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Prior to this assignment, I believed that I knew a fair deal of information about Yao Ming’s past, being the basketball fan that I am. It was my assumption that he was randomly blessed with extraordinary height and happened to play very well overseas, leading to him being drafted into the NBA. However, Yao’s rise to superstardom is nowhere near as natural as I thought. Brook Larmer’s 2005 biographical exposé, Operation Yao Ming: The Chinese Sports Empire, American Big Business, and the Making of…

Designing basketball practices are not always an easy task to accomplish, but getting the most out of them is essential for everyone, especially the players. There are many different ways to utilize practice time, and I think that practice variability is one of the best tools to use when designing practice activities. Basketball coaches who use practice variability in their activities will lead to an overall better performance and outperform those experiencing low levels of variability. To…

At this time David was only 12, he was the star of his middle school basketball team, and he was leading them to championships. When he hit high school his father got his job back and his mother stopped her affair business, she was tired of it and her family supported her for her decisions. Why are they famous or relevant?: David Thompson is debated as the greatest basketball player to ever play in the Acc. He won National championships, and he was drafted as the first overall pick in the…

I chose the poem “Fast Break” because it is about basketball and i play it and think it is a great sport. This poem is a narrative which means that it tells a story in which this poem does tell a story. The poem includes many modern words and includes anaphora . Anaphora is when there is a repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a line. “Fast Break” starts off with “and” in many lines which can be counted as anaphora. “Fast Break” by Edward Hirsch, includes a couple of similes…

Playing basketball in the wrong shoes is a serious deal!! Excited as I can be ready to shoot a 3 my team came out strong our score was 15-3, before the game I was told that I didn't have on the right shoes, but I didn't listen I just did me I guess it was just the excitement of our team being the best in the state. The night at the hotel after playing Florida AAU I felt a little pain in my leg, but I thought it was just nothing shook my leg because I thought it was just a cramp but it ached as…

Hello I am John Schlich from Gold Town Strength and today we are going to help this athlete named Stephan from the University of North Georgia Nighthawks. Now, Stephan is a college basketball player and plays point guard. Point Guards are responsible for making offensive plays by distributing the ball so that team mates are set up to take a good shot. Defensively the main role of the point guard is to disrupt passing lanes and act as the primary defender against fast break maneuvers. In order to…

As many gamblers from the 1970s, 80s and 90s were quick to learn, players like Moses Malone can have a profound effect on the outcome of free bets or real money wagers. September 13, 2015 will forever be remember as a sad day for NBA fans, owners, coaches and players after hearing the announcement regarding the sudden passing of NBA great Moses Malone at the age of 60 from apparent heart complications. Malone will forever be remember by his now famous moniker "Chairman of the Board", a title he…

a definitive playoff victory to hush all whispers of him not being a winner. Does this team have what takes? DeAndre Jordan struggles to hit free throws and the half court offense has been in question when it counts. Also, to beat a team on the basketball court, you have to outscore them. I don’t know if the Clippers have the defensive keys to keep the Warriors at bay for victory. Everytime I watch this matchup, it seems as if the Clippers are playing their absolute hardest and the Warriors are…

Is Michael Jordan the man that changed the game of basketball forever? Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born on February 17,1963 in Brooklyn, NY. When Michael was 7 years old his family moved to Wilmington, NC. As a kid Michael played all sports, and he was a very talented baseball player. Michael would often cut from his classes to practice basketball or would get into altercations with other students. When Michael was a sophomore in high school he tried out for the varsity team and was cut. Michael…

would not allow himself to celebrate until the final buzzer sounded. “So far, three of the five games I’ve coached against them have come down the last five seconds,” Hoyt said. “When we were up by one, with 14 seconds left, I was praying to the basketball…