Michael Jordan

It was a cold day in Fort Lee, and I was at the Jack Alter Community Center getting ready to play basketball. My team, the Hurricanes, was versing one of the best teams in the league. It was the fourth quarter and I was tired. We were down by five points with only 30 seconds left on the clock. “Boo!” The crowd was yelling at the referee in disappointment. I was fouled hard and went to the free throw line to shoot. By making both free throws, I put the game within two points. The other team…

Attention Discussion - Project Group 2 For this week’s discussion the article that stud out to me was Mind Games. The article was about Stanley Johnson a forward from the Detroit Pistons basketball team. One of the examples regarding stimulus was how at the end of last season he sat down with his coach and talked about his goals and the team goals for next season. From talking to the coach Stanley realized how much work the coach put into each season and what he needed to do to improve his…

Flash back to 2010: A world in which Twitter was just hitting the mainstream audience, nobody knew what a “Snap Chat” was, and fans of the Knicks, Nets, Clippers, Cavaliers, Warriors, Rockets, Heat, and Lakers hoped to land LeBron James. Fast forward to today: Twitter is at its apex, Snap Chat couldn’t be more successful, and give a take a team or two and those same teams are coveting the second most impactful free agent of all time, Kevin Durant. According to multiple reports, Durant has…

The article titled Athletic Scholarships discusses the beginning of volleyball and how it was originally referred to as mintonette. Volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G Morgan in Holyoke, Massachusetts. William Morgan was a graduate of Springfield College of YMCA (n.d). In another article called History of Volleyball it mentions that Morgan was trying to invent something that was less strenuous than basketball for older people, so they could exercise without overdoing it (n.d). Morgan…

Lebron’s rookie season he averaged 20.9 points, 5.5 rebounds, 5.9 assists, 1.6 steals and 0.7 blocks per game. He has become the first rookie since Jordan to average at least 20.0 points, 5.0 rebounds and 5.0 assists per game. Lebron was rookie of the year in 2004 and Lebron just keeps getting better every season his average gets better and better and he becomes a better player every year and he is…

During the 1970's a group of skaters called the Z-boys created a punk style that still exists today. The skaters were part of a skate team called The Jeff Ho Zephyr team that's where they got the name Z-boys. The start of Z-boys was in 1973 when Jeff Ho opened his surf shop in Venice beach California. The first Z-boy was Nathan Pratt when he was 14 years old. He was hired to work as a surfboard maker and the founder of the Z-boys. By 1974 the Z-boys had 5 members Allen Sarlo, Jay Adams, Tony…

Conclusion The hypothesis was that extreme temperatures would affect the bounce height of a basketball. This hypothesis was accepted. The average bounce height for the regular basketball was seventy three and 3 tenths repeating. Sixty two and six tenths repeating was the average for the frozen basketball. The average was eighty-three and three tenths repeated for the heated basketball. We believe that these results are present because air molecules will expand in warmer temperatures and they…

Over the past 100 years, basketball has evolved significantly. Many things have developed within the game of basketball for the better. Basketball went from the original 13 rules to over 100 today, but its foundation still remains the same. Things that have changed to make the game more intriguing is the scoring, the way things are timed, and the diversity the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) have in today. In the late 1800s and early…

Being the new kid at school is an experience many can relate to. It is extremely difficult to find your way in a crowd of people who have already found their own. So in my first year at school I was searching for a way to fit or get more connected with my new community. The way I found was not a path anyone else would have chosen for me nor was it one that many would completely understand. Basketball was what brought me closer to my school and helped me get involved my first year at Calhoun…

Humankind Nick Cassavetes was set to become a great basketball player but that career ended with an injury. Yet, he figures out that the talent his father has is in him as well.iLife does not always go the way people would want it to. Life is like a rollercoaster. It is has its ups and downs. Enjoy the good times while they last. Fight through the hard times, and learn from the mistakes so that they are not repeated in the future. There is a reason for everything in life. Actor, director, and…