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Point guard
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The point guard, also called the one or point, is one of the five positions in a regulation basketball game. A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position, point guards are expected to run the teams offense by controlling the ball and making sure that it gets to the right players at the right time. A point guard, like other player positions in basketball, specializes in certain skills, a point guards primary job is to facilitate scoring opportunities for his/her team, or sometimes for themselves. Lee Rose has described a point guard as a coach on the floor and this involves setting up plays on the court, getting the ball to the teammate in the best position to score, and controlling the tempo of the game. A point guard should know when and how to instigate a fast break, point guards are expected to be vocal floor leaders. A point guard needs always to have in mind the times on the clock and the game clock, the score. Among the taller players who have enjoyed success at the position is Magic Johnson, other point guards who have been named NBA MVP include Bob Cousy, Oscar Robertson, Derrick Rose and two-time winners Stephen Curry and Steve Nash. In the NBA, point guards are usually about 65 or shorter, having above-average size is considered advantageous, although size is secondary to situational awareness, speed, quickness, and ball handling skills. Shorter players tend to be better dribblers since they are closer to the floor, after an opponent scores, it is typically the point guard who brings the ball down court to begin an offensive play. Passing skills, ball handling, and court vision are crucial, speed is important, a speedy point guard is better able to create separation and space off the dribble, giving him/herself room to work. Point guards are often valued more for their assist totals than for their scoring, another major evaluation factor is Assist-to-Turnover ratio, which reflects the decision-making skills of the player. Still, a point guard should also have a reasonably effective jump shot. The point guard is positioned on the perimeter of the play and this is a necessity because of the point guards many leadership obligations. Many times, the point guard is referred to by announcers as a coach on the floor or a floor general, in the past, this was particularly true, as several point guards such as Lenny Wilkens served their teams as player-coaches. This is not so common anymore, as most coaches are now solely specialized in coaching and are non-players, former Suns head coach Mike DAntoni had often allowed Steve Nash to freelance when leading the Suns offense, even letting him call his own plays at times. Even point guards who are not given this much freedom, however, are extensions of their coach on the floor. John Stockton is widely considered to be the point guard. He also used the pick and roll maneuvre with Karl Malone, along with leadership and a general basketball acumen, ball-handling is a skill of great importance to a point guard
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Point guards
Bob Cousy (left) and
Bob McNeill (center) chase after the ball. Cousy won six NBA championships with the
Boston Celtics.
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Steve Nash led the NBA in assists five times.
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Derrick Rose is one of best scoring point guards in the
NBA.
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Gary Payton, a point guard known for defensive prowess.
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Chicago
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Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois, and it is the county seat of Cook County. In 2012, Chicago was listed as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $640 billion according to 2015 estimates, the city has one of the worlds largest and most diversified economies with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. In 2016, Chicago hosted over 54 million domestic and international visitors, landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis Tower, Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicagos culture includes the arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy. Chicago also has sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. The city has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City, the name Chicago is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as Checagou was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir, henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the wild garlic, called chicagoua, grew abundantly in the area. In the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African and French descent and arrived in the 1780s and he is commonly known as the Founder of Chicago. In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn, the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes had ceded additional land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. The Potawatomi were forcibly removed from their land after the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, on August 12,1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of about 200. Within seven years it grew to more than 4,000 people, on June 15,1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as U. S. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4,1837, as the site of the Chicago Portage, the city became an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States. Chicagos first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, and the Illinois, the canal allowed steamboats and sailing ships on the Great Lakes to connect to the Mississippi River. A flourishing economy brought residents from rural communities and immigrants from abroad, manufacturing and retail and finance sectors became dominant, influencing the American economy. The Chicago Board of Trade listed the first ever standardized exchange traded forward contracts and these issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage
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Clockwise from top:
Downtown Chicago, the
Chicago Theatre, the
'L',
Navy Pier,
Millennium Park, the
Field Museum, and the
Willis Tower.
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Traditional
Potawatomi costume on display at the
Field Museum
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A 1903 painting of Chicago in 1833
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An artist's rendering of the
Great Chicago Fire of 1871
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2008 NBA draft
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The 2008 NBA Draft was held on June 26,2008 at the Washington Mutual Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. According to the NBA,44 players,39 collegiate players and five international players and these numbers do not include players who are automatically eligible for the draft. The Chicago Bulls, who had a 1.7 percent probability of obtaining the first selection, won the NBA Draft Lottery on May 22. The Bulls winning of the lottery was the second-largest upset in NBA Draft Lottery history behind the Orlando Magic, the Miami Heat and the Minnesota Timberwolves obtained the second and third picks respectively. For the first time in history the first three draft picks were all freshmen. Another record was set when twelve freshmen were drafted, ten of whom were drafted in the first round, of the players drafted,29 are forwards,19 are guards, and 12 are centers. The 2008 NBA Draft was the time that the Seattle SuperSonics made an NBA Draft appearance. In early July, the relocated to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The Thunder made their first NBA Draft appearance in 2009 and this draft also marked the first time that an NBA D-League player was drafted. He had represented the United States internationally at youth level in 2007, since 2010, he has represented Jamaica internationally. ^ d, Kosta Koufos was born and raised in the United States to Greek parents. He has represented Greece internationally. ^ e, Serge Ibaka and he has represented Spain internationally since 2011. ^ f, Donté Greene was born in West Germany to American parents. He has represented the United States internationally at youth level. ^ g and these players were not selected in the 2008 NBA Draft but have played in the NBA. The first 14 picks in the draft belonged to teams that had missed the playoffs, the lottery determined the three teams that would obtain the first three picks on the draft. The remaining first-round picks and the second-round picks were assigned to teams in order of their win-loss record in the previous season. As it is commonplace in the event of identical win-loss records, the lottery was held on May 20,2008, in Secaucus, New Jersey. The Chicago Bulls, who had the ninth-worst record, won the lottery with just a 1. 7% chance to win, the Miami Heat and Minnesota Timberwolves, with the worst and third-worst records, respectively, won the second and third picks. B12 Portland acquired the rights to 11th pick Jerryd Bayless and Ike Diogu from Indiana in exchange for the draft rights to 13th pick Brandon Rush, Jarrett Jack. The trade was finalized on July 9,2008, the trade was finalized on July 9,2008
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Derrick Rose was selected first overall by the
Chicago Bulls.
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Russell Westbrook was selected fourth by the
Seattle SuperSonics.
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Kevin Love was selected fifth by the
Memphis Grizzlies and traded to the
Minnesota Timberwolves.
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Brook Lopez was selected tenth by the
New Jersey Nets.
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List of first overall NBA draft picks
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The National Basketball Associations first overall pick is the player who is selected first among all eligible draftees by a team during the annual National Basketball Association Draft. The first pick is awarded to the team wins the NBA Draft Lottery, in most cases. The team with the first pick attracts significant media attention, as does the player who is selected with that pick, since the advent of the draft lottery in 1985, only seven number one overall picks have won an NBA title. They are David Robinson, Shaquille ONeal, Glenn Robinson, Tim Duncan, LeBron James, Andrew Bogut, chinas Yao Ming and Italys Andrea Bargnani are the only two players without competitive experience in the United States to be drafted first overall. Note that the drafts between 1947 and 1949 were held by the Basketball Association of America, the Basketball Association of America became the National Basketball Association after absorbing teams from the National Basketball League in the fall of 1949. Official NBA publications include the BAA Drafts as part of the NBAs draft history, List of first overall NBA Development League draft picks List of first overall WNBA draft picks General Specific
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LeBron James was one of the most anticipated first overall draft picks. He was also drafted out of high school.
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Chicago Bulls
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The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago. The Bulls compete in the National Basketball Association as a club of the leagues Eastern Conference Central Division. The team was founded on January 16,1966, the team plays its home games at the United Center, an arena shared with the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League. The Bulls saw their greatest success during the 1990s and they are known for having one of the NBAs greatest dynasties, winning six NBA championships between 1991 and 1998 with two three-peats. All six championship teams were led by Hall of Famers Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, the Bulls are the only NBA franchise to win multiple championships and never lose an NBA Finals series in their history. The Bulls won 72 games during the 1995–96 NBA season, setting an NBA record that stood until the Golden State Warriors won 73 games during the 2015–16 NBA season. The Bulls were the first team in NBA history to win 70 games or more in a season. Many experts and analysts consider the 1996 Bulls to be one of the greatest teams in NBA history, Michael Jordan and Derrick Rose have both won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award while playing for the Bulls, for a total of six MVP awards. The Bulls share rivalries with the Detroit Pistons, New York Knicks, Miami Heat, the Bulls rivalry with the Pistons was highlighted heavily during the late 1980s and early 1990s. On January 16,1966 Chicago was granted an NBA franchise to be called the Bulls, the Chicago Bulls became the third NBA franchise in the city, after the Chicago Stags and the Chicago Packers/Zephyrs. The Bulls founder, Dick Klein, was the Bulls only owner to play professional basketball. He served as the Bulls president and general manager in their initial years, after the 1966 NBA Expansion Draft, the newly founded Chicago Bulls were allowed to acquire players from the previously established teams in the league for the upcoming 1966–67 season. The team started in the 1966–67 NBA season, and posted the best record by a team in NBA history. In their first two seasons, the Bulls played most of their games at the International Amphitheatre, before moving to Chicago Stadium. Fan interest was diminishing after four seasons, with one game in the 1967–68 NBA season having an attendance of 891. The Bulls under Williams and head coach Dick Motta qualified for four straight playoffs and had attendances grow to over 10,000, in 1972, the Bulls set a franchise win-loss record at 57 wins and 25 losses. During the 1970s, the Bulls relied on Jerry Sloan, forwards Bob Love and Chet Walker, point guard Norm Van Lier, the team made the conference finals in 1975 but lost to the Golden State Warriors,4 games to 3. After four 50-win seasons, Williams returned to Philadelphia, and Motta decided to become GM as well, the Bulls ended up declining, winning only 24 games in the 1975–1976 season
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Michael Jordan was drafted third overall by the Bulls in
1984. He won six championships and six
Finals MVPs for Chicago.
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United Center
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Scottie Pippen
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New York Knicks
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The New York Knickerbockers, commonly referred to as the Knicks, are an American professional basketball team based in New York City. The Knicks compete in the National Basketball Association as a club of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. The team plays its games at Madison Square Garden, located in the borough of Manhattan. They are one of two NBA teams located in New York City, the other is the Brooklyn Nets, along with the Boston Celtics, the Knicks are one of only two original NBA teams still located in its original city. The Knicks were successful during their years and were constant playoff contenders under the franchises first head coach Joe Lapchick. Beginning in 1950, the Knicks made three appearances in the NBA Finals, all of which were losing efforts. Lapchick resigned in 1956 and the team began to falter. It was not until the late 1960s when Red Holzman became head coach that the Knicks began to regain their former dominance, Holzman successfully guided the Knicks to two NBA championships, in 1970 and 1973. The Knicks of the 1980s had mixed success that included six playoff appearances, however, the playoff-level Knicks of the 1990s were led by future Hall of Fame center Patrick Ewing, this era was marked by passionate rivalries with the Chicago Bulls, Indiana Pacers, and Miami Heat. During this time, they were known for playing tough defense under head coaches Pat Riley, during this era, the Knicks made two appearances in the NBA Finals, in 1994 and 1999, though they were unable to win an NBA championship. Since 2000, the Knicks have struggled to regain their former glory, in 2012–13, the franchise won its first division title in 19 years, but was eliminated in the second round of the playoffs by the Indiana Pacers. According to a 2016 Forbes report, the Knicks were the most-valuable NBA franchise, in 1946, basketball, particularly college basketball, was a growing and increasingly profitable sport in New York City. Hockey was another sport at the time and generated considerable profits, however. Max Kase, a New York sportswriter, became the editor at the Boston American in the 1930s. Kase developed the idea of a professional league to showcase college players upon their graduation. Brown, intrigued by the opportunity to attain additional income when the teams were not playing or on the road. Ned Irish, a college basketball promoter, retired sportswriter and then president of Madison Square Garden, was in attendance, Kase originally planned to own and operate the New York franchise himself and approached Irish with a proposal to lease the Garden. Irish explained that the rules of the Arena Managers Association of America stated that Madison Square Garden was required to own any professional teams played in the arena
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Lapchick was responsible for leading the Knicks during their early success. However, these ventures never culminated with a win in the
NBA Finals.
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William 'Red' Holzman guided the Knicks to two championships during his tenure.
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Walt 'Clyde' Frazier
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Cleveland Cavaliers
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The Cleveland Cavaliers, also known as the Cavs, are an American professional basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. The Cavs compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the leagues Eastern Conference Central Division, the team began play in 1970. Many past and present top NBA players, including LeBron James, Mark Price, Brad Daugherty, the franchise has won five Central Division championships, three Eastern Conference championships, one NBA championship, and have reached the playoffs 20 times in their 46-year history. The 2016 NBA Finals victory over the Golden State Warriors marked the first time in Finals history a team had come back to win the series after trailing three games to one, the Cavaliers began play in 1970 as an expansion team. Their 46-year history has been marked by stretches of strong play and periods of poor play. In the 1970s, under the ownership of Nick Mileti, the team won its first division title in 1976 and they won Game 7, 87–85, on a shot by Snyder with four seconds to go. Injuries, particularly an ankle injury to Chones, led to this teams demise, as the Cavaliers would lose the Eastern Conference Finals to the Boston Celtics, 4–2. It is widely believed among both Cavaliers fans and players that the Miracle team would have won the 1976 NBA Championship had Chones stayed healthy, the remainder of the 1970s were marked by early playoff losses and eventually Fitchs resignation. The early 1980s were marked by Ted Stepiens ownership, Stepien also oversaw the hiring and firing of a succession of coaches and was involved in making a number of poor trade and free agent signing decisions. The ensuing chaos had an effect on both the Cavaliers on-court performance and lack of local support, losing over 50 games in three straight years. The 1981–82 and 1982–83 combined to lose 24 straight games, which at the time was the NBAs all-time longest losing streak, george and Gordon Gund purchased the Cavaliers from Stepien in 1983. The team was in a transition as they went through nine head coaches from 1980 to 1986, during the 1986 offseason, the Cavaliers acquired Brad Daugherty, Mark Price, Ron Harper and Larry Nance. The Cavaliers entered into a period of decline from the mid-1990s through the early 2000s, the team appeared in the playoffs the next two years, but could not get past the first round. In the 1997 off-season, the team added Shawn Kemp and Wesley Person, as well as a class that included Derek Anderson, Cedric Henderson, Žydrūnas Ilgauskas. This team lost in the first round of the playoffs in 1998, in the early 2000s, the team added Andre Miller, Lamond Murray, Chris Mihm and Carlos Boozer, but could not make it to the playoffs. The 2002–03 season saw the Cavaliers finish 17–65, tied for the worst record in the NBA, the Cavaliers luck changed as they landed the number 1 pick in the 2003 NBA draft. With it, the team selected heralded forward and future NBA MVP LeBron James, in 2005, the team would be sold to businessman Dan Gilbert. That year, the team also hired head coach Mike Brown, over the next few years, the Cavaliers built a team around James and Žydrūnas Ilgauskas by adding players including Drew Gooden, Larry Hughes, and Anderson Varajao
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Austin Carr —the first overall pick in the
1971 NBA draft, a 1974
NBA All-Star, and longtime TV color analyst for the Cavs
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Brad Daugherty, the first overall pick in the
1986 NBA draft and a five-time
NBA All-Star for the Cavs
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Žydrūnas Ilgauskas, a Cavs
1996 first-round draft pick, a two-time
NBA All Star for the Cavs, and the team's all-time leader in games played, rebounds, and blocked shots. He is currently a Special Advisor for the Cavaliers.
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NBA Most Valuable Player Award
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The National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player is an annual National Basketball Association award given since the 1955–56 season to the best performing player of the regular season. The winner receives the Maurice Podoloff Trophy, which is named in honor of the first commissioner of the NBA, until the 1979–80 season, the MVP was selected by a vote of NBA players. Since the 1980–81 season, the award is decided by a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada, each of whom casts a vote for first to fifth place selections. Each first-place vote is worth 10 points, each vote is worth seven, each third-place vote is worth five. Starting from 2010, one ballot was cast by fans through online voting, the player with the highest point total wins the award. As of May 2016, the current holder of the award is Stephen Curry, every player who has won this award and has been eligible for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame has been inducted. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar won the award a record six times, both Bill Russell and Michael Jordan won the award five times, while Wilt Chamberlain and LeBron James won the award four times. Russell and James are the players to have won the award four times in five seasons. Moses Malone, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson each won the three times, while Bob Pettit, Karl Malone, Tim Duncan, Steve Nash and Stephen Curry have each won it twice. Only two rookies have won the award, Wilt Chamberlain in the 1959–60 season and Wes Unseld in the 1968–69 season. Hakeem Olajuwon of Nigeria, Tim Duncan of the U. S. Virgin Islands, Steve Nash of Canada, Stephen Curry in 2015–16 is the only player to have won the award unanimously. Shaquille ONeal in 1999–2000 and LeBron James in 2012–13 are the two players to have fallen one vote shy of a unanimous selection, both receiving 120 of 121 votes. Since the 1982–83 season, every winner was from a team won at least 50 games in the regular season that year. Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award NBA Development League Most Valuable Player Award General Specific
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Wilt Chamberlain won the award four times in his NBA career.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar won the award a record-setting six times in his career.
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Michael Jordan won the award five times in his career.
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LeBron James is a four-time NBA MVP.
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NBA All-Star
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The National Basketball Association All-Star Game is an annual exhibition basketball game played between the Eastern-Conference and the Western-Conference All-Stars. It is the event of the NBA All-Star Weekend. The starters are chosen by a combination of fans, media, fans may vote using a variety of online platforms, and account for 50% of the vote, with the media and current players each accounting for 25%. The reserves are chosen by voting among the coaches of each teams particular conference. Coaches are not allowed to vote for their own players, if a player is unable to participate due to injury, the NBA commissioner will select a replacement. The 1999 All-Star Game was canceled due to the leagues lockout, the following is a list of NBA All-Stars, players who have been selected for the NBA All-Star Game at least once in their career. Note that the number indicates the number of selections—not the number of games played. For instance, Michael Jordan was named to the All-Star Game roster 14 times, as of the 2017 All-Star Game,411 players have been selected to an All-Star Game roster at least once. However, only 283 of them have earned multiple selections to the game, hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar holds the record for most All-Star Game selections and most All-Star Games played. He was selected 19 times and played in 18 All-Star games, dirk Nowitzki and LeBron James both hold the record for most All-Star Game selections among active players, with 13 selections. Bob Cousy, John Havlicek, and LeBron James are tied for the most consecutive games actually played, tim Duncan also played in 13 straight All-Star Games if the lockout-cancelled 1999 game is excluded. Several players were named to All-Star Game rosters, but never played in the game due to injury. Note, Statistics are correct as of the conclusion of the 2017 NBA All-Star Game, notes a Before the 1971–72 season, Lew Alcindor changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He missed the 1973 All-Star Game due to personal reasons, B When Hakeem Olajuwon arrived in the United States, the University of Houston incorrectly spelled his first name Akeem. Olajuwon used that spelling until March 9,1991, when he announced that he would add an H, C This column does not include American Basketball Association All-Star Game selections. D Before the 2011–12 season, Ron Artest changed his name to Metta World Peace, general All-Star Game Selections by Player. Specific NBA. com, All-Star Game history Basketball-Reference, All-Star Game Index
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was selected to play in the NBA All-Star Game for a record of 19 times.
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2010 NBA All-Star Game
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This game was the 59th edition of the NBA All-Star Game and was played during the 2009–10 NBA season. This was the time that the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area had hosted the All-Star Game. Dallas was awarded the All-Star Game in an announcement by commissioner David Stern on October 30,2008, the All-Star Weekend began on Friday, February 12,2010 with the Celebrity Game and the Rookie Challenge, a game between the leagues best rookies and second-year players. On Saturday, the event continued with the All-Star Saturday Night, the D-League All-Star Game and the second D-League Dream Factory Friday Night, the latter of which was modeled after the NBA All-Star Saturday Night, also took place during the All-Star Weekend. The D-League Dream Factory Friday Night was held on Friday and the D-League All-Star Game was held on Saturday, the Eastern Conference All-Star team defeated the Western Conference All-Star team 141–139. The Easts Dwyane Wade, who recorded 28 points on 75% shooting,11 assists,6 rebounds and 5 steals was named as the games MVP. In the Rookie Challenge, the Rookies defeated the Sophomores for the first time since 2002, in the All-Star Saturday Night events, Nate Robinson won his third Slam Dunk Contest while Paul Pierce and Steve Nash won the Three-Point Shootout and Skills Challenge respectively. Team Texas, the team, won the Shootings Stars Competition. Kevin Durant repeated as champion in the H–O–R–S–E Competition, the announced attendance for the game was 108,713, the all-time attendance record for the sport. The previous verified record for attendance at a game was 78,129. The previous record attendance for an NBA All-Star Game was 44,735 and this event also broke the record for the single largest attendance for an indoor event, previously held by WrestleMania III in 1987. This marked the first All-Star game where neither team wore a white uniform, the East wore blue uniforms with silver trim, while the West wore red uniforms with gold trim. This marked the first time the All-Star events were split between two venues since 1989, the Mavericks were awarded the All-Star Game in an announcement by NBA commissioner David Stern, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones on October 30,2008. This was the first All-Star Game to be played in a stadium since 1996 when San Antonios Alamodome hosted the event. The coaches for the All-Star Game are the coaches of the teams with the best winning percentage in each conference through the games of January 31. However, an NBA rule also prohibits a coach from being selected for consecutive All-Star Games, the coach for the Western Conference team was Denver Nuggets head coach George Karl. This is the fourth time Karl was selected to be an All-Star coach, at January 31, the Nuggets had 32–15 record, the second best winning percentage in the Western Conference, behind Phil Jacksons Lakers. The coach for the Eastern Conference team was Orlando Magic head coach Stan Van Gundy and this is the second time Van Gundy was selected to be an All-Star coach, after previously being selected in 2005
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Cowboys Stadium was the host venue of the 2010 NBA All-Star Game.
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Stan Van Gundy (left) and
George Karl (right) were selected as the East and West head coach, respectively.
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2012 NBA All-Star Game
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The 2012 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game which was played on February 26,2012 at 7,30 p. m. EST at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida, home of the Orlando Magic. This game was the 61st edition of the National Basketball Association All-Star Game and was played during the 2011–12 NBA season, the Orlando Magic were awarded the All-Star Game in an announcement by commissioner David Stern on May 4,2010. This was also the time that Orlando has hosted the All-Star Game, the city had previously hosted the event in 1992 in the Orlando Arena. This game also marked the first time an Eastern Conference city hosted an All-Star game since Atlanta in 2003, despite the 2011 NBA lockout, which reduced the regular season to sixty-six games on a condensed schedule, the All-Star Game took place as scheduled. The Western Conference team defeated the Eastern Conference team 152–149, the All-Star Weekend began on Friday, February 24,2012 with the Celebrity Game and the Rising Stars Challenge, a game featuring the leagues best rookies and second-year players. On Saturday, the event continued with the All-Star Saturday Night, the D-League All-Star Game and the D-League Dream Factory, which includes the Slam Dunk Contest, Three-Point Shootout and Shooting Stars Competition, also took place during the All-Star Weekend. Both events were held on Saturday before the NBA All-Star Saturday Night, the coaches for the All-Star game are the head coaches who led the teams with the best winning percentages in their conference through the games of February 15,2012. The head coaches from the year, Doc Rivers and Gregg Popovich were not eligible for selection. The coach for the Western Conference team was Oklahoma City Thunder head coach Scott Brooks, the Thunder had a 22–7 record on February 15, the best record in the Western Conference. The coach for the Eastern Conference team was Chicago Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau, the Bulls had a 23–7 record on February 15, the best record in the Eastern Conference and in the league. This was the first All-Star Game selection for both Brooks and Thibodeau, the rosters for the All-Star Game were chosen in two ways. The starters were chosen via a fan ballot, two guards, two forwards and one center who received the highest vote were named the All-Star starters. The reserves were chosen by votes among the NBA head coaches in their respective conferences, the coaches were not permitted to vote for their own players. The reserves consist of two guards, two forwards, one center and two players regardless of position, if a player is unable to participate due to injury, the commissioner will select a replacement. Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic topped the ballots with 1,600,390 votes, Derrick Rose, Dwyane Wade, LeBron James, and Carmelo Anthony completed the Eastern Conference starting position. Howard, Rose, Wade and James were starters for the previous years Eastern Conference team, the Eastern Conference reserves includes three first-time selections, Luol Deng, Andre Iguodala, and Roy Hibbert. Atlanta Hawks guard Joe Johnson suffered an injury and was replaced by Boston Celtics guard Rajon Rondo, the Miami Heat is represented by three players, Wade, James and Chris Bosh, while the Chicago Bulls and the Celtics are represented by two players each. The Western Conferences leading vote-getter was Kobe Bryant, who earned his fourteenth consecutive All-Star Game selection with 1,555,479 votes, Chris Paul, Kevin Durant, Blake Griffin, and Andrew Bynum completed the Western Conference starting positions
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Scott Brooks (left) and
Tom Thibodeau (right) were selected as the West and East head coach, respectively.
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Dwight Howard received the most votes by fans, to be the leading vote-getter.
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All-NBA First Team
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The All-NBA Team is an annual National Basketball Association honor bestowed on the best players in the league following every NBA season. The voting is conducted by a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States, the team has been selected in every season of the leagues existence, dating back to its inaugural season in 1946. The All-NBA Team originally had two teams, but since 1988 it is composed of three five-man lineups—a first, second, and third team, typically comprising a total of 15 roster spots. Players receive five points for a first team vote, three points for a team vote, and one point for a third team vote. The five players with the highest point totals make the first team, with the next five making the second team, in the case of a tie at the fifth position of any team, the roster is expanded. If the first team consists of six due to a tie. A tie has occurred once, in 1952, when Bob Davies. From 1946 to 1955, players were selected without regard to position, however, since 1956, kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kobe Bryant and Tim Duncan hold the record for the most total selections with fifteen. Karl Malone and Shaquille ONeal follow with fourteen total honors, while Schayes, Bob Cousy, Jerry West, Hakeem Olajuwon, Dirk Nowitzki, and LeBron James have twelve selections. From the 1946–47 season to 1954–55 season, the All-NBA Team was composed of two teams, each with five spots, except when there were ties. During this period, players were selected without regard to position, from the 1955–56 season to 1987–88 season, the All-NBA Team was composed of two teams, each with five roster spots, except when there were ties. During this time, players were selected with regard to position, they are listed according to position in the descending order. Since the 1988–89 season, the All-NBA Team has been composed of three teams, each with five spots, except when there are ties. Players are selected with regard to position, they are listed according to position in the descending order. The following table lists players with at least ten total selections. National Basketball Association portal All-NBA Development League Team General Specific
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Bob Cousy has been selected to the All-NBA team 12 times.
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Bill Russell (left) has been selected to the All-NBA team 11 times.
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Wilt Chamberlain has been selected to the All-NBA team 10 times.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, also known as Lew Alcindor, has been selected to the All-NBA team a record of 15 times.
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NBA Rookie of the Year Award
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The National Basketball Associations Rookie of the Year Award is an annual National Basketball Association award given to the top rookie of the regular season. Initiated following the 1952–53 NBA season, it confers the Eddie Gottlieb Trophy, the winner is selected by a panel of United States and Canadian sportswriters and broadcasters, each casting first, second, and third place votes. The player with the highest point total, regardless of the number of first-place votes, the most recent Rookie of the Year winner is Karl-Anthony Towns. Twenty-one winners were drafted first overall, fourteen winners have also won the NBA Most Valuable Player award in their careers, Wilt Chamberlain and Wes Unseld earning both honors the same season. Nineteen of the forty two non-active winners have been elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Three seasons had joint winners—Dave Cowens and Geoff Petrie in the 1970–71 season, Grant Hill and Jason Kidd in the 1994–95 season, five players won the award unanimously – Ralph Sampson, David Robinson, Blake Griffin, Damian Lillard, and Karl-Anthony Towns. Prior to the 1952–53 season, the Rookie of the Year was selected by newspaper writers, however, National Basketball Association portal NBA Development League Rookie of the Year Award NBA Rookie of the Month Award General Specific
NBA Rookie of the Year Award
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Wilt Chamberlain won the award in the
1959–60 NBA season.
NBA Rookie of the Year Award
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar won the award in the
1969–70 NBA season.
NBA Rookie of the Year Award
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Larry Bird won the award in the
1979–80 NBA season.
NBA Rookie of the Year Award
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Michael Jordan won the award in the
1984–85 NBA season.
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2009 NBA All-Star Game
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The 2009 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game played on February 15,2009 at US Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona, home of the Phoenix Suns. The game was the 58th edition of the National Basketball Association All-Star Game and was played during the 2008–09 NBA season and this was the third time that Phoenix had hosted the All-Star Game, the city had previously hosted the event in 1975 and 1995. Phoenix was awarded the All-Star Game in an announcement by commissioner David Stern on November 8,2007, the other reported contenders for the 2009 contest were Air Canada Centre at Toronto, Madison Square Garden at New York City, Oracle Arena at Oakland and Bradley Center at Milwaukee. The All-Star Weekend began on Friday, February 13,2009 with the Celebrity Game and the Rookie Challenge, on Saturday, the event continued with the All-Star Saturday Night, which featured the Shooting Stars Competition, Skills Challenge, Three-Point Shootout and Slam Dunk Contest. The H–O–R–S–E Competition was first introduced and was played before the All-Star Saturday Night, the D-League Dream Factory Friday Night was held on Friday and the D-League All-Star Game was held on Saturday. The Western Conference All-Star team defeated the Eastern Conference All-Star team 146–119, wests Kobe Bryant and Shaquille ONeal were named joint-winners of the games MVP. In the Rookie Challenge, the Sophomores defeated the Rookies, with Sophomores Kevin Durant named as the game MVP, in the All-Star Saturday Night events, Nate Robinson won his second Slam Dunk Contest while Daequan Cook and Derrick Rose won the Three-Point Shootout and Skills Challenge respectively. Team Detroit won their second Shootings Stars Competition, beating the team, Team Phoenix in the final round. Kevin Durant also took home another trophy by winning the inaugural H–O–R–S–E Competition, the coaches for the All-Star game are the head coaches who currently lead the teams with the best winning percentage in their conference through the Sunday two weeks before the All-Star game. The head coaches from the year, Doc Rivers and Byron Scott were not eligible for selection. The coach for the Western Conference team was Los Angeles Lakers head coach Phil Jackson and this was the fourth time Jackson was selected to be an All-Star coach, after previously selected in 1992,1996 and 2000. The Lakers entered the All-Star break with 42–10 record, the best winning percentage in the Western Conference, the coach for the Eastern Conference team was Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Mike Brown. This was the first time Brown was selected to be an All-Star coach and he became only the second Cavaliers coach to lead an All-Star team, after Lenny Wilkens in 1989. The Cavaliers entered the All-Star break with 40–11 record, the second best winning percentage in the Eastern Conference, the rosters for the All-Star Game is chosen in two ways. The starters were chosen via a fan ballot, two guards, two forwards and one center who receive the highest vote were named the All-Star starters. The reserves were chosen by votes among the NBA head coaches in their respective conferences, the coaches were not permitted to vote for their own players. The reserves consists of two guards, two forwards, one center and two players regardless of position, If a player is unable to participate due to injury, the commissioner will select a replacement. Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic topped the All-Star Ballots with 3,150,181 votes and he became the first player to get more than 3 million votes from the fans
2009 NBA All-Star Game
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Mike Brown (left) and
Phil Jackson (right) were selected as the East and West head coach, respectively.
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Dwight Howard broke the record for the most votes received.
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Associated Press
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The Associated Press is an American multinational nonprofit news agency headquartered in New York City that operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. The AP is owned by its contributing newspapers and radio and television stations in the United States, all of which stories to the AP. Most of the AP staff are members and are represented by the Newspaper Guild, which operates under the Communications Workers of America. As of 2007, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,700 newspapers, in addition to more than 5,000 television, the photograph library of the AP consists of over 10 million images. The AP operates 243 news bureaus in 120 countries and it also operates the AP Radio Network, which provides newscasts twice hourly for broadcast and satellite radio and television stations. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, as part of their cooperative agreement with the AP, most member news organizations grant automatic permission for the AP to distribute their local news reports. The AP employs the inverted pyramid formula for writing that enables the news outlets to edit a story to fit its available publication area without losing the storys essentials. Cutbacks at rival United Press International in 1993 left the AP as the United States primary news service, although UPI still produces and distributes stories and photos daily. Other English-language news services, such as the BBC, Reuters, some historians believe that the Tribune joined at this time, documents show it was a member in 1849. The New York Times became a member shortly after its founding in September 1851, initially known as the New York Associated Press, the organization faced competition from the Western Associated Press, which criticized its monopolistic news gathering and price setting practices. The revelations led to the demise of the NYAP and in December 1892, when the AP was founded, news became a salable commodity. The invention of the press allowed the New York Tribune in the 1870s to print 18,000 papers per hour. During the Civil War and Spanish–American War, there was a new incentive to print vivid, Melville Stone, who had founded the Chicago Daily News in 1875, served as AP General Manager from 1893 to 1921. He embraced the standards of accuracy, impartiality, and integrity, the cooperative grew rapidly under the leadership of Kent Cooper, who built up bureau staff in South America, Europe and, the Middle East. He introduced the telegraph typewriter or teletypewriter into newsrooms in 1914, in 1935, AP launched the Wirephoto network, which allowed transmission of news photographs over leased private telephone lines on the day they were taken. This gave AP a major advantage over other media outlets. While the first network was only between New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, eventually AP had its network across the whole United States, in 1945, the Supreme Court of the United States held in Associated Press v. The decision facilitated the growth of its main rival United Press International, AP entered the broadcast field in 1941 when it began distributing news to radio stations, it created its own radio network in 1974
Associated Press
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The AP headquarters in October 2008, located at
450 West 33rd Street, in
New York City.
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Associated Press
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Logo on the former AP Building in New York City
Associated Press
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The APTN Building in London
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Illinois Mr. Basketball
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Each year the Illinois Mr. Basketball award is given to the person chosen as the best high school boys basketball player in the U. S. state of Illinois. The award has given since 1981. Most of the winners have gone on to play at the highest levels of college basketball. On April 5,2010, Jon Scheyer became the winner to also have played on both a high school state championship and a Division 1 NCAA championship team, along with Brian Sloan. In 2010 Jereme Richmond became the 11th winner to enroll at the University of Illinois, in 2012 Jabari Parker became the first non-senior to win the award, and in 2013 he became the first to win the award twice. Voting is done on a points system, each voter selects first, second, and third-place votes. A player receives five points for each vote, three points for each second-place vote, and one point for a third-place vote. The player who receives the most points receives the award, * - Indicates a tie in which the award was shared Illinois Miss Basketball
Illinois Mr. Basketball
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Alabama
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Basketball
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Basketball is a non-contact team sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of five players each. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet high that is mounted to a backboard at each end of the court. The game was invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, a team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through the basket being defended by the opposition team during regular play. A field goal scores three points for the team if the player shoots from behind the three-point line. A team can also score via free throws, which are worth one point, the team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but additional time is mandated when the score is tied at the end of regulation. The ball can be advanced on the court by passing it to a teammate and it is a violation to lift, or drag, ones pivot foot without dribbling the ball, to carry it, or to hold the ball with both hands then resume dribbling. The game has many techniques for displaying skill—ball-handling, shooting, passing, dribbling, dunking, shot-blocking. The point guard directs the on court action of the team, implementing the coachs game plan, Basketball is one of the worlds most popular and widely viewed sports. Outside North America, the top clubs from national leagues qualify to continental championships such as the Euroleague, the FIBA Basketball World Cup attracts the top national teams from around the world. Each continent hosts regional competitions for teams, like EuroBasket. The FIBA Womens Basketball World Cup features the top womens basketball teams from continental championships. The main North American league is the WNBA, whereas the EuroLeague Women has been dominated by teams from the Russian Womens Basketball Premier League, in early December 1891, Canadian Dr. He sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied, after rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot elevated track. Basketball was originally played with a soccer ball and these laces could cause bounce passes and dribbling to be unpredictable. Eventually a lace-free ball construction method was invented, and this change to the game was endorsed by Naismith, dribbling was not part of the original game except for the bounce pass to teammates. Passing the ball was the means of ball movement. Dribbling was eventually introduced but limited by the shape of early balls. Dribbling only became a part of the game around the 1950s
Basketball
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Michael Jordan goes for a
slam dunk
Basketball
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The first basketball court:
Springfield College
Basketball
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The 1899 University of Kansas basketball team, with James Naismith at the back, right.
Basketball
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A basketball game between the
Heart Mountain and Powell High School girls teams, Wyoming, March 1944
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FIBA World Cup
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It is considered to be the flagship event of the International Basketball Federation. The world championship is considered to be just as prestigious as the basketball gold medal. The championship has held every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1950. The tournament structure is similar, but not identical, to that of the FIFA World Cup, a parallel event for womens teams, now known as the FIBA Womens Basketball World Cup, is also held quadrennially. From 1986 through 2014, the mens and womens championships were held in the same year, the current format of the tournament involves 24 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation. The winning team receives the Naismith Trophy, first awarded in 1967, the current champions are the United States, who defeated Serbia in the final of the 2014 tournament. Following the 2014 FIBA championships for men and women, the mens World Cup was scheduled on a new four-year cycle to avoid conflict with the FIFA World Cup, the next mens World Cup will be held in 2019, in the year following the FIFA World Cup. All FIBA World Championship/World Cup tournaments from the 1994 edition onward, are considered as fully professional level tournaments. The FIBA Basketball World Cup was conceived at a meeting of the FIBA World Congress at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Long-time FIBA Secretary-General Renato William Jones urged FIBA to adopt a World Championship, similar to the FIFA World Cup, the FIBA Congress, seeing how successful the 23-team Olympic tournament was that year, agreed to the proposal, beginning with a tournament in 1950. Argentina was selected as host, largely because it was the country willing to take on the task. Argentina took advantage of the host selection, winning all their games en route to becoming the first FIBA World Champion, the first five tournaments were held in South America, and teams from the Americas dominated the tournament, winning eight of nine medals at the first three tournaments. By 1963, however, teams from Eastern Europe and Southeast Europe, between 1963 and 1990, the tournament was dominated by the United States, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Brazil who together accounted for every medal at the tournament. United States dominated that year and won gold, while former states of USSR and Yugoslavia - Russia and Croatia - won Silver, the 1998 FIBA World Championship, held in Greece, lost some of its luster when the 1998–99 NBA lockout prevented the American professional players from participating. New Yugoslavian team, now consisting of the former Yugoslav republics of Serbia and Montenegro, won the gold medal over Russia, while USA, playing with amateur players, in 2002 other nations eventually caught up to the four powerhouse countries and their successor states. Meanwhile, the United States team, made up entirely of NBA players and this new era of parity convinced FIBA to expand the tournament to 24 teams for 2006,2010 and 2014 editions of the tournament. In 2006, emerging powerhouse Spain beat Greece in the first appearance in the final for both teams, Spain became only the seventh team to capture a World Championship gold. The USA, who lost to Greece in a semifinal, beat Argentina in 3rd place match, in 2010 FIBA World Championship final the USA beat Turkey and won gold for first time in 16 years, while Lithuania beat Serbia and won bronze
FIBA World Cup
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World map depicting the number of times a country has hosted the World Cup. Dark blue: twice; light blue: once.
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2010 FIBA World Championship
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The 2010 FIBA World Championship, hosted by Turkey, was the international basketball competition contested by the mens national teams. The tournament ran from August 28 to September 12,2010 and it was co-organized by the International Basketball Federation, Turkish Basketball Federation and the 2010 Organizing Committee. It was considered as prestigious a competition as the Olympic Basketball Tournament, for the third time, the World Championship had 24 competing nations. As a result, the group games were played in four different cities. The United States won the tournament for their time after going undefeated in the Opening Round. The draw for the Championship took place on December 15,2009 in Istanbul, teams were drawn into four preliminary round groups of six teams each. Teams first played a schedule, with the top sixteen teams advancing to the knockout stage. Previously, Australia and New Zealand, Italy, Russia and Puerto Rico announced their intention to bid from the tournament, france won the first round of voting, but Turkey eventually won the right to host after the joint bidders were knocked out in the first round. The tournament was the first time that Turkey has hosted the event, below is a list of the venues which hosted games during the 2010 FIBA World Championship. Each preliminary round group was hosted in an arena in Kayseri, Istanbul, Ankara. The knockout phase then moved to Istanbuls Sinan Erdem Dome, Ankara Arena, completed in 2010, and Kadir Has Arena, completed in 2008, were built for the championships, while the other three arenas underwent renovations for the event. Turkey automatically qualified as the host country, and the United States also received a berth for winning the 2008 Olympic Mens Basketball Tournament. Most other teams secured their places in qualifying tournaments. FIBA invited four wild card teams to fill out the team field. The four wild cards were determined by FIBA through criteria, for example, a team must have played in the Zones qualification tournament to receive recommendation. Also, in order for every team to have an opportunity for a wild card, once these requirements are satisfied, FIBA then looks at other important factors. Those include popularity of basketball within the country, success of the team, as of 2009, FIBA now requires that wild card candidates pay a late registration fee to be considered. Fourteen teams paid the 500,000 € fee to apply for one of the four wild card spots, FIBA then whittled down the teams to eight semifinalists – Cameroon, Germany, Great Britain, Korea, Lebanon, Lithuania, Nigeria, and Russia
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Turkey
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2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup
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The 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup was the 17th edition of the FIBA Basketball World Cup, the tournament previously known as the FIBA World Championship. Hosted by Spain, it was the last tournament to be held on the then-current four-year cycle, the next FIBA World Cup will be held five years later, in 2019, to reset the four-year-cycle on a different year than the FIFA World Cup. FIBA opened the process on 10 January 2008 and all the letters of intent were submitted on 30 April 2008. Nine countries showed interest in hosting the event, as in order, they were Spain, France, Denmark, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Italy, Greece, and China. On 23 May 2009, after voting by the FIBA Central Board in Geneva in which the Chinese and Spanish representatives abstained, in the final round, Arvydas Sabonis and Saša Djordjević announced that Spain won the hosting rights with eleven votes as opposed to Italys eight. The Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid was the venue, hosting the final. Amongst venues used in FIBA EuroBasket 2007, the arenas in Granada, Seville, one arena, the Gran Canaria Arena, was the only new venue, being built after the tournament was awarded to Spain. The other cities hosted a group, on 17 April 2010, Barcelona was added to the list of cities to hold games, bringing the total venues to six. This was Barcelonas first time being part of an international event in basketball since the 1997 EuroBasket. Barcelona will host half of the games in the knockout stage, below is a list of the confirmed venues which were used to host games during the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup. Connor Floor was the supplier of the basketball courts for each of the six sites. There were 24 teams taking part in the 2014 World Cup of Basketball, after the 2012 Olympics, the continental allocation for FIBA Americas was reduced by one when the United States won the Olympic tournament, automatically qualifying them for the 2014 World Cup. But later the FIBA Central Board decided not to trim the list of wild card applicants on their Buenos Aires meeting, making all 15 teams eligible to be selected on the February meeting at Barcelona. On 1 February 2014, FIBA announced that it had allocated the wild cards to Brazil, Finland, Greece and Turkey. The Senegalese federation was suspended due to age fabrication in the 2013 FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Men and for Women. This was the first time the new expanded free throw lane, the restricted arc, the final round was held in two arenas, in the Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid and Palau Sant Jordi, as opposed to a singular arena in 2010. Also, the arrangement of the round of 16 match-ups in the bracket were changed, in 2010, a team from Group A or B can meet a team from Group C or D as early in the quarterfinals, and cannot meet their groupmates until the semifinals. In 2010, the round of 16 games were held in a span of four days, or two matches per day, in 2014, there would be four games per day, finally, the classification round for 5th place was also eliminated
2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup
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Countdown clock outside the
FIBA headquarters in
Mies,
Switzerland as of June 2013.
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Iberian peninsula
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2014 United States FIBA Basketball World Cup team
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The United States mens national basketball team won the gold medal at the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup held in Spain. Prior to 2014, the event was known as the FIBA World Championship, the 24-team tournament was held from August 30 to September 14, and the victory automatically qualified the U. S. into the 2016 Olympics in Brazil. Kyrie Irving was named the most valuable player of the tournament, the United States had automatically qualified for the World Cup by virtue of the gold medal won by their 2012 Olympic team. The Americans were widely expected to win the World Cup, and they were an undefeated 9–0 in the tournament, winning by an average margin of 33.0 points. The United States was just the country in World Cup history to repeat as champions. Combined with their 2010 World Championship along with gold by their 2008 and 2012 Olympic teams, the squad consisted of only six former NBA All-Stars after multiple stars declined to participate. Still, the team remained deep in NBA talent, and was considered the favorite to win the championship. Holdovers included 2012 Olympic gold medalists James Harden and Anthony Davis, in addition to Stephen Curry, Derrick Rose, the 2014 roster featured four players 6 feet 10 inches or larger, the most of any USA team since Mike Krzyzewski began coaching the team in 2006. The team was also the youngest American team since 1992, when professionals were first allowed on the team, in January 2014, USA Basketball announced their initial 28-man list of players to be considered for their roster for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. A 19-man preliminary roster was announced on July 14,2014, two of the players, DeMar DeRozan and Chandler Parsons, were not named to the initial January roster. On July 25, Blake Griffin pulled out due to concerns with his back, mired in unresolved trade talks between his Minnesota Timberwolves and other teams, Kevin Love withdrew on July 25. Love was replaced on the training camp roster by Paul Millsap on July 27, the day before, USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo said that final squad members could also potentially come from the Select Team that is scrimmaging with the main camp roster in Las Vegas. On July 29, Mason Plumlee was promoted to the team to give them an extra big man. During a scrimmage on August 1, Paul George suffered a fracture of both bones in his lower right leg, and underwent surgery hours after the injury. Georges injury was similar to one suffered by Louisville Cardinals player Kevin Ware during an 2013 NCAA tournament game against the Duke Blue Devils, the next set of cuts came on August 5, when Wall, Millsap, and Bradley Beal were cut. On August 7, Kevin Durant withdrew from the team, citing physical and mental fatigue, coupled with Georges injury, the small forward position went from being a strength to a weakness for Team USA. Shortly after Durants withdrawal, Gay was added to the preliminary roster, kyle Korver, Chandler Parsons, Gordon Hayward, and Damian Lillard were the final cuts on the team. Rose made the team after team officials were confident in the health of the 2010–11 NBA Most Valuable Player, Team USA entered the opening round with a 54-game winning steak, including exhibition games
2014 United States FIBA Basketball World Cup team
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Anthony Davis (left) and
James Harden (right) returned from the 2012 Olympic gold-medal team.
2014 United States FIBA Basketball World Cup team
2014 United States FIBA Basketball World Cup team
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left to right:
Jim Boeheim,
Monty Williams, and
Tom Thibodeau served as assistant coaches
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National Basketball Association
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The National Basketball Association is the major mens professional basketball league in North America, and is widely considered to be the premier mens professional basketball league in the world. It has 30 teams, and is a member of USA Basketball. The NBA is one of the four professional sports leagues in the United States. NBA players are the worlds best paid athletes by average annual salary per player, the league was founded in New York City on June 6,1946, as the Basketball Association of America. The league adopted the name National Basketball Association on August 3,1949, the leagues several international as well as individual team offices are directed out of its head offices located in the Olympic Tower at 645 Fifth Avenue in New York City. NBA Entertainment and NBA TV studios are directed out of offices located in Secaucus, the Basketball Association of America was founded in 1946 by owners of the major ice hockey arenas in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States and Canada. On November 1,1946, in Toronto, Canada, the Toronto Huskies hosted the New York Knickerbockers at Maple Leaf Gardens, the first basket was made by Ossie Schectman of the Knickerbockers. During its early years, the quality of play in the BAA was not significantly better than in competing leagues or among leading independent clubs such as the Harlem Globetrotters. For instance, the 1948 ABL finalist Baltimore Bullets moved to the BAA and won that leagues 1948 title, Following the 1948–49 season, the BAA took in the remainder of the NBL, Syracuse, Anderson, Tri-Cities, Sheboygan, Denver, and Waterloo. The new league had seventeen franchises located in a mix of large and small cities, as well as arenas and smaller gymnasiums. The process of contraction saw the leagues smaller-city franchises move to larger cities, the Hawks shifted from the Tri-Cities to Milwaukee in 1951, and then to St. Louis in 1955. The Rochester Royals moved from Rochester, New York, to Cincinnati in 1957, japanese-American Wataru Misaka broke the NBA color barrier in the 1947–48 season when he played for the New York Knicks. He remained the only player in league history prior to the first African-American, Harold Hunter. During this period, the Minneapolis Lakers, led by center George Mikan, won five NBA Championships, to encourage shooting and discourage stalling, the league introduced the 24-second shot clock in 1954. If a team does not attempt to score a goal within 24 seconds of obtaining the ball, play is stopped. In 1957, rookie center Bill Russell joined the Boston Celtics, who already featured guard Bob Cousy and coach Red Auerbach, and went on to lead the club to eleven NBA titles in thirteen seasons. Center Wilt Chamberlain entered the league with the Warriors in 1959 and became a dominant individual star of the 1960s, russells rivalry with Chamberlain became one of the greatest rivalries in the history of American team sports. The 1960s were dominated by the Celtics, led by Russell, Bob Cousy and coach Red Auerbach, Boston won eight straight championships in the NBA from 1959 to 1966
National Basketball Association
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The
headquarters of the National Basketball Association in the
Olympic Tower at 645
Fifth Avenue,
Midtown Manhattan,
New York City,
USA.
National Basketball Association
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Cities that hosted teams that played for more than one season in the NBA and/or
BAA from 1947–1959. Only
New York,
Boston, and
Detroit still have the same franchise.
National Basketball Association
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Bill Russell defending
Wilt Chamberlain in 1966.
National Basketball Association
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Los Angeles Lakers'
Magic Johnson and Boston Celtics'
Larry Bird in Game Two of the
1985 NBA Finals at Boston Garden.
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NBA Rookie of the Year
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The National Basketball Associations Rookie of the Year Award is an annual National Basketball Association award given to the top rookie of the regular season. Initiated following the 1952–53 NBA season, it confers the Eddie Gottlieb Trophy, the winner is selected by a panel of United States and Canadian sportswriters and broadcasters, each casting first, second, and third place votes. The player with the highest point total, regardless of the number of first-place votes, the most recent Rookie of the Year winner is Karl-Anthony Towns. Twenty-one winners were drafted first overall, fourteen winners have also won the NBA Most Valuable Player award in their careers, Wilt Chamberlain and Wes Unseld earning both honors the same season. Nineteen of the forty two non-active winners have been elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Three seasons had joint winners—Dave Cowens and Geoff Petrie in the 1970–71 season, Grant Hill and Jason Kidd in the 1994–95 season, five players won the award unanimously – Ralph Sampson, David Robinson, Blake Griffin, Damian Lillard, and Karl-Anthony Towns. Prior to the 1952–53 season, the Rookie of the Year was selected by newspaper writers, however, National Basketball Association portal NBA Development League Rookie of the Year Award NBA Rookie of the Month Award General Specific
NBA Rookie of the Year
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Wilt Chamberlain won the award in the
1959–60 NBA season.
NBA Rookie of the Year
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar won the award in the
1969–70 NBA season.
NBA Rookie of the Year
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Larry Bird won the award in the
1979–80 NBA season.
NBA Rookie of the Year
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Michael Jordan won the award in the
1984–85 NBA season.
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University of Memphis
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The University of Memphis, also called The U of M, is an American public research university located in the Normal Station neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee. Founded in 1912, the University has an enrollment of more than 22,000 students, with twenty-five Chairs of Excellence and five state-approved Centers of Excellence, the school is the flagship institution of The Tennessee Board of Regents system. The university maintains The Center for Earthquake Research and Information, The Cecil C, a faculty of approximately 930 professors serves about 17,000 undergraduate and 4,000 graduate students. The Daily Helmsman, the independent daily newspaper on the campus, in operation since 1925, in addition, many other student organizations and academic departments, such as the University of Memphis Institute for Egyptian Art and Archaeology, the Cecil C. Over its history, the University of Memphis has graduated many famous alumni, congressman Steve Cohen, actor and former U. S. Senator Fred D. Thompson, historian of the American South Joe Gray Taylor, the Division of Professional and Continuing Education at the University of Memphis provides non-credit instruction to people from all walks of life. Originally established in the 1970s, the programs include face-to-face short courses, customized training for businesses. The University of Memphis is governed by the Tennessee Board of Regents system, the board sets Policies and Guidelines that govern all TBR institutions. The Standing Committees of the Board, and some Ad Hoc Committees, meet prior to each Board meeting and include faculty, within this framework, the President of the University of Memphis is the day-to-day administrator of the university. Humphreys School of Law Graduate School School of Public Health Rudi E, in 1909, the Tennessee Legislature enacted the General Education Bill. This bill stated that three colleges be established, one within each division of the state and one additional school for African-American students. After much bidding and campaigning, the state had to choose between two sites to build the new college for West Tennessee, Jackson and Memphis. Memphis was chosen, one of the reasons being the proximity of the rail line to the site proposed to build the new college for West Tennessee. This would allow professors and students to go home and visit their relatives, the other three schools established through the General Education Act evolved into East Tennessee State University, Middle Tennessee State University, and Tennessee State University. This earlier University of Memphis was formed in 1909 by adding to an existing medical school departments of pharmacy, dentistry. On September 10,1912, West Tennessee Normal School opened in Memphis, by 1913 all departments of the earlier University of Memphis, except the law school, had been taken over by West Tennessee Normal School. After Mynders death in 1913, John Willard Brister was chosen to take his place, after Bristers resignation in 1918, Andrew A. Kincannon became president. In 1924, Brister returned to his post as president of the school, the name changed in 1925 to West Tennessee State Teachers College
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University of Memphis welcome sign
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The University of Memphis
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Student Activities Plaza
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Ned R. McWherter Library
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John Calipari
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John Vincent Calipari is an American college basketball coach. Since 2009, he has been the coach at the University of Kentucky. Calipari was previously the coach at the University of Memphis. He was also the coach of the National Basketball Associations New Jersey Nets. Calipari has been to four Final Fours with Kentucky, Calipari is the only head coach to have Final Four appearances vacated at more than one school. As a college coach, Calipari has 21 20-win seasons, eight 30-win seasons and he has been named Naismith College Coach of the Year three times and led Kentucky to its eighth NCAA Championship in 2012. Calipari was born in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Calipari lettered two years at UNC Wilmington before transferring to Clarion University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with a bachelors degree in marketing. He played point guard at Clarion during the 1981 and 1982 seasons, leading the team in assists, from 1982 to 1985, Calipari was an assistant at the University of Kansas under Ted Owens and Larry Brown. Calipari had several jobs as the lowest coach in the order when Ted Owens hired him as a volunteer assistant for the Jayhawks 1982–83 season. I was blessed to have the chance, can you imagine being 22,23 and your first opportunity to be around the game is at a program like Kansas. From 1985 to 1988, he was an assistant coach at the University of Pittsburgh under Paul Evans, from 1988 to 1996, he was head coach at the University of Massachusetts. From 1996 to 1999, he was coach and Executive VP of basketball operations for the NBAs New Jersey Nets. During the 1999–2000 season, he was an assistant coach for the Philadelphia 76ers under coach Larry Brown and he was inducted into the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame in 2004. Calipari is famous for popularizing the dribble drive motion offense, developed by Vance Walberg, in his 22 official seasons as a collegiate head coach, Caliparis record is 593–174. His record in the month of March is 107–37 and his NCAA adjusted official record in the NCAA tournament is 38–12, and in the NIT is 15–6. As a college coach, Calipari has 21 20-win seasons and 9 30-win seasons and he has also coached 6 teams to the NIT, winning the NIT Championship at Memphis in 2002. He is one of four coaches in NCAA Division I history to direct three different schools to a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. From 1988 to 1996 at UMass, Calipari led the Minutemen program to five consecutive Atlantic 10 titles and NCAA Tournament appearances and he finished with a 193–71 record overall, with a 91–41 record in Atlantic 10 conference games
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Calipari at Wizards game in 2014
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Calipari directing his players during an away game against
Conference USA rival
University of Houston in January 2007.
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Tom Izzo and Calipari, two of the highest paid college coaches in 2012, talk while scouting a blue chip recruit
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Philadelphia 76ers
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The Philadelphia 76ers are an American professional basketball team based in Philadelphia metropolitan area. The 76ers compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the leagues Eastern Conference Atlantic Division. Founded in 1946 and originally known as the Syracuse Nationals, they are one of the oldest franchises in the NBA and they have won three NBA championships, with their first coming as the Syracuse Nationals in 1955. The second title came in the 1966–67 season, a team which was led by Chamberlain, the third title came in the 1982–83 season, won by a team led by Erving and Malone. The 76ers have only been back to the NBA Finals once since then, in 2001, while in the NBL with teams largely consisting of small Midwestern towns, the Nationals put together a 21–23 record, finishing in 4th place. In the playoffs, the Nats would be beaten by the fellow upstate neighbor Rochester Royals in 4 games, in their second season, 1947–48, the Nationals would struggle, finishing in 5th place with a 24–36 record. Despite their struggles, the Nats would make the playoffs, getting swept by the Anderson Duffey Packers in 3 straight games, several teams began to leave the NBL for the BAA as the foundation for an absorption was laid. The Nationals recipe for success began by recruiting Leo Ferris, in the playoffs the Nationals would make quick work of the Hammond Calumet Buccaneers, winning the series in 2 straight games. However, in the semifinals the Nats would fall to the Anderson Duffey Packers for the second season in 4 games. In 1949, the Nationals were one of seven NBL teams that were absorbed by the Basketball Association of America to form the NBA, the Nationals were an instant success in the NBA, winning the Eastern Division in the 1949–1950 season, with a league best record of 51–13. In the playoffs the Nationals continued to play basketball, beating the Philadelphia Warriors in 2 straight. Moving on to the Eastern Finals, the Nationals battled the New York Knickerbockers, in the NBA Finals, the Nationals faced fellow NBL alums the Minneapolis Lakers. In Game 1 of the Finals the Nats lost just their home game of the season 68–66. The Nats did not recover, as they fell behind 3 games to 1 before falling in 6 games, despite several teams leaving the NBA for the National Professional Basketball League before the 1950–1951 season, the Nationals decided to stay put. In their second NBA season the Nationals played mediocre basketball all season, however, in the playoffs the Nats played their best basketball of the season as they stunned the 1st place Philadelphia Warriors in 2 straight, taking Game 1 on the road in overtime 91–89. In the Eastern Finals the Nationals were beaten by the New York Knickerbockers in a hard-fought 5-game series, in the playoffs the Nats knocked off the Philadelphia Warriors again in a 3-game series. However, in the Eastern Finals the Nats fell to the New York Knickerbockers again, the Nationals would finish in 2nd place in a hard fought 3-way battle for first place in the Eastern Division for the 1952–1953 season, with a record of 47–24. In the playoffs the Nationals would face the Boston Celtics dropping Game 1 at home 87–81, the Nationals acquired Alex Groza, and Ralph Beard as the Indianapolis Olympians folded leaving the NBA with just 9 teams for the 1953–1954 season
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Dolph Schayes joined the Syracuse Nationals in 1949 and played with them until their relocation to Philadelphia following the 1962–63 season. He retired in 1964 after playing 29 games with the 76ers.
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Wilt Chamberlain joined the Sixers in 1965, and in his third season (1967), he led the team to the NBA title.
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Philadelphia-born
Joe Bryant was a first round draft pick who played for the 76ers between 1975–1979.
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Portland Trail Blazers
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The Portland Trail Blazers, commonly known as the Blazers, are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. The Trail Blazers compete in the National Basketball Association as a club of the leagues Western Conference Northwest Division. The team played its games in the Memorial Coliseum before moving to Moda Center in 1995. The team has advanced to the NBA Finals three times, winning the NBA championship once in 1977 and their other NBA Finals appearances were in 1990 and 1992. The team has qualified for the playoffs in 31 seasons of their 45-season existence, including a streak of 21 straight appearances from 1983 through 2003, the second longest streak in NBA history. The Trail Blazers 31 playoff appearances rank third in the NBA only behind the Los Angeles Lakers, six Hall of Fame players have played for the Trail Blazers. Bill Walton is the franchises most decorated player, he was the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player in 1977, four Blazer rookies have won the NBA Rookie of the Year award. Sports promoter Harry Glickman sought a National Basketball Association franchise for Portland as far back as 1955 when he proposed two new teams, the other to be located in Los Angeles. To raise the money for the $3.7 million admission tax, Glickman associated himself to real estate magnates Robert Schmertz of New Jersey, Larry Weinberg of Los Angeles and Herman Sarkowsky of Seattle. Two weeks later, on February 24, team management held a contest to select the teams name, the most popular choice was Pioneers, but that name was excluded from consideration as it was already used by sports teams at Portlands Lewis & Clark College. The name Trail Blazers received 172 entries, and was selected by the judging panel. Despite initial mixed response, the Trail Blazers name, often shortened to just Blazers, along with the Cleveland Cavaliers and Buffalo Braves, the Trail Blazers entered the NBA in 1970 as an expansion team, under coach Rolland Todd. Geoff Petrie and Sidney Wicks led the team in its years. During that span, the team had three coaches, team executive Stu Inman also served as coach. The team won the first pick in the NBA draft twice during that span, in 1972, the team drafted LaRue Martin with the number one pick, and in 1974 the team selected Bill Walton from UCLA. In 1976, the ABA–NBA merger saw those two rival leagues join forces, four ABA teams joined the NBA, the remaining teams were dissolved and their players distributed among the remaining NBA squads in a dispersal draft. The Trail Blazers selected Maurice Lucas in the dispersal draft and that summer, they also hired Jack Ramsay as head coach. The two moves, coupled with the stellar play, led Portland to several firsts, winning record, playoff appearance
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In his first season as the Trail Blazers head coach,
Jack Ramsay led the team to their first playoff berth and eventually
the championship.
Bill Walton was the
NBA Finals MVP.
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Portland Trail Blazers
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Clyde Drexler played in Portland from 1983 to 1995.
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After being drafted by the Trail Blazers several years prior,
Arvydas Sabonis made his NBA debut during the 1995–96 season.
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Englewood, Chicago
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Englewood is one of the 77 official community areas in Chicago, Illinois, United States. At its peak population in 1960, over 97,000 people lived in its approximately 3 square miles, in 2000, it had a population of approximately 40,000 inhabitants, and the 2010 census indicated that its population has further declined to approximately 30,000. Englewood is bordered by Garfield Boulevard to the north, 75th Street to the south, Western Avenue to the west and it is located on the southwest side of Chicago. Before the city of Chicago was established, the area that is now Englewood was largely inhabited by Mascouten Indians. In 1839, the US Government Land Office of Chicago stated that the land was habitable, in the 1850s and 1860s, as Chicago was becoming a city of railroad tracks and economic prosperity, Englewood was just another supporting neighborhood. But in 1871, when the Great Chicago Fire destroyed a portion of Chicago. Englewoods railroad connections to downtown Chicago made it a convenient location, Englewood Station once served many railroad passengers, in 1889, over 1,000 trains would pass through Englewood every day. Englewood was the home of Dr. H. H. Holmes and his hotel at Wallace and 63rd streets was the scene of most of his crimes and earned it the sobriquet Murder Castle. The Englewood community was defined by the Englewood Shopping Center at 63rd & Halsted. The City, social services, and mall management worked with community leaders, the goal was to make the mall a vital part of the community, and a central part of everyday life. It was the site of community events, parades, outdoor concerts, live radio broadcasts. This was spearheaded by the Englewood Business Mens Association and its director, mr. Drew died in 1978, and with his passing the Association lost its community focus. The Center subsequently lost its anchor tenants, including Sears Roebuck. In 1999, Mayor Richard M. Daley announced a $256 million revitalization plan for the area, the keystone of the program is the relocation of Kennedy-King College to the former site of the Englewood Shopping Center. Shortly thereafter the city began an aggressive buyout and relocation program for mall merchants, the campus includes the Washburne Culinary Institute. Groundbreaking for the new, 40-acre campus occurred on November 9,2005, digital images of Englewood can be found in Explore Chicago Collections, a digital repository made available by Chicago Collections archives, libraries and other cultural institutions in the city. In 1960 Englewood had 67,216 black people and 51,583 white people, at the time most black people resided around 63rd Street. At the time the income of Englewood was $5,579
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The intersection of 63rd and Halsted, looking south. The Halsted 'L' station can be seen crossing Halsted in the distance. Kennedy-King College occupies the buildings on the left of the photo. The building on the right burned in 2014.
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Location within the city of Chicago
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Soccer team 1908
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Shopping Center, circa 1974
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South Side, Chicago
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The South Side is part of the city of Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the three parts of the city, the others being the West Side and the North Side. Much of it evolved from the incorporation of independent townships. The citys sides have historically divided by the Chicago River. The South Side of Chicago was originally defined as all of the city south of the branch of the Chicago River. The South Side has an ethnic composition. It has great disparity in income and other demographic measures, although it has a reputation for being poor or crime-infested, the reality is more varied. The South Side ranges from affluent to middle class to working class to impoverished, the South Side is served by bus and L train via the Chicago Transit Authority and a number of Metra lines. It has several interstate and national highways, there is some debate as to the South Sides boundaries. The citys address numbering system uses a grid demarcating Madison Street as the East-West axis, Madison is in the middle of the Loop. As a result, much of the downtown Loop district is south of Madison Street, One definition has the South Side beginning at Roosevelt Road, at the Loops southern boundary, with the community area known as the Near South Side immediately adjacent. Lake Michigan and the Indiana state line provide eastern boundaries, the southern border changed over time because of Chicagos evolving city limits, the city limits are now at 138th Street. Using the Roosevelt Road boundary, the South Side is larger than the North, the exact boundaries dividing the Southwest, South and Southeast Sides vary by source. The differing interpretations of the boundary between the South and Southwest Sides are due to a lack of a natural or artificial boundary. One source states that the boundary is Western Avenue or the tracks adjacent to Western Avenue. This border extends south to a former railroad right of way paralleling Beverly Avenue. The Southwest Side of Chicago is a subsection of the South Side comprising mainly residential, predominantly white, architecturally, the Southwest Side is distinguished by the tract of Chicagos Bungalow Belt, which runs through it. With its factories, steel mills and meat-packing plants, the South Side saw a period of immigration which began around the 1840s
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The
Victory Monument, which is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places, is located in the
Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District near the starting point of the
Bud Billiken Parade
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In 2008,
One Museum Park (left May 25, 2008) replaced
1700 East 56th Street (right June 2, 2007) as the tallest South Side building. It has also replaced
340 on the Park as the tallest all-residential building in Chicago.
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A typical
Chicago Bungalow, examples of which are found in abundance on the South Side.
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Ben Wilson (basketball)
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He was the first player from Chicago to receive this honor. On November 20,1984, Wilson was shot twice during a confrontation with a student from a high school. He died the morning due to the injuries he sustained in the shooting. Ben Wilson was one of three born to Ben Wilson Sr. and Mary Wilson and was raised in the Chatham neighborhood on Chicagos South Side. Mary Wilson had two sons from a previous marriage, Wilson began playing basketball at an early age, starting in elementary school. He started at St. Dorothy School and later transferred to Ruggles Elementary School, Wilson practiced at Cole Park in Chatham and participated in summer league games in Chicago. As his game developed, friends and family surrounding Wilson began to notice that his talent could make him one of the best, if not the best, Chicagos violent crime rate was very high during this time as well, especially in the South Side. In the fall of 1981, he began his year at Simeon. During the 1982–83 season, Wilson was the only sophomore on the varsity basketball team, for the 1983–84 season, Simeon advanced to the Illinois AA State Championship, which was held at Assembly Hall on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. ESPN HS regarded Wilson as the best junior in the country for the 1983–84 season and he would play basketball with R. Kelly and Nick Anderson. In July 1984, Wilson attended the invitation-only Athletes For Better Education camp in Princeton, the camp allowed scouts and coaches to watch top high school students in a single location. After the week-long event, Wilson was ranked the high school player in America. As his senior season approached, it was believed that Wilson was considering offers from the University of Illinois, DePaul University. Wilson and Rush began dating during their year, and the relationship progressed quickly from there. The two quickly became active, which Wilson tried to keep a secret from his family. Eventually, the secret got out when Mary Wilson received a call one night that Rush had given birth to a baby boy. The stress of being a new father exacerbated all of the pressure on Wilson from being named the top recruit. To make matters worse, Rush began avoiding Wilson for reasons that were never made clear, the entire emotional toll wore on Wilson to the point where he grabbed Rush during a rather heated argument in an attempt to force her to talk to him
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A photo of Ben Wilson taken in 1984. Wilson had been ranked as the top high schooler in the nation in the preseason basketball rankings and he was often photographed afterwards holding up one finger to indicate this.
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Rebound (basketball)
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In basketball, a rebound, colloquially referred to as a board, is a statistic awarded to a player who retrieves the ball after a missed field goal or free throw. Rebounds are also given to a player who tips in a shot on his teams offensive end. Rebounds in basketball are a part in the game, as all possessions change after a shot is successfully made. A rebound can be grabbed by either a player or a defensive player. The majority of rebounds are defensive because the team on defense tends to be in position to recover missed shots. Offensive rebounds give the team another opportunity to score whether right away or by resetting the offense. A block is not considered a rebound, a ball does not need to actually rebound off the rim or backboard for a rebound to be credited. Rebounds are credited after any missed shot, including air balls, if a player takes a shot and misses and the ball bounces on the ground before someone picks it up, then the person who picks up the ball is credited for a rebound. Rebounds are credited to the first player that gains possession of the ball or to the player that successfully deflects the ball into the basket for a score. A rebound is credited to a team when it gains possession of the ball after any missed shot that is not cleared by a single player, great rebounders tend to be tall and strong. Because height is so important, most rebounds are made by centers and power forwards, the lack of height can sometimes be compensated by the strength to box out taller players away from the ball to capture the rebound. For example, Charles Barkley once led the league in rebounding despite usually being much shorter than his counterparts, also, some shorter guards can be excellent rebounders as well such as point guard Jason Kidd who led the New Jersey Nets in rebounding for several years. Great rebounders must also have a sense of timing and positioning. Great leaping ability is an important asset, but not absolutely necessary, players such as Larry Bird and Moses Malone were excellent rebounders, but were never known for their leaping ability. Bird has stated, Most rebounds are taken below the rim, the action can also be called blocking out. A team can be boxed out by players using this technique to stop the other team from rebounding. Because fighting for a rebound can be physical, rebounding is often regarded as grunt work or a hustle play. Overly aggressive boxing out or preventing being boxed out can lead to personal fouls, statistics of a players rebounds per game or rebounding average measure a players rebounding effectiveness by dividing the number of rebounds by the number of games played
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Iñaki de Miguel, Spanish basketball player, capturing a rebound in an international game.
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After
Trey Burke attempts a
layup,
Glenn Robinson III makes an offensive rebound.
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Paul White (#13) and L. J. Peak (#10) box out D. J. Williams (#4) While
Jahlil Okafor boxes out
Jabari Parker on a
Kendrick Nunn free throw during a
Chicago Public High School League game between
Simeon Career Academy and
Whitney M. Young Magnet High School at the
Jones Convocation Center
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Chicago Public High School League
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The Chicago Public High School Athletic Association, commonly known as the Chicago Public League, is the interscholastic competition arm of the Chicago Public Schools. The governance of the CPL is set through the Department of Sports Administration, origins of the Chicago Public League can be traced back to its predecessor, the Cook County High School League, which started during 1889-90. Some of the schools participated in the Cook County League still exist today, Crane, Englewood, Lincoln Park, Hyde Park, Phillips, Calumet, Marshall, Austin, Lake. The suburban schools joined by University High formed the Suburban League, in the first 15 years of the Public leagues history a full plethora of sports were offered. The dominant powers were such traditional powers as Hyde Park, Lane Tech, Crane Tech, Englewood, joined by new powers Senn, Lindblom, Schurz, and Tilden Tech. The CPL did not return to girls interscholastics until the early 1970s, the CPL as it stands today is very diverse with nearly every major nationality and race represented in all sports. The CPL is headed by the Director of Sports Administration and Facilities of the Chicago Public Schools, calvin Davis currently holds this position. Under the Director are the City Wide Sport Coordinators, who govern competition in the sports that they are assigned, some coordinators handle multiple sports, one example is Mickey Pruitt, a graduate of Robeson and former member of the Chicago Bears. Pruitt currently governs competition in football, wrestling and lacrosse, nearly every sport has four playing levels, Varsity, Sophomore, Freshman and Elementary. Incoming freshmen can play-up to either sophomore or varsity levels, the same with sophomores for the varsity, the championship trophy of the CPL is noted by The Shield. A school holding one of these trophies is recognized as having beaten a very large field of competitors for the city title, until 2004, the trophy was made of wood with either a gold or silver plate notating champion or runner-up finish. Since 2004, it is now made of marble with gold trimming. Between 1972 and 2002, the holder of The Shield gained automatic entry into the Illinois State Finals in most sports, since then, the city championship has been decided prior to the start of the state tournament. Another reason schools play for The Shield is the venues that play in. Every year The Shield is contested in a number of professional or major college stadiums, with the exception of soccer, football, girls basketball and baseball, each sport in the CPL has two distinct playing divisions, Red and Blue. The Red division is considered the highest level of competition city-wide, in soccer, there are 4 divisions, Premier, 1st Division, 2nd Division, and 3rd Division respectively. In football, there are three divisions, the Illini Conference, the Chicago Conference and the Intra-City Conference, in baseball, various divisions are notated by the names of famous major league baseball players, with the highest competition division being the Jackie Robinson conference. In girls basketball, there are three divisions, Red, Blue, and Green, CPL sanctioning of football dates back to 1913
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Jahlil Okafor in a baseline drive against
Jabari Parker and Russell Woods in a Chicago Public High School League game. (January 26, 2013)
Chicago Public High School League
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United Center
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United Center is an indoor sports arena located in the Near West Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The United Center is home to both the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association and the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League, the arena is named after its city-based corporate sponsor, United Airlines. The plan to build the arena was created by then Blackhawks owner Bill Wirtz, the United Centers predecessor was the Chicago Stadium, the original Madhouse on Madison, which was demolished after the new arena opened for business on August 18,1994. The first-ever event at the United Center was the WWF event SummerSlam, due to the 1994–95 NHL lockout, the Blackhawks did not move in until January 1995. The Bulls and Blackhawks operate the United Center through the United Center Joint Venture and it covers 960,000 square feet and is located on a 46-acre parcel, west of the Chicago Loop. The arena is the largest in the United States in physical size and its exterior bears a striking resemblance to that of Chicago Stadium. It seats 19,717 for hockey,20,917 for basketball, the United Center hosts over 200 events per year and has drawn over 20 million visitors since its opening. It is known for routinely exceeding seating capacity for Bulls and Blackhawks games, United Centers acoustics were designed to amplify the noise level in order to recreate The Roar – the din of noise that made Chicago Stadium famous, especially during hockey games. During hockey season, an Allen Organ that is a replica of the old arenas famous Barton organ is used, the building is 140 feet tall, and cost $175 million to build, mainly consisting of concrete and 3,500 tons of steel. The planning had 216 luxury skyboxes, and as of the 2009–10 renovation, both the Chicago Blackhawks and the Chicago Bulls play here during their seasons with some of their games happening on back to back nights. With this, the floor for the Bulls games is laid across the top of the ice that the Blackhawks play on. The floor is put together like a puzzle and taken apart when the Blackhawks have a game, the arena was the Bulls home during their second run of three consecutive championships, hosting the 1996,1997, and 1998 NBA Finals. The Bulls won the 1996 and 1997 series in the game at home. It also hosted the last of World Championship Wrestlings annual Spring Stampede pay-per-view in 2000, the arena has hosted the Stanley Cup Finals three times, in 2010,2013, and 2015. The Blackhawks won the first two Stanley Cups on the ice of their opponent in the game of the series. However, they won the 2015 series against the Tampa Bay Lightning at home in the sixth game, on the weekend of March 5–6,2011, the Professional Bull Riders made their Built Ford Tough Series debut at the United Center. It was their third Chicago-area visit, having previously visited Rosemonts Allstate Arena in 2006 and 2008, the event at the United Center presented a unique scenario as instead of dirt, white crushed stone was used to cover the arena floor. The Blackhawks announced that hockey legends Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita would receive bronze statues in their honor outside of the United Center during the 2011–12 NHL season, the Illinois State High School Hockey Championships are hosted at the United Center yearly for the Blackhawk Cup
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The United Center in 2014
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The United Center during a Bulls basketball game
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A picture of the Michael Jordan statue, known as "The Spirit", located on the east side of the United Center.
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The United Center's configuration for Blackhawks
hockey games.
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EA Sports
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EA Sports is a brand of Electronic Arts that creates and develops sports video games. The best selling EA Sports series is the FIFA series with over 100 million units sold, the main rival to EA Sports is 2K Sports. Notably, both compete over the realm of NBA games. EA Sports inherits its motto Its in the game from the parent company and it was voiced by journalist Andrew Anthony. Madden NFL08 also had Xbox and Nintendo GameCube releases in 2007, additionally, NASCAR Thunder 2003 and NASCAR Thunder 2004 were released not only for the PlayStation 2, but for the original PlayStation as well. EA Sports brand name is used to sponsor English Football League One team Swindon Town F. C. from the 2009–10 season onwards, most EA Sports games are distinguished by year, as most games are released on a yearly basis. In 2002, EA purchased the license to NASCAR for six years, ending competition from Papyrus, on December 13,2004, EA Sports signed an exclusive deal with the National Football League and its Players Union for five years. On February 12,2008, EA Sports announced the extension of its exclusive deal until the 2012 NFL season, less than a month after the NFL Exclusive deal, EA Sports signed a four-year exclusive deal with the Arena Football League. On April 11,2005, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, EA lost the rights for Major League Baseball games to 2K Sports in 2005, ending EAs MVP series, however, EA made NCAA Baseball games in 2006 and 2007 after losing the MLB license. In January 2008, EA Sports decided not to renew their NCAA College Baseball license while they evaluate the status of their MVP game engine. In 2005, EA Sports and ESPN signed a massive 15-year deal for ESPN to be integrated into EA Sports video games from 2K Sports, EAs use of the ESPN license has steadily increased over the early life of the deal. EAs early usage of the ESPN license began with ESPN Radio and a sports ticker in titles like Madden NFL, NBA Live, Tiger Woods PGA Tour, the ESPN integration now includes streaming podcasts, text articles, and ESPN Motion video. In 2012, EA signs a multi-year, multi-product partnership with the Ultimate Fighting Championship, taking over from THQ. In June 2009, EA Sports announced that for 2010, the games Madden NFL, NCAA Football, NASCAR, NHL, NBA Live, the NHL series last PC game was NHL09. Likewise, NBA Live 08 was the final PC version for NBA Live, EA Sports released FIFA World as a free-to-play massively multi-player game which is exclusive to the PC on the 12th November 2013. The company noted that the FIFA and FIFA Manager series would still be released for the PC platform, on April 23,2009, EA Sports released the long-awaited EA Sports Complex space for the PlayStation 3s online community-based service, PlayStation Home in the European and North American versions. In the Complex, users can play a series of mini-games, including poker, kart racing, golf, there are also a number of advertisements for upcoming EA Sports games. Each mini-game that the Complex features has a reward or rewards, heavy Water, a company dedicated to developing for Home, developed the EA Sports Complex for EA Sports
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EA Sportsnour ayman
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Sports Illustrated
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Sports Illustrated is an American sports media franchise owned by Time Inc. Its self-titled magazine has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million people each week and it was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the National Magazine Award for General Excellence twice. Its swimsuit issue, which has published since 1964, is now an annual publishing event that generates its own television shows, videos. There were two magazines named Sports Illustrated before the current magazine began on August 16,1954, in 1936, Stuart Scheftel created Sports Illustrated with a target market for the sportsman. He published the magazine from 1936 to 1938 on a monthly basis, the magazine was a life magazine size and focused on golf, tennis, and skiing with articles on the major sports. He then sold the name to Dell Publications, which released Sports Illustrated in 1949, dells version focused on major sports and competed on magazine racks against Sport and other monthly sports magazines. During the 1940s these magazines were monthly and they did not cover the current events because of the production schedules, there was no large-base, general, weekly sports magazine with a national following on actual active events. It was then that Time patriarch Henry Luce began considering whether his company should attempt to fill that gap, at the time, many believed sports was beneath the attention of serious journalism and did not think sports news could fill a weekly magazine, especially during the winter. A number of advisers to Luce, including Life magazines Ernest Havemann, tried to kill the idea, but Luce, the goal of the new magazine was to be basically a magazine, but with sports. Launched on August 16,1954, it was not profitable and not particularly well run at first, but Luces timing was good. The popularity of sports in the United States was about to explode. The early issues of the magazine seemed caught between two opposing views of its audience, after more than a decade of steady losses, the magazines fortunes finally turned around in the 1960s when Andre Laguerre became its managing editor. A European correspondent for Time, Inc, in May 1956, Luce brought Laguerre to New York to become assistant managing editor of the magazine. He was also one of the first to sense the rise of national interest in professional football, Laguerre also instituted the innovative concept of one long story at the end of every issue, which he called the bonus piece. His genius as an editor was that he made you want to please him, Laguerre is also credited with the conception and creation of the annual Swimsuit Issue, which quickly became, and remains, the most popular issue each year. Regular illustration features by artists like Robert Riger, high school football Player of the Month awards. In 2015 Sports Illustrated purchased a group of companies and combined them to create Sports Illustrated Play. The magazines photographers also made their mark with innovations like putting cameras in the goal at a hockey game, by 1967, the magazine was printing 200 pages of fast color a year, in 1983, SI became the first American full-color newsweekly
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The first issue of Sports Illustrated, showing
Milwaukee Braves star
Eddie Mathews at bat and
New York Giants catcher
Wes Westrum in
Milwaukee County Stadium
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Mark Ford, President of the Sports Illustrated Group in 2010
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Madison Square Garden
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Madison Square Garden, often called MSG or simply The Garden, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Located in Midtown Manhattan between 7th and 8th Avenues from 31st to 33rd Streets, it is situated atop Pennsylvania Station. The Garden is used for basketball and ice hockey, as well as boxing, concerts, ice shows, circuses, professional wrestling and other forms of sports. It is close to other midtown Manhattan landmarks, including the Empire State Building, Koreatown and it is home to the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League, the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association, and residency to singer-songwriter Billy Joel. The Garden opened on February 11,1968, and is the oldest major sporting facility in the New York metropolitan area and it is the oldest arena in the National Hockey League and the second-oldest arena in the National Basketball Association. MSG is the fourth-busiest music arena in the world in terms of sales, behind The O2 Arena. At a total construction cost of approximately $1.1 billion and it is part of the Pennsylvania Plaza office and retail complex. Several other operating entities related to the Garden share its name, Madison Square is formed by the intersection of 5th Avenue and Broadway at 23rd Street in Manhattan. It was named after James Madison, fourth President of the United States, two venues called Madison Square Garden were located just northeast of the square, the first from 1879 to 1890, and the second from 1890 to 1925. The first Garden, leased to P. T. Barnum, had no roof and was inconvenient to use during inclement weather, Madison Square Garden II was designed by noted architect Stanford White. The new building was built by a syndicate which included J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, P. T. Barnum, Darius Mills, James Stillman and W. W. Astor. It was 200 feet by 485 feet, and the main hall and it had a 1, 200-seat theatre, a concert hall with a capacity of 1,500, the largest restaurant in the city and a roof garden cabaret. A third Madison Square Garden opened in a new location, on 8th Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets, from 1925 to 1968, groundbreaking on the third Madison Square Garden took place on January 9,1925. Designed by the theater architect Thomas W. Lamb, it was built at the cost of $4.75 million in 249 days by boxing promoter Tex Rickard. The arena was 200 feet by 375 feet, with seating on three levels, and a capacity of 18,496 spectators for boxing. Demolition commenced in 1968 after the opening of the current Garden and it finished up in early 1969, and the site is now where One Worldwide Plaza is located. The new structure was one of the first of its kind to be built above the platforms of a railroad station. It was an engineering feat constructed by Robert E. McKee of El Paso, public outcry over the demolition of the Pennsylvania Station structure—an outstanding example of Beaux-Arts architecture—led to the creation of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
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The
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A basketball game at Madison Square Garden circa 1968
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Madison Square Garden's upper bowl concourse, seen in January 2014 during a Rangers game.
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The completely transformed Madison Square Garden in January 2014 (with a new HD scoreboard), as the
New York Rangers play against the
St. Louis Blues.
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Rice High School (New York)
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Rice High School was a private, Roman Catholic, college preparatory high school in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, United States. It is located within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York and it held its final graduation ceremony on 27 May 2011. Rice High School was established in 1938 in Central Harlem by the Congregation of Christian Brothers, the building it occupied was converted from a YWCA. The school was the subject of a 2008 book by Patrick McCloskey, The Street Stops Here, A Year at a Catholic High School in Harlem. M. C
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The edifice of the former Rice High School.
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Kemba Walker
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Kemba Hudley Walker is an American professional basketball player for the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association. Walker was drafted ninth overall by the Charlotte Bobcats in the 2011 NBA draft, Walker grew up in The Bronx, New York, and graduated from Rice High School in 2008. Walker played college basketball for the Connecticut mens basketball team, Walker attended Rice High School in Harlem, New York. In his junior year, Walker played against Simeon Career Academy, during Walkers senior year he averaged 18.2 points per game and 5.3 assists per game, earning him a spot on the prestigious McDonalds All-American Team. Walker played for the New York Gauchos AAU basketball program with fellow Big East players Jordan Theodore, Darryl Truck Bryant, Devin Hill, the team went on to finish #1 in the nation. Considered a five-star recruit by Rivals. com, Walker was listed as the No.5 point guard, during his freshman year at UConn, Walker played in every game and was named to the Big East All-Rookie Team. He helped the Huskies achieve a number one seed in the 2009 NCAA Tournament, despite starting in only two games he averaged 25.5 minutes per game, far more than any regular non-starter. He also helped the Huskies go to the 2009 Final Four with a 23-point effort in the Elite Eight vs Missouri, Walker played and started all 34 games in 2009–10 season. He contributed 14.6 points per game and led the Huskies in scoring for the time in the last nine games of the season with 18 points at Virginia Tech. Walker was named First Team USBWA All-District, Connecticut earned a 4 seed in 2010 National Invitation Tournament, but fell short to Virginia Tech as the Huskies finished a disappointing season going 18–16 in conference play. Walker rose to prominence in his junior year, twelve games into his junior campaign, Walker was the nations leading scorer. In addition, he averaged five rebounds and 3.8 assists per game, Walker appeared on one of the six regional covers Sports Illustrated. In the 2011 Big East Tournament, Walker hit the winning shot as time expired to beat #3 overall Pittsburgh. He led UConn to victory over University of Louisville in the Big East Championship game and was named MVP for the tournament, Walker scored 130 points in five games, a Big East Tournament record and the most points scored in any conference tournament in the past 15 seasons. UConn became the first school to win five games in five days to earn a conference championship, on March 14,2011, The United States Basketball Writers Association named Walker a first team All-American. He was picked to the Second Team All-America by Fox Sports and he was also a finalist for College Basketball Player of the Year honors due to his performance in the 2010–11 season. Although he finished second, two journalists thought that Walker was the best player in basketball that year. Walker was named the winner of the Bob Cousy Award for the top point guard in the nation, Walker was added to the Huskies of Honor upon the teams return from Houston at a pep rally to celebrate the National Title
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Walker with the Bobcats in 2013
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Walker shoots during a game against the
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ESPN
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ESPN is a U. S. -based global cable and satellite sports television channel owned by ESPN Inc. a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company and the Hearst Corporation. ESPN broadcasts primarily from studio facilities located in Bristol, Connecticut, the network also operates offices in Miami, New York City, Seattle, Charlotte, and Los Angeles. John Skipper currently serves as president of ESPN, a position he has held since January 1,2012, as of February 2015, ESPN is available to approximately 94,396,000 paid television households in the United States. In 2011, ESPNs history and rise was chronicled by These Guys Have All the Fun, Bill Rasmussen conceived the concept of ESPN in late May 1978, after he was fired from his job with the World Hockey Associations New England Whalers. One of the first steps in Bill and his son Scotts process was finding land to build the channels broadcasting facilities, the Rasmussens first rented office space in Plainville, Connecticut. However, the plan to base ESPN there was put on hold because a local ordinance prohibiting buildings from bearing rooftop satellite dishes and this helped the credibility of the fledgling company, however there were still many doubters to the viability of their sports channel concept. ESPN launched on September 7,1979, beginning with the first telecast of what would become the flagship program. Taped in front of a live audience inside the Bristol studios. ESPNs next big break came when the acquired the rights to broadcast coverage of the early rounds of the NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament. It first aired the NCAA tournament in March 1980, creating the modern day television event known as March Madness. The channels tournament coverage also launched the career of Dick Vitale. In April of that year, ESPN created another made-for-TV spectacle, the next major stepping stone for ESPN came over the course of a couple of months in 1984. During this time period, the American Broadcasting Company purchased 100% of ESPN from the Rasmussens, for years, the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball refused to consider cable as a means of broadcasting some of their games. However, with the backing of ABC, ESPNs ability to compete for major sports contracts greatly increased, later in 1984, the U. S. ESPNs Sunday Night Football games would become the highest-rated NFL telecasts for the next 17 years. In 1992, ESPN launched ESPN Radio, a sports talk radio network providing analysis. It became the fastest growing cable channel in the U. S. during the 1990s, ownership of ABC, and in effect control of ESPN, was acquired first by Capital Cities Communications in 1985, and then by The Walt Disney Company in 1996. In 2012, ESPN generated more revenue for Disney than any of its other properties combined, alongside its live sports broadcasts, ESPN also airs a variety of sports highlight, talk, and documentary-styled shows. 30 for 30 started airing in 2009 and continues airing to this day, each episode is through the eyes of a well known filmmaker and has featured some of the biggest directors in Hollywood
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ESPN headquarters in
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Oak Hill Academy (Virginia)
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Oak Hill Academy is a co-educational, private Baptist-affiliated secondary school in Mouth of Wilson, Virginia, United States. Oak Hills enrollment of approximately 150 students is 98% boarders, serving grades 8–12 and it is accredited by the Virginia Association of Independent Schools. Chris Brown, currently plays for Oregon State University Eric Devendorf, former player at Syracuse University, keith Gallon, played one year at the University of Oklahoma Jamont Gordon, former player at Mississippi State University Justin Gray, standout player at Wake Forest University. Landon Milbourne player for Hapoel Eilat of the Israeli Basketball Premier League K. C. Rivers, player for Clemson University Travis Watson, curtis Staples, drafted by the Chicago Bulls in 1998. Eighth in NCAA career three-point field goals, at 413, jordan Adams, currently plays for Memphis Grizzlies, was the 22nd overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft. DVauntes Smith-Rivera, currently plays for Georgetown University Harry Giles, currently plays Duke University Dwayne Bacon, quinn Cook currently plays for the Dallas Mavericks. William Avery, former Duke University point guard, and former NBA player for the Minnesota Timberwolves, michael Beasley, transferred to Notre Dame Prep,2007 McDonalds All American Game MVP, played at Kansas State University. Selected second in the 2008 NBA draft, J. Hammons, currently plays for Dallas Mavericks Stephen Jackson, NBA player for the San Antonio Spurs Brandon Jennings, NBA player for the Washington Wizards, selected 10th in the 2009 NBA draft. Doron Lamb, McDonalds All-American, played at University of Kentucky, player for the Milwaukee Bucks, ty Lawson, player on the Sacramento Kings, played at the University of North Carolina. Went to Bishop McNamara High School before going to Oak Hill Academy, jeff McInnis, played at the University of North Carolina, former player on Portland Trail Blazers, Los Angeles Clippers, and the New Jersey Nets. Currently plays for the Chicago Bulls, josh Smith, drafted first round, 17th pick by the Atlanta Hawks in the 2004 NBA draft. Last played for the Houston Rockets, jerry Stackhouse, played at the University of North Carolina. NBA player with the Philadelphia 76ers, Detroit Pistons, Washington Wizards, Dallas Mavericks, Brooklyn Nets, rod Strickland, played at DePaul University and drafted 19th in the 1988 NBA draft. 17 seasons in the NBA for the Portland Trail Blazers and the Washington Wizards, nolan Smith, played for Duke University, in the NBA for the Portland Trail Blazers. Nolan is the son of Derek Smith, who starred at the University of Louisville, marcus Williams,2004 National Championship with UConn. Played with the New Jersey Nets, Golden State Warriors, the Memphis Grizzlies and in Serbia, troy Williams, played for Indiana University, currently plays in the NBA for the Houston Rockets. Oak Hill Basketball official site Oak Hill boys basketball page at MaxPreps. com The Association of Boarding Schools profile
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Official Oak Hill Logo
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Brandon Jennings
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Brandon Byron Jennings is an American professional basketball player for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association. After a year in Italy, Jennings declared for the 2009 NBA draft and was selected 10th overall by the Milwaukee Bucks and he played his first four seasons in Milwaukee before being traded to the Detroit Pistons in 2013. Jennings spent his three seasons in Detroit before he was traded to the Orlando Magic in 2016. Jennings was born in Compton, California to Alice Knox and he has a half brother named Terrence Phillips. His father died when he was young, Jennings attended Dominguez High School in Compton, California for his freshman and sophomore year. Before his junior year, Jennings transferred to powerhouse Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, in his last year of high school, Jennings averaged 35.5 points per game and set the school record for points in a season. He led his 2006–2007 team to a 41–1 record and the top ranking in the USA Today Super 25 list of school teams. He was rated as the nations #1 high school prospect in the class of 2008 by Scout. com, the #1 prospect in the ESPNU150. In August 2006, he chose to attend USC, on April 24,2007, he decided instead to join the Arizona Wildcats, citing Arizonas quality academic faculty and his desire to play with Jerryd Bayless. In November 2007, SLAM Magazines third edition of PUNKS featured Jennings on the cover along with three other top-rated high school guards, in June 2008, Jennings attended the premiere of Beastie Boys Adam Yauchs basketball movie Gunnin For That #1 Spot at the Magic Johnson Theater in Harlem. Also attending were Kevin Love, Stephenson, Brook Lopez, Robin Lopez, DJ Augustin, the film follows eight top high school players—including Jennings—from their hometowns to New York City, for the 2006 Elite 24 at Rucker Park. In June 2008, Jennings announced that he was considering becoming the first American to skip college to play professionally in the Euroleague, on July 16,2008, Jennings signed with Lottomatica Roma of the Italian Serie A. The contract he signed with Roma was for $1.65 million net income guaranteed, after earning the contract with Lottomatica, Under Armour gave Jennings a $2 million contract to showcase their products in the Euroleague. Jennings was the first player to play for a European team rather than play for a basketball team since the NBAs age restriction rule was implemented. In the Italian Serie A 2008–09 season, Jennings averaged in 27 games,5.5 points,1.6 rebounds,2.2 assists and he shot 35.1 percent from the field and 20.7 percent from 3 point range in Serie A play. In 16 Euroleague games, Jennings averaged 7.6 points,1.6 rebounds,1.6 assists, in the Euroleague he shot 38.7 percent from the field and 26.8 percent from 3 point range. Jennings was selected tenth overall by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2009 NBA draft and he became the first player who skipped college to play professional basketball in Europe to be drafted by an NBA team. Jennings also made an appearance at the draft
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Jennings with the Pistons in 2014
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Jennings during a game against the
Detroit Pistons
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USA Today
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USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15,1982, it operates from Gannetts corporate headquarters on Jones Branch Drive in McLean, Virginia and it is printed at 37 sites across the United States and at five additional sites internationally. USA Today is distributed in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, with an international edition distributed in Canada, Asia and the Pacific Islands, Gannett formally announced the launch of the paper on April 20,1982. USA Today began publishing on September 15,1982, initially launching in the Baltimore and Washington, on July 2,1984, the newspaper switched from a largely black-and-white to a color publication, featuring full color photography and graphics in all four sections. On April 8,1985, the paper published its first special bonus section, a 12-page section called Baseball 85, on May 6,1986, USA Today began printing production of its international edition in Switzerland. On April 15, USA Today launched an international printing site. On August 28,1995, an international publishing site was launched in Frankfurt, Germany, to print. On October 4,1999, USA Today began running advertisements on its front page for the first time. The paper launched a sixth printing site for its international edition on May 15,2000, in Milan, Italy, followed on July 10 by the launch of a printing facility in Charleroi. That November, USA Today migrated its operations from Gannetts previous corporate headquarters in Arlington, in 2010, USA Today launched the USA Today API for sharing data with partners of all types. On August 27,2010, USA Today announced that it would undergo a reorganization of its newsroom and it also announced that the paper would shift its focus away from print and place more emphasis on its digital platforms and launch of a new publication called USA Today Sports. On September 14,2012, USA Today underwent the first major redesign in its history, to accomplish this goal, Gannett migrated its newspaper and television station websites to the Presto platform and the USA Today site design throughout 2013 and 2014. On January 4,2014, USA Today acquired the book and film review website, on September 3,2014, USA Today announced that it would lay off roughly 70 employees in a restructuring of its newsroom and business operations. In October 2014, USA Today and OpenWager Inc. entered into a partnership to release a Bingo app called USA TODAY Bingo Cruise, USA Today is known for synthesizing news down to easy-to-read-and-comprehend stories. In the main edition circulated in the United States and some Canadian cities, each consists of four sections, News, Money, Sports. The international edition of the paper features two sections, News and Money in one, with Sports and Life in the other, atypical of most daily newspapers, the paper does not print on Saturdays and Sundays, the Friday edition serves as the weekend edition. USA Today prints each complete story on the front page of the section with the exception of the cover story. The cover story is a story that requires a jump
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The April 14, 2015 front page of USA Today. The blue circle of the logo has been turned into a dotted ring with a hat being tossed into it to signify
Marco Rubio's announcement that he is running for
President of the United States.
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This February 5, 2009 issue of USA Today shows the old layout and logo of the paper prior to it being redesigned in 2012.
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USA Today is headquartered in
Tysons Corner, Virginia.
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ESPN RISE
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ESPN HS was a high school sports magazine published monthly during the school year in 25 markets around the United States. Founded as SchoolSports magazine in 1997, the changed its name to RISE in 2006 and was purchased by ESPN in January 2008. In 2011, the title was changed to ESPN HS. The magazine ceased publication in September 2012 after ESPN decided to close its high school sports unit, sensing the high school sports market was being undercovered by local newspapers and television stations, SchoolSports was founded in 1997 in the Greater Boston area. The magazines distribution model was unique, as the publication was sent directly to area high schools free of charge. Over the next 10 years, the magazine expanded to 25 markets and was published in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dallas/Ft. Atlanta, Miami, Detroit, Houston, Colorado, Arizona, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Central Florida, St. Louis, Minnesota, Oregon, San Antonio/Austin, Indiana and New Jersey. All told, the magazine had a monthly circulation of more than 1,000,000. The magazines name was changed again to ESPN HS in 2011, mens Basketball -LeBron James -Amare Stoudemire -Dwight Howard -Chris Bosh -Kevin Durant -Greg Oden -O. J. The game brought together the nations top 24 high school players, regardless of school year. The games official name is the Boost Mobile Elite 24 Hoops Classic, beginning during the 2006-07 school year, RISE teamed with Gatorade to continue Gatorades long-standing Player of the Year program. Beginning during the 2007-08 school year, RISE began publishing GIRL, girls basketball player Elena Delle Donne of Ursuline Academy in Delaware was the first cover subject of GIRL in the fall of 2007. - Publisher of RISE Magazine Recruiting Nation Football - ESPN Recruiting Nation Football - ESPN Recruiting Nation Football - ESPN http, //playeroftheyear. gatorade. com/playeroftheyear/
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ESPN HS
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Chris Paul
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Christopher Emmanuel Paul is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association. The point guard has won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award and he has also been selected to nine NBA All-Star teams, eight All-NBA teams, and eight All-Defensive teams. Paul was a McDonalds All-American in high school and he attended Wake Forest University for two years of college basketball where he helped the Demon Deacons achieve their first ever number one ranking. He was selected fourth overall in the 2005 NBA draft by the New Orleans Hornets, off the court, Paul has served as the National Basketball Players Association president since August 2013. One of the athletes in the world, he holds endorsement deals with companies such as Nike. Paul was born on May 6,1985 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to Charles Edward Paul and he has an older brother named Charles C. J. Paul. A former athlete himself, Charles, Sr. taught his sons basketball and football, growing up, the Paul brothers spent their summers working at a service station owned by their grandfather Nathanial Jones, to whom Paul attributes many life lessons, and describes as his best friend. On the opening speech of 2016 ESPYs, Paul revealed that one of his uncles is a police officer and he attended Hanes Middle School from 1996 to 1999. Paul attended West Forsyth High School in Clemmons, North Carolina, during his freshman and sophomore seasons, he played on the junior varsity team. For his junior year, he averaged 25 points,5.3 assists, over the ensuing summer, he led the Winston-Salem-based Kappa Magic to the National U-17 AAU title, earning tournament MVP honors in the process. Paul finished the season averages of 30.8 points,5.9 rebounds,9.5 assists, and 6 steals per game, leading West Forsyth to a 27–3 record. He was then named a McDonalds All-American, first-team Parade All-American, behind his play, the Demon Deacons qualified for the NCAA Tournament, losing in the Sweet Sixteen to St. Josephs. At the conclusion of the season, Paul was named ACC Rookie of the Year, for two weeks early in Pauls sophomore season, Wake Forest was ranked number one in the nation for the first time in school history. In the final game of the year, Paul punched NC State guard Julius Hodge in the groin and received a suspension for the ACC Tournament. The Demon Deacons again qualified for the NCAA Tournament but suffered a second round upset at the hands of West Virginia, on April 15,2005, he announced he would be hiring an agent and turning professional. On March 2,2011, Wake Forest retired his jersey, Paul was selected fourth overall in the 2005 NBA draft by the New Orleans Hornets. Due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, the Hornets played most of their games in Oklahoma City that year. Paul finished the leading all rookies in points, assists, steals, and double-doubles
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Paul with the Clippers in 2013
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Paul attempts a runner in December 2008.
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Paul speaks with Hornets coach
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Paul with the Clippers in February 2012.
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T.J. Ford
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Terrance Jerod T. J. Ford is an American retired professional basketball player. Having been awarded numerous top basketball accolades in school and college. Fords recurring back injuries resulted in him missing many games in his three seasons with the Bucks, but in 2005, it was announced that he was fit to play basketball again. Ford was traded to the Raptors prior to the 2006–07 NBA season, following an injury sustained in the 2007–08 NBA season, however, Ford had difficulties reclaiming the starting spot and was traded to the Indiana Pacers. He signed with KK Zagreb of Croatia during the 2011 NBA lockout where he appeared in one game, playing 17 minutes, on December 9,2011, Ford signed a contract with the San Antonio Spurs. Off the court, Ford set up the T. J. Ford Foundation in 2004 to help achieve their academic, personal. Born in Houston, Texas to Leo and Mary Ford, Terrance Jerod Ford was nicknamed T. J. at birth by his mother. From a young age, Ford dreamed of being a basketball player, subsequently, Ford was diagnosed with spinal stenosis, but he went on to play basketball for the Texas Longhorns for the 2001–02 and 2002–03 seasons. In his first season at Texas, Ford not only led the team in steals and minutes per game, Fords play ensured that Texas made it to the Sweet Sixteen, while he recorded 15 double-digit assist games, and was named a consensus Big 12 Freshman of the Year. In 2003, the sophomore was third in the nation in assists, Ford was also the South Regional MVP while leading Texas to its first Final Four since 1947. com and CBS SportsLine. Ford was picked eighth in the first round by the Milwaukee Bucks in a strong draft class. In his first season, he led the Bucks in assists with 6.5 assists per game, Ford was also selected to the NBA All-Rookie 2nd Team. However, he played in only 55 games that season before an injury forced him to miss the final 26 games of the regular season and the 2004 NBA Playoffs. The injury occurred on February 24,2004, during a game versus the Minnesota Timberwolves where he fell on his tail bone after being fouled by center Mark Madsen. He suffered a contusion of the cord, a career-threatening injury. Ford sat out the entire 2004–05 season due to his spinal cord injury, in June 2005, a statement was released by Dr. Robert Watkins of the Los Angeles Spine Surgery Institute that said Ford had made a complete recovery. The point guard had trained intensively for months in his hometown of Houston under the supervision of former NBA player John Lucas, together they worked on Fords shooting, stamina, and strength. As the season progressed Ford showed almost no effects from his injury, playing with the same intensity and he ended the regular season with 12.2 ppg and 6.6 apg, but found that the Bucks had abandoned a fast-paced style of offense
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T. J. Ford
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Ford with the Pacers
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Eric Gordon
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Eric Ambrose Gordon Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association. In high school, he was named Mr. Basketball of Indiana during his senior year playing at North Central High School. Gordon played one season of basketball at Indiana and was considered one of the top collegiate players in the nation that year. He finished his freshman season leading the Big Ten in scoring, Gordon entered the 2008 NBA draft and was selected seventh overall by the Los Angeles Clippers. Gordon is represented by agent Rob Pelinka, born in Indianapolis, Gordon began playing sports at the JCC at four, playing soccer, and then moved quickly on to basketball. He also played football but his love was basketball. At the age of 7 he began playing basketball at the historical Municipal Gardens. He spent much of his time across the street from his home at the Jewish Community Center of Indianapolis and it was at the JCC that Gordon announced his departure from college to enter his name into the NBA Draft. Gordon played high school basketball at North Central High School in Indianapolis and he led North Central to the Indiana 4A title game his senior year. However, they fell to ETwaun Moore, Angel Garcia and East Chicago Central. He averaged 29 points,6.2 rebounds and 3.3 assists while shooting 57. 0% from the field,77. 9% from the throw line. Gordon was also named Indianas Mr. Basketball for 2007 as well as a McDonalds All-American, Gordon was a teammate of Greg Oden in Indiana AAU ball. He was ranked as the nations #2 high school prospect in the class of 2007 by Rivals. com, Gordon graduated in 2007 from North Central High School Metropolitan School District of Washington Township in Indianapolis. He attended Fox Hill Elementary School, located down the street from his childhood home and he then attended Northview Middle School located on the same campus his high school, North Central High School. There he played varsity all four years for the NC Panthers, North Centrals 2007 game against Loyola Academy of Wilmette, Illinois, attended by Michael Jordan, was aired on ESPN. He scored a high of 43 points that night. He later went on to score 50 points twice during the season, during the summer, Gordon would attend many AAU tournaments, Adidas Superstar camps and, Big Time in Las Vegas. He played on teams which included other NBA players, Greg Oden, Mike Conley, Jr. Josh McRoberts, Daequan Cook, playing with all these talented standouts made Gordon push himself to get better
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Gordon with the Hornets
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Gordon in 2007 as a high school basketball player.
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Gordon with the Clippers in 2011
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Rod Strickland
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Rodney Rod Strickland is an American retired National Basketball Association player. Strickland played college basketball at DePaul University, where he was awarded All-American honors and he then enjoyed a long career in the NBA, playing from 1988 to 2005. Strickland is currently an assistant coach for the South Florida Bulls and he is the godfather of current NBA player Kyrie Irving. A native of the Bronx, Strickland played for the New York Gauchos, while a junior he led Truman High School in Co-Op City to the state championship and was ranked as one of the top 10 high school recruits in the nation. As a senior he transferred to Oak Hill Academy in Virginia, Strickland became a college star at DePaul University where he appeared in 87 games. As a junior, he was a First Team All-American after averaging 20.0 points and 7.8 assists, a 1987 and 1988 All-America pick, Strickland helped lead the Blue Demons to four-straight NCAA Tournament appearances from 1985–88, including Sweet Sixteen showings in 1986 and 1987. The four-time Blue Demon letterwinner ranks among the career leaders in scoring average, assists. He also averaged 3.4 rebounds while shooting 53. 4% during his college career and he was selected in the first round of the 1988 NBA draft by his hometown New York Knicks where he backed up point guard Mark Jackson, the 1988 NBA Rookie of the Year. He was seen as sort of an odd choice by some observers since the Knicks had Jackson, nevertheless, Jackson and Strickland shared time that season. Strickland played in all 82 games and averaged 8.9 points and 3.9 assists in 16.8 minutes per game where he was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team, the Spurs went 18-6 with him in the starting lineup. He led the club in assists 26 times and averaged 12.3 points and 11.2 assists in 10 playoff games, in the 1990–91 season Strickland lived up to his expectations as an exciting performer when he was healthy. He missed 24 games that year because of a sore ankle, in the 58 games he played, Strickland averaged 13.8 points and 8.0 assists, shooting.482 from the field and.763 from the free throw line. He led the Spurs in assists 46 times and in steals 30 times, Strickland finished the year tied with Terry Porter for 12th in the NBA in assists. Starting the 1991–92 NBA season in a dispute with the Spurs management. He finally signed on December 23, then started 54 of 57 games and averaged 13.8 points,8.6 assists,4.6 rebounds and he scored in double figures 48 times and scored 20 or more points on eight occasions. He notched a then career-high 28 points against the Indiana Pacers on February 6, Strickland started two playoff games against the Phoenix Suns before missing the third with a broken bone in his left hand. The Suns swept the series in three games, before the start of the 1992–93 season, Strickland signed as a free agent with the Portland Trail Blazers. In four seasons with the Blazers, Strickland averaged 17 ppg and 8.6 apg, in a move that initially helped both franchises, Strickland and teammate Harvey Grant were traded to the Washington Bullets for Rasheed Wallace and Mitchell Butler in 1996
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Strickland as an assistant coach for the
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Penny Hardaway
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Anfernee Deon Penny Hardaway is an American retired professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association, specializing as an unconventionally tall point guard. Hardaways most productive came in his days as a member of the Orlando Magic as well as the early portion of his stint with the Phoenix Suns. Hardaway often was compared to Magic Johnson during his tenure because both had incredible size and quickness at the point guard position, Hardaway was an All-NBA player early in his career, but was plagued by constant injuries which gradually reduced his effectiveness. He played for the New York Knicks from 2004 to 2006 and last played for the Miami Heat, Hardaways nickname came as a result of his grandmothers calling him Pretty with a southern drawl, thus sounding like Penny. Hardaway was raised by his grandmother while his mother was away working and his first love was football but his grandmother did not want him to get hurt. He grew up in the Binghampton neighborhood of houses in Memphis. As a teenager Hardaway refereed youth sports at the Memphis YMCA and he finished his high school career with 3,039 points. Hardaway then committed to Memphis State University, Hardaway had to sit out the 1990–91 season due to being academically ineligible. He wound up making the Deans List with a 3.4 grade point average as an education major, during his freshman season, Hardaway was robbed at gunpoint and then struck by a stray bullet in the foot, putting his career in jeopardy. In the summer of 1992 Hardaway was selected to the 1992 USA Basketball Developmental Team that scrimmaged daily against the 1992 Olympic Team, Hardaway was teammates with Chris Webber, Bobby Hurley, Jamal Mashburn, Rodney Rogers, Eric Montross, Grant Hill, and Allan Houston. Hardaway returned for his season and bettered his numbers from the previous season. He averaged 22.8 ppg,8.5 rpg,6.4 apg,2.4 spg and he was again named an All-American. He also was a finalist for the Naismith College Player of the Year, Hardaway majored in education at Memphis State, achieved a 3.4 cumulative GPA, but passed up his senior season to enter the 1993 NBA Draft. In 1994, Memphis State retired #25, Hardaways number while playing for the Tigers and he returned to the University of Memphis in May 2003 and graduated with a bachelors degree in professional studies,10 years after leaving school early to turn pro. Hardaway was named #5 on the list of top 100 modern college point guards by collegehoopsnet. com, additionally, he was a leading vote getter on ESPN Conference USA Silver Anniversary Team. The Magics intent was to draft Webber and pair him with Shaquille ONeal until Hardaway – whose desire was to play alongside ONeal – requested a second workout to show why he should be their pick. Two days before the draft, Hardaway participated in a basketball game with several Magic players and local talent. He started out the season at the guard position while he learned the point guard position from veteran Scott Skiles
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Hardaway in 2013
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Chris Douglas-Roberts
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Chris Douglas-Roberts is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Texas Legends of the NBA Development League. He played college basketball for the University of Memphis, Douglas-Roberts played high school basketball at Cass Technical High School and Northwestern High School. He played for Cass Tech in 2003 and 2004 averaging 28 points,10 rebounds, after the 2004 season he transferred to Northwestern where he saw limited time due to transfer rules and didnt join the team until the second semester. He finished the season averaging 13.8 points and 5.4 rebounds per game, considered a four-star recruit by Rivals. com, Douglas-Roberts was listed as the No.26 shooting guard and the No.75 player in the nation in 2005. During his freshman season he played in 34 games starting 25 and he finished the season averaging 8.3 points,3.3 rebounds, and 1.5 assists per game. Because of his play he was on the Conference USA All-Freshman Team. During his sophomore season he started all 35 games he played in and he led the Tigers with 15.4 points per game and received many honors including All-Conference USA first team and Associated Press All-America honorable mention among others. In the last 1,15 of regulation in the game, Douglas-Roberts became a key factor in the loss, by missing a jump shot. At the end of the season he earned first-team All-American honors and he finished his college career with 1,545 points. On April 18,2008, Douglas-Roberts announced that he would be declaring for the 2008 NBA draft and he was selected by the New Jersey Nets with the 40th overall pick, and on July 9,2008, the Nets officially signed him. On June 25,2010, Douglas-Roberts was traded by the Nets to the Milwaukee Bucks for a 2012 second round pick, in September 2011, Douglas-Roberts joined Virtus Bologna of Italy. On October 1,2012, Douglas-Roberts signed with the Los Angeles Lakers, on October 27, Douglas-Roberts signed with the Dallas Mavericks along with center Melvin Ely, however, the two were waived the next day. On November 1,2012, he was acquired by the Texas Legends of the NBA D-League, on December 23,2012, he re-signed with the Dallas Mavericks. On January 6,2013, he was waived by the Mavericks, in July 2013, Douglas-Roberts joined the Los Angeles Lakers for the 2013 NBA Summer League. On October 2,2013, he signed with the New York Knicks, however, he was later waived by the Knicks on October 25,2013. In November 2013, Douglas-Roberts was re-acquired by the Texas Legends, on December 11,2013, he signed with the Charlotte Bobcats. On April 14,2014, he hit a buzzer-beater to lift the Bobcats over the Atlanta Hawks, on September 3,2014, Douglas-Roberts signed with the Los Angeles Clippers. On January 15,2015, Douglas-Roberts was acquired by the Boston Celtics in a trade also involving the Phoenix Suns
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Douglas-Roberts with the Bucks in March 2011
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Douglas-Roberts in the
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