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    Basketball is the number 1 sport to play.Most people also attend basketball to training.The basketball has changed drastically throughout the years.The hoops in the basket causes the ball to win.I would like to be in the championship league. The hoops in the basket was replaced by a metal rim at a decade. The was closed into a peach basket. Players had climb up to retrieve the ball from the net each time someone scored.By 1900,the bottom of the net wasn’t cut out to allow

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    Evolution Of Basketball

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    Evolution of Basketball Michael Jordan, The GOAT, Stephen Curry, the king of shooting, Lebron James, the best all around player, they all work so hard to perfect their skills but some people just don't see that. Basketball is thought to many people as a pretty basic sport. But the people who say this usually don't know it’s background. There is much more than dribbling and shooting. Players like Michael Jordan and Kevin Durant took a lifetime mastering their skills. Basketball has changed in

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    The First Day of Basketball It was a cold and snowy night when I showed up to my first basketball practice. I was confident I was going to do well because I played basketball every day. When i walked into Adobe to go to practice I was ten minutes early. As soon as I walked in my coach walked up to me and introduced himself and his son which was also on the team. After that we kind of just stood outside the gym till the basketball team before us left the gym so we could start our first practice of

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    encourage the preliminary development of ideas is for them to shoot the ball in any form they would like. Mr. Bradbury has mentioned he has played both golf and basketball before so he has a good understanding of both games. Mr. Bradbury would demonstrate the activity and when he would shoot the basketball he would yell out “Kobe” which ultimately hooked the student's interest. Mr. Bradbury had his student played a combination of sports; basketball and golf. - During the demonstrations and the bridging

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    basketball interests me because I have played since i was 4, and i haven't stopped. I've been in lots of leagues, rec, school.....2 schools, AAU, and FAAST. you haven’t felt like you are a team with anybody until u have been on a basketball team. have u ever touched the bottom of the rim yet??? well i have and im only 5’7 and 142Lbs but it was only a one time thing, and im hoping it will happen again later on in my basketball career, and these are the reasons why i love basketball and anything

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    Basketball College Essay

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    Basketball Basketball is a very intense, popular, and physical sport. Not only that, basketball requires a lot of endurance and heart to perform. The game of basketball is played in an indoor gym with wood floors cleanly polished to ensure grip and a low friction level for the individuals. The court, where the game takes place, is 94 feet long and 50 feet wide with metal spherical rims 12 feet about both ends of the court. The court is split down the middle with a line, called

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    Warriors’ guard Steph Curry, 28, has thoroughly changed the sport of basketball over the course of his professional basketball career in three major ways. First, his mastery of the three point shot has proven that the three pointer is on the rise as it pertains to basketball shots. Second, his play has shown how people of average builds can be dominate in the sport of basketball. Third, his success has proven that professional basketball is operated differently than the days when monsters like Wilt Chamberlain

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    Dribbling Vs Basketball

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    You Start Playing Basketball 1.Dribbling When you first start playing basketball you should know how to dribble because dribbling is a main part of basketball you have to dribble up and down the court and you have to use your fingertips and your palm when you dribble and one thing you don’t do when you dribble the ball you don’t slap the ball to dribble.Because if you slap the ball your dribbling will be out of control and it would be easy to steal the ball. 2.Shoots Shooting is a

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    The Hack-A-Shaq is a basketball strategy used in the NBA, which is now drawing attention. Players that can not shoot free throws are struggling from this problem. Since certain players can not shoot free throws, the opponent decides to foul the bad free throw shooter on purpose hoping that they will miss at least one shot and then get the ball back. Now there are many problems that come with the issue. The players that can’t shoot get jumped on all the time. To show the referee, the opponent jumps

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    The Hack-A-Shaq Strategy

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    The Hack-A-Shaq is a basketball strategy used in the NBA, which is now drawing attention. Players that can not shoot free throws are struggling from this problem. Since certain players can not shoot free throws, the opponent decides to foul the bad free throw shooter on purpose hoping that they will miss at least one shot and then get the ball back. Now there are many problems that come with the issue. The players that can’t shoot get jumped on all the time. To show the referee, the opponent jumps

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