Although there are thousands of celebrities I would chose Stephen Curry because is the number one best basketball player that ever lived.…
Charles Barkley plays in the NBA. He plays for the Philadelphia 76ers and the Suns. He is one of the best 50 players in the NBA. Charles Barkley won the NBA Most Valuable Player award and many…
As a star player, he has quite a lot of strengths, such as slam dunk. He has a high vertical jump ability, so he can have a long distance of jumping. Also he has a good stability of body in the air, which is because of strong core muscles, allowing him to do different insane movements in the air easily. This is one of the reasons that he was the champion of 2008 NBA Slam Dunk Contest.…
With the news that point guard Chris Paul is opting of his contract with the Los Angeles Clippers and testing the free-agent market, a surprising name among the teams he is interested in visiting is the Denver Nuggets. With the move of free-agents to join other high profile markets or hook up with other superstars on other perennial powers to create the dreaded “super team”, Denver didn’t fit seem to fit either of those categories.…
Wilt Chamberlain, a hall of fame basketball player died yesterday, October 12, 1999 at his house in Bel Air, California. Standing at 7'1" he is remembered as one of the most dominant centers in NBA history. Chamberlain broke many records in his long, successful career, most notably scoring 100 points in a game.…
Remember when Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce got traded to the Nets and Doc Rivers revealed that he was leaving the Celtics to coach the Clippers? Everyone assumed that Rajon Rondo was devastated. Memes featuring photos of Rondo and sentences like "WHERE DID EVERYBODY GO?" and "HOW ABOUT HIM? IS HE STILL ON MY TEAM?" started popping up everywhere. But earlier today, Rondo revealed that he actually wasn't all that heartbroken about his former teammates and coach leaving Boston.…
“With the tenth pick in the 2010 NBA draft, the Indiana Pacers select Paul George of Fresno State University” That was the start of his career in the National Basketball Association, a career filled with uncertainty and now on the cusp of superstardom. But can you imagine, the player who is supposed to be the next coming of Reggie Miller or Scottie Pippen suddenly leave the town and team that gave him the opportunity to blossom into a star and gave him unwavering loyalty, just to have a shot to play with his childhood idol, Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers? That might be the next chapter of his story as a player in the National Basketball Association.…
Jordan was born on February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, NY. He studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Not only did he study there, that is where he got signed his Junior year and became the all-star that he is today. Michael Jordan got drafted by the Chicago Bulls and because of his excellance performance in the game he made the team reach the playoffs with selling out tickets every game. Jordan was a true all-star. Jordan was a man of “respect, humility and a strong work ethic” (Johnson). He was 6-foot-6 with aspiring goals in life. He has a beautiful family 2 young boys, one daughter and a wife. Everybody knew who Michael Jordan was, he was a very popular basketball player in such little time. He became known for his awesome performance on the court. Girls were in love with him and guys wanted to be him. In 1985, Jordan got to finished his bachelor's degree in geography and he still kept on play NBA Basketball. As years go by his performance kept on increasing and little by little he got endorsements deals with huge companies like Nike, which is what made him the important person that he is in American History. Michael Jordan was the first African American player in history that was marketed this…
Since a young age I have been a huge fan of basketball, and of course being from New York, I am a fan of the New York Knicks. The all-star player of the Knicks, Carmelo Anthony, played college basketball at Syracuse. The season of his freshmen year, Carmelo led his team to their first NCAA Championship. He also was awarded the Most Outstanding Player award. Soon after, the Denver Nuggets drafted Carmelo Anthony with the third overall pick. He then went on to achieve his dreams of playing in the NBA and has since been a nine time All-Star. Seeing how Syracuse helped Carmelo achieve his dreams, I had always wanted to go to Syracuse to pursue my dreams.…
Going into the NBA after college Tim Duncan had his mind set on getting an education first. Not all athletes get a college education because they want to hurry and make money. The reason why Duncan did this was because before his mother (who was dying from breast cancer) told him to finish college before he did anything else. While going to school at Wake Forest Duncan earned a…
I believe that Kobe is a leader in the NBA cause Kobe Bryant achieve more the than other basketball player.…
Kobe bryant birthdate August 23, 1978 and he was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania he wanted to play basketball casue his dad played Finishes his high school career as the all-time leading scorer in the history of southeastern Pennsylvania basketball. He leads the Lower Merion Aces to a season record of 31-3 and the Class-AAAA state championship. He worked on shooting post defense and he played for the lakers his whole carrer but he drafted to the hornets All-Rookie Second Team All-NBA Third Team All-NBA Second Team All-Defensive First Team All-NBA Second Team All-Defensive Second Team All-NBA First Team All-Defensive Second Team All-NBA First Team All-Defensive First Team All-NBA First Team All-Defensive First Team All-NBA Third Team Scoring Leader All-NBA First Team All-Defensive First Team Scoring Leader All-NBA First Team All-Defensive First Team All-NBA First Team…
Before joining Los Angeles Clipper in 2011, Chris Paul played for New Orleans Hornett. He received $18.4 million in 2014, which was his highest…
After a very successful high school career, Carmelo attended Syracuse University; where he had an excellent season. During his first year at college, he averaged 22.2 points and 10.0 rebounds per game leading his team its first ever NCAA tournament title in 2003. He also won the tournament's Final Four MVP award; his head coach said that he was by far the best player in college basketball. Because he had already accomplished everything he set out to do in college, he chose to leave and declared himself eligible for the NBA Draft, where he was chosen third overall by the Denver Nuggets.…
John Forbes Nash Jr. was born June 13, 1928 in Bluefield, West Virginia. Mr. Nash Jr. is an American mathematician who won the 1994 Nobel Prize for his works in the late 1980’s on game theory. Game theory is the study of strategic decision making or more formally known as the mathematical models of conflict and cooperation between intelligent and rational decision makers. Game theory is mainly used in economics, political science, and psychology, as well as logic and biology. Mr. Nash Jr. has also contributed numerous publications involving differential geometry, and partial differential equation (PDE). Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that uses differential calculus and integral calculus, linear algebra and multi linear algebra to study geometry problems. Partial differential equation is a differential equation that contains unknown multivariable functions and their partial derivatives. These are used to formulate problems involving functions of several variables.…