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professional basketball player. He is also a businessman, and principal owner and chairman of the Charlotte Hornets. Jordan played 15 seasons in the National Basketball Association for the Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards. His biography on the NBA website states: "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time." After a three-season stint playing for coach Dean Smith at the University of North Carolina, where he was a member of the Tar Heels' national…

Finally, LeBron James is an NBA player who has made a large impact on the basketball world because of his successful career in the NBA. The Cleveland Cavaliers would pick Lebron as the first pick in the 2003 NBA Draft (Wells 42). Lebron made his NBA debut against the Sacramento Kings only six months after graduating high school (Wells 43, 44). Although many people had doubted him because of his youth, he still shocked critics and thrilled fans, scoring nine points in the first ten minutes, and…

team's successes did not fully transfer into playoff as they were eliminated by the Philadelphia 76ers before reaching the Finals. The front office would soon come to the rescue again to figure out what they needed for the team to regain their former glory. During the offseason the Celtics would pick up two future Hall of Famers in Kevin McHale and Robert Parish. With Bird’s leadership and the Celtics upgrade roster the team would once again make the playoffs and would play the Philadelphia…

The first nba game he played in was february 5,1999 but that season he only scored around 8.2 points per game and also he only started in 24 games that season.In the next season he stepup and socred around 17.5 points per game and started 81 out of 82 games.The 2006-2007 Nba season was a great on for him he socred around 25 points per game which won him the most valuable player and led his team to the 2007 playoffs but he lost to the golden state.In 2011 he led his team to the playoffs they…

Michael, Michael trained inevitably to become the player he is now known to be. The following high-school years Michael became an on-court phenomenon. Michael had caught attention of many colleges but committed to UNC. Michael not only had an amazing NBA career but also knocked down walls as a Carolina Tar Heel. Michael’s Freshman year as a college athlete he was named AAC’s Freshman of the Year. This same year Michael and the Tar Heels Advanced to the championship in 1982 where Michael hit the…

The Bad Boys The Detroit Pistons is one of the NBA’s most iconic organizations. It was not always sunshine and rainbows in Detroit though. The 1976-77 ended the season with the record 44-38, and lost in the first round of the playoffs. This would be their last winning season for the next seven years. The Pistons in the late seventies had picked up a reputation of being soft and lackadaisical, which resulted in end of season records like 16-66 and 21-61. This was a very fragile time for the…

changed upon the acquisition of Chris Paul. His presence immediately propelled the team from an exciting team to watch into a legitimate NBA championship contender. In his five seasons with the team, the Clippers have made the Western Conference playoffs as many times as they had prior to his arrival. Paul has been an All-Star and has appeared on one of the three All-NBA Teams (3x First Team, 2x Second Team) in every season with the team. His productivity on the court has improved. Since…

There are so many NBA players that were born in the state of Illinois, but somebody who really stood out was the star center of the Los Angeles Lakers, Anthony Davis. Anthony Marshon Davis Jr was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 11, 1993. Davis had two sisters, one being his twin and the other being the elder of both of them. Even though Davis was born in Chicago, he lived in a town a little outside the city in a neighborhood called Englewood with his two sisters. Being a young kid in Chicago,…

The Lakers were named after Minnesota because it was the land of ten thousand lakes. They were founded in 1948 in Minnesota and a year later, the NBA was formed. The Lakers are an American basketball team that represents Los Angeles since 1961. This amazingly talented team often wears a combo of purple, white, and gold and play in the Staples Stadium in the heart of L.A. The Lakers have won 16 championships and been to the finals a total 31 times over the last 57 years in Los Angeles. This team…

I think the best NBA team ever is the 95-96 Chicago Bulls because they had one of the greatest players in NBA history, Michael Jordan. Furthermore they had one of the toughest teams in that time in the NBA with 72 wins and 10 losses (which broke the record at that time). Finally, they had a really successful coach, Phil Jackson. They had the one of the greatest NBA players of all time, Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan could do anything in basketball that’s why he was known as the best all around…