NBA Basketball Essays and Term Papers

My Hero: Jeremy Lin

My Hero There are many great people in the world struggling to accomplish their target with great effort and a never give up attitude. My hero Jeremy Lin is an American professional basketball player in New York Knicks of NBA. He has been getting a lot of attention from the NBA world due to his ...

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The Retiring Of Jordan, Gretzky, And Elway In 1999

The year of 1999 took three great athletes from the sports they dominated. Michael Jordan retired from the game of basketball, Wayne Gretzky retired from the game of hockey, and John Elway retired from the game of football. All three gave much to their sports, and the sports world was sad to see ...

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Dennis Rodman

Title: Bad As I Wanna Be # of pages: 258 Setting: The book takes place in Dallas, Texas where Dennis Rodman lived while he was a kid, Detroit, Michigan where Dennis Rodman played basketball for the Detroit Pistons, San Antonio, Texas where Dennis Rodman played basketball for the San ...

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Hoop Dreams

"" by Ben Joravsky, is about two kids Arthur Agee and William Gates who are just starting high-school and playing high-school basketball. These two kids from the projects of Chicago's West Side are chasing their dreams of playing basketball in the NBA, and making it through life. Both of ...

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Shaquille O'neal

is a person who deserves my admiration and respect. He is seven feet, one inch tall. At twenty-five years old he is nice, good-natured, and generous. He is also engaged and has a child. I talked to once on the Internet at his web-site. We talked about him signing a seven year deal with the LA ...

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Tennis A Sociological Perspect

Young people have to devote a large portion of their time to studies and/or part-time work. As a result, many of them do not have enough time to engage in leisure activities. Some people, somehow, manage to find some spare time to engage in a number of leisure activities in order to release the ...

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Personal Statement

Personal Statement Ben Perez Per.1 * I am an ambitious person, I always want to succeed. Im social, caring and fun to be around. My talents include basketball and the ability to whistle through my tongue. * I have the best family and friends in the world. They are the supportive and ...

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Modibo Diarra

is one of the toughest players you can meet on a basketball court. Off the court, he is soft-spoken and extremely friendly. When you first meet him you can not help but want to be friends with him. I had the opportunity to first see Modibo play this past summer at an AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) ...

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Modibo Diarra

is one of the toughest players you can meet on a basketball court. Off the court, he is soft-spoken and extremely friendly. When you first meet him you can not help but want to be friends with him. I had the opportunity to first see Modibo play this past summer at an AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) ...

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Why Athletes Are Good Role Models

Ever since the ancient years, we have admired athletes and the hard work that they do to achieve their goal of winning. We idolize them and wish we were more like them. What happens though when the realization sinks in that they are human too and that some of them do get greedy and selfish? ...

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Rick Pitino

By w/ Bill Reynolds The book that I read is about a great coach, and an unbelievable motivator, . Pitino is most remembered for his incredible years as head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats. In 1996 he led them to a national championship and in 1997 he led them to the final round. After that year ...

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Wages Of Sport Athletes

How would you like to be paid twenty-three million dollars a year ? It is obvious to say that everyone would more than love it. This figure is only one of the many outrageous wages athletes are being paid today. True, not all twenty-three million dollars goes directly to the athlete because of ...

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Greed In Sports

Greed Among Professional Athletes Due to the greediness of sports figures, professional athletes are not punished in the same manner as other professionals are. It is like they are in a completely different group that uses an entirely different set of morals. Team owners care more about making ...

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Record Holders

The ultimate goal of every athlete is to win a championship, but better than that is to be a recorded holder. Every athlete plays the game to win a title whether it be the Stanley Cup, Lombardi trophy, or a MVP. This is what athletes strive for. Yet, when it’s all said and done, only the best ...

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Data Mining and Warehousing

INTRODUCTION: The technology that exists with Data Mining and Warehousing is comparatively a new term but the technology is not. Data Mining is the process of digging or gathering information from various databases. This includes data from point of sales transactions, credit card purchases, online ...

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Paying College Athletes

Josh Cooley 18 November, 2013 English 1020 Professor Robinson Researched Argument Part 4 For years, college football programs have been taking advantage of their student-athletes. While these athletes pour their heart and soul into their respective programs, the majority of their ...

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"Hoops" Vs. "He Got Game"

"Hoops" is a story about a group of teenagers that play street basketball. They do not have many opportunities until one day when a man named "Cal" offers to coach them in a tournament that will give all the players exposure to "scouts". "He Got Game," on the other hand, is about a player who has ...

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Analysis Of The Free-Throw Shot

When deciding about a movement to study, I thought about many, and very few interested me. Then I decided to choose something that was very important to me. Shooting the basketball, and more specifically the technique in performing a free throw. I thought by looking more closely at the details ...

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Sports Salaries

Most people in America feel that pro athlete's salaries are too high. Current are reaching astronomical figures. Players are signing 50 million-dollar contracts and up just because they happen to be pretty good at hitting a baseball. Just the other day Kevin Brown signed a contract worth over ...

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