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    This Friday night consisted of everything which would be perfect for a basketball game. The weather was cold, and the hot gym provided warmth. People from all over Louisiana came to watch the biggest rivalry between Jefferson Parish playgrounds, Johnny Bright Playground versus Girard Playground. I played on Johnny Bright’s team as a starting power forward and center. We initially played well up until the fourth quarter, lost our momentum in the 4th quarter, and made crucial mistakes at the end

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    While college basketball and professional basketball both are the exact same sport, they are completely different styles of game. Both have five players on the court at a time, with three referees and a coach. The point system is the same, which consists of one point, two points, or three points. Despite these similarities, they are very different. Between the effort of players, the officiating and style of a game, and the overall behavior of players and role media plays, watching or playing

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    back on defense guarding their best player. He called for a screen and drove to the hoop for an easy layup. The game went back and forth like this for the entire time until they got the lead. Next time down the court it was our ball. I fired the basketball like a gun at my teammate, pass the defense, who caught the ball and threw up a bad shot. My coach called a timeout and scolded him and put him on the bench. “Johnny! We need to get the ball inside the paint to Nate!” my coached belted with a look

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    Once After school last year : 2016 My team had basketball practice after school one day. And we practice 3:30 to 5:30 for the time. We were warming up for practice we ran what the coach told us to .And for stretching for warming up. We were done warming up. And then the coach told us that we should over some things. And the 1st thing we did was we went over a game plan. And the game plan was a scrimmage. And we had one side purple and the other side white. So we started And the purple had the ball

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    Many people take up basketball thinking that it is easy, after all how hard can it be throwing a ball into a hoop? In the sport of basketball it looks harder than it seems, you need skills. Every human in the world has at least one goal in their life. For example to become a famous athlete, singer, dancer, doctor, writer, and “etc”. We all as humans have goals, my goal is to get better in basketball. So what can I do to get better just sit around all day and just wait for it to come to me? No. I

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    Basketball is my favorite sport. I wanted to be part of my school’s basketball team since I was in my freshman year of high school. I remember joining the team like it was yesterday. I went to Focus North High School, which is a charter school in the north-end part of Columbus. The name of their basketball team was the Eagles. I joined my sophomore year of high school. Being on my high school basketball team, I learned to have more confidence in myself.

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    My soccer/basketball life When I was eight years old I was all about basketball. I would dribble in the house and my Mom would usually yell something like “Go outside” or something like that. I would go and play outside, and anywhere I could. I just loved basketball. I was never on a team though. The most competitive I ever got was playing at recess. One year I realized that one of my best friend’s parents were starting a basketball team. I went to my parents and said “ Can I please go and play

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    Basketball, a sport that began among 18 men in a YMCA, has blossomed into a global business played by over three hundred million people today. Dr. James Naismith, under instruction from the head of physical education at the School for Christian Workers, was given two weeks to create a new indoor sport. In the beginning, the game was played with a peach basket and a soccer ball, the first contest was played December 21, 1898. The NBA, or National Basketball Association’s current net worth is about

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    whistle. Rushing to the bench, I heard the referee call out “Timeout, Heat.” Everything was on the line and our team’s championship hopes, being foremost on our team’s minds, was all coach could scream about. “I’m not going to tell you how to play basketball,” he yelled out. “That’s your job. I’m just going to say that right now, to us, this is a championship game. If we win this, we move on to the championship. If not, at least let us fall valiantly.” That got the whole team riled up as we rushed back

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    is more entertaining NBA or College basketball? There are a lot of arguments on which one is better. However a lot of these arguments are very vague. For my argument I think College basketball is more entertaining than NBA basketball. The reason why I think that is, is because every player has a chip on there shoulder to make it to the NBA. They are playing their hardest and giving it everything they have and more. For example, in this years College basketball season most teams had amazing records

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