Sentences with phrase «not as a basketball player»

Not as a basketball player, and not because he made me realize my severe limitations as an amateur talent scout (dude was so promising for a while, I swear), but because he was a huge part of an NBA trade in 2013.

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Jordan Fliegel wasn't a great basketball player as a kid.

It's not so much the descriptions of Jordan as a basketball player, it's the absolute, pathological obsession Jordan had to be great that fascinates me.

I don't know, but for the past 8 years, hundreds if not thousands of basketball players have been eligible, and none have approached his value, this suggests that the odds of improving are sufficiently close to zero so as to rule out that scenario; ditto Kevin Durant.

If Knight, as is his wont, overshadowed the play and all his players, including the spectacular Jordan, he couldn't diminish the vibrant glow of the one outstanding individual basketball star of these Olympics, Cheryl Miller.

As far as Basketball not many players have avg'd a triple - double the ENTIRE seasoAs far as Basketball not many players have avg'd a triple - double the ENTIRE seasoas Basketball not many players have avg'd a triple - double the ENTIRE season!

If he hasn't already, D'Antoni needs to rebrand his offensive system as the human reclamation project for outcasted basketball players.

Joel Embiid is probably a top 10 player right now, Simmons has nearly averaged a triple double since the all star break as a rookie point guard and you have not fans, but actual basketball insiders comparing him to Lebron james and Magic Johnson.

I believe him destroying my hero image of basketball players should be enough for us not to want him as our coach.

The goal of the California trip, Lillard says, was not so they could know each other as basketball players, but so they could understand one another as people.

«Our goal is to affect each camper's life in a positive manner, which will in turn lead to positive changes in their life; lessons that will not only make them a more knowledgeable basketball player, but provide them with the tools and resources they will need to become a better student and person as well!»

The debut of Russia's touring basketball teams proved the girls a visual treat, but the men are not in our class as players

They play it much harder in the tall trade, says Halberstam, because, while we may think of our sports stars as heroes, «the new American athlete, particularly the modern American professional basketball player... was rarely confident about anything save his own sport... he was more often than not black, often came from pathetic economic and psychological circumstances, was a basketball player out of desperation....

It warms my heart to know that at the end of his college career, people like Mark Turgeon and txterp98 took time to remember that this fine young man deserves recognition not only as a basketball player but as a positive person who represented us all with class.

Most wizards fan think Beal has star potential and this would be a backwards move, but I see it as having more flexibility and getting rid of an injury prone player that may not live up to that max contract.Thank you Ben Dowsett of Basketball Insiders, i.e. an unbiased opinion «Danny Ainge is laughing as he hangs up the phone on that one, unfortunately.

Basketball players are supposed to be lean and lanky... not a mile wide, as strong as a bull, and capable of whipping that massive frame through the air for 360 windmill slams.

But if you ask LeBron, the Cavaliers star who casually doubles as the best living basketball player on the planet, it doesn't matter where Cleveland is seeded come playoff time.

We didn't even get to Monte Vista - Danville girls soccer finishing as mythical national champs, the East Bay's three McDonald's All - American girls basketball players or Central Catholic - Modesto football reaching a third straight CIF Bowl Game.

Ranadive didn't teach his team about basketball; he didn't increase the skill level of his players so that they could move to play in high school; he didn't help the opposition develop either, as since they couldn't break the pressure, they couldn't play basketball.

«We don't look at her as a basketball player; we look at her as someone who works hard.»

That exposed my defensive side of the game (and the start of the end of my playing days) As a gymnast and a martial artist (not too good, but for my size I had to learn the stuff to protect myself), and a basketball player for my highschool, and sprinter (I did 100 mts in 12 seconds), I won most of the 2 v 1, and almost all 1 vs 1s so they used me first in RB and LB, where I had to go forward to get some action, I found myself being used again in Left and Right Midfield.

As the award was being handed to him, a reporter asked if the Basketball Association thought calling players obscenities was acceptable, the representative said «no» it was not okay, while at the same time he handed the award to the coach who used obscenities (6).

Wouldn't it be great if moms and dads show their respect, admiration, praise and value to themselves as well as other parents in the same way they do other professions like baseball and basketball players?

But it didn't keep him off the basketball court in the late 1960s, when environmentalism was leaping skyward and his sneakers squeaked as a freshman player at Brown University.

Professional basketball players are night owls, as most of their games don't end until around 10:30 pm.

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Casual hoops players aren't going to be wowed with this latest iteration of NBA 2K9, but it's meant to satisfy those who live and breathe basketball, as the improvements in the AI and atmosphere alone are sure to tickle the inner twine of dedicated fans.

Parents of female basketball players at Franklin High School have sued, claiming that because it does not schedule as many girls» games during «prime time» slots as it does boys» games, the school district is in violation of Title IX, which forbids discrimination based on sex in programs receiving federal funds.

While other athletes might excel in a game, it isn't really feasible for players in other sports, such as quarterbacks or basketball point guards, to accomplish a «perfect» outing.

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Some things, though, don't matter: mass - produced work of the Damien Hirst - model that the artist has never laid hand to; supply — that there are many Warhols still out there doesn't influence price; commercial branding — just as the basketball player LeBron James lost none of his magic by promoting an Audemars Piguet wristwatch on South Beach, so Jeff Koons was able to launch his Dom Pérignon bottle at ABMB without scratching the shine on the two sculptures that sold there.

Portraits compiles the many works completed over Wood's career, done in a variety of media, and with a range of subjects and sitters, including paintings of artist friends, self - portraits, intimate familial moments in domestic interiors and the artist's own cultural and sports heroes, from basketball players and boxers to Philip Guston and Pablo Picasso — though Wood's esteem for these figures is beside the point, as he notes: «I don't depict only those athletes who have meaning for me.

Although some of Ehretsman's players go on to the NBA, he's just as proud of those who don't — young men such as Adrian Hills, a young man whose basketball career ended after junior college and who is now a firefighter.