...Every NBA championship photo dating back from 1947 all the way until the 1954 season bore nothing but Caucasian faces in the photos. That all changed during the 1953-1954 school year. On that particular team, there were to African-American players named, Earl Lloyd and Jim Tucker. Earl Lloyd was chosen in the ninth round by the Washington Capitols. Lloyd was the first black player ever to play in the NBA. Prior to playing for the Capitols, Lloyd stated that he had never interacted let alone sat next to a white person before. Lloyd’s nine-year playing career included stops with Washington, the Syracuse Nationals, where he became the first Black player to win an NBA Championship in 1955 (defeating the Fort Wayne Pistons), and Detroit. He also became the NBA’s first African-American assistant coach for the Pistons in 1968. During that same year there happened to be two other black players as well. One was Chuck Cooper who was drafted by the Boston Celtics during the second round making him the first African-American to be drafted into the NBA and the second was Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton who became the first African-American to sign an NBA contract with the New York Knicks in May of 1950. In his rookie year, Clifton averaged 8.6 points, and 7.5 rebounds per game, while helping the Knicks advance to the franchise’s first NBA Finals. Cooper was drafted by the Navy during his first semester in college. Cooper averaged 10.5 points per game and was named All-American during his senior...
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...2011 The Comparison of Two NBA Lockout Articles The NBA lockout is when the current Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between the NBA and the NBA Player's Association (NBAPA) expires. It began on July 1, 2011 and has resulted in the cancellation of regular season games. The NBA wants to implement a "hard" cap and decrease the salary cap, below $50 million. In the meantime, players cannot get signed, teams cannot report to training camp, trades cannot be made, etc. Many articles have been made and written about the lockout. After searching and finding two articles from FoxNews and MSNBC, it became easy to compare and contrast them. Both are about how NBA games have been canceled and will be canceled more in the future. The NBA should hurry up and end the lockout to make the fans and players happy without having to cancel anymore games. In the two articles, both are very similar. Comparisons from the FoxNews article and the MSNBC article could be how both talk about David Stern, (the NBA commissioner) canceling the first two weeks of the NBA season. The regular season was scheduled to begin November first, which both articles include. It would be the first time the NBA had games canceled since the 1998-99 schedule was reduced to 50 games due to a work stoppage. Both articles conclude the meeting that was called off which actually led to the first two week cancellation. The cancellation is a major economic blow and loss to the country’s 29 NBA arenas including the Toronto...
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...Association (NBA) Lockout HRMG 5930 Strayer University October 08, 2012 Abstract While there were many who might have been sick of the whole NBA lockout fiasco, and were thinking the NBA lockout may have been a bad thing for all parties involved…it was clear that the lockout not only effected the fans, it also had a lasting effect on many people behind the scenes as well. From the people like the office assistants who did a lot of the scheduling of games, marketing and halftime entertainment, to the concession stand companies and workers, bar owners (who hosted watch parties), the thousands of security guards and ushering staff members that worked and staffed the arenas, the problems trickled down and caused issues and unemployment problems for many people we may not have even though about. In retrospect, the lockout affected a lot more than the players and owners that we have seen on television, it lasted so long that its affect also caused havoc and mayhem in the lives of so many working class folks, that it even forced some to seek part-time or other employment to make ends meet in their households. This paper will address what the NBA lockout was about, what each sides issues were (Owners and Players), what they wanted and set out to achieve, the outcome and what it meant for the owners and players, and finally, CBA affected all parties involved. While the fans and countless others were probably sick and tired of the whole NBA lockout debacle, the 2011 NBA lockout...
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...The recent National Basketball Association lockout captured nationwide attention. NBA ownership and its players fought for what each thought was best. The players were fighting to protect what they already had, while the owners tried to protect their investments in each franchise. If you own a television chances are high that you probably were aware of the recent lockout of players in the National Basketball Association (NBA). There were many complex issues surrounding both sides regarding this situation which I will get into during the course of this paper. The main goal of both the owners and the players was to come to agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement. The previous collective bargaining agreement expired in June of 2011. The 2011-2012 NBA season, was in jeopardy if a new agreement was not able to be reached. After hours of negotiations and back and forth momentum changes from each side, an agreement was finally reached on November 25, 2011, saving the season and allowing thousands of people to return to work. The NBA lockout has many twists and turns since July 1st 2011. The players and the owners of the teams have many decisions to make. In the meantime there is no guarantee that there will be a 2011-12 NBA season. Between revenue sharing and the salary cap of the players, there are negotiations that are still going on. This is leaving the players to look elsewhere for a salary including playing overseas and playing for smaller salaries. The fans are...
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...MIS-502, Fall-2015. NBA: Competing on Global Delivery with Akamai OS Streaming 1. Why is it important that all fans in the world have the same experience? A. It is very important that all fans in the world have the same experience to avoid the feeling of exclusion from the non- American fans. Akamai Company should maintain its website in an efficient manner which includes less streaming in video, RSS feeds etc. The NBA has real assets to expend itself around the world because, it contains numerous other countries players. Fans would be able to view whatever they want by using Akamai website with NBA. 2. Why is it important that individual franchise owners can build, manage, and distribute on the NBA platform their own content? A. Each team has its own franchise. Each team has to build its own image to become more powerful in franchise market. It is important that franchise owners are able to distribute the content, and publish the live events. Individual franchise owners will also able to gain exposure for their franchise with fans as well as business partners. The franchise owner is able to have access to a segment of the population that the NBA can’t reach. 3. Using the competitive forces model illustrated in Figure 2.3 of the text, analyze the NBA’s market situation. How does the use of Akamai help the NBA compete in this market? A. According to figure 2.3, there are five competitive forces which explained the E-commerce sway industry structure...
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...Superstar Effect: NBA Players and Team Influence I. Introduction Individual influence in a group setting has been studied among numerous academic fields for decades. In particular, productivity is often seen as a positive externality, in which the efficiency of a single individual in certain environments may others to also be more efficient, leading to better performance of the overall group [1]. This increase in productivity can be observed in a variety of different environments, including but not limited to the work office, education, and even in a domestic setting. Specifically in sports teams, this phenomenon is coined “the superstar effect”. In the past, there has been much debate regarding the actual impact of the superstar effect. These studies bring up many important issues that we will address before proceeding with our work. Among these questions are: Who qualifies as a superstar? How do we define a player to be “productive”? Under what metrics will we look at to determine the supposed effect of these players? All of these are valid points that we must carefully define to progress with our experimentation. II. Background and Data Our first and foremost question is what we base our data and work on: how do we define a superstar? Past work shows numerous ways to address this topic. One common way to determine a superstar is to refer to the number of times he or she has made an All-Pro team, or a player who has played in the NBA All-Star Game...
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...Harrison Nguyen December 1, 2011 Business Law 320 2-3:15 Cardinale NBA Lockout Every major sports league in the United States of America is a billion dollar revenue business. In a poll by Gallup, they surveyed that around roughly 65% of American citizens are sport fans. Basketball is a very complicated business with many different entities involved in its establishment. There are over 360 athletes playing in the NBA and each and every one of them must have a contract to be able to play. Owners and players must have contract terms to be breeched. With so much revenue coming in, the NBA must create contracts and agreements to establish how much of this money gets split up between the owners and players of the NBA. The NBA has a union for its players that helps its player’s band together and create better working conditions for its players such as better salary and contract terms, as well as other beneficial terms and agreements for its players. A union bargains with the employer, in this case the owners, on behalf of union members (player athletes), and negotiates labor contracts (collective bargaining agreement) with employers (owners). This may include the negotiation of wages, work rules, complaint procedures, rules governing hiring, firing and promotion of workers, benefits, workplace safety and policies. In the NBA owners and players must agree on terms of the league’s revenue sharing, salary caps, luxury penalties, guaranteed contract lengths, and player...
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...NBA Case 1. Using Porter’s competitive forces model, analyze the NBA’s market situation. How does the use of Akamai help the NBA compete in the market? First by analyzing the NBA’s market by utilizing Porter’s competitive forces model, we need to look at potential entrants, suppliers, substitute products, and customers. Now potential entrants that could be competitors to the NBA could be less prestigious basketball leagues, national leagues, and other professional sports leagues that try to take away their customers like the NHL or MLB. As for substitute products other professional sports would also fall under this category as well along with amateur content uploaded onto other streaming sites that would lure consumers away from the NBA main website like Youtube for instance. As for customers, their bargaining power is very high in this business because they have several alternatives from television, to live games, and radio. One of the advantages that NBA.com has is its additional content when it comes to statistics and scores of other teams as well as insights and commentaries on matches. Akamai helps the NBA compete in the world market by allowing basketball fans throughout the world to access as fast as possible NBA’s virtual assets. It also allows the NBA to focus on specialized niche. 2. Using Porter’s generic strategies model, what do you think is the NBA’s overall strategy or strategies? The NBA’s overall strategy is differentiation. This is because...
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...peach baskets used as baskets. The problem with this was every time one of the teams scored the ball was stuck in the basket, so eventually they cut the bottom of the baskets so the ball would go through. After becoming more popular basketball was played as a professional level. Different leagues were created such as the Basketball Association of America (BAA), National Basketball League (NBL), American Basketball Association (ABA), and the most recent, the National Basketball Association (NBA). Many critics and fans around the world call the NBA the greatest show on earth. No other league around the world brings what the NBA’s game has brought every season to its spectators. The greatest plays, games, dunks, players, and great passion for basketball, are reasons why the fans keep watching. Fans of other sports associations such as the Federation of International Basketball Association may not notice any changes at all, but the NBA’s style of playing has changed dramatically through the years. NBA basketball has usually kept its popularity with great stylish plays by the players in the league. The changes occurred when players such as Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, and Magic Johnson changed the game during the 1980′s to a guard domination style (in the past the center position had the ball for a longer period of time). Magic and Bird excited the crowds with their new style of play on the court. Their style of play influenced the rest of the league so that the league was forced to change...
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...NBA 2K15 is a basketball simulation video game developed by Visual Concepts and published by 2K Sports. It is the sixteenth installment of the NBA 2K franchise. It was released on October 6, 2014 in North America forMicrosoft Windows, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. It was released on October 9, 2014 in Australia and it was released on October 10, 2014 in the rest of the world. Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder, one of the three cover athletes of NBA 2K13, is the solo cover athlete of NBA 2K15.[1] NBA 2K15 is the successor to NBA 2K14 in the NBA 2K series. Contents [hide] * 1 Development * 2 New features * 2.1 Scanning system * 2.2 MyCareer mode and upgrade system * 2.3 Coaching advice * 3 Soundtrack * 4 Reception * 5 References ------------------------------------------------- Development[edit] The game included a pre-order bonus pack which includes 5,000 Virtual Currency (VC), 2 MyTEAM card packs, your choice of an International MyTEAM card or rookie Kevin Durant , and MyPLAYER jerseys inspired by Kevin Durant.[2] On August 6, 2014 it was announced that Crew will be back in the game for current-gen consoles, then on August 7, 2014 it was announced that the game would have a new mode called MYLeague, which is similar to NBA 2K14's GM mode but with added customization and improvements. New RPG elements have also been introduced to the game, such as the conversation system and press conferences. On September...
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...predecessors at Baseball Prospectus and our college counterparts by providing that same level of insight in book form. Pro Basketball Prospectus 2009-10 features: Essays on all 30 teams Five-year team trend tables Info-packed tables on every player who saw NBA action in 2008-09 or who can be expected to be seen in the upcoming season, including their advanced stats for the last three seasons, their skill ratings and their contract status Commentary on every player Team and player contract information and salary-cap analysis The results of Kevin Pelton's dynamic SCHOENE projection system, both for players and teams Exclusive quotes from key basketball-operations personnel Insight from blog authors on their teams A special section for fantasy leaguers, including an essay from veteran fantasy NBA writer Brian Doolittle as well as our unique player-rating system which utilizes SCHOENE's projections An essay explaining the microfracture procedure from Will Carroll, as well as essays on the NBA's economic future and how reinterpreting the rules on hand-checking has affected the modern NBA game The preseason version of the Prospectus Hoops List "This is partly a reference book, but every NBA fan should sit down with this book before the season and read it cover to cover, like a novel. It's a story of my team, your team, everybody's...
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...Distribution…………………………………………………………….2 Hypothesis Testing………………………………………………………………………………………………………….7 Hypothesis 1…….……………………………………………………………………..……………………......7 Hypothesis 2……………………………………………………………………………………………………...8 Hypothesis 3……………………………………………………………………………………………………...9 Multiple Regression Analysis…………………………………………………..…………………………………….11 Summary ……….…………………………………………………………………………..………………………………..16 Reference……………………………………………………………….…………………………………………………….19 Appendices……………………………………………………………………….…………………………………………..20 Introduction For my statistical data analysis project, I chose to analyze the National Basketball Association (NBA) 2013 regular season teams. The analysis looks at the total team and reviewed the information such as games played, field goals attempt and percentage, free throw attempts and percentage, blocks and steals. The data was obtained from the NBA website. For the 2013 NBA stats there were 30 teams that played on the average of 82 games. Based on statistical analysis, the most important keys for team success in basketball and their relative weights, in parentheses, are field goal percentage, turnovers, offensive rebounds, free throw attempts and percentage, blocks and steals. Coaches are always looking for a better understanding of what makes up a winning team. This knowledge would help them improve the team statistics in the areas listed above. I took the entire statistical breakdown from the 2013-2014 seasons and in hopes to find any key statistical areas that could be directly...
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...Bryant was born on August 23, 1978, in Philadelphia, Kobe Bryant is the son of Joe bryant a former Nba player . In 1984, after Joe Nba career ended, Kobe went with his family to Italy, where he played in the Italian League. Kobe was a player who was both interested in basketball and soccer. Kobe and his family went to Philadelphia in 1991 where he joined the Lower Merion High School basketball team. Kobe was a big leader, he help the team to win a championship for four years in a row . Kobe was looking forward to be in the Nba. Not only did he play good in ball but also achieved good grades and high SAT scores. He also went straight to the NBA from high school . “Kobe bryant was then selected by the Charlotte Hornets as the 13th overall pick of the 1996 NBA draft as a rookie man”, a little while after that he was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers where he stayed for the rest of his career....
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...The Greatest of All Time Have you ever wondered who truly was the greatest NBA player of all time was? There are very many players that could be selected for this title. Some names that you would be likely to see when discussing this topic are: Bill Russell, Kobe Bryant, Wilt Chamberlain, Larry Bird, LeBron James, and Michael Jordan (Top 10 Players in NBA History). Most people can recognize most of these names but one of these people may be the most well known people in all of sports. The reason for this is because he is you doubtfully the best person to every play the game of basketball. This man is Michael Jordan and he was the greatest player to ever be apart of the NBA because of his accomplishments in basketball, his impact on the game, and the legacy that he has left. Jordan’s career stats and awards are matched by very few other players. Some say that LeBron James is the greatest player. LeBron has not shown a career performance that comes anywhere close to what Jordan has accomplished. LeBron career points per game is 27.5, while Jordan averaged 30.1 points per game (Top 10 Players in NBA History). While this may not seem that much of a difference, Jordan puts the icing on the cake with all of his career accomplishments. Jordan has 3 times as many NBA championships than LeBron. Although it is true that LeBron has not finished his NBA career yet, he is definitely not on pace to surpass Jordan. To add to that, Jordan also had 6 finals MVP awards, 10 scoring titles...
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...Letting kids play in a professional league a year removed from having to ask to use the restroom sounds a little ridiculous. The NBA has set an age restriction to enter the league at 19 years old in 2006(Rossen, Jordan Michael. "NBA's Age Minimum and Its Effect on High School Phenoms, The." Va. Sports & Ent. LJ 8 (2008). Although there was no former restriction, this approach in drafting players still appeares to be too young. Former players have said the quality of play in the NBA has taken a toll as more college freshman elect to forgo the rest of their college careers and enter the NBA draft. Not only has the quality of play suffered in the NBA but in the NCAA as well as more of heavily scouted players head towards the draft. There has also been problems with players getting released from the NBA that have not acquired their bachelor's degree. However there could be a problem with high school phenoms not choosing to go to college at all but play overseas. This is why The NBA and its potential employess would benefit from restricting domestic players from entering before the age of 21. The NBA is a professional league making roughly $5 billion dollars and is comprised of the top basketball players in the world(Mitchell, VyShaey. "Will NBA Players go to...
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