Kevin Durant's Awards Essay

During this season, Carter led all other rookies in scoring and blocking and held an averaging 18.3 points per game and continued on to win the NBA Sportsmanship Award. Among all of the basketball accolades Vince received this year, he was also named a Goodwill Ambassador by Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.

First, a list of his accomplishments. Kobe was drafted out of highschool at the age of seventeen, broke into the league by winning the Slam Dunk contest in his rookie season, and by age of twenty-five he was a three time world champion. He was the youngest person to be named a NBA All-Star at the age of nineteen. The combination of his talents with the talents of Shaquille O’Neal was the greatest “one-two punch” of all time. That is an objective fact. Shaq himself has even admitted that had the duo stayed together after the 2004 season, they most certainly would have gone on to win additional world championships, but Kobe didn’t need Shaq. When it was all said and done, Kobe ended up with five rings to his name to O’Neals four - all five with the Lakers I might add.

Also Lebron James broke Kobe Bryant’s record of achieving 20,000 points at 28, while Kobe who held the record at 29.

Michael Jordan is 53 years old, has had more than one number they are 23,12,45, and 23 again, played in 1072 games averaged 30.1 PPG, signed with Nike, picked 3rd to the Bulls in 1984, has a net worth of 1.24 billion his NBA debut was October 26 1984, has won

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 spite of these players’ efforts, this year was the first time that a player straight out of high school has won the NBA MVP award. Kevin Garnett may have won the MVP award this year, but he has been in the league for nine seasons, which makes him a veteran player. Therefore, instead of spending his first four seasons in the NBA, he could have spent them in college, and then he could have come to the NBA and won the MVP award. By going to college he could have still kept improving as a player, but he could have also gotten the college experience and could have become a more educated person.

Westbrook is a well-known basketball player. If you ask most people, they will know who he is. He has made many accomplishments throughout his career. Over his eight years in the NBA he has scored a total of 1,514 points in 3,288 minutes. He also holds the record for the most triple doubles in a season with a total of 42.

Would you consider yourself an American Dreamer?.George from Mice and Men to fit the archetype of an american dreamer because he goes from ranch to ranch in a vagabond manner to work. He wants to work and save money so he can buy a property that he can call his own. An american dreamer is someone who believes in the ideal that US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve. The reason why George fits in this archetype is because he is different from the other men in the book mice and men , He has dreams that he wants to accomplish. George wants a place he can call his own/home. His home will be one where he can be independent and safe and where he will just focus on himself and nobody else.

Kevin started by playing with the PG Jaguars, an Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) youth basketball team in Prince George’s County, Maryland. The team won two national championships while Kevin was there, the reason he wears number 35 is because his AAU coach and childhood mentor Charles Craig, who died at age 35.

Russell Westbrook manages to get his team the playoffs. The reason why this important is because his team is a really under average team in the in the toughest conference which is the western conference. This player has put on an incredible performance this season. He has

Russell Westbrook is a point guard, who has been playing for the Oklahoma City Thunder. He was born on November 12, 1988 and is currently 27. Russell is a very quick, and explosive player, he loves to attack the rim. He's also a great shooter, he leads the NBA with tripe doubles. A triple double, is when you get 3 double digit stats. Russell gets assists, rebounds, and points. He's a 5 time NBA all star, 2 time NBA all star MVP , NBA scoring champion and he made the NBA All-Rookie team. In 2012 he made the NBA championship game, and played against the Miami Heat. They lost and Lebron James won MVP.

When Kevin Durant made his National Basketball Association Most Valuable Person award acceptance speech this May he called his mother “ the real MVP”. going onto say “ we were not supposed to be but you made us believe. You kept us out of the street. You put clothes on our back, food on the table. When you did not eat you made sure we ate. You want to sleep hungry. You sacrificed for us.”.

Carmelo Anthony – In 2002 Carmelo Anthony was the number 2 prospect in the country behind future Knick teammate Amar’e Stoudemire. During that year, Jordan Brand Classic Stoudemire and Anthony put on an offense show giving people a glimpse into the future as opponents and as future teammates. Stoudemire won Co-MVP alongside Sean May that year, but the two stars of the 2002 Jordan Brand Classic were Stoudemire and

Kobe won three consecutive NBA championships from 2000-2002. In Kobe’s 2008 season he was announced as the league’s MVP. This award is given to the best player in the NBA every year. Kobe won his fourth championship in his 2008-09 season. The following year he won his fifth and final championship.

“One of the discouraging discoveries of our disillusioning century is that science is neutral: it will kill for us as readily as it will heal and will destroy for us more readily than it can build” (Durant 95). This phrase from “Lessons of History” by Will Ariel Durant touched me deeply and caught my attention. At first, criticizing science and medicine by an enlightened and prominent author like Will Durant seemed a little bizarre to me. However, reading “sometimes we feel that the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, which stressed mythology and art rather than science and power, may have been wiser than we, who repeatedly enlarge our instrumentalities without improving