G-Pete Maravich Character Analysis

Michael Jordan is the best player who has even competed in the NBA. In the course of 16 years Jordan has created a name for himself and has made history in the NBA. Michael Jordan has become the best player through, winning six championships, earning five MVP awards, and making himself a house hold name.

Michael Jordan, in his prime, was thought of as one of the greatest basketball champions of all time. A shooting guard, standing at six-six, Jordan was able to out play anyone in his position. He started his career at the University of North Carolina, where he helped his team win a national championship. He then was drafted by the Chicago Bulls in the 1984-85 season. While playing for the Bulls, Jordan received many awards such as, MVP, five championships, Olympic gold medals, slam dunk contests, and many more defensive and offensive awards. Jordan simply dominated the nineties and left the game as a NBA Finals winner in 1998.

Jordan burst into the league as a rookie sensation scoring in droves with an unmatchable first step and acrobatic drives and dunks and concluded his career as a cultural icon. Hard work, dedication, and the desire

Most people know him as an 11 time NBA Champion, 5 time MVP, 12-time All-Star and he were the centerpieces of the Celtics dynasty during his 13-year career. Bill Russell ended up as the most successful player in the history of the NBA and formed the centerpiece of the greatest dynasty in the history of the league. For his accomplishments in the Civil Rights Movement on and off the court, Barack Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. Bill was outstanding at everything he ever put his mind to. For all that he accomplished on and off the field, Bill Russell is definitely one of the all-time great players of Basketball.

The Boston Celtics had 29 wins the season before they drafted Bird. The team improved by 32 games to go 61-21 in Bird's first season. The main reason they won so many more games was because of Larry Bird. Bird was not just a shooter, he was also a great passer and rebounder too, which in turn made his teammates better as a whole. In his second year in the NBA, Bird and Celtics won the NBA Championship against the Houston Rockets. Larry Bird would go on to win two more championships with the Celtics. He would also win the Most Valuable Player award three times. This is what Larry Bird said after his second Most Valuable Player award, "While I was still trying to figure out how I could improve my game for the next season, I was notified that I had been selected as the league MVP for the second year in a row"(Bird and Ryan 153). Larry Bird after being in the league for seven years and winning two straight MVPs was still trying to find ways to get better. Bird proved that perseverance and dedication to the sport he loved would lead to a successful and rewarding

In his first three seasons in the NBA, Rose had massive success. He earned the honor of being Rookie of the Year and led his team to the playoffs for 4 straight

Although the Supersonics did not reach the playoffs while Wilkens coached and started at point guard, their record improved each season and they won 47 games in the 1971-1972 NBA season. Wilkens was dealt to the Cavaliers before the start of next season in a highly unpopular trade, and the Supersonics fell 26-56 without Wilkens on their team. Wilkens ended his career spending two seasons with the Cavaliers in 1972-1974 and one with the Portland Trail Blazers 1974-1975. Wilkens scored 17,772 points during the regular season, was a nine time NBA All star and was named the 1971 NBA all start game MVP in 1971. At the time on him retiring he was the NBA’s second all time leader in that category behind Oscar Robertson. Now I will go over his coaching career. From 1969 to 1972 with Seattle, and in his one season as a player with Portland, he was a player coach. He retired playing in 1975 and was the full time coach of the trailblazers for one season. After one season of coaching, he again became coach of the Supersonics when he replaced Bob Hopkins who as fired 22 games into the 77-78 seasons after a 5-17 start. The Sonics won 11 out of their 12 first games under Wilkens who made the playoffs in back to back years, losing in seven games to

He finished with 953 rebounds and 1,551 points. In his final home game of his career, he became only the fifth Gent and the first player in conference history to finish with more than 1500 points and 900 career rebounds.

The Chicago Bulls joined the NBA for the 1966-67 season. The franchise struggled for the better part of a quarter century, occasionally putting excellent teams on the court, such as the tough units of the mid-1970s that featured Bob Love, Norm Van Lier, Jerry Sloan, and Tom Boerwinkle. More often, however, the Bulls worked hard for mediocre results. That all changed in the mid-1980s with the drafting of Michael Jordan, the dominant player of his era and possibly the greatest player of all time. Jordan won seven straight scoring titles with a combination of breathtaking slam dunks and a bag of thrilling tricks. He put up some of the biggest numbers in NBA history and wrote some of the most memorable chapters of the league. The addition of Scottie

The Bulls once again made the playoffs, for the second consecutive season in the 2009–10 season,while finishing off with a 41–41 record sitting right at .500. In the playoffs Rose averaged 26.8 points and 7.2 assists, but the Bulls lost in five games to the Might Cleveland Cavaliers led by the Bulls worst memory...Lebron James.

His career highs so far are with the Timberwolves. He played in 57 games, his field goal (2-point shots) percentage is at .421, his 3-point percentage is at .304, his free throw percentage is at .641, and he has his high in rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks also. The only record he has broke since then was his free throw percentage that changed to .900 with the Raptors. In his whole career so far he has played in 151 games, has 472 rebounds, given 77 assists, has 58 steals, has 27 blocks, and 658 points. He has only played in four seasons, so this is impressive. Although he hasn’t won any championships, he has great achievements and who knows how his future will

forward from the University of Massachusetts. As a three time NBA champion, eleven all-star games, two-time all-star MVP four MVP’s, and three NBA season scoring titles, Julius Erving is one of the best players to ever play. While he didn’t win as many championships as some players, he changed the game by introducing a new style of play and, by staying humble

Kevin Durant born September 29, 1988 is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association NBA. He has won an NBA championship, an NBA Most Valuable Player Award, the Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award, the NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award, four NBA scoring titles, the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, and two Olympic gold medals. Durant has also been selected to seven All-NBA teams and nine NBA All-Star teams. Durant was a heavily recruited high school prospect who was widely regarded as the second-best player in his class. He played one season of college basketball for the University of Texas, where he won numerous year-end awards and became the first freshman to be named Naismith College Player of the Year. In 2007, he was selected as the second overall pick by the Seattle SuperSonics in the NBA draft. After his rookie season, the team relocated to Oklahoma City and became the Thunder.

He was a top ten candidate for the wooden award. Established career highs in points (24) and 3-pointers (5) and

After he graduated from high school, he decided to go and play for the University of North Carolina Where he was a big star and won a championship title with a last two-second shot. He was nominated player of the year. He then was drafted to the Chicago Bulls, where he had a long list of outstanding accomplishments.