Sentences with phrase «basketball season is in»
Another state championship basketball season is in the books, and there was a lot to enjoy about the tournament.
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(Rose, who plays for the Chicago Bulls, is Adidas's biggest basketball endorser, but he has been plagued with injuries and missed nearly two full seasons in the last four.)
A battle over how players and team owners will split the league's $ 4 billion in annual revenue, which led to the suspension of exhibition and regular - season games through at least Nov. 14, is bringing collateral damage to a range of businesses counting on professional basketball events to survive, including caterers, bars, stores, parking lots — and even the self - employed masseurs who tend to players.
His play throughout the season was fantastic, but it was his performance in the Finals that set Durant apart as a singularly dominant force of basketball.
But for all that he's already accomplished, James claims that in his 15th season, he's playing the best basketball of his career.
Pitino, the highest - paid coach in college basketball, was set to make just under $ 7.8 million for the 2017 - 18 season, according to USA Today.
No only does Smith have a history of on - and off - the - court issues, he was also playing the worst basketball of his career with the Knicks where his player efficiency rating (PER) had dropped to 11.6 after averaging 15.8 his first three seasons in New York.
The NCAA men's basketball tournament came to a dramatic conclusion, baseball season is in full swing and in a few weeks we'll have the NFL draft.
Now January is right smack in the middle of our collegiate, industrial league and AAU seasons, so our representatives in the International Basketball Federation knew they had little chance to assemble a decent team.
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So here's an incomplete timeline of the defeats, indignities, and self - owns sustained by the Pac - 12 in the two major revenue sports, football and men's basketball, since the start of the most recent football season:
It's unfathomable to me that a team could pour its blood, sweat and tears into a basketball season for five months, and then just give up with 11 seconds to go in a still - winnable regional final.
In a small personal way, then, the dawning of yet another college basketball season — which, as you well know, is my favorite stretch of the sports calendar — somehow seems infinitely more special and revitalizing this time around, if only because it's my first season as a college dad.
Consider: Cal has one of the best programs in the country, but its team includes both Olympians and women who are just discovering crew — as if the 12th man on the Duke basketball team were learning the game a month before the season.
The improvements they've made from previous years to this season in terms of basketball is astronomical.
The unfolding story of this year's Harvard - Westlake girls basketball team has more twists and turns than a Shakespearean play, but in reality the facts about the Wolverines» season up to this point makes a very strong case for it to be a tale of its own.
Unselfish, team basketball has been their recipe for success since the inaugural All Sports Series summer season back in 2010, and those team - before - me principles have remained as the foundation for their success.
This was never going to be a normal college basketball season, a fact assured by the FBI in September when its probe into corruption throughout the sport immediately mitigated every on - court storyline.
Jackson was one of the better defenders in college basketball last season despite being just a freshman.
It starts with an elite veteran point guard in Jalen Brunson, a player who already has a national championship to his name and might be college basketball's player of the year this season.
Upon his return to Sacramento, Jones - Smoots saw his own doctor, who revealed a torn ligament in his knee and broke the news that he would not be able to play basketball again for at least nine months, ultimately ending his fourth and final season in a Pacers» blue and yellow jersey.
But It wasn't until Shelton transferred to Damien High in La Verne for his junior season that he was able to fully realize his basketball potential.
We have also proved that NBA teams are undervalued in early season back - to - back games, neutral site college basketball games have been very low - scoring and NFL teams have underperformed in «must - win» games.
Our men's basketball club are having another fantastic year on the court, with the first team going into the second half of their season completely unbeaten in the BUCS Northern 2A and still in the running for the Northern Conference Cup.
For those who haven't fully submerged themselves into college basketball yet this season, Arizona State is a perfect 9 - 0 and ranked # 5 in the nation.
Conference play has officially begun in college basketball and that's good news for teams like UNC Wilmington and Vanderbilt who have struggled to cover this season.
The Warriors» uptempo style of basketball could suit Livingston's game well, plus his length and aptitude on the defensive end ought to be a substantial boost for a team that ranked 10th in opponents points per game a season ago.
«It's great to be back where you can hear the language of basketball on the court and in the stands,» says two - time college player of the year Clarissa Davis Wrightsil, now playing with the Blizzard after seasons in Italy, Japan and Turkey.
Given his fame, his love of his homeland, his knack for leadership and his ability as a public speaker, Divac is frequently asked if he will get involved in Yugoslav politics when his basketball career is over (which could be after the» 03 - 04 season, when his six - year, $ 62.5 million contract is up).
With Duke and North Carolina having played the best basketball of the season, fans yearning for a momentous college game turn their eyes to Chapel Hill and ask, Is this a preview of the March 30 national championship game in San Antonio?
«Sure it's a big crowd,» said Fordham's Charlie Yelverton of the largest regular - season gathering (19,500) for college basketball in Madison Square Garden history, «but all these people came to see if we were for real.
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Belmont hasn't been as good as the college basketball world has wanted them to be since nearly shocking Duke in their season - opener.
Porter was arguably the top recruit in the country entering the season, a reputation he built by starring on big stages for USA Basketball and at the McDonald's All - American Game and Nike Hoop Summit.
«b. Either (i) the player has NOT attended a college or university in the United States or Canada during the academic year that takes place during all or any part of the season; (ii) the player has attended a college or university in the United States or Canada during the academic year that takes place during all or any part of the season but is no longer eligible in the current academic year (including by enrolling) to play basketball for the college or university during the season at the time of signing the Player Contract; or (iii) the player has no remaining intercollegiate basketball eligibility.
LaRue, who's also a guard on the basketball team, played the final football game and the entire basketball season with a broken bone in his throwing hand.
After a stellar career at Rancho Bernardo High in San Diego, Halfaker was one of the key seniors behind West Point's turnaround 19 - win basketball season in 2001, a slashing, defense - obsessed guard known for her aggressiveness.
Virginia's loss to UMBC Friday night revived the hot January talking point that «there are no great teams in college basketball this season» and that «this is the most wide open tournament ever.»
It's still early, but so far the most important score of the college basketball season has been 163 - 154, the margin by which delegates to the NCAA convention in San Francisco last week passed a proposal to stiffen rules governing the awarding of athletic scholarships.
Of course everything we thought we knew about the major storylines for this season was blown to bits when the FBI dropped its bombshell on the college basketball world in late September.
Anchorage is going to play in the Eastern Basketball League this season.
Michigan basketball is bringing in four new players for the 2017 - 18 season with three incoming freshmen (Eli Brooks, Jordan Poole and Isaiah Livers) and a grad - transfer (Jaaron Simmons).
The 2013 - 14 college basketball season was officially the one that made me hate the three - pointer; that's a rather strange development considering how much I tend to enjoy underdog tactics, and considering the role analytics have played in the increased frequency of the three - ball.
The Wizards proved with this lineup last season that, when healthy, it plays together very well — the team was just one game under.500 when Wall returned from injury in January — and they also proved that when injury strikes, the resulting product barely, at times, resembles a basketball team.
Healey is the state's top law enforcement official and an athlete herself: a former Harvard basketball captain who played professionally in Europe for two seasons before going to law school.
College basketball's regular season has been all about parity and depth, and it's reflected in the announcement of the final field of 68 in the NCAA Tournament.
The Raiders were impressed with his size and agility — he also started at center on Maryland State's basketball team for three seasons — and they selected him in the third round of the combined AFL - NFL draft in 1968.
After a season where Golden State made a case that they were the best team in basketball history, Oklahoma City nearly argued the Warriors weren't even the best team currently in the NBA.