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- Basketball - Hitting A Triple-Double By:-Bob Harris
One of the things that marks out the best basketball players is versatility. With only five players on the court, it is fair to say that players are expected to be able to bring something on both offense and defense. The players who are most successful in doing this will often end up with a “triple double”. What’s one of those? Well, it is the name given to an achievement where a player manages a double-digit total in three of the following five categories.
- Basketball - Basketball Slang Terms You May Not Know By:-Bob Harris
OK, so we all know what a slam dunk is, and we know a little about the alley-oop, too. But these are really basic basketball slang terms. Some of the more original slang terms that are used in basketball circles carry more interesting stories, and are worth looking at a bit more closely. A few examples follow.
- Sports - Basketball On The Big Screen: White Men Can’t Jump By:-Bob Harris
The provocatively-titled Hollywood blockbuster White Men Can’t Jump was released in 1992, and played on the numerous racial stereotypes surrounding the game of basketball. Many people blindly state that basketball is a “black man’s game”, despite the presence throughout NBA history of a number of Hall of Fame white players such as Larry Bird. An equally common stereotype is that the white players who do make a team are invariably the steady hands of the team rather than flair players – something Larry Bird also disproved.
- Sports - Basketball - It’s a Tall Order By:-Bob Harris
Ask a hundred people what word comes to mind when they think about basketball, and there is a fairly good chance that as many as half of them will say “Tall”. Perhaps more than any other sport, basketball has the association with body shape that can put off a lot of young players. Some think because they’ll never grow to six feet tall that they can’t ever have a shot at being a pro basketball player.
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