National Basketball Association

Mistakes are Okay Basketball is a place in my life where I have naturally made mistakes. In a fast paced game where decisions are made in split seconds, even the biggest superstars in the world like Michael Jordan make mistakes. I have made plenty, and mistakes can be absorbed two ways. You can either accept the mistake and move on, or dwell about it and harm yourself. The most important part about being wrong is learning from it. Fixing mistakes can improve yourself as a person. This idea seems…

A 14 time All Star, 6 time NBA Champion, a Hall of Famer, and much more, all of these successes from one amazing basketball player, one as good may never appear in the NBA again. Many immediately think of Michael Jordan, and have asked how Jordan was so good. In the chapter “The Matthew Effect”, Malcolm Gladwell argues how it is not only skill that results in being successful, but that it is the time when you were born, saying that being born in the first six months of the year gives more time…

Literary Essay Draft Many successful people throughout years have been influenced by others. For example many current NBA players have been influenced by Michael Jordan. Now there are also other ways people can influence you, for example people that help you make better decisions. Or others who teach you lessons. In the short story “Thank You, M’am” by Langston Hughes, and the song “ No Role Modelz” by J. Cole both narrators express the theme: having someone in your life can influence you for…

There are many different beliefs towards what brings us to success. In The Sports Gene by David Epstein, it is explained that innate and physical talents are what allow people to succeed. In Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell explains that effort and practice is what brings us to the top. Epstein and Gladwell both put forth arguments about how much in our lives we control, however, based on evidence Gladwell definitely shows that effort and practice is what we control to make us…

were working on building a basketball. My dad was nice and decided to do it a day after we bought the parts for the basketball. We bought the basketball because it was my sister’s birthday and she wanted a basketball really badly, but she wasn’t the only one. I was extremely excited too, because that meant that I don’t have to go to parks all the time just to play basketball for fifteen minutes. After about an hour of hard work I took a minute to look at the basketball and I thought “This looks…

Does different types of shoes matter in basketball? The answer to that question is yes, because there are different types of shoes that can help certain players. There are high top and low top shoes that players use. The players usually choose the type of shoes that they use, depending on how they play. Nike is one of the top basketball shoe brands in the game. The Nike Hyper Dunks are one of the most used shoe in basketball. Evaluating the Nike Hyper Dunks based on materials, traction, price,…

Hip hop artist and basketball players are both performers, who have a rich connection and similar persona, showcasing style, swagger, urbanism, bravado, and coolness. This rich bond was established in 1979; from 1984 to 2009, a new era was conceived, known as “The Dunkadelic Era.” In 1979, the first mainstream explicit connection between hip-hop and basketball was established. The Sugarhill Gang’s hit song “Rapper’s Delight,” which is commonly referred to as the first mainstream hip-hop song,…

Best Western Center where all of the competitors will meet to have dinner. When we walked in, one of the workers kindly greeted us and gave Elijah and I a green t-shirt and a duffle bag that read ‘Hoop Shoot State Finals 2009’ with a big orange basketball in the middle. We then walked inside a huge noisy ballroom that smelled like burnt food. It contained about 30 tables and chairs filled with adults and children. When I glanced to the table to my right there was a group of girls who looked my…

and his motivation for it. Jordan’s family was economically unstable, which only fueled Michael Jordan in his path to becoming a professional basketball player. He sought out to provide for his family and care for them in a way that would bring his family together and be financially stable, and so he did. Not only was Michael Jordan a professional basketball player, but he was also a businessman. Michael Jordan had endorsement deals with some of the biggest brands in the world including Nike,…

Portland Trail Blazers finally got the spell to snap their three-game losing skid in the expense of the visiting Washington Wizards with a 116-109 overtime victory at the Moda Center on Tuesday evening. Damian Lillard led the Trail Blazers with a double-double game-high performance of 41 big points and 11 assists to go along with 5 rebounds and 1 steal in 43:38 minutes of playing time. "Coming off three losses in a row, this was a must-have," Lillard, who went 12 for 25 from the field and…