In the NBA, basketball coaching strategies are important to the outcome of the game. Substitutions, defensive or offensive plays required skilled players to understand and to be able to execute the plays. That is why players need to train in order to be physically prepared to execute basketball strategies when it comes to game time.
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Doc Rivers career so far in the NBA has been about helping out: dishing assists as a player in the league and getting along well with players as their coach. But lately Doc has not been helping the officials or himself with repeated tirades after Doc Rivers Celtics take a loss in the regular season or the playoffs. So far in the 2009 NBA season and playoffs, Doc has collected $65,000 in fines.
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Unlike many professional sports it is easy to identify where basketball came from and to track the evolution of basketball. It began with one man and grew into one of the one of the most popular sports in the world within the span of a century.
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For Larry Bird basketball was the way out of a life of poverty. Growing up in rural Indiana, there was no early indication that the Larry Bird Hall of Fame would be a reality. In fact, even tough he was drafted by well-known Indiana University out of high school, it was too much for Larry-he dropped out and spent the next year working for the French Lick road and trash services.
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Basketball is one of America’s favorite sports because it is fun but also because it requires so little equipment and it is inexpensive. The true cost of the sport may be the injuries in basketball, which happen because of the running, jumping, quick changing of direction, and physical contact. Ankle injuries are frequent and basketball knee injuries unfortunately are common and often very severe.
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In NBA basketball high score is a way of life. Team routinely top 100 points per side during a 48 minute game and can combine for a point total somewhere in the mid 200s. In the most high scoring basketball game in history, though, the two teams took three extra periods to combine for 370 points. In the highest scoring NBA game ever completed in regulation time, the two opponents combined for a lofty 320 points.
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Larry Brown basketball is like to that old saying: “A rolling stone gathers no moss.” Brown’s career in coaching basketball teams has been going since 1973 when he began in the now-defunct ABA league. Since then he has had terms with eleven different teams and for Larry Brown 2008 saw him begin a new journey with the Charlotte Bobcats after a tumultuous stint with the New York Knicks.
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Candace Parker WNBA star has become a nationally-known commodity now that she graced the cover of ESPN Magazine for their March 2009 issue. She has been a thrilling female athlete from her time at the college level, where she joined the other elite athletes as All American Basketball Players, to her new professional career with the Los Angeles Sparks. But now Parker has gained even more attention for being the first pregnant athlete to be on cover of the ESPN sports magazine.
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