After finishing with a 31-40-8 record last season and missing the playoffs, the Columbus Blue Jackets were a team that was not a part of everyone's radar. Fast forward to this season, the team has a record of 28-7-4 and fresh off an almost record breaking 15 game winning streak, the Blue Jackets are a team to watch for in the Eastern Conference. The question on a lot of people minds are is the team a contender come playoff time or are they a pretender? On offense, the team has proven that they
logic points to the Warriors and Cavaliers appearing in a third straight NBA Finals match-up. Is this kind of predictability killing the NBA regular season? The NBA balance of power has become extremely lopsided in an era where "super-teams" reign supreme. Since 2011, the Eastern Conference was dominated by LeBron James-led teams. Before each season, it had been fairly simple to assume that whichever team "The King" was on, would make the NBA Finals. Sure enough, his Miami Heat and Cleveland Cavaliers
LeBron James is a good leader. He plays basketball with passion. Orwell made it clear that in “Animal Farm,” the pigs are awful leaders. They do not respect their peers and are very selfish. LeBron James always credits his teammates when he is successful. He is very humble. Unlike the pigs in Animal Farm, LeBron James embodies the characteristics of a strong leader because he/she shows great amounts of passion, celebration, and humility. LeBron James shows passion on the basketball court. He helped
attention to detail, and execution. Every year, Kawhi Leonard has found a flaw in his game, and has drastically improved it. Every year since his rookie year, Leonard has increased his points per game by at least 3.8 points (to the exception of his third season). In addition, each year in the league, he has racked up .2 more blocks a game (to the
the goal, and the average height of an NBA player according to sportmanagementdegreehub.com is roughly 6’7”. With all of those variables most would think it is impossible to win, but if you practice in the offseason then a season game will be a piece of cake. During the season is your chance to break records in the NBA and with your franchise, go to the Finals, and make millions of dollars while doing it. The journey from high school basketball to the NBA is a long and hard adventure, but it is
Simply put, the Detroit Pistons were more physical than the Cleveland Cavaliers. Monday night in Quicken Loans Arena, the Pistons bullied the Cavs en route to a convincing 96-88 victory. The loss was just Cleveland’s fifth at home this season (23-5), and it also snapped Cleveland’s five-game winning streak. “They came in and played well, and they beat us,” Cavs head coach Tyronn Lue said. “We weren’t ready to play tonight.” Cleveland (40-15) couldn’t buy a bucket in the opening minutes of the fourth
Coaching Philosophy & Objective My coaching philosophy will come from many experiences I’ve had over the years with different coaches. I’ve played on many different teams and was able to observe many different personalities in coaches. So I know what I like and what I do not like in a coach. I am blessed to have been around so many coaches, because after college I will want to coach for a living. The best part of me wanting to be a coach is that I’ve been in the player’s position, so I will understand
Everyone has been in that confusing situation where you have to decide to have a positive or negative outlook. Whether you choose to handle it positively or negatively can change the situation drastically. Although being negative can sometimes help in situations to solve something faster, but being positive all of the time has the greatest effects on you and people around you. Famous people such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Anne Frank, and Winston Churchill always kept a positive outlook and made
didn’t prove anybody wrong. He started at the 1995 all-star game after becoming the first rookie ever to lead all players in fan voting. Along with Jason Kidd of the Dallas Mavericks, were co-voted as the Rookie Players of the Year. In the next four seasons, he started in all all-star games and averaged 23.2 Points Per Game, 7.6 Rebounds Per Game and 6.7 Assist Per Game. The first shadows in his career appear in 2000.
Should professional athletes earn millions of dollars for playing a game? Athletes should not be making millions and millions of dollars while more important jobs earn significantly less. There are doctors who save lives daily and they do not even make a tenth of what some athletes make. It is crazy to believe that someone is really worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and all they have to do is play a sport; a sport that millions of people would play for free if given the chance. Where does all
Topic: Jordan being the best basketball player ever Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience that Michael Jordan even now in the present is still the greatest player ever to play in the NBA. Primary Audience Outcome: I the want the audience to understand why there should be no controversy on who is the best basketball player ever. Thesis Statement: Michael Jordan set records and has set the example of what the greatest basketball player can accomplish and really set the standards of what a hall
This summer, the NBA will feature a stacked draft class featuring future basketball stars like Andrew Wiggins, Julius Randle, and Jabari Parker. These players are so highly coveted that some NBA teams are trying to purposely build a deficient roster to lose games and get a better spot in the draft to pick them. This phenomenon is called “tanking,” and NBA executives are becoming more and more open to this idea. I believe NBA teams that are rebuilding should support tanking because it makes their
Other than the trademark short shorts of the 70’s and 80’s, the game of basketball has drastically changed over time. Even the high-flying, basketball pro, Michael Jordan acknowledged that today’s game is not what it used to be, paying homage to areas that surpassed, but also the areas that, he believed, worsened. Many embrace these new changes, however, there are still many who believe that the NBA is slowly withering away and losing its edge; which will you be? Before we plunge into the vast
One of the websites I look at more than anything else is OrlandoMagic.com. I enjoy looking at this website due to its analytical and speculative nature into current and future news of the Orlando Magic basketball team. Viewing the website as a fan of the team is far different from as an analyst. Not only is it my first stop for news about the team but also for other people’s view on the team by visiting the message boards. The message board section of the website gives the team an additional venue
League (NHL). Crosby was drafted first overall by the Penguins out of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). During his two-year major junior career with the Rimouski Océanic, he earned back-to-back CHL Player of the Year awards and led his club to the 2005 Memorial Cup final. Nicknamed "The Next One",[2][3] he was one of the most highly regarded draft picks in hockey history, leading many to refer to the 2005 Draft Lottery as the "Sidney Crosby Sweepstakes".[4] In his first NHL season, Crosby
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registered throughout North America for participation in Canada’s national sport and pastime, ice hockey. Most young hockey players have the dream of making it to the National Hockey League (NHL). Because of this incentive to keep striving towards their ultimate goal in their hockey career, they idolize the players in the NHL. Therefore, youth players may obtain certain habits from the elite, whether those habits are good or bad. Some cases are of bad influences, such as young players obtaining the dirty
player’s salaries. Essentially, it is not so much a cap on salary as much as it is a cap on payroll. Payroll is the total amount of money spent on salary (Keri). Of the four major sports league in America, three of them use a salary cap: the NFL, NBA, and NHL. The MLB currently employs a luxury tax system which taxes any team who spends over a set amount. However most teams never even come close to paying this tax, and since its inception in 2003 the New York Yankees have accounted for 92% of such tax payments