007 when LeBron James scored 29 of the Cavilers last 30 points against the Pistons. This year the push to the playoffs isn’t that much different from years before.…

Every time Kobe Bryant puts the ball through the net, he earns the equivalent to the average teacher’s yearly salary. Tom Brady makes over $26 million after every sixteen games his Patriots play. Alex Rodriguez still makes millions even after he got caught using steroids. How can one person make millions of dollars while there are many people who are homeless and starving? Yes, Professional athletes are tremendous at what the do, but do they really need that amount of money? Professional…

every day but they can help me meal prep. My parents cooked grilled chicken, vegetables and brown rice and put it into 5 containers. I started eating clean for 2 months but the weight only went down by five pounds but I still could not fit into my Kobe jersey. I went to my coach again and this time I told him I was following the diet but still not in shape. He asked me what do I drink and I told him my parents buy a lot of pop because my siblings loved it. My coach started laughing because I…

The one-and-done rule is not benefiting college players or college basketball. When you turn 18 years old you can do tons of things such as voting, serving in the military and going to work so why should you not be able to play in the NBA. The one-and-done rule is just something that needs to be gotten rid of. There have been many players in the NBA that came out of high school to go into the draft and were very dominant in the NBA. Lebron James is a great example of somebody who was able to…

The piece of art that I chose to write about was, Basketball Superstars by Leroy Neiman, painted from November eleventh to December seventh. This painting was featured in the Hastings Gallery. In this painting I see a lot of the all time greatest basketball players. I see eleven time NBA Champion Bill Russell, the only player to ever score one hundred points in a game, Wilt Chamberlain. I also see Willis Reed, who I think is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Julius Erving also known as Dr. J, and Oscar…

PSYC 3137 Flow The aspect of positive psychology that applies to my daily life is flow. Alan Carr defines flow as “a subjective state that people report when they become engaged in controllable but challenging tasks or activities that require considerable skill and that are intrinsically motivating, such as competitive sailing, creative writing, or having a stimulating conversation” (Carr, 2011). Flow is something that comes from within whether it has to do with motivation or just simply the…

Introduction The question of the research project is “Does an NBA player’s social media behaviour influence people’s opinions?” This question refers to NBA players posting on social media and how it influences fans, other NBA players, the public or the world’s opinion about them as individual NBA players. Finding the information for this question was not easy, but it was manageable. Majority of the information found for the research topic was by researching on popular sports websites (Bleacher…