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There are many things that people must do, despite what
is currently going on in their personal life. The person
may be dealing with divorce, illness, or even the death
of a family member, yet they still have to go to work or
take care of children. There is a former NBA player that
most fans consider to be the best player ever in
professional basketball. The former player’s name is
Michael Jordan, and he was excellent on offense and
defense. Michael Jordan played for the Chic...
There are many things that people must do, despite what
is currently going on in their personal life. The person
may be dealing with divorce, illness, or even the death
of a family member, yet they still have to go to work or
take care of children. There is a former NBA player that
most fans consider to be the best player ever in
professional basketball. The former player’s name is
Michael Jordan, and he was excellent on offense and
defense. Michael Jordan played for the Chicago Bulls,
and he helped the Bulls to win six titles.
Unfortunately, despite his talent, things weren’t always
great for Michael Jordan. Along with fame and fortune
comes heartbreak, just like for everyone else. In 1995,
Michael and the Bulls played the season of a lifetime,
and were headed to the playoffs once again. But in the
middle of everything, something happened that no one had
ever expected. Michael Jordan’s dad was shot and killed
in his home in North Carolina. Of course this was
devastating for Jordan, and he even felt that he
couldn’t go on and participate in the playoffs.
Miraculously, just when Michael had just about given up,
he heard a voice from his father, telling him that he
was still with him, no matter what. This made Michael
break down in tears, ultimately deciding to go out and
win the championship for his dad—and win the
championship, he did.
Many of us think that we
have problems in our lives that cause us to be unable to
go on, but just imagine what NBA players must go
through. They have to quickly get themselves together,
no matter what happens in their personal lives that
affects them in a major way. They have fans and team
member who are counting on them, and don’t want to be
let down. One thing that people need to realize, though,
is that just because they are professional basketball
players, doesn’t mean that they aren’t human. NBA
players are people, too, and they have feelings and
emotions, just like everyone else, and should be allowed
an adequate amount of time to mourn the death of a loved
one.
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How Basketball Came
To Be...
In
early December 1891, Dr. James Naismith, a minister on
the faculty of a college for YMCA professionals (today,
Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA,
sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students
occupied and at proper levels of fitness during the long
New England winters. After rejecting other ideas as
either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in
gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach
basket onto an 10-foot (3.05 m) elevated track...
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In early December 1891, Dr.
James Naismith, a minister on the faculty of a college
for YMCA professionals (today, Springfield College) in
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, sought a vigorous
indoor game to keep his students occupied and at proper
levels of fitness during the long New England winters.
After rejecting other ideas as either too rough or
poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the
basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto an 10-foot
(3.05 m) elevated track. In contrast with modern
basketball nets, this peach basket retained its bottom,
so balls scored into the basket had to be poked out with
a long dowel each time. A soccer ball was used to shoot
goals.
Dr. Naismith's handwritten diaries of the
time indicate that he was nervous about this invention,
which incorporated rules from a Canadian children's game
called "Duck on a Rock", as many had failed before it.
Dr. Naismith himself was originally from Canada.
Naismith's new game is quite similar to the game of team
handball, which had already been invented in the early
1890s.
The first official basketball game was
played in the YMCA gymnasium on January 20, 1892 with
nine players, on a court just half the size of a
present-day National Basketball Association (NBA) court.
"Basket ball", the name suggested by one of Naismith's
students, was popular from the beginning.
Women's
basketball began in 1892 at Smith College when Senda
Berenson, a physical education teacher, modified
Naismith's rules for women.
Basketball's early
adherents were dispatched to YMCAs throughout the United
States, and it quickly spread through the USA and
Canada. By 1895, it was well established at several
women's high schools. While the YMCA was responsible for
initially developing and spreading the game, within a
decade it discouraged the new sport, as rough play and
rowdy crowds began to detract from the YMCA's primary
mission. However, other amateur sports clubs, colleges,
and professional clubs quickly filled the void. In the
years before World War I, the Amateur Athletic Union and
the Intercollegiate Athletic Association (forerunner of
the NCAA) vied for control over the rules for the game.
Basketball was originally played with a soccer ball.
The first balls made specifically for basketball were
brown, and it was only in the late 1950s that Tony
Hinkle, searching for a ball that would be more visible
to players and spectators alike, introduced the orange
ball that is now in common use.
Dribbling, the
bouncing of the ball up and down while moving, was not
part of the original game except for the "bounce pass"
to teammates. Passing the ball was the primary means of
ball movement. Dribbling was eventually introduced but
limited by the asymmetric shape of early balls.
Dribbling only became a major part of the game around
the 1950s as manufacturing improved the ball shape.
Basketball, netball, dodgeball, volleyball, and
lacrosse are the only ball games which have been
identified as being invented by North Americans. Other
ball games, such as baseball and Canadian football, have
Commonwealth of Nations, European, Asian or African
connections.
Basketball For
Short People: Basket To Be Lowered
In an effort to return basketball to the
widely popular place it held in the hearts and minds of
average-size and short Americans before it became the
exclusive province of players whose mothers are
suspected of stretching them as infants, The National
Basketball Association is considering legitimizing a
basket height that will allow even really short people
to slam-dunk the ball and hang by the hoop to express
their delight over a particularly good play. If the
sport for shorts catches on, the association may
establish an entirely new league.
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Since the 1950s, when short but fast players had a
chance of making it onto a professional court – such as
the legendary Bob Cousy of the Boston Celtics, known for
startling innovations like dribbling and passing behind
the back – the sport has been dominated by ever taller
athletes, starting with the arrival of Wilt, The Stilt,
Chamberlain.
Now, The National Basketball
Association has come to realize that the trend to tall
has demoralized people of who fall within the usual
range of human height and that it has positively
devastated short people.
Compared to the
slam-dunking ways of the seven footers, these distressed
athletes just can’t get people interested in watching
them hoop it up. As a result, interest in the game as a
participation sport has waned, and the association is
concerned that, as fewer people work up their excitement
about playing it, fewer of them will pay to see it.
In an effort to return basketball to the widely
poplar place it held in the minds and hearts of the
American public before it became the exclusive province
of players whose mothers are suspected of stretching
them as infants, the association is considering
legitimizing a court just for people of average height,
with a special accommodation for shorter people. The
basic plan calls for the basket to be lowered by one
foot for players from 5’ 6” to 6’ 6” and two feet for
people who are even shorter but still imagine
slam-dunking the ball and hanging from the hoop in a
celebratory manner.
When the new rules go into
effect, virtually everyone will finally be able to play
the game in as dramatic a fashion as today’s seven
footers.
For now the plan calls for limiting the
innovation to amateur players, but the association
confides that if fans once again take an interest in
watching average-size people play the game, there is the
potential to establish an entire new league, made up of
speed merchants who are only eye-high to a current pro’s
elbows.