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As a matter of fact, Muggsy was before a homeless person, who stopped growing way soon and made history of being the shortest player in the NBA. Not to mention, he still holds the record for the shortest NBA player at 5 feet and 3 inches but his size didn’t matter. He started from the Baltimore projects to the NBA as a point guard with a 14-year career, scoring more than 6,800 points. Bogues was born on January 9, 1965, in Baltimore, Maryland. His mother raised him since his father went to…

Paul George Paul George once said “If you ain”t got a mindset to win. If you’re happy being second I can’t deal with you.” Through out Paul Georges career he has faced many challenges and obstacles to get were he’s at now. Like most professional athletes Paul Georges mindset was to win and be the best at what he does. But those dreams were put on hold when he had one of the most gruesome leg injuries in the NBA. Paul George was born May 2 1990 in the city of Palmdale California to Paul George…

at Southwestern High school playing in a life-changing basketball tournament. My teammates Cooper, Carson, Blair, and Clay were extremely exhausted after the first two games of the day. We had won all our games so far, but now we have to play the number one team in Kentucky this was fifty five and one. They had allstars on their team the absolute best at every position. For example their center was an all american football player that played on a team that was sponsored by NIke. He was about six…

Charles Barkley’s hands wrapped around my shoulders. My head barely went to his armpit. The 6’6”, 250 pounder, NBA legend towered over me. We were located in the hotel lobby in Birmingham, Alabama, I was there to compete in the National Speech and Debate Tournament, he was there for fun. “That’s a good skill to have,” he said. “ To be able to communicate effectively and debate.” Is it? I have come to the conclusion, as I have contemplated this one simple question the past year , that the single…

When first asked about the interaction between leader characteristics, follower characteristics and situational factors, I immediately thought about the popular movie drumline. This movie involved a character that is a drummer(Devon) a leader of the drumline(Sean) and the band director (Dr. Lee). The drummer is very talented and is given a full ride scholarship to college as a result. The band director is “old school” and set in his ways, and has a good follower in the leader of his drumline,…

Jason talks about winning his own ESPY, he states, “Winning an ESPY wasn’t as cool as winning the sectionals, Jason allowed after the moment had sunk in, but it was pretty cool” (227). Jason cherishes winning sectionals with his team over being on national television accepting an ESPY, not many other kids would probably say that. In that moment, Jason stays loyal to his team and does not care about anything other than winning sectionals, which shows he is humble. Through reading the…

Have you ever been torn between something you love and something that you are good at? This past week, I have been able to finish reading John L. Parker’s novel Racing the Rain. In this novel, Quenton is a high school age boy that is growing up in Florida. He has a very difficult choice to make between his love for basketball and running track. He also has a friend, Trapper Nelson, that many people do not trust because of an incident that he was not is not his fault. Because of Quenton’s many…

That was embarrassing I love the game of basketball, even when I score in the other team’s basket. In my defense, I was only six years old and it was my first time being on a basketball team. Me and my older brother Houston were on the same team, and at the time we were losing by seven or eight points and there was hardly any time left in the game, maybe a second or two. I was always the smallest kid on the court so I played point guard, which meant that I was the one that would receive the…

William G. Morgan created the game of volleyball, originally called “mintonette”, in 1859. Four years earlier, one of his friends invented the game of basketball. However, Morgan saw the need for a game that did not require a fast pace as basketball did. He wanted a game that the average person would be able to enjoy. The game he created was a combination of baseball, basketball, tennis and handball. The first to play volleyball was a group of workers from the Holyoke, Massachusetts YMCA. They…

The Mindset of Kobe Bryant and how he became filthy rich! You may know Kobe Bryant as the legendary point guard for the Lakers, or maybe you call him the best basketball players of all time, Kobe Bryant bust his butt to get to where he is so let me explain to you Kobe Bryant Mindset and how he built up a net worth of 365 Million. Kobe Bryant, named after a Japanese steak, started playing basketball when he was only 3 years old. His dad Joe (JELLYBEAN) Bryant, was a professional basketball player…