For this assignment I choose to attend a Los Angeles Clippers game even though I am a big Lakers fan; mainly because it better fit into my budget and the appeal of watching this young high flying team made it seem like it was going to be a good night. Going into the game it was being dubbed as the “battle of the double-doubles” as the Minnesota Timberwolves led by Kevin Love and his 28 straight double doubles took on Blake Griffin and his 26 straight double doubles. I had been to Staples Center
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
act like the most recent. What’s happening today? Michael Jordan, or the greatest player of all time, who admitted that he was racist as a young teenager, which was reported May 7, 2014.Another case is the Donald Sterling case, which is the Los Angeles Clippers owner who was “let go” from the organization, which is very rare and unusual The Big Problem The “big” problem is Donald Sterling. Late April TMZ reported the racist remarks, the NBA investigated almost immediately, releasing statements and
Sterling, owner of the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers, the most hated man in America. In this recording, Sterling ranted over the fact how he did not want V. Stiviano, his partner, to be affiliated with any African Americans. As a result of his racist statements, fans, athletes, and sports organizations/members, voiced their opinions on the matter, flourishing social media. Many star players such as LeBron James, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and a majority the Clippers players acknowledged that something
Tanking America spends more money on sports than any other country in the world. No other countries in the world have a bigger National Football Association (NFL), National Basketball Association (NBA), Major League Baseball (MLB), or National Hockey League (NHL). Not to mention that we as a nation spend more on collegiate, and high school sports. Fans love when their respective team drafts a new superstar, or make a blockbuster trade to bring in talent. However on the down side in recent years
This past season Los Angeles Clippers coach Doc Rivers made a bold choice. Upon his arrival from having coached the Boston Celtics, he decided to hang massive posters of his players in the Staples Center upper deck, where the comfortably cover up the Los Angeles Lakers 16 championship banners (Golliver). The posters portray - from left to right - Jamal Crawford, Blake Griffin, J.J. Redick, DeAndre Jordan, Jared Dudley, Chris Paul and Matt Barnes in their home white jerseys. Though very risky
been banned from the NBA for life; he’s getting fined 2.5 Million dollars and is possibly going to be forced to sell his team. Donald Sterling is the owner of the NBA team, the Los Angeles Clippers. He first bought the team in 1981. When he bought the team they were located in San Diego. Then he moved the team to Los Angeles in 198. He moved the team without the consent of the NBA, which caused him to get fined 25 million dollars. So, his troubles with the league have occurred before in the past, so
All 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
The Los Angeles Lakers are a professional basketball team that is located in Los Angeles, California. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Los Angeles Lakers is 16-time NBA champion team with their last champion win in 2010. I chose the Los Angeles Lakers Team because they are one of my favorite teams in the NBA, even though they did not make the playoffs this year. While growing up and still today, if the Lakers are playing
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you imagine being nineteen years old and making five million dollars a year? Kobe Bryant, the son of former NBA player Joe "Jellybean" Bryant, jumped directly from high school to the pros in 1996 and enjoyed an impressive rookie season with the Los Angeles Lakers. He also won the Nestle Crunch slam-dunk contest, and was the leading scorer in the Rookie Game during the NBA all-stars Weekend. Kobe Bryant could very well become one of the best basketball players to ever step on a basketball court. Kobe's
Westward movement is the populating of lands, by the Europeans, in what is now known as the United States. The chief resolution of the westward expansion is economic betterment. The United States story begins with westward expansion and even before the Revolutionary war, early settlers were migrating westward into what is now known as the states of Kentucky,Tennessee, parts of the Ohio Valley and the South. Westward Expansion was slowed down by the French and the Native Americans, however the Louisiana
Kody Dejohn Scott, a future infamous gang leader was born in south central Los Angeles, California in 1963. He was one of six children as his step father left his family in 1970. Kody suspected that his real father was actually NFL quarterback Dick Bass and felt that his step father never treated him like his real son because of that (Kody, 2008). Throughout Kody’s younger years his step father physically abused him and his family. With no father figure in his life and a broken home, Kody turned
When the West opened up to new settlers, it was a huge change for all. The West was home to not only people but an abundance of resources that impacted us economically. Moving to The West for people was either a win or lose, to say the least. It seemed as though the development of The West brought promises to benefit individuals but not all. One particular program known as the “The Homestead Act, that granted 160 acres of federal land to any applicant and improved the property” (Henretta 475) seemed
The Westward Expansion was an important and essential part of the United States growth during the nineteen centuries. The main contributor to this phenomenon was the settlers, agriculture and the construction of the railroad networks. Using this perspective, and through research the author of this paper will analyze the expansion during different decades in the 1800’s. All America benefited from the massive agri-business that has its roots in the West as well as the settling and the construction
Much contention and controversy have historically surrounded the idea that Fred Zinnemann’s High Noon (1952) is the single film that brought an end to what is commonly referred to as the “classical Western." Through a single crucial scene, one important character invokes the ancient advice lent by Aristotle in his seminal work, On Rhetoric, to persuade a town to turn on its hero and change the face of Western's forever. By adhering to the ancient philosopher's notion of ethos, pathos, and logos,
Peter Berg is an award winning director who has his own crazy style, but before he entered the film industry, he went to school at Macalester College, intending to play hockey. But then he discovered film and decided to be a world famous director. Not only is he a director, he is also a producer, writer, and actor. He first found work in the film industry as an actor. He his most remembered as an actor through his role as Dr. Billy Kronk on Chicago Hope. Since then, Berg has moved on to producing
The story of the United States has always been one of westward expansion, beginning along the East Coast and continuing, often by leaps and bounds until it included the Pacific. Theodore Roosevelt described this as “the great leap westward.” As early as 1751, Benjamin Franklin described a destiny for Americans to fill up new lands to the west, and Jefferson, Monroe and Adams all expressed expansionist dreams. The main causes for expansion was Manifest Destiny, economic opportunity, transportation
My primary research question is concerned with the circumstances, in 1915, that led to film production and financial success at the Flying ‘A’ studios in Santa Barbara, California under the leadership of Samuel S. Hutchinson. The success of the studio was thanks to the quality of their production choices, distribution network, and the publicity campaigns of their films. The three key individuals who excelled at performing these roles and that I believe personally led to the studio’s most successful
Max Dupian was born in Ashfield Sydney in 1911, he lived there all of his life, photographing the city from the late 1930’s through to just before his death in 1992. Dupian photographed the architecture, the landscape, the beaches and the cities of Australia. For many Australians, Dupains photographs define our beach culture, and it was the beach that was the inspiration for his most famous and enduring images including The Sunbaker, At Newport and Bondi all capture a moment in time. His 1937 photograph