Atlanta Hawks

I hear these complaints all the time. “Why should I watch the NBA regular season?” “Why should I waste six months of my life watching meaningless basketball when I can just tune in when the playoffs start in April?” “We all know who’s going to make the playoffs and who’s going to make it to the Finals this season, so who cares what happens from October to March?” Yes, the NBA is quite long, and it’s pretty predictable when it comes to standings and lottery picks. Plus, many star players take

The 2015 NBA Draft is nothing now but a footnote in NBA history and now the Summer League is underway. Were all aware of who the top players are and who’s projected to carry the torch that the last generation of stars will leave behind but there are players worth mentioning who might not have received the press that they deserve. In this year’s draft, the next agent zero or even the next Paul Millsap was picked late in the first round or even the second. It’s too early to tell who the stars are that

July 4th is not an official date on the NBA calendar but it probably should be. Independence Day has tended to be a reliable benchmark for when the free agent fever starts to cool. Usually the players at the top of the free agent power ranking make their decision within the first few days and then the other pieces of the puzzle start to fall in to place. But sometimes it's not always those first big names that raise teams to new championship aspirations. We all know the names that move the needle

What is it mean, to have greatness? Greatness is a word, that people use to describe someone or something over a period of time to be the best in the world. But we ask ourselves how do we cultivate expertise to achieve greatness? In the book, “The Talent Code” by Daniel Coyle and Kobe Bryant documentary “Muse” expressed how deep practice and how failing can make you achieve greatness and cultivate expertise. Throughout their arguments, they both express uses and limits of their arguments on how

“Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors. ~Frank Gifford, quoted in Sports Illustrated, 1960 July 4th .” (“The Garden Quotes.”) As a country that flourishes off of the demonstration of athletic rivalry, over the years the United States has turned out to be particularly crazed with sports. One game in which may represent this reality better than most professional sports is the intensive game of football, which remains at the very pinnacle of the American entertainment

The moment that definitely hasn’t slipped my mind has been Al Horford’s decision to sign with the Boston Celtics. The 6’10” power forward signed a four-year, $113 million deal after playing all nine years of his career with the Atlanta Hawks. This debunks the long-lasting myth that the Celtics can’t land big name free agents (I mean, we can’t all recruit like the Warriors,

The Chicago Bulls, they have gone through many stages of success, including six championships with Michael Jordon’s Bulls. Michael Jordan in fact is the reason why most people know about the Bulls. The Bulls though do run deeper than just Michael Jordan, because before Jordan came to the Bulls the Bulls had to come to the NBA. The Chicago Bulls are one of the most memorable and historic professional basketball teams in history. The Bulls joined the National Basketball Association in 1965. Before

penitentiary down in Atlanta and he is nasty. His marriage to Miss. Amelia lasts only ten days, mainly because having married only to gain companionship she refuses to consummate the marriage. Disgusted by his attempts to seduce her, Miss. Amelia puts him out of the house. Macy leaves town vowing revenge and quickly returns to his old ways, robbing gas stations and supermarkets and becoming a suspect in a murder. He is eventually arrested and sentenced to serve time in a penitentiary near Atlanta. It is a tale

While marijuana is a potentially harmful drug to those who use it, but it is really no more dangerous than alcohol or cigarettes. Both of these are harmful to the user and they have many fatalities connected to each, directly or indirectly. Marijuana has been on prohibition for far too long now and states are starting to realize that. Marijuana is in our culture, it always has been, and it has medical benefits and can help our economy by putting tax dollars into the system. Marijuana has been used

Event Analysis For SPM 493 – Venue & Event Management, we had to visit over ten different venues ever Thursday evening, so now it’s my turn to analyze one of these venues or a venue that I’ve visited in the past. Since I am a sport management major that obliviously mean that I’m a vivid sports fan. Also, I am a local to the Tampa Bay area so I’ve have visited many of these venues several times. For this assignment, I decided to go with the Amway Center which is the home of The Orlando Magic who