Sentences with phrase «of watching basketball»

In my 25 years of watching basketball, there are only two NBA teams prior to this that I ever felt comfortable saying were genuinely cool.

If christians want to worship instead of watching basketball, they can do just that.

Not exact matches

If a gorilla walked through the middle of a basketball game you were watching, would you notice it?

For example, as evidence of the growth of e-sports, many people use data from different sources to claim that the annual championship of Riot Games's League of Legends is watched by more viewers than the National Basketball Association finals.

In fact, American workers will spend on average of about six hours focusing on basketball during the tournament — checking brackets, watching a game online, reading coverage, and verifying team rankings, according to staffing firm OfficeTeam.

For a family of four to watch professional sports, the tickets can range in price from $ 115.76 for baseball to $ 343.32 for football, with basketball ($ 215.92) and hockey ($ 248.72) in between, and theme parks ($ 209.44) in the same general pricing vicinity.

So, here are a few bits of advice I offered to the accountant while we watched the last five minutes of the basketball game.

He might not have had the triple - doubles of Russell Westbrook or the defense of Kawhi Leonard, but anyone who watched basketball last year knew that if Harden was on the court it was in your best interest not to look away.

Deep in the bowels of Houston's 72,000 - seat NRG Stadium, in a curtained - off makeshift room near the court where the Villanova Wildcats and the University of North Carolina Tarheels are playing for the NCAA basketball championship, a small team of engineers and data scientists from a company called Lightwave huddles over laptops watching a stream of real - time data.

«To watch a mostly Cuban - American crowd at a Miami Heat basketball game or at an event at the Orange Bowl or at the new Joe Robbie stadium in North Miami belting out «The Star - Spangled Banner» was to witness what appeared on the surface like the most old - fashioned, fervent expression of immigrant patriotism,» writes Rieff.

The more I considered it, the more I knew that I was watching, there in that outsized basketball arena, an authentic reflection of the deeply felt needs of a rootless, churchless people to identify with some specific religious spot, even if it were so long ago and far away as to be irretrievable.

I walked outside and saw that the gym was full of people watching their kids play basketball.

We love having friends over to watch sporting events to a few of the basketball games is another great reason for a sports related party in our basement!

Think of the weeks ahead: kids are home from school, people will gather to watch basketball and football games on T.V., and family and friends will come together to celebrate the holidays.

Come watch every game of the Men's College Basketball Tournament on our 60 - inch TV screens at the Yao Family Wines Tasting Room.

I have also been watching a lot of basketball (of course).

WhenSabathia and Connors arrived, a small group of women and two men — formerCleveland State basketball stars Damon Stringer and Jamaal Harris — were waiting.Sabathia was wearing $ 15,000 diamond earrings, a $ 26,000 necklace with aplatinum cross and a $ 60,000 Rolex watch, and he was carrying $ 3,200 in cash.Stringer left with Harris, went to Stringer's home and retrieved a 9 - mm pistolfrom the safe, which also held $ 16,000 in cash.

Coaching matters, and anyone with two eyes who has watched a lot of basketball in their life can tell you that these are not well - coached players.

I don't watch a ton of college basketball outside of the Big Ten and the occasional weeknight top 10 matchup, but I make sure I keep with enough of the coverage for March.

It was a blast to watch them once they really started to gel at the end of the season into tournament time, and it's objectively a big event for Penn State Men's Basketball to win the NIT.

However, as many of us know, it isn't always the self - proclaimed basketball guru (you know, the one who boasts about staying up late to watch every mid-major team) who wins the office pool.

More to the point, he was reliving the experience of watching Anthony Davis play basketball.

The Women's World Cup is over, the Copa America is over, and the only matches to watch right now are the Gold Cup, Wimbledon, Baseball, NBA Summer League basketball and reruns of Game of Thrones.

In addition to watching NBA basketball every night from October to April — both in arenas and via League Pass — I've spent most of the last seven months consuming basketball content, poring over statistics, and talking to people who work in the league.

He got one haircut and watched snatches of college basketball and some morning TV.

Air Jordan transformed Michael Jordan into a corporate dream property: He now earns $ 2 to $ 3 million a year through long - term endorsement contracts with Nike, McDonald's, Coca - Cola, Chicago - area Chevrolet dealers, Wilson (for his own line of basketballs), Excelsior International (for Time Jordan watches, which carry the Guy Laroche imprimatur) and Johnson Products (a personal - grooming line).

In the case of Andrew Bynum and his ailing knees, watching the seven - footer dunk on a real basketball court was one such feat.

«I was late for a parks league basketball game because my eyes were too wide open from watching both Tommie Frazier break all of the tackles and the Blackshirts22Thatâ $ ™ s the nickname given to the Nebraska defense.

Kentucky's players may not watch much tape, but SI undertook the project of charting all 815 minutes and 1,299 possessions from their first 20 games using the Defensive Scoresheet method from statistician Dean Oliver's 2003 book, Basketball on Paper — which assigns credit or blame (either full or fractional) for forced misses, points yielded, turnovers created, fouls and rebounds — in order to create individual defensive ratings.

In my near decade of watching Pistons basketball I've seen one winning season.

One secret about (possibly) the greatest defensive team of college basketball's modern era: «The only film we watch,» says Cauley - Stein, «is 10 clips during the pregame meal.

I've only watched at home by myself, and liked the idea of some camaraderie for one of the biggest games in Aggie basketball history.

He watched a lot of basketball in the CIAA (the conference of Southern predominately black schools), much admiring Soapy Adams at North Carolina A&T and, of course, Earl the Pearl Monroe at Winston - Salem State.

i've watched maybe 100 minutes of college basketball this year.

It is definitely more fun and entertaining to watch an inside - outside game of basketball — but also, more efficient and productive for the offense.

And the title game is in Madison Square Garden, a classic hoops venue and far better place to watch / play basketball than some of the 70,000 - seat behemoths the NCAA Tournament's tried out.

This was the most fun team to watch in my many decades of watching college basketball.

There's only like ten teams, you know, out of 25, that actually play the kind of game of basketball that you'd like to watch.

Except for finding Cook, Looney, and Jones, over the past month, this past month has been a waste of time watching basketball.

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Before winning their own gold medal, the U.S. women's basketball players watched from the upper reaches of Karaiskaki Stadium as the U.S. women's soccer team played for gold.

«Probably every college team in the country watches [the draft] and thinks, Man, that could have been one of us, but I always saw myself playing college basketball,» says McRoberts, who will start for Duke immediately.

The goal, after all, is why we watch in the first place and the relative rarity of its occurrence in a football match is in many ways what makes it different from the higher scoring team sports like basketball and rugby.

Two months ago Walsh sat courtside at Maples Pavilion and watched a Stanford basketball game with Jim Harbaugh, the latest in the long procession of coaches he has mentored.

But I watch a shit load of college basketball and a lot of pro basketball, and Donte's combo of athleticism and capability to go absolutely off in a game strike me as NBA - caliber.

Rick Pitino didn't look too happy watching his son, Richard, coach the University of Minnesota's basketball team on Saturday night, but it wasn't because of poor coaching.

Perhaps an eight - team (or 16 - team, or 32 - team) tournament will be a better event, but for those who want to preserve the importance of the regular season and not turn college football into the three months of bubble - watching that college basketball has largely become, the built - in mechanism for tournament expansion is disheartening.

I love the NBA playoffs, but even as one of the world's biggest basketball fans, I'd probably rather watch these crazy dogs do crazy things for hours upon hours.

NBA fans can find comfort in the fact that if they're watching the NBA 2K league, they are still watching some form of basketball at the end of the day.

They are just two examples of the national media putting thoughts into casual basketball observers who don't always watch the Rockets.