Category: Basketball

The addiction of the great Michael Jordan

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Here is a classic story about Michael Jordan, which was told by Chris Webber. It happened in ‘ 97, when the forward played for the Bullets. “Once we played in Washington. We played a 5-match series against the Bulls (in fact, a 3-match series-ed.). It was in the season when they reached 72 wins (in fact, 69-it was in the season-97). We lost in three matches with a total difference of 7 points (in fact, 18-ed.). And then I saw Michael Jordan come into our locker room with a lit…

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21 years ago, the US national team beat gravity

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Historically, the basketball tournament of the Olympics is probably the most striking discipline represented at the Games. It is attended by the most media and highly paid athletes from the NBA, whom we do not see so often in confrontations with overseas teams, and that’s why every time we estimate how much the dominant force of the players acting in the Association are at the moment. On the basketball players themselves, the change of the situation mainly has a favorable influence: they communicate with experienced partners, make new friends, hang…

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Meet Becky Hammon-a potential NBA head coach

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American basketball player Becky Hammon received Russian citizenship in February 2008 and began playing for the women’s national team of the country. In the form of the Russian national team, Becky won bronze at the 2008 Olympic Games and silver medals at the Eurobasket 2009. The Honored Master of Sports of Russia, the owner of the Order “For Services to the Fatherland” of the II degree for a great contribution to the development of physical culture and sports, high sporting achievements at the Games in Beijing — Becky received these…

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Scotty Pippen openly went against Michael Jordan: a major scandal is breaking out in the United States.

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More than a year has passed since the premiere of the documentary “The Last Dance” about the legendary Michael Jordan and the decline of the Chicago Bulls dynasty. And this story, of course, could not do without Michael’s no less stellar teammate Scotty Pippen. After the premiere of the film, he, to put it mildly, was not thrilled and is now preparing his answer to Jordan. In November of this year, Pippen’s autobiographical book “Unguarded”  will be published, in which he is going to tell the whole truth about what…

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Kobe Bryant’s widow breaks silence on NBA superstar’s death

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Three days after Los Angeles basketball great Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others perished in a helicopter crash, his wife, Vanessa, broke her silence with an Instagram message saying she was “completely devastated” by their loss. The social media text was posted alongside a recent family photo of Kobe and Vanessa Bryant with all four of their daughters – Gianna, who died with her father, along with the couple’s eldest, Natalia, 17, 3-year-old Bianka, and the youngest, Capri, born in June 2019. Kobe Bryant and the couple’s second…

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Giant who cared for the little people

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Kobe Bryant may be no more, killed in a tragic helicopter accident. But he has the undying love of the people of rural Philippines. He transformed their lives, bringing his basketball, new facilities and joy to their derelict villages. There, the legend lives. IN a rundown part of Gawad Kalinga village, in Taguig City, an hour’s drive from Manila, a basketball court stood, looking spanking new. It had been recently refurbished. Two sets of children were set to play against each other, watched by a huge crowd, some even climbing…

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Fog likely to figure prominently in probe of Kobe Bryant’s fatal helicopter crash

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Overcast skies and fog reported at the scene of the helicopter crash that killed former NBA superstar Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others appear likely to become a key focus of aviation experts investigating the weekend tragedy near Los Angeles. A Sikorsky S-76 chopper owned by Bryant slammed into a steep hillside on Sunday morning outside the town of Calabasas, California, about 40 miles (65 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles, igniting a brush fire and spreading debris over a quarter-acre of grassy terrain. Hours later, Los Angeles County…

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Kyle Lowry and Dennis Schroder named NBA Players of the Week

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Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry and Oklahoma City Thunder guard Dennis Schroder have been named the NBA Players of the Week. Lowry averaged 24.5 points, 10.0 assists and 6.5 rebounds as the Toronto Raptors won all four of their Week 9 games. Toronto followed victories over the Cleveland Cavaliers, Detroit Pistons and Washington Wizards with an astonishing 30-point comeback to beat the Dallas Mavericks 110-107 on Sunday night. Lowry scored 20 of his 32 points in the fourth quarter to inspire the Raptors to the franchise’s biggest comeback win. Overall,…

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Mixed Martial Arts – McGregor set for UFC return in January

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Former two-weight UFC champion Conor McGregor is set to return to the octagon on Jan. 18 where he will take on veteran American Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone in a welterweight bout at UFC 246, promotion boss Dana White has told ESPN. “Conor has signed and ‘Cowboy’ is ready to go,” the UFC president said, giving the green light for the return of one of MMA’s most bankable stars. Irishman McGregor, who has 21 professional wins and four losses in MMA and a single defeat to Floyd Mayweather on his professional boxing…

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Luka Doncic becomes second-youngest player in NBA history to top 30 points in 4 straight games

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Once upon a time, there was an NBA draft prospect named Luka Doncic who had just won the MVP award in the world’s second-most competitive basketball league at the age of 19. He was widely regarded as a top-two talent in the 2018 NBA draft, but fell to No. 3 for a variety of reasons. One of those reasons might have been the perception that Doncic was a high-floor, low-ceiling prospect, with little room to grow compared to some other prospects. Well, that player just dropped 41 points and 10…

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