Sentences with phrase «basketball career so»

He had the sort of pro basketball career so many top - flight college players without great size have had, in that it was well outside the NBA spotlight.

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Hence Rabbit's constant remembrance of things past: his fading stardom as a high school basketball hero in Mt. Judge, Pennsylvania; his youthful marriage to the store - clerk Janice Springer; their many sexual felicities and infidelities; the deaths that each so horribly caused in their own house; their moral enmeshment in the lives of their friends and families, especially their elderly parents and their own son Nelson; Rabbit's jobs as a typesetter and car dealer, and now Janice's belated career in real estate; their financial prosperity during the boom of the «70s when they bought vacation homes in Florida and the Poconos; now their fear of economic ruin amidst the coming Depression.

It flooded through him when he walked onto a basketball court — the jump shots with crumpled paper cups he took as a little boy after every high school game his dad coached, the million three - man weaves, all the sweat and the squeaks and the passion so white - hot that twice during his career he had rocketed off the bench to scream... and blacked out... and five or six times every season the backside of his suit pants had gone rrr - iii - p!

, playing the best basketball of his career at age 31, is, as expected, voted the NBA's Most Valuable Player, so be it.

So this may not end up being the first step in lucrative career of appearing in video games for our nation's collegiate athletes, but CBS Sports reports that every player who has appeared in one of EA's college football or basketball games is eligible to make some money off of this settlement, so that's a pretty sweet deal at leasSo this may not end up being the first step in lucrative career of appearing in video games for our nation's collegiate athletes, but CBS Sports reports that every player who has appeared in one of EA's college football or basketball games is eligible to make some money off of this settlement, so that's a pretty sweet deal at leasso that's a pretty sweet deal at least.