Sentences with phrase «year basketball career»

Welts's announcement is the latest influential step in an acclaimed 40 - year basketball career: He created the NBA All - Star weekend in 1984, ran the»92 Dream Team marketing program, has presided over three Western Conference finals appearances by the Suns during his nine years in Phoenix and now hopes to mentor gay athletes interested in sports careers.

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His teammates will be older than they would have been at Syracuse, and those playing for their basketball careers may be a little frosty at losing time to an 18 - year - old with a multi-million dollar guaranteed contract waiting for him.

Reinhart, who will remain as baseball coach, compiled a 475 - 342 basketball record in his 37 - year career — 13 at Oregon — ranking him fourth among active winning coaches.

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).

Frank decided to continue his basketball career by accepting a scholarship to Saint Mary's College, where he was a three year starter, a WCC All - Conference player, and a participant in the 1997 NCAA tournament.

Jason Kidd may have been fired recently as head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks, but with his 19 - year NBA career that began with the Dallas Mavericks in the 1990s and ended as a member of the New York Knicks five years ago he's a sure - fire Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer.

When the prep career was complete, Kidd was the first four - time All - NorCal choice, had led St. Joe to two CIF Division I titles, set national and state records for career assists and career steals and was a two - time Mr. Basketball State Player of the Year.

Suppose he'd had three years to settle into a basketball career.

Jackson is quickly turning into the jack of all trades label he's thoroughly displayed throughout his basketball career staying near the top of recruiting rankings and his one year at Kansas.

«Dear Basketball» and Bryant's nauseating «goodbye» tour from basketball are part of a 13 - year, carefully orchestrated career rehabilitation that found the player regaining an estimated $ 150 million in endorsements and bringing two additional championships to LoBasketball» and Bryant's nauseating «goodbye» tour from basketball are part of a 13 - year, carefully orchestrated career rehabilitation that found the player regaining an estimated $ 150 million in endorsements and bringing two additional championships to Lobasketball are part of a 13 - year, carefully orchestrated career rehabilitation that found the player regaining an estimated $ 150 million in endorsements and bringing two additional championships to Los Angeles.

They mentioned a brand new sports facility that was under construction, called the «BBI Sports Cloud,» noting that incoming seventh - year students will be the first class to have use of these basketball and netball courts for their entire Intermediate School careers.

Instead of just being a simplistic career mode in which you control one player, just like other EA Sports games from previous years, the developers took their time to come up with a nice little introductory story revolving around you picking up an injury in college that nearly made you quit basketball, as well as a small prologue chapter with you and your childhood friend playing amateur basketball in some of the United States» most famous street courts.

He first gained notoriety during his years at Old Dominion University (ODU) where he had a very successful basketball career with the Monarchs and is still known as one of the most outstanding scorers in Old Dominion basketball history.

Parlayed basketball fame into career investing in lower - income, inner - city neighborhoods long ignored by national retailers, joint - developing theaters and centers in those markets; Acquired fabled Fatburger chain with plans to add 100 units in the next five years.