Sentences with phrase «with basketball talent»

The Final Four is part of a talent pipeline — as Gallup CEO Jim Clifton often comments, kids everywhere with basketball talent dream of playing in the NBA, and from junior high through college we have a pipeline.

LeBron James is inhumanly gifted with basketball talents.

Not exact matches

Obviously, we all haven't been given the talent that Michael Jordan has in basketball or Jay - Z has in music, but hopefully each of us does something with the same passion as these two.

I'm hopeful that it is just a maturity issue and he cares about basketball and winning and isn't just someone with God given talent that does this only because he is good at it.

With the enormous sums of money at stake in major college sports, it's unlikely that anyone with basketball or football talent will be thrown aWith the enormous sums of money at stake in major college sports, it's unlikely that anyone with basketball or football talent will be thrown awith basketball or football talent will be thrown away.

Rationale: The Gaels are revolutionizing college basketball by rejecting the insular nature of the sport and setting the curve with their knowledge of foreign talent.

Of course, if this LeBrother (A) existed and (B) nurtured his basketball talent, it would require an inconceivable conspiracy to keep him hidden from the public (especially with State Farm's ad campaign).

If LaVar Ball really wants to get the JBA flooded with legitimate high school basketball talent, he's going to have to get his hands dirty and talk to these kids face to face.

For girls especially, a freshman with talent will be on varsity, so often the JV team is made up of young women who just want to see what high school basketball is like — and most of them discover it's harder than they thought.

Draft night, though primarily focused on the athletic achievements of the nation's top female talent, was rife with glimmers of hope for the future of women's basketball and women's sports as a whole.

Here you will meet such varied and complex personalities as Marvin Barnes, who some experts say is one of the best natural talents ever to come into the NBA and who destroyed his career with drugs and passionate insouciance — «the last innocent,» Walton called him; Kermit Washington, who fled from a posh Hollywood party because the movie people were sniffing cocaine; Abdul Qadir Jeelani (born Gary Cole), a shy young man who liked Rome better than Portland but yearned for the kind of recognition you can not find as «the king of spaghetti basketball»; Maurice Lucas, educated, intelligent, married to a Harvard graduate, yet tormented by the belief that his $ 300,000 salary was somehow demeaning.

With Olympic basketball just around the corner, and the top young prospects already displaying their talents in the NBA Summer League, it's only fitting that Bovada has released odds for the 2012 - 13 NBA Rookie of the Year.

Despite the stellar play of Anthony, the Nuggets failed to surround him with enough talent to make a serious run at an NBA title, with ownership happy to milk the increased revenue of playoff basketball without breaking the bank salary wise.

In early August, Pittsburgh coach Ralph Willard hired Troy Weaver, whose only coaching experience had been with an AAU program in Washington, D.C. Weaver had several Division I prospects in his program, including 6» 9» senior Attila Cosby, whom he helped place at Oak Hill Academy, a school in Mouth of Wilson, Va., known for its basketball talent, and who suddenly looks like a lock for Pitt.

«Families can come out and do everything from learning to tap dance with a mother - daughter team from the Dance Center of Columbia College to making art out of what might otherwise be considered garbage,» says Halperin, «to learning about what it takes, besides the players, to put on a Bulls basketball game with workshops on the behind - the - scenes aspects by talent scouts and play - by - play announcers.»

The only thing left unsliced is the ham in BloodRayne, yet another video game adaptation by German genre specialist Uwe Boll and a movie with more fading - or faded - talent than an Italian basketball team.

Turning point occurs when an exclusive Manhattan prep school recruits Jamal for his basketball talent and his academic achievement, and he seeks Forrester's help in dealing with the new environment, becomes a reluctant hero and Jamal gradually becomes committed not only to his own writing, but to cracking Forrester's shell.

Unfortunately, the film's ultimate message seems to be that education is irrelevant for those with physical talents, a dangerous example to set for the countless other impoverished youngsters who are destined for the NBA - or - nothing path that left Telfair's older brother to enjoy merely the obscurity of Greece's basketball league.

His love for the game would lead to a job with the men's team as an undergraduate at Yale and, eventually, to the creation of Basketball to Uplift the Youth (BUY) of Haiti, a communtiy youth program with the mission «to use basketball as a platform to impart life skills to the youth and provide them with talent - building opportunitiBasketball to Uplift the Youth (BUY) of Haiti, a communtiy youth program with the mission «to use basketball as a platform to impart life skills to the youth and provide them with talent - building opportunitibasketball as a platform to impart life skills to the youth and provide them with talent - building opportunities.»

Public education doesn't use a «draft» to match new teachers with schools, but in both teaching and basketball, there's a labor market with a supply of, and demand for, new talent.

Bill: His immense talent, his sense of humor, his ability to dunk a basketball, to talk about foreign affairs with experts on «Morning Joe», his work ethic, writing ability, thoughtfulness, humility, parental skills and on and on it goes.