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2013 McDonald's All-American Boys Game
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The 2013 McDonalds All-American Boys Game is an All-star basketball game that was played on April 3,2013 at the United Center in Chicago, home of the Chicago Bulls. It is the 36th annual McDonalds All-American Game for high school boys, the games rosters featured the best and most highly recruited blue chip boys high school basketball players graduating in 2013. Chicago, which became the first city to host the game in years in 2012. The Kentucky Wildcats landed a number of 5 selections at the time of the original selection. The West team won the game by a 110–99 margin and Aaron Gordon was MVP, arizona also ended up with two commits after Gordon announced at the 2013 McDonalds All-American Boys Game media day. Later, Kansas had two selections as well, but Andrew Wiggins did not sign with Kansas until May 2013 to join Wayne Selden, Parker is a native of the host city. The game includes a pair of twins in the Harrison brothers, which had recently happened in 2009 and 2006. Nine of the top ten recruits, according to ESPN. coms Class of 2013 ESPN100 listing were selected, but Julius Randle, on March 6, Randle was added to the roster. He committed to Kentucky on March 20, on March 18, Parker earned the Morgan Wootten Male Player of the Year. The award recognizes the McDonalds All-American who demonstrates outstanding character, exhibits leadership and exemplifies the values of being a student-athlete in the classroom and he won the award over five other finalists, Aaron Gordon, Aaron Harrison, Andrew Harrison, Dakari Johnson and Andrew Wiggins. On April 1, Demetrius Jackson won the skills contest, Nigel Williams-Goss won the three-point shooting contest. Aaron Gordon posted 24 points and 8 rebounds to earn the MVP of the game, the West team was coached by, Head Coach Mike Flaherty of Mt. com box score
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Shooting guard
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The shooting guard, also known as the two or off guard, is one of the five positions in a regulation basketball game. A shooting guards main objective is to score points for his team, some teams ask their shooting guards to bring up the ball as well, these players are known colloquially as combo guards. A player who can switch between playing shooting guard and small forward is known as a swingman, notable swing men include Jimmy Butler, Tracy McGrady, Vince Carter, Joe Johnson, Andre Iguodala, Andrew Wiggins, Evan Turner and Tyreke Evans. In the NBA, shooting guards usually range from 64 to 67, the Basketball Handbook by Lee Rose describes a shooting guard as someone whose primary role is to score points. As the name suggests, most shooting guards are good long-range shooters, typically, shooting guards are taller than point guards. Height at the position varies, many bigger shooting guards also play small forward, Shooting guards should be good ball handlers and be able to pass reasonably well, though passing is not their main priority. Since good shooting guards may attract double-teams, they are frequently the teams back-up ball handlers to the point guard, Shooting guards must be able to score in various ways, especially late in a close game when defenses are tighter. They need to have a free throw percentage too, to be reliable in close games. Because of the level of offensive skills shooting guards need, they are often a teams primary scoring option. Good shooting guards can usually play point guard to a certain extent, Lee H. Rose ISBN 0-7360-4906-1 Media related to Shooting guards at Wikimedia Commons
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Walnut Creek, California
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Walnut Creek is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States, located 16 miles east of the city of Oakland in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. Its active downtown neighborhood features hundred-year-old buildings and extensive high-end retail establishments, restaurants, as of 2014, the citys total estimated population is 67,673. Diablo, and the Tactan at Danville and Walnut Creek, on San Ramon Creek, todays Walnut Creek is located amidst the earlier site of four Mexican land grants. One of these land grants – measuring 18,000 acres – belonged to Juana Sanchez de Pacheco, Ygnacio Sibrian, one of the grandsons, created the first roofed home in the valley in about 1850. The grant was called Rancho Arroyo de Las Nueces y Bolbones, named after the principal waterway, the Arroyo de las Nueces was named for the occurrence in the valley of the native species of walnut tree, the California Walnut. With the coming of American settlers following the Mexican-American War, a settlement called The Corners emerged, named because it was the place where roads from Pacheco. The site of this first American settlement is today at the intersection of Mt. Diablo Boulevard. The first town settler was William Slusher, who built a dwelling on the bank of Walnut Creek, in the year 1855, Milo Hough of Lafayette built the hotel named Walnut Creek House in the corners. A blacksmith shop and a store soon joined the hotel, two decades later, the community changed its name from The Corners to Walnut Creek. In December 1862 a United States Post Office was established, the downtown street patterns laid out in 1871–1872 by pioneer Homer Shuey on a portion of one of his familys large cattle ranches are still present today. Walnut Creek began to grow with the arrival of Southern Pacific Railroad service in 1891, on October 21,1914, the town and the surrounding area of 500 acres ), were incorporated as the 8th city in Contra Costa County. A branch line of the Southern Pacific railroad ran through Walnut Creek until the late 1970s, the East Bay Regional Park Districts Iron Horse Trail, used by walkers, runners and bikers, runs over what were portions of that branch line. The mainline of the Sacramento Northern Railway passed through Walnut Creek, today, the Pittsburg/Bay Point – SFO Line line of the Bay Area Rapid Transit serves Walnut Creek with a station adjacent to Highway 680. Walnut Creek is located at 37°54′23″N 122°03′54″W, portions lie in both the San Ramon Valley and the Ygnacio Valley below the western slopes of Mount Diablo. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 19.8 sq mi,0.06 percent of which is water. Walnut Creek owns more open space per capita than any community in the state of California. In 1974, Walnut Creek voters approved a $6.7 million bond measure that allowed the city to purchase 1,800 acres of undeveloped hillsides, ridge lines, and park sites. Walnut Creek owns parts of Lime Ridge Open Space, Shell Ridge Open Space, Acalanes Ridge Open Space, the East Bay Regional Park District operates Diablo Foothills Regional Park and Castle Rock Regional Recreation Area, both in Walnut Creek
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Salesian High School (Richmond, California)
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Salesian College Preparatory is a coeducational Roman Catholic college preparatory high school in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland, in Richmond, California, United States. The schools patron saint is Saint John Bosco, the Italian founder of the Salesian order, the schools motto is loyalty, excellence. The campus is situated on 21 acres, in the Richmond, California North & East neighborhood that straddles the city limits of San Pablo, for many years the schools mascot was the Chieftain. The imagery associated with the nickname was a Native American wearing a feather headdress, the mascot came under repeated scrutiny since at least 1995. The topic garnered media attention and it was reported that it was found to be racist, in 2006, the school changed the mascot to the Pride. Jahvid Best, Olympic athlete, former NFL running back Mike Dirnt, current bass player of Green Day Salesian College Preparatory
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Richmond, California
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Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The city was incorporated on August 7,1905, under the McLaughlin Administration, Richmond was the largest city in the United States served by a Green Party mayor. As of the 2010 U. S. Census, the population is at 103,710. The largest, Richmond, Virginia, is the namesake of the California city, the Ohlone Indians were the first inhabitants of the Richmond area, settling an estimated 5,000 years ago. The name Richmond appears to predate actual incorporation by more than fifty years, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad had its terminus at Richmond. The first post office opened in 1900, Richmond was founded and incorporated in 1905, carved out of Rancho San Pablo, from which the nearby town of San Pablo inherited its name. Until the enactment of prohibition in 1919, the city had the largest winery in the world, in the 1920s the Ku Klux Klan was active in the city. In 1930 the Ford Motor Company opened a plant called Richmond Assembly Plant which moved to Milpitas in the 1960s. The old Ford plant has been a National Historic Place since 1988, the city was a small town at that time, until the onset of World War II which brought on a rush of migrants and a boom in the industrial sector. Standard Oil set up here in 1901, including a what is now the Chevron Richmond Refinery and tank farm. There is a pier into San Francisco Bay south of Point Molate for oil tankers, the western terminus of the Santa Fe Railroad was established in Richmond with ferry connections at Ferry Point in the Brickyard Cove area of Point Richmond to San Francisco. Many of these lived in specially constructed houses scattered throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, including Richmond, Berkeley. A specially built rail line, the Shipyard Railway, transported workers to the shipyards, kaisers Richmond shipyards built 747 Victory and Liberty ships for the war effort, more than any other site in the U. S. The city broke many records and even built one Liberty ship in a five days. On average the yards could build a ship in thirty days, the medical system established for the shipyard workers at the Richmond Field Hospital eventually became todays Kaiser Permanente HMO. It remained in operation until 1993 when it was replaced by the modern Richmond Medical Center hospital, Point Richmond was originally the commercial hub of the city, but a new downtown arose in the center of the city. It was populated by many department stores such as Kress, J. C. Penney, Sears, Macys, during the war the population increased dramatically and peaked at around 120,000 by the end of the war. Once the war ended the workers were no longer needed
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California Golden Bears men's basketball
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The California Golden Bears basketball team is the college basketball team of the University of California, Berkeley. The program has seen throughout the years, culminating in a national championship in 1959 under coach Pete Newell. The current head coach is Cuonzo Martin, who began his tenure in 2014, the team plays its home games at Haas Pavilion, which was built on top of the old Harmon Gymnasium using money donated in part by the owners of Levi-Strauss. The arena was known as Mens Gymnasium and then later Harmon Gymnasium until the late 1990s when it went through renovations which displaced the team for two seasons. The Golden Bears first played basketball intercollegiately in 1907 and began conference play in 1915. The 1920s was the dominant decade for Cal basketball, as the Bears won 6 conference titles under coaches E. H. Wright, Cal was retroactively recognized as the pre-NCAA Tournament national champion for the 1926–27 season by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. Cal reached the pinnacle of the sport during the tenure of Pete Newell, the Golden Bears earned the conference title four out of his five years and in 1959, won the NCAA title. In Newells last year, Cal came close to another NCAA title, the fortunes of Cal mens basketball would never be the same after Newell. The next quarter-century would mostly be a one for the program, despite having players such as Butch Hays. From 1960 to 1985, the Bears tallied only two winning seasons in conference play, lou Campanelli served as head coach from 1986 -1993. The highlight of this era was a 75–67 victory over UCLA in 1986 that ended a 25-year,52 game losing streak to the Bruins. Campanelli in his first season took the Golden Bears to the 1986 National Invitation Tournament, in 1990, Campanelli led the Golden Bears to their first NCAA Tournament in 30 years. Cal also won the 1999 National Invitation Tournament, with a thrilling 61-60 victory over Clemson in the title game, in 2006, the Golden Bears reached their first Pacific Life Pac-10 Mens Basketball Tournament championship game. Despite Californias 71-52 loss to UCLA in the game, Powe was named Most Valuable Player for the tournament. From 1996–2008, under Ben Braun, Cal qualified for the NCAA tournament three times in the 2000s and six times overall. However, after finishing near the bottom of the Pac-10 for the second straight year, the former coach of rival Stanford, Mike Montgomery, succeeded Braun. In his first year the Bears finished tied for third in the Pac-10 and made it to the NCAA Tournament, in Montgomerys second season, the Bears won their first conference title in 50 years. They were able to one-up their previous season by winning their first round matchup against the Louisville Cardinals but fell to the national champions, Duke
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Boston Celtics
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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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Maine Red Claws
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The Maine Red Claws are a professional minor league basketball team based in Portland, Maine. The Red Claws compete in the NBA Development League, and are affiliated with the Boston Celtics, on February 25,2009, the NBADL awarded the city of Portland, Maine with an expansion franchise. The team began playing in the 2009–2010 season, the teams home court is the Portland Expo Building. The team is owned by Maine Basketball, LLC, which is chaired by William Ryan, the Red Claws made their first playoff appearance on April 6,2013 as the 8th seeded team and was swept by the Rio Grande Valley Vipers in the opening round. On July 21,2009 the Red Claws announced Austin Ainge as the first head coach of the team, radio station 96.3 WJJB-FM broadcast the games. This streak continued for the season and was cut short during the 2011-2012 season. On June 21,2012, the Red Claws announced that they had entered an affiliation with the Boston Celtics. The Red Claws made their first play-off appearance on April 11,2013, on July 16,2014, the Red Claws announced that Mike Taylor would not return for a third season as the teams head coach. He had a 45-55 record as coach over two seasons with the team, on August 15,2014 it was announced Canadian Scott Morrison would assume the reins, after 11 seasons as the head coach of Lakehead Universitys Lakehead Thunderwolves. Morrison spent the 2013-14 season as a D-League assistant, on April 2,2009, Red Claws was announced as the winning name after a name-the-team contest. Voters in the contest could choose from the Red Claws, Beacons, Crushers, Destroyers, Swarm, the name and logo give homage to the lobster fishing industry, a major economic engine of the New England area. The use of Red in the name also serves to pay tribute to longtime Boston Celtics coach Red Auerbach. Bill Walker – recalled by the Boston Celtics on December 23,2009, alexis Ajinça – recalled by the Charlotte Bobcats on February 2,2010
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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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University of California, Berkeley
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The University of California, Berkeley, is a public research university located in Berkeley, California. In 1960s, UC Berkeley was particularly noted for the Free Speech Movement as well as the Anti-Vietnam War Movement led by its students. S, Department of Energy, and is home to many world-renowned research institutes and organizations including Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and Space Sciences Laboratory. Faculty member J. R. Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, Lawrence Livermore Lab also discovered or co-discovered six chemical elements. The Academic Ranking of World Universities also ranks the University of California, Berkeley, third in the world overall, in 1866, the private College of California purchased the land comprising the current Berkeley campus. Ten faculty members and almost 40 students made up the new University of California when it opened in Oakland in 1869, billings was a trustee of the College of California and suggested that the college be named in honor of the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley. In 1870, Henry Durant, the founder of the College of California, with the completion of North and South Halls in 1873, the university relocated to its Berkeley location with 167 male and 22 female students and held its first classes. In 1905, the University Farm was established near Sacramento, ultimately becoming the University of California, by the 1920s, the number of campus buildings had grown substantially, and included twenty structures designed by architect John Galen Howard. Robert Gordon Sproul served as president from 1930 to 1958, by 1942, the American Council on Education ranked UC Berkeley second only to Harvard University in the number of distinguished departments. During World War II, following Glenn Seaborgs then-secret discovery of plutonium, UC Berkeley physics professor J. Robert Oppenheimer was named scientific head of the Manhattan Project in 1942. Along with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley is now a partner in managing two other labs, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, originally, military training was compulsory for male undergraduates, and Berkeley housed an armory for that purpose. In 1917, Berkeleys ROTC program was established, and its School of Military Aeronautics trained future pilots, including Jimmy Doolittle, both Robert McNamara and Frederick C. Weyand graduated from UC Berkeleys ROTC program, earning B. A. degrees in 1937 and 1938, in 1926, future fleet admiral Chester W. Nimitz established the first Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps unit at Berkeley. The Board of Regents ended compulsory military training at Berkeley in 1962, during the McCarthy era in 1949, the Board of Regents adopted an anti-communist loyalty oath. A number of faculty members objected and were dismissed, ten years passed before they were reinstated with back pay, in 1952, the University of California became an entity separate from the Berkeley campus. Each campus was given autonomy and its own Chancellor. Then-president Sproul assumed presidency of the entire University of California system, Berkeley gained a reputation for student activism in the 1960s with the Free Speech Movement of 1964 and opposition to the Vietnam War. In the highly publicized Peoples Park protest in 1969, students and the school conflicted over use of a plot of land, then governor of California Ronald Reagan called the Berkeley campus a haven for communist sympathizers, protesters, and sex deviants. Modern students at Berkeley are less active, with a greater percentage of moderates and conservatives
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College recruiting
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In college athletics in the United States, recruiting is a term used to describe for the process in which college coaches add prospective student athletes to their roster each off-season. This process typically culminates in a coach extending an athletic scholarship offer to a player who is about to graduate high school or a junior college. During this recruiting process, schools must comply with rules that uphold the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s underlying principles of fairness and these rules or bylaws define who may be involved in the recruiting process, when recruiting may occur and the conditions under which recruiting may be conducted. Recruiting rules seek, as much as possible, to control intrusions into the lives of prospective student-athletes, to be considered a “recruited prospective student-athlete”, athletes must be approached by a college coach or representative about participating in that college’s athletic program. NCAA guidelines specify how and when they can be contacted, letters, telephone calls, and in-person conversations are limited to certain frequency and dates during and after the students junior year. The NCAA also determines when the athletes can be contacted by dividing the year into four recruiting and non-recruiting periods,1, during a contact period, recruiters may make in-person, on- or off-campus contacts and evaluations. Coaches can also write and/or phone athletes during this period, during an evaluation period, they can only assess academic qualifications and playing abilities. Letters and phone calls are permitted, no in-person, off-campus recruiting contacts arent, during a quiet period, they may make in-person recruiting contacts only on the college campus. Off-campus, recruiters are limited to phone calls and letter-writing, during a dead period, they cannot make in-person recruiting contacts or evaluations on- or off-campus or permit official/unofficial visits. However, phone calls and letters are permitted, during the recruiting process, the prospective student-athlete goes on an official visit to the school that theyre being recruited by. An official visit is a prospective student-athlete’s visit to a college campus paid for by the college, NCAA recruiting bylaws limit the number of official visits a recruit may take to five. The NCAA has imposed stringent rules limiting the manner in which competing university-firms may bid for the newest crop of prospective student-athletes. Such rules limit the number of visits, which a student-athlete may make to a campus, the amount of his expenses that may be covered by the university-firm. During recruitment, a coach may ask a prospective player to sign a National Letter of Intent or NLI for short. The NLI is a program with regard to both institutions and student-athletes. No prospective student-athlete or parent is required to sign the NLI, by signing a NLI, a prospective student-athlete agrees to attend the designated college or university for one academic year. Student-athletes are assured of a scholarship for a minimum of one full academic year. By emphasizing a commitment to an institution, not particular coaches or teams
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Vallejo, California
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Vallejo is a waterfront port city in Solano County, California, located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 115,942 at the 2010 census and it is the tenth most populous city in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the largest in Solano County. Vallejo sits on the shore of San Pablo Bay,30 miles north of San Francisco. Vallejo is home to the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom theme park, the now-defunct Mare Island Naval Shipyard, the colleges and universities in Vallejo are California Maritime Academy, the Vallejo Center campus of Solano Community College, and Touro University California. Ferry service runs from a terminal on Mare Island Strait to San Francisco, Vallejo has twice served as the capital of the state of California, once in 1852 and again in 1853, both periods being brief. The State Capitol building burned to the ground in the 1880s, as there were no bridges at that time, the Mare Island Fire Department had to be ferried across the Napa River, arriving to find only the foundation remaining. This was the first recorded mutual aid response in the state of California, some of the first Europeans drawn to the Vallejo area were attracted by the sulfur springs, in the year 1902 the area was named Blue Rock Springs. It was also known as White Sulfur Springs and that was the name of the leading to it from town. Vallejo is best known for the Zodiac Killer and being the hometown of Bay Area rappers E-40, according to United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 49.5 square miles. Land area is 30.7 square miles, and 18.9 square miles is water, the Napa River flows until it changes into the Mare Island Strait in Vallejo which then flows into the San Pablo Bay. Vallejo is located on the edge of Solano County, California in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. Vallejo is accessible by Interstate 80 between San Francisco and Sacramento, and is the location for the half of the Carquinez Bridge. It is also accessible by Interstate 780 from neighboring Benicia to the east, Route 29 begins in the city near the Carquinez Bridge and travels north through the heart of the city and beyond into Napa County, entering neighboring American Canyon and eventually Napa. Several faults have been mapped in the vicinity of Vallejo, the San Andreas Fault and Hayward Faults are the most active faults, although the San Andreas is at some distance. Locally, the Sulphur Springs Valley Thrust Fault and Southampton Fault are found, no quaternary seismic activity along these minor faults has been observed with the possible exception of a slight offset revealed by trenching. The Sulphur Mountain and Green Valley faults have been associated with the Concord Fault to the south, the Concord Fault is considered active. Historically there have been local cinnabar mines in the Vallejo area, the Hastings Mine and St. Johns Mine contribute ongoing water contamination for mercury, furthermore, mine shaft development has depleted much of this areas spring water. Both Rindler Creek and Blue Rock Springs Creek have been affected, the city of Vallejo is located 24 miles northeast of San Francisco,20 miles north of Oakland,56 miles north of San Jose and 52 miles south of Sacramento
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ESPN
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ESPN is a U. S. -based global cable and satellite sports television channel owned by ESPN Inc. a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company and the Hearst Corporation. ESPN broadcasts primarily from studio facilities located in Bristol, Connecticut, the network also operates offices in Miami, New York City, Seattle, Charlotte, and Los Angeles. John Skipper currently serves as president of ESPN, a position he has held since January 1,2012, as of February 2015, ESPN is available to approximately 94,396,000 paid television households in the United States. In 2011, ESPNs history and rise was chronicled by These Guys Have All the Fun, Bill Rasmussen conceived the concept of ESPN in late May 1978, after he was fired from his job with the World Hockey Associations New England Whalers. One of the first steps in Bill and his son Scotts process was finding land to build the channels broadcasting facilities, the Rasmussens first rented office space in Plainville, Connecticut. However, the plan to base ESPN there was put on hold because a local ordinance prohibiting buildings from bearing rooftop satellite dishes and this helped the credibility of the fledgling company, however there were still many doubters to the viability of their sports channel concept. ESPN launched on September 7,1979, beginning with the first telecast of what would become the flagship program. Taped in front of a live audience inside the Bristol studios. ESPNs next big break came when the acquired the rights to broadcast coverage of the early rounds of the NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament. It first aired the NCAA tournament in March 1980, creating the modern day television event known as March Madness. The channels tournament coverage also launched the career of Dick Vitale. In April of that year, ESPN created another made-for-TV spectacle, the next major stepping stone for ESPN came over the course of a couple of months in 1984. During this time period, the American Broadcasting Company purchased 100% of ESPN from the Rasmussens, for years, the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball refused to consider cable as a means of broadcasting some of their games. However, with the backing of ABC, ESPNs ability to compete for major sports contracts greatly increased, later in 1984, the U. S. ESPNs Sunday Night Football games would become the highest-rated NFL telecasts for the next 17 years. In 1992, ESPN launched ESPN Radio, a sports talk radio network providing analysis. It became the fastest growing cable channel in the U. S. during the 1990s, ownership of ABC, and in effect control of ESPN, was acquired first by Capital Cities Communications in 1985, and then by The Walt Disney Company in 1996. In 2012, ESPN generated more revenue for Disney than any of its other properties combined, alongside its live sports broadcasts, ESPN also airs a variety of sports highlight, talk, and documentary-styled shows. 30 for 30 started airing in 2009 and continues airing to this day, each episode is through the eyes of a well known filmmaker and has featured some of the biggest directors in Hollywood
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Oregon Ducks men's basketball
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The Oregon Ducks mens basketball team is an intercollegiate basketball program that competes in the NCAA Division I and is a member of the Pac-12 Conference, representing the University of Oregon. The Ducks play their games at Matthew Knight Arena. Oregon, then coached by Howard Hobson, won the first NCAA mens basketball championship in 1939. The basketball team has appeared in the NCAA tournament 15 times and has won the championship six times. The University of Oregon mens basketball played its first season in 1902–03 with Charles Burden as the head coach. Only two games were played that season with Oregon losing both games, Oregon did not record a win until its fourth season in 1907 against Roseburg. The season ended with a record of 4–3, under Hugo Bezdek. Bezdek left after that season to coach at Arkansas until 1913 when he went back to Oregon to coach until 1917, during Bezdeks absence, the basketball team was coached largely by William Hayward, Oregons track coach. In 1923, William Reinhart took over as the head coach, Coach Reinhart suffered only one losing season at Oregon. Howard Hobson, an alumnus of the university, became the coach in 1935. His ideas were considered cutting edge during his years at Oregon and he ran a fast break offense little used by anyone else in the country at the time and his defenses were an unorthodox hybrid defense. He lobbied for the installment of a clock and three-point field goal years before they were first introduced. In 1939, the Oregon Ducks became the first team to win the NCAA Basketball Championship, sports editor L. H. Gregory coined the phrase Tall Firs to describe the Oregon players due to their taller stature compared to other teams in the country. The season started with a trip to the east coast for a series of games. The Ducks went 6–3 during that trip but gained experience for the remainder of the season. Oregon went 14–2 to claim the North Division title in the Pacific Coast Conference, the Ducks won two games straight to claim the conference title. The Ducks returned to San Francisco for the NCAA regional series where they defeated the Texas Longhorns in the first game 56–41 then the Oklahoma Sooners 55–37, the Ohio State Buckeyes had defeated Wake Forest and Villanova in their regional series to earn their right in the championship game. On March 27, Oregon and Ohio State squared off to claim the national title, Oregon emerged victorious to claim the first NCAA national championship trophy, defeating Ohio State 46–33
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Philadelphia 76ers
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The Philadelphia 76ers are an American professional basketball team based in Philadelphia metropolitan area. The 76ers compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the leagues Eastern Conference Atlantic Division. Founded in 1946 and originally known as the Syracuse Nationals, they are one of the oldest franchises in the NBA and they have won three NBA championships, with their first coming as the Syracuse Nationals in 1955. The second title came in the 1966–67 season, a team which was led by Chamberlain, the third title came in the 1982–83 season, won by a team led by Erving and Malone. The 76ers have only been back to the NBA Finals once since then, in 2001, while in the NBL with teams largely consisting of small Midwestern towns, the Nationals put together a 21–23 record, finishing in 4th place. In the playoffs, the Nats would be beaten by the fellow upstate neighbor Rochester Royals in 4 games, in their second season, 1947–48, the Nationals would struggle, finishing in 5th place with a 24–36 record. Despite their struggles, the Nats would make the playoffs, getting swept by the Anderson Duffey Packers in 3 straight games, several teams began to leave the NBL for the BAA as the foundation for an absorption was laid. The Nationals recipe for success began by recruiting Leo Ferris, in the playoffs the Nationals would make quick work of the Hammond Calumet Buccaneers, winning the series in 2 straight games. However, in the semifinals the Nats would fall to the Anderson Duffey Packers for the second season in 4 games. In 1949, the Nationals were one of seven NBL teams that were absorbed by the Basketball Association of America to form the NBA, the Nationals were an instant success in the NBA, winning the Eastern Division in the 1949–1950 season, with a league best record of 51–13. In the playoffs the Nationals continued to play basketball, beating the Philadelphia Warriors in 2 straight. Moving on to the Eastern Finals, the Nationals battled the New York Knickerbockers, in the NBA Finals, the Nationals faced fellow NBL alums the Minneapolis Lakers. In Game 1 of the Finals the Nats lost just their home game of the season 68–66. The Nats did not recover, as they fell behind 3 games to 1 before falling in 6 games, despite several teams leaving the NBA for the National Professional Basketball League before the 1950–1951 season, the Nationals decided to stay put. In their second NBA season the Nationals played mediocre basketball all season, however, in the playoffs the Nats played their best basketball of the season as they stunned the 1st place Philadelphia Warriors in 2 straight, taking Game 1 on the road in overtime 91–89. In the Eastern Finals the Nationals were beaten by the New York Knickerbockers in a hard-fought 5-game series, in the playoffs the Nats knocked off the Philadelphia Warriors again in a 3-game series. However, in the Eastern Finals the Nats fell to the New York Knickerbockers again, the Nationals would finish in 2nd place in a hard fought 3-way battle for first place in the Eastern Division for the 1952–1953 season, with a record of 47–24. In the playoffs the Nationals would face the Boston Celtics dropping Game 1 at home 87–81, the Nationals acquired Alex Groza, and Ralph Beard as the Indianapolis Olympians folded leaving the NBA with just 9 teams for the 1953–1954 season
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NBA.com
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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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Jaylen Brown
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Jaylen Brown is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the California Golden Bears, as a freshman, he earned first-team all-conference honors in the Pac-12 and was named the conferences Freshman of the Year. After the season, he decided to forgo his college eligibility. Brown attended Joseph Wheeler High School in Marietta, Georgia, as a senior, he helped lead his team to a victory in the Georgia High School Association AAAAAA state championship. With 0.6 seconds remaining, Brown hit two free throws to give Wheeler a 59–58 victory. Brown was rated as a recruit and was ranked by Scout. com, ESPN, and 247Sports. com as the fourth best recruit in his class behind Ben Simmons, Skal Labissière. Rivals. com ranked him third in his class, Brown won a 2014 FIBA Americas Championship gold medal as part of the 2014 USA Basketball Mens U18 National Team while playing alongside future NBA players Stanley Johnson and Justise Winslow. Brown was also selected to play in the 2015 McDonalds All-American Boys Game, on May 1,2015, Brown committed to play for the Golden Bears at the University of California, Berkeley, under coach Cuonzo Martin and alongside fellow top-recruit Ivan Rabb. He is listed as a forward and is heralded as an all-round prospect due to his athleticism. During his time at California, he attended a masters degree class as a freshman for the Cultural Studies of Sport in Education. In addition to that, Brown also learned how to speak Spanish relatively well in his time in California, with him planning on learning three more languages by the age of 25. While playing for California, provided 14.6 points,5.4 rebounds and he had his best scoring games on November 27,2015, against Richmond and January 27,2016, against Utah by recording 27 points in each game. He recorded a season-high 11 rebounds twice during victories on November 23,2015, against Sam Houston State and on January 1,2016, on January 23,2016, Brown recorded a season-high 7 assists to go with 15 points in a 74–73 victory over Arizona. However, Brown also earned first-team All-Pac-12 honors and be the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year for the production he gave to the Golden Bears all year long. On June 23,2016, Brown was selected by the Boston Celtics with the third pick in the 2016 NBA draft. On July 27,2016, he signed his rookie contract with the Celtics after averaging 16.0 points,6.2 rebounds and 2.3 steals in six Summer League games. He made his debut for the Celtics in their opener on October 26,2016 against the Brooklyn Nets. In 19 minutes off the bench, he scored nine points on 3-of-4 shooting in a 122–117 win, in his first career start on November 3,2016, Brown scored 19 points in a 128–122 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers
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Shane Larkin
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DeShane Shane Davis Larkin is an American professional basketball player for Baskonia of the Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the University of Miami and he was selected by the Atlanta Hawks with the 18th overall pick in the 2013 NBA draft, where he was immediately traded to the Dallas Mavericks. Larkin is the son of Baseball Hall of Famer Barry Larkin, Larkin was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 2,1992 to parents Barry and Lisa Larkin. His father Barry is a Hall of Fame shortstop for the Cincinnati Reds, other athletes in Larkins family include his uncles, former Xavier University standout basketball player Byron Larkin, and former Major League first baseman Stephen Larkin. When Larkin was in school, his fathers Reds teammates Tony Pérez. After being told this training was all wrong by a Little League coach, Larkin quit baseball, Larkin played basketball for Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando, Florida. During his senior year he averaged 18.8 points,6.4 rebounds,6.3 assists and he was a two-time all-state selection and ended his high school career with 320 career steals, a school record. Larkin was ranked as one of the top 30 point guards by Scout. com, after receiving offers from a number of schools, Larkin committed to DePaul University. He ended up requesting a transfer before the start of his freshman year due to a medical condition. During the first half of the season, Larkin quickly became the first man off the bench, by the end of January, he had become the Hurricanes starting point guard, he led the team in steals and was second on the team in assists. Larkin was selected to the All-ACC Freshman team at the conclusion of the season, finishing the year averaging 7.4 points,2.5 assists,2.5 rebounds, and 1.6 steals. The 2012–2013 Miami Hurricanes basketball team was arguably the best team in university history, achieving the schools first ever regular season, Larkin was an important player in the teams success, playing some of his best games in many of the most crucial matchups of the season. Against then #1 ranked Duke University, Larkin had 18 points,10 rebounds, Larkin led the Hurricanes to the Sweet 16 in the 2013 NCAA tournament. He was also selected the ACC Player of the Year by the ACC coaches, virginia Techs Erick Green was the ACC medias winner. On June 27,2013, Larkin was selected by the Atlanta Hawks with the 18th overall pick in the 2013 NBA draft and his draft rights were then traded to the Dallas Mavericks later that night. During a Summer League practice, he broke his ankle and was ruled out for three months, despite the injury, he signed his rookie scale contract with the Mavericks on July 29. On November 18,2013, Larkin made his NBA debut, recording 3 points,3 assists, on January 17,2014, he scored a career-high 18 points in a 110–107 win over the Phoenix Suns. On April 23, he made his NBA postseason debut against the San Antonio Spurs in Game 2 of the Western Conference First Round, during his rookie season, he had multiple assignments with the Texas Legends of the NBA Development League
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Kyrie Irving
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Kyrie Andrew Irving is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association. Irving was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, but grew up in West Orange and he played college basketball for Duke University before being selected with the first overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft by the Cavaliers. Irving has achieved a number of accolades, including the 2011–12 NBA Rookie of the Year,2014 NBA All-Star Game MVP, and an NBA championship in 2016. He has also played for the United States national team, with whom he has won gold at the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup, Irving was born on March 23,1992 in Melbourne, Australia to American parents. He is the son of Drederick and Elizabeth Irving, and the stepson of Shetellia Irving and he has an older sister, Asia, and a younger sister, London. His father, Drederick, played basketball at Boston University alongside Shawn Teague. After completing his career, Irvings father moved to Australia to play professionally for the Bulleen Boomers. Irving lived in the Melbourne suburb of Kew before relocating to the United States when he was two years old and he has dual citizenship in the United States and Australia. Irvings mother, Elizabeth, died from an illness when he was four, Irving grew up in West Orange, New Jersey, where he often went to his fathers adult-league games. His inspiration to play in the NBA came after playing at Continental Airlines Arena during a trip in fourth grade where he stated I will play in the NBA. As a teenager, Irving played for the Road Runners of the Amateur Athletic Union, Irving played for Montclair Kimberley Academy his freshman and sophomore years in high school. He averaged 26.5 points,10.3 assists,4.8 rebounds and 3.6 steals, in his sophomore year, he led MKA to its first New Jersey Prep B state title. After that year, he transferred to St. Patrick High School because he felt he needed a bigger challenge and he had to sit out the first 30 days of St. Patricks season due to the transfer. While at St. Patrick, Irving played with Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, in his first season at St. Patrick, Irving averaged 17.0 ppg.5.0 rpg.6.0 apg. and 2.0 spg. He also led his team to their third New Jersey Tournament of Champions title in four years, in August 2009, he played in the Nike Global Challenge in which he led the USA East to the tournament title. He was the MVP with 21.3 ppg. and 4.3 apg, the following year, St. Patrick was banned from the state tournament for holding practice prior to the permitted start of the winter sports season. Despite being banned from the tournament, St. Patrick went 24-3. Kyrie finished his year with 24.0 ppg,5.0 rpg. and 7.0 apg
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Terry Rozier
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Terry Demar Rozier is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association. The point guard played basketball for the Louisville Cardinals. He was selected with the 16th overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft by Boston Celtics, Rozier starred at Shaker Heights High School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, graduating in 2012. In his senior year, he averaged 25.6 points,6.5 rebounds,4.5 assists and 4.7 steals, leading Shaker to a 21-3 record and taking them to the regional semifinal in 2012 for the first time since 2002. He was an All-Lake Erie League player for three years and was rated 74th overall in the 2012 ESPNU Top 100 players, due to grades, Rozier played for Hargrave Military Academy for a year before becoming a Cardinal. At Hargrave, Rozier averaged 29.3 points,7.8 rebounds and 5.6 assists, Hargrave went 38-8 during the 2012–13 season earning the Derby Classic MVP in 2012. As a freshman at Louisville in 2013–14, Rozier averaged 7.0 points and 3.1 rebounds in 37 games, as a sophomore in 2014–15, Rozier led the Cardinals in scoring with 17.1 points per game. On March 30,2015, Rozier and Louisville teammate Montrezl Harrell declared for the 2015 NBA Draft, on June 25,2015, Rozier was selected by the Boston Celtics with the 16th overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft. On July 27,2015, he signed his rookie contract with the Celtics. Entering his rookie season, he drew comparisons to Damian Lillard, during his rookie season, he received multiple assignments to the Maine Red Claws, Bostons D-League affiliate. He appeared in 39 regular season games for the Celtics in 2015–16, in his first playoff game, he scored 10 points on 4-of-7 shooting against the Atlanta Hawks. On November 12,2016, Rozier scored a career-high 11 points in a 105–99 win over the Indiana Pacers and he topped that mark on November 21, scoring 12 points in a 99–93 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves. On December 7, he had a 16-point game in a 117–87 win over the Orlando Magic, on March 19,2017, he recorded his first double double,14 points and 10 rebounds in a 105-99 loss against the Sixers. Career statistics and player information from NBA. com, or Basketball-Reference. com Louisville bio
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Marcus Morris (basketball)
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Marcus David Morris is an American professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association. The 69 forward played college basketball at Kansas before being drafted 14th overall by the Houston Rockets in the 2011 NBA draft, Morris was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Thomasine Angel Morris. He has four brothers, Donte, Blake, David and twin Markieff, considered a four-star recruit by Rivals. com, Morris was listed as the No.10 power forward and the No.29 player in the nation in 2008. Morris enrolled at the University of Kansas where he majored in American studies and he was named the 2010–11 Big 12 Conference Mens Basketball Player of the Year. On March 30,2011, Morris was named to the ten member John R. Wooden Award Men’s All American team, Morris and his brother signed with a sports agent from Los Angeles, and announced that they would enter the 2011 NBA draft. Morris was selected by the Houston Rockets with the 14th overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft and he was assigned to the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA Development League on January 2,2012. In his first game in the D-League on January 6,2012, Morris returned to the Rockets on January 16, was reassigned to the Rio Grande Valley Vipers on February 3, and returned to the Rockets again on February 20. After an injury to Patrick Patterson, Rockets head coach Kevin McHale named Morris the opening day starter at forward for the 2012–13 season. When told he would be starting, Morris thought that McHale was kidding, during the course of the season, Morris was the backup power forward to Patterson, and started 17 games while Patterson was injured. His three-point shot was much improved from his season, more than tripling the percentage from 12% to 38%. On February 21,2013, Morris was traded to the Phoenix Suns and this marked the second time that twin brothers played for the same NBA team, Dick and Tom Van Arsdale played together with the Suns as well during the 1976–77 season. On March 1,2013, Morris scored 16 points to help the Suns defeat the Atlanta Hawks 92–87 and he made four out of five three-point field goal attempts. He went on to start alongside Markieff on March 10,2013 against his team, the Rockets. On September 29,2014, Morris signed a contract extension with the Suns. In the Suns 2014–15 season opener on October 29,2014, during the Suns January 7 game against the Minnesota Timberwolves, Morris received a technical foul and was caught on national TV berating head coach Jeff Hornacek about the situation. It resulted in Morris not playing for the rest of the game and his other antics during his final season with the Suns and afterwards, though, led to AZCentral. com labeling him one of Arizonas biggest sports villains. On February 6,2015, Morris recorded his first career double-double with career-highs of 34 points and 12 rebounds in a 100–93 win over the Utah Jazz. His double-double off the bench marked him as just the player after Brook Lopez in 2014–15 to record a 30-point
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Gordon Hayward
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Gordon Daniel Hayward is an American professional basketball player for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball at Butler University for two seasons where he led his team to a finish in the 2010 NCAA Tournament his sophomore season. He was selected by the Utah Jazz with the ninth pick in the 2010 NBA draft. Hayward attended Brownsburg High School in Brownsburg, Indiana, in his senior year, Hayward was named first team All-State and led Brownsburg to the Indiana Class 4A state championship. In the 4A state title game, Hayward hit the game-winning layup at the buzzer to defeat Marion High School 40–39, Hayward averaged 18.0 points,8.4 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game as a senior. His father, Gordon Scott Hayward, is 510, as is his mother Jody, believing that their son was destined to be average sized, his father, according to Forde, continually pushed his son to develop a guards skill set. Although Gordons first love was basketball, he would recall, I looked at the future. In fact, as a 511 freshman, he considered quitting basketball entirely to focus on tennis, his mother persuaded him to stay with the sport one more year. The twins plans changed when the younger Gordon underwent a growth spurt. He shot up to 64 as a sophomore and two years after he almost abandoned basketball, he had grown to 67, he reached 68 as a senior and he would soon have profiles on recruiting websites in both tennis and basketball. Gordon ultimately received three scholarship offers—one from nearby IUPUI, another from Purdue, and one from Butler and he ultimately chose Butler because the Bulldogs 6,30 am practices would not interfere with his planned major of computer engineering and because Heather would be able to play tennis there. He had a 26–3 record in singles that year, but lost in the state tournament, Hayward unexpectedly made an instant impact in his freshman year. Butler had lost four starters from a 30-win season and were picked fifth in the Horizon League, however, the Bulldogs went 26–5 and won the Horizon League. Hayward averaged 13.1 points and 6.5 rebounds per game and was named Horizon Newcomer of the Year, in the offseason, Hayward was selected to Team USA for the 2009 FIBA Under-19 World Championship in Auckland, New Zealand. Playing for Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon, Hayward was a star for the Championship squad. At the conclusion of the tournament, Hayward was named to the All-Star Five of the event and he was also named preseason All-Horizon League. At the end of the season, he was named the Horizon League Player of the Year. Hayward was also named a third-team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American, in the NCAA Tournament, Hayward was named the MVP of the West Region as he led Butler to the National Championship game
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Daniel Theis
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Daniel Theis is a German professional basketball player who currently plays for Brose Bamberg and the German national team. In the 2013–14 season, while with Ulm, Theis won the BBL Best Young Player award, following his breakout season Theis signed with Brose Baskets Bamberg. In the 2014 offseason, he played in the NBA Summer League for the Washington Wizards, in the 2014–15 season, Theis won his first BBL championship with Brose Baskets. Brose beat FC Bayern Munich 3–2 in the Finals, on July 27,2014, Theis made his first appearance in the German national basketball team in a game against Finland
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Marcus Smart
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Marcus Osmond Smart is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for Oklahoma State University before being drafted with the sixth pick in the 2014 NBA draft. Smart is the son of Camellia Smart and Billy Frank Smart and he has three older brothers, Todd Westbrook, Jeff Westbrook, and Michael Smart. He attended Edward S. Marcus High School in Flower Mound, Texas, along one of his former Oklahoma State teammates. During his senior year, Smart averaged 15.1 points,9.2 rebounds and 5 assists, in his high school career, he achieved a record of 115–6 through three seasons and was a two-time 5A state champion. He was also named a McDonalds All-American and was an ESPNHS first team All-American, Smart played competitive football until the sixth grade and enjoys playing tennis in his spare time. Considered a five-star recruit by ESPN. com, Smart was listed as the No.1 shooting guard, during his freshman year at Oklahoma State, Smart led the Cowboys to a 24–8 record and finished third place in the Big 12 behind Kansas and Kansas State. Smart averaged 15.4 points,5.8 rebounds, and 4.2 assists per game and led the Big 12 in steals, Smart and the Cowboys earned a trip to the NCAA bracket that year, clinching a #5 seed in the Midwest Region. During the first round of the tournament though, the Cowboys were eliminated by the #12 seed Oregon. On April 17,2013, Smart held a conference in the student union at OSU and announced that he would not declare for the NBA draft and instead. On November 19,2013, Smart tied an OSU single game scoring record with 39 points leading his #7 Oklahoma State Cowboys past #11 Memphis. On February 8,2014, during a game at Texas Tech, Smart shoved a fan in the stands after an altercation in the closing minutes of the game. Reports after the game stated that Smart claimed the fan yelled a racial slur at him, at a press conference the following afternoon, Smart would not comment on that element of the altercation, and coach Travis Ford chose not to address it. Smart was subsequently suspended for three games and the fan agreed not to any further Texas Tech games during the 2013–14 season. Five days later, Smart was named one of the 30 finalists for the Naismith College Player of the Year, in the first game of the 2014 NCAA tournament, the Cowboys lost to Gonzaga. He finished with 23 points,13 rebounds,7 assists and 6 steals, on April 7,2014, Smart declared for the NBA draft, forgoing his final two years of college eligibility. On June 26,2014, Smart was selected with the sixth pick in the 2014 NBA draft by the Boston Celtics. He joined the Celtics for the 2014 NBA Summer League, in just his fifth NBA game, Smart sprained his left ankle in the Celtics 101–98 win over the Indiana Pacers on November 7
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Al Horford
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Alfred Joel Al Horford Reynoso is a Dominican professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the University of Florida, and was the center on the Florida Gators teams that won back-to-back NCAA national championships in 2006 and 2007. He was drafted with the third pick in the 2007 NBA draft by the Atlanta Hawks. He also represents the Dominican Republic national team, Horford was born in the city of Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic. His father, Tito Horford, played three years in the NBA and several more overseas, Horford grew up watching his father play and fell in love with the game. His favorite players as a child were Grant Hill, Tim Duncan, in the summer of 2000, Horford and his family moved to Lansing, Michigan, where he attended Grand Ledge High School in Grand Ledge, Michigan, and was a star on its basketball team. Horford holds seven records, including most career points. As a senior, he was named Class A Player of the Year after averaging 21 points,13 rebounds, while at Grand Ledge, Horford played AAU basketball for the Michigan Mustangs, who were runners-up in the Adidas Big Time National Tournament. Considered a four-star recruit by Rivals. com, Horford was listed as the No.7 power forward, Horford accepted an athletic scholarship to attend Florida, where he played for coach Billy Donovan and teamed up alongside Joakim Noah, Corey Brewer and Taurean Green. He made an impact as a Gator in 2004–05, starting at center in the front-court with David Lee. The Gators surged through the 2005–06 season, winning the SEC championship for a second straight year and they entered the 2006 NCAA Tournament as the No.3 seed. The Gators swept through the first four rounds to reach the Final Four, there the Gators defeated George Mason to reach the final. In the final, they defeated UCLA for the 2006 championship behind Horfords 14 points, in December 2006, midway through his junior year, Horford missed a series of games due to injury. Coach Donovan held him out of a game against Stetson in hopes that he would be healed for a December 23 showdown in Gainesville against the third-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes. One day before the game, Donovan announced that Horford would be unable to play, however, Horford entered the game from the bench to guard Ohio State player Greg Oden, a highly touted 70 freshman. Oden scored just seven points, well below his average of 15. Horford scored eleven points and added eleven rebounds in limited action, in the final home game of the season, on March 4,2007 against Kentucky, Horford became the fourth player on his team to score 1,000 career points. He required 14 points during the game to reach the milestone, on April 2,2007, the Gators became the first team to repeat as national champions since the 1991–92 Duke Blue Devils, and the first ever to do so with the same starting lineup
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Aron Baynes
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Aron John Baynes is an Australian professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association. He attended the Australian Institute of Sport in 2005 and played basketball for Washington State University. His older brother, Callum, also played professional basketball, on 29 May 2009, Baynes signed a two-year deal with Lietuvos Rytas of the Lithuanian Basketball League. In July 2009, he played for the Los Angeles Lakers Summer League team, following the 2009–10 season, he parted ways with Lietuvos Rytas. On 15 July 2010, Baynes signed a deal with EWE Baskets Oldenburg of the German Basketball Bundesliga. In 40 games for Oldenburg in 2010–11, he averaged 6.8 points and 3.7 rebounds per game, on 29 June 2011, he parted ways with Oldenburg. On 24 August 2011, Baynes signed a deal with Ikaros Kallitheas of the Greek Basket League. On 1 August 2012, Baynes signed a deal with Union Olimpija of the Slovenian Basketball League. On 5 January 2013, he played his game for Olimpija. On 23 January 2013, Baynes signed with the San Antonio Spurs, in his second NBA game, Baynes recorded seven points, nine rebounds and one block in a 102–78 win over the Charlotte Bobcats. During the 2012–13 season, he was assigned multiple times to the Austin Toros of the NBA Development League and he made his first NBA start in Game 4 of the Spurs first-round playoff match-up against the Los Angeles Lakers, and was tasked with defending Dwight Howard. The Spurs went on to reach the 2013 NBA Finals, on 1 December 2013, Baynes was reassigned to the Austin Toros. He was recalled on 2 December, reassigned on 8 December, on 6 May 2014, he recorded playoff career-high numbers of 10 points and seven rebounds in a 116–92 win over the Portland Trail Blazers in Game 1 of the Western Conference semi-finals. Baynes went on to help the Spurs defeat the Miami Heat 4–1 in the 2014 NBA Finals to claim his first NBA championship, on 26 September 2014, Baynes re-signed with the Spurs. On 20 December 2014, he scored a then career-high 16 points while starting in place of Tim Duncan in a 99–93 loss to the Dallas Mavericks, on 1 April 2015 and 3 April 2015, Baynes had back-to-back 18-point games. On 12 July 2015, Baynes signed with the Detroit Pistons, on 19 March 2016, he scored a career-high 21 points in a 115–103 win over the Brooklyn Nets. On 14 November 2016, Baynes scored 20 points against the Oklahoma City Thunder while starting in place of Andre Drummond, the Boomers Rio campaign saw them reach the bronze medal match, where they lost to Spain. Note, The EuroLeague is not the only competition in which the player participated for the team during the season and he also played in domestic competition, and regional competition if applicable
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Brad Stevens
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Bradley Kent Brad Stevens is an American professional basketball head coach for the Boston Celtics of the NBA. He was previously the coach at Butler University in Indianapolis. A former basketball player, he grew up in Zionsville, Indiana, after high school, he attended DePauw University, where he played basketball and earned a degree in economics. He made the team multiple times and was a three-time Academic All-America nominee. Stevens joined the Butler basketball program as a prior to the 2000–01 season after quitting his job at Eli Lilly. He was promoted to an assistant coaching position for the 2001–02 season. On April 4,2007, he became the coach after Todd Lickliter left to coach the Iowa Hawkeyes. In his first year, Stevens led Butler to 30 wins, in 2010, his third year as head coach, Stevens broke the NCAA record for most wins in a coachs first three years, exceeding the previous record by eight wins. In the NCAA Tournament, Stevens coached Butler to the first Final Four in school history, at 33 years old, Stevens became the second-youngest head coach to make a NCAA National Championship game, losing 61–59 to Duke. Shortly after the season ended, he signed an extension with Butler through the 2011–12 season. With the 2010–11 team making the Final Four, Stevens became the youngest coach to go to two Final Fours, Stevens coached the Bulldogs in their second consecutive national championship game on April 4,2011, where the team lost to the Huskies of the University of Connecticut. Stevens is known for a calm, focused coaching style and he spends a lot of time analyzing opponents using statistical analysis, adding new wrinkles to his teams play each game. He puts an emphasis on defensive and team oriented basketball. Butlers success against teams with superior athletes has been attributed to Stevens coaching style, Stevens was twice named the Horizon League Coach of the Year and won collegeinsider. coms Hugh Durham Award mid-season honors in January 2009. He also was both a Hugh Durham Award and Jim Phelan Award finalist all three years of his career, Stevens has been called a coaching prodigy and compared to John Wooden. He is married with two young children, in July 2013, he signed a six-year, 22-million-dollar contract to become the head coach of the Boston Celtics in the NBA. On June 1,2016, Stevens received a contract extension, bradley Kent Stevens grew up in Zionsville, Indiana, where he developed his love for basketball. Starting at age five, Stevens would watch taped basketball games before he went to afternoon kindergarten and his father would often drive him to Bloomington, to watch Indiana Hoosiers games
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