Such as the dunk from the free throw line that so many people try to attempt, but no one could do it like Michael Jordan. He brought personality to the game of basketball and no one would’ve been better to bring that than Michael Jordan. He was just simply a great all around player he could shoot, dunk, pass, and block. Any team that had Michael would definitely improve and only become better in time. No one else could lead one team to six championships in one decade, and would have come out of retirement twice to come back to the game of basketball.
Michael Jordan tried out for his high school basketball team and was cut because he was too short. From that point on, Michael Jordan set out to prove that he would be the best NBA player to ever play the game of basketball. Michael Jordan was born in 1963 in New York. His family moved to North Carolina when he as a toddler. Michael Jordan went on to attend college at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was an all-star player.
Now we can add Michael Jordan name to the list of players I just named. Jordan is being inducted into the Hall of Fame today due to his great basketball skills on the court and all of the things he accomplished in fifteen seasons in the NBA. As a child Jordan basketball career had some ups and downs. According to ESPN, “during his sophomore year at Laney, a 5’9 Michael Jordan tried out for the basketball team. He was passed over for the final spot on the varsity team.” He took that as motivation and dominated on the junior varsity team.
Jimmy V did not win this award because of his tremendous success as a college as a college basketball coach including winning the 1983 national championship, he won it for his amazing courage to fight and one day beat cancer even if he was not alive to see it. Jimmy was diagnosed with bone cancer in 1992 and was given a scarce amount of time to live. On March 3rd of 1993 as Jimmy’s hour glass of life was wasting down to its final grains, powerful and inspiring words vaulted from Jimmy’s mouth that could make the strongest of storms weak in the knees. Jimmy spread a message of love that night that continues to carry on today through the Jimmy V Foundation for Cancer Research. I will be critiquing Jimmy’s courageous speech in the following paragraphs.
Something funny that came out of that was when Darrall was deep in foul trouble, 4 fouls on only Chamberlain, he shouted at one of the referees “ Well, why don’t you just give the guy [one] hundred and we’ll all go home!” Sure enough he did just that. After Wilt had heard that he was going hard for the triple digits. Because of this very game the NBA had changed the lane (paint) from twelve feet wide to sixteen feet wide. With the third quarter coming to an end, Wilt racked twenty-eight, adding on to his 41 is 69 points from just the three quarters he’s been in. “The Big Dipper” scored his 80th point with 7:51 left on the clock.
He was drafted by the Chicago Bulls leading them to six NBA Championships, five-time league MVP, ten-time league scoring champion and the number one per-game scorer in NBA history. Michael earned millions of dollars by playing basketball and for endorsing products like his Nike Air Jordan sneakers. The most interesting fact about Michael Jordan is that he failed to make his high school basketball team but went on to be the most famous basketball player in history. After he retired from basketball he tried to play baseball in the minor leagues. It was very tough for Michael since he was not that good.
In 1966 Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for college basketball team to the NCAA. Haskin’s playing style was different from all of the other basketball teams. The African American part of the team starts to get racially abused. The team itself had some struggles with working as an actual team. Haskin’s wife gets hate mail from people who are unknown.
The straight answer to this could be simple like they could have several more African American sports stars in the 1950’s like Satchel Paige and even though in the book Jackie Robinson was downplayed, him as well. There also could have been numerous more African Americans involved in the medical field, like Vivien Thomas. On a lesser scale than baseball and heart surgery, in the narrative Fences what did institutional racism keep the characters from reaching. The most prominent scenario of this occurrence is Cory’s inability to join the football league in which he so desperately desired. If not for the fear of Cory being shadowed by his white counterparts on his team his father most likely would have let him join.
Many individuals believe that the declining number of blacks in Major League Baseball is because they are getting better opportunities in other sports. Blacks became more involved in college basketball after the year 1966 when an all-black Texas Western team beat Kentucky for the NCAA title. This game showed America that African Americans deserve opportunities not only in baseball, but they can also have a significant impact in other sports as well. Things changed around the same time for college football when a mostly-black USC Trojans team beat the University of Alabama and their legendary coach Bear Bryant for the National
Brittney Smith Dr. Fullman English Comp. 1 9/21/15 “In Virginia, high school football is a way of life, it’s bigger than Christmas day.” This is a quote from my favorite movie “Remember the Titans.” It takes place in nineteen seventy one and it’s severely segregated in Alexandria, Virginia; and TC Williams High School is now being integrated. To make matters worse, the new head coach is a black man, something that the town frowns upon; and the team is full of resentful players, both black and white. The team mates do not like each other and neither do any of the people in the town or school, which brings a greater division on the field. In the midst of the hate and change, the players are all stationed at a football camp that is meant to bring them together