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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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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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Cleveland
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Cleveland is a city in the U. S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the states second most populous county. The city proper has a population of 388,072, making Cleveland the 51st largest city in the United States, Greater Cleveland ranked as the 32nd largest metropolitan area in the United States, with 2,055,612 people in 2016. The city is the center of the Cleveland–Akron–Canton Combined Statistical Area, the city is located on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border. Clevelands economy has diversified sectors that include manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, Cleveland is also home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Residents of Cleveland are called Clevelanders, Cleveland has many nicknames, the oldest of which in contemporary use being The Forest City. Cleaveland oversaw the plan for what would become the downtown area, centered on Public Square, before returning home. The first settler in Cleaveland was Lorenzo Carter, who built a cabin on the banks of the Cuyahoga River, the Village of Cleaveland was incorporated on December 23,1814. In spite of the swampy lowlands and harsh winters, its waterfront location proved to be an advantage. The area began rapid growth after the 1832 completion of the Ohio, growth continued with added railroad links. Cleveland incorporated as a city in 1836, in 1836, the city, then located only on the eastern banks of the Cuyahoga River, nearly erupted into open warfare with neighboring Ohio City over a bridge connecting the two. Ohio City remained an independent municipality until its annexation by Cleveland in 1854, the citys prime geographic location as a transportation hub on the Great Lakes has played an important role in its development as a commercial center. Cleveland serves as a point for iron ore shipped from Minnesota. In 1870, John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil in Cleveland, other manufacturers located in Cleveland produced steam-powered cars, which included White and Gaeth, as well as the electric car company Baker. Because of the significant growth, Cleveland was known as the Sixth City during this period, by 1920, due in large part to the citys economic prosperity, Cleveland became the nations fifth largest city. The city counted Progressive Era politicians such as the populist Mayor Tom L. Johnson among its leaders, many prominent Clevelanders from this era are buried in the historic Lake View Cemetery, including President James A. Garfield, and John D. Rockefeller. In commemoration of the centennial of Clevelands incorporation as a city, conceived as a way to energize a city after the Great Depression, it drew four million visitors in its first season, and seven million by the end of its second and final season in September 1937. The exposition was housed on grounds that are now used by the Great Lakes Science Center, following World War II, the city experienced a prosperous economy. In sports, the Indians won the 1948 World Series, the hockey Barons became champions of the American Hockey League, as a result, along with track and boxing champions produced, Cleveland was dubbed City of Champions in sports at this time
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Minneapolis
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Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States. As of 2015, Minneapolis is the largest city in the state of Minnesota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul anchor the second-largest economic center in the Midwest, after Chicago. Minneapolis lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul. It was once the worlds flour milling capital and a hub for timber, the city and surrounding region is the primary business center between Chicago and Seattle, with Minneapolis proper containing Americas fifth-highest concentration of Fortune 500 companies. As an integral link to the economy, Minneapolis is categorized as a global city. Noted for its music and performing arts scenes, Minneapolis is home to both the award-winning Guthrie Theater and the historic First Avenue nightclub. The name Minneapolis is attributed to Charles Hoag, the citys first schoolteacher, who combined mni, a Dakota Sioux word for water, and polis, Dakota Sioux had long been the regions sole residents when French explorers arrived around 1680. For a time relations were based on fur trading, gradually more European-American settlers arrived, competing for game and other resources with the Dakota. In the early 19th century, the United States acquired this territory from France, fort Snelling was built in 1819 by the United States Army, and it attracted traders, settlers and merchants, spurring growth in the area. The United States government pressed the Mdewakanton band of the Dakota to sell their land, the Minnesota Territorial Legislature authorized present-day Minneapolis as a town in 1856 on the Mississippis west bank. Minneapolis incorporated as a city in 1867, the rail service began between Minneapolis and Chicago. It later joined with the city of St. Anthony in 1872. Minneapolis developed around Saint Anthony Falls, the highest waterfall on the Mississippi River, forests in northern Minnesota were a valuable resource for the lumber industry, which operated seventeen sawmills on power from the waterfall. By 1871, the west river bank had twenty-three businesses, including mills, woolen mills, iron works, a railroad machine shop, and mills for cotton, paper, sashes. Due to the hazards of milling, six local sources of artificial limbs were competing in the prosthetics business by the 1890s. The farmers of the Great Plains grew grain that was shipped by rail to the citys thirty-four flour mills, a father of modern milling in America and founder of what became General Mills, Cadwallader C. Some ideas were developed by William Dixon Gray and some acquired through industrial espionage from the Hungarians by William de la Barre, pillsbury Company across the river were barely a step behind, hiring Washburn employees to immediately use the new methods. The hard red spring wheat that grows in Minnesota became valuable, not until later did consumers discover the value in the bran that Minneapolis
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Clockwise from top:
Downtown Minneapolis,
Downtown,
TCF Bank Stadium, the
Guthrie Theater,
Minnehaha Falls, and
First Avenue and 7th St Entry nightclub
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Taoyateduta was among the 121
Sioux leaders who from 1837 to 1851 ceded what is now Minneapolis.
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Pillsbury, 1939
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Mississippi riverfront and
Saint Anthony Falls in 1915. At left,
Pillsbury, power plants and the
Stone Arch Bridge. Today the
Minnesota Historical Society 's Mill City Museum is in the
Washburn "A" Mill, across the river just to the left of the falls. At center left are
Northwestern Consolidated mills. The tall building is
Minneapolis City Hall. In the right foreground are
Nicollet Island and the
Hennepin Avenue Bridge.
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Cuyahoga Heights, Ohio
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Cuyahoga Heights is a village in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. The population was 638 at the 2010 census, Cuyahoga Heights is located at 41°26′10″N 81°39′11″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has an area of 3.21 square miles. 91. 6% spoke English,4. 4% Italian, and 4. 0% Polish as their first language, as of the census of 2010, there were 638 people,258 households, and 169 families residing in the village. The population density was 207.8 inhabitants per square mile, there were 278 housing units at an average density of 90.6 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 97. 3% White,0. 6% African American,0. 2% Native American,1. 4% Asian,0. 2% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 0. 9% of the population. 32. 2% of all households were made up of individuals and 16. 6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.47 and the average family size was 3.12. The median age in the village was 40.5 years. 25. 9% of residents were under the age of 18,8. 6% were between the ages of 18 and 24,22. 1% were from 25 to 44,27. 2% were from 45 to 64, and 16. 1% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 45. 6% male and 54. 4% female, as of the census of 2000, there were 599 people,261 households, and 159 families residing in the village. The population density was 186.7 people per square mile, there were 277 housing units at an average density of 86.3 per square mile. 35. 6% of all households were made up of individuals and 18. 0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.30 and the average family size was 2.98. In the village, the population was out with 21. 5% under the age of 18,6. 8% from 18 to 24,24. 9% from 25 to 44,23. 0% from 45 to 64. The median age was 42 years, for every 100 females there were 92.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.5 males, the median income for a household in the village was $40,625, and the median income for a family was $54,167. Males had an income of $45,368 versus $28,929 for females. The per capita income for the village was $21,446, about 2. 4% of families and 5. 7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4. 1% of those under age 18 and 10. 6% of those age 65 or over
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Location in
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Rapid City Thrillers
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The Rapid City Thrillers were a semi-professional basketball team in Rapid City, South Dakota, that competed in the Continental Basketball Association beginning in the 1987 season. They were reincarnated in 1998 as an International Basketball Association franchise, one of the many notable players of the team was Keith Smart, who played for the Indiana Hoosiers when the won the NCAA tournament in 1987. The Thrillers had some very notable head coaches in its time, first, Bill Musselman coached the team to three consecutive CBA titles during the 1980s. Musselman then moved to the NBA as coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves, later, Flip Saunders coached the Thrillers for a season and later became head coach of the NBAs Washington Wizards. Keith Fowler coached the team during one of their losing seasons. This team traced its history back to the Tampa Bay Thrillers of the Continental Basketball Association, which moved to Rapid City in 1987 because of lack of attendance. After ten seasons in Rapid City and by a move that some say ruined professional basketball in the Black Hills, the Beach Dogs lasted only two seasons folding after losing the championship series to the Oklahoma City Cavalry. After the Thrillers left Rapid City, professional basketball continued in the form of the Black Hills Posse of the International Basketball Association, in 1998 the Black Hills Posse were sold to John Tuschman. Tuschman tried to spark the old spirit the Thrillers had from the late 80s and early 90s, by renaming the Posse to the Thrillers, unfortunately, Tuschman was unsuccessful and the new Thrillers folded after the end of the 1998–99 season. The IBA continued for one season in Rapid City, as the Black Hills Gold played in the 1999-2000 season for one year, before moving to Michell, South Dakota. Rapid City has been without professional basketball since
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Sioux Falls Skyforce
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The Sioux Falls Skyforce is an American professional basketball team that plays in the NBA Development League. They are based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and currently play at Heritage Court in the Sanford Pentagon, the Skyforce began in the Continental Basketball Association in 1989. They played their games at Sioux Falls Arena from then until the move to the Pentagon in 2013. They participated in four CBA championship finals, winning the trophy in 1996 and 2005. The teams name was chosen from two entries in a contest to name the team in 1989 which yielded 1,045 suggestions, the names Sky and Force were combined to create the Skyforce. The Skyforce have also hosted the CBA All-Star Game three times, in 1996,2000 and 2003, in 2006, the Skyforce joined the D-League. In their first two seasons in the D-League, they were playoff contenders, in 2009, they suffered a 2-1 series loss in the first round to the Tulsa 66ers. In 2014, they fared a bit better, sweeping the Canton Charge in the first round before being swept by the eventual champion Fort Wayne Mad Ants in the semifinals. In 2016, the Skyforce won their first D-League championship, defeating the Los Angeles D-Fenders 2 games to 1, the Skyforce also finished the 2016 season 40-10, the winningest regular season record in D-League history. On June 10,2013, the Miami Heat announced that they had entered into an affiliation partnership with the Skyforce. The Miami Heat signature red/yellow color scheme was adopted into the Skyforces jerseys, logo, =The CBA folded in the middle of the 2000–01 season. Miami Heat Charlotte Bobcats Detroit Pistons Philadelphia 76ers Minnesota Timberwolves Orlando Magic Sioux Falls Skyforce official site
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Minnesota Timberwolves
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The Minnesota Timberwolves are an American professional basketball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Timberwolves compete in the National Basketball Association, as a club of the leagues Western Conference Northwest Division. Founded in 1989, the team is owned by Glen Taylor, the Timberwolves play their home games at Target Center, their home since 1990. Despite losing in the first round in their first seven attempts, Garnett was also named the NBA Most Valuable Player Award for that season. The team has been in rebuilding mode for the past decade since missing the playoffs in 2005, Garnett returned to the Timberwolves in a February 2015 trade and finished his career there, retiring in the 2016 offseason. NBA basketball returned to the Twin Cities in 1989 for the first time since the Minneapolis Lakers departed for Los Angeles in 1960. The NBA had granted one of its four new teams on April 22,1987 to original owners Harvey Ratner. The franchise conducted a name the team contest and eventually selected two finalists, Timberwolves and Polars, in December 1986, the team then asked the 842 city councils in Minnesota to select the winner and Timberwolves prevailed by nearly 2-1. The team was named the Minnesota Timberwolves on January 23,1987. Minnesota is home to the largest population of timberwolves in the lower 48 states, the Timberwolves debuted on November 3,1989, losing to the Seattle SuperSonics on the road 106–94. Five days later, they made their debut at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. Two nights later on November 10, the Wolves got their first win, the Timberwolves, led by Tony Campbell with 23.2 ppg, went on to a 22–60 record, finishing in sixth place in the Midwest Division. Playing in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, the expansion Timberwolves set an NBA record by drawing over 1 million fans to their home games. This included a crowd of 49,551 on April 17,1990, the next season, the team moved into their permanent home, the Target Center, and improved somewhat, finishing 29–53. However, they fired their coach, Bill Musselman. They fared far worse in the 1991–92 NBA season under Musselmans successor, ex-Celtics coach Jimmy Rodgers, finishing with an NBA-worst 15–67 record. One of the few highlights from that era was when the Target Center served as host of the 1994 All-Star Game where Rider won the Slam Dunk Contest with his between-the-leg East Bay Funk Dunk. As winning basketball continued to elude the Wolves, Ratner and Wolfenson nearly sold the team to New Orleans interests in 1994 before NBA owners rejected the proposed move, eventually, Glen Taylor bought the team and named Kevin McHale general manager
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Kevin Garnett played for the Timberwolves from 1995 to 2007 before returning in 2015.
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The Timberwolves conduct pre-game warm-ups at their home arena, the
Target Center
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Kevin Love became the fifth Timberwolf to be named
NBA All-Star.
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Detroit Pistons
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The Detroit Pistons are an American professional basketball team based in Auburn Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The Pistons compete in the National Basketball Association as a club of the leagues Eastern Conference Central Division. The team plays its games at The Palace of Auburn Hills and was founded in Fort Wayne, Indiana as the Fort Wayne Pistons in 1941. The Pistons joined the Basketball Association of America in 1948, in 1949, the NBL and BAA merged to become the NBA, and the Pistons became part of the merged league. Since moving to Detroit in 1957, the Pistons have won three NBA championships in 1989,1990 and 2004. The Detroit Pistons franchise was founded as the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons, owners Fred Zollner and his sister Janets Zollner Corporation was a foundry, manufacturing pistons, primarily for car, truck and locomotive engines. The Zollner Pistons were NBL champions in 1944 and 1945 and they also won the World Professional Basketball Tournament in 1944,1945 and 1946. In 1948, the became the Fort Wayne Pistons, competing in the Basketball Association of America. In 1949, Fred Zollner brokered the formation of the National Basketball Association from the BAA, there are suggestions that Pistons players conspired with gamblers to shave points and throw various games during the 1953–54 and 1954–55 seasons. In particular, there are accusations that the team may have intentionally lost the 1955 NBA Finals to the Syracuse Nationals, in the decisive Game 7, the Pistons led Syracuse 41–24 early in the second quarter, then the Nationals rallied to win the game. Syracuse won on a throw by George King with twelve seconds left in the game. After the 1956–57 season, Zollner decided that Fort Wayne was too small to support an NBA team, although it was the fifth largest city in the United States at the time, Detroit had not seen professional basketball in a decade. In 1947, they had lost the Detroit Gems of the NBL, Zollner decided to keep the Pistons name, believing it made sense given Detroits status as the center of the automobile industry. The new Detroit Pistons played in Olympia Stadium for their first four seasons, the franchise was a consistent disappointment, struggling both on the court and at the box office. During the 1960s and 1970s, the Pistons were characterized by strong individuals. In fact, in their first 27 years in Detroit, they only had three winning seasons, some of the superstars who played for the team included Dave DeBusschere, Dave Bing, Jimmy Walker, and Bob Lanier. At one point DeBusschere was the youngest player-coach in the history of the NBA, DeBusschere became a key player in leading the Knicks to two NBA titles. Detroit qualified for the postseason in four seasons, but never advanced beyond the second round of the playoffs
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Dave Bing joined the team in 1966, where in his rookie year he scored 1,601 points.
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The starting five of the Pistons' 2004 championship team. (left-to right:
Richard Hamilton,
Ben Wallace,
Rasheed Wallace,
Chauncey Billups,
Tayshaun Prince).
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A ticket for Game 1 of the 1988 NBA Finals at The Forum.
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Chuck Daly, coach of the 1989 and 1990 NBA Champions
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2004 NBA All-Star Game
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The 2004 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game which was played on February 15,2004 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, home of the Lakers and Clippers. This game was the 53rd edition of the North American National Basketball Association All-Star Game and was played during the 2003–04 NBA season, the West defeated the East 136-132, with Shaquille ONeal of the Los Angeles Lakers winning the Most Valuable Player for the second time in his career. ONeal scored 24 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, Jamaal Magloire led the East with 19 points and 8 rebounds. The coach for the Western Conference team was Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Flip Saunders, the Timberwolves had a 37-15 record on February 15. The coach for the Eastern Conference team was Indiana Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle, the Pacers had a 39-14 record on February 15. The rosters for the All-Star Game were chosen in two ways, the starters were chosen via a fan ballot. Two guards, two forwards and one center who received the highest vote were named the All-Star starters, the reserves were chosen by votes among the NBA head coaches in their respective conferences. The coaches were not permitted to vote for their own players, the reserves consist of two guards, two forwards, one center and two players regardless of position. If a player is unable to due to injury, the commissioner will select a replacement. The Eastern Conference reserves included four selections, Kenyon Martin, Jamaal Magloire, Ron Artest. Jason Kidd, Paul Pierce, and Baron Davis rounded out the team, three teams, Indiana Pacers and New Jersey Nets, and Charlotte Hornets had two representations at the All-Star Game with ONeal/Artest, Martin/Kidd, and Magloire/Davis. The Western leading vote-getter was Kevin Garnett, who earned his seventh consecutive All-Star Game selection with 1,780,918 votes. Steve Francis, Kobe Bryant, Yao Ming, and Tim Duncan completed the Western Conference starting positions, the Western Conference reserves included two first-time selections, Sam Cassell of the Minnesota Timberwolves, and Andrei Kirilenko of the Utah Jazz. The team is rounded out by Ray Allen, Brad Miller, Dirk Nowitzki, Peja Stojaković, and Shaquille ONeal
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Flip Saunders (left) and
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Vince Carter was the lead vote-getter for the fourth time in five years.
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2006 NBA All-Star Game
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The 2006 NBA All-Star Game was played on Sunday, February 19,2006 at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, home of the Houston Rockets. The game was the 55th annual All-Star game, the theme song was by Houston native Chamillionaire who made a new version of his hit Turn It Up. Trailing by 21 points, the East rode the hot shooting of LeBron James, the 21-year-old James, who scored 29 points and grabbed six rebounds, became the youngest player to win MVP. With the score tied, Dwyane Wade, who finished with 20 points, tracy McGrady of the Houston Rockets led all players with a game-high 36 points. ^INJ Jermaine ONeal was unable to due to injury. ^REP Gilbert Arenas was named as ONeals replacement. ^1 Vince Carter was named as starter, replacing ONeal, the Eastern Conference team was coached by Flip Saunders of the Detroit Pistons, along with Sidney Lowe, Ron Harper and Don Zierden as assistant coaches. Ted Arzonico of the Orlando Magic was the athletic trainer, the Western Conference team was coached by Avery Johnson of the Dallas Mavericks. Del Harris, Rolando Blackman and Joe Prunty served as assistant coaches, the T-Mobile Rookie challenge was played on Friday, February 17,2006 with the Sophomores beating the Rookies 106–96. Andre Iguodala was named MVP with a game-high 30 points, * Did not participate due to injury. The Rooks were coached by Sidney Lowe of the Detroit Pistons, the Sophomores were coached by Del Harris of the Dallas Mavericks, along with Moses Malone as the assistant coach. Dirk Nowitzki won with a score of 18, beating Gilbert Arenas, * Did not participate due to a family illness. Nate Robinson won, beating Andre Iguodala in a dunk-off after the first ever tie in a Slam Dunk Contest, robinsons win was highly questioned as he had missed several dunks and many speculate that Robinson was only awarded the title because of his small stature. Dwyane Wade won, beating LeBron James in the final round, Dwyane Wade won with a time of 26.1 seconds. The San Antonio team won the competition with a time of 25.1 seconds
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Spectators make their way into
Toyota Center through the LaBranch street entrance prior to the tip-off of the 55th NBA All-Star game on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2006.
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Cleveland, Ohio
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Cleveland is a city in the U. S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the states second most populous county. The city proper has a population of 388,072, making Cleveland the 51st largest city in the United States, Greater Cleveland ranked as the 32nd largest metropolitan area in the United States, with 2,055,612 people in 2016. The city is the center of the Cleveland–Akron–Canton Combined Statistical Area, the city is located on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border. Clevelands economy has diversified sectors that include manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, Cleveland is also home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Residents of Cleveland are called Clevelanders, Cleveland has many nicknames, the oldest of which in contemporary use being The Forest City. Cleaveland oversaw the plan for what would become the downtown area, centered on Public Square, before returning home. The first settler in Cleaveland was Lorenzo Carter, who built a cabin on the banks of the Cuyahoga River, the Village of Cleaveland was incorporated on December 23,1814. In spite of the swampy lowlands and harsh winters, its waterfront location proved to be an advantage. The area began rapid growth after the 1832 completion of the Ohio, growth continued with added railroad links. Cleveland incorporated as a city in 1836, in 1836, the city, then located only on the eastern banks of the Cuyahoga River, nearly erupted into open warfare with neighboring Ohio City over a bridge connecting the two. Ohio City remained an independent municipality until its annexation by Cleveland in 1854, the citys prime geographic location as a transportation hub on the Great Lakes has played an important role in its development as a commercial center. Cleveland serves as a point for iron ore shipped from Minnesota. In 1870, John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil in Cleveland, other manufacturers located in Cleveland produced steam-powered cars, which included White and Gaeth, as well as the electric car company Baker. Because of the significant growth, Cleveland was known as the Sixth City during this period, by 1920, due in large part to the citys economic prosperity, Cleveland became the nations fifth largest city. The city counted Progressive Era politicians such as the populist Mayor Tom L. Johnson among its leaders, many prominent Clevelanders from this era are buried in the historic Lake View Cemetery, including President James A. Garfield, and John D. Rockefeller. In commemoration of the centennial of Clevelands incorporation as a city, conceived as a way to energize a city after the Great Depression, it drew four million visitors in its first season, and seven million by the end of its second and final season in September 1937. The exposition was housed on grounds that are now used by the Great Lakes Science Center, following World War II, the city experienced a prosperous economy. In sports, the Indians won the 1948 World Series, the hockey Barons became champions of the American Hockey League, as a result, along with track and boxing champions produced, Cleveland was dubbed City of Champions in sports at this time
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University of Minnesota
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The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota. The Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses are approximately 3 miles apart, and it is the oldest and largest campus within the University of Minnesota system and has the sixth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 51,147 students in 2013–14. The university is the institution of the University of Minnesota system, and is organized into 19 colleges and schools, with sister campuses in Crookston, Duluth, Morris. Minnesota is one of Americas Public Ivy universities, which refers to top universities in the United States capable of providing a collegiate experience comparable with the Ivy League. Founded in 1851, The University of Minnesota is categorized as an R1 Doctoral University with the highest research activity in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, Minnesota faculty, alumni, and researchers have won 25 Nobel Prizes and three Pulitzer Prizes. Notable University of Minnesota alumni include two Vice Presidents of the United States, Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale, and Bob Dylan, who received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature. The University of Minnesota Twin Cities is also a member of the Association of American Universities which is an association of the 62 leading research universities in the United States and Canada. In its 2017 edition, U. S. News & World Report ranked Minnesota 38th in their Best Global University Rankings, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2015 ranks Minnesota 46th in the world. In 2015, Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked the university 11th in the world for mathematics, the University of Minnesota is ranked 14 over-all among the nations top research universities by the Center for Measuring University Performance. The U. S. News & World Reports 2016 rankings placed the program of the University as the 69th-best National University in the United States. Additionally, nineteen of the Universitys graduate-school departments have been ranked in the nations top-twenty by the U. S. National Research Council, in both 2008 and 2012 U. S. News & World Report ranked the College of Pharmacy 2nd in the nation. 2016 U. S. News & Report now rank the College of Pharmacy 2nd in the nation. In 2011, U. S. News & World Report ranked the School of Public Health 8th in the nation, the University of Minnesota ranked 19th in NIH funding in 2008. Minnesota is listed as a Public Ivy in 2001 Greenes Guides The Public Ivies, the university developed Gopher, a precursor to the World Wide Web which used hyperlinks to connect documents across computers on the internet. However, the produced by CERN was favored by the public since it was freely distributed. The University also houses the Charles Babbage Institute, a research, the department has strong roots in early days of supercomputing with Seymour Cray of Cray supercomputers. Notable faculty of the department are Yousef Saad, Vipin Kumar, Jaideep Srivastava, John Riedl, some notable alumni of the department are Ed Chi, Imrich Chlamtac, Leah Culver, Jeff Dean, Mark P. McCahill, Arvind Mithal, and Calvin Mooers. Puffed rice - Alexander P. Anderson led to the discovery of puffed rice, transistorized cardiac pacemaker - Earl Bakken founded Medtronic, where he developed the first external, battery-operated, transistorized, wearable artificial pacemaker in 1957
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Mall panorama, from left: Ford Hall, Coffman Memorial Union, Kolthoff Hall, Smith Hall (in center of image), Walter Library, Johnston Hall, Northrop, and Morrill Hall
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Aerial photo of the Minneapolis campus, facing east
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East Bank
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Ray Williams (basketball)
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Thomas Ray Williams was an American professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association from 1977 to 1987. Born in Mount Vernon, New York, he was the brother of Gus Williams. Williams attended Mount Vernon High School and helped lead the school to two New York State basketball championships, after attending San Jacinto Junior College, Williams played at the University of Minnesota from 1975 to 1977. During that time, he averaged 18.9 ppg and 6.6 rpg, Williams was selected by the New York Knicks in the first round of the 1977 NBA draft. After a quiet first season, he improved his effectiveness in the court, averaging 20.9 ppg,5 rpg, during his time with the Knicks, he reached the NBA Playoffs twice. After four seasons with the Knicks, Williams was traded the New Jersey Nets on October 25,1981, with the Nets, Williams averaged 20.4 ppg,4 rpg, and 6 apg. Williams eventually helped the Nets reach the 1982 NBA Playoffs where he averaged 17 ppg,6 rpg, however, they ended up being eliminated by the Washington Bullets in the first round. On June 29,1982, the Nets traded Williams to the Kansas City Kings for Phil Ford, after one season, they traded him back to the New York Knicks for Billy Knight and an amount of cash. He reached the playoffs again with the Knicks, averaging 11.2 ppg and 8 apg. In the middle of the 1984–85 season, Williams signed as an agent with the Boston Celtics. During this year, he had the chance to play with Larry Bird, with Boston, he reached the playoffs one last time. This time, the Celtics reached the Finals, but were eliminated by the Los Angeles Lakers, before the 1985–86 season, Williams signed with the Los Angeles Clippers, with Boston receiving a future draft pick as compensation. The Clippers, however, waived him before the season began, Williams eventually signed with the Atlanta Hawks. After 19 games, he was waived by the Hawks, after 23 games, he was also waived by the Spurs and claimed by the Nets. Williams played the remainder of the season with them and remained with the team during the next season, Williams ended with a career average of 15.5 ppg,5.8 apg, and 3.6 rpg. After his retirement, Williams struggled financially, eventually filing for bankruptcy in 1994, Williams decided to apply early for his NBA pension of $200,000. After he received it, he moved to Florida, where he fell victim to a real estate scam that worsened his financial condition. After that, Williams worked various jobs like groundskeeper at a course in Central Florida, apartment complex maintenance man, part-time girls basketball coach
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Ray Williams
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Mychal Thompson
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Mychal George Thompson is a Bahamian retired basketball player. He played the forward and center positions for the University of Minnesota and the NBAs Portland Trail Blazers, San Antonio Spurs. He is the father of basketball players Klay Thompson, and Mychel Thompson, Thompson was born in Nassau, Bahamas, but moved to the United States as a youth, settling in Miami, Florida and he attended Miami Jackson Senior High School. The title was won with four key players, including Thompson, on Miami Jacksons team. He then attended the University of Minnesota where he had a collegiate career. The Portland Trail Blazers made 610 Thompson the number one pick in the 1978 NBA draft, Thompson was a fixture in the Portland lineup for eight years, where he started at both power forward and center positions. He was named to the 1979 All-Rookie team, and had arguably his statistically best season in 1981–82, in the 1986 off-season, Thompson was traded to the Spurs in exchange for center/forward Steve Johnson. He was brought to the Lakers in February 1987 to back up Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and this gave the Pat Riley coached Lakers a team that had four players who were overall #1 selections in the NBA draft, the others being Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, and James Worthy. Of those four, Thompson is the one not enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame or to have his number retired by the Lakers. Thompson and his moved back to Portland in 1991 after his career. He worked on local radio in the area. He and his family relocated back to Los Angeles in 2003 when he was offered a job as a commentator for the Lakers. Mychal is currently employed as the Lakers radio color commentator and he first worked with Joel Meyers, then Spero Dedes, and is currently paired with John Ireland. He was a co-host on the Loose Cannons radio show on KLAC AM570 in Los Angeles but was let go, due to the move of Lakers broadcasts from AM570 to KSPN AM710 for the 2009–10 season. With the move to KSPN AM710, he joined Andrew Siciliano as co-hosts on the LA Sports Live radio show on KSPN AM710 until the show was canceled on December 26,2010, as of 2011, he co-hosts ESPNLA NOW, on KSPN AM710 from 10am-noon on weekdays. His partner Mark Willard was let go by the station on August 29,2014, Thompson married his wife Julie in 1987. His oldest son, Mychel, played basketball for Pepperdine University and his middle son, Klay, played basketball for Washington State University and was selected with the 11th pick in the 2011 NBA draft by the Golden State Warriors who won the 2015 NBA Finals. His youngest son, Trayce, plays baseball for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Thompson is nicknamed sweet bells after Walt Bellamy, who was nicknamed bells
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Thompson in 2012
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Kevin McHale (basketball)
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Kevin Edward McHale is an American retired professional basketball player who played his entire professional career for the Boston Celtics. He is also a Basketball Hall of Fame inductee and he was named to the NBAs 50th Anniversary Team, and also to the official list of the NBAs best 50 players in 1996. McHale began working for the Minnesota Timberwolves immediately following his retirement in 1993, at different times, as a TV analyst, general manager and he was the head coach of the Houston Rockets from 2011-15, until being fired following a 4-11 start to the 2015–16 season. McHale currently works as an on-air analyst for NBA TV and Turner Sportss popular NBA on TNT studio show, McHale was born to Paul Austin McHale and Josephine Patricia Starcevic in Hibbing, Minnesota. In his senior season at Hibbing High School, he was named Minnesotas Mr. Basketball of 1976 and he is of Croatian descent on his mothers side. The 6 ft 10 in McHale played basketball at the forward position for the University of Minnesota from 1976 to 1980. He was named All-Big Ten in 1979 and 1980 and still second in school history in career points. In 1995, to coincide with the University of Minnesotas 100th anniversary, McHale is famous for an encounter with Chuck Foreman in the Gopher locker room. Foreman, a famous Minnesota Viking at the time, was congratulating the Gophers on a hard-fought victory, as Foreman was shaking all the players hands, when he arrived at the then-unknown power forward, McHale displayed his comic wit, Nice to meet you, Mr. Foreman. What do you do for a living, McHales stay in Boston got off to a rocky start as he held out for a large contract, even threatening to play in Italy, before signing a three-year deal with the Celtics. Backing up Larry Bird and Cedric Maxwell at forward, McHale made an impact and was named to the NBAs All-Rookie First Team in his rookie season. Boston finished McHales rookie season with a record of 62-20. In the playoffs, the Celtics swept the Chicago Bulls in the first round, in the Eastern Conference Finals, the Celtics faced a 3–1 deficit against the Philadelphia 76ers, but Boston won the last three games of the series, including Game 6 on Philadelphias home court. McHale helped save the Game 6 win by rejecting an Andrew Toney shot, in the NBA Finals, Boston defeated the Houston Rockets in six games to capture the teams fourteenth championship. The Celtics failed to advance to the NBA Finals the next two seasons, Philadelphia exacted a measure of revenge in the 1982 Eastern Conference Final, beating Boston at home in the seventh game. In the 1983 Eastern Conference semifinals, the Celtics were swept by the Milwaukee Bucks and this embarrassing defeat led to the firing of head coach Bill Fitch and a temporarily unhappy McHale. Following the 1982–83 season, McHales contract with the Celtics expired, auerbach retaliated by signing three of New Yorks top free agent players to offer sheets. The Knicks elected to re-sign their players and give up their pursuit of McHale, McHale eventually re-signed with Boston, his $1 million per season contract making him the fourth-highest paid player in the NBA
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McHale in a 2012 press conference
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Kevin McHale shoots over
Hakeem Olajuwon and
Jim Petersen during the
1986 NBA Finals.
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Kevin McHale, Jeremy Lin, Chandler Parsons, Francisco Garcia, and Ömer Aşık during game 6 of the first round of the 2013 playoffs.
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Big Ten Conference
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The Big Ten Conference, formerly Western Conference and Big Nine Conference, is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. The conference includes the public university in each of 11 states stretching from New Jersey to Nebraska. The Big Ten Conference was established in 1895 when Purdue University president James H, in 1905, the conference was officially incorporated as the Intercollegiate Conference Athletic Association. Big Ten member institutions are predominantly major flagship research universities with large financial endowments, large student enrollment is also a hallmark of Big Ten universities, as 12 of the 14 members feature enrollments of 30,000 or more students. Northwestern University, one of just two members with a total enrollment of fewer than 30,000 students, is the lone private university among Big Ten membership. Collectively, Big Ten universities educate more than 520,000 total students and have 5.7 million living alumni, Big Ten universities engage in $9.3 billion in funded research each year. Big Ten universities are members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance. In 2014–2015, members generated more than $10 billion in research expenditures, Johns Hopkins University was invited in 2012 to join the Big Ten as an associate member participating in mens lacrosse only. In 2015, it was accepted as an associate member in womens lacrosse. Notre Dame is scheduled to join the Big Ten in 2017 as a member in mens ice hockey. Notes Notes Notes The University of Chicago was a co-founder of the conference, lake Forest College attended the original 1895 meeting that led to the formation of the conference, but did not join it. Full members Full members Sport Affiliate Other Conference Other Conference The Big Ten Conference sponsors championship competition in 14 mens and 14 womens NCAA sanctioned sports, Notes, * Notre Dame will join the Big Ten in the 2017–18 school year as an affiliate member in mens ice hockey. It continues to field its other sports in the ACC except in football where it will continue to compete as an independent, ° Johns Hopkins joined the Big Ten in 2014 as an affiliate member in mens lacrosse, with womens lacrosse to follow in 2016. Ohio State and Penn State, like most NCAA fencing schools, have coed teams,2, Mens rowing, whether heavyweight or lightweight, is not governed by the NCAA, but instead by the Intercollegiate Rowing Association. Rutgers Mens Rowing was downgraded to Club status in 2008,3, Unlike rifle, pistol is not an NCAA-governed sport. 4, Rifle is technically a mens sport, but mens, womens, Ohio State fields a coed team. The eligibility of student-athletes was one of the topics of discussion. The Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives was founded at a meeting on February 8,1896
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University of Tulsa
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The University of Tulsa is a private university located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. The university is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church. The university is renowned for its programs in law, English, computer science, natural sciences, psychology and its faculty includes prominent scholars, scientists, and writers, including Russian dissident poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, political scientist Robert Donaldson and others. The campuss design is predominantly Collegiate Gothic, the university manages the Gilcrease Museum, which includes one of the largest collections of American Western art in the world, and in 2016, The Bob Dylan Archive was placed at the university. TUs athletic teams are known as the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. The Presbyterian School for Girls was founded in Muskogee, Indian Territory, in 1894, the young school expanded to become Henry Kendall College, named in honor of Reverend Henry Kendall, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions. The first president was William A. Caldwell, who served a brief, Kendall College, while still in Muskogee, granted the first post-secondary degree in Oklahoma in June 1898. Under King, the college was moved from its location in downtown Muskogee to a larger campus on lands donated by Creek Nation Chief Pleasant Porter. The opening of the new campus coincided with the start of the tenure of the third president, over the next ten years, Evans oversaw the struggling schools growth. At the request of the administration, the Synod of Indian Territory assumed control as trustees, when the administration was approached by the comparatively smaller town of Tulsa and offered a chance to move, the decision was made to relocate. The Tulsa Commercial Club decided to bid for the college, Club members who packaged a bid in 1907 to move the college to Tulsa included, B. Betters, H. O. McClure, L. N. Butts, W. L. North, James H. Hall, stebbins, Rev. Charles W. Kerr, C. H. Nicholson. The offer included $100,000,20 acres of real estate, the school opened to thirty-five students in September 1907, two months before Oklahoma became a state. These first students attended classes at the First Presbyterian Church until permanent buildings could be erected on the new campus and this became the start of higher education in Tulsa. Kendall Hall, the first building of the new school, was completed in 1908 and was followed by two other buildings. All three buildings have since demolished, with Kendall the last to be razed in 1972. The bell that hung in the Kendall Building tower was saved and displayed in Bayless Plaza. In 1918, the Methodist Church proposed building a college in Tulsa, the proposed college was to be named McFarlin College
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Skelly House, Official residence for the President of the University of Tulsa.
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The University of Tulsa
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"The Old U" as seen from S Delaware Ave.
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Chapman Stadium
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Continental Basketball Association
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The Continental Basketball Association was a professional mens basketball minor league in the United States. For most of its existence the CBA was the second-tier of mens basketball in the United States behind the National Basketball Association. The NBA formed an agreement to develop players and referees in the CBA during the 1980s. Until the NBA formed the National Basketball Development League in 2001, the Continental Basketball Association was a professional basketball minor league from 1946 to 2009. It billed itself as the Worlds Oldest Professional Basketball League, since its founding on April 23,1946 pre-dated the founding of the National Basketball Association by two months. The leagues original name was the Eastern Pennsylvania Basketball League, it fielded six franchises – five in Pennsylvania – with a team in New York. In 1948, the league was renamed the Eastern Professional Basketball League, over the years it would add franchises in several other Pennsylvania cities, including Williamsport, Scranton, and Sunbury, as well as teams in New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware and Massachusetts. The CBAs first commissioner was Harry Rudolph, steve A. Kauffman, currently a prominent basketball agent, succeeded Rudolph as Commissioner in 1975. Kauffman executed a plan to bring the Anchorage Northern Knights into the beginning with the 1977-78 season. Kauffman kept the name because he felt having a team in the Eastern league from Alaska might get the league additional notice. The establishment of the Anchorage franchise garnered national attention, including a feature story in Sports Illustrated. The league was renamed the Continental Basketball Association the following season, Kauffman served as Commissioner until 1978, when his Deputy Commissioner, Jim Drucker, took the reins. Kauffman remained the Leagues legal counsel for two years, Drucker continued his 12-year association with the CBA until 1986 as Commissioner and general counsel. From 1986 to 1989 he supervised the production of CBA telecasts on ESPN as President of CBA Properties, during Druckers term the league expanded from 8 to 14 teams, landed its first national TV contract and saw franchise values increase from $5,000 to $500,000. The league also instituted a series of rule changes including sudden-death overtime, a no foul-out rule. Under the 7-Point System, seven points were awarded each game, as a result, a winning team would wind up with four to seven points in the standings, while a losing team could collect from zero to three points. The league used this method to calculate division standings from its implementation in 1983 until the end in 2009. In May 1984 Drucker announced plans for a CBA development league to be known as CBA East, before the 1984–85 season Ducker announced that the CBA had signed a cable television contract with Black Entertainment Television
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Continental Basketball Association (CBA)
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National Basketball Association
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The National Basketball Association is the major mens professional basketball league in North America, and is widely considered to be the premier mens professional basketball league in the world. It has 30 teams, and is a member of USA Basketball. The NBA is one of the four professional sports leagues in the United States. NBA players are the worlds best paid athletes by average annual salary per player, the league was founded in New York City on June 6,1946, as the Basketball Association of America. The league adopted the name National Basketball Association on August 3,1949, the leagues several international as well as individual team offices are directed out of its head offices located in the Olympic Tower at 645 Fifth Avenue in New York City. NBA Entertainment and NBA TV studios are directed out of offices located in Secaucus, the Basketball Association of America was founded in 1946 by owners of the major ice hockey arenas in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States and Canada. On November 1,1946, in Toronto, Canada, the Toronto Huskies hosted the New York Knickerbockers at Maple Leaf Gardens, the first basket was made by Ossie Schectman of the Knickerbockers. During its early years, the quality of play in the BAA was not significantly better than in competing leagues or among leading independent clubs such as the Harlem Globetrotters. For instance, the 1948 ABL finalist Baltimore Bullets moved to the BAA and won that leagues 1948 title, Following the 1948–49 season, the BAA took in the remainder of the NBL, Syracuse, Anderson, Tri-Cities, Sheboygan, Denver, and Waterloo. The new league had seventeen franchises located in a mix of large and small cities, as well as arenas and smaller gymnasiums. The process of contraction saw the leagues smaller-city franchises move to larger cities, the Hawks shifted from the Tri-Cities to Milwaukee in 1951, and then to St. Louis in 1955. The Rochester Royals moved from Rochester, New York, to Cincinnati in 1957, japanese-American Wataru Misaka broke the NBA color barrier in the 1947–48 season when he played for the New York Knicks. He remained the only player in league history prior to the first African-American, Harold Hunter. During this period, the Minneapolis Lakers, led by center George Mikan, won five NBA Championships, to encourage shooting and discourage stalling, the league introduced the 24-second shot clock in 1954. If a team does not attempt to score a goal within 24 seconds of obtaining the ball, play is stopped. In 1957, rookie center Bill Russell joined the Boston Celtics, who already featured guard Bob Cousy and coach Red Auerbach, and went on to lead the club to eleven NBA titles in thirteen seasons. Center Wilt Chamberlain entered the league with the Warriors in 1959 and became a dominant individual star of the 1960s, russells rivalry with Chamberlain became one of the greatest rivalries in the history of American team sports. The 1960s were dominated by the Celtics, led by Russell, Bob Cousy and coach Red Auerbach, Boston won eight straight championships in the NBA from 1959 to 1966
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The
headquarters of the National Basketball Association in the
Olympic Tower at 645
Fifth Avenue,
Midtown Manhattan,
New York City,
USA.
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Cities that hosted teams that played for more than one season in the NBA and/or
BAA from 1947–1959. Only
New York,
Boston, and
Detroit still have the same franchise.
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Bill Russell defending
Wilt Chamberlain in 1966.
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Los Angeles Lakers'
Magic Johnson and Boston Celtics'
Larry Bird in Game Two of the
1985 NBA Finals at Boston Garden.
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Kevin Garnett
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Kevin Maurice Garnett is an American former professional basketball player who played the power forward and center positions for 21 seasons in the National Basketball Association. In high school, Garnett was a 1995 McDonalds All-American at Farragut Career Academy and he entered the 1995 NBA draft, where he was selected with the fifth overall pick by the Minnesota Timberwolves and became the first NBA player drafted directly out of high school in 20 years. Garnett made an impact with the Minnesota Timberwolves, leading them to eight consecutive playoff appearances. In 2004, he led the Timberwolves to the Western Conference Finals, Garnett has been named to 15 All-Star Games, winning the All-Star MVP award in 2003, and is currently tied for third-most All-Star selections in NBA history. He was named the NBA Defensive Player of the Year in 2007–08, Garnett also holds several Timberwolves franchise records. In 2007, after 12 seasons with the Timberwolves, Garnett joined the Boston Celtics in a blockbuster trade, in his first year with the Celtics, he helped lead them to the NBA championship, while also finishing in third place for the MVP award. In 2013, Garnett was included in a second headline trade that sent him to the Brooklyn Nets with longtime Celtic Paul Pierce, in 2015, Garnett was traded back to Minnesota. He announced his retirement from basketball in September 2016, Garnett was born on May 19,1976, in Greenville, South Carolina, to Shirley Garnett. He was the second of his mothers three children, Garnetts mother never married his father, OLewis McCullough, with their relationship ending shortly after his birth. Garnett grew up with his mother and stepfather, Ernest Irby, with whom he didnt get along, Garnett fell in love with the sport of basketball while attending Hillcrest Middle School, although he did not play organized basketball until high school. In his first three years of school, Garnett attended Mauldin High School in Mauldin, South Carolina. However, during the summer before his year of high school. Although not directly involved, Garnett was one of three students arrested for second-degree lynching, a charge that was expunged through a pre-trial intervention. Due to the racially charged incident and fearful of being a target, Garnett decided to leave Mauldin High and transferred to Farragut Career Academy in Chicago and he led Farragut to a 28–2 record and was named National High School Player of the Year by USA Today. He was also named Mr. Basketball for the state of Illinois after averaging 25.2 points,17.9 rebounds,6.7 assists and 6.5 blocks while shooting 66. 8% from the field. In four years of school, Garnett posted an impressive 2,553 points,1,809 rebounds and 737 blocked shots. In high school, Garnett played alongside Ronnie Fields, who became a professional basketball player. To mark the 35th anniversary of the McDonalds All-American High School Boys Basketball Game, Garnetts decision not to play college basketball was influenced in part by his failure to score well enough on the ACT test to meet NCAA requirements for freshman eligibility
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Garnett with the Boston Celtics in January 2008
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Garnett as a member of the
Minnesota Timberwolves (2007)
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Garnett dunking a ball in a game against the
Washington Wizards
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Garnett's first game back with the Timberwolves in 2015.
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Sam Cassell
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Samuel James Sam Cassell Sr is an American retired professional basketball player and current assistant coach of the Los Angeles Clippers. Drafted 24th overall in the 1993 NBA draft out of Florida State University and he was selected to the NBA All-Star Game and All-NBA Team once, both in the 2003–04 season. He played the point guard position, in his first two seasons, he helped the Houston Rockets win back to back championships and won a third with the Boston Celtics in 2008, his last season. Known for his mid-range jumpshot, Cassell often made clutch baskets late in the quarter to help his team win games. After graduating from Paul Lawrence Dunbar Community High School in East Baltimore, Maryland, Cassell spent a post graduate year at Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield, from MCI, Cassell was successfully recruited to attend DePaul University. He moved on to Florida State University in Tallahassee for his junior and senior years, in his senior year in 1992–93, he averaged 18.3 points,4.9 assists, and 4.3 rebounds per game and led the Atlantic Coast Conference in steals. Cassell and teammate Bob Sura formed the highest scoring and rebounding backcourt in the nation with 38.2 points and 10.4 rebounds per game. Cassells 1992–93 Seminoles team finished with a 25–10 record and advanced to the Elite Eight in the NCAA Tournament, on February 14,2008, in a game against Wake Forest, Cassells jersey was retired by Florida State. Cassell was selected out of Florida State University with the 24th overall pick of the 1993 NBA draft by the Houston Rockets, playing mostly as a backup to Kenny Smith, Cassell developed a reputation as clutch and was usually on the court for the fourth quarter of close games. The Rockets would win the championship in seven games, Cassell saw an increase in his role during his second year, appearing in all 82 games that season. He again helped the Rockets reach the NBA Finals for the second consecutive year, in game 3 of the Finals against the Orlando Magic, Cassell scored 31 points. The Rockets swept the Magic, giving Cassell his second championship in just two years in the league, in his third season, the two-time defending champion Rockets were swept out of the second round of the playoffs by the Seattle SuperSonics. Cassells minutes, scoring and usage rates all increased in his third season, Rockets management feared their window of winning another championship with Olajuwon, Drexler and Smith was closing, and looked to trade for another star caliber player. After the 1995–96 season, he was traded to the Phoenix Suns, along with Robert Horry, Chucky Brown, Cassell, who was in the final year of his rookie contract, frequently clashed with head coach Cotton Fitzsimmons, Fitzsimmons subsequently resigned following an 0–8 start. On December 12,1996, Cassell led the 5–14 Suns into Utah, Cassell scored 21 points in the 95-87 road win. Under new head coach Danny Ainge, the Suns saw marked improvement with Cassell leading the team with 14.8 points per game, on December 27,1996, just 22 games into the season, he was traded along with Michael Finley, A. C. Green, and a draft pick to the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for Jason Kidd, Tony Dumas. Though Cassell had begun to develop chemistry with the Suns and Coach Ainge, the Nets would be the third team that Cassell played for just that season
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Cassell signing autographs while with the Los Angeles Clippers
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Cassell passes the ball in Game 4 of the
2008 NBA Playoffs against the
Atlanta Hawks.
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Cassell (right) talking to
Caron Butler
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Larry Brown (basketball)
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Lawrence Harvey Larry Brown is an American basketball coach, who was most recently head mens basketball coach at Southern Methodist University. He is the coach in basketball history to win both an NCAA national championship and an NBA title. He also won an ABA championship as a player with the Oakland Oaks in the 1968–69 season, and he is also the only person ever to coach two NBA franchises in the same season. Before coaching, Brown played collegiately at the University of North Carolina and he has been a basketball coach since 1972. Brown was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach on September 27,2002, Brown is Jewish, and was born in Brooklyn, New York. A5 ft 9 in point guard, he attended Long Beach High School and then played at the University of North Carolina under legendary coaches Frank McGuire and Dean Smith. During that time Brown was selected for the 1964 Summer Olympics team, on which he played and with which he won a gold medal, Brown was named MVP of the ABAs first All-Star Game in 1968, and was named to the All-ABA Second Team the same year. Brown led the ABA in assists per game during the leagues first three seasons, and when he ended his career, Brown was the ABAs all-time assist leader. His total of 2,509 assists places him seventh on the ABAs career list, Browns first head coaching job was at Davidson College in North Carolina in 1969. Unfortunately for Wildcat fans, it would only last during the summer offseason, Brown moved on to the ABA and coached with the Carolina Cougars and then the Denver Nuggets, who later joined the NBA in 1976, for five and a half seasons from 1974 to 1979. He then moved on to coach for UCLA, leading his freshman-dominated 1979–80 team to the NCAA title game before falling to Louisville, 59–54. However, that appearance was vacated by the NCAA after two UCLA players were found to be ineligible—one of the few times a Final Four squad has had its record vacated. Brown was the coach for the NBAs New Jersey Nets for two years following that, from 1981 to 1983. Brown began his tenure at the University of Kansas, replacing the fired Ted Owens, who had overseen back-to-back losing seasons in 1981-82 and 1982-83. In the meantime Brown signed the most coveted high school player in the country, Danny Manning, to play for KU after signing his father, Ed Manning, perhaps Browns finest team at Kansas was the 1985-86 team. This squad put together a 35-4 record, the first 30-win season in KU history, in the 1987-88 season, Kansas got off to a mediocre 12–8 start, including 1–4 in the Big 8, and the end of the Jayhawks 55-game homecourt winning streak in Allen Fieldhouse. Kansas then proceeded to defeat 11th-seed Xavier, 14th-seed Murray State, and 7th-seed Vanderbilt before meeting rival Kansas State, KU upset the 4th-seeded Wildcats 71-58 in the Elite Eight to reach the Final Four in Kansas Citys Kemper Arena. Once there, Kansas upset the East Regions #2 seed Duke, 66-59, Manning, who scored 31 points and grabbed 18 rebounds in the final, was named Most Oustanding Player of the Tournament
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Brown in 2005 as coach of the
New York Knicks
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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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Chuck Daly
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Charles Jerome Chuck Daly was an American basketball head coach. The Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award is named after him, born in St. Marys, Pennsylvania, to Earl and Geraldine Daly on July 20,1930, Daly attended Kane Area High School in nearby Kane. He matriculated at St. Bonaventure University for one year transferring to Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. After serving two years in the military, he began his coaching career in 1955 at Punxsutawney Area High School in Punxsutawney. After compiling a 111–70 record in eight seasons at Punxsutawney High School, during his six seasons at Duke, the Blue Devils won the Atlantic Coast Conference championship and advanced to the Final Four, both in 1964 and 1966. Daly then replaced Bob Cousy as head coach at Boston College in 1969, the Eagles recorded an 11–13 record in Dalys first year at the school, and improved to 15–11 in 1971. Daly became the coach at the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. Penn won twenty or more games and captured the Ivy League title in each of its first four seasons with Daly at the helm. The most successful campaign was his first in 1972, when the Quakers recorded a 25–3 record overall, an additional significant success for Daly was in 1979, when all five starters on Pennsylvanias Final Four team had initially been recruited by Daly. His overall record after six seasons at Penn was 125–38, in 1978, Daly joined the NBAs Philadelphia 76ers as an assistant coach. During the 1981 season, the Cleveland Cavaliers hired him as the head coach that season. He then returned to the 76ers as a broadcaster until he was hired in 1983 by the Detroit Pistons, while serving as the Pistons coach, Daly was also a color commentator for TBSs NBA Playoff coverage. Daly was named coach of the U. S. Dream Team that won the medal at the 1992 Olympics. Daly stayed with the Nets for two seasons, before his first retirement, Daly again took up a role as color commentator for TNTs NBA coverage during the mid-1990s before coming out of retirement to coach the Orlando Magic at the beginning of the 1997-98 season. Daly stayed two seasons with the Magic and then retired permanently, Daly was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in March 2009 and died on May 9,2009, at the age of 78. He is survived by his wife Terry and their daughter Cydney and he is buried at Riverside Memorial Park in Tequesta, Florida
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The Boston Celtics are an American professional basketball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Celtics compete in the National Basketball Association as a club of the leagues Eastern Conference Atlantic Division. Founded in 1946 and one of eight NBA teams to survive the leagues first decade, the Celtics play their home games at the TD Garden, which they share with the National Hockey League s Boston Bruins. The franchises 17 championships are the most of any NBA franchise, as a percentage of championships won, the Celtics are the most successful franchise to date in the major four traditional North American professional sports leagues. The Celtics have played the Lakers a record 12 times in the Finals, including their most recent appearances in 2008 and 2010, four Celtics players have won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award for an NBA record total of 10 MVP awards. Their mascot Lucky the Leprechaun is a nod to the teams Irish heritage, in 1950, the Celtics signed Chuck Cooper, becoming the first NBA franchise to draft a black player. The Celtics struggled during their years, until the hiring of coach Red Auerbach. In the franchises early days, Auerbach had no assistants, ran all the practices, did all the scouting—both of opposing teams and college draft prospects—and scheduled all the road trips. One of the first great players to join the Celtics was Bob Cousy, Cousy eventually became the property of the Chicago Stags, but when that franchise went bankrupt, Cousy went to the Celtics in a dispersal draft. After the 1955–56 season, Auerbach made a stunning trade and he sent perennial All-Star Ed Macauley to the St. Louis Hawks along with the draft rights to Cliff Hagan in exchange for the second overall pick in the draft. Auerbach also acquired Holy Cross standout, and 1957 NBA Rookie of the Year, Russell and Heinsohn worked extraordinarily well with Cousy, and they were the players around whom Auerbach would build the champion Celtics for more than a decade. With Bill Russell, the Celtics advanced to the NBA Finals and defeated the St. Louis Hawks in seven games, Russell went on to win 11 championships, making him the most decorated player in NBA history. In 1958, the Celtics again advanced to the NBA Finals, however, with the acquisition of K. C. Jones that year, the Celtics began a dynasty that would last for more than a decade. In 1959, the Celtics won the NBA Championship after sweeping the Minneapolis Lakers, during that time, the Celtics met the Lakers in the Finals five times, starting an intense and often bitter rivalry that has spanned generations. In 1964, the Celtics became the first NBA team to have an all African-American starting lineup. On December 26,1964, Willie Naulls replaced an injured Tommy Heinsohn, joining Tom Satch Sanders, K. C. Jones, Sam Jones, the Celtics defeated St. Louis 97–84. Boston won its next 11 games with Naulls starting in place of Heinsohn, the Celtics of the late-1950s–60s are widely considered as one of the most dominant teams of all time. Auerbach retired as coach after the 1965–66 season and Russell took over as player-coach, with his appointment, Russell also became the first African-American coach in any U. S. pro sport
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Bob Cousy played 13 years for the team, winning 6 NBA titles.
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Tom Heinsohn coached the Boston Celtics to the 1974 and 1976 NBA Championship.
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Joe Dumars
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Joe Dumars III is an American retired basketball player in the National Basketball Association. At 63 Dumars could play either shooting guard or point guard on offense and was an effective defender. He played for the Detroit Pistons from 1985 until 1999, during the late 1980s and early 1990s, Dumars and Isiah Thomas combined to form one of the best backcourts in NBA history. Initially a shooting guard, Dumars moved to point guard following Thomas retirement in 1994, Dumars was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006. Dumars served as the President of Basketball Operations for the Detroit Pistons from 2000 to 2014, Dumars was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. Dumars mother, Ophelia, was a custodian at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches while his father, Dumars grew up in an athletic family, but basketball was not his favorite sport as a child. Football was more popular in the region and all five of his brothers were defensive standouts at Natchitoches Central High School and his brother David later played professional football in the USFL. Dumars followed in his footsteps playing defensive back on the football team until junior high school when a big hit on the field directed him toward basketball. Big Joe built a hoop, made of an old bicycle wheel and half of a wooden door, in the Dumars backyard where young Joe spent hours practicing his jump shot. During his four years at McNeese State University, Dumars averaged 22.5 points per game and he finished his college career as the 11th leading scorer in NCAA history. Drafted 18th overall in the first round of the 1985 NBA draft, he played guard for the Detroit Pistons for his entire career, from 1985 to 1999. He won two championships as a player in 1989 and 1990, and was voted the 1989 Finals MVP, according to Jordan, Dumars was the best defender he ever faced in the NBA. During his career, he was selected to the All-Star team six times, in 14 seasons, all with the Pistons, Dumars scored 16,401 points, handed out 4,612 assists, grabbed 2,203 rebounds and recorded 902 steals. Although he was a member of the famed Bad Boys teams known for their play and demeanor, he became personally known for his quiet. He was the first recipient of the NBA Sportsmanship Award which has named the Joe Dumars Trophy. His number 4 jersey was retired by the Pistons in March 2000 and he has the distinction as being the only Pistons player to ever wear this number. He played for the US national team in the 1994 FIBA World Championship, Dumars became the Pistons President of Basketball Operations prior to the 2000–01 season. During the 2005–06 season, Detroit recorded its best regular-season record in franchise history, the Pistons made it to the Eastern Conference Finals six straight years under Dumars watch
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Randy Wittman
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Randy Scott Wittman is an American retired basketball player at the guard position and former coach of the NBAs Cleveland Cavaliers, Minnesota Timberwolves, and Washington Wizards. Wittman starred for Indianapolis Ben Davis High School from 1975–1978 and he averaged more than 23 points a game for Ben Davis, which remains the second highest average at the school, and became one of the nations top recruits. The 66 Wittman played college basketball from 1979–1983 for Bob Knight, the 1979–80 Hoosiers, led by Isiah Thomas, won the Big Ten championship and advanced to the 1980 Sweet Sixteen. The following season, in 1980–81, the Hoosiers once again won a conference title, the Hoosiers trailed the entire first half of the game until Wittman scored at the halftime buzzer with a deep corner shot. The Hoosiers went on to win the game by a 63-50 tally, in 1982–1983, with the leadership of Wittman, the No.1 ranked Hoosiers were favorites to win another national championship. However, with an injury to star player Ted Kitchel mid-season, Knight asked for fan support to rally around the team and, despite long odds, the team ultimately won the Big Ten title. Nevertheless, in the tournament Kitchels absence was felt and the team lost to Kentucky in the 1983 Sweet Sixteen, Wittman was named the Big Ten Player of the Year and a consensus second team All-American in 1983. He became a member of Indianas Hall of Fame and was named to Indianas Silver Anniversary Basketball Team, Wittman was selected by the Washington Bullets with the 22nd pick of the 1983 NBA draft. However, he never played for the Bullets with his rights being traded to the Atlanta Hawks, Wittman spent the early portion of his career with the Hawks, sharing backcourt with Glenn Doc Rivers and Anthony Spud Webb, and starting most of the games from 1985–88. After a small spell with the Sacramento Kings, he became a player with the Indiana Pacers. For his career, Wittman averaged 7.4 points,1.1 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game, in 1992, Wittman began his NBA coaching career as an assistant coach, first with the Pacers. He spent one season in Indianapolis and another with the Dallas Mavericks, subsequently, Wittman spent from 1994–99 with the Minnesota Timberwolves, in the same capacity. During that period, he helped in the development of Wolves star forward Kevin Garnett, Wittman then served as head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers for two seasons, compiling a record of 62-102. On January 23,2007, Wittman became the coach of the Timberwolves, succeeding Dwane Casey. Wittman became acting coach of the Washington Wizards, accepting the position after Flip Saunders was fired in January 2012 for a 2-15 start. On June 4,2012, the Wizards announced that Wittman would be retained as the head coach of the team for the 2012–2013 season. The Wizards had a 5-1 record in games during both series, but were unable to win a home game in the second round. Wittman was praised for his strategy and leadership throughout the playoffs by both players and management alike, Wittman signed an extension to remain head coach of the Wizards on June 3,2014
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The National Basketball Associations Coach of the Year is an annual National Basketball Association award given since the 1962–63 NBA season. The winner receives the Red Auerbach Trophy, which is named in honor of the coach who led the Boston Celtics to nine NBA Championships from 1956 to 1966. The winner is selected at the end of regular season by a panel of sportswriters from the United States and Canada, each of whom casts a vote for first, second and third place selections. Each first-place vote is five points, each second-place vote is worth three points, and each third-place vote is worth one point. The person with the highest point total, regardless of the number of first-place votes, since its inception, the award has been given to 40 different coaches. The most recent award winner is Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr, Gregg Popovich, Don Nelson and Pat Riley have each won the award three times, while Hubie Brown, Bill Fitch, Cotton Fitzsimmons and Gene Shue have each won it twice. No coach has won consecutive Coach of the Year awards, Riley is the only coach to be named Coach of the Year with three different franchises. Larry Bird is the recipient to have also been named MVP as a player. Tom Heinsohn, Bill Sharman, and Lenny Wilkens are the recipients to have been inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as both player and coach. Johnny Kerr is the person to win the award with a losing record. Kerr was honored because he had guided the Bulls to the NBA Playoffs in their first season in the league, only five recipients also coached the team that won the championship the same season, Red Auerbach, Red Holzman, Bill Sharman, Phil Jackson, and Gregg Popovich. Popovich is the only NBA Coach of the Year recipient to win the championship in the season twice. Assistant coach Luke Walton served as head coach for the other 43 games for the Warriors, receiving one second-place vote. National Basketball Association portal General Specific
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Sam Mitchell (basketball)
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Samuel E. Mitchell, Jr. is a former professional basketball player and coach who is currently head coach of the U. S. Virgin Islands national basketball team. He was most recently the head coach for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association. He was also the coach for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association from 2004 to 2008. Mitchell has also done analyst work for TSN and NBA TV as well as work for WHAL-AM in Columbus. Mitchell, a 66,210 lb small forward, graduated from Columbus High School, afterwards he played college basketball at the Mercer University for four seasons, and scored nearly 2,000 points, becoming the leading scorer in Bears history. Mercer University is the oldest privately owned university in the State of Georgia with its campus in Macon, Georgia. He led the team to both the regular-season and postseason Trans-American Atlantic Conference championships in 1985, as a result, the team made the NCAA tournament that year. Then he was drafted by the Houston Rockets with the 7th pick of the 3rd round in the 1985 NBA Draft, Mitchell did not commence play in the NBA after being drafted and until joining 1989 expansion team, the Minnesota Timberwolves, in their inaugural season. After that, Mitchell started his NBA career, first spending three seasons with the Timberwolves, during his playing days in Minneapolis, he scored a career-high 37 points against the Philadelphia 76ers on February 3,1991. On September 8,1992 he was traded along with point guard Pooh Richardson to the Indiana Pacers in exchange for small forward Chuck Person, after spending three years with the Pacers, he returned to the Timberwolves for the rest of his career, before retiring in 2002. Mitchell ranks second in Wolves history in points, steals and minutes played, Mitchell returned to the NBA almost immediately after his retirement as an assistant coach with the Milwaukee Bucks for two seasons until 2004. Mitchell was named the coach of the month in January 2007 for his bringing the Toronto Raptors back to.500. On March 30,2007, Mitchell got his 100th win as NBA coach when the Raptors defeated the Washington Wizards at the Verizon Center, on April 24,2007, he was named 2006–07 NBA Coach of the Year. On May 22,2007 after leading the Raptors to their first playoffs appearance since 2002, on November 25,2007 Mitchell surpassed Lenny Wilkens for the most wins in team history. Mitchell was the longest reigning head coach of the Toronto Raptors, on December 3,2008, after leading the Raptors to a disappointing 8–9 start to the 2008–09 season, Mitchell was relieved of his duties as the teams head coach. Assistant coach Jay Triano took over the position of head coach of the Raptors. The firing was ridiculed by the TNT Overtime crew because the Raptors were only one game under.500 at the time of the firing, chris Webber predicted that they would not be as good under another coach. In fact, the Raptors went 25–40 the rest of the season, Mitchell was hired as an assistant coach by the New Jersey Nets on July 19,2010
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Ryan Saunders
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Ryan Philip Saunders is an American basketball former player and coach. He is currently an assistant coach for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association and he is known for his work in player development while with the Wizards staff. Born in Medina, Minnesota, Saunders graduated from Wayzata High School in Plymouth, a walk-on, Saunders played basketball at the University of Minnesota from 2004 to 2008 as a guard. He played only 20 games in his first two seasons in a backup role, Saunders redshirted the 2006–07 season due to a wrist injury and did not play any games in the 2007–08 season. Saunders graduated from Minnesota in 2008 with a degree in sport management. In 2009, he became an assistant coach for the Washington Wizards, during his time at University of Minnesota, he was responsible for handling the academic and social improvements of players. Since 2014, he has been an assistant coach for the Minnesota Timberwolves, when Saunders was born, his father Flip Saunders was an assistant coach at the University of Minnesota. Ryan Saunders grew up in Wisconsin and South Dakota, as Flip later worked as coach for CBA teams in those states, the Rapid City Thrillers, La Crosse Catbirds. Saunders has taken part in multiple basketball camps for the youth, Minnesota bio from 2007-08 media guide, p.64
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During the evening rush hour on August 1,2007, it suddenly collapsed, killing 13 people and injuring 145. The bridge was Minnesotas third busiest, carrying 140,000 vehicles daily, immediately after the collapse, help came from mutual aid in the seven-county Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area and emergency response personnel, charities, and volunteers. Within a few days of the collapse, the Minnesota Department of Transportation planned a replacement bridge, Construction was completed rapidly, and it opened on September 18,2008. Located in Minneapolis, Minnesotas largest city, the bridge connected the Minneapolis neighborhoods of Downtown East, the south abutment was northeast of the Metrodome, and the north abutment was northwest of the University of Minnesota East Bank campus. The bridge was the boundary of the Mississippi Mile downtown riverfront parkland. Downstream is the 10th Avenue Bridge, once known as the Cedar Avenue Bridge, immediately upstream is the lock and dam at Saint Anthony Falls, where Minneapolis began. The first bridge upstream is the historic Stone Arch Bridge, built for the Great Northern Railway and now used for bicycle, the north foundation pier of the bridge was near a hydroelectric plant, razed in 1988. The south abutment was in an area polluted by a processing plant. These uses effectively created a toxic waste site under the bridge, leading to a lawsuit, no relationship between these prior uses and the bridge failure has been claimed. The bridge, officially designated Bridge 9340, was designed by Sverdrup & Parcel to 1961 AASHO standard specifications. The construction contracts, worth in more than US$5.2 million at the time, went to Hurcon Inc. and Industrial Construction Company. Construction on the began in 1964 and the structure was completed and opened to traffic in 1967 during an era of large-scale projects related to building the Twin Cities freeway system. When the bridge fell, it was still the most recent river crossing built on a new site in Minneapolis, after the building boom ebbed during the 1970s, infrastructure management shifted toward inspection and maintenance. The bridges fourteen spans extended 1,907 feet long, the three main spans were of deck truss construction while all but two of the eleven approach spans were steel multi-girder construction, the two exceptions being concrete slab construction. The piers were not built in the channel, instead. The two support piers for the trusses, each with two load-bearing concrete pylons at either side of the center main span, were located on opposite banks of the river. The center span was connected to the north and south approaches by shorter spans formed by the main trusses. Each was 266 feet in length, and was connected to the approach spans by a 38 foot cantilever, at the top of the main trusses were the deck trusses,12 feet in depth and integral with the main trusses
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The 1997 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Associations 1996–97 season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Chicago Bulls defeating the Western Conference champion Utah Jazz 4 games to 2 and this was the Bulls second straight title, and fifth overall. Michael Jordan was named NBA Finals MVP for the fifth time and this was the first Western Conference title for the Jazz in their 23-year history. The Heats run to the Eastern Conference Finals marked the farthest they had reached in the playoffs up to point, they did not return until 2005. The Minnesota Timberwolves made their debut after failing to win more than 30 games in their first 7 seasons. It was also the first of 7 straight years in which made the playoffs only to lose in the first round. This was the first time since the ABA–NBA merger that the 4 former ABA teams missed the playoffs, all four 1988/89 expansion teams made the playoffs for the first time. This would happen again in 2001, the two #8 seeds in this tournament broke long playoff droughts with their appearances in the 1997 Playoffs. Unfortunately for both teams, it would be a time before they made the playoffs again, the renamed Wizards made their return in 2005. The Bullets qualified by defeating the Cavs in a season finale that saw both teams fighting for the #8 seed. Game 4 of the Bulls–Hawks series was the last game played at The Omni. The Hawks home playoff games for 1998 and 1999 were played at the Georgia Dome while the Omni was demolished to make way for Philips Arena, the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena hosted its final NBA playoff game in Game 3 of the Clippers–Jazz series. When the Clippers returned to the playoffs in 2006, they had moved to the Staples Center, as of 2014, the Sports Arena remains active, presenting high school basketball championships, concerts, and conventions. Game 3 of the Bulls–Bullets series was the last playoff game played at the Capital Centre. They moved into a new arena the next season, in addition, the Bullets changed their team name to the Wizards on May 15, making it the last time the team was officially named the Bullets. After losing in the Western Conference Finals, the Houston Rockets would not win a series until 2009. The Utah Jazz clinched the best record in the Western Conference, april 30, Chicago Bulls vs. Washington Bullets, Game 3 Scottie Pippen made the series-winning dunk with 7.4 seconds left as the Bulls swept the Bullets 96–95 and advanced. The Sonics would however win in OT 122-115, may 6, Chicago Bulls vs. Atlanta Hawks, Game 1 Scottie Pippen broke a 97-97 tie by making a 3-point shot with 43.9 seconds left
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The 1999 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Associations 1998-99 season. The tournament concluded with the Western Conference champion San Antonio Spurs defeating the Eastern Conference champion New York Knicks 4 games to 1, tim Duncan was named NBA Finals MVP. The 1999 Playoffs are memorable in that a #8 seed made it to the Finals for the time in history. This was also the first time two teams played each other on consecutive nights in playoff history. Iverson later led the Sixers to the 2001 NBA Finals, the Bulls, despite being defending champions, missed the playoffs for the first time since 1984. They also became the first defending champion since the 1969–70 Boston Celtics to miss the playoffs and they won 12 straight games, and finished 15–2. After losing their Eastern Conference Semifinal series to the Knicks, the Hawks did not return to the playoffs until 2008, Game 4 of the Spurs–Lakers series was the last NBA game ever played in the Great Western Forum. Game 5 of the Knicks–Pacers series was the last NBA game ever played at Market Square Arena, for the first time since 1991, no series went seven games. Game 4 of the Lakers–Rockets series turned out to be the final appearance in Charles Barkleys Hall of Fame career. Champion, San Antonio Spurs 1st Round San Antonio Spurs vs. Portland Trail Blazers vs. Utah Jazz vs, Conference Semifinals San Antonio Spurs vs. Portland Trail Blazers vs. Conference Finals San Antonio Spurs vs. Indiana Pacers vs. Orlando Magic vs. Atlanta Hawks vs, Conference Semifinals Indiana Pacers vs. Atlanta Hawks vs. New York Knicks, Knicks win series 4-2 Game 1 @ Market Square Arena, Indianapolis, New York 93, Indiana 90 Game 2 @ Market Square Arena, Indianapolis, Indiana 88 and this was the first playoff meeting between the Knicks and the Spurs
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2000 NBA Playoffs
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The 2000 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Associations 1999-2000 season. The tournament concluded with the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers defeating the Eastern Conference champion Indiana Pacers 4 games to 2, Shaquille ONeal was named NBA Finals MVP. They were also the first defending champion to be eliminated in the first round since the Philadelphia 76ers in 1984, the Lakers win was the first title for Shaq and Kobe Bryant, both considered future first-ballot Hall of Famers, and first in the post-Magic Johnson–Kareem Abdul-Jabbar–James Worthy era. Green, the player left from the Lakers Showtime era, was in the starting lineup for this team as well. Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals was the last game Patrick Ewing ever played as a Knick, the 2000 playoffs was the last involving the Ewing-led Knicks, and New York would not win another playoff series until 2013. The Trail Blazers defeated the Timberwolves and the Jazz in the first two rounds before falling to the Lakers in the conference final, the Trail Blazers would not win another playoff series until 2014. This seasons playoffs also marked the debut of the 5-year-old expansion Toronto Raptors, for the 3rd straight year, New York eliminated Miami, it was their fourth consecutive postseason meeting. Teams in italics have home court advantage, teams in bold advance to the next round. Numbers to the left of each indicate the teams original playoffs seeding in their respective conferences. Numbers to the right of each indicate the number of games the team won in that round. The division champions possess an asterisk Shaquille ONeal scores playoff career-high 46 points in Game One, Kobe Bryant scores playoff career-high 32 points in Game Two. Bryant scores a new career-high 35 points in Game Three and this was the eighth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Lakers winning six of the first seven meetings. This was the first playoff meeting between the Timberwolves and the Trail Blazers and this was the fourth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the SuperSonics winning two of the first three meetings. This was the playoff meeting between these two teams, with each team winning two series apiece. Kobe Bryant hits the game-winner with 2.6 seconds left in Game 2 and this was the ninth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Lakers winning six of the first eight meetings. In Game 5, Scottie Pippen hits the series-winning 3 with 7.3 seconds left and this was the sixth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Trail Blazers winning three of the first five meetings. In Game 3, Arvydas Sabonis potential game-tying shot was blocked by Kobe Bryant, in Game 7, the Lakers overcame a 16-point deficit and sealed the victory with Kobe Bryant delivering an alley-oop to Shaquille ONeal. This was the playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Lakers winning six of the first eight meetings
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2001 NBA Playoffs
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The 2001 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Associations 2000-01 season. The tournament concluded with the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers defeating the Eastern Conference champion Philadelphia 76ers 4 games to 1, shaquille ONeal was named NBA Finals MVP for the second straight year. Since 2001, the 76ers have not advanced beyond the conference semifinals and this was the 76ers first Finals appearance since Moses Malone and Julius Erving led the 1983 squad to the NBA title in the famous fo, fo, fo year. However, it was the Lakers turn to put together the most dominant postseason in NBA history and they set many records, including going undefeated in regulation and on the road. They were the second NBA champion to defeat four 50-win or better teams on their way to the title as the Rockets did it first in 1995. The Milwaukee Bucks won their first playoff series since 1989, made the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since 1986, as of 2016, however, they have been unable to duplicate this. The Dallas Mavericks made the playoffs for the first time since 1990, along the way they had many abysmal seasons, including back-to-back years with 11 and 13 wins. By beating Utah in the first round, they won their first playoff series since 1988, reunion Arena, their home court for 21 years, hosted its last game, they moved to American Airlines Center in 2002. The Sacramento Kings won their first playoff series since 1981 and first since moving to Sacramento, the Toronto Raptors won their first playoff series in franchise history 3–2 over the New York Knicks. For the first time since 1991, the Knicks failed to win a playoff series. The San Antonio Spurs clinched the best record in the NBA, however, when they lost to the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference Finals, the Lakers gained home court advantage for the NBA Finals. San Antonios 58 games remains the lowest for a team with home advantage throughout the playoffs, being 3 games fewer than the Pacers and Cavs 61 in 2004 and 2010. This was the playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Lakers winning seven of the first nine meetings. This was the playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Suns winning two of the first three meetings. In Game 5, Calvin Booth made the winning layup with 9.6 seconds left. The Mavs would then not only become the 8th team in history to overcome an 0-2 deficit. This was the playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Mavericks winning the first meeting. This was the first playoff meeting between the Mavericks and the Spurs and this was the ninth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Lakers winning seven of the first eight meetings
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The 2002 NBA Playoffs were the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Associations 2001–02 season. This was the postseason that held a best-of-5 first-round series. The tournament concluded with the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers defeating the Eastern Conference champion New Jersey Nets 4 games to 0, Shaquille ONeal was named NBA Finals MVP for the third straight year. Though they eventually lost to the Nets 4–2, they did create the biggest 4th quarter playoff comeback in Game 3, the Detroit Pistons won their first playoff series since 1991. They would lose in the Eastern Conference Semifinals to the Celtics in five games, the playoffs also marked the last appearance of the Charlotte Hornets in the playoffs until 2010. The Hornets moved the year to New Orleans, while an expansion team. The Hornets were renamed the Pelicans in 2013, after which the Bobcats reclaimed the Hornets name in 2014, the Hornets also reclaimed the history and records of the 1988–2002 Charlotte teams. The Charlotte Coliseum played host to its playoff game on May 12. The playoffs marked the last time NBC and TBS aired NBA games as regular TV partners of the league, the last TBS-aired game under its various contracts was Game 5 of the Lakers-Spurs series, while Game 4 of the NBA Finals marked the last telecast on NBC. TBS and NBC were replaced with ESPN and ABC the following season, TBS has aired some NBA basketball in the ensuing years due to conflicts on sister network TNT. Pat Riley also missed the playoffs for the first time in his coaching career, the total number of playoff games was 70, including the NBA Finals. The Sacramento Kings clinched the best record in the NBA, and this was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Spurs winning the first meeting. The Lakers sweep the Blazers thanks to a series-winning 3 by Robert Horry with 2.1 seconds left in Game 3 and this was the 11th playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Lakers winning eight of the first ten meetings. Dirk Nowitzki was virtually unstoppable in this series, averaging 33 points and 16 rebounds per game and this was the first playoff meeting between the Mavericks and the Timberwolves. This was the first playoff meeting between the Mavericks and the Kings, the Spurs led going into the fourth quarter of all five games, yet were able to win only one. It would be San Antonios final 2 home games in the Alamodome and this was the eighth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Lakers winning five of the first seven meetings. The 2002 Western Conference Finals is widely regarded as one of the best series in NBA playoff history, two games were decided on game winning shots and Game 7 was decided in overtime. However, the series was marred by controversy and allegations of corruption, on June 10,2008, convicted NBA referee Tim Donaghys attorney filed a court document alleging that Game 6 was fixed by two referees
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2004 NBA Playoffs
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The 2004 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Associations 2003–04 season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Detroit Pistons defeating the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers 4 games to 1 in the NBA Finals, chauncey Billups was named NBA Finals MVP. As of the end of 2016 season, the Timberwolves hold the longest active streak without a playoff berth, the Indiana Pacers made the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since their NBA Finals run in 2000, after which they significantly changed the makeup of their team. Game 2 of the series with the Pistons was pivotal, as Tayshaun Prince blocked a lay-up by Reggie Miller late in the game to preserve the victory, the 2004 playoffs was the first appearance for the Memphis Grizzlies in their 9-year history which began in Vancouver. However, they failed to win a game in their first 3 playoff appearances, before earning their first playoff game. This was the last playoff appearance for the New York Knicks until 2011, the Portland Trail Blazers and Utah Jazz missed the playoffs for the first time since 1982 and 1983, respectively. This was the Denver Nuggets first playoff appearance since 1995, the New Orleans Hornets made their final postseason appearance as a member of the East. They would not make the playoffs again until 2008, as a member of the West and their playoff series with the Miami Heat, led by Dwyane Wade, was the last playoff series where the home team won all 7 games until 2008s Boston-Atlanta and Boston-Cleveland playoff series. 2004 was the first time in 14 years that all Texas teams made the playoffs, the Indiana Pacers clinched the best record in the NBA, and had earned home court advantage throughout the entire playoffs. This was the playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Knicks winning the first two meetings. This was the playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Pistons winning the first two meetings. In Game 1, Dwyane Wade hits the game winner with 1.3 seconds left and this was the first playoff meeting between the Heat and the New Orleans Pelicans/Hornets franchise. This was the first playoff meeting between the Pacers and the Heat and this was the third playoff meeting between these two teams, with each team winning one series apiece. This was the playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Pistons winning the first meeting. Champion, Los Angeles Lakers This was the first playoff meeting between the Nuggets and the Timberwolves and this was the seventh playoff meeting between these two teams, with each team winning three series apiece. This was the first playoff meeting between the Grizzlies and the Spurs and this was the third playoff meeting between these two teams, with each team winning one series apiece. This was the first playoff meeting between the Timberwolves and the Kings and this was the tenth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Lakers winning six of the first nine meetings. This was the playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Lakers winning the first meeting
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The San Antonio Spurs hosting the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 1 of the Western Conference Semifinals at the
SBC Center.
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2007 NBA Playoffs
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The 2007 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Associations 2006–07 season. The tournament concluded with the Western Conference champion San Antonio Spurs defeating the Eastern Conference champion Cleveland Cavaliers 4 games to 0 in the NBA Finals. Tony Parker was named NBA Finals MVP, making him the first Spur other than Tim Duncan, the playoffs are conducted in 4 rounds of best-of-7 series. The 3 division winners in each conference, along with the 5 best non-division winners in each conference, the division winners and top second-place team are seeded 1–4 based on record, with the remaining teams seeded 5–8 on record. Up until 2006, the champions were guaranteed no worse than the third seed. In response, the NBA changed the system so that the teams with the two best records in the conference are guaranteed the top two seeds even if the second-best team isnt a division champion. Meanwhile, the champions are guaranteed no worse than the fourth seed. This ensures that the teams with the two best records in the conference cannot meet until the finals at the earliest. Teams in italics have home court advantage, teams in bold advance to the next round. Numbers to the left of each indicate the teams original playoffs seeding in their respective conferences. Numbers to the right of each indicate the number of games the team won in that round. The division champions possess an asterisk Houston and Chicago had home advantage in the first round despite being lower seeds. Both teams had regular season records than their opponents. This was the playoff meeting between these two teams, with each team winning one series apiece. The Orlando Magics first playoff trip in 4 seasons was short lived as the top ranked Detroit Pistons dispatched the upstart Magic in 4 games, the Pistons recorded their first series sweep since sweeping Indiana in the first round of the 1990 NBA Playoffs. The series was also the first time Orlando forward Grant Hill had appeared in the postseason since leaving Detroit after the 2000 season and this was the fourth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Cavaliers winning two of the first three meetings. Without Arenas and Butler, the Wizards were unable to stop LeBron James and it was Clevelands first playoff sweep in franchise history. This was the first playoff meeting between the Nets and the Raptors, the Nets won the first round of the 2007 NBA Playoffs in their sixth straight appearance in the NBA Playoffs
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The Warriors play the Jazz at
Oracle Arena in Game 3.
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USA Today
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USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15,1982, it operates from Gannetts corporate headquarters on Jones Branch Drive in McLean, Virginia and it is printed at 37 sites across the United States and at five additional sites internationally. USA Today is distributed in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, with an international edition distributed in Canada, Asia and the Pacific Islands, Gannett formally announced the launch of the paper on April 20,1982. USA Today began publishing on September 15,1982, initially launching in the Baltimore and Washington, on July 2,1984, the newspaper switched from a largely black-and-white to a color publication, featuring full color photography and graphics in all four sections. On April 8,1985, the paper published its first special bonus section, a 12-page section called Baseball 85, on May 6,1986, USA Today began printing production of its international edition in Switzerland. On April 15, USA Today launched an international printing site. On August 28,1995, an international publishing site was launched in Frankfurt, Germany, to print. On October 4,1999, USA Today began running advertisements on its front page for the first time. The paper launched a sixth printing site for its international edition on May 15,2000, in Milan, Italy, followed on July 10 by the launch of a printing facility in Charleroi. That November, USA Today migrated its operations from Gannetts previous corporate headquarters in Arlington, in 2010, USA Today launched the USA Today API for sharing data with partners of all types. On August 27,2010, USA Today announced that it would undergo a reorganization of its newsroom and it also announced that the paper would shift its focus away from print and place more emphasis on its digital platforms and launch of a new publication called USA Today Sports. On September 14,2012, USA Today underwent the first major redesign in its history, to accomplish this goal, Gannett migrated its newspaper and television station websites to the Presto platform and the USA Today site design throughout 2013 and 2014. On January 4,2014, USA Today acquired the book and film review website, on September 3,2014, USA Today announced that it would lay off roughly 70 employees in a restructuring of its newsroom and business operations. In October 2014, USA Today and OpenWager Inc. entered into a partnership to release a Bingo app called USA TODAY Bingo Cruise, USA Today is known for synthesizing news down to easy-to-read-and-comprehend stories. In the main edition circulated in the United States and some Canadian cities, each consists of four sections, News, Money, Sports. The international edition of the paper features two sections, News and Money in one, with Sports and Life in the other, atypical of most daily newspapers, the paper does not print on Saturdays and Sundays, the Friday edition serves as the weekend edition. USA Today prints each complete story on the front page of the section with the exception of the cover story. The cover story is a story that requires a jump
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The April 14, 2015 front page of USA Today. The blue circle of the logo has been turned into a dotted ring with a hat being tossed into it to signify
Marco Rubio's announcement that he is running for
President of the United States.
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This February 5, 2009 issue of USA Today shows the old layout and logo of the paper prior to it being redesigned in 2012.
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USA Today is headquartered in
Tysons Corner, Virginia.
40.
1989 NBA Expansion Draft
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The 1989 NBA Expansion Draft was the ninth expansion draft of the National Basketball Association. The draft was held on June 15,1989, so that the newly founded Minnesota Timberwolves, Minnesota and Orlando had been awarded the expansion teams on April 22,1987. In an NBA expansion draft, new NBA teams are allowed to acquire players from the established teams in the league. Not all players on a team are available during an expansion draft. Last years expansion teams, the Charlotte Hornets and the Miami Heat, were not involved in the expansion draft and did not lose any player. Prior to the draft, the league conducted a coin flip between the Timberwolves and the Magic to decide their order in this expansion draft and in the 1989 NBA draft. The Magic were formed and owned by a group headed by Jim Hewitt, former Philadelphia 76ers coach Matt Goukas was hired as the franchises first head coach. The Magic used their first pick to select former fifth overall pick Sidney Green from the New York Knicks, however, Farmer, Lee and Johnson never played for the Magic. Nine players from the expansion draft joined the Magic for their inaugural season, catledge played four seasons with the Magic until his NBA career ended in 1993. Skiles played five seasons with the Magic, the Timberwolves were formed and owned by a group headed by Marv Wolfenson and Harvey Ratner. The Timberwolves were the second NBA franchise to play in Minnesota, following the Minneapolis Lakers, former Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Bill Musselman was hired as the franchises first head coach. The Timberwolves used their first pick to select Detroit Pistons starting power forward Rick Mahorn, however, Mahorn refused to report to the Timberwolves and was traded to the Philadelphia 76ers prior to the start of the season. The Timberwolves other selections included one-time All-Star Steve Johnson and two former first-round picks, David Rivers and Maurice Martin, however, Rivers and Martin never played for the Timberwolves. The Timberwolves also selected West German center Gunther Behnke, who had never played in the NBA, four players from the expansion draft joined the Timberwolves for their inaugural season, but only one played more than one season for the team. Tyrone Corbin played two and a half seasons for the Timberwolves before he was traded in 1991. Prior to the day of the draft, the trades were made. A The Minnesota Timberwolves agreed to select Mark Davis from the Milwaukee Bucks in exchange for a 1989 second-round pick, general Specific NBA. com NBA. com, NBA Draft History
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Rick Mahorn was selected by the
Minnesota Timberwolves from the
Detroit Pistons.
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Minnesota Timberwolves all-time roster
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The Minnesota Timberwolves are a National Basketball Association team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a member of the Northwest Division of the NBAs Western Conference, the team then asked the 842 city councils in Minnesota to select the winner, as the Timberwolves prevailed. Minnesota was given a team, and took part in the 1989 NBA Expansion Draft with the Orlando Magic, the Timberwolves have since made eight playoff appearances, advancing to the Western Conference finals once during the 2003–04 NBA season, where they lost to the Los Angeles Lakers. Since the franchises inception,198 players have made an appearance in a game for the team. Of those 198 players, none have been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, a total of 14 Minnesota players have been elected to the NBA All-Rookie Team. Kevin Love is the only Timberwolf, other than Garnett, to make multiple All-Star games, appearing in the 2011,2012, and 2014 games. Garnett holds a multitude of Minnesotas career records, including the most points, assists, rebounds, blocks, steals, field goals made, free throws, and minutes played in team history. Tony Campbell holds the record for most points per game, with 20.6. Pooh Richardson holds the season record for assists, accumulating 734 during the 1990–91 season. Other single season leaders include Tyrone Corbin for his 175 steals during the Timberwolves inaugural 1989–1990 season, a Statistics are correct as of the end July 2,2016. Note, nationality, school/club, and years for each player are found by following the link on the list
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Kevin Garnett is the all-time leading scorer and rebounder for the Timberwolves.
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While playing for the Timberwolves on March 23, 2012, José Juan Barea became the first Latin American-born player in NBA history to record a
triple-double.
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Michael Beasley was traded to the Timberwolves from the
Miami Heat in 2010.
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Wayne Ellington averaged 6.6 points per game in his first two seasons in Minnesota.
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Minnesota Timberwolves draft history
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The Minnesota Timberwolves first participated in the National Basketball Association Draft on June 27,1989, about five months before their inaugural NBA season. The Timberwolves are currently the second NBA team to be based in Minneapolis since the Minneapolis Lakers were there from 1948 to 1960, before each draft, an NBA draft lottery determines the first round selection order for the teams that did not make the playoffs during the prior season. Teams can also trade their picks, which means that a team could have more than or less than two picks in one draft, as a result of the various trades, the Minnesota Timberwolves had four draft picks in 1992 and 2006. The Timberwolves drafted Pooh Richardson with their first ever pick, tenth overall. In 1995, the Timberwolves picked Kevin Garnett fifth overall, who went on to be a 13-time All-Star, in 1996, the Timberwolves drafted Ray Allen fifth overall but was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks with a future first-round pick for the draft rights of Stephon Marbury. A The Minnesota Timberwolves acquired a second-round draft pick from the Milwaukee Bucks for agreeing to select Mark Davis in the 1989 NBA Expansion Draft. C The Minnesota Timberwolves traded Brad Lohaus to the Milwaukee Bucks for Randy Breuer, D The Minnesota Timberwolves traded Tyrone Corbin to the Utah Jazz for Thurl Bailey and a 1992 second-round draft pick. E The Minnesota Timberwolves traded Gerald Glass and Mark Randall to the Detroit Pistons for Lance Blanks, Brad Sellers, F The Milwaukee Bucks traded the draft rights of Stephon Marbury to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Ray Allen and a future first-round pick. G The Minnesota Timberwolves traded Isaiah Rider to the Portland Trail Blazers for James Robinson, Bill Curley, H The Minnesota Timberwolves traded Stephon Marbury, Chris Carr and Bill Curley to the New Jersey Nets and Paul Grant to the Milwaukee Bucks in a three-team deal. The Minnesota Timberwolves acquired Terrell Brandon from the Milwaukee Bucks, and Brian Evans, I The Minnesota Timberwolves acquired the draft rights to Randy Foye from the Portland Trail Blazers for the draft rights to Brandon Roy. J12 The Philadelphia 76ers acquired the rights to Bobby Jones from the Minnesota Timberwolves for a future second-round pick. K The Phoenix Suns acquired Nikoloz Tskitishvili from the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for a 2006 second-round draft pick, M The Minnesota Timberwolves received a second-round draft pick from the Miami Heat in a trade involving Antoine Walker via the Boston Celtics in a trade involving Ricky Davis. N The Miami Heat acquired the rights to Mario Chalmers from the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for two future second-round picks and cash considerations. O On June 24,2009, Minnesota acquired the 5th pick, Etan Thomas, Darius Songaila and Oleksiy Pecherov from Washington in exchange for Randy Foye, Minnesota used the 5th pick to draft Ricky Rubio. P On October 24,2007, Minnesota acquired a 2009 first-round draft pick, Antoine Walker, Wayne Simien, Michael Doleac and cash considerations from Miami in exchange for Ricky Davis, Minnesota used the 18th pick to draft Ty Lawson. Minnesota used the 28th pick to draft Wayne Ellington, R s On June 26,2008, Minnesota acquired Philadelphias and Miamis 2009 second-round draft picks and cash considerations from Miami in exchange for the draft rights to Mario Chalmers. Previously, Miami acquired a 2009 second-round draft pick, the rights to Daequan Cook. Minnesota used the 45th and 47th pick to draft Nick Calathes, the Dallas Mavericks acquired the draft rights to 45th pick Nick Calathes from Minnesota in exchange for a 2010 second-round draft pick and cash considerations
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Kevin Garnett was drafted fifth overall by the Minnesota Timberwolves in 1995.
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Ray Allen was drafted fifth overall in 1996 but was later traded
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List of Minnesota Timberwolves head coaches
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The Minnesota Timberwolves are an American professional basketball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association, there have been 10 head coaches for the Timberwolves. The franchises first head coach was Bill Musselman, who coached for two complete seasons, Musselman, along with Kurt Rambis and Rick Adelman, are the only Timberwolves head coaches to have not been involved in a mid-season replacement. His 819 regular season games coached,427 regular season wins,392 regular season losses, saunders and Adelman are the only two who have been Timberwolves head coach for more than two complete seasons. Saunders returned to the Timberwolves in 2013 as President of Basketball Operations and part-owner, though none of the Timberwolves coaches have been elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach, Kevin McHale has been elected into the Hall of Fame as a player in 1999. McHale coached the Timberwolves in two stints, and was the Timberwolves Vice President of Basketball Operations from 1995 to 2009. Sidney Lowe is the person to have been both a player and a head coach for the Timberwolves. Note, Statistics are correct through the start of the 2015–16 season, a A running total of the number of coaches of the Timberwolves. Thus, any coach who has two or more terms as head coach is only counted once. B12 Each year is linked to an article about that particular NBA season
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On October 25, 2015, Saunders died at age 60. Mitchell is expected to become the official head coach.
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Saunders was the head coach of the Timberwolves for 10 seasons, and is the only one to have led them to the playoffs.
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Kurt Rambis coached the team for two seasons.
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Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome
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The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome was a domed sports stadium located in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was also the home of the Minnesota Strikers of the North American Soccer League in 1984, on January 18,2014, the Metrodome roof was deflated, signaling the beginning of demolition work. The Vikings played at the University of Minnesotas TCF Bank Stadium for the 2014 and 2015 NFL seasons, the stadium had a fiberglass fabric roof that was self-supported by air pressure and was the third major sports facility to have this feature. The Metrodome was similar in design to the former RCA Dome, the Metrodome was reputedly the inspiration for the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan. The stadium was the facility to have hosted a Super Bowl, World Series, MLB All-Star Game. The Metrodome was the ninth-oldest stadium in the NFL, locally, the Metrodome had several nicknames such as The Dome, The Thunderdome, and The Homer Dome. The Metrodome was torn down in sections while construction of U. S, by the early 1970s, the Minnesota Vikings were unhappy with Metropolitan Stadiums relatively small capacity for football. Before the AFL-NFL merger, the NFL had declared that stadiums with a capacity smaller than 50,000 were not adequate for their needs. The biggest stadium in the area was the University of Minnesotas Memorial Stadium, supporters of a dome also believed that the Minnesota Twins would benefit from a climate-controlled stadium to insulate the team from harsh Minnesota weather later in the season. The Met would have likely needed to be replaced in any event, broken railings and seats could be seen in the upper deck by the early 1970s, and by its final season they had become a distinct safety hazard. Construction success of other domed stadiums, particularly the Pontiac Silverdome near Detroit, Downtown Minneapolis was beginning a revitalization program, and the return of professional sports from suburban Bloomington was seen as a major success story. A professional team hadnt been based in downtown Minneapolis since the Minneapolis Lakers left for Los Angeles in 1960, uncovering the Dome by Amy Klobuchar describes the 10-year effort to build the venue. The stadium was named in memory of former mayor of Minneapolis, U. S. Senator, vice President, Hubert Humphrey, who died in 1978. The Metrodome itself cost $68 million to build—significantly under budget—totaling around $124 million with infrastructure and it was a somewhat utilitarian facility, though not quite as spartan as Metropolitan Stadium. One stadium official once said all the Metrodome was designed to do was get fans in, let em see a game. The Metrodome is the venue to have hosted a MLB All-Star Game, a Super Bowl, an NCAA Final Four. The 1985 MLB All-Star Game, several games of the 1987 and the 1991 World Series, Super Bowl XXVI in 1992, the NCAA Final Four was held at the Metrodome in 1992 and 2001. The Metrodome also served as one of the four venues for the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship in 1986,1989,1996,2000,2003,2006
Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome
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An entrance to the Metrodome.
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Metrodome roof (1982–2010)
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Target Center
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Target Center is a multi-purpose arena located in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Target Center hosts major family shows, concerts, sporting events, graduations, Target Corporation is the original and current naming rights partner of the arena. Seating over 20,000 for a concert, it contains 702 club seats and 68 suites, the center is home to the NBAs Minnesota Timberwolves and the WNBAs Minnesota Lynx. The facility has hosted the LFLs Minnesota Valkyrie, the RHIs Minnesota Arctic Blast. Original Timberwolves owners Marv Wolfenson and Harvey Ratner built, owned and operated the arena for five years beginning in 1990, the venue was managed by Ogden Entertainment after the city of Minneapolis purchased the arena in 1995. Glen Taylor acquired the Timberwolves in 1994 and the Lynx in 1999, in 2000, SFX took over the contract. The management was changed in May 2004 from Clear Channel to Midwest Entertainment Group, on May 2,2007 AEG Facilities assumed the management contract of Target Center. The city of Minneapolis owns the arena and AEG Facilities manages day-to-day operations, Target Center was once one of three NBA arenas with parquet floors, including TD Garden in Boston, and Amway Arena in Orlando—the floor was replaced prior to the 2008 NBA season. Target Center is the first arena to have a green roof and it was unveiled on September 15,2009. In February 2011, the Timberwolves and the city of Minneapolis introduced a $155 million proposal to remodel the Target Center. Plans included shifting the entrance to the corner of 6th Street and First Avenue. The plan was approved in 2012 by the Minnesota Legislature, as part of the bill authorized a new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings. On April 3,2015, the Minneapolis City Council gave the approval for renovation plans for Target Center. The total cost will be $128.9 million, which upgrade the exterior, seats, technology and loading bays. The city will contribute $74 million, glen Taylor, owner of the Timberwolves and Lynx, will pay a total of $49 million, AEG will contribute $5.9 million. As a result, the Timberwolves lease will run until 2035, in 1999, Target Center hosted the Peoples Celebration inaugural event for Gov. Jesse Ventura. The event drew 14,000 people, and included performances by Jonny Lang, Warren Zevon, the Professional Bull Riders held a Built Ford Tough Series event at Target Center during the 2003 and 2006 seasons. It hosted the 1994 NBA All-Star Game, the 1995 NCAA Womens Final Four, the Target Center held the memorable UFC championship UFC87, Seek and Destroy in August 2008, which featured the Welterweight title match where Georges St-Pierre defeated Jon Fitch
Target Center
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The interior before a Timberwolves game
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The Target Center hosting a
Rage Against the Machine concert.
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Jack McCloskey
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John William Jack McCloskey is a retired American basketball player, coach and executive. He served in World War II as a lieutenant commanding a ship for Marines. He played one game for the Philadelphia Warriors of the NBA during the 1953 season and he served as head coach of the University of Pennsylvania from 1956 to 1966, and of Wake Forest from 1966 to 1972. Following that, he served as the coach of the Portland Trail Blazers from 1972 through 1974. He followed this stint as an assistant coach to Jerry West, when West became general manager, McCloskey felt he had earned the right to become head coach, but Jack McKinney was hired instead. In 1979, he became manager of the Detroit Pistons. After the Chicago Bulls swept an injury-riddled Piston team in the 1991 Eastern Conference Finals and he acquired Darrell Walker, Brad Sellers, and Orlando Woolridge, and let go of Vinnie Johnson and James Edwards to try to make the team younger. He drafted Doug Overton in the round that year, who did not even play the following season. The Pistons struggled with their chemistry, as key subs like John Salley did not improve their performance and they lost in five games to the New York Knicks in the first round, and McCloskey left the team. He later served in the front offices of the Minnesota Timberwolves, and the Toronto Raptors, on March 29,2008, McCloskey had his name honored in Detroit, with banner raised at The Palace of Auburn Hills. Now retired, he resides in Georgia. His daughter is the writer Molly McCloskey, whose memoir Circles Around the Sun, In Search of a Lost Brother recounts the story of the McCloskey family with particular focus on Mollys brother, Basketball-Reference. com, Jack McCloskey Basketball-Reference. com, Jack McCloskey
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CL and John "Jack" McCloskey. (3/25/13)
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Glen Taylor
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Glen A. Taylor was born in Springfield, Minnesota, and grew up on a farm in Comfrey, Minnesota. He graduated from Comfrey High School in 1959, and received a bachelor of science in mathematics, physics and social studies from Minnesota State University, Mankato, in 1978 he received an executive MBA from Harvard Business School. During and after college, he worked at Carlson Wedding Service, in 1975, company owner Bill Carlson wanted to retire, and Taylor offered to pay $2 million over the course of 10 years for the company. The purchase formed the basis for the Taylor Corporation, a privately held multinational printing and electronics company with more than 15,000 employees and based in North Mankato, Taylor continues to serve as chairman and CEO. Taylor was a Republican Minnesota State Senator from 1981 to 1990, serving as assistant minority leader from 1983 to 1985, in 2014, he purchased the Star Tribune for about $100 million. Taylor has been ranked No.149 on the Forbes 400, in 2015, his net worth was reported by Forbes to be $1.86 billion. Taylor purchased majority ownership of the Minnesota Timberwolves NBA basketball team in 1994, Taylor was in talks to buy the Minnesota Twins but nothing came of it. In 2000, he was banned for nearly a year for signing Joe Smith to a contract in violation of the leagues salary cap rules. Before Donald Sterling, Glen Taylor was the only NBA owner to be suspended for more than a couple of games, in 2005, he was rumored to be a possible buyer for the Minnesota Vikings, but was outbid by Zygi Wilf. He is currently the chairman of the board of governors for the NBA, biography on the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities website Listing on 2007 Forbes 400
Glen Taylor
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Novak
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Tom Thibodeau
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Thomas Joseph Thibodeau Jr. is an American basketball coach who is currently the head coach and president of basketball operations of the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association. Since June 2013, he has served as an assistant coach for the USA Basketball Mens National Team, in 2011 he was named the NBA Coach of the Year after leading the Bulls to a 62-win season. In 2012, he became the fastest coach in NBA history to earn 100 victories, Thibodeau played basketball at Salem State College, serving as captain during the 1980-81 season. During his time with the Vikings, the six-foot-two-inch Thibodeau helped Salem State to consecutive Division III national tournaments, in 1980, Thibodeau helped Salem State to the league championship and the schools first NCAA Tournament bid. Upon graduating, he became an assistant coach at the school in 1981, in 1984, at the age of 25, he became head coach at Salem State after serving three years as an assistant. One season later he became an assistant coach at Harvard University, in 1987, Thibodeau befriended Bill Musselman, a former head coach in the NBA, ABA and NCAA who was coaching the Albany Patroons of the Continental Basketball Association. According to the New York Times, the Patroons’ practices, the attention to detail, the efficiency, the sheer number of offensive sets, fed into Thibodeau’s addiction. After four years at Harvard, he entered the NBA in 1989 as an assistant coach with a team, the Minnesota Timberwolves. Prior to the 1991–92 season, he joined the Seattle SuperSonics as an advance scout, Thibodeau moved to the San Antonio Spurs the following season, where he worked as an assistant coach to Jerry Tarkanian, Rex Hughes and John Lucas for two seasons. After the 1993–94 season, he left the Spurs along with Lucas to become an assistant under Lucas with the Philadelphia 76ers, after the 1995–96 season, he again left simultaneously with Lucas, this time joining the New York Knicks as an assistant to head coach Jeff Van Gundy. During his tenure with the Knicks, he helped the set a then-NBA record by holding 33 consecutive opponents under 100 points in the 2000–01 season. As part of the Knicks coaching staff, he also helped Van Gundy to coach the Eastern Conference All-Stars in the 2000 All-Star Game. He spent seven years with the Knicks before joining the Houston Rockets prior to the 2003–04 season, where again he was an assistant to head coach Van Gundy, who has described Thibodeau as brilliant. On August 30,2007, Thibodeau was named head coach of the Boston Celtics. Eventually, he helped the Celtics become the best defensive team in the league with his expertise. On November 4,2007, Thibodeau took over coaching duties against the Toronto Raptors in place of Doc Rivers. However, he was not hired as the coach of either franchise. Thibodeau led the Celtics to the best rating in several categories in 2007–08
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Thibodeau as head coach of the Chicago Bulls
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Thibodeau (left) as part of the Houston Rockets coaching staff with then head coach Jeff Van Gundy
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Thibodeau (right) as part of the Boston Celtics coaching staff
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left to right:
Jim Boeheim,
Monty Williams, and Thibodeau served as assistant coaches for the
2014 United States FIBA World Cup team.
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Joe Somebody
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Joe Somebody is a 2001 American comedy-drama film written by John Scott Shepherd and directed by John Pasquin. The film stars Tim Allen as a commoner coaxed into violence by a workplace bully, the film also stars Julie Bowen, Kelly Lynch, Greg Germann, Hayden Panettiere, Patrick Warburton and Jim Belushi. Screenwriter John Scott Shepherd wrote the script based on his experiences working in advertising, though originally offered to Jim Carrey, the role of Joe Scheffer would eventually be taken by Allen. The film marked Allen and Pasquins third feature together, after 1994s The Santa Clause, the entire film was shot over a nearly eight-week span in Minnesota. The film was released in the U. S. on December 21,2001, produced on a $38 million budget, the film ended its theatrical run with $24.5 million worldwide, making it a financial failure. The film received one nomination, which went to young Panettieres performance as the title characters daughter. Joe Scheffer is a divorced single parent, and a talented audio/visual specialist at STARKe Pharmaceuticals. One day Joe pulls into the lot at work to find his co-worker Mark McKinney parking in a spot that has been reserved for those who have worked for the company for 10 years. However, McKinney has only worked there for 7 years, when Joe confronts McKinney about this, McKinney assaults him in front of his young daughter Natalie. Joe falls into a state of self-pity until Meg Harper, the Wellness Coordinator at STARKe, accidentally ignites a fuse in him when, in a fit of frustration, she asks Joe, What do you want. Joe is suddenly stirred to action by this question, and decides he wants a rematch to reclaim his dignity and self-respect, after issuing the challenge to McKinney, Joe begins to find himself becoming very popular around the office for his bravery. Meg and Natalie, however, do not feel fighting McKinney will solve anything, Joe seeks out the aid of an ex B movie star-turned-martial arts instructor named Chuck Scarett to teach him to defend himself. Things seem to finally be going right for Joe, as he has begun to see Meg and has even given a promotion at work he had been hoping for. Meg again tries to persuade Joe not to fight McKinney, and finally gives him an ultimatum, if he does not call off the fight with McKinney, the day of the fight, Joe makes it all the way to the school where the brawl is to take place. However, he realizes it would be immature to fight. When Joe tells McKinney and his other co-workers the fight is off, McKinney offers him an apology, Joe then goes and makes up with Meg for not understanding her reasoning before. Tim Allen as Joseph Joe Scheffer, Natalies father and the main protagonist. Julie Bowen as Meg Harper, the Wellness Coordinator at STARKe Pharmaceuticals, Kelly Lynch as Callie Scheffer, Joes ex-wife and Natalies mother
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Mayo Clinic Square is the name of a block in downtown Minneapolis bounded by Hennepin Avenue, 6th Street, 7th Street, and 1st Avenue North. It is part of the Downtown West neighborhood in Minneapolis and it is one block south of the Warehouse District/Hennepin Avenue light rail station on the METRO Blue and Green lines. The block has had a history of different uses, from movie theaters and bars to retail. Currently it is home to practice facilities and front offices of both the Minnesota Timberwolves of the NBA and Minnesota Lynx of the WNBA. Mayo Clinic Square is connected to Target Center via the Minneapolis Skyway System, the building also contains a Mayo Clinic sports medicine facility, which is open to the public, and the street level redevelopment has been spearheaded with the new restaurant City Works. In its early days, Block E contained mansions and row houses, the mansions on Hennepin between 6th and 7th were gone at least by 1908 when the block acquired its row of small commercial buildings that remained largely unchanged into the 1980s. In the mid to late 19th century, the commercial and political hub of Minneapolis was Bridge Square, at the convergence of Hennepin, most of the early commercial activity in Minneapolis took place there. However, Bridge Square lost its status as the hub of Minneapolis by the turn of the 19th century, retail stores clustered on Nicollet Avenue for many blocks south of Washington Ave. The Shubert Theater was built in 1910 on 7th Street, the six-story Jewelers Exchange Building went up next to the Shubert at the intersection of 1st Avenue North and 7th Street in 1913. A notable venue, the 620 Club, operated at 620 Hennepin from the 1930s until 1971, renowned for its roasted turkey, the 620 Club billed itself as Where Turkey Is King and was owned by Ernie Fleigel and Max Winter. Block E was the center of the squalor, the 620 Club in 1971 gave way to Moby Dicks, and became known as one of the citys most seedy bars. Unsavory establishments, including bars, flophouses, and an adult movie theater settled in on Block E in the 1970s and 1980s. The opposite side of Hennepin deteriorated during this period as well, by the 1980s, the block was one of the choice places in Minneapolis for punks to hang out and it became a creative breeding ground for the local punk music scene. Block E was also known for its cheap rent, drawing such establishments as Rifle Sport Gallery, other establishments along Block E included The Rand Hotel, Bradys Pub, Northern Lights Music, and a McDonalds Town House restaurant franchised by McTeufel Inc. A three-second shot of the Shubert/Alvin/Academy and World Theaters can be seen in 1984s Purple Rain, the Shubert is the only surviving structure from Block E, having been moved in 1999 to a new location a block north on Hennepin Avenue. It is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest structure ever moved on rubber-wheeled dollies, by 1987, the city council voted to demolish the entire Hennepin side of the block, giving tenants a limited amount of time to relocate. Moby Dicks and Rifle Sport Gallery did not survive the move, the 7th Street Shinders moved to a former Burger King at 8th and Hennepin, and the 6th Street Shinders moved to the 900 block of Nicollet Avenue. Citizens who had enjoyed Block E also had a celebration, called The True Tribute and Farewell to Block E, the celebration was held at First Avenue and showcased photographs, films, and salvaged signage of the block
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Block E in 2007
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Looking SW on Hennepin, toward 7th St. in 1973
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