2003 NBA Draft

stick. One of the premier puck-moving defenders in the QMJHL, Chabot has quietly gone about his business and improved in each consecutive season in the league. The Ottawa Senators have to be pleased, as the 18th overall pick in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft is heating up and climbing up the scoring charts. Thomas Chabot goes coast to coast for a lovely goal in the QMJHL pic.twitter.com/T9gfnKOefh— Robert Söderlind (@HockeyWebCast) November 7, 2015 And more from Thomas Chabot. https://t

a successful career, and although an NBA player already has a job, the average NBA career only lasts only 4.8 years (“Athlete”). Due to the fact that an NBA career is usually short, it is important to finish college and have a degree in case a player’s career is unexpectedly ended because of injury. An example of a player who left college after one year was Greg Oden. Oden attended Ohio State University for one year before declaring for the 2007 NBA draft. Oden was selected with the first overall

An Indigenous girls basketball team from northern Manitoba scored a slam dunk after four months of fundraising efforts enabled them to practice with a Toronto Raptor and play in a Toronto basketball tournament. This is an opportunity that players from the remote First Nation’s community of God’s Lake Narrows just don’t get, said the team’s coach Kishma Davidson. “It’s going to show them that dreams do come true and it’s also going to show them that determination does work and working hard and having

How things have changed in Portland It's amazing how many things can change over the course of a few weeks. About a month ago, the Portland Trail Blazers had one of the best starting lineups in the league. They were young and rising and a perennial playoff team. Fast forward a month and the Trail Blazers are without four of their five starting players. Nicolas Batum, Wesley Matthews, Robin Lopez, and LaMarcus Aldridge are no longer with the team. Nicolas Batum (small forward) is the only player

This July the NBA will see one of it’s most influential post players hit free agency. Rarely does anyone hold such power of the entire NBA. Lamarcus Aldridge is a one of a kind player, his skill set is so unique that his team has predicated their entire roster on his game. Such a talented individual is inherently allowed career mobility, this mobility could shape the immediate future of the NBA. Lamarcus has the ability to go back home to Texas and play for either the Dallas Mavericks, or San Antonio

The eighth-overall pick in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft is putting his skills on display every weekend, and is slowly climbing up the collegiate scoring charts. After posting 25 points in 35 games last year, Werenski looks like a future top-line defenseman in the making, and is already on pace to surpass

have many options. He has narrowed it down to six teams; the Thunder, Warriors, Spurs, Celtics, Heat, and Clippers. I have dissected the candidates. Thunder- No brainer. Durant was drafted by the Thunder (Supersonics) number 2 overall in the 2007 NBA draft. Durant has blossomed into a superstar with the Oklahoma City Thunder. The 7X All-Star described as the "scoring prodigy" has won the scoring title four times. The face of the franchise, Durant is the leader and face of the Oklahoma City Thunder

New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have been represented in 33% of all NBA Finals, and have won 47% of all titles . Because teams outside of Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago are at a disadvantage in terms of their ability to attract players, except for unusual circumstances (like the appeal of playing with a generational talent like LeBron James), they have to resort to hoping for exceptional talent in the form of early draft picks, whose rights they have the ability to control for 7 years . Additionally

couple of years, both the National Basketball Association (NBA) and college basketball have lost a substantial amount of their competition and have caught much criticizim for it. At the heart of this problem is a single cause, greed. The game of basketball has become all about money instead of the game and its fans. This problem needs to be addressed, and the best place to start is with the college players, or more specifically, the NBA draft.

On April 7th, 2008 an instant classic of a basketball game was played between Bill Self’s Kansas Jayhawks and John Calipari’s Memphis Tigers. It was the national Championship between two power-house number one seeded teams. The Tigers seemed to have the game locked up, with just over two minutes left they had a 9-point lead over the Jayhawks. Out of nowhere Kansas caught fire to produce an epic comeback. With 2 seconds left Mario Chalmers, the dead-eye Jayhawk point guard, hit a quick catch and shoot