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Top 10 Best Basketball Bags in 2018 With the top 10 best basketball bags in 2018, you can keep your equipment safe in one place. As you know, the sports take up a lot of your time and you do not want to waste energy looking for your equipment. The amazing thing is no matter what sports you take part in these basketball backpacks serves many purposes. They keep your things organized and prevent them from lying around. The basketball bag makes it easier for you to find the important things you…

TJ Harkins Realistic Fiction Short Story Title: We all know the famous Jebron Lames, star small forward for the San Antonio Spurs. But did you know that back in highschool he was known as a failure for getting cut from the Goodpasture Christian Varsity Football team. Let’s look back into that hard time in his life. It was 2008 and the Goodpasture Christian Varsity Football Team was coming off a year where they went all the way to the state semifinals. They had great players such as Keenan…

not caught by his teacher. The dismissal bell rings as the first game of the 1990 Atlantic Coast Conference basketball tournament comes to an end. When the school bus finally reaches his stop the boy races home, making it to the television just as Bryant Stith and the rest of the University of Virginia Cavaliers took the court against one of the blue bloods of college basketball, the University of North Carolina Tarheels. Despite defeating the Tarheels, the Cavaliers would lose in the…

Another NBA season is rapidly drawing to a close and two sounds can be heard: Carmelo Anthony’s title window slamming tighter shut, and New York sports fans turning their attention to baseball. With the Knicks wallowing in yet another season of going nowhere, what can be done to fix the franchise moving forward? 1. Pick A New Shape, The Triangle Has To Go It started off so well. Everyone was completely on board. All those rings, the connection to the glory days, the zen calm and peace after…

Lamar Odom is an American basketball player who is familiar for playing 7 seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers and for his wedding to reality star Khloé Kardashian. Synopsis Lamar Odom born on 6 Nov 1979, in Queens, New York. Lamar Odom used basket ball to help him all the way through a traumatic childhood. As a high school be prominent, he was titeld Player of the Year by Parade publication. After declaring his eligibility for the National Basketball Association (NBA) Draft subsequent his…

Michael Jordan ‘’I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.’’ - Michael Jordan Michael Jordan was born February 17,1963 in Brooklyn, New york city. His parents are James R. Jordan Sr. and Delories Jordan. Jordan has 5 children, 3 boys and 2 girls. Jordan has been married twice, and is currently not married. Michael jordan most influential in America because he didn’t give up when he failed, He overcame doubts, and he gives back to the community daily.…

has been compared as the successor of Michael Jordan, and he is Kobe Bryant. Comparisons between Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan have been constant, although Bryant just wanted to be Kobe Bryant. The final farewell to Jordan in 2003 led to the search for a new player to occupy the throne of King and Kobe represented everything that MJ left empty: ambition, stubbornness and a desire for gain that bordered on paranoia. See Bryant on a basketball court is the closest thing to Jordan that has ever…

It has been less than a week since the Oklahoma City Thunder were eliminated from the Western Conference Finals by the Golden State Warriors, but it seems that everyone is still talking about Kevin Durant’s free agency destination . No doubt, Durant will be one of the most sought-after free agents this summer. He has been the subject of endless rumors and speculations over the past couple of days. Right now, It’s still too early to make a prediction where Durant might land next, it’s a highly…

touchdowns, which is one of the best years the NFL has ever seen. The next major point that makes greats, greats is what they do on the court in the terms of their competitiveness, and the legacy that they left on the court, field, diamond, or rink. Competitiveness and attitude are not the same thing but they are sometimes linked together for some reason, the definition of competitiveness is to have a strong desire to compete or to succeed and in my opinion the athletes that have a competitive…

In “Fast Break” by Edward Hirsch; “A Hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there”. He wrote about a five second play to express the excitement and passion people have for basketball. Hirsch uses vivid language and metaphors throughout the poem to give the audience an intensified feeling of the game. The poet uses metaphors to give the poem more excitement to the game. “Gathering the orange leather from the air”. (l. 5) he is giving the game basketball more details, describing the color and texture…