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Center (basketball)
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The center, also known as the five or the big man, is one of the five positions in a regular basketball game. The center is normally the tallest player on the team, and often has a deal of strength. The tallest player to ever be drafted in the NBA was the 78 Yasutaka Okayama from Japan, the tallest players to ever play in the NBA, at 77, are centers Gheorghe Mureșan and Manute Bol. Standing at 72, Margo Dydek is the tallest player to have played in the WNBA. The center is considered a component for a successful team. But recently, the NBA has turned into a point guard league, great centers have been the foundation for most of the dynasties in both the NBA and NCAA. In the 1960s, Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain further transformed basketball by combining height with a level of athleticism than previous centers. Following the retirement of George Mikan, the rivalry of the two big men came to dominate the NBA, many of the records set by these two players have endured today. Most notably, Chamberlain and Russell hold the top eighteen season averages for rebounds, Bill Russell led the University of San Francisco to two consecutive NCAA Championships. He joined the Boston Celtics and helped make them one of the greatest dynasties in NBA history, Russell revolutionized defensive strategy with his shot-blocking, rebounding and physical man-to-man defense. His principal rival, Wilt Chamberlain, listed at 71,275 pounds, Chamberlain played college ball for the Kansas Jayhawks, leading them to the 1957 title game against the North Carolina Tar Heels. Although the Jayhawks lost by one point in overtime, Chamberlain was named the tournaments Most Outstanding Player. He also won seven scoring titles, eleven rebounding titles, and four regular season Most Valuable Player awards, including the distinction, in 1960, stronger than any player of his era, he was usually capable of scoring and rebounding at will. Most notably, Chamberlain is the player in NBA history to average more than 50 points in a season. He also holds the NBAs all-time records for rebounding average, rebounds in a single game, in contrast to the Celtics dynasty of the 1960s, the 1970s were a decade of parity in the NBA, with eight different champions and no back-to-back winners. At the college level, the UCLA Bruins, under Coach John Wooden, built the greatest dynasty in NCAA basketball history, UCLA had already won two consecutive titles in 1964 and 1965 with teams that pressed and emphasized guard play. After not winning in 1966, Woodens teams changed their style when Lew Alcindor became eligible and he led UCLA to three championships-in 1967,68 and 69-while winning the first Naismith College Player of the Year Award. During his college career, the NCAA enacted a ban on dunking primarily because of Alcindors dominant use of the shot
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George Mikan
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Bill Russell (left) and Wilt Chamberlain (right)
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Hakeem Olajuwon
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Power forward (basketball)
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The power forward, also known as the four, is one of the five positions in a regulation basketball game. It has also referred to as the post position. Power forwards play a similar to that of center in what is called the post or low blocks. They typically play offensively with their backs towards the basket and position themselves defensively under the basket in a defense or against the opposing power forward in man-to-man defense. The power forward position entails a variety of responsibilities, one of which is rebounding, many power forwards are noted for their mid-range jump-shot, and several players have become very accurate from 12 to 18 feet. Earlier, these skills were more typically exhibited in the European style of play, some power forwards, known as stretch fours, have since extended their shooting range to three-point field goals. In the NBA, power forwards usually range from 68 to 611, despite the averages, a variety of players fit tweener roles which finds them in the small forward and/or center position depending upon matchups and coaching decisions. Some natural power forwards often play the position and have the skills
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Tim Duncan, a power forward, warming up before a game in February 12, 2011
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Houston, Texas
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Houston is the most populous city in the state of Texas and the fourth-most populous city in the United States. With a census-estimated 2014 population of 2.239 million within an area of 667 square miles, it also is the largest city in the southern United States and the seat of Harris County. Located in Southeast Texas near the Gulf of Mexico, it is the city of Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land. Houston was founded on August 28,1836, near the banks of Buffalo Bayou and incorporated as a city on June 5,1837. The city was named after former General Sam Houston, who was president of the Republic of Texas and had commanded, the burgeoning port and railroad industry, combined with oil discovery in 1901, has induced continual surges in the citys population. Houstons economy has an industrial base in energy, manufacturing, aeronautics. Leading in health care sectors and building equipment, Houston has more Fortune 500 headquarters within its city limits than any city except for New York City. The Port of Houston ranks first in the United States in international waterborne tonnage handled, the city has a population from various ethnic and religious backgrounds and a large and growing international community. Houston is the most diverse city in Texas and has described as the most diverse in the United States. It is home to cultural institutions and exhibits, which attract more than 7 million visitors a year to the Museum District. Houston has a visual and performing arts scene in the Theater District. In August 1836, two real estate entrepreneurs from New York, Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen, purchased 6,642 acres of land along Buffalo Bayou with the intent of founding a city. The Allen brothers decided to name the city after Sam Houston, the general at the Battle of San Jacinto. The great majority of slaves in Texas came with their owners from the slave states. Sizable numbers, however, came through the slave trade. New Orleans was the center of trade in the Deep South. Thousands of enslaved African Americans lived near the city before the Civil War, many of them near the city worked on sugar and cotton plantations, while most of those in the city limits had domestic and artisan jobs. Houston was granted incorporation on June 5,1837, with James S. Holman becoming its first mayor, in the same year, Houston became the county seat of Harrisburg County and the temporary capital of the Republic of Texas
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Clockwise from top: Sam Houston monument,
Downtown Houston,
Houston Ship Channel,
The Galleria,
University of Houston, and the
Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center.
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Sam Houston
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Houston, c. 1873
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Union Station, Houston, Texas (postcard, c. 1911)
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Bellaire High School (Bellaire, Texas)
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Bellaire High School is a secondary school of the Houston Independent School District, and its campus is located in Bellaire, Texas in Greater Houston. The high school serves the city of Bellaire and the Houston community of Meyerland. It has a racially and socioeconomically diverse student body and it was originally an all-White high school. Because of the number of Jewish students, the school had the nickname Hebrew High. Bellaire introduced International Baccalaureate programs in 1980, in the mid-to-late 1980s families began moving into Bellaire and Meyerland. They would tear down older houses and build new ones. This gave Bellaire High School a population of wealthier students, at the same time apartments formerly housing White singles began to house low income immigrants. Bellaire added Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate programs to encourage White parents to send their children to Bellaire, parents strove to get their children into the classes. In January 1987, Bellaire was offering the Arabic language for the second year, in 1987 the school also offered Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Latin, Russian, and Spanish. In September 1991 Bellaire was one of 32 HISD schools that had capped enrollments, in words the school was filled to capacity. By the 2000s Bellaire placed on the lists of the top performing schools in the United States. Athletic and academic programs won national and international awards, many graduates headed for prestigious American universities. At the same time, disciplinary infractions increased, Swartz said The case could be made that the school has triumphed despite being under enormous social pressures. But success has not come without pain, from the 1999-2000 school year to the 2003-2004 school year, the total number of disciplinary actions increased from 441 to 1,082 and the number of in-school suspensions increased from 336 to 855. In February 2006, a stabbing involving two male freshmen occurred in a school stairwell, the victim survived the stabbing while the perpetrator was arrested and prosecuted. During the same year Todd Spivak of the Houston Press reported about the magazines feature These Kids Go to the Best Public High School in Houston. Spivak said that Bellaire High School had strong, consistent leadership, Spivak said that the survey indicated that Bellaire graduated two thirds of its students. Dr. Robert Sanborn, president and CEO of the Children at Risk organization, in 200713 percent of high school-aged children zoned to Bellaire chose to attend a different Houston ISD school
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Bellaire High School
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Bellaire, Texas
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Bellaire is a city in southwest Harris County, Texas, United States, within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. As of the 2010 U. S. Census, the city population was 16,855 and is surrounded by the cities of Houston and West University Place. Bellaire is known as the City of Homes, owing to its residential character, however. Bellaire was founded in 1908 by William Wright Baldwin, who was the president of the South End Land Company, Baldwin, a native of Iowa, was well known as the vice president of the Burlington Railroad. Bellaire was founded on what was part of William Marsh Rices 9,449 acres ranch, Baldwin surveyed the eastern 1,000 acres of the ranch into small truck farms. He named those farms Westmoreland Farms, Baldwin started Bellaire in the middle of Westmoreland Farms to serve as a residential neighborhood and an agricultural trading center. South End Land Company advertised to farmers in the Midwestern United States, Baldwin stated that the town was named Bellaire, or Good Air for its breezes. Bellaire may have named after Bellaire, Ohio, a town served by one of Baldwins rail lines. Six miles of prairie was a zone between Houston and Bellaire. Originally the town was bounded by Palmetto, First, Jessamine, in 1910 Edward Teas, a horticulturist, moved his nursery to Bellaire from Missouri so Teas could implement Sid Hares landscaping plans. Bellaire was incorporated as a city with a charter in 1918. Bellaire had a population of 200 at the time, because of the 1918 incorporation, Houston did not incorporate Bellaires territory into its city limits, while Houston annexed surrounding areas that were unincorporated. Bellaires population had reached 1,124 in 1940, after 1940, Bellaire had a rapid population explosion in the post-World War II building boom. On December 31,1948, the city of Houston had annexed the land around the city of Bellaire, Bellaire remained independent of Houston, Bellaire adopted a home rule charter with a council-manager government in April 1949. By 1950 the citys residents had numbered 10,173, however each subsequent year for the next two years, an additional 600 to 700 new houses opened. In the 1960s 250 houses in Bellaire were demolished to make way for the right of way of the 610 Loop, according to a Bellaire resident quoted in the Houston Post, prior to 1992, the tax base of the city of Bellaire had been decreasing. After neighbor West University Place eased restrictions on developers, new houses were constructed in West University Place, Bellaire decided to also liberalize its development restrictions to allow for new development by streamlining its no-growth building permit process. Michael Blum, president of Blum & Associates Realty, said Bellaire is a bargain, Blum added that Bellaire was affordable compared to similar American neighborhoods and that Bellaire had proximity to business districts, excellent municipal services, and superior schools
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The Bellaire
water tower, commemorating the city's
little league team
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A photograph of Bellaire, dated 1911, from the
Houston Post archives
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Teas Nursery, which was started by horticulturist Edward Teas; it was closed in 2010 and will become a park
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The Bellaire administration building
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2004 NBA draft
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The 2004 NBA draft was held on June 24,2004, at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York, and was broadcast live on ESPN at 7,00 pm. In this draft, National Basketball Association teams took turns selecting college basketball players. The NBA announced that 56 college and high school players and 38 international players had filed as candidates for the 2004 draft. On May 26, the NBA draft lottery was conducted for the teams that did not make the NBA Playoffs in the 2003–04 NBA season. The Orlando Magic, who had a 25 percent chance of obtaining the first selection, won the lottery, while the Los Angeles Clippers, as an expansion team, the Charlotte Bobcats had been assigned the fourth selection in the draft and did not participate in the lottery. The Minnesota Timberwolves forfeited their first-round pick due to salary cap violations, by the end of the draft, around 40% of the players selected in it were born from countries outside of the United States of America. S. A. While Okafor and Gordon each have had solid NBA careers, Dwight Howard became a seven-time All-Star and All-NBA selection and he also had the distinction as the only NBA player straight out of high school to start all 82 games as a rookie. In addition to Howard, there are four other players would be named All-Stars at one point in their careers. The draft is notable for many high schoolers being drafted within a few picks from each other. These players not selected in the draft have played at least one game in the NBA, archived from the original on April 20,2007. Player profiles with their career transaction information, archived from the original on April 19,2007
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Dwight Howard, the 1st pick of the Orlando Magic
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Emeka Okafor, the 2nd pick of the Charlotte Bobcats
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Ben Gordon, the 3rd pick of the Chicago Bulls
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Shaun Livingston, the 4th pick of the Los Angeles Clippers
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Charlotte Bobcats
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The Charlotte Hornets are an American professional basketball team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Hornets compete in the National Basketball Association, as a club of the leagues Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The team is owned by former NBA player Michael Jordan. The Hornets play their games at the Spectrum Center in Uptown Charlotte. The original Hornets franchise was established in 1988 as an expansion team, in 2002, Shinns franchise relocated to New Orleans and became the New Orleans Hornets. In 2004 the NBA established the Charlotte Bobcats, which was regarded as a new team at the time. In 2013, the New Orleans franchise announced it would rebrand itself the New Orleans Pelicans, ultimately returning the Hornets name, records, the Bobcats were officially renamed the Charlotte Hornets for the 2014–15 NBA season. In 1985, the NBA was planning to expand by four teams by the 1988–1989 season, the Charlotte area had long been a hotbed for college basketball. On April 5,1987, then-NBA Commissioner David Stern called Shinn to tell him his group had been awarded the 24th NBA franchise, franchises were also granted to Miami, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, and Orlando. Originally, the new team was going to be called the Charlotte Spirit, the team received further attention when it chose teal as its primary color, setting off a sports fashion craze in the late 80s and early 90s. The teams uniforms, designed by designer and North Carolina native Alexander Julian. Similar designs by other teams followed, as became a hit. Shinn hired Carl Scheer as the teams first President and General Manager, Scheer preferred a roster of veteran players, hoping to put together a competitive team as soon as possible. Former college coach and veteran NBA assistant Dick Harter was hired as the teams first head coach, in 1988, the Hornets and the Miami Heat were part of the 1988 NBA Expansion Draft. The team also had three draft picks at the 1988 NBA draft, the Hornets first NBA game took place on November 4,1988, at the Charlotte Coliseum, losing 133–93 to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Four days later, the team notched its first-ever victory over the Los Angeles Clippers, on December 23,1988, the Hornets really gave their fans something to cheer about, beating Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls 103–101 in Jordans first return to North Carolina as a professional. The Hornets finished their season with a record of 20-62. Scheer left prior to the 1989–90 season, despite initial concerns that the Coliseum was too big, the Hornets were a runaway hit, leading the NBA in attendance, a feat they would achieve seven more times in Charlotte
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Season tickets for the Hornets' inaugural season.
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Charlotte Hornets
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The Bobcats in a game versus the
Dallas Mavericks on November 11, 2005.
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Michael Jordan acquired the Bobcats in 2010.
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New Orleans Hornets
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The New Orleans Pelicans are an American professional basketball team based in New Orleans. The Pelicans compete in the National Basketball Association as a club of the leagues Western Conference Southwest Division. The team plays their games in the Smoothie King Center. The Pelicans were established as the New Orleans Hornets in the 2002–03 season when then-owner of the Charlotte Hornets, George Shinn, relocated the franchise to New Orleans. Due to the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the franchise relocated to Oklahoma City. The team returned to New Orleans full-time for the 2007–08 season, on January 24,2013, the franchise announced it would rename itself the Pelicans, effective after the conclusion of the 2012–13 season. Their achievements include one playoff victory and one division title. While the Charlotte Hornets put a team on the court throughout the 1990s. Many attributed this lapse in popularity to the owner, George Shinn. In 1997, a Charlotte woman claimed that Shinn had raped her, the consensus was that while Charlotte was as basketball-crazy as ever, fans took out their anger at Shinn on the team. On March 26,2001, both the Hornets and the Vancouver Grizzlies applied for relocation to Memphis, Tennessee, which was won by the Grizzlies. Shinn issued an ultimatum, unless the city built a new arena at no cost to him, the city initially refused, leading Shinn to consider moving the team to either Norfolk, Louisville, or St. Louis. Polls showed the referendum on its way to passage, however, just days before the referendum, Mayor Pat McCrory vetoed a living wage ordinance. The veto prompted many of the citys black ministers to oppose the referendum, while even the NBA acknowledged that Shinn had alienated fans, league officials felt such a demand would anger other owners. Before the Hornets were eliminated from the playoffs, the NBA approved the move, as part of a deal, the NBA promised that Charlotte would get a new team, which took the court two years later as the Charlotte Bobcats. He also said if he had it to do all over again. Shinn emphasized how he was making amends by committing to New Orleans saying, im not going to make one here. Were going to make this thing work, the Hornets opened their inaugural season in New Orleans on October 30,2002, against New Orleans original NBA franchise, the now-Utah Jazz
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Smoothie King Center - Home of the New Orleans Pelicans
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New Orleans Pelicans
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Chris Paul, selected by the Hornets as the 4th pick of the
2005 NBA draft
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Alvin Gentry is the New Orleans Pelicans current head coach.
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Washington Wizards
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The Washington Wizards are an American professional basketball team based in Washington, D. C. The Wizards compete in the National Basketball Association, as a club of the leagues Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The team plays its games at the Verizon Center, in the Chinatown neighborhood of Washington. The team now known as the Wizards began playing as the Chicago Packers in 1961, as the first modern expansion team in NBA history, an expansion prompted by Abe Sapersteins American Basketball League. Rookie Walt Bellamy was the star, averaging 31.6 points per game,19.0 rebounds per game. During the All-Star game, Bellamy represented the team while scoring 23 points, Bellamy was named the league Rookie of the Year, but was the team finished with the NBAs worst record at 18-62. The teams original nickname was a nod to Chicagos meatpacking industry, their home arena, however, it was extremely unpopular since it was the same nickname used by the NFLs Green Bay Packers, bitter rivals of the Chicago Bears. After only one year, the changed its name to the Chicago Zephyrs. Their only season as the Zephyrs boasted former Purdue star Terry Dischinger, in their first year in Baltimore, the Bullets finished fourth in a five–team Western Division. Prior to the 1964–65 NBA season the Bullets pulled off a trade, sending Dischinger, Rod Thorn and Don Kojis to the Detroit Pistons for Bailey Howell, Don Ohl, Bob Ferry. The trade worked out well, Howell proved to be a hustling, in the 1965 NBA Playoffs, the Bullets stunned the St. Louis Hawks 3–1, and advanced to the Western Conference finals. In the finals, Baltimore managed to split the first four games with the Los Angeles Lakers before losing the series 4–2. In the late 1960s, the Bullets drafted two future Hall of Fame members, Earl Monroe, in the 1967 draft, number two overall, and Wes Unseld, in the 1968 draft, also number two overall. The team improved dramatically, from 36 wins the season to 57 in the 1968–69 season. The Bullets reached the playoffs with high expectations to go far, the next season the two teams met again in the first round, and although this one went to seven games, the Knicks emerged victorious again. In the 1970–71 season, the 42–40 Bullets again met the 1970–71 Knicks and they were swept in four games by the powerful Milwaukee Bucks led by future Hall of Fame members Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Oscar Robertson. Even after the trades of Earl Monroe and Gus Johnson, the Bullets remained a playoff contender throughout the 1970s. Following a less than spectacular 1971–72 season, Baltimore acquired Elvin Hayes from the Houston Rockets and drafted Kevin Porter in the third round, out of St. Francis in Pennsylvania
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A ticket for a
1988-89 game between the Bullets and the
Hornets.
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Washington Wizards
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The Wizards moved to the MCI Center (now named
Verizon Center) in 1997.
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Michael Jordan served as president of basketball operations and was a minority owner.
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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.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar won the award in the
1969–70 NBA season.
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Larry Bird won the award in the
1979–80 NBA season.
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Michael Jordan won the award in the
1984–85 NBA season.
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NBA All-Rookie First Team
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The NBA All-Rookie Team is an annual National Basketball Association honor given since the 1962–63 NBA season to the top rookies during the regular season. Voting is conducted by the NBA head coaches, who are not allowed to vote for players on their own team, the All-Rookie Team is generally composed of two five-man lineups, a first team and a second team. The players each receive two points for each first team vote and one point for second team vote. The top five players with the highest point total make the first team, in the case of a tie at the fifth position of either team, the roster is expanded. If the first team consists of six due to a tie. Ties have occurred several times, most recently in 2012, when Kawhi Leonard, Iman Shumpert, no respect is given to positions. For example, the first team had four forwards, and one guard in 2008, while the first team had four centers, nine All-Rookie Team members have won both the Rookie of the Year Award and the Most Valuable Player Award during their careers. Wilt Chamberlain and Wes Unseld are the players to accomplish this feat in the same season. National Basketball Association portal General Specific
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (as Lew Alcindor) was named to the All-Rookie Team in the
1969–70 NBA season.
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Larry Bird was named to the All-Rookie Team in the
1979–80 NBA season.
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Magic Johnson was named to the first team in the
1979–80 NBA season.
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Michael Jordan was named to the first team in the
1984–85 NBA season.
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NABC Player of the Year
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The NABC Player of the Year is an award given annually by the National Association of Basketball Coaches to recognize the top player in mens college basketball. The award has given since the 1974–75 season to National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I basketball players. The association added awards for Division II and Division III players in 1983, the awards are sponsored by State Farm Insurance. In Division I, Duke has the most all-time winners with five and their rival, North Carolina, is second with four winners. There have been three ties for NABC Player of the Year, and only two players have won the award multiple times, in Division II, Virginia Union has four winners, the most all-time, and is followed by Kentucky Wesleyan which has three. Only one tie has occurred, while three players have won the more than once. In Division III, Potsdam State has the most all-time winners with three, while six other schools are tied for second with two winners apiece, there have been two ties and three repeat winners. At the NAIA level, there is a distinction between NAIA Division I and NAIA Division II winners, since the awards began in 2008, no school or individual player has received the award multiple times. In junior college, every winner has been a sophomore and has gone on to play at an NCAA Division I school after their community college careers have ended. For the 2007–08 season, Ryan Fiegi, a point guard at Oregon Tech, was named the player of the year. Beginning in 2008–09, the NAIA began awarding players of the year for Divisions I, since community college players only attend for two years, these players are only either freshmen or sophomores. Afterwards, they move on to a four year university to finish their last two seasons of NCAA eligibility, the University column reflects which team these players would play for following their JuCo careers. List of U. S. mens college basketball player of the year awards NABC Player of the Year Awards
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Patrick Ewing is the only winner from
Georgetown.
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Antawn Jamison won in 1997–98.
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Adam Morrison shared the award as a junior in 2005–06.
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Charles Oakley won in 1984–85 and later became an
NBA All-Star while playing for the
New York Knicks.
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NABC Defensive Player of the Year
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The NABC Defensive Player of the Year is an award given annually by the National Association of Basketball Coaches to recognize the top defensive player in United States college basketball. The award has given since 1987 and was previously known as the Henry Iba Corinthian Award, named after Hall of Fame coach Henry Iba. Duke University has dominated the award with six recipients who have won a total of nine awards. The only other schools with more than one recipient are Connecticut, three players have been named the NABC Defensive Player of the Year on three occasions—Stacey Augmon of UNLV, Tim Duncan of Wake Forest, and Shane Battier of Duke. Greg Oden and Anthony Davis are the freshmen to have won the award. Two winners of this award were born outside the territory of the United States. Duncan was born in the United States Virgin Islands, an area of the U. S. by U. S. law. Hasheem Thabeet, the 2008 and 2009 winner, is a native of Tanzania, NABC Player of the Year NABC Coach of the Year
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Tim Duncan is one of three players to win the award three times.
NABC Defensive Player of the Year
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Kenyon Martin was also named the
Naismith and
Wooden Award winner in 2000.
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In 2007,
Greg Oden became the first freshman to be named Defensive Player of the Year.
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Pete Newell Big Man Award
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The Pete Newell Big Man Award has been awarded by the National Association of Basketball Coaches since 2000. It is presented to the top low-post player each season, the award is named after Pete Newell, the coach who ran the Pete Newell Big Man Camp for low-post players from 1976 until his death in 2008. So far, no player has won the more than once. Only three schools, Duke, Utah, and Purdue have produced more than one winner, with each school claiming two, utahs winners are the only two to have been born outside the U. S. —Andrew Bogut in Australia and Jakob Pöltl in Austria
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Drew Gooden of
Kansas won in 2002.
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Andrew Bogut of
Utah won in 2005.
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Blake Griffin of
Oklahoma won in 2009.
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Big East Conference
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The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletic conference that competes in NCAA Division I in all sports except football, which is not sponsored. The conference has officially recognized as a Division I multi-sport conference. Butler University, Creighton University, and Xavier University also joined the conference on its July 1,2013 launch date. The football-playing members of the old Big East, along several other schools, formed the American Athletic Conference. However, both conferences claim 1979 as their founding date, as part of the separation agreement, the basketball schools were able to retain the basketball records while the football schools retained the football records respectively. Val Ackerman, former WNBA president, has been commissioner since June 26,2013, on the same day Ackerman was named as commissioner, it announced that it will be headquartered in New York City. None of the schools sponsor varsity football in the top-level Division I FBS. Georgetown, Villanova, and Butler do operate football programs in the second-level Division I FCS, the core of the Big East formed when Providence, St. Johns, Georgetown, and Syracuse invited Seton Hall, Connecticut, Holy Cross, Rutgers, and Boston College. Holy Cross turned down the invitation, as did Rutgers initially, while BC, Seton Hall, gavitt became the Big Easts first commissioner, and Villanova and Pittsburgh joined the conference shortly thereafter. PR firm Duffy & Shanley is credited with the branding and naming work for the conference. The conference remained largely unchanged until 1991, when it began to sponsor football, adding Miami as a member, and Rutgers, Temple, Virginia Tech. Rutgers and West Virginia upgraded to full Big East membership in 1995, Notre Dame also joined as a non-football member effective in 1995. Temple football was kicked out after the 2004 season, but rejoined in 2012, the unusual structure of the Big East, with the football and non-football schools, led to instability in the conference. The conference reorganized following the period of realignment that hobbled the Big East between 2010 and 2013. The Big East was one of the most severely impacted conferences during the most recent conference realignment period, in all,14 member schools announced their departure for other conferences, and 15 other schools announced plans to join the conference. Three of the group later backed out of their plans to join. On March 14,2013, it was reported that the Big East would be adding members in the seven to ten days. At a news conference in New York City on March 20,2013, the league was formally introduced with Butler, Xavier
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2004 Summer Olympics
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10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team officials from 201 countries. There were 301 medal events in 28 different sports, Athens 2004 marked the first time since the 1996 Summer Olympics that all countries with a National Olympic Committee were in attendance. 2004 marked the return of the games to the city where they began, a new medal obverse was introduced at these Games, replacing the design by Giuseppe Cassioli that had been used since the 1928 Games. This rectified the long lasting mistake of using a depiction of the Roman Colosseum rather than a Greek venue, the new design features the Panathenaic Stadium. The cost of the 2004 Athens Summer Games has been cited as a contributor to the Greek government-debt crisis, some of the venues lie vacant and rotting, while others are in use, the Independent newspaper reports as many as 21 out of 22 are unused. The final medal tally was led by the United States, followed by China, several World and Olympics records were broken during the games. Several concerns were raised over the preparations of the Games and these included excessive budget overruns, infrastructural compromise, the games were deemed generally successful with the rising standard of competition amongst nations across the world. Athens was chosen as the host city during the 106th IOC Session held in Lausanne on 5 September 1997, Athens had lost its bid to organize the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta nearly seven years before on 18 September 1990, during the 96th IOC Session in Tokyo. 1996 coincided with the 100th Anniversary of the first modern Olympics, under the direction of Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, Athens pursued another bid, this time for the right to host the Summer Olympics in 2004. After leading all voting rounds, Athens easily defeated Rome in the 5th, cape Town, Stockholm, and Buenos Aires, the three other cities that made the IOC shortlist, were eliminated in prior rounds of voting. Six other cities submitted applications, but their bids were dropped by the IOC in 1996 and these cities were Istanbul, Lille, Rio de Janeiro, San Juan, Seville, Saint Petersburg and Cali. The 2004 Summer Olympic Games cost the Government of Greece €8.954 billion to stage, the Athens 2004 Organizing Committee, responsible for the preparation and organisation of the games, concluded its operations as a company in 2005 with a surplus of €130.6 million. ATHOC contributed €123.6 million of the surplus to the Greek State to cover other related expenditures of the Greek State in organizing of the games, as a result, ATHOC reported in its official published accounts a net profit of €7 million. The State’s contribution to the total ATHOC budget was 8% of its expenditure against an originally anticipated 14%, the overall revenue of ATHOC, including income from tickets, sponsors, broadcasting rights, merchandise sales etc. totalled €2,098.4 million. The largest percentage of income came from broadcasting rights. The overall expenditure of ATHOC was €1,967.8 million. e, the large projects required for the upgrade of the country’s infrastructure, including sports infrastructure, roads, airports, hospitals, power grid etc. This cost, however, is not directly attributable to the organisation of the Games. Such infrastructure projects are considered by all standards as fixed asset investments that stay with the hosting country for decades after the Games
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The ceremony for the lighting of the flame is arranged as a pagan pageant, with priestesses dancing.
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Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
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The OAKA Plaza and Arch adjacent to the Olympic Stadium
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Faliro Sports Pavilion Arena
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Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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The tournament was notable for Argentinas upset victory of the heavily-favored United States mens team. In Olympic basketball tournaments,12 teams take part, the host nation automatically receives a berth in the tournament. By winning the two World Championship tournaments in 2002, Yugoslavia, now named Serbia and Montenegro, also put a team into the mens tournament, the remaining 10 spots in each tournament were allocated by the five Olympic zones. Each of these zones held its own tournaments to select its entries in the Olympic tournament, africa was allocated one spot in each of these, Oceania was allocated two apiece, and Europe was allocated three. A National Olympic Committee may enter just one team with 12 players. For the womens tournament, the teams consisted of the runner-up and third place teams from Asia and Europe. Twelve teams are split into two preliminary round groups of six teams each, the top four teams from both groups qualify for the knockout stage. Fifth-placed teams from both groups compete for 9th place in an additional match, sixth-placed teams from both groups compete for 11th place in an additional match. In the quarterfinals, the matchups are as follows, A1 vs. B4, A2 vs. B3, A3 vs. B2 and A4 vs. B1. From the eliminated teams at the quarterfinals, the loser from A1 vs. B4 competes against the loser from B1 vs. A4 for 7th place in an additional match, the remaining two loser teams compete for 5th place in an additional match. The winning teams from the meet in the semifinals as follows, A1/B4 vs. A3/B2. The winning teams from the semifinals contest the gold medal, the losing teams contest the bronze. The womens event involved 12 teams split in two groups, the four best teams from each group advanced to the quarterfinal round. The four best teams from each advanced to the quarterfinal round. Olympics, Mens Basketball Tournament 2004 Olympics, Womens Basketball Tournament 2004 FIBA Olympic basketball website 2004 Olympic Games, Tournament for Men,2004 Olympic Games, Tournament for Women, FIBA Archive
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Italy and Argentina warming up before the game.
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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
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Michael Jordan goes for a
slam dunk
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The first basketball court:
Springfield College
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The 1899 University of Kansas basketball team, with James Naismith at the back, right.
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A basketball game between the
Heart Mountain and Powell High School girls teams, Wyoming, March 1944
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University of Connecticut
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The University of Connecticut is a land grant public research university in Storrs, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1881, and is also a sea-grant university, the university serves more than 32,000 students on its five campuses, including more than 8,000 graduate students in multiple programs. UConn is one of the institutions of the Hartford, Connecticut/Springfield, Massachusetts regional economic. UConn is a member of Universitas 21, a network of 24 research-intensive universities. UConn is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, UConn was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School, named after two brothers who donated the land for the school. In 1893, the became a land grant college. In 1939, the name was changed to the University of Connecticut, over the next decade, social work, nursing, and graduate programs were established, and the schools of law and pharmacy were absorbed into the university. During the 1960s, UConn Health was established for new medical and dental schools, John Dempsey Hospital opened in Farmington in 1975. Competing in the American Athletic Conference as the Huskies, UConn has been successful in their mens and womens basketball programs. The Huskies have won 21 NCAA championships, UConn was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School. It was named after Charles and Augustus Storrs, brothers who donated the land for the school as well as initial funding. Women began attending classes in 1891 and were admitted in 1893. In 1899, the name changed again to Connecticut Agricultural College, in 1933, to Connecticut State College, in 1940, the school was first divided into individual colleges and schools, reflecting its new university status. This was also the year the School of Social Work and School of Nursing were established, the graduate program was also started at this time, and the schools of law and pharmacy were absorbed into the university. Ph. D. s have been awarded since 1949, during the 1960s, UConn Health was established in Farmington as a home for the new School of Medicine and School of Dental Medicine. John Dempsey Hospital opened in Farmington in 1975 and has operated by UConn ever since. In 1995, a program called UConn 2000 was passed by the Connecticut General Assembly. This 10-year program set aside $1 billion to upgrade facilities, add faculty
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University of Connecticut, circa 1903
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University of Connecticut
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Aerial view of main campus
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Main quad
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Houston
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Houston is the most populous city in the state of Texas and the fourth-most populous city in the United States. With a census-estimated 2014 population of 2.239 million within an area of 667 square miles, it also is the largest city in the southern United States and the seat of Harris County. Located in Southeast Texas near the Gulf of Mexico, it is the city of Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land. Houston was founded on August 28,1836, near the banks of Buffalo Bayou and incorporated as a city on June 5,1837. The city was named after former General Sam Houston, who was president of the Republic of Texas and had commanded, the burgeoning port and railroad industry, combined with oil discovery in 1901, has induced continual surges in the citys population. Houstons economy has an industrial base in energy, manufacturing, aeronautics. Leading in health care sectors and building equipment, Houston has more Fortune 500 headquarters within its city limits than any city except for New York City. The Port of Houston ranks first in the United States in international waterborne tonnage handled, the city has a population from various ethnic and religious backgrounds and a large and growing international community. Houston is the most diverse city in Texas and has described as the most diverse in the United States. It is home to cultural institutions and exhibits, which attract more than 7 million visitors a year to the Museum District. Houston has a visual and performing arts scene in the Theater District. In August 1836, two real estate entrepreneurs from New York, Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen, purchased 6,642 acres of land along Buffalo Bayou with the intent of founding a city. The Allen brothers decided to name the city after Sam Houston, the general at the Battle of San Jacinto. The great majority of slaves in Texas came with their owners from the slave states. Sizable numbers, however, came through the slave trade. New Orleans was the center of trade in the Deep South. Thousands of enslaved African Americans lived near the city before the Civil War, many of them near the city worked on sugar and cotton plantations, while most of those in the city limits had domestic and artisan jobs. Houston was granted incorporation on June 5,1837, with James S. Holman becoming its first mayor, in the same year, Houston became the county seat of Harrisburg County and the temporary capital of the Republic of Texas
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Clockwise from top: Sam Houston monument,
Downtown Houston,
Houston Ship Channel,
The Galleria,
University of Houston, and the
Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center.
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Sam Houston
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Houston, c. 1873
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Union Station, Houston, Texas (postcard, c. 1911)
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Texas
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Texas is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population. Other major cities include Austin, the second most populous state capital in the U. S. Texas is nicknamed the Lone Star State to signify its former status as an independent republic, and as a reminder of the states struggle for independence from Mexico. The Lone Star can be found on the Texan state flag, the origin of Texass name is from the word Tejas, which means friends in the Caddo language. Due to its size and geologic features such as the Balcones Fault, although Texas is popularly associated with the U. S. southwestern deserts, less than 10 percent of Texas land area is desert. Most of the centers are located in areas of former prairies, grasslands, forests. Traveling from east to west, one can observe terrain that ranges from coastal swamps and piney woods, to rolling plains and rugged hills, the term six flags over Texas refers to several nations that have ruled over the territory. Spain was the first European country to claim the area of Texas, Mexico controlled the territory until 1836 when Texas won its independence, becoming an independent Republic. In 1845, Texas joined the United States as the 28th state, the states annexation set off a chain of events that caused the Mexican–American War in 1846. A slave state before the American Civil War, Texas declared its secession from the U. S. in early 1861, after the Civil War and the restoration of its representation in the federal government, Texas entered a long period of economic stagnation. One Texan industry that thrived after the Civil War was cattle, due to its long history as a center of the industry, Texas is associated with the image of the cowboy. The states economic fortunes changed in the early 20th century, when oil discoveries initiated a boom in the state. With strong investments in universities, Texas developed a diversified economy, as of 2010 it shares the top of the list of the most Fortune 500 companies with California at 57. With a growing base of industry, the leads in many industries, including agriculture, petrochemicals, energy, computers and electronics, aerospace. Texas has led the nation in export revenue since 2002 and has the second-highest gross state product. The name Texas, based on the Caddo word tejas meaning friends or allies, was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves, during Spanish colonial rule, the area was officially known as the Nuevo Reino de Filipinas, La Provincia de Texas. Texas is the second largest U. S. state, behind Alaska, though 10 percent larger than France and almost twice as large as Germany or Japan, it ranks only 27th worldwide amongst country subdivisions by size. If it were an independent country, Texas would be the 40th largest behind Chile, Texas is in the south central part of the United States of America. Three of its borders are defined by rivers, the Rio Grande forms a natural border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the south
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Sam Rayburn Reservoir
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Flag
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Texas Hill Country
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Big Bend National Park.
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Igbo people
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The Igbo people, also erroneously known as the Ibo people, are an indigenous linguistic and cultural people of southern Nigeria. Geographically, the Igbo homeland is divided into two sections by the Niger River – an eastern and a western section. They speak Igbo, which includes various Igboid languages and dialects, the Igbo homeland is almost surrounded on all sides by other ethnic peoples of southern and central Nigeria namely, the Ijaw, Edo, Isoko, Ogoni, Igala, Tiv, Yako, Idoma and Ibibio. The Igbo people are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa, in rural Nigeria, Igbo people work mostly as craftsmen, farmers and traders. The most important crop is the yam, celebrations take place annually to celebrate its harvesting, other staple crops include cassava and taro. Before British colonial rule, the Igbo were a politically fragmented group, there were variations in culture such as in art styles, attire and religious practices. Various subgroups were organized by clan, lineage, village affiliation, there were not many centralized chiefdoms, hereditary aristocracy, or kingship customs except in kingdoms such as those of the Nri, Arochukwu, Agbor and Onitsha. This political system changed significantly under British colonialism in the early 20th century, the Igbo became overwhelmingly Christian under colonization. Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart is one of the most popular novels to depict Igbo culture, by the mid-20th century, the Igbo people developed a strong sense of ethnic identity. Certain conflicts with other Nigerian ethnicities led to Igbo-densely populated Eastern Nigeria seceding to create the independent state of Biafra, the Nigerian Civil War or the Nigerian-Biafran War broke out shortly after. With their defeat, the Republic of Biafra once again was part of Nigeria, MASSOB, a sectarian organization formed in 1999, continues a non-violent struggle for an independent Igbo state. Due to the effects of migration and the Atlantic slave trade, there are descendant ethnic Igbo populations in such as Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. Their exact population outside Africa is unknown, but today many African Americans, according to Liberian historians the fifth president of Liberia Edward James Roye was of Igbo descent. The Igbo people have had fragmented and politically independent communities, before knowledge of Europeans and full exposure to other neighbouring ethnic groups, the Igbo did not have a strong identity as one people. As in the case of most ethnic groups, the British, Chinua Achebe, among other scholars, challenged this because of its negative connotations and possible wrong definition. He suggested defining the Igbo people as a nation although the Igbo do not have an officially recognized state of their own. The most common name for the Igbo in English was formerly Ibo and they have also been known as the Iboe, Ebo, Eboe, Eboans, or Heebo. Their territory and main settlement have also been known by their name
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O. Equian
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Bronze from the ninth century town of
Igbo Ukwu, now at the
British Museum.
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An Igbo man with facial
scarifications, known as
ichi, early 20th century
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Edward Blyden,
Americo-Liberian educator, writer and politician of Igbo descent.
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Bartlesville, Oklahoma
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Bartlesville is a city mostly in Washington County in the U. S. state of Oklahoma. The population was 35,750 at the 2010 census, with a 2015 estimate of 36,595 according to the US Census Bureau, Bartlesville is 47 miles north of Tulsa and 18 miles from Oklahomas northern border with Kansas. It is the county seat of Washington County, the Caney River runs through Bartlesville. Bartlesville is the city of the Bartlesville Micropolitan area, which consists of Washington County and has a population of 52,021 as of 2015. Bartlesville Micropolitan area is part of the Tulsa Combined Statistical Area with a population of 1,151,172 as of 2015. Bartlesville is notable as the home of Phillips Petroleum Company. The company merged with Conoco as ConocoPhillips and later split into the two independent companies Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips, both companies have retained some operations in Bartlesville, however, they have moved their corporate headquarters to Houston. Frank Phillips founded Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville in 1905 when the area was still Indian Territory and it is one of two places in Oklahoma where a Lenape Native American tribe lives, the other being Anadarko. Jacob Bartles, son-in-law of Delaware chief Charles Journeycake, moved from Wyandotte County and he settled first at Silver Lake, a natural lake south of the present city of Bartlesville. In 1874, he opened a trading post and post office on Turkey Creek, in the following year, he bought a grist mill on the Caney River and modified it to produce flour. Bartles then built a general store and residence, and added a rooming house, a blacksmith shop. Other settlers soon moved into the area, which was then called Bartles Town. In 1880, Bartles moved his Turkey Creek post office to this town, Bartles then provided the community with electricity, a telephone system and a water distribution system. Development of the present city began after William Johnstone and George B. Keeler opened a store on the south side of the Caney River in 1884. The first newspaper, The Weekly Magnet, began publication in March 1895, the town was incorporated in Indian Territory in January 1897. The town was surveyed and platted in 1898, and eighty acres were offered to the Atchison, Topeka, the railroad reached the town in 1899. The post office was moved from North Bartlesville in 1899, bypassed by the railroad, Jacob Bartles moved his store to Dewey, Oklahoma. In 1957, Bartlesville was the test site for the first experiment in pay cable television, the Bartlesville Telemovie System debuted with The Pajama Game, starring Doris Day, and aired it to an audience of 300 homes
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Downtown Bartlesville viewed from the Price Tower (2008)
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Caney River
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Price Tower, located downtown, was designed by
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Frank and Jane Phillips house (2013)
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Phillips Petroleum Company
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Phillips Petroleum Co. was an American oil company incorporated in 1917 that expanded into petroleum refining, marketing and transportation, natural gas gathering and the chemicals sectors. On August 30,2002, Conoco Inc. merged with Phillips Petroleum to form ConocoPhillips, becoming the third largest integrated energy company, the company moved its headquarters to Houston. In 2012, ConocoPhillips split into two separate companies, the legacy company kept its name, and spun off the midstream and downstream portions of its business. It was incorporated 13 June 1917 by brothers Lee Eldas L. E. and Frank Phillips, of Bartlesville, Oklahoma and their younger brother, Waite Phillips, was the benefactor of Philmont Scout Ranch. The company was headquartered in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Phillips Petroleum rapidly became a fully integrated oil company that included oil and gas production, crude oil pipelines and refineries, and marketing of petroleum products. Phillips Petroleum became heavily involved in the gas industry immediately after the discovery of the Panhandle gas field of Texas. By 1925, it was the largest producer of gas liquids in the United States. In 1927, Phillips started up its first petroleum refinery in Borger, Texas, the refinery also produced other petroleum fractions. It opened its first service station, to sell gasoline, in Wichita, all while driving on U. S. Highway 66 in Oklahoma near Tulsa, resulting in the number 66 superimposed on the U. S. Highway symbol for Route 66. Frank Phillips served as president of the company until 1938 and he then turned over the presidency to Kenneth S. Boots Adams, but continued as chairman of the board until 1949, in 1942, the company bought more than 250,000 acres in the Hugoton-Panhandle gas fields and a 25 percent interest in the Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Co. In 1954, the U. S. Supreme Court decided the case of Phillips Petroleum vs. State of Wisconsin which held that under the Natural Gas Act, Phillips then divested itself of the Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Interest, but remained a major supplier of natural gas. World War II greatly stimulated the demand for products, especially high-octane aviation fuel. Phillips turned to technology to increase the rating of fuels for use in advanced engines. The company invented an HF alkylation process in 1940, the American petrochemical industry took off, first making such as styrene, ethylene, propylene and butadiene. After the war, it formed a subsidiary, Phillips Chemical Co. which entered the business by producing anhydrous ammonia from natural gas. The company then built a complex on the Houston Ship Channel devoted to making petrochemicals, during the 1960s, Phillips expanded its international operations, particularly with exploration in Canada, Venezuela, and Colombia
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Site of Phillips explosions of
1989, 1999 and
2000 (as photographed in 2008).
25.
John Lucas III
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John Harding Lucas III is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for Baylor and Oklahoma State, born in Washington, D. C. to former NBA player and coach John Lucas II and his wife DeEdgra, Lucas lived in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania for a time as a youth. Lucas was the point guard on the Bellaire High School basketball team and played alongside fellow future NBA players Emeka Okafor. Lucas has a brother, Jai. He originally played collegiately at Baylor University, but transferred from there to Oklahoma State University in the wake of the 2003 Baylor basketball scandal, Lucas is noted for his winning shot against the Saint Josephs University team that sent the 2004 Oklahoma State Cowboys to the NCAA Final Four. After going undrafted in the 2005 NBA draft, Lucas joined the Minnesota Timberwolves for the 2005 NBA Summer League, the Timberwolves also signed him to their training camp roster. During the 2005–06 NBA season, Lucas was called up by the Houston Rockets from the Tulsa 66ers in December 2005 and he played 13 games for the Rockets between December and February. Lucass call-up made him the first Tulsa 66ers player to be called up from the NBA Development League and he averaged 16.6 points in 33.2 mins per game with the 66ers. On May 10,2006, Lucas signed with Snaidero Udine of the Italian League, to fill the gap left by Jerome Allen, on July 28,2006, Lucas signed with the Rockets to a three-year contract. In the 2006–07 season, Lucas and the Rockets made it to the playoffs, on October 30,2007, Lucas was one of four players cut from the Rockets roster, prior to the commencement of the 2007–08 season. He subsequently returned to Italian basketball, joining Benetton Treviso in January 2008 and he was then later released by Treviso in March. Lucas was signed by the Oklahoma City Thunder in September 2008 but was released by them in November before playing in any NBA games for them, in February 2009, he signed with the Colorado 14ers and helped them go on to win the 2008–09 D-League championship. On April 27,2009, Lucas signed with TAU Cerámica of the Spanish ACB League for the remainder of the season, on September 2,2009, Lucas was drafted by the Maine Red Claws in the NBA Development League expansion draft. Lucas played in the 2009 NBA preseason for the Miami Heat and he played four games and averaged 7.0 points,2.3 assists and 1.3 rebounds in 12.5 minutes per game. On October 23,2009, Lucas was waived by the Heat, Lucas then spent the 2009–10 season with the Shanghai Sharks of the CBA. Lucas spent the 2010 NBA preseason with the Chicago Bulls but was waived on October 21, the Bulls re-signed him on November 26. In his debut for the Bulls, Lucas missed two free throws in the final seconds of a 98–97 loss to the Denver Nuggets. He was waived on January 4,2011, and signed with the Shanghai Sharks in China, after his 2-month China stint, he returned to America and re-signed with the Bulls on March 20,2011
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Lucas with the Raptors in March 2013
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University Interscholastic League
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It is the largest organization of its type in the world. Activities range from American football and cross-examination debate to mathematics and marching competitions, however. The UIL is under the governance of the Vice President for Diversity and Community Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas. Although the Texas Education Agency governs the activities of schools and school districts in Texas, the UIL does not report to TEA, the UIL was originally created by UT in 1910 as two different entities, the Debating League of Texas High Schools and the Interscholastic Athletic Association. The two entities merged in 1913 and adopted the UIL name, at the time, UIL only governed white schools in Texas. In 1965, the UIL agreed to admit PVIL member schools for competition, black schools began UIL competitions beginning in the 1967-68 school year. After the 1969–70 school year, the UIL fully absorbed all PVIL member schools, beginning with the 2003–2004 academic year, two large all-male private schools, Dallas Jesuit and Houston Strake Jesuit, were granted UIL membership. This came after extensive court battles and negotiations from both the UILs lawyers and the schools joint lawyers, the Texas Legislature rewrote titles 1 and 2 of the Texas Education Code and greatly restricted the functions to be performed by the Texas Education Agency and the UIL. The changes made Texas an equal access state, the law now requires the public schools to allow all students that reside within the schools boundary equal access to all activities. The UIL no longer has the authority to determine the eligibility of Charter/Home/Private school students, all students must abide by the state No-Pass No-Play law. Only students that are enrolled in a school must abide by UIL eligibility rules. Charter/Home/Private school students may now participate in all public school extra-curricular activities, note, In 2008 two non-public school students won UIL wrestling championships. On October 10,2010, the Third District Court of Appeals in Austin ruled that the UIL operates as a public organization, the ruling clarified that the UIL is legally considered a state agency and must comply with the prerequisites and duties that all other state agencies have. As a state agent the UIL must treat individuals equally and show the purpose/need as well as a basis for eligibility restrictions. The UIL governs only public schools and 2 private high schools, activities for most Texas private schools are governed by separate bodies, the largest of which is TAPPS. Furthermore, private schools must compete at one classification higher than their enrollment would otherwise dictate, UIL schools are permitted to schedule contests with private schools and/or home school groups. Schools are arranged by classification to ensure that schools compete on a basis with other schools in the geographic area of a similar size. The classifications are A, AA, AAA, AAAA, AAAAA and AAAAAA, the corresponding alphanumeric designations are used in everyday conversation, but officially UIL only uses the alphabetic designations.0 between the largest and smallest school in each class
University Interscholastic League
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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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Daniel Ewing
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George Daniel Ewing Jr is an American professional basketball player for Neptūnas Klaipėda of the Lietuvos Krepšinio Lyga. A6 ft 3 in and 185 pounds guard from Duke University, prior to Duke, he played for Willowridge High School in Missouri City, Texas along with T. J. Ford and Ivan McFarlin. He was selected as a McDonalds All-American in 2001, Ewing was selected by the NBAs Los Angeles Clippers in the second round of the 2005 NBA Draft. He played with the club during two seasons, as a backup, in 127 regular season contests, he averaged 3 points, one rebound and one assist per game. On June 29,2007, he was waived by the Clippers, on July 23,2007, Ewing signed a two-year contract with the Russian League club BC Khimki. After one year in Russia with Khimki, Ewing joined Polish Leagues Asseco Prokom Sopot for the 2008-09 season, in July 2011, he signed a one-year contract with Azovmash Mariupol of Ukraine. In December 2012, he signed with Beşiktaş of the Turkish Basketball League for the rest of the season, in July 2013, he signed with a one-year deal Paris-Levallois Basket of the French LNB Pro A. On October 1,2014, Ewing signed a contract with Le Mans Sarthe. On October 29,2014, his contract with the team was extended for the rest of the season, on August 15,2015, Ewing signed a one-year deal with the Lithuanian club Neptūnas Klaipėda. On August 18,2016, Ewing signed with Israeli club Maccabi Ashdod, on February 22,2017, he returned to Neptūnas
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University of Arkansas
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The University of Arkansas is a public, co-educational, land-grant, space-grant, research university in Fayetteville, in the U. S. state of Arkansas. More than 26,000 students are enrolled in over 188 undergraduate, graduate and it is classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with highest research activity. Founded as Arkansas Industrial University in 1871, its present name was adopted in 1899 and it is noted for its strong architecture, agriculture, business, communication disorders, creative writing, history, law, and Middle Eastern studies programs. Enrollment for the semester of 2014 was 26,237. Academic programs are in excess of 200, the ratio of students to faculty is approximately 19,1. The University of Arkansas was founded in 1871 on the site of a farm that overlooked the Ozark Mountains. The university was established under the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act of 1862, the universitys founding also satisfied the provision in the Arkansas Constitution of 1868 that the General Assembly was to establish and maintain a State University. Bids from state towns and counties determined the universitys location, the citizens of Fayetteville and Washington County. Pledged $130,000 toward securing the university, a sum that proved to be more than other offers, classes started on January 22,1872. Completed in 1875, Old Main, a brick building designed in the Second Empire style, was the primary instructional. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and its design was based on the plans for the main academic building at the University of Illinois, which has since been demolished. However, the clock and bell towers were switched at Arkansas, the northern taller tower is the bell tower, and the southern shorter tower is the clock tower. One legend for the switch is that the taller tower was put to the north as a reminder of the Union victory during the Civil War. A second legend is that the contractor accidentally swapped the tower drawings after having had too much to drink, although the southern tower was designed with clock faces, it never held a working clock until October 2005. The bell tower has always had some type of chime, initially a bell that was rung on the hour by student volunteers, electronic chimes were installed in 1959. In addition to the chimes of the clock, the universitys Alma Mater plays at 5 pm every day. Old Main housed many of the earliest classes at the university, the lawn at Old Main serves as an arboretum, with many of the trees native to the state of Arkansas found on the lawn. Sitting at the edge of the lawn is Spoofers Stone, a place for couples to meet, students play soccer, cricket and touch football on the lawns open green
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Old Main on the University of Arkansas campus.
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Vol Walker Hall contains the
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Bell Engineering Center contains the
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Vanderbilt University
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Vanderbilt University is a private research university founded in 1873 and located in Nashville, Tennessee. It was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt hoped that his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the Civil War. Today, Vanderbilt enrolls approximately 12,000 students from all 50 U. S. states and over 90 foreign countries in four undergraduate and six graduate, despite its urban surroundings, the campus itself is a national arboretum and features over 300 different species of trees and shrubs. Vanderbilt is ranked as one of the top universities for its teaching, research opportunities. It is ranked 15th on the list of best national universities generated by U. S. News & World Report, however, lack of funds and the ravaged state of the Reconstruction Era South delayed the opening of the college. Indeed, the McTyeires had met at St. Francis Street Methodist Church in Mobile, Cornelius Vanderbilt, who was the wealthiest man in the United States at the time, was considering philanthropy as he was at an advanced age. He had been planning to establish a university on Staten Island, New York, however, McTyeire convinced him to donate $500,000 to endow Central University in order to contribute to strengthening the ties which should exist between all sections of our common country. The endowment was increased to $1 million and would be only one of two philanthropic causes financially supported by Vanderbilt. Though he never expressed any desire that the university be named after himself, McTyeire, Vanderbilt died in 1877 without seeing the school named after him. One of the trustees, Hezekiah William Foote, was a Confederate veteran. The Treasurer of the Board of Trust from 1872 to 1875, Alexander Little Page Green, whose portrait hangs in Kirkland Hall, was a Methodist preacher and a former slave owner. His son-in-law, Robert A. Young, was a Methodist minister who served as the Financial Secretary on the Board of Trust from 1874 to 1882, retiring from the board in 1902. The first building, Main Building, later known as Kirkland Hall, was designed by William Crawford Smith, in the fall of 1875, about 200 students enrolled at Vanderbilt, and in October the university was dedicated. Bishop McTyeire was named Chairman of the Board of Trust for life by Vanderbilt as a stipulation of his endowment, McTyeire named Landon Garland, his mentor from Randolph-Macon College in Virginia and then-Chancellor of the University of Mississippi, as chancellor. Garland shaped the structure and hired the schools faculty, many of whom were renowned scholars in their respective fields. However, most of this faculty left after disputes with Bishop McTyeire, when the first fraternity chapter, Phi Delta Theta, was established on campus in 1876, it was shut down by the faculty, only to be reestablished as a secret society in 1877. Meanwhile, Old Gym, designed by Dutch-born architect Peter J. Williamson, was built in 1879–1880, by 1883, the Board of Trust passed a resolution allowing fraternities on campus, and more chapters were established in 1884. During the first 40 years, the Board of Trust, and therefore the university, was under the control of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, conflicts escalated after James H. Kirkland was appointed chancellor in 1893
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Confederate Memorial Hall.
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Bishop Holland McTyeire
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Charlie Villanueva
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Charlie Alexander Villanueva is a Dominican-American professional basketball player who last played for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association. The son of immigrants from the Dominican Republic, Villanueva was raised in Elmhurst, Queens and he was drafted at the age of 20 with the seventh overall pick in the 2005 NBA draft by the Toronto Raptors. He also holds Dominican citizenship and has represented the Dominican Republic national basketball team in international competition, during his freshman year, Villanueva attended Newtown High School in Queens, New York, where he was a teammate of future NBA player Smush Parker. He spent his three years at Blair Academy in Blairstown, New Jersey, where he played with another future NBA player. Villanueva received All-American honors as a senior and was named New Jersey Co-Player of the Year and he entered the 2003 NBA draft, but withdrew his eligibility so he could play college basketball for the University of Connecticut. Considered a five-star recruit by Rivals. com, Villanueva was listed as the No.2 power forward, Villanueva originally gave a verbal commitment to play for the University of Illinois, but after Bill Self left the Illini for the University of Kansas, Villanueva withdrew his commitment. He considered following Self to the Jayhawks, but instead opted to play for the University of Connecticut, in his freshman year at UConn, Villanueva earned Big East All-Rookie Team honors and was a key reserve member of the 2004 NCAA National Championship team. As a sophomore at UConn, he averaged 13.6 points and 8.3 rebounds, leading the team in scoring and receiving team MVP, Villanueva declared for the 2005 NBA draft following his sophomore season, thus forgoing his final two years of college eligibility. Villanueva was selected by the Toronto Raptors with the seventh pick in the 2005 NBA draft. Despite being panned by critics as soon as his name was called in the draft and he averaged 13.0 points and 6.4 rebounds in 81 games. He finished second among rookies in points and rebounds, and third in minutes and he also tallied 12 double-doubles and set the Raptors rookie records for points and rebounds in a game. He also appeared in the Rookie Challenge and was named to the All-NBA Rookie first team, on June 30,2006, Villanueva was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks in exchange for T. J. Ford. In March 2009, Villanueva was reprimanded by Bucks coach Scott Skiles for posting a message on his Twitter account during halftime of the Bucks–Celtics game. Despite the mishap, Villanuevas 2008–09 season turned out to be a career-best season for him as he averaged 16.2 points and 6.7 rebounds per game, on July 8,2009, Villanueva signed a five-year, $40 million contract with the Detroit Pistons. On January 2,2013, Villanueva was fined $25,000 by the NBA for delivering a flagrant foul to Sacramento Kings guard Isaiah Thomas the previous night, Villanueva had been ejected from the game for elbowing Thomas as Thomas drove to the basket. The NBA league office added the fine after reviewing the play, on September 23,2014, Villanueva signed with the Dallas Mavericks. On February 9,2015, he scored a season-high 26 points in a loss to the Los Angeles Clippers, on August 6,2015, Villanueva re-signed with the Mavericks to a one-year deal. Villanueva represented the United States at youth levels but in 2009 and he played for the Dominican Republic national basketball team in the 2009 FIBA Americas Championship
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Villanueva with the Dallas Mavericks
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Marcus Williams (basketball, born 1985)
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Marcus Darrell Williams is an American professional basketball player for Cholet Basket of the LNB Pro A. Standing at 6 ft 3 in, he plays the point guard position and he was selected with the 22nd overall pick in the 2006 NBA draft by the New Jersey Nets. Prior to becoming professional player, he played basketball for the Connecticut Huskies. Williams attended and played for Crenshaw High School in Los Angeles, California for his 9th, 10th, and 11th years, during his freshman year at UConn, Williams was suspended for part of the season because of poor grades. As a sophomore in the 2004–2005 season, Williams averaged 9.6 points and 7.8 assists a game and he was named Big East Most Improved Player. In his junior year, he was kicked off the basketball team for several months. Williams averaged 12.3 points,8.6 assists, in a game against Notre Dame, he recorded the sixth triple-double in UConn history with 18 points,13 assists and 10 rebounds. In the 2006 NCAA tourney, he averaged 20 points,8.8 assists, while shooting 52% from the field, 56% from three-point range, Williams scored a career-high 26 points in a memorable 98–92 overtime Sweet 16 win against Washington on March 24,2006. Williams was selected 22nd overall in the 2006 NBA draft by the New Jersey Nets, former teammates Josh Boone, Rudy Gay, Hilton Armstrong, and Denham Brown were also selected, with all but Brown being first round picks. Marcus Williams was named to the Rookie team for the 2007 T-Mobile Rookie Challenge at the 2007 NBA All-Star Weekend, as a rookie in 2006–07, Williams played in 79 games, averaging 6.8 ppg and 3.3 apg. On July 22,2008, Williams was traded by the Nets to the Golden State Warriors for a conditional first-round pick, on March 10,2009, Marcus Williams was released by the Golden State Warriors. In July 2009, Williams began playing on the Memphis Grizzlies Summer League team in Las Vegas and he joined 2009 first round pick Hasheem Thabeet, undrafted rookie free agent Jeff Adrien, and Rudy Gay as one of four former UConn Huskies on the Grizzlies Summer League roster. On August 7,2009, Williams officially signed with the Grizzlies, Williams signed with the Quebradillas Pirates of the Puerto Rican Basketball League in late March 2009. During the first half of the season, Williams averaged 15.0 points per game,5.3 rebounds and 9.3 assists and he had registered one triple-double and was the league-leader in assists. He was also selected to play in the leagues All-Star game and won the games MVP award and he also finished the season earning All-BSN First Team honors with teammate Peter John Ramos, and helping the Pirates to the best record in the league. Because he went to the Memphis Grizzlies summer league team and left the Pirates, he missed the finals. In August 2010, he signed a contract with the Russian team Enisey Krasnoyarsk. Quickly becoming leader of his new team, Williams helped Enisey qualify to playoff for the first time in clubs history, in quarterfinals Enisey lost series to Lokomotiv-Kuban
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Ben Gordon (basketball)
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Benjamin Ashenafi Ben Gordon is a British-American professional basketball player for the Texas Legends of the NBA Development League. Gordon played college basketball for the University of Connecticut and won a championship with them in 2004. He is the player to have ever won the NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award as a rookie. Gordon is second in three point field goals for the Chicago Bulls, behind Kirk Hinrich. Gordon was born in London, England to Jamaican parents and he moved to the United States as an infant, and grew up in Mount Vernon, New York. Gordon played high school basketball for the Mount Vernon Knights, and helped lead the team to the 2000 New York State Public, Gordon was an All-State player at Mount Vernon and a top 40 national recruit. He was heavily recruited by Seton Hall, but decided to attend UConn, as a freshman at Connecticut, Gordon ranked second on the team in scoring, despite coming off the bench for most of the season. He hit the game winning 3-point field goal against Villanova in the Big East Tournament, as a sophomore Gordon averaged a team-leading 19.5 points and also led the Huskies with 156 total assists, which earned Gordon Second Team All-Big East honors. In Gordons junior and final year at Connecticut, he averaged a team-leading 20.5 points,4.7 rebounds and 4.5 assists and he also connected on 104 three-pointers, the second-highest single season total in Connecticuts history. Gordon set a Big East Tournament record with 81 total points, Gordon also earned the Most Outstanding Player award of the Phoenix Regional honors in the NCAA Tournament. He also led the tournament field with 127 total points, as he helped lead the Huskies to the NCAA Championship, im a guy who looks at the significance of numbers a lot. Before the draft, I had no idea Id get drafted third, I thought I was going to go anywhere from 7th to 12th. As we started getting closer and I started to get an inkling that the Bulls could be a team that I could end up playing for, Michael Jordan was drafted by the Bulls and he was the third pick just like you. Gordon wore the number 4 on his jersey in school and college. Gordon said, I wore No.4 my whole career but, of course, so all I did was just being the third pick with my old No.4. The Bulls also acquired Luol Deng in the same draft, between Jordans departure in 1998 and Gordons arrival in 2004, the Bulls did not win more than 30 games in a single season. In his rookie year, Gordon helped lead a turnaround from a 3–14 start to finish 47–35 and he averaged 15.1 points,2.6 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game while playing 24.2 minutes per game. Gordon also finished with 21 double-digit fourth quarter point performances, second to only LeBron James 22 in the NBA, in their first playoff appearance in the post-Jordan era, the Bulls lost to the Washington Wizards in six games
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Gordon with the Bobcats
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Ben Gordon signing autographs before a Chicago Bulls game.
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Hilton Armstrong
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Hilton Julius Armstrong, Jr. is an American professional basketball player who plays for Chiba Jets of the B. League. During his college career, he played as a forward. He formerly played for the New Orleans Hornets, Sacramento Kings, Houston Rockets, Washington Wizards, Atlanta Hawks and he was also on the pre-season roster of the Indiana Pacers in 2014 and played in a summer league for the Los Angeles Clippers in 2012. After graduating from Peekskill High School, Armstrong started off slowly as a college athlete, however, he greatly improved in his senior year, averaging 9.7 points,6.6 rebounds, and 3.1 blocks, and shooting 61% from the field. He followed after his teammate Josh Boone, and won the Big East Defensive Player of the Year in the 2005–06 season and he was declared eligible for the 2006 NBA draft, and was selected by the New Orleans Hornets with the 12th overall pick. Chandler was named the center, and Armstrong did not do much to improve in the following off-seasons. On January 11,2010, Armstrong was traded to the Sacramento Kings for a conditional 2016 second-round draft pick, on February 18,2010, Armstrong was traded to the Houston Rockets, along with Kevin Martin, for Carl Landry and Joey Dorsey. He was waived by the Rockets on April 10,2010, Armstrong signed with the Washington Wizards on July 13,2010. On February 23,2011, Armstrong was traded to the Atlanta Hawks, along with Kirk Hinrich, in exchange for Mike Bibby, Jordan Crawford, Maurice Evans, in July 2011, Armstrong signed with ASVEL Basket of the French Pro A League. In August 2012, he signed with Panathinaikos of the Greek Basketball League, in December 2012, he left Panathinaikos. On January 2013, Armstrong was acquired by the Santa Cruz Warriors of the NBA D-League and he played very well for the Warriors, earning 2nd Team All D-League Defensive Team honors. In May 2013, he joined Changan Group Guangdong of China for the 2013 NBL season, on September 27,2013, he signed with the Indiana Pacers. However, he was waived on October 26, in November 2013, he was re-acquired by the Santa Cruz Warriors. On December 11,2013, after playing in six games with Santa Cruz, on December 29,2013, he was waived by Golden State. On January 3,2014, he was re-acquired by Santa Cruz, on February 3,2014, Armstrong was named to the Futures All-Star roster for the 2014 NBA D-League All-Star Game. On February 22,2014, he signed a 10-day contract with the Golden State Warriors, on March 4,2014, he returned to Santa Cruz after his 10-day contract expired. On March 30,2014, he signed another 10-day contract with the Golden State Warriors, on April 9,2014, he signed with Golden State for the rest of the 2013–14 season. He started the game of the regular season and recorded a double-double
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Armstrong during his tenure with the Washington Wizards
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Josh Boone (basketball)
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Oscar Joshua Josh Boone is an American professional basketball player for the Hong Kong Eastern Long Lions of the ASEAN Basketball League. A610 power forward-center, he played three years of basketball for Connecticut. He declared for the 2006 NBA draft after his junior season, born in Mount Airy, Maryland, he attended South Carroll High School in Sykesville, Maryland, where he averaged 20 points,14.4 rebounds and seven blocked shots per game. He teamed with Indiana-bound Marshall Strickland to lead South Carroll to a 20–6 record, in his junior year, the team tied Governor Thomas Johnson High School for the league championship. South Carroll then lost in the regional semi-finals to top-ranked Paint Branch High School, the next year, he helped lead the team to only the schools second ever state final four appearance, losing to Gwynn Park in the final four. After graduating, he attended West Nottingham Academy in Colora, Maryland, Boone played college basketball for Connecticut and was named to the Big East All-Rookie Team. Started 37 of 38 games at power forward, averaged 5.9 points,5.8 rebounds and 1.7 blocks, and shot.554 from the field, for NCAA Champion Huskies. Scored nine points in both Final Four games, and grabbed 14 rebounds in National Semifinal win over Duke, averaged 8.0 points and 11.3 rebounds in three Big East Tournament games. Set a Big East Tourney record for rebounds in a game by a freshman with a career-high 16 boards in quarterfinal win at Notre Dame, in the Huskies season opener vs. Yale, became the 12th freshman under Jim Calhoun to start the season opener. Big East Defensive Player of the Year and All-Big East Second Team selection, named NABC and USBWA All-District First Team. Started all 31 games at center, averaged 12.4 points,8.4 rebounds and 2.9 blocks. Recorded a double-double in 11 games and he registered 18 points and 15 rebounds in 75–70 loss to Boston College. Scored a career-high 22 points and 8 blocked shots in the December 30,2004 win over Quinnipiac and he topped his career-high with nine blocks, along with seven points and eight rebounds, in win over St. Johns on February 5,2005. All-Big East Honorable Mention and NABC All-District Second Team selection, started 32 of 34 games at the power forward position. Averaged 10.3 points,7.0 rebounds and 2.0 blocks and he had eight double-doubles on the season. Tallied 13 points,11 rebounds and two blocks in a 98–92 Sweet 16 win over Washington on March 24,2006, had 12 points,14 rebounds and four blocks in a narrow 75–74 win over Notre Dame on February 21,2006. Recorded 17 points and 15 rebounds in a 66–53 win at South Florida on March 1,2006, Boone was picked 23rd overall in the 2006 NBA draft by the New Jersey Nets. He was picked right behind former UConn teammate, Marcus Williams who was selected by the Nets
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Josh Boone
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Finance
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Finance is a field that deals with the study of investments. It includes the dynamics of assets and liabilities over time under conditions of different degrees of uncertainty, Finance can also be defined as the science of money management. Finance aims to price assets based on their level and their expected rate of return. Finance can be broken into three different sub-categories, public finance, corporate finance and personal finance. g, health and property insurance, investing and saving for retirement. Personal finance may also involve paying for a loan, or debt obligations, net worth is a persons balance sheet, calculated by adding up all assets under that persons control, minus all liabilities of the household, at one point in time. Household cash flow totals up all the sources of income within a year. From this analysis, the financial planner can determine to what degree, adequate protection, the analysis of how to protect a household from unforeseen risks. These risks can be divided into the following, liability, property, death, disability, health, some of these risks may be self-insurable, while most will require the purchase of an insurance contract. Determining how much insurance to get, at the most cost effective terms requires knowledge of the market for personal insurance, business owners, professionals, athletes and entertainers require specialized insurance professionals to adequately protect themselves. Since insurance also enjoys some tax benefits, utilizing insurance investment products may be a piece of the overall investment planning. Tax planning, typically the income tax is the single largest expense in a household, managing taxes is not a question of if you will pay taxes, but when and how much. Government gives many incentives in the form of tax deductions and credits, most modern governments use a progressive tax. Typically, as ones income grows, a marginal rate of tax must be paid. Understanding how to take advantage of the tax breaks when planning ones personal finances can make a significant impact in which it can later save you money in the long term. Investment and accumulation goals, planning how to accumulate enough money - for large purchases, major reasons to accumulate assets include, purchasing a house or car, starting a business, paying for education expenses, and saving for retirement. Achieving these goals requires projecting what they will cost, and when you need to withdraw funds that will be necessary to be able to achieve these goals, a major risk to the household in achieving their accumulation goal is the rate of price increases over time, or inflation. Using net present value calculators, the planner will suggest a combination of asset earmarking. In order to overcome the rate of inflation, the investment portfolio has to get a higher rate of return, managing these portfolio risks is most often accomplished using asset allocation, which seeks to diversify investment risk and opportunity
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London Stock Exchange, global center of finance.
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Wall Street, the center of American finance.
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NCAA
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The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a non-profit association which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations, and individuals. It also organizes the programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The organization is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2014, the NCAA generated almost a billion dollars in revenue. 80 to 90% of this revenue was due to the Division I Mens Basketball Tournament and this revenue is then distributed back into various organizations and institutions across the United States. In August 1973, the current three-division setup of Division I, Division II, under NCAA rules, Division I and Division II schools can offer scholarships to athletes for playing a sport. Division III schools may not offer any athletic scholarships, generally, larger schools compete in Division I and smaller schools in II and III. Division I football was divided into I-A and I-AA in 1978. Subsequently, the term Division I-AAA was briefly added to delineate Division I schools which do not field a football program at all, in 2006, Divisions I-A and I-AA were respectively renamed the Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision. Inter-collegiate sports began in the US in 1852 when crews from Harvard University, as other sports emerged, notably football and basketball, many of these same concepts and standards were adopted. Football, in particular, began to emerge as a marquee sport, the IAAUS was officially established on March 31,1906, and took its present name, the NCAA, in 1910. For several years, the NCAA was a group and rules-making body, but in 1921, the first NCAA national championship was conducted. Gradually, more rules committees were formed and more championships were created, a series of crises brought the NCAA to a crossroads after World War II. The Sanity Code – adopted to establish guidelines for recruiting and financial aid – failed to curb abuses, postseason football games were multiplying with little control, and member schools were increasingly concerned about how the new medium of television would affect football attendance. The complexity of problems and the growth in membership and championships demonstrated the need for full-time professional leadership. Walter Byers, previously an executive assistant, was named executive director in 1951. Byers wasted no time placing his stamp on the Association, as college athletics grew, the scope of the nations athletics programs diverged, forcing the NCAA to create a structure that recognized varying levels of emphasis. In 1973, the Associations membership was divided into three legislative and competitive divisions – I, II, and III, five years later in 1978, Division I members voted to create subdivisions I-A and I-AA in football. Until the 1980s, the association did not offer womens athletics, instead, the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, with nearly 1000 member schools, governed womens collegiate sports in the United States
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The current NCAA headquarters office in
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NCAA National Championship
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2006 NCAA championship banners hang from the ceiling of the NCAA Hall of Champions in Indianapolis.
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Harry A. Gampel Pavilion
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Harry A. Gampel Pavilion is a 10, 167-seat multi-purpose arena in Storrs, Connecticut, United States, on the campus of the University of Connecticut. The arena opened on January 21,1990, and is the largest on-campus arena in New England. It was named after industrialist and 1943 UConn graduate Harry A. Gampel, a philanthropist who walked with Martin Luther King Jr. and who donated one million dollars for the construction of the arena. It is about 216,000 sq ft. Gampel Pavilion is the home to the Connecticut Huskies mens basketball, womens basketball. For most of the time since the late 1990s, the basketball team has played most of their more important games at the XL Center in Hartford. During the 2011–12 season, the basketball team played 11 home games in Hartford. The pavilion is the centerpiece of the UConn Sports Center, which also includes Wolff-Zackin Natatorium and it replaced the Hugh S. Greer Field House, which only held 4,604 people and still stands to the northwest of the pavilion. The facility has expanded three times. As originally constructed, it seated 8,241, after the 1995–96 season,1,900 seats were added around the entrances, increasing capacity to 10,027. A seating adjustment after the 2001–02 season added 140 more seats to result in the current capacity, the first basketball game was played on January 27,1990, between the then 20th ranked Connecticut Huskies and the 15th ranked St. Johns Red Storm. Since 1990 through 2016 the Huskies mens basketball team has a 168–30 record at Gampel Pavilion, the National Championship Banners and NIT Championship Banners have been replaced with newer versions, along with banners commemorating Jim Calhoun and Geno Auriemmas Hall of Fame inductions
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Gampel Pavilion
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Storrs, Connecticut
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Storrs is a village and census-designated place in the town of Mansfield within eastern Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 15,344 at the 2010 census and it is dominated economically and demographically by the presence of the main campus of the University of Connecticut and the associated Connecticut Repertory Theatre. According to the United States Census Bureau, the community has an area of 14.8 km². As of the census of 2000, there were 10,996 people,1,630 households, there were 1,701 housing units at an average density of 115. 8/km². The racial makeup of the community was 81. 10% White,5. 67% African American,0. 09% Native American,9. 13% Asian,0. 05% Pacific Islander,1. 70% from other races, and 2. 26% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4. 40% of the population,34. 1% of all households were made up of individuals and 16. 7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.19 and the family size was 2.70. The median age was 21 years, for every 100 females there were 91.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.1 males, the median income for a household in the community was $76,000 and the median income for a family was $64,833. Males had an income of $34,766 versus $23,229 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $9,947, about 10. 0% of families and 33. 5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5. 4% of those under age 18 and 8. 2% of those age 65 or over. However, traditional measures of poverty can be misleading when applied to communities dominated by students. Audrey P. Beck, college professor and Connecticut state legislator Wally Lamb, best-selling author of Shes Come Undone, both were selected for Oprahs Book Club. Tim Page, Pulitzer Prize winning music critic and biographer of Dawn Powell, rivers Cuomo, lead singer/guitarist of the alternative rock band Weezer, grew up in Storrs and attended the local secondary school, E. O. Smith High School. Dom Sigillo, American football player Peter Tork of The Monkees attended E. O. Smith High School, he was class of 1959 and made the class of 2005 commencement speech. Wendy O. Williams, lead singer for the 1970s and 1980s punk rock band the Plasmatics, lived in town from 1991 until her death, in 1998
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Storrs Congregational Church
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Location of Storrs in Connecticut
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Syracuse Orange
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The Syracuse Orange is the nickname used by the athletic teams of Syracuse University. The school is a member of NCAA Division I and the Atlantic Coast Conference, until 2013, Syracuse was a member of the Big East Conference. The schools mascot is Otto the Orange, teams were previously known as the Orangemen and Orangewomen. The mens basketball, football, wrestling, mens lacrosse, other sports facilities include the nearby Manley Field House complex, the Tennity Ice Skating Pavilion, and Drumlins Country Club. Baseball team established,1870 Rowing team founded,1874 First recorded football game,1884 vs, medical College of Syracuse First intercollegiate football game,1889 vs. University of Rochester First recorded basketball game,1899 vs. Syracuse Cross Country competes within the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Syracuse Orange Mens Cross Country Team has a well rooted history, with an NCAA Championship victory dating back to 1951. The team also won the NCAA Northeast Regional Championships in 2009 and 2010, at NCAAs, the team finished 14th place in both 2009 and 2010 with Tito Medrano earning All American Status in 2009 and Pat Dupont earning All American Status in 2010. In 2011, the Orange won the Northeast Regional Meet for a consecutive time and placed 15th at the NCAA Championships held in Terre Haute. In their first year in the Atlantic Coast Conference, the cross country team took home the schools first ACC Championship title. The 2013 squad took 10th place at the NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, Indiana, the Orange also won the 2103 NCAA Northeast Regional Title, taking the title 4 of the last 5 years. The womens team has had success in recent years as well. In 2008, the team made NCAA Nationals for the first time ever. In 2010, the team finished an all-time best of 10th place and they have been a consistent top 3 team in the Big East over the recent years as well. In 2009, Katie Hursey won the NCAA Northeast Regional Championships individually, the Syracuse Orange football program is a college football team that currently represents Syracuse University as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Syracuse University football program is renowned for producing many All-Americans. Among them are Ernie Davis, Jim Brown, Larry Csonka, Joe Morris, Art Monk, Jim Ringo, John Mackey, the Syracuse Orange mens basketball program is the intercollegiate mens basketball program of Syracuse University. The program is classified in the NCAAs Division I, and the team competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Orange won the National Championship in the 2003 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball tournament. During the 2008–09, they played in, and won, a thriller against a rival UConn team
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Syracuse University men's rowing team, 1914
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Syracuse Orange football, 2006
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Syracuse Orange men's basketball (
Dion Waiters)
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Syracuse Orange men's lacrosse, vs. Army, 2010
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Dream Team IV
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The USA Basketball Mens Senior National Team, commonly known as the United States Mens National Basketball Team, represents the United States in international mens basketball. The USA team is the most successful team in competition, winning medals in all eighteen Olympic tournaments it has entered. The United States is currently ranked first in the FIBA World Rankings, traditionally composed of amateur players, a 1989 rule change by FIBA allowed USA Basketball to field teams with professional players. The first such team, known as the Dream Team, won the medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. With the introduction of professionals, the team was able to spark a run of dominance after capturing only a bronze medal in 1988. A team of professional players competed at the 1994 FIBA World Championship, in 1996,2000,2008,2012, and 2016 the USA again captured gold medals at the Olympics. Facing increased competition, the USA failed to win a medal at the 2002 FIBA World Championship, determined to put an end to these failures, USA Basketball initiated a long-term project aimed at creating better, more cohesive teams. The USA won its first seven games at the 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan before losing against Greece in the semi-finals, the USA won gold two years later, though, at the 2008 Summer Olympics with a dominant performance. The USA continued this streak of dominance by going undefeated and capturing gold once more at the 2012 Summer Olympics,2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup, the United States possessed a clear advantage in the early decades of international play. Through the next six tournaments, the United States went undefeated, collecting gold while not losing a single contest in the held in London, Helsinki, Melbourne, Rome, Tokyo. Roster until the formation of the 1992 Dream Team, the 1952 team included big man Clyde Lovellette of the University of Kansas, a future Hall of Famer and NBA star, but Kurland once again led the team to victory. The 1956 team was led by San Francisco Dons Bill Russell, the 1972 Olympic mens basketball gold medal game, marking the first ever loss for the USA in Olympic play, is arguably the most controversial in Olympic history. The United States rode their seven consecutive gold medals and 63–0 Olympic record to Munich for the 1972 Summer Olympics, the team won its first eight games in convincing fashion, setting up a final against the Soviet Union. With three seconds left in the medal game, American forward Doug Collins sank two free throws to put the Americans up 50–49. However, the buzzer sounded before Collins second free throw, immediately following Collins free throws, the Soviets inbounded the ball and failed to score. But one official had whistled play to stop with one remaining after hearing the earlier horn. The Soviets argued that they had requested a timeout before Collins foul shots, the referees ordered the clock reset to three seconds and the games final seconds replayed. However, the clock was in the process of being reset when the referees put the ball in play
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The USA players standing prior to a game against China in the Beijing Olympics
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United States of America
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Oprah Winfrey with the Redeem Team at September 3 taping of season-opening September 8, 2008
Oprah Winfrey Show at the
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
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The 2012 team practicing in Washington D.C.
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Bronze medal
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The outright winner receives a gold medal and the second place a silver medal. More generally, bronze is traditionally the most common used for all types of high-quality medals. The practice of awarding bronze third place medals began at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis, Missouri, prior to which only first, minting Olympic medals is the responsibility of the host city. From 1972–2000, Cassiolis design remained on the obverse with a design by the host city on the reverse. Noting that Cassiolis design showed a Roman amphitheatre for what was originally a Greek game, winter Olympics medals have been of more varied design. In 1995, a study was carried out by social psychologists Victoria Medvec, Scott Madey, the study showed that athletes who won the bronze medal were significantly happier with their winning than those athletes who won the silver medal. The silver medalists were more frustrated because they had missed the gold medal and this is more pronounced in knockout competitions, where the bronze medals are achieved by winning a playoff, whereas silver medals are awarded after a defeat in the final. This psychological phenomenon was parodied in the Jerry Seinfeld special Im Telling You for the Last Time, bronze and brass ornamental work Third place playoff Medal Designs for all Olympic Games
Bronze medal
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A bronze medal from the
1980 Summer Olympics
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The bronze commemorative
Medal of the Emperor John VIII Palaiologos by
Pisanello (1438), made in various metals, but usually in bronze
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Athens
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Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. In modern times, Athens is a cosmopolitan metropolis and central to economic, financial, industrial, maritime. In 2015, Athens was ranked the worlds 29th richest city by purchasing power, Athens is recognised as a global city because of its location and its importance in shipping, finance, commerce, media, entertainment, arts, international trade, culture, education and tourism. It is one of the biggest economic centres in southeastern Europe, with a financial sector. The municipality of Athens had a population of 664,046 within its limits. The urban area of Athens extends beyond its administrative city limits. According to Eurostat in 2011, the Functional urban areas of Athens was the 9th most populous FUA in the European Union, Athens is also the southernmost capital on the European mainland. The city also retains Roman and Byzantine monuments, as well as a number of Ottoman monuments. Athens is home to two UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the Acropolis of Athens and the medieval Daphni Monastery, Athens was the host city of the first modern-day Olympic Games in 1896, and 108 years later it welcomed home the 2004 Summer Olympics. In Ancient Greek, the name of the city was Ἀθῆναι a plural, in earlier Greek, such as Homeric Greek, the name had been current in the singular form though, as Ἀθήνη. It was possibly rendered in the later on, like those of Θῆβαι and Μυκῆναι. During the medieval period the name of the city was rendered once again in the singular as Ἀθήνα, an etiological myth explaining how Athens has acquired its name was well known among ancient Athenians and even became the theme of the sculpture on the West pediment of the Parthenon. The goddess of wisdom, Athena, and the god of the seas, Poseidon had many disagreements, in an attempt to compel the people, Poseidon created a salt water spring by striking the ground with his trident, symbolizing naval power. However, when Athena created the tree, symbolizing peace and prosperity. Different etymologies, now rejected, were proposed during the 19th century. Christian Lobeck proposed as the root of the name the word ἄθος or ἄνθος meaning flower, ludwig von Döderlein proposed the stem of the verb θάω, stem θη- to denote Athens as having fertile soil. In classical literature, the city was referred to as the City of the Violet Crown, first documented in Pindars ἰοστέφανοι Ἀθᾶναι. In medieval texts, variant names include Setines, Satine, and Astines, today the caption η πρωτεύουσα, the capital, has become somewhat common
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From upper left: the
Acropolis, the
Hellenic Parliament, the
Zappeion, the
Acropolis Museum,
Monastiraki Square, Athens view towards the sea
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Athena, patron goddess of Athens;
National Archaeological Museum
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Acropolis of Athens, with
Odeon of Herodes Atticus seen on bottom left
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Double-doubles
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In basketball, a double is the accumulation of a double-digit number total in one of five statistical categories—points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocked shots—in a game. Multiple players usually score double-digit points in any basketball game. A double-double is the accumulation of a double-digit number total in two of the five categories in a game. The most common combination is points-rebounds, followed by points-assists. Since the 1983–84 season, Tim Duncan leads the National Basketball Association in the combination with 840. A triple-double is the accumulation of a double-digit number total in three of the five categories in a game, the most common way to achieve a triple-double is through points, rebounds, and assists. Oscar Robertson leads the all-time NBA list with 181 career triple-doubles and is the player ever to average a triple-double for a season. Russell Westbrook and Oscar Robertson currently share the record for most triple-doubles in a season at 41. A quadruple-double is the accumulation of a double-digit number total in four of the five categories in a game and this has occurred four times in the NBA. A quintuple-double is the accumulation of a double-digit number total in all five categories in a game, two quintuple-doubles have been recorded at the high school level, by Tamika Catchings and Aimee Oertner, but none have occurred in a college or professional game. A similar accomplishment is the five-by-five, which is the accumulation of at least five points, five rebounds, five assists, five steals, in the NBA, only Hakeem Olajuwon and Andrei Kirilenko have accumulated multiple five-by-fives since the 1984–85 season. The most common combination is points and rebounds, followed by points and assists. Double-doubles are fairly common in the NBA, during the 2008–09 season,69 players who were eligible for leadership in the main statistical categories recorded at least 10 double-doubles during the season. One such double-double is called double double-double and it occurs when a player accumulates 20 or more in two different statistical categories in a game. Another such double-double is called a triple double-double, the only player in NBA history to record a 40-40 is Wilt Chamberlain, who achieved the feat eight times in his career. Of the five instances, four were recorded in his season. Wilt Chamberlain also holds the record for most career double-doubles with 1111, Tim Duncan is second with 1005, followed by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with 1004. Chamberlain also holds the second and third longest continuous streaks of double-doubles with 220 and 133 and this record is before the ABA–NBA merger in 1976
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Center David Robinson is the most recent NBA player to accomplish the feat of a quadruple-double by recording at least 10 points, rebounds, assists, and blocks in a game.
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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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Rasheed Wallace
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Rasheed Abdul Sheed Wallace is an American retired professional basketball player who played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association. A native of Philadelphia, Wallace played college basketball at the University of North Carolina before moving on to the NBA in 1995. Originally selected by the Washington Bullets as the pick in the 1995 NBA draft. He was then traded to the Portland Trail Blazers after the season, with Portland he was a key member of the Trail Blazers team that made it to the Western Conference Finals in 1999 and 2000, and was an NBA All-Star in 2000 and 2001. Wallace averaged a career best 19.4 points per game in 2002 for the Trail Blazers, during the 2003–04 season Portland traded him to the Atlanta Hawks where he played one game before he was traded to the Detroit Pistons. With the Pistons, Wallace won the NBA championship in 2004, individually, Wallace was an NBA All-Star in 2006 and 2008. After the 2008–09 season, Wallace left the Pistons as an agent and signed with the Boston Celtics. He returned to sign a deal to play for the New York Knicks in 2012. Wallace is currently the NBAs all-time leader in technical fouls. Wallace also holds the record for technical fouls. In the 2000–01 season, Wallace received 41 technical fouls over a span of 80 games, on April 17,2013, Wallace announced his second retirement. Wallace was born and raised in the city neighborhoods of Philadelphia. He was named USA Today High School Player of the Year after his season and was selected first team All America by Basketball Times. Wallace was also a two-time Parade All-American first teamer, despite playing time of just 19 minutes per game, Wallace averaged 16 points,15 rebounds and seven blocks his senior year. In addition to basketball, Wallace also ran track and high jumped as a teenager, Wallace, along with Randy Livingston and Jerry Stackhouse, were considered the top three players in the 1993 class. University of North Carolina coach Dean Smith recruited Wallace to Chapel Hill, Smith was a revered mentor both to Wallace and Wallaces eventual Detroit coach Larry Brown. Wallace has indicated that this North Carolina bond with Brown helped him adjust quickly to the Pistons system, during his brief time at North Carolina, Wallace had success in the national spotlight. He was named a second-team All-American by the AP his second year at UNC, Wallace and fellow future NBA player Jerry Stackhouse helped lead the Tar Heels to the NCAA Final Four in 1995
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Wallace with the Pistons in 2008
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Wallace in a game against the
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Hakeem Olajuwon
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Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon, formerly known as Akeem Olajuwon, is a Nigerian-American former professional basketball player. From 1984 to 2002, he played the position in the National Basketball Association for the Houston Rockets. He led the Rockets to back-to-back NBA championships in 1994 and 1995, in 2008, he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, and in 2016, he was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame. Listed at 7 ft 0 in, Olajuwon is considered one of the greatest centers ever to play the game and he was nicknamed The Dream during his basketball career after he dunked so effortlessly that his college coach said it looked like a dream. Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Olajuwon traveled from his country to play for the University of Houston under head coach Guy Lewis. His college career for the Cougars included three trips to the Final Four, Olajuwon was drafted by the Houston Rockets with the first overall selection of the 1984 NBA draft, a draft that included Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, and John Stockton. He combined with the 7 ft 4 in Ralph Sampson to form a duo dubbed the Twin Towers, the two led the Rockets to the 1986 NBA Finals, where they lost in six games to the Boston Celtics. After Sampson was traded to the Warriors in 1988, Olajuwon became the Rockets undisputed leader and he led the league in rebounding twice and blocks three times. His Rockets won back-to-back championships against the New York Knicks, in 1996, Olajuwon was a member of the Olympic gold-medal-winning United States national team, and was selected as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. He ended his career as the leagues leader in blocks and is one of four NBA players to record a quadruple-double. Olajuwon was born to Salim and Abike Olajuwon, working class Yoruba owners of a cement business in Lagos and he was the third of eight children. He credits his parents with instilling virtues of work and discipline into him and his siblings, They taught us to be honest, work hard, respect our elders. Olajuwon has expressed displeasure at his childhood in Nigeria being characterized as backward, Lagos is a very cosmopolitan city. There are many ethnic groups. I grew up in an environment at schools where there were all different types of people, during his youth, Olajuwon was a soccer goalkeeper, which helped give him the footwork and agility to balance his size and strength in basketball, and also contributed to his shot-blocking ability. Olajuwon did not play basketball until the age of 17, when he entered a local tournament and it has been said that a coach in Nigeria once asked him to dunk and demonstrated while standing on a chair. Olajuwon then tried to stand on the chair himself, when redirected by staff not to use the chair, Hakeem could initially not dunk the basketball. Despite early struggles, Olajuwon quickly became taken into the game and that immediately I pick up the game and, you know, realize that this is the life for me. All the other sports just become obsolete, Olajuwon emigrated from Nigeria to play basketball at the University of Houston under Cougars coach Guy Lewis
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Olajuwon signing autographs
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A billboard at the University of Houston
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One of only five numbers retired by the
University of Houston men's basketball team, Olajuwon's #34 hangs in
Hofheinz Pavilion.
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Olajuwon (right) defending
Jawann Oldham on 25 November 1986
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Triple-double
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In basketball, a double is the accumulation of a double-digit number total in one of five statistical categories—points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocked shots—in a game. Multiple players usually score double-digit points in any basketball game. A double-double is the accumulation of a double-digit number total in two of the five categories in a game. The most common combination is points-rebounds, followed by points-assists. Since the 1983–84 season, Tim Duncan leads the National Basketball Association in the combination with 840. A triple-double is the accumulation of a double-digit number total in three of the five categories in a game, the most common way to achieve a triple-double is through points, rebounds, and assists. Oscar Robertson leads the all-time NBA list with 181 career triple-doubles and is the player ever to average a triple-double for a season. Russell Westbrook and Oscar Robertson currently share the record for most triple-doubles in a season at 41. A quadruple-double is the accumulation of a double-digit number total in four of the five categories in a game and this has occurred four times in the NBA. A quintuple-double is the accumulation of a double-digit number total in all five categories in a game, two quintuple-doubles have been recorded at the high school level, by Tamika Catchings and Aimee Oertner, but none have occurred in a college or professional game. A similar accomplishment is the five-by-five, which is the accumulation of at least five points, five rebounds, five assists, five steals, in the NBA, only Hakeem Olajuwon and Andrei Kirilenko have accumulated multiple five-by-fives since the 1984–85 season. The most common combination is points and rebounds, followed by points and assists. Double-doubles are fairly common in the NBA, during the 2008–09 season,69 players who were eligible for leadership in the main statistical categories recorded at least 10 double-doubles during the season. One such double-double is called double double-double and it occurs when a player accumulates 20 or more in two different statistical categories in a game. Another such double-double is called a triple double-double, the only player in NBA history to record a 40-40 is Wilt Chamberlain, who achieved the feat eight times in his career. Of the five instances, four were recorded in his season. Wilt Chamberlain also holds the record for most career double-doubles with 1111, Tim Duncan is second with 1005, followed by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with 1004. Chamberlain also holds the second and third longest continuous streaks of double-doubles with 220 and 133 and this record is before the ABA–NBA merger in 1976
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Center David Robinson is the most recent NBA player to accomplish the feat of a quadruple-double by recording at least 10 points, rebounds, assists, and blocks in a game.
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Tyson Chandler
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Tyson Cleotis Chandler is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association. Chandler was the second pick of the 2001 NBA draft by the Los Angeles Clippers. He has also played for the New Orleans Hornets, Charlotte Bobcats, as starting center for Dallas, he played an integral role in the franchises first NBA championship in 2011. He was also a member of the United States mens national basketball teams gold medal runs in the 2010 FIBA World Championship, Chandler was born to Frank Chandler and Vernie Threadgill, though he did not meet his father Frank until later in his life. He grew up in a farm in Hanford, California, just south of Fresno. Chandler began playing basketball at the age of three years on a basket Chandlers grandfather, Cleotis, fixed on a tree, Chandler grew up doing farm work such as milking cows, slopping pigs, and cultivating crops. At the age of nine years, Chandler and his moved to San Bernardino, California. As a child, Chandler was teased because of his height, children on his basketball team joked that he was older than he really was. In his freshman year, Chandler made the varsity team and played with future NBA player Tayshaun Prince, with the Dominguez Dons, Chandler became a teenage sensation, current players such as DeMar DeRozan watched him play and claimed he was like Shaq. Point guard Brandon Jennings, who was a boy for Dominguez at the time, said, Youd see the girls around Tyson, the Escalade he drove. Chandler earned accolades from Parade Magazine and USA Today, and was selected to the McDonalds High School All-America Team, as a freshman, he was profiled on current affairs TV program 60 Minutes. In his junior year, Chandler averaged 20 points,12 rebounds,6 assists and 3 blocks, in his senior year, Chandler led Dominguez to a state championship and a 31–4 record, averaging 26 points,15 boards, and 8 blocks a game. Chandler was recruited by several universities and considered UCLA, Arizona, Syracuse, Memphis, Kentucky, Chandler then declared for the 2001 NBA draft as a prep-to-pro. Tyson Chandler was selected 2nd overall by the Los Angeles Clippers, the Bulls intended to pair Chandler with fellow high school phenomenon Eddy Curry in the front court. However, while both players had stretches of success during their time with the Bulls, they rarely coincided, in Chandlers case, back problems were a recurring issue throughout his career, particularly during the 2003–04 season. During the early part of his career, Chandler feuded with Brendan Haywood of the Washington Wizards, later, although the feuds became less frequent, Chandler struggled with foul trouble, which limited his playing time. Chandler also played a role in the Bulls playoff run in the 2004–05 season. With Currys departure after the 2004–05 season, Chandler became the last member of the Bulls left from the Jerry Krause era, during the 2005–2006 season, Chandlers biggest impact was on defense, but he struggled again with foul problems and averaged only 5.3 points per game
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Chandler with the Mavericks in 2011
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Chandler dunking
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Chandler with the Knicks
