The NBA basketball award ceremony at the end of each season is a tradition to honor individual achievement in a team sport. For each individual that receives an award basketball is only part of the criteria–the best in the NBA receive awards for off-the-court activities as well.
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The Kobe Bryant life took another strange turn as his housekeeper introduced a lawsuit in court in March 2009. The case, which is pending, is aimed at the entire Kobe Bryant family but highlights Bryant’s wife as the main perpetrator of a number of humiliating crimes against the housekeeper, who worked for the family in their Orange County home in California from September 2007 through March 2008. The Bryant clan has responded that the allegations are baseless and that their former employee is just seeking easy money at their expense.
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Derrick Rose was named the NBA Basketball Rookie of the Year in May 2009 for his first season as a Chicago Bull. Basketball beginners would do well to study the excellent opening season for Rose in which he was able to use his role as point guard to bring the Chicago Bulls some unlikely success.
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The NCAA basketball championship history has been alive and strong for 70 years. Masses of fans of the sport and rabid alumni from colleges across the country have made the March Madness tournament the highlight of the sports year. From the beginning of the basketball season when midnight madness 2008 begins until the Finals are played, college basketball has kept hearts beating and has been filled with close scoreboard action.
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Knowing how to slam dunk in basketball is a critical step in being an offensive threat. Shooting jump shots is important but unless you can drive the lane and finish, a defender can stay on top of you and prevent you from getting a look at the basket. These are not NBA Live 08 dunk tips, these are tips for players who want to round out their game by adding the deadliest offensive weapon in basketball to their arsenal.These slam dunk contest tips will help a player win contests and respect on the court.
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Mike Brown was named the NBA Coach of the Year for 2009 in a year when many coaches were deserving. Of course, Mike Brown could give out some basketball coaching tips since his team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, racked up the best record in the NBA over the past season. After playing basketball both in the US and overseas as a youth basketball coach Brown also played college ball before being elevated to coach.
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The NBA is just like anywhere else you would work: Everyone makes at least $400,000, some make $20 million, you work about 3 hours a day, fans fawn on you, and you get whatever you want, right? Well, in one arena you are lucky your office isn’t like the NBA because no one would come to work–they’d all be stuck in jail. No, it’s not quite that bad but it’s not too far from the truth either. Read on.
And here they are – NBA “great” players – the countdown starts with:
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The most popular basketball teams are also the best basketball teams in college basketball, according to a Harris Interactive Poll conducted online during the 2009 NCAA Tournament. The University of North Carolina and Duke were chosen in an online poll as the most popular and second most popular college basketball teams, a flip flop of last year’s results when Duke was chosen as the most popular team and UNC came in second. The two neighbors are routinely some of the top programs in the country.
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Before the Lisa Leslie WNBA years began, Leslie had remarkable high school and college careers in Los Angeles. Once she became pro, she was the first person to dunk in the WNBA. The Lisa Leslie dunk crystalized her place as the face of the new league and one of its most successful players. Her WNBA years will end after the 2009 season, Leslie recently announced.
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Rather than just dishing assists or dunks, NBA players are dishing basketball rumors these days thanks to the new technology of the Twitter website. The players and other NBA insiders that use the service to pump out texting size blurbs known as tweets have many Twitter friends, fans and others who follow their daily exploits. It has become so popular with some players that they have had to crack down on players’ use of it.
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The shooting form for successful players is uniform for basketball at all levels. Regardless of the basketball uniform design you are wearing or the level of the competition, the basics of the shooting touch are always the same. Once a player has mastered scoring from jump shots, he is an invaluable part of any basketball team, commanding more defense from the opponents and putting points on the scoreboard for his team.
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