Shaquille O'Neal

Phil Jackson "One thing I’ve learned as a coach is that you can’t force your will on people. If you want them act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves." And that is exactly what Phil Jackson did during his 21 year coaching career. Phil Jackson was abnormal compared to your run of the mill coach. He opened his players minds to a new approach of the game of basketball. He challenged them to be less selfish and he encouraged team basketball. Over the twenty one years of…

Four pneumonias, eight surgeries, twenty-four CAT scans, fifty-one x-rays, four hundred and two IV lines, countless nurses, doctors, and surgeons, and a life expectancy of about forty years old. At this point, I consider the hospital my second home. When you are made aware of the fact that there is a ticking clock counting down your every last day, hour, minute, second, and breath, an overload of epinephrine and norepinephrine flood your body. This response is known as fight or flight. Therefore…

The research that was gathered about Michael Jordan’s historic NBA career, was very efficient to the researcher. The different opinions made it hard to agree that Michael Jordan is the greatest of all time, but in the end, the opinion stays the same. There are ten sources that will show the reader and have the reader decide who they think is the greatest of all time. These articles will talk about why Michael Jordan is the greatest, why he is not, and who else that could be considered as the…

The history of basketball wasn’t really even created to be an individual sport itself. It was actually supposed to be a daily exercise or indoor activity in the YMCA. It was being in use for off season football players. They called a man to create the indoor activity. His name was James Naismith. (Sportsknowhow.com) He made a ball out of rubber in a sort of volleyball form and put up fruit baskets for hoops. The players had to dribble to the other side of the court and try to shoot the ball into…

scholarship as well, but he found out he had a heart condition and couldn’t play. Scouts saw Nathan and Lucas play in their high school games and they recruited them. Later on in the show, Nathan began to play for the NBA and Lucas became a high school basketball coach. Another way One Tree Hill displays a positive effect is scholarships. College is expensive and hard to get in to. With a scholarship, they can get into college for less money and play the sport the love for even longer. After…

to Dan Hilton, which is by getting an education. Players who eventually drop off of the radar in the NBA usually don’t have anything going for them besides basketball, which is why it is very important for them to get an education. People like Shaquille O’Neal know why it’s so important because when he retired, Shaq went back to college to get his PHD and is qualified to become a doctor. Even in college players have the chance to expand their social life and get to know people that can help them…

chick or dame (Koivula 1999). Along with that, commentators use such phrases as “The slender 6-foot 5-inch center with the modeling contract in her purse”, which is an example of stereotyping and focusing on contestant’s beauty, or “She is the Shaquille O’Neal of women’s basketball”, which shows a similarity with male players (Jones et al. 1999). The second example is almost never working likewise, namely, it is rare to hear men being compared to female ‘equivalent’. Regardless to their great…

dropped him, including giants such as McDonald’s, Sprite, and even Nike (Biography Reference Bank 3). Furthermore, his so-called “clean” image was permanently tainted, which would be cause for even more problems, including those with his teammates Shaquille O’Neal on the Los Angeles Lakers and even with his own coach, Phil Jackson (“Kobe Bryant” Unofficial Fansite 3). Even Kobe’s business interests outside of his already dropped endorsements were completely ruined, just furthering his already…

Islamophobia in America On a city sidewalk in some Middle Eastern country, a non-religious American is walking along with many other Muslims. Suddenly, they all shriek out in fear exclaiming, “Look it’s a Donald Trump! He’s going to spew some more stupidity!” In reality, this scenario does not happen, but in the event that it did, a very important question arises that is applied to almost the entire United States today. Why should the mistakes and actions of a small group of people, become…

He has only won 6 championship rings with 3 finals mvp awards. Let's go onto our famous basketball players we have Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Dwayne Wade, Shaquille O’Neal , Kevin Durant etc. It's a whole list of them. Also Michael Jordan has a really successful business he sells his shoes that he has made himself and they are really popular to this day. (www.si.com/nba/2016/02/09/Michael jordan-lebron-james-stephen-curry-nba-…