| Granted, dominating a bunch of relative pipsqueaks does not qualify one for NBA readiness. |
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| Here's how the other major pro sports leagues stack up against the NBA in the logo sweepstakes. |
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| Although I'm heartily sick of three letter acronyms, NBA sounds impressive. |
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| Compared to growing up, Rose figured life as an NBA benchwarmer was not so bad. |
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| I happened to catch 19 seconds of Will Smith rapping at the NBA finals game. |
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| You end up playing their NBA teams, but against less skilled players who wouldn't be starters for a game. |
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| Wrangling an invitation to an NBA tryout was, he says, an object lesson in how to win friends and influence people. |
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| The NBA wouldn't even allow Toronto to have a franchise unless legal betting on NBA games was abolished in the whole province of Ontario. |
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| Whether it was Magic Johnson trash-talking with Larry Bird or Knicks fans giving Reggie Miller the bird, the NBA has seen some super rivalries. |
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| In this day of the loud, trash-talking, me-first NBA star, Millers is refreshingly quiet and humble. |
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| Giant and apelike in appearance, it would be easy to mistake Bigfoot for a hairy tree or NBA player. |
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| He ranks second in NBA Finals history in three-point field goals made trailing only Michael Jordan. |
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| He is a giant even by the extreme standards of the NBA, where the average height is a healthy 6ft 5in. |
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| Then, because of age, injury, fatigue, biorhythms or some other NBA circumstance, things always seem to change for them. |
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| In fact after the first round of this season's NBA play-offs, no lower-seeded team has triumphed over its favoured competition. |
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| Hopefully, Leon will make it back to the NBA for good and someday maybe he will be the one getting showered in confetti. |
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| Many wore striped tube socks pulled knee high and ultra long, ultra baggy court shorts more often seen in the NBA then on the squash court. |
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| On nights when the Kings are on their game, the talk of how the NBA has become hard to watch should be muted. |
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| He is the classic NBA tweener, shooting a high percentage, but struggling against the bigger bodies down low. |
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| The former NBA coaching washout used to dribble the ball up and down the train tracks as an Indianan youth. |
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| Next Year's NBA will hum with full-court presses, dead-eye jump-shooting, and endless fast-breaking. |
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| I just wrote a fawning little feature article about him for the NBA Finals program. |
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| Sixteen of the 29 NBA franchises are granted invitations to the play-off party, so you only need to win half your games to make it. |
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| So it's pretty ironic that the average NBA player couldn't make a foul shot if his sneaker contract depended on it. |
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| The NBA reviews game videos to determine whether officials' calls are correct. |
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| As high school seniors and college underclassmen enter the draft in increasing numbers, NBA teams are changing their approach. |
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| Yesterday the NBA announced the four contestants in the annual slam dunk contest. |
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| After the Games, he followed his illustrious team-mates into the NBA, but in the 14 years since, he has performed unimpressively in the main. |
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| For NBA hoops freaks like me, it means the start of a new season of roundball, and a month's worth of anticipation. |
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| He went unpicked in the 2002 NBA Draft after averaging 9.0 points and 6.5 boards as a senior during the 2001-02 season. |
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| He was suspended for one game by the NBA on Tuesday for yelling a sexual vulgarity at a female fan during a game. |
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| These customers favor sports bars that are big, loud, filled with monitors, and promise a sighting of an NBA star in person. |
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| Now, basketball officials the world over embrace the notion of their native sons playing in the NBA, given the long-term developmental benefits. |
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| The attacker was black, about 5ft, and wore dark clothing and a dark baseball cap with the NBA insignia on its front and visor. |
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| In part because the Pistons won the NBA championship with hard-working no-names last season, the summer has been a boom time for Bartelstein. |
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| I think drafting international players has proved to be successful for several NBA teams. |
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| Rodman has vowed to strip buck naked before walking off the court in his last game, and that's something that we as NBA fans deserve to see. |
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| An NBA rep with a handheld decibel meter polices the sidelines during every game, enforcing a 90-decibel limit on in-game noise. |
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| I was so happy to see him go to the NBA and lead the League in scoring and assists. |
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| The sole exception is if a younger player is drafted by an NBA team and later cut. |
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| Instead of focusing on running fast breaks and shooting the ball, NBA teams have turned to weight training and long, drawn-out, half-court sets. |
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| Miller obviously is a top-drawer pivotman, but he's broken down toward the end of each of his NBA campaigns save for a truncated rookie year. |
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| And don't talk to me about numbers, because just about everyone who is good enough to make the NBA is good enough to compile numbers. |
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| In the NBA today, one team scores, everyone runs back downcourt, and they don't turn around until they get to the top of the key. |
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| The book includes several articles that include discussions of betting the side-total parlay and betting NBA futures. |
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| A Finals sweep would make the Lakers the only team in NBA history to rumble through the postseason undefeated. |
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| At the '96 Olympics, the U.S. women's team so overshadowed the men that the NBA stars almost could slip in and out the back door. |
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| The subtweets were kind of a funny interaction between two NBA bigwigs who come from opposite sides of the social media spectrum. |
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| Nearly nine years later, straight-from-high school prospects are as common in the NBA as high-tops and tattoos. |
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| The Jazz has the oldest starting lineup in the NBA, but the advanced age doesn't mean the players are not durable. |
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| On April 16th he scored a total of 61 points against the Atlanta Hawks setting a new NBA record. |
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| No surprise, the vast majority wanted to rip me for even suggesting that the NBA playoffs could compare with March Madness. |
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| Similar to NBA Live's Freestyle mode is the Dynamic Deke system which allows you to manipulate the puck manually using the directional pad. |
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| Additional versions of the ads will appear during the NBA All-Star Game and March Madness, the two preeminent basketball events of the year. |
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| That made NBA teams a little wary of him, especially teams that want to scout in China. |
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| Soon afterward, he began working as an account executive in the corporate sponsorship department of NBA Properties. |
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| After giving half-hearted efforts for the NBA season so far to emphasize his point that he wanted out we finally gave him the boot. |
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| Will the official NBA basketball that rests at the base of the potted palm in the living room remain? |
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| I'm hereupon to be known as the only player dealt at the 2000 NBA trading deadline. |
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| Williams was originally selected in the second round of the 1998 NBA Draft by Chicago. |
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| The Americans had been gold medallists in every Olympics since 1992 when NBA players started competing in the Games. |
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| Almost every NBA team has one or more people prospecting in the statistical mine, and many NFL teams do, too. |
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| Although too weak for NBA standards, he is certainly not a liability on the defensive end. |
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| Two centers earned NBA Players of the Week awards for their performance last week. |
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| Perhaps this explains that cuckoo '96 NBA offseason, which saw a handful of players land outrageous contracts. |
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| The flameout dulled the gloss of a turnaround season in which they became just the ninth team in NBA history to improve from 50 losses to 50 wins. |
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| In 2007, Tim Hardaway lost his gig promoting the NBA and its all-star game after telling a radio interviewer that he hates gays. |
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| And just as the NBA and WNBA continue to develop as open-minded sports leagues, bosh plans to develop even further as a designer. |
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| Later, she did walk-on work in Spike Lee's film about her father and lived in Phoenix for awhile, after she fell for an NBA player that she thought she might marry. |
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| As the NBA season tips off, Sujay Kumar presents a cheat sheet for those who know nothing about basketball. |
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| With gameplay more derivative of the Harlem Globetrotters than the NBA, players bust insane ankle-breaking moves to confuse and fake out opponents on their way to the hoop. |
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| Despite constant pressure from New York City media and fans longing for an NBA championship after a 30-year drought, Thomas waxes positive on his team and his position. |
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| Richardson found other coaching jobs but never in the NBA, he was been a career minor league head coach. |
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| Lenny Wilkens became the all-time winningest coach in NBA history when his team, the Atlanta Hawks, won the game that marked his 939th coaching win on this day. |
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| Stotts said he also hopes to launch similar awards for NFL and NBA medical staffs, with his database helping decide the latter. |
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| A 26, Durant is three years younger than James and is poised to assume NBA supremacy. |
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| These days, Tirico announces everything from the World Cup to the NBA finals to the crown jewel, Monday Night Football. |
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| At just 22 years, 350 days, he was the third youngest NBA finals MVP in history behind Magic Johnson and his teammate, Tim Duncan. |
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| Afterwards, a slew of major NBA reporters did their best to quell the giddy, growing mob. |
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| He has been accused by fellow players of being a selfish prima donna on the basketball court and has had more than a few run-ins with his coach and NBA league officials. |
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| Donald Sterling banned for life from the NBA, explosions in Syria kill dozens, 'grease' on live TV, and more stories from today. |
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| I first met Brenda in Philadelphia on my way to the NBA All-Star Game because everyone had told me Brenda was the groupie expert. |
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| A Minnesota politician claimed most NBA teams could be shutdown and we would only notice because crime would shoot up. |
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| He will not turn into one of these schmoes if he joins the NBA in June. |
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| You could wind down, let all that postseason drama fade away and focus on upcoming events, like the NBA All-Star game, March Madness and spring training. |
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| Birmingham offers all the amenities an NBA baller would need. |
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| Ironically Webber, doing commentary for NBA TV, joyfully nailed James during the finals. |
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| Condemnation from players and coaches around the NBA was justifiably swift and harsh. |
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| This Week guest and NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said racism remains part of American culture. |
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| Such a practice would be more valuable to athletes like Sarah Robles than a multimillion-dollar NBA supernova like Wade. |
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| This is like the layup drills before an NBA game, and no one is keeping score. |
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| But under the terms of the NBA constitution, he has no chance to succeed in litigation over punishment. |
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| Since then, though, the NBA has been struggling to find the stars to propel them to Jordan-like mega heights. |
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| Between rumors of a tryst with NBA player Glen Rice and allegations of cocaine use, we doubt this one will die down anytime soon. |
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| Over the summer, he impressed current NBA players with his love for hard work and, oddly enough, with his punctuality. |
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| The 2011 NBA lockout had been in effect since July 1, and Humphries was an unsigned free agent. |
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| With those words, LeBron James, the reigning King of the NBA, announced his return to his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers. |
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| There is also this ongoing case against the NBA for gender discrimination, but it remains unresolved. |
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| This is a story about a former University of North Carolina and NBA basketball player named Rashad McCants. |
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| The NCAA should support the removal of age restrictions for entry into the NFL and the NBA draft. |
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| At least one top NBA scout has been telling college underclassmen who might be borderline first-round picks this June that it's better to wait for the 2005 draft. |
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| Or a possible flash-in-the pan who two months from now will be just another NBA point guard? |
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| If riley Cooper happened in the NBA this summer, it would be a horrible event. |
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| Team USA's strategy of drafting NBA players for the past three Olympiads has resulted in three gold medals and absolutely no intrigue, competition, or excitement. |
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| The hottest happening of a very active hot-stove NBA summer was the Los Angeles Lakers' trade of O'Neal to the Miami Heat for Lamar Odom, Caron Butler, and Brian Grant. |
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| In the halls of NBA front offices, in the power lunches, agent meetings and cell-phone parleys, it was a summer of impressive work by the league's best teams. |
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| You have some scenarios where it doesn't work out and then again, you have some players who stay in school for four years, come into the NBA and are a total flop. |
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| With the free-agent market at a near standstill because of leaguewide payroll concerns, trades were the primary tool NBA front offices had available after the June draft. |
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| Two and a half years ago, as the primary complement to Garnett in the team's offensive sets, the deadeye shooter was proficient enough to be chosen to the NBA All-Star Team. |
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| Two of the best players in the NBA not only have fallen into an amazing groove of leading the way, they've learned when and how to give way to their supporting cast. |
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| More showpiece than serious contest, it is the culmination of three days of gratuitous exhibitionism in which the clean-cut, vibrant face of the NBA is touted at every turn. |
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| The NHL and NBA look like the Boy Scouts in comparison to both. |
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| What was it like playing in the NBA All-Star Game with Terrell Owens? |
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| In 2011, Dirk Nowitzki won his first NBA Championship with the Dallas Mavericks by upsetting the Miami Heat. |
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| Jackson threatened a boycott, and NBA commissioner David Stern was at one point reportedly contacted in hopes that he would intervene. |
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| Wafer left Florida State after only two seasons and was taken by the Lakers in the second round of June's NBA Draft. |
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| With a change of scenery from Houston to the City of Brotherly Love, will he be more mentally ready to finally suit up for an NBA team? |
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| Under a new NBA rule, Bryant faces a one-game suspension if he is called for 16 technical fouls this season. |
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| Labor talks between the NBA owners and players not only have hit a dead end, but they could soon be looking up from the bottom of a sink hole. |
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| What kind of groupie FYIs does the NBA provide during rookie orientation? |
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| Former NBA MVP Kevin Garnett has Former NBA MVP Kevin Garnett has recently re-signed for which team? |
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| To me, with the horrendous travel of the NBA, it just astounds me that he's held up as well as he has, especially with his health. |
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| Amare Stoudemire may have the most untradeable contract in the NBA and the Knicks aren't looking to move Carmelo Anthony. |
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| If there is a potential bump in the road for the NBA in the UK, it is its lack of a television deal. |
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| Six NBA stars, including Jason Kidd and Shane Battier, showed up at the press conference in person. |
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| During the 1990s, with Michael Jordan leading them, the Bulls won six NBA championships in eight seasons. |
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| Florida has three NFL teams, two MLB teams, two NBA teams, two NHL teams, and one MLS team. |
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| Current NBA youngstar Victor Oladipo is of Sierra Leonean descent, as his father is a native of Sierra Leone. |
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| Shaq has perhaps the next great point guard in the NBA in Cleveland Cavaliers clutch artist Kyrie Irving. |
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| Former NBA stars, in particular Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal, Allen Iverson and Magic Johnson are popular in the country. |
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| Marty Conlon also represented Ireland while playing in the NBA for the Boston Celtics however he was born in the United States. |
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| We create pieces of beauty and accuracy but above all of emotionality and that is what sport, and more particularly the NBA, is about. |
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| Cho entered the NBA as an intern with the SuperSonics in 1995 while earning a law degree from Pepperdine University School of Law. |
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| Bismark was home of the Dakota Wizards of the NBA Development League, and currently hosts the Bismarck Bucks of the Champions Indoor Football. |
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| Panini America is the only company in the world that manufactures licensed trading cards and stickers for the NBA, NFL, NFL Players, MLBPA and FIFA World Cup. |
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| Each team also has an 3-point shooter with NBA range, Kapono for UCLA and Allen Harper for Ole Miss.If the officials allow the play to be physical, it would favor Ole Miss. |
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| The second-year swingman was one of four players picked to compete in the annual NBA Slam Dunk Contest Saturday night during All-Star weekend in Las Vegas. |
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| Far more of an international event than local, the NBA reports that more than 215 countries will carry Sunday's All-Star Game in 44 languages by 103 telecasters. |
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| I mean, the NBA playoffs are almost upon us, and it would almost feel like old times around here if we had some kind of championship to talk about. |
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| He was also in talks to star in an advertisement for pistachio nuts with former NBA player Dennis Rodman, but had to pull out when he couldn't get his US work visa. |
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| The team includes NBA Legends Dave Bing, Clyde Drexler, Julius Erving, Jamal Mashburn, and Dominique Wilkins, who were selected for their success in business after basketball. |
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| This is the guy who was supposed to be the living end when he came into the NBA in 1959. Yet the Warriors have never been better than second with him. |
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| But Nemeth has still not given up all hope of finding a way to add fellow NBA draftee Sean Marks to his squad if he can cut through diplomatic red tape. |
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| After a class lecture on simple linear regression, students were asked to collect data on 2 variables from the NBA website that might be linearly related. |
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| The NBA will integrate Lenovo products into all facets of league operations, recognizing Lenovo's focus on building the world's best-engineered personal computers. |
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| In 2016, the national basketball association in the US, known as the NBA announced the launch of an Elite's Academy in Africa, and more precisely in Senegal. |
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| Bike Athletic, the founder of the jockstrap, has earned authenticity on the field of play in the NBA, Major League Baseball, NCAA and Little League Baseball. |
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| But a veteran NBA and Chicago Bulls writer believed the former Georgetown Hoyas standout will be eventually moved to satisfy the Celtics' need for multiple future draft picks. |
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| He was also named that year's NBA Finals Most Valuable Player. |
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| Just in time for NBA Finals comes Heckler Sports, the first comprehensive all sports social network that also allows fans to heckle one another in real-time. |
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