Wilt Chamberlain

NBA All-Star Weekend is in books, and it might have been one of the better All-Star Weekends in several years. Although the All-Star Game wasn’t as competitive as most had hoped, the pageantry surrounding the event was at an all-time high as Kobe Bryant’s farewell tour made its latest stop at the Air Canada Center in Toronto. The Slam Dunk Contest might have been the best ever, the Three-Point Contest came down to teammates and likely the two best shooters in the world, and a big man pulled off the

What is Stephen Curry’s net worth? Alongside LeBron James, Stephen Curry is widely seen as the face of the NBA today, being known as one of the sport’s all-time greatest players. Like many professional athletes, Curry is handsomely compensated for this efforts, boasting a net worth in the tens of millions of dollars. Only part of his net worth, however, comes from his current NBA salary. Here’s everything you need to know about who Stephen Curry is, what his net worth is, how he makes his money

I used to put on my basketball shoes, and worry, about getting injured, or doing badly on the court. I would get stomach cramps, before each game. I always worried about how bad I would cramp up, or how miserably I would mess up during each game. You could say that this was my biggest “Achilles Heel.” Then one day, out of the blue, my mom said, “Hey Bryan, you have a tournament!!!” “What? Where?” I asked. “In San Francisco. Your first game is against the Oakland Rebels.” I groaned loudly

The game of basketball has had great players in the in the past. Consist of players from NBA and around the world that play professionally. In my opinion the all-time list: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlin, Bill Russell, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Magic Johnson, and Larry Bird. At this moment the NBA is seeing newer talent rising like Jimmy Butler, Anthony Davis, Russell Westbrook, and Hassan Whiteside. However, the players that I will be talking about will be John Wall and Stephen

Basketball In the 1920’s the World War 1 was occurring, and people needed activities to keep them on the positive side. “The invention of basketball wasn’t an accident. It was a development to meet a need.” -James Naismith. Basketball was just the right sport. It was a recent invention in 1891, and in the now it has become a college and professional sport. Many professionals didn’t go to college and didn't even compete in high school. That means that the men who went to play professional were not

How Tall Does a Basketball Player Need to Be? It stands to reason that with a hoop placed 10ft off the floor, anyone who wants to put a ball through an 18in basket would need to be tall. However, throughout history, there have not been many people, men or women, that could reach that tall. This poses a unique challenge of having a person who can at least jump and throw a ball accurately enough to have the ball sink through the hoop. With that, there still needs to be some tallness to the person

Worst Team in the NBA The saying is, “The hips do not lie.” Well, neither do NBA statistics. Critics and fans are always arguing who the best or worst NBA teams are. Statistics are not biased, nor are they opinions. Rather, they change people’s opinions. During the 2014-15 NBA season the Philadelphia 76ers were statistically the worst team in the NBA, and they show no signs of changing that anytime soon. Also, throughout the history of the Philadelphia franchise, they have not been relatively good

Laurel Wilt Disease is a scourge here in Florida. The disease affects laurel trees all over the Southeast, with the most notable victim being avocado trees. The beetles also effect sassafras trees, pond spice trees, and swamp bays. The main cause of this disease is a fungus known as Raffaelea Lauricola that is transmitted through a beetle called the red bay ambrosia beetle (Persea Borbonia). Neither of these species are native to the area. It was brought over to the states through wooden shipping

Pine wilt is a disease of pine trees caused by Pinewood nematodes, a microscopic roundworm. Though all species of pines found east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States are hosts, Pinewood nematode is most commonly found on Scotch pine. Native pine tree species are resistant, with the nematodes being more of a problem on introduced species of pines. Most often the first sign of pine wilt is the sudden decline and death of an entire pine tree, usually from the warmest part of the summer through

Flowering dogwood or commonly known as American dogwood is one of the America’s popular and invasive trees in eastern part of America. Scientific name of the species is Cornus florida (Plants, 2002) The name florida for Latin is flowering (McLemore, 2015) Flowering dogwood is found on eastern America range from Florida to stretching out to Maine. Specific location for the organism research took place in Hampton, Virginia and various parts of Northern Virginia. Flowering dogwoods can live up through