NBA Development League

Team Loyalty vs A Championship Winning Career: The New Challenge for NBA Players Should I stay or should I go? That’s the question every Hall of Fame worthy star asks himself at some point in his career in the league. Now to be fair,the answer depends largely on the team you were drafted to and the overall potential to win a championship. At the end of the day, professional basketball is a business first and entertainment second, so each team views players as small puzzle pieces; get the right…

The October 30, 1944 cover of TIME magazine depicts a photograph of a stern faced man against a background that includes a closed fist punching an image of Emperor Hirohito of Japan; the caption reads “I Shall Return.” The man is General Douglas MacArthur, who embodies the pure, rugged masculinity that America holds in such high esteem. He’s often quoted for saying, “Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.” The United States has elevated that value of…

solution to defeat the Warriors in a seven game series and now the Cleveland Cavaliers find themselves down in the NBA Finals one game to none with Kyrie Irving out for the rest of series. 1.The Bench The Warriors proved why they are so deadly in game one of the finals. The Warriors are the second team in the history of the NBA, to not have one player on the team's roster with previous NBA Finals experience and it showed in the first quarter. Steph Curry and Klay Thompson started out cold…

good at basketball. After taking the league by storm last season en route to an NBA Championship, the Warriors have begun their title defense by completely rewriting the record books. Stephen Curry has become a one-man glitch in the Matrix, but that's not all the Dubs have to offer. Under Steve Kerr and his coaching staff, including current interim head coach Luke Walton, the Warriors have used their ridiculous assemblage of talent to steamroll the rest of the league. In the process, they've…

After a defeat in the NBA Finals to the Golden State Warriors, the defending Eastern Conference Champions Cleveland Cavilers headed to the off-season with plans to improve the team. What the team got was one of the worst off-seasons by a team that just went to the NBA Finals in recent history. Even though the team is going through a lot of changes, players are starting to get upset with the origination, more importantly, LeBron James. With all that has gone down this offseason in Cleveland,…

The Golden State Warriors are the 2017 NBA Champions! On Monday night, the team brought a 3-1 lead back to Oracle Arena with a bit of doubt creeping in after last year's crushing defeat. However, the team was able to outlast a fired up Cleveland Cavaliers team to grab a 129-120 victory in Game 5. That gave the Golden State Warriors their second NBA Championship within the past three seasons. Here's a look at how the Warriors were able to grab the Larry O'Brien trophy thanks to key performances…

ECON 420 Environment and Development Economists and environmental scientists conflict over the chronic issues of environment and developments. The objectives of economic development/growth often clash with ecological fortification and sustainability goals. Accordingly, scientists have generated a huge research body over the years regarding the cultural, philosophical, economic, political, physical, and social ecological implications of the effects of economic development on the environment.…

countries typically suffer from one or more, what he calls, “development traps” that hinder a country and governments ability to properly develop in unique and specific ways, and the goal of his work is to figure out a way around these traps. One such trap is the Resource Trap. I will examine the scholarship behind the Resource Trap and display how natural resources have the potential to be incredibly beneficial to a nations development or…

profits. The other aspect of modernization theory argues that countries should industrialize as much as possible and move away from agriculture production (IR, 2014). Today, modernization theory focuses on the social elements that help progress the development of societies and aim to explain the process of social evolution. “This theory looks at the internal functions of a society while referring to social and…

One of the UK’s international development programmes for countries like Kenya is to tackle extreme poverty sustainably. High levels of corruption and impunity by our leaders has constrained Kenya’s potential to develop rapidly and bridge the existing economic gap. In 2014, for instance, Transparency International ranked Kenya at number 145 out of 175 on the Corruption Perception Index. The main areas that need urgent reviewing to steer the economy of my country in the right direction are proper…