NBA Draft

In “Let's Draft Our Kids,” Thomas Rick’s purposes that a “draft” would be a good idea. This draft that he speaks about consists of four different options. The choice would be made after high school. These options are, one: getting drafted for eighteen months. This means low pay, but you would be eligible to many great postservice benefits including free college tuition. Second, you could choose civilian military work. Third, government work. This is just like an office job. Lastly, you could…

Add these fantasy football sleepers to your team right now (-- removed HTML --) We’re heading into week seven for football; how is your fantasy football team faring? Do you need to pick up some new players to give your team a little bit more of an edge? Add these fantasy football sleepers to your team right now to give your team a better fighting chance. Elijah McGuire Elijah McGuire is a running back for the New York Jets. He’s a rookie looking to make his mark this season. In the…

Is Michael Jordan the greatest of all time National Basketball Association player? Michael Jordan is a famous African-American Basketball player who played for the Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards. Jordan played fifteen seasons in the NBA. Michael Jordan received many trophies while playing in the game of basketball. Currently Jordan is the owner of the Charlotte Hornets. Jordan was very competitive at a young age. He always wanted to win every game that he is in. Michael Jeffrey Jordan…

look through the dusty sack, he saw a magazine article that featured his grandfather. Myles noticed that his grandfather looked older in this picture. The caption read: “Earl Lloyd continued to make history by becoming the first African American NBA assistant coach in 1969-1970 for the Detroit Pistons. In the following season, Lloyd became the 2nd African American Head coach, only preceded by Bill Russell. Myles finally finished cleaning the basement and he returned upstairs. While passing…

while waisting away on the Brooklyn Nets bench. There is plenty of frustration and blame that gets thrown around when a team struggles and the 2016-17 Brooklyn Nets are a tormented group. Saddled with the worst record in the NBA and no immediate future first round draft picks the Nets need more than a streaky injury prone point guard. Jeremy Lin signing a multi year deal with the Brooklyn Nets this past off season would have made sense if the team had hopes of contending. Lin would serve…

Despite wrapping up the most successful regular season in franchise history, there is a general sense around the league that the Toronto Raptors have accomplished nothing. 21 seasons of (mostly) underachievement doesn’t help. 1 playoff series win and 7 playoff series losses don’t help. Zero best-of-seven playoff series wins definitely won’t help. Consecutive playoff series losses as the higher seed……well, you get the picture! Are you still reading? Because that’s all the negativity you’re…

Immediately following the 2003 season, Kobe pushed his team to the playoffs two out of the next 3 years (Kobe at 30-- 4). Also, only 2 years after the misfortune, Kobe led the entire NBA in scoring for two straight seasons, and just a year following that he won his first league-wide MVP award (“Bryant, Kobe” 1). In the realm of endorsements he managed to restore his once-broken relationships with major companies like Nike and McDonalds…

Vietcong”, a personal sentiment that was a far more reasonable and practical ideal when compared to those who avoided service out of rebellion against the system, or simply to avoid the horrors of war. On June 20th, he was convicted of evading the draft and sentenced to five years in prison, a $10,000 fine and three year ban from professional boxing. Though he was convicted at trial, he ultimately avoided serving time in prison after appeal. Wasting no time in showing the world that his legal…

When the word “war” is brought up amongst a group, people in society tend to interpret t it differently from one another. As defined by Merriam-Webster, war is “a state or period of fighting between countries or groups”. Though this may be the dictionary definition, the word war may resonate and mean something different depending on the individual. For some, the word could be thought of as a way to gain or keep peace, for others it may be the place they lost their father or son, and for others,…

the hardships, controversies, and the lives of the people, both the soldiers and the families they left behind, affected by this war. One of the biggest controversies about the Vietnam War was the draft of young citizens to fight the communist armies. According to an article titled “Vietnam-Era Draft”, many people argued that it was unjust to force people, especially those of such a young age, to…