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The National Basketball Association, or NBA has grown up over the last few decades. Once on the verge of collapse, and unwanted by television, the NBA has rebounded to become quite possibly the most popular league in the nation. It was through television that the league finally established itself as a worthy opponent to Major League Baseball and the National Football League. The NBA got its first television exposure during the 1953-54 season on the long-since folded DuMont network. At that time, baseball was still the national pastime, and pro football was beginning to take the spotlight as the favorite sport. Even college basketball was

Furthermore Wilt Chamberlin who played in the 60’s, in which he was only seven footer at the time and owned the league, held the previous record.

There are five players that will start out in the game which are called your starters. You always have five players in the game at all time. The are what are called fouls in basketball. Fouls can hurt you if you're down in the game with very few time left. Here are some examples of fouls, technical foul, personal foul, and a charging foul. Here are some other ruler that you can’t do that are not fouls, travel, double dribble, three second violation, and a five second violation. The object in basketball is to get as many points into the basketball hoop. You can get a three or a two pointer. There are many ruler and ways to teach the game of

In College this three-point line exactly 19 feet and 9 inches away from the hoop. As you get better a player shot is going to improve so in the NBA to make the game more competitive they made the distance for three pointers 23 feet and 9 inches away from the hoop (TITUS). Although the three-point line changes this is the only real difference in a NBA and College basketball court. The foul line and court size still all remains the same.

Rules of the game of basketball. Basketball is a team sport. Two teams of five players each try to score by shooting a ball through a hoop elevated 10 feet above the ground. The game is played on a rectangular floor called the court, and there is a hoop at each end. The court is divided into two main sections by the mid-court line. If the offensive team puts the ball into play behind the mid-court line, it has ten seconds to get the ball over the mid-court line. If it doesn 't, then the defense gets the ball. Once the offensive team gets the ball over the mid-court line, it can no longer have possession of the ball in the area in back of the

In this project, many different statistics were used to try and predict the winners of the NCAA March Madness tournament. To do this, statistics were tested from the previous year to see if they moderately correlated to winning games. When a stat is moderately correlated, that means it relates to winning. Using a scatter plot, a graph that gives a visual of whether or not a stat is correlated, correlation coefficients were found for each stat. The correlation coefficient is a decimal that shows if a set of numbers is moderately correlated. After finding stats that were the closest to being moderately correlated, a metric was put together that used the best stats to determine which teams will win games. The stat that was the closest to being moderately correlated was the turnover ratio of the teams. Another stat that was almost moderately correlated was RPI, or Rating Percentage Index. This stat uses a team’s win percentage, their opponents’ win percentage, and their opponents’ opponents’ win percentage to rank teams. Also, missed field goal percentage was a stat that was used.

Michael Jordan stood at a height of six foot six when he was done growing (Strauss 60). This was not always the case though. His freshman year of high school, his closest friend, Harvest Leroy Smith, considered Jordan small, but very swift and the best ninth-grader player His speed compensated for his lack of size (Porter 3). When Jordan was drafted into the NBA no one could have been prepared for his acrobatic skills. He was able to play faster, jump higher, hung longer, and slam dunked better than anyone else during his time (Strauss 60). On the other hand, Shaquille O’neal was known for his size. Ironically, Shaquille Rashaun, means “Little Warrior” in Islam. He however did not live up to his name.

Some points are asked to be scorers and other are asked to hold their team down on the defensive end. In the article, On Point: Eight Characteristics of Great Point Guards , states “When you have a scoring point guard it just really puts pressure on the defense. It helps to open your entire offense. Normally you have other positions that are scoring positions, but when you have (a scoring point guard) it just naturally opens up your other shooters and your inside game.” ( Andy Streit). The more of a scorer the point guard is the more successful the other teammate will be. Point guard cannot always look to pass, they have to know how to penetrate into the defense, draw two defenders, and then a better pass will be open to another teammate.

To start off, I made a spread sheet full of statistics in the program Excel. I listed ten of the leagues top players to calculate their averages and standard deviations in points, assists, offensive and defensive rebounds. To do this I just used the Excel function. The players I used were Kevin Durant, Lebron James, Carmelo Anthony, Stephen Curry, Kobe Bryant, Derrick Rose, Russell Westbrook, Chris Paul, James Harden, and Anthony Davis. I chose these specific players based on numbers, age, position, contract, salary and popularity. From there in each category in the

In basketball, in order to score three points the players have to shoot the ball behind the three-point line. In College this three-point line is exactly 19 feet and 9 inches away from the hoop. As a player practices and improves, his/her shot is going to improve, so in the NBA, to make the game more competitive they made the distance for three pointers 23 feet and 9 inches away from the hoop (TITUS). Although the three-point line changes this is the only real difference between a NBA and College basketball court. The foul line and court size still all remains the same.

For offensive tackles broad jump and vertical leap showed the greatest positive relationship because offensive tackles need those skills in order to perform their tasks in the field and if someone have a high broad jump it means that score in a vert leap also going to be positively correlated.

Orlando: defensively, also rank 18th, on average allowing 101.6 points per game. The Los Angeles Lakers offensively, rank 18th in the NBA, on average scoring 102 points per game. Defensively; the Los Angeles Lakers rank 27th in the NBA allowing 109.3 points per game.

In the BAA teams had unlimited time to shoot the basketball, in today’s NBA teams only have 24 seconds to shoot the basketball. Teams who player’s committed consecutive fouls would’ve gave a point to the opposing team, now when players commit fouls either the other team gets the ball, two free throws, or a player that has committed 6 fouls will get ejected from the game. A free throw is when a player that has been fouled takes either 1, 2, or 3 shots without any defenders trying to block him/her. Many players and coaches didn’t believe in jumping they thought “nothing good would come when player’s feet left the ground.” Basketball games were longer two each quarter was 12 minutes, now every quarter is 10 minutes not including timeouts or foul calls. (www.nba.com by Sam Goldaper

It does seem like some important information is missing. For instance, how can you tell who has better skills based on the number of years playing the game? After playing for five years in the league, none of them may be an all-star. Perhaps the kid who started playing at age 11 is a better player than the three who have five years of experience.

If you extrapolate that points percentage over a full 82-game season, that would be a 110-point pace, elite level performance.