2005 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

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

site. Firstly, I 've been an avid reader for the better part of two years. I love the site and it 's my go to place for all things Mavs, which is becoming harder and harder to find these days. Secondly, and more importantly, I absolutely love the NBA and the Mavs. My first true memory of the Mavs was Game 3 of the 2003 Western Conference Semi-Finals vs. the Kings. As I 'm sure you know, the Mavs were in what appeared to be an absolute shoot-out of a series with the run and gun Kings and game 3

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

to succeed, is an equal opportunity for all teams to win. This is called parity, and every sport tries to create this to have their sport stay competitive and entertaining. Without parity, a small group of teams will dominate their sport, and in the NBA, where first place receives the only prize, the sport will become less competitive and lose its fan base, which represents the revenue the league gains. One big factor in giving all teams a chance to win, is through the market of the league and the

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