NBA Draft

Coast would have epic journeys half way around the world (“NBA Players Cautious Over European Expansion”). Jet lag, loss of sleep, and other factors could affect quality of play, as well as create reluctance amongst players to cross the Atlantic Ocean to play in Europe. Determining an effective schedule and analyzing travel discrepancies will be a major issue with the implementation of the NBA in Europe. Under the current structure of the NBA, there is often times when teams play a road game…

Phil Tollestrup (born October 21, 1949)[1] is a former Olympic basketball player as a member of the Canadian national men's basketball team during the 1970s. Six feet, six inches tall forward, Tollestrup attributes the development of his basketball ability to his being able to practice on a daily basis both at his school gym, where his father was janitor, and at the local cultural centre, which has an open gym.[2] The native of Raymond, Alberta was later a member of his local basketball team…

organization. Additionally, the owner of the organization, Ted Leonsis, prides himself on being innovative in the field. As a result, the company constantly tries to apply technological advances to organization. For example, the Wizards are one of a couple NBA organizations that use virtual…

about women. The first being just a picture of Lexi Thompson, a professional golfer because of the incident when she miss marked her ball and it was called in by a viewer and reviewed. The second one surprised me a first because it was about the WNBA draft because I have never seen an article about it, but it was just portraits of the women. Lastly there were two Sports Illustrated swimsuit model articles. This showed exactly what society thinks of women’s sports, which is basically just that…

Gender Discrimination Still Exists Discrimination is not something many people talk about, because people believe that it is gone. Gender discrimination is still very prevalent though. In professional and collegiate sports, the difference in opportunities and pay is a major gap. Title IX tried to fix some of the gender pay gaps, but has been proven unsuccessful. The difference in pay is staggering, but male and female athletes still face the same challenges and achieve the same glory. When it…

fight against stereotypical views of society. An example would be the heroic tale of Jackie Robinson, and his fight which broke through the racial barrier that allowed many African-American to emerge as household names in the big leagues such as the NBA and the NFL. Although times may have changed since the years of Jackie Robinson as the major leagues now sign players from all over the world, ethic issues that still continues to discomfort the lives of many athletes. Many athletes are still…

decision to retire from basketball and pursue baseball. He went and played for a minor team league called the Birmingham Barons as an outfielder. Jordan wasn’t finished with basketball, the following year he came back. It was a loud entire back into the NBA. In the next year, he rejoined the Bulls and helped them win their fourth Championship of that decade. The Seattle Sonics were no match for Michael and the Bulls. If four championships weren’t astonishing enough, then a fifth and sixth would…

After three years he was traded to the Orlando Magic. He played there for four years where, he was not averaging anything under 25 points per game. While playing for them he has won All- NBA Team twice. He also won most improved player. He decided to trade to the Houston Rockets due to the lack of help on the team. He was playing aside of Yao Ming who could not stay out of injury problems. So that forced Tracy to play harder. December…

James got into basketball and kept working on improving and honing his skills to become the greatest. With the help of his ability and motivation for basketball he became the number one high school player in the nation, first overall NBA draft pick, and a three time NBA…

First draft: Rosenblatt Summary and Response In “We Are Free to Be You, Me, Stupid, and Dead” Roger Rosenblatt discusses the views of freedom of speech. He uses examples to show different people’s views on freedom of speech. He also adds his own opinion throughout the article. I may or may not agree on some of the views. Do some people have limits on their own freedom of speech? People think they know how much freedom they can tolerate. How far will someone go using their “freedom”? Rosenblatt…