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    Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 17th, 1963. His mother’s name is Deloris Jordan and his dad’s name is James R. Jordan, Sr. Michael Jordan is the fourth of five children. He has two older brothers, Larry Jordan and James R. Jordan, Jr., one older sister, Deloris, and a younger sister, Roslyn. Jordan attended Emsley A. Laney High School in Wilmington, North Carolina. He highlighted his athletic career there by playing basketball, baseball, and football. He tried

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    The poem “The Fighter,” written by Emily Jones, follows the life of a boxer through the eyes of his mistress. This boxer trains his whole life, dedicating it to fighting and becoming the best; fearing no one and defeating all opposition. However, there comes a point in his life where a serious injury knocks him out of the fight for good. With his whole livelihood stripped away from him, the boxer now finds a new fight that really is worth fighting for. Emily Jones uses theme, the poem’s speaker

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    murder too, thus people tends to feel more worried for their safety. (Hemenway, 2015) Stated that 64% of the time guns make home more dangerous rather than a much safer place (5%). In which it can also increase the number of homicide and the gun can rebound without proper knowledge, thus owning a gun does not define your safety. Guns can increase the chance of protecting yourself but without proper knowledge it can kill you instead. According to (Kellerman, et al., 1993)1,860 homicides occurred in the

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    Miami Heat Case Study

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    Miami Heat bounce back from a Milwaukee Bucks lost in the expense of the short-handed Chicago Bulls with a 118-96 victory at the United Center on Friday evening. Starting guard Goran Dragic led the Heat with 26 points and an assist short for a double-double game night. Reserve guard Josh Richardson finished the game with 22 points including four three-pointers for the Miami, which connected a team combined 10 treys out of the team’s 18 attempts from the three-point range. "We played defense and forced

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    It seems that the Brooklyn Nets campaign this season is going for a naught as they continue to slide down the standings. They are currently holding an 8-29 win-loss record and reeling at the bottom of the Eastern Conference division. Recent reports are saying that they are considering of trading Brook Lopez to the Boston Celtics and get a valuable asset in return. The Celtics have been one of the busiest team in the trade market. They've been actively searching for a high caliber player that could

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    Stephan Curry “If you don't fall how are you you going to know what getting up is like,” said by Stephan Curry. His biggest pet-peeve is when people sneeze without covering their nose. Stephan Curry is an amazing basketball player and interesting person. Stephan Curry had an amazing quote and true but his childhood was even more interesting. Stephan Curry had an interesting childhood and family. Stephan Curry’s real name is Wardell Stephan Curry and was born on March 18, 1988 in Akron, Ohio. Stephan

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    Sacred Hoops Analysis

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    The telling of the book “Sacred hoops” is unlike most other books I’ve read because it’s written in a first person point view that provides the reader with very vivid portrayals that occur within the events that occur in the book, while most books I’ve read are written in third-person point of view. For example, Phil Jackson describes a phenomenal play by Horace Grant in which he “got the ball from Pippen near the basket and could have tried to muscle his way in for a dunk. But instead he read the

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    shooting and passing to other teammates. Exercise would be skilled work like push ups, pull ups, and many more. Some exercises would be front squats, power lunge, chin up, and suicides.Training gives you strength and makes you a better player and get rebounds. Another topic is strength condition, you would always need to have the strength to be strong. Some strengths you can do is flexibility, stretch out the muscles, foam roller, and many more. What I mean by flexibility is that there are many muscles

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    according to the league’s official website, he's playing the best ball of his career. In November, George was named Eastern Conference Player of the Month. He led Eastern Conference players in scoring, averaging 27.2 points per game, while mustering 8.1 rebounds, and dishing 4.4 assists per outing in this season. The Pacers were a conference-best 11 wins with 2 loses. George is playing consistently, scoring 20 points or more for 12 consecutive games. His spectacular shooting continued

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    6:34 of the first period, 29 seconds after Montreal captain Max Pacioretty was penalized for high sticking. Desharnais drove across the crease past Hutchinson on the play that led to the Canadiens' second goal at 16:26, when Fleischmann tapped in a rebound at the right side of the net. Fleischmann made it 3-0 with his second goal of the game, his fourth of the season, 35 seconds into the second period. Montreal, which set a League record with nine straight regulation wins to start the season, continues

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