Jump Shot Revolution

We do have memories to recall from our past – good and bad. From these memories brings a part of who we are in a diverse nation and a lesson that changes our lives forever. This is evident to Regelio Gomez' article entitled “Foul Shots”, that shares his memorable experience in playing basketball during his teenage years as both being his ghost and his teacher for almost 2 decades. His narration is a consequence of anyone who describes winning in the name of game or losing in the name of race.

In The Rebounder by Thomas J. Dygard it is more of a sportsbook that follows a high school senior named Chris Patton through his journey in playing basketball again after an accident that he had at his other school in Indianapolis. Also this story follows the Hamilton High Panthers basketball team's journey to win the Spoon River Conference in Illinois.

Michael Jeffrey Jordan was his full name. MJ was his nickname, he was known as the man that changed the game of basketball forever and nobody knew that even when he was in high school that he would grow to be the best player to ever play the game. Michael was influenced by his older brother, his brother was much bigger and stronger than him, but Michael made it his goal that eventually one day that he would be better than him, Michael was cut by his high school coach twice, and wouldn’t make the team until his senior year, where he completely changed the game and was unrealistic the way he could dunk it and dribble, and as well shoot the ball. Michael attended the University Of North Carolina. That is when the nation took notice that he was

Struzik, Artur, Bogdan Pietraszewski, and Jerzy Zawadzki. "Biomechanical Analysis of the Jump Shot in Basketball." Journal of Human Kinetics. Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego W Katowicach, 10 Oct. 2014. Web. 27 Oct. 2015.

There is the idea that the WNBA is less exciting than the NBA due to the lack of dunking. The dunk, or the “alley-oop” (lob to the dunk) has become an intricate part of the men’s game but it is not so often used in the woman’s. While the average NBA player stands at about 6’3”, the average WNBA player is only about 5’10”. With this in mind, almost every single NBA player is able to

Thesis: Basketball was invented by James Naismith in 1839. The objective was to throw the basketball into fruit baskets strapped to the railing of the gym balcony. As you can see the game of basketball has changed tons over the years and continues to grow.

The savior for the NBA emerged in the form of Danny Biasone, who instituted the 24-second shot clock that most agree, saved the league. The 1954-55 seasons was the first played with the shot clock, and the results were a more wide open style of play far more attractive to television viewers. The NBA has been selected for this study to determine how television coverage changed mass media coverage of basketball and the way the viewers perceived the game.

We can all agree that basketball is almost becoming popular around the world. So many people play this sport but do people know how basketball started and how it evolute throughout the years since basketball was borned? So like every other sports and creations, there has to be a inventor and in basketball there was a man by the name of Dr. James Naismith. “Created in 1891 in a Springfield, Massachusetts YMCA gymnasium has grown into a game played worldwide by more than 300 million people”(historybits.com). So this game has been out for a very long period of time with many changing of the rules in basketball throughout the history. When it was first played in the late 1800s, there were different rules and even different looking basketball. As for the rules, originally there would be 10 people on the court but it first started with 18 people on the court which after couple of years it changed to only 10 people. Substitution was also different and the rule for this was at first no one can enter until the next game. “The rule was changed in 1920 to allow a player to re-enter the game one time. In 1934, the rule was expanded to allow players to re-enter the game twice, and, in 1945 the rule was finally changed to permit players to return to the game an unlimited number of times”(hooptactics.com). The first basketball looked very alike a football but round. The backboards were made out of straight wood and the baskets were made out of peach baskets or square boxes. There was only

But back to smaller concepts, marketing in the 1960’s the NBA was not that known due to its small scope. It was beginning to be televised and so it started to reach more people through that medium. Then we start to see how ideas are used to market the league better. There is an entertainment value aspect to it; we started to see the players on cereal boxes as a form of advertisement. In the 1970’s we start to see more competitive balance then in the

December 21, 1891- The birth of basketball. It has been changed from simply shooting a soccer ball into a peach basket to dunking a seven pound, leather ball into an iron rim. In the early years of the game, basketball was not as popular as other sports. In the 1985 NBA draft all this would change with the emergence of a 6'6" basketball phenomenon from Wilmington, North Carolina. Although going third in the draft, he recreated the game and is known as the best player to ever touch a basketball; he is Michael Jordan.

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.

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.

Watching the game of basketball can be really fun and exciting and fun thrilling when you team wins. A lot of people watch the National Basketball Association, NBA, which is a league for men who want to play basketball as their jobs. Shaq is a famous player and he makes the game fun to watch, but he is a terrible free throw shooter.

According to ESPN, Pat Riley, a former coach and player in the NBA, says that “The evolution of it [a three-point shooting] wasn’t natural. It was man-made. It was thought-out.” He thinks that the man who made this trend is Mike D’Antoni, a former NBA head coach in the Phoenix Suns. Tom Haberstroh, an ESPN staff writer says that during the 2004–2005 season to the 2007–2008 season, D’Antoni invented the tactic called “Seven Seconds or Less” to play up-tempo games with three-point shooting to win more than seventy percent of their

which is a stand still uncontested shot. There are a few rules that go with