Sentences with phrase «basketball net in»

Lower East Side Assemblyman Sheldon Silver came to P.S. 134 and P.S. 137 on East Broadway Friday afternoon to announce a new program to replace up to a thousand basketball nets in New York City schools.

Not exact matches

It is 25,000 square feet in size, spans three levels, and presents the pedestrians outside with a 32 - foot - high, 22 - foot - wide neon basketball net that hangs from the top floor down to the ground level.

The burger is also served to the National Basketball Association's New Jersey Nets at their current location and will be their official burger after they complete a move to Brooklyn in 2012.

Daniels had first read of Manigault in The City Game, an account of pro and playground basketball in New York written by Pete Axthelm of Newsweek, He recognized the commercial value Earl would have if he made the Stars, a notion that apparently had eluded the home - town Knicks and Nets.

«He's one of the most competitive kids I've ever seen,» says Boo Williams, who runs a summer basketball league in which Iverson played and who compares Iverson with Kenny Anderson of the New Jersey Nets.

My point is that there is much more to NYC basketball than the Knicks and I imagine that most NYers would agree that the Knicks are the weak link in the NYC basketball environment (but only because they either forgot about the Nets or don't really consider them part of NYC).

It's yet another net - ripper in the Winter of Buddy Love, a season in which college basketball has collectively jacked up its three - point volume.

Last April, I watched the University of South Carolina women's basketball team win the National Championship, celebrate on the court, accept a trophy on a hastily created podium, and then proceed towards the basket in an accepted - but - strange ceremony: cutting down the basketball nets.

Cutting down the nets supposedly originates in Indiana high school basketball during the 1920s and 1930s.

The New York Nets did the ABA — and pro basketball in general — an immense service by bringing Julius Erving up from Virginia and thereby bringing the league title to the Big Apple.

Tied at 58 with three seconds left, Ogunbowale got open and somehow managed to find pure net, cementing herself as a legend in college basketball.

With no net, coaches actively encourage physical contact: «Screen out» is commonly uttered at a very high volume in basketball games, and it means one player should make as much contact as possible with the other, and shove her away from the basket.

It started with Jahlil Okafor's comment to Nets media Monday, following Kenny Atkinson's explanation of why he needs to get into basketball shape following so many weeks of being benched in Philadelphia.

It is pretty sad that rather than helping the children in the public schools in this district be able to read, write or do simple arithmetic at grade level, it is more important for our disgraced assemblyman to provide basketball nets, rather than educational safety nets.

At the regular June town meeting, Al Muench, who said he represented about 70 people who are interested in playing pickleball, made three requests of the Town Board: permission to set up two pickleball courts on the existing basketball court in the municipal complex, the temporary use of a tennis net, and permission to locate a storage box for nets and balls to be located in the corner of the tennis courts.

Fishermen have pulled up basketball - size chunks of hydrate in their nets, and other researchers have scooped it from beneath the ocean floor.

In northern California, Handy and her colleagues are studying cul - de-sacs, those horseshoe - shaped streets that typically dead - end at middle - class family homes dressed with basketball hoops, soccer nets and other sports paraphernalia.

In the book The Physics of Basketball, the author, John Fantanella, explains the Magnus effect, the backspin which gives the ball a little bit of lift allowing for the slowest possible speed and a less violent rebound if it hits the backboard or rim and may even allow the ball to go in the neIn the book The Physics of Basketball, the author, John Fantanella, explains the Magnus effect, the backspin which gives the ball a little bit of lift allowing for the slowest possible speed and a less violent rebound if it hits the backboard or rim and may even allow the ball to go in the nein the net.

Unlike most fighters, ARMS is well suited to more casual game modes — Hoops and V - Ball, the Basketball and Volleyball clones, are both excellent game modes in their own right, with the first focusing on grabs (which will slam - dunk the player into a net) and the latter on keeping a floating ball on your opponent's side of the stage.

Eddie can handle shady financiers and business setbacks, but in absurdist early - Allen fashion, he dreams of wrestling tigers and going to the net solo against entire basketball squads.

For example, the net in basketball might switch to a plant and you can only score when its mouth is open, or the volleyball court could take place on rafts that slowly drift around.

In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Bubbles» home contains many sports items, including a basketball hoop and a volleyball net.

All the while, they're playing an odd variation of a pick - up basketball game in which points seem to be assigned by how badly a shot misses the net.

The rats are trained to follow their owner around and even dunk hoops in rat basketball — with the tiniest ping pong basketball and net you've probably ever seen.

 The basketball court was repainted and new nets were installed, whilst a completely new playground set was constructed to give kids a great area to play in.

Satellite TV, DVD players with selection of discs; Apple TV 4K; library; iPod dock; Bluetooth speakers in lounges and the sala; table tennis; two kayaks and two stand - up paddleboards; basketball hoop in corner of the tennis court; beach volleyball net and ball available.

- Fight mode has bombs and healing items dropped in - Team Fight has two players chained together by strings and you can hurt your teammate - B - Ball has you batting an explosive ball back and forth over a net - Hoops is basketball where you can grab your opponent and put them through the net - Skillshot has you punching targets - 1 - on - 100 has you punching enemies that appear in the arena - ARMS Test lets you try out combinations and training mode lets you try drills - Earn in - game prize money and use that at the Arm Getter to unlock new arm attributes.

These challenges include things like using a digger to put basketball goals in a net and abducting aliens with a UFO.

Street Hoop (HAMSTER, $ 6.99 / # 6.29)-- The latest ACA Neo Geo release fills that Basketball gap in the line - up; we reviewed this back in 2010 when it landed on the Wii Virtual Console it netted an impressive 8/10.

So, for those who don't really know what to expect from an NBA Jam game, well expect a very exaggerated game of basketball in which elbowing your opponents, setting the ball on fire (by netting it three times in a row) and huge dunks are very much a part of.

Two basketball nets placed in separate galleries are, respectively, composed of elements of a chandelier and glinting waste bottle caps.

Shortly before the trip South, Hammons created «Higher Goals» (1986 - 87), a public art installation in Brooklyn, N.Y., composed of five telephone poles clad in more than 10,000 bottle caps and mounted with basketball hoops and nets.

Huffman's paintings offer lush investigations of surface and mark making — the basketball net as stencil is one tool utilized in creating these works — and exhibit his longtime consideration of both the black body's internalization of the African - American experience and that experience's public symbology.

Inspired both by Duchamp's ready - mades and by Arte Povera, he gathers abandoned materials, often found in the street and connected to black culture — fragments of metal and wood, hats, cigarettes, basketball nets, stones and fabrics — and raises them to the level of art objects.

Friday, July 7, 5 - 8 PM Visiting artist: New Craft Artists in Action (NCAA), Boston, MA Craft project: Finger - knit basketball nets

He started making such readymades — found objects presented as art, a term coined by Duchamp himself — during his M.F.A. at Yale, with slicker objects like gold - plated basketball nets stacked vertically in reference to Donald Judd.

The first installment of Awol Erizku's Duchamp Detox Clinic, a roving gallery space the 27 - year - old artist created for himself and his emerging peers in Los Angeles, comprises layers of assembled found materials: polyurethane sheets and basketball nets that have been spray - painted, covered in house paint, and then spray - painted again.

Erizku titled the piece Oh what a feeling, aw, f — k it, I want a Trillion, after Jay Z's «Picasso Baby,» and positioned a Brooklyn Nets - emblazoned basketball atop the stack, a likely nod to Jay's (tiny) minority stake in the NBA team.

In his 2014 exhibition «The Only Way Is Up,» at New York's (now closed) Hasted Kraeutler gallery, he arranged seven basketball hoops with 24 - carat gold - plated nets vertically against the wall in a way that he has said references Donald Judd's stacks of metal boxeIn his 2014 exhibition «The Only Way Is Up,» at New York's (now closed) Hasted Kraeutler gallery, he arranged seven basketball hoops with 24 - carat gold - plated nets vertically against the wall in a way that he has said references Donald Judd's stacks of metal boxein a way that he has said references Donald Judd's stacks of metal boxes.

Whether finger - knitting colorfully bedazzled basketball nets or weaving the loose, grid - like forms of tennis nets in fluorescent rope, Molteni's artistic practice cleverly marries the traditionally opposing schools of craft and sport.

The rising baseline makes it easier to attain all - time record highs, like a rising basketball floor making it more likely that a player will be able to dunk the ball in the net.

The plaintiff was injured during the course of a basketball practice when he stepped on a net located in the out - of - bounds area while chasing a basketball.

If there's anything Hal Ehretsman likes better than the sound of a basketball hitting nothing but net, it's the satisfaction he gets from helping young athletes make their way in life.

Beautiful 5 Bedrooms; 3 Bathrooms; 3 - Way Split Plan with a HUGE backyard (+ / - half acre), Screened in Pool and Patio with Spa, RV parking pad, basketball court (just bring a new backboard / hoop / net), real wood floors and tile throughout, 2 car garage with oversized driveway, in desireable Tuskawilla area of Seminole County.

But Robert O'Brien, the chief financial officer, reiterated a list of potential sales that includes Forest City's stake in the Brooklyn Nets basketball team; a share in the Barclays Center arena where the Nets play; a Brooklyn development site; four Illinois life - sciences office buildings; and the Post Office Plaza, Skylight Office Tower and Avenue shopping center portions of the Tower City complex here.