Narrative- Descriptive Essay Assignment on Lost Ticket to a Basketball Game In 1949, the National Basketball Association (NBA) was formed. Basketball is not a sport for anyone it takes a lot of dedication, strength, and team work. Basketball is an out line of the event or sport. A brief out line of basketball is it is a game played with a pumped round ball between two teams of five players each on a rectangular court. Basketball is usually played indoors, but it does not need to be.
Ryan Peete English 1A Ramos 1/16/13 Minorities Trials And Triumphs Based on the true story of Coach Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) and high school basketball team the Richmond Oilers, Coach Carter helps out a discouraged coach as he takes on the job as the new head coach; However, he slowly begins to apply his hard and rigorous workout routine to show the young athletes how to stretch not only the body but the mind as well. When the team and the parents cause animosity about how grades aren’t more important than basketball, Carter locks down the gym and ultimately canceling practice and games in an attempt to make the Oilers winners on and off the court and strive for a future. In the film Coach Carter, Carter although insensitive to the n-word, strives to teach young minority student athletes to respect each other, gain an education and lose their stereotypical thug personas. In the film Coach Carter the n-word is used very loosely and asserted throughout the movie by the diverse group of athletes to identify each other as brothers are friends, not knowing they are being bias, not only to themselves but to others around them as well. Timo Cruz one of the primary actors in this film has shown himself to be a lost street thug who has no aspirations in life but to play basketball and sell drugs.
The basketball court changed my life. I was familiar with the game of basketball from watching it on television but I never played organized or even a simple pick up game at the time. Once I found the basketball court, all I wanted to do was learn more of the game and play. I grew that ambition
Basketball only needs 10 players for a game (5 on court and 5 on the bench) so most of the professional teams will have between 12 and 15 players to cover down for any injuries (FIBA). A football team needs
In his first season in the NBA, he averaged 28.2 points per game on 51.5% shooting. c. Jordan had 2,514 steals in
Basketball A Poetry Anthology By: Nisargkumar Mahendrabhai Patel Table of Contents “Basketball” By: Zak Fick2 “Love is Basketball” By: Kaity Kenny3 “Love of the Game” By: Josh Underwood4 “Last Wish” By: Ashley Buttress5,6,7 “Buzzer Beater Blues” By: Benjamin Steiner8 “Playing Ball” By: Nisarg Patel9 “Do the John Wall” By: Troop 4110,11,12 Basketball By: Zach Fick Dribble, Dribble, Bounce, Bounce, Up the court I go, Gonna take it too the rim, Putting on a show Try and stop me, Try again I'm Unstoppable I am Ron, My moves are Kim 'Cuz they're Impossible I'm not to flashy, but I am quick Hit me with the ball Throw it up, and watch it drip, Like raindrops in the fall I am the best, no one compares Or even measures close And if anyone ever dares It will be all she wrote I proudly stand above the rest And if you don't believe Just put me to your hardest test An A-plus I'll receive And if you watch and start to see How everything makes sense Inside my head so easily Wait till you see my defense Love is Basketball By: Kaity Kenny Love IS basketball… Always unpredictable and draining... Even in our down time… We are hard in training Preparing to be the best And be crowned as kings Ball is the sport… And determination is what it means You have to have a love… a drive... and a passion A jersey and shorts… That’s our fashion We're not just a team… We're brothers at best.. And because we're motivated by each other... We're better than all the rest… Love of the Game By: Josh Underwood They may not have the most talent, They may not be the best, But they do have one thing, That sticks out from the rest It's not the outside shot, or the dominant inside game, It's about the love and glory, and playing through the pain. They'll
In this soliloquy, Claudius Since all of the 7 actors were male, and only 3 having done GCSE drama, we decided to be experimental. We decided to incorporate basketball into our workshop performance of Hamlet. The workshop performance was set out as a basketball game to create a more competitive atmosphere: 6 different actors performing different soliloquies, and one Claudius (me) performing his soliloquy. We adopted the idea of using the concept of Claudius being Hamlet’s “opposition”. Since 6 actors were each delivering a different soliloquy, we formed the play to represent an actual basketball game; 6 Hamlets against 1 Claudius.
Instead of eleven players, basketball has five players on each team. Girls and boys usually wear the same attire: jersey top, gym shorts, socks , and tennis shoes. Unlike football, basketball includes both boys and girls. Points tend to tally different as well. In basketball,shots inside the three points line counts as two points, free-throws counts as one point, and outside the three point line, counts as three points.
Knowing this the other team used this to attack him. Needless to say with about two minutes to go they manage to foul him out and score. During the last couple of possessions they manage to cut it to one. As the clock whines down they get a steal and we’re forced to foul. The tension before this was something you wanted to feel.
Salary expectations for this profession exceeded my wildest dreams and I couldn’t even begin to imagine what I could do if I made that kind of money. In 2010, the average salary for an NBA player was $3.2 million per year (Basketball Tips Made for the Basketball Lovers Like You). This is just the average? What would a star such as Kobe Bryant or LeBron James