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    Allen can remember when the power and phone had to be shut off on multiple occasions because his family did not have any money. He even remembers when a broken pipe leaked raw sewage into their rundown apartment complex in Hampton. He has came a long way and worked very hard to become one of the best basketball players of all-time. Allen Ezail Iverson was born on June 7, 1975. His parents Ann Iverson and Allen Broughton were only 15 at the time that they had Allen. His father left shortly after…

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    The Best Piston Player

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    best three player in Pistons franchise history are Isaiah Thomas, Dave Bing, and Joe Dumars. These three player have won awards, made many all-star games, and two of the have won championships. In college Isiah Thomas led the Indiana Hoosiers to a national Championship. Doing this majorly raised his draft stock, and he became the second pick in the 1981 NBA draft by the Pistons, he didn’t want to go to the Pistons at first because how bad they were in the 70’s, but he quickly became “the man”…

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    The Person and the Behaviour: Kobe Bryant is one of the most successful NBA basketball players of all time, playing, his entire 20 year Basketball career for the Los Angeles Lakers. Career highlights for Bryant include but are not subject to 5x NBA Champion,18x NBA All-star, 4x NBA All-star game MVP, and 2x Olympic Gold Medallist. Coaches, teammates, psychologists and even Bryant himself thank his pre-game routine for the successes he has had throughout his career. Bryant was known for arriving…

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    Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born on February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York. His parents are James R. Jordan, Sr and Deloris Jordan. When he was just a toddler he moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, because his parents didn't want him and his siblings to be raised in a bad neighborhood . Jordan has two older brothers, one older sister, and one younger sister. In 1978 Michael tried out for the high school varsity team, there was only 15 spots left and Michael didn’t make it because he was only…

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    NBA Memes is one of the most dramatically and controversy website. This website is about professional basketball league in North America, and considers one of the best professional basketball leagues in the world. The problem with this website involved criticism and discrimination against certain players. It is controversy because it pulls up statistic or humor joke about a player being overrated. Some of the picture they post in these website involved many social media people. People comment…

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    State Handbook. In light of the enormous influence the NRA has on the government and, therefore, on this university, its revealing to watch the associations most recent video commercial advertisement. The NRA concocted this vigorous ad a few weeks ago, however, it was pulled shortly after it was aired for having too candidly expressed the associations policies and goals. To go more in-depth on the ad, it called on all righteous patriots to bring the “clenched fist of freedom” down on the heads…

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    A basketball is a round circular ordinary spear that has nothing extraordinary to it. The average MSHAA Men’s basketball has twenty-nine point five pounds of pressure in it. However, it's what you do with the basketball that makes it extraordinary, which gives ordinary people extraordinary joy. What someone does with a basketball consists of strength, willingness, determination, teamwork, blood, sweat and tears. Since all of these qualities are from the game of basketball, as well as other…

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    Andre's Life Story

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    This is a story about the greatest basketball player of all time. His name is Andre and he was the first basketball player to score fifty points in one game. Throughout this story, this represents a person with the passion to never give up. Even in the toughest of times, Andre pushed through it, and found his way out of stress, by doing what he enjoyed the most. Andre was born on October 14, 1926 in a small neighborhood in New York. Andre’s mom and dad took great care of him until his dad…

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    From being selected first overall in The 2004 NBA Draft, to winning a gold medal at the 2008 Olympics, Dwight Howard has had an amazing 12 year career. He grew up in Atlanta and played at Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy. Dwight Howard is an extremely unique basketball player and a great person to be around. He has had a great career thus far, is considered one of the greatest centers of all time, and will more than likely be a Hall of Fame Inductee. Born December 9, 1985, Dwight Howard II…

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    Famous and strict basketball coach Ken Carter is one of the most respected coaches known in college basketball history. Kenny Ray Carter was born on February 13, 1959, and throughout his life, he was an American business owner, education activist, and former high school basketball coach. Carter attended San Francisco State College and George Fox University. A movie was made to honor his famed basketball coaching career. In the movie "Coach Carter" Samuel L. Jackson instilled maturity, commitment…

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