Compare And Contrast Wnba Vs Nba

About 10% of NBA players are white. This means that an averaging around 238 fans do not attend games as they used to in the past. All of this causes many racist outbursts and less popularity involved in the game. (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/02/17/nba-all-star-game-white-men-cant-root.html) In the first paragraph I explained how one of the leagues that merged to form the NBA. In the second paragraph I explained how the NBA was formed and what gave it it’s popularity.

LeBron James returning to Cleveland has financially affected the team by causing increases in player expenses. Payer expenses is the amount of money a team is currently using as payroll for players. In the 2010-2011 season, the first year after James left the Cavaliers, the Cavaliers’ player expenses were still high at $90 million but dropped to $58 million the next season. The player expenses fell to $57 million for the next season because the Cavaliers had no players who deserved to be payed a maximum contract, they had no players who deserved to be making a lot of money. During the 2013-2014 season, the last before James’ return, the player expenses were at $72 million, an increase but still a very low number.

Big Salaries Don 't Make Everybody Happy Celebrity Net Worth noted that on just the first day of the NBA 's free agency period, the league agreed on $1.4 billion in contracts. Two of these deals were Anthony Davis ' five-year, $145 million contract and LaMarcus Aldrige 's sweet signing for $80 million. The players are happy with the large payday, and the fans are happy that their team got a big-name player. So, whose unhappy? Players in other leagues, like the National Football League, who don 't command comparable salaries even though their league brings in way more money.

Scottie was being scouted by NBA teams, which was rare at the NAIA level because it wasn 't as competitive as the Division I level. Michael was drafted 3rd in 1984 Draft Class and Scottie was drafted 5th in the 1987 Draft Class. These are two picks that one will ever forget. Once Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan stepped on the court together, their mark on history began. They won six NBA championship together, each one more meaningful than the last.

Does $5.15 million per year sound like a lot? Yes, this is an average NBA basketball players annually wage. This may sound like a lot of money but many people say the military should make this much too. This is not possible. Our military gets paid from tax income of the country.

If she had to ultimately pick one sport, it would be NBA. Her favorite team in the NBA would most definitely be the Washington Wizards. Her other favorite teams would have to be: for football the 49ers; and for baseball the Yankees. In the spring, Denise really gets excited about the March Madness tournament in College Basketball. She has had an amazing work experience, but rather more recently interned with the Washington Redskins Ticket Office.

Getting acquired from three different NBA teams and eventually leading towards getting cut from two and on the verge of the third, Lin came off the bench to produce a record-breaking streak of wins that opened up an opportunity for a playoff berth. Unfortunately, Lin’s ethnicity had more of an impact on viewers than his actual performance on the courts. Due to the fact that African Americans dominate basketball, while Asian Americans represent less than one percent of the NBA and even Division 1 Men’s Basketball. Linsanity represents the journey of Jeremy Lin not just his record-breaking performance, but how he demonstrated a counter hegemony ideology by pursuing a nontraditional Asian career. Therefore, the unbelievable phenomenon of Linsanity presents a unique opportunity to observe the construction of Asian American identity by: revealing the racial hegemony involved within the sport of basketball, which lead towards the transition to a more colorblind society, and how Linsanity is gradually breaking the curse of the Asian American

Being a kid at High Point is pretty basic, white americans who all speak english and drive BMW’s and Range Rovers. For junior point guard Jorge Perez- Laham, it was different story, he had a rougher transition than most kids going into college. Born in San Juan and raised in Canovanas, Puerto Rico; Perez- Laham Picked up the sport of basketball at a young age by learning from his family. “I was probably 5 when I started playing, my mom was the person who got me into basketball because she used to play in college and professionally, also being able to watch my older brother play while growing up taught me a lot.” Perez-Laham lived in Puerto Rico until 17 then moved to Miami for his senior year of high school for basketball. It was his first year away from home and living in the states, he had to overcome several things living in a strange place for his first time.

Kevin Durant’s early life was rough but it made his career and life stronger mentally and stronger. September 29, 1988 in Suitland, Maryland was the day a legend entered the world. Growing up his favorite basketball player was Kobe Bryant. He was one of 4 children; Brianna, Anthony, and Rayvonne. Parents were Wanda and Wayne they thought Kevin had a special talent in basketball.

After seemingly never ending dwindling scores, the NCAA decided to shorten the shot clock to speed up positions and thus create more. Looking at the different leagues around the country, the shock clock is one of the most diversified rules there is. Teams go from high school level where in some states the shot clock is non-existent to the NBA where there is 24 seconds to shoot. "In an effort to speed up the pace of the game and curtail the number of 45-42 final scores..." (Local). Scores are overall the most important item in a game as it obviously how a team wins.

However, although Kareem could be considered the best he played twenty NBA seasons, which is five more than what Jordan played. If Jordan would have played five more seasons with the Bulls or with the Wizards, which he played with at the end of his career, he would have definitely scored more points and made more field goals than Kareem in both regular season and playoffs. However, he didn’t so just looking back at both of their legendary careers Michael Jordan had the better

To start off, I was born on August 21st, 1936 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During my youth, I honestly didn’t like basketball because I thought the sport was “for sissies.” I was more of a track and field child. But I later ended up falling in love with the game mostly because basketball was the most popular sport in Philadelphia. Shortly after, I attended Overbrook High School and scored over 2,200 points. Then I moved my way on to the University of Kansas to play basketball,

Raising the rim would lower the scores, and would make players look less athletic” (Frasor 1). Which is true, everybody loves interesting high scoring games packed with highlights, and changing the rim to to 11 feet is going to take this away from them, including the players because of the amount of time it is going to take the players to get used to shooting and dunking on an 11 foot rim. Frasor adds to his argument by saying, “If basketball were too easy for professional players, then you could make an argument to raise the basket, but that is not the case” (Frasor 1). If the NBA were to raise the rim then it would prove that the NBA is too easy for the players. This is definitely not the case considering that the 2016 Philadelphia 76ers were 10-72 and last season it took them 16 games to get a win, in addition to many teams being under .500, meaning they had more losses than wins.

The New York Knicks are one of the most popular teams in the National Basketball Association - despite not being one of the better teams in the league for much of their recent history. But New York is the nation 's biggest city, the Knicks are New York 's team, and basketball is the unofficial sport of New York city, so it all makes sense. Read below for more information you did not know about the Knickerbockers. Number Seven: Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 Point Game Was Scored Against The New York Knicks Basketball fans will probably be able to tell you that the legend Wilt the Stilt 's 100 point game is the most ever scored in a single game. It has been the record for decades, and it could very well be one of those that is never broken.

To become a professional; to become the next Shaq, Kobe, or Curry; these are dreams set by every player when they start a sport, and only a few ever make it. As Ashley Graham once said, “College basketball was one of the hardest, most rewarding experiences of my life. Every single day on the court was a mental and physical challenge.” College Basketball has the better games because it is the player’s only chance of going all the way to the NBA or WNBA, and due to the slim chances of making a starting lineup in the pros, players give everything they’ve got into the sport. The determination of the players and their will to play is what truly makes a sport exciting, and with the chance for each player’s career to end at college, they play with everything they’ve got. For example, John Wooden, a basketball player that went to the University of California once said, "It 's not how big you are, it 's how big you play."