The Time Basketball Changed My Life!!!!!!!!!! Something that changed my life is when i started playing basketball. It changed my life because before I started playing basketball I didn't have any fight or motivation to work hard or keep playing. I started playing when i was 9 and fell in love with it ever since. I played multiple sports but basketball was the only thing that i love to do everyday. In life if you don’t have any fight to work hard and to don't give up then you won't succeed in a
Once only played for bragging rights and for the spirit of competition professional basketball has changed over the past 30 years. Since its first game played at the YMCA in 1982 basketball has evolved into a part of American culture but how did it change to become what it is now? One of if not the biggest changes in basketball is a change in the rules and that controversial rule change is hand-checking. Hand-checking is when players are allowed to use his hands or arms to derail the movement of
positive experience. Sitting back and looking at the decision I made, I am glad to say it has had a positive effect on my life. This decision I made includes a big transition from playing intercity soccer and completely switching to house league basketball. As well as completely changing sports, I did however manage to a job out of it. It was in 2009 when I first inquired my mother about playing on an actual team. Every day in the summer, my brother, my sister and I would invite our neighbors
It was my first game for an intramural Co-Ed basketball game and a common play happened that had drastic results. A girl on the other team drove past her defender and was driving straight towards the hoop. Being the closet defender I shifted towards the key to prevent her from scoring the basketball. Suddenly people starting yelling at me to get out of the way. In pure confusion I learned that help side defense is discouraged. Not only discouraged but that I received a personal foul, the opposition
world through the creation of the National Basketball Association (NBA). It has provided the best alternative activity to keep youth out of trouble and helped people worldwide achieve greatness. James Naismith was born November 6, 1861. Growing up Naismith struggled in school but always had an amazing talent in farming. He had spent most of his time as a kid playing games outside such as hide-and-seek, catch, and the game that helped him invent basketball, duck on a rock. Playing that game helped
released in 2005 had been recognized as one of the greatest basketball movies of all time. Not only did it succeed in receiving positive reviews from critics, it was also nominated and had won several awards in the year of 2005 and 2006. Coach Carter is an American biographical sports movie which is based on a true story of Richmond High School basketball coach Ken Carter, who made headlines in 1999 for benching his entire undefeated basketball team, Richmond Oilers for their poor academic performance
of a bouncing ball; I grew up eating and breathing basketball. My heart fell in love with the winning, the competition, the adrenaline ever since I started rolling my dad’s tube sock and shooting an imaginary shot against the wall. “It was reminiscing when I was a fresh young boy; I was strolling around the Smith Park with a basketball in my hand and wearing a gold/purple Kobe Bryant’s jersey until I espied a compelling teenager playing basketball with tight handles, and great athleticism on the opposite
Thereafter, Jordan is known to be the greatest basketball player of all-time. He is a man truly formed from hard-work and perseverance. Many think the life you were born into determines your identity, but identity is truly found from what is done to overcome life and one’s situation. In this quote, Jordan mentions all the different
Story #1 The crowd roars as they cheer for UCONN Women's Basketball to defeat Mississippi State University. The roaring payed off, as UCONN demolished the competition. Mississippi State women's basketball team sits in glum with their head coach after a devastating defeat against UCONN in the WNBA Playoffs. Tonight Mississippi state women's basketball played UCONN at their own stadium in Mississippi. They suffered a humiliating loss, losing 4-96, setting the record for the lowest points scored
Coach Carter is based on a true-life story of a coach who tries to teach his team that there is more to life than just playing basketball, and it is brought to screen in a sports based drama. Thomas Carter directed this movie and it was released in 2005. This film is about Coach Ken Carter, who takes the job of coaching the Oilers basketball team at Richmond high school, where he was from and was once a champion athlete for 2 straight years. When Coach Carter began training his players, he was disheartened