| abstract | - Basketball is a sport ruled by the black man and that tall Chinese guy. Canadians claim that they invented it but hey, who cares about Canada? It was actually created in Africa and was brought over on the slave ships to America. We wanted it here and we got it because when an American wants something we get it. Basketball is a game in which a team of five Americans trounce a team of five foreigners every year without exception in both The Olympics and The International Games and the San Antonio Spurs. Basketball's cultural crumbelievability is such that in an effort to reach the disenfranchised youth of America Dr. Stephen Colbert examined the cultural ties between basketball, jazz and Hippity-hop in his documentary Stephen Colbert's Hiphopketball: A Jazzebration. This idea is said to have been appropriated by Kareem Abdul Jabaar for use in his own documentary, which has yet to be produced. In essence, without hiphop or black people basketball would not exist. The ball used in the sport may or may not be made from babies.
- Basketball ist eine meist in der Halle betriebene Ballsportart, bei der zwei Mannschaften versuchen, den Spielball in die beiden in einer Höhe von 3,05 Metern an den gegenüberliegenden Schmalseiten des Spielfelds angebrachten Körbe zu werfen. Eine Mannschaft besteht dabei aus fünf Feldspielern und bis zu sieben Auswechselspielern. Jeder Treffer in den Korb aus dem Spiel heraus zählt je nach Entfernung zwei oder drei Punkte. Ein getroffener Freiwurf zählt einen Punkt. Es gewinnt die Mannschaft mit der höheren Punktzahl. Basketball wurde im Jahr 1891 vom kanadischen Trainer James Naismith als Hallensport erfunden. Heute hat der Basketballsport weltweit, besonders in den USA, einen hohen Stellenwert. Alle vier Jahre findet in einem jeweils anderen Land eine Basketball-Weltmeisterschaft statt, die von dem Weltbasketballverband Fédération Internationale de Basketball veranstaltet wird. Laut Weltbasketballverband FIBA spielen etwa 450 Millionen Menschen weltweit Basketball. Basketball wird oft als „körperloser“ Sport bezeichnet, was aber irreführend ist, da im Wesentlichen nur im Augenblick des Wurfs die Berührung des Gegenspielers nicht erlaubt ist.
- Le basket-ball a été inventé par James Naismith un professeur canadien d' éducation. Il voulait que ses étudiants s'ocupent pendant les saisons de football. Naismith souhaitait également leur trouver une activité ou les contacts physiques restreints, afin d'eviter les risques de blessure.Un jour , il reprit l'idée d un ancien jeu de balle mayas et place deux caisses de peche sur les rampes gymnase.Le but de ses étudiants était de faire pénétrer un ballon dans ces caisses en bois pour marquer un but. Le tout premier match de l'histoire eut lieu décembre 1891 et se termina sur le score de 1 à 0.
- miniatur|CJ mit Ball miniatur|CJ beim Dunking Basketball ist eine Freizeitaktivität aus Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, der man auf den im ganzen Bundesstaat zur Verfügung stehenden Basketball-Plätzen nachgehen kann. In Grand Theft Auto V sollte Basketball zurückkehren, wurde aber aus der Endfassung gestrichen.
- Without a football team, basketball is by far the most popular sport at GW. The basketball program at GW has a history of good seasons, most recently the GW men's team entering the NCAA tournament for three straight years from 2004-2007. The GW women's team earned its 6th consecutive NCAA tournament bid in 2008.
- Basketball is a sport played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop in diameter and high mounted to a backboard at each end. Basketball is one of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports. A team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through the basket during regular play. A field goal scores two points for the shooting team if a player is touching or closer to the basket than the three-point line, and three points (known commonly as a 3 pointer or three) if the player is behind the three-point line. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but additional time (overtime) may be issued when the game ends with a draw. The ball can be advanced on the court by bouncing it while walking or running or throwing it to a team mate. It is a violation to move without dribbling the ball, to carry it, or to hold the ball with both hands then resume dribbling. Violations are called "fouls". A personal foul is penalized, and a free throw is usually awarded to an offensive player if he is fouled while shooting the ball. A technical foul may also be issued when certain infractions occur, most commonly for unsportsmanlike conduct on the part of a player or coach. A technical foul gives the opposing team a free throw, and the opposing team also retains possession of the ball. As well as many techniques for shooting, passing, dribbling and rebounding, basketball has specialized player positions and offensive and defensive structures (player positioning). Typically, the tallest members of a team will play "center", "power forward" or "small forward" positions, while shorter players or those who possess the best ball handling skills and speed play "point guard" or "shooting guard".
- When people play basketball, they can only carry a pistol to defend themselves in the semi-finals, because of the new rule that 'if someone touches you then you are allowed to use a handgun to fend them off'. However, in the finals, you are limited to a knife and a grenade, which are both very unreliable and dangerous.By winning basketball, you are the last person standing on the court. That means that everyone else is either dead, or they are at the hospital getting treated from knife/gun wounds. If they are dead, then the grenades got them.
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- Ah, basketball. One of the Big Four sports in the United States (American Football, Baseball and Ice Hockey are the others), basketball has a rich and interesting history. Basketball was first created by James Naismith, a physical fitness professor in a Massachusetts school - he wanted to find a way to allow his students to exercise indoors during the cold New England winters. After coming up with a game that would involve throwing a ball into a raised goal, he looked for some boxes for goals, but could only find peach baskets to nail up. Thus, basketball, at least in its earliest form, was born. Basketball is played with five people on each team: the Point Guard, the Shooting Guard, the Center, the Small Forward, and the Power Forward. There's a lot more to this than can be gone into depth - The Other Wiki has a long, detailed article on basketball's history. Competitively, basketball is played worldwide. In the US, the National Basketball Association oversees the professional game. They've been around in some fashion since 1946. Seasons are usually 82 games in length, with some rare exceptions . The NBA has 30 teams split into two conferences (Eastern and Western). Each 15-team conference has three five-team divisions. Each conference sends 8 teams to the playoffs, with the three division winners getting something among the top 4 seeds with another team getting the possibility of going as high as a 2 seed (confused yet?). All playoff games are best-of-seven series. The 30 teams are as follows: Eastern Conference:
* The Atlanta Hawks have bounced around the NBL/NBA from Buffalo (as the Bisons for only 13 games) to the then-Tri-Cities of Moline, Illinois; Rock Island, Illinois; and Davenport, Iowa (as the Blackhawks; Bettendorf, Iowa eventually joined in to make it the Quad Cities) to Milwaukee to St. Louis, but they landed in Atlanta in 1968 and have stayed there for a while - they really haven't done much of note, though they've been a playoff contender lately and they have won a championship back in St. Louis. But in the '80s they were at least fun to watch, with two Slam Dunk Contest champions in Spud Webb and Dominique Wilkins. Owned by Ted Turner for many years, they had their games often on TBS, though they hardly attained the status that baseball's Braves did.
* The Boston Celtics are one of the most storied teams in the history of the league; this was the team that ended up winning 17 championships, with eight straight in The Fifties and The Sixties behind superstar Bill Russell (contrary to belief, John Havlicek was around for only 6 of the championships won in The Sixties, but won two more in the The Seventies). In the Eastern Conference, they're known as the love-em-or-hate-em team in the East (or at least, they were until the Miami Trio came). They're also the team associated with Larry Bird during The Eighties. From the late '90s to the mid-'00s, the team declined heavily due to some mismanagement. However, thanks to a couple of brilliant trades, they rebounded and won the 2008 Finals on the backs of Paul Pierce, Ray Allen (Seattle), Kevin Garnett (Minnesota) and Rajon Rondo (Phoenix). They're easily the go-to Arch Enemy for the Lakers, due to classic matchups in the '60s and '80s, as well as the rivalry between Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. Also only one of two franchises to start in the NBA in its beginnings back in the 1946-47 season and stay in their home city (the other team being the New York Knicks). For what it's worth, the team's name is pronounced "Seltics" rather than "Keltics".
* The Charlotte Bobcats are the league's newest team (by terms of founding - Oklahoma City is newer, but they moved from Seattle). They are named for their owner, Bob Johnson, who was the founder of BET. They started play in 2004 and haven't done too much, other than having Michael Jordan being an owner as of the end of the 2009-10 season (on which they reached their first postseason) and just recently gaining the worst record of all-time with 7-59! Alternative names for the team besides the Bobcats would've included the Dragons and the Flight.
* The Chicago Bulls are the former team of Michael Jordan, who led the team to six championships in the 90s. During that time, they enjoyed a surge of popularity, largely due to Jordan. Many of their games nationally televised on the Chicago "superstation", WGN (it's down to Saturday-only games now in the US, with a quirk where Canada gets the regular Chicago signal with more games). Began the trend of using the instrumental track "Sirius" (Alan Parsons Project) for pregame introductions. Before the days of MJ, however, they didn't really have that much notability, and that does include their involvement from preventing a fifth ABA team from entering the NBA (they had the rights to eventual Hall of Fame player Artis Gilmore, who was on the Kentucky Colonels and they objected the opportunity for Artis still playing there), and they started sucking after MJ's second retirement. Their current superstar MVP player is a point guard named Derrick Rose, who helped revive the franchise from mediocrity. In the 2012 season, they became something of a Handicapped Badass - Rose had a groin injury, so he had to sit out on 26 games. The Bulls won 19 of those games without him. Unfortunately, during the playoffs against the Sixers, the Bulls went through a Real Life example of a Decapitated Army; they lost Rose for good after tearing his ALC, and they lost their second leader in Noah after spraining his ankle. Chicago became the fifth 1st Seed to lose to an 8th Seed, following the same storyline as San Antonio did in 2011.
* The Cleveland Cavaliers are a team of many, many ups and downs, the Cavs were largely sagging until LeBron James was delivered unto them - when he was there, they were among the best teams in the league, though never won a championship. Now that he's gone, they're in a weird place between Butt Monkey and Woobie status, as they've gone roughly nowhere without their best player. In the 90's, coach Mike Fratello instituted an absolutely glacial slowdown offense which resulted in unusually low scores; while it worked for the team, he's largely blamed for the dropoff in scoring and more "boring" style of play league-wide that took hold later in the decade and the early 2000s. Currently best known for being betrayed by LeBron James on national and international TV, as he announced his free-agency decision with an ESPN special appropriately named "The Decision". They also had an abysmal season, having just set the record for the longest losing streak in the league (26 games long - which tied the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the longest losing streak in the Big Four sports). After that season was over, luck smiled on them as they ended up having both picks #1 (Duke PG Kyrie Irving) and #4 (Texas PF Tristan Thompson) in the 2011 Draft. With Kyrie leading the way, the Cavaliers could very well enter the playoffs sooner rather than later as anticipated.
* The Detroit Pistons were originally known as the Fort Wayne (Zollner) Pistons, they moved to Detroit early in their history when it became clear that they would need money to survive. One of the best teams in the late '80s, when the "Bad Boys" of Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars, Bill Laimbeer, Dennis Rodman, and Rick Mahorn won back-to-back championships in 1989 and 1990. The Nineties then saw a massive Dork Age known as the "teal era" (after the color of the jerseys and logos), in which despite the presence of Grant Hill, the Pistons could never seem to get anywhere. The team then came back to form around 2000, and throughout the 2000s, they were fairly dominant, even winning it all in 2004 (which led to huge celebrations in the city of Detroit itself, which desperately needed to celebrate something). Since then, they've been known as the consistent team that couldn't quite win it all - in 2005 they lost in the 7th game of the Finals, and then from 2006-2008, they went to the Eastern Conference Championship three straight years but lost each time. Following that, as well as some questionable management decisions, the team has shown continuing decline, ending seasons towards the middle of the conference. Traditionally, they are known for strong, gritty defense and good-enough offense. Also, they are the second-oldest NBA franchise around, with their roots going back to the 1941-42 season in the NBL, which was quite literally organized in team founder Fred Zollner's Fort Wayne kitchen. Amazing with how teams way back in the day formed, huh?
* The Indiana Pacers are best known as the team of Reggie Miller, who joined them in 1987 and played with them for 18 years. Made it to the Finals in 2000, but weren't able to beat the Lakers to win it all. Most of their players (apart from Miller) were either traded or retired soon afterward. And then the somewhat mentally unstable (but defensively brilliant) Ron Artest (now known as "Metta World Peace") came, making the Pacers one of the league's elite teams for about a year or two before the infamous Pacers-Pistons-fans brawl that alarmed even people that don't care about basketball and forever changed environment and atmosphere at American professional sports. Reggie retired after the Pacers were eliminated from the playoffs, the fans turned on the team, forcing the Pacers to trade/release pretty much EVERYONE involved in the brawl, and the team has never been the same. Also one of four ABA teams (the others being the New Jersey Nets, the Denver Nuggets, and the San Antonio Spurs) to move to the NBA, although they weren't the original team planned to move to the NBA (the original was former ABA rival Kentucky Colonels). Used to be very regular playoff contenders who could never seal the deal, but spent most of the late 00s mired in mediocrity.
* They've rebounded since then, acquiring Danny Granger, David West, Roy Hibbert, George Hill and Paul George, along with an impressive and effective bench in Dahntay Jones, Leandro Barbosa, Darren Collison, Louis Amundson and Tyler Hansbrough. In 2011, they returned to the playoffs and challenged the #1-seeded Bulls with a few surprisingly competitive games, before losing in five. Going into 2012, they almost knocked the Heat out of the second round, capitalizing on the fact that Miami lost Chris Bosh to injury. Coached by Frank Vogel and managed by Larry Bird, these Pacers possess a confident and fearless (no matter the opponent) trash-talking swagger (Granger in particular is rather confrontational). Viewed as a liter version of the San Antonio Spurs or the Boston Celtics, the Pacers provide a Foil to more star-focused teams like the Miami Heat or the Chicago Bulls. With a bright future and renewed playoff-level skill, people are looking to the Pacers as the most likely team to replace the void left by the Orlando Magic in the Eastern Conference.
* The Miami Heat, started in 1988, are one of the more stable teams in the NBA, gaining traction as a championship caliber team back at 2003/2004, and winning the 2006 finals on the backs of Dwyane Wade and Shaquille O'Neal. While hyped by a great amount, especially when Pat Riley was their coach, they were a mid-level team throughout their run at best, and it wasn't until LeBron James and Chris Bosh were drafted that the team really Took a Level In Badass; they dominated midway through the 2010/2011 season, toppling quite an array of teams (including the Chicago Bulls), until they lost in the final round against the Dallas Mavericks - a rematch of the 2006 finale. As a result, these black-clad juggernauts are often portrayed as the Big Bad of the NBA, even beating out the L.A. Lakers and Boston Celtics in that mark. Their other notables are Mike Miller, Udonis Haslem, Mario Chalmers, Shane Battier, Norris Cole and Ronny Turiaf. An Arch Enemy to Chicago (hometown to Wade) and New York (Riley's previous team), the Heat played against the Knicks 118 times, and the Bulls 111 times, more than any other team in franchise history. Both rivalries were particularly brutal - rough plays and hard fouls with the Bulls; game-determining suspensions with the Knicks. Their rivalry with the Knicks has softened considerably, with the recent struggles of the Knicks franchise and the turnover of the Miami Heat to a new crop of players, but it was recently rekindled in 2011-12 due to the emergence of the Knicks as something of a strong team again. There's actually some Foreshadowing in Wade James and Bosh coming together in 2012 - by the time of the 2003 draft, all where in their twenties, their draft positions 1, 4, and 5 adds up to 10, and their current jersey numbers, 6, 1, and 3 add up to 10.
* Despite bearing the label of unpleasant, cocky cheaters by their critics, the Heat has made several notable Pet the Dog moments in the 2012 series: Bosh risking a missed game in favor of seeing the birth of his son; James appearing in a commercial ad advocating for students not to drop out; James taking the time to personally meet an eight-year old fan of his; the entire team paying tribute to a murdered teen; Haslem buying tickets for the aforementioned kids' parents to a game; everyone grimacing over Knicks' Baron Davis dislocating his patella; and James seeing the Granger Pacers as a Worthy Opponent.
* The Milwaukee Bucks are basketball's version of So Okay It's Average. Owned by the state's older US Senator (and retail magnate) Herb Kohl they're not a particuarly bad team, as they do make the playoffs every so often, but they really haven't done anything of note since they had a little player by the name of Lew Alcindor (who you may know better as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar). Their first and only championship was in 1971, their third season of existence. Soon after, Alcindor/Abdul-Jabbar left because he considered Milwaukee culturally backwards. The team's been mediocre since then, with some good teams in the mid-80s. Two notes: they were originally a part of the Eastern Division for two years before moving to the Western Conference until 1980, where they permanently became an Eastern Conference team, and when they drafted Glenn Robinson in the 90s, his contract was so ludicrous that the league instigated a salary cap for rookies the very next year.
* Since his retirement, Abdul-Jabbar has more/less admitted that much of what he said about Milwaukee had less to do with his actual feelings and more to do with his desire to play in Los Angeles or New York and putting pressure on the team management to trade him to one of those cities. He now speaks well of Milwaukee and its fans, which is probably helped by Milwaukee being much different now than it was in his day. Although it still hasn't saved the city from being a Butt Monkey to many current NBA players.
* The New Jersey Nets were formerly known as the New Jersey Americans and the New York Nets and will soon be called the Brooklyn Nets. They were the league's running joke until the Jason Kidd era of the 2000s, when they reached the finals (and lost) two years in a row. In the 2009-10 season, they narrowly avoided becoming the worst team of all time. In the second-biggest trade of the 2010-11 season, they gained superstar point guard Deron Williams from the Utah Jazz, which helps their hopes for a future comeback. Unfortunately more in the spotlight lately for utility player Kris Humphries being married for 72 days to reality star Kim Kardashian. Also, like the Indiana Pacers, they're one of the four surviving ABA teams (back when they were still the New York Nets), and were also the team of Dr. J before the merger. Famous rapper Jay-Z is also a partial owner of the team. Recently they were bought by an eccentric Russian billionare who eventually plans to move the team to Brooklyn (in 2010 they moved from the Meadowlands to Newark while they wait for their new arena to hopefully be opened one day; the plans have them moving in by the 2012-13 NBA season). If the move succeeds as planned, this would undoubtedly put an end to the question, "If the Nets (somehow) won a championship, where would they hold the parade?" (The Nets' New Jersey home is located in the middle of a mess of suburbs and decayed cities that lacks a natural center.)
* The New York Knicks are the former team of Patrick Ewing. Ever since his retirement, the Knickerbockers have been in something of a downward spiral, mainly involving cable magnate/part-time blues rocker James Dolan's bumbling ownership of the team and former "Bad Boy Piston" Isiah Thomas' awful run as a coach and GM, both whom managed to field squads which would lose horribly to a team from a Rucker Park pick-up game. In Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals, Willis Reed hobbled out on an injured leg, scored four points, and supposedly inspired his team to win the game and the Championship. On another note, this is the preferred team of famed director Spike Lee, who wears the jersey of the current fan-favorite player of the team - right now, it is Landry Fields' number 6, but John Starks' 3 was the most famous. The shame of an otherwise proud sports city. Also, on one last note, they're one of only two franchises to start in the NBA in its beginnings back in the 1946-47 season and stay in their home city and were one of two teams to play the first ever NBA game (the other team was the Toronto Huskies, who lasted only that one season -- the Knicks won the November 1st, 1946 game 68-66 at the Maple Leaf Gardens and anyone who was taller than 6'8" C George Nostrand (the tallest NBA player at the time) would enter for free ). In the biggest trade of the 2010-11 season, they acquired Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups from the Nuggets, and New York figured that they'd have enough help by adding Tyson Chandler and removing Chauncey Billups. The team got off to a rough start, but found itself unexpectedly galvanized by the previously unknown Jeremy Lin, the first Asian-American to start in the league. Their old rivalry with the Heat has been rekindled in 2011-12 as well, largely due to the hype surrounding Lin becoming far more badass than before - they went into a 7-game winning streak, defeating such teams as the Jazz, the Nets and the Mavericks, before losing to the Heat. The following 6-game losing streak forced their coach (D'Antoni) to resign, and they lost their star player in Lin (who suffered a meniscus tear in his knee; he'll need surgery to fix it). However, thanks to Mike Woodson, their interim coach, they've rebounded and made it to the playoffs, but they lost to the Heat, and are now facing large question marks on their future.
* The Orlando Magic are one of the better teams playing today; they've had names like Shaquille O'Neal, Penny Hardaway, Grant Hill, Tracy McGrady and Dwight Howard. With Stan Van Gundy as their coach and Dwight Howard as their star player, the Magic quickly proved to be a playoff-level team that gave trouble to their divisional rival in the Miami Heat. They came within a few games of winning the 2009 Finals, but they lost to the Lakers. They were Shaquille O'Neal's original team, and it was with the Magic that Shaq became known for destroying some backboards. Infamously known for bad blood between Dwight Howard and coach Stan Van Gundy. It got bad enough that Van Gundy and Otis Smith (the general manager) were fired, but rumor has it that Howard still wants to leave Orlando. Things may change, but as it stands, it appears that the Magic is dead in the water as far as championship or even playoff aspirations go.
* The Philadelphia 76ers were formerly known as the Syracuse Nationals, and are also known more just as the Sixers. They're honestly the oldest team to be made in the NBA, having independent years going back as far as 1939 with the Nationals (or "Nats") having a nickname as the "Reds", before being in the NBL in 1946 and merging with the NBA in 1949. In the 1972-73 season, they had a 9-win season. Yes, 9 wins out of 82. On some more positive notes, they were the team of prolific scorer Wilt Chamberlain, dunking genius Julius "Doctor J" Erving, and later Allen Iverson, who led the team to the Finals in 2001. They were also Charles Barkley's team in the 80s and early 90s, though both parties today don't care for each other very much. Also, they won one championship back in Syracuse and two in Philadelphia.
* The Toronto Raptors started playing in 1995. They haven't made it past the conference championship yet, but they have won their division a few times. Market their status as the only Canadian team heavily (they started along with the Vancouver Grizzlies, which has since moved to Memphis), including changing their primary color from purple to red. Their choice of team name (announced when Jurassic Park was popular) caused a bit of consternation because their original NBA team that was around for only one season was the Toronto Huskies. Currently have the only roster with seven different countries represented (U.S.A., Spain, Italy, Brazil, France, Lithuania, and Nigeria).
* Being based in Canada, former players have been known to lodge fairly strange complaints about the team, from Othella Harrington complaining that the cream in Oreos' isn't as tasty (no, really) to Antonio Davis complaining about his kids learning the metric system. Most recent addition to this list is Chris Bosh, who complained that he couldn't get "the good cable", or NBA League Pass, though apparently he could.
* The Washington Wizards were formerly known by many names like the Chicago Packers, the Chicago Zephyrs, the Baltimore Bullets (who should not be confused with the Baltimore Bullets team who won the BAA/NBA Finals Championship in the 1947-48 season), the Capital Bullets (who actually played in the small D.C. suburb of Landover, Maryland for one year), and the Washington Bullets. Their name was changed from "Bullets" to "Wizards" because of the Unfortunate Implications of glorifying bullets in a city with an astronomical crime rate. Formerly the team of Gilbert "Agent Zero" Arenas, who decided which team to sign with by flipping a coin, sponsors professional video game teams, and is constantly in trouble with the league administration. However, Arenas' move to Orlando has paved the way for 2011 rookie John Wall to take the leadership role instead, which hasn't worked out so far. Also, Michael Jordan played for them very briefly while trying to groom #1 draft pick (and eventual bust) Kwame Brown.
* The Dallas Mavericks started playing in 1980, and were so named because Maverick star James Garner was a part of the founding ownership. Throughout most of the '80s, the Mavs were generally pretty good - though they entered a bit of a Dork Age in the 1990s. Early in their history they were about to unseat the then-mighty Lakers in the playoffs until their point guard lost track of the score in a critical game. However, when dot-com bubble billionaire Mark Cuban bought the team, and brought in Dirk Nowitzki and Steve Nash got into the area during the late 90's and early 2000's, they started getting good again - good enough to make the playoffs pretty much year in and year out, even making it all the way to the Finals in 2006, and winning the championship in 2011. Lamar Odom, a.k.a. Kim Kardashian's brother-in-law, now plays here due to a trade fiasco involving the Lakers, and can be seen on the Kardashian family picture.
* The Denver Nuggets are one of the better teams playing today. The former team of Carmelo Anthony, who was the real runner-up to LeBron James the year he was drafted. Allen Iverson played here too, but was traded to Detroit for Chauncey Billups in the 08-09 season. Carmelo recently gained controversy involving the trade rumors, to the point where people wanted him to get on with it already . They've recently traded one of their star players to Washington in order to allow Wilson Chandler back onto the team. While they've been pretty consistenly good for a while, they're yet another team with that "always a bridesmaid, never a bride" vibe about them. Also, like the Indiana Pacers, the New Jersey Nets, and the San Antonio Spurs, they're one of the four surviving ABA teams (with the original name for this team for most of the ABA being the Denver Rockets). Their name's basically a homage/an artifact of the original Denver Nuggets team that was in the NBL/NBA for only two seasons and for good reason.
* During The Eighties, they were a famously high-scoring team whose coach, Doug Moe, literally did not believe in defense, once pulling the team to the sidelines late in the game while the other team scored at will as a protest. That style of play ended up getting the highest-scoring game in NBA history with the Pistons winning over the Nuggets 186-184.
* The Golden State Warriors are a team with its best days far behind it; located in Oakland with a name designed to not peeve either San Francisco, Oakland or the Bay Area in general. Some past notices include being the first team to ever win the NBA Finals and being the original team of famed scorer Wilt Chamberlain. The only thing they've really done lately of note was stun the then-top-seeded Mavericks in the 2007 Playoffs, and in 2010 they brought back the classic uniforms featuring an image of one of the famous bridges of the area (formerly the Golden Gate, now the Oakland-San Francisco). Were originally from Philadelphia and, later on, San Francisco.
* The Houston Rockets won two championships in the '90s with the mighty Hakeem Olajuwon - 1st pick in Michael Jordan's draft, but when he retired, the Rockets' GM said that he will never regret his choice. Since then, they've been largely in the same boat as teams like Memphis and Denver - always a bridesmaid, never a bride. On the other hand, they drafted Yao Ming a few years back, which started a trend of Chinese players entering the league. Unfortunately, Yao Ming ended up retiring after a few years of having bad injuries destroying his career, so now they're sort of left without a center. They were originally from San Diego for four years before moving to Houston, and their first arena has been converted to the most mega of any mega-church, Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church.
* The Los Angeles Clippers are ridiculed as being the worst franchise in all American major sports. Born as the Buffalo Braves and later on, the San Diego Clippers, they're historically known as one of the league's joke teams. They don't have any divisional, conference, or league championships to their names. Also, they have possibly the most reviled team owner in sports, Donald Sterling, a local slumlord widely known as a vicious racist. He also heckles his own players and his Executive Meddling is a big factor in the Clippers' perennial mediocrity. Have something of a brighter future though, thanks to rookie phenom Blake Griffin who after three months in the league is already a superstar and a fan-favorite (even getting into the Rookie-Sophmore game and the All-Star game in the same year) and the recent Chris Paul trade here. Currently has something of a big-name fan in Bill Simmons, who adopted the Clippers after his move to L.A. and mentions them frequently. Much of their infamy is due to the unfortunate distinction of sharing a city and an arena with...
* The Los Angeles Lakers are easily the Arch Enemy of the Boston Celtics and the West's designated love-or-hate team. They've got 16 championships to their name, just one away from tying it with the Celtics, and they're the first team to win 3,000 regular-season games. Their historical rosters read like a Criterion Collection of NBA history - Elgin Baylor, Jerry West, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Shaquille O'Neal, and Kobe Bryant have all at some point called this place home - all six have between them 12 MVP awards (Chamberlain alone has four!). They almost gained former New Orleans Hornets player Chris Paul as well, but the NBA actually interfered with their trade due to "basketball reasons". Now Lakers fans are hoping that Dwight Howard will be traded to the Lakers. Jerry West's image forms the iconic NBA logo. Also the team of George Mikan, who we blame for the fact that you need a pituitary disorder to play basketball today. Currently the only team to achieve a three-peat after the Jordan years, they're led by Kobe Bryant (the heir to Jordan), Pau Gasol, Andrew Bynum, Ron Artest (or Metta World Peace), Steve Blake and Jordan Hill. This generation faced the Paul Pierce Celtics twice - losing in 2008 and winning in 2010. Criticized for having a lousy bench and inconsistent performances by Gasol/Bynum, their era with Kobe is slowly coming to an end, symbolized by their performances against the Thunder in the 2012 playoffs.
* Here's two fun facts for you: they were originally called the Detroit Gems for one season and the Lakers are the only team to win a championship from the NBL, the BAA, and the NBA. The name is an artifact from their early days in Minneapolis. Minnesota has ten thousand lakes; Los Angeles has five. This began the tradition of NBA teams keeping their name on changing cities, no matter how incongruous. Speaking of which...
* The Memphis Grizzlies started play in 1995. They've done very little of note. And by that, we mean very, very little. They've shown some improvement in recent years, but remain far from contenders. Grizzly bears are notoriously hard to find around swampy, humid Memphis; the team was originally based in Vancouver, Canada. Basically, the only things that are known about them was the very one-sided trade to the L.A. Lakers that made the Grizzlies lose their best player (Pau Gasol) and recently becoming the second 8-seeded team in the NBA playoffs to defeat a 1-seed in a 7-game series (and the fourth to do so overall), beating the San Antonio Spurs in the 2011 playoffs, and taking the Thunder to 7 games in the next round, without their best player on the court for either.
* The Minnesota Timberwolves can also be called the Minnesota Wolves or the T-Wolves. The former team of Kevin Garnett, who was known as a great player without a ring - and who was subsequently traded to the Boston Celtics where he immediately won a ring. They're now the team of surprise star player Kevin Love and Spanish superstar Ricky Rubio. Fun fact: they got their name as a result of a "name that team" contest.
* The New Orleans Hornets were formerly the Charlotte Hornets. They've been fairly consistent in their 20 years - occasionally very bad, occasionally very good, but mostly in the middle of the pack. Point Guard Chris Paul led the team to their first divisional title in 2008, but they've slipped back into mediocrity since then, and they'll be stuck there due to them trading Chris Paul. However, they did gain a new owner recently due to the current owner of the New Orleans Saints gaining interest, and he does plan on making some changes around town, starting with their name! Due to Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans in 2005, the Hornets played home games in Oklahoma City for two years, where they became the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets. The Seattle (Super)Sonics' owner took note of the team's strong reception there, leading us to...
* The Oklahoma City Thunder were formerly known as the Seattle (Super)Sonics. As of 2011, the Thunder have existed for only three seasons. They are now a good NBA example of Ensemble Darkhorse. They were pretty bad when they first moved to OKC - then Kevin Durant started getting really good (becoming the youngest best scorer of the league with almost 30 points per game). In 2010, they made their first playoffs as the Thunder, losing to the Lakers in 6 games. They followed that up with the 2011 playoffs, where they defeated the Denver Nuggets, the Memphis Grizzlies in a Crack Pairing that was considered incredibly dramatic and went to 7 games, then losing to eventual champion Dallas Mavericks in the Western Conference Finals. Many consider them a legit candidate for winning the 2011-12 NBA Finals, with their top players being Kevin Durant, Russel Westbrook, James Harden, Serge Ikaba, Kendrick Perkins and Derek Fisher. Seattle's glory days were in the late 70's, when they won a championship, and the mid 90's, when they were the favored team of several noted Seattle bands. The (Super)Sonics' final playoff appearance was in 2005. In the 2012 playoffs, after defeating the Mavericks, the Lakers and the Spurs, OKC beat the champions of 10 of the last 13 years, all of whom represented the west; a changing of the guard, especially since their coach was the pupil of the Spurs' coach.
* The Phoenix Suns are one of many teams without a championship. They've been pretty solid in the '00s - they've got Steve Nash and some other solid names to their credit. Historically, they are one of the better franchises in the NBA. Ex-Suns coach Mike D'Antoni instituted a system that's successful called "Seven Seconds Or Less". That style of play was not only fun, but other teams started to copy that system during the late 2000s (such as the Golden State Warriors). A former well-known Suns player is now the mayor of a city of one of their Pacific Division rivals. They're also noted for "The Shot Heard Around the World" made by Garfield Heard back in the 1976 NBA Finals.
* The Portland Trail Blazers are sometimes known as the Portland Blazers. Another team whose best years are behind them. In the early to mid-'00s, they were known as the Jail Blazers for the number of players in trouble with the law. Now known as the black cats of the league, because their players seem to always be injured. Also (in)famous for their horrid luck when it comes to drafting players. Their first notice of bad luck came in 1972 when they decided to draft a guy named LaRue Martin over Hall of Fame players like Julius Erving and Bob McAdoo. LaRue would only play about 4 seasons with 5.3 points and 4.7 rebounds per game before retiring, which places him as one of the biggest busts of all time. Their more (in)famous notice, however, comes from Sam Bowie, who was one slot ahead of Michael Jordan in the 1984 draft. Bowie's knees gave out immediately and Jordan went on to be one of the most successful athletes in American history. Lightning struck again when they drafted Greg Oden, whose knees gave out immediately, one slot before Kevin Durant, one of the most prolific scorers in the NBA. They recently learned that their best player, Brandon Roy, was suffering from an incurable knee disease that forced him into a really early retirement. This has resulted in Portland basically blowing up their current roster for some pretty mediocre players, as well as waiving Greg Oden too.
* The Sacramento Kings last won a championship in 1951. Bounced around from the NBL to the NBA from Rochester (as the Royals) to Cincinnati (also as the Royals) to Kansas City-Omaha to just Kansas City before settling in Sacramento in 1985. Sacramento's only major league sports team, their fanbase has been among the strongest in the league even during the franchise's lean years. This franchise is the third-oldest franchise in the NBA, behind only the Detroit Pistons and the Philadelphia 76ers, respectively. Their roots began in the 1945-46 season -- one year after the BAA/NBA began. There's been recent concerns of the Kings being moved to Anaheim, CA. The mayor of Sacramento Kevin Johnson (a former NBA player) rallyed supporters and there is now an agreement by the city to build a new stadium that's keeping the Kings in Sacramento for over 30 years!
* The San Antonio Spurs were one of the more dominant teams of the 2000s, as they've won the championship 4 times and have more division titles than any other team. Also the team of Tim Duncan, who is One of Us and whom The Onion really likes to make fun of. Like the Indiana Pacers, the New Jersey Nets, and the Denver Nuggets, they're one of four ABA teams to move to the NBA. Started out in the ABA as the Dallas Chaparrals and in one season, the Texas Chaparrals. One of the most consistent teams in the NBA, almost never missing the playoffs (and holding the NBA record for most consecutive 50+ win seasons as of 2011-12 with 13), the George Gervin and David Robinson eras were both sans-championship until Duncan and Robinson were paired together as the "Twin Towers". Known for their numerous "steals" during the annual drafts: George Gervin at 40th pick, Tony Parker at 28th, and even Manu Ginobili at 57th. Notably, four coaches (Corbin, D'Antoni, Del Negro and Rivers) all played for the Spurs. After getting riddled with injuries and having the Grizzlies knock them out of the 2011 playoffs in the first round, the Spurs came back with a vengeance through the 2012 season, finding their way into a 20-game winning streak (their last loss was at home against LA in April 11) that headed into the playoffs. The younger guns were shaping up to be fine players, Popovich deservedly won the Coach of the Year award, Ginobili came back from an injury, Duncan improved his play after losing weight, and Parker was establishing himself as a premier point guard. As the playoffs started, the Spurs swept their first two opponents, the Jazz and the Clippers, and took the first two games at home against the Oklahoma City Thunder. With their old school, meticulously-executed fundamental basketball and excellent sharpshooting, the Spurs were the clear favorites to come out of the Western Conference... before losing the next three games, two on the road and one at home, to the Thunder, who switched from their isolation-style playing into a more team-oriented offense/defense. The Spurs are one loss away from getting knocked out of the playoffs, and the next game is at Oklahoma City, where the Thunder are undefeated in the 2012 postseason.
* The Utah Jazz are best known as the team of assist king John Stockton and "The Mailman" Karl Malone. In the more distant past, "Pistol" Pete Maravich (Disney made a movie about his childhood hoop exploits) played for them. However, despite their dominance, they have no championships to show for it. Recent shock has been gained by them when Jerry Sloan (the head coach of the Utah Jazz for 23 years) decided to resign from coaching after signing another one-year contract during the 2010-11 season, as well the Jazz trading away their superstar point guard Deron Williams to New Jersey almost one week later. If you're wondering what Mormon Utah has to do with jazz, this is yet another team with an Artifact Title. The franchise was originally from New Orleans and moved to Salt Lake City in 1979. The team's then-owner didn't change the name because he thought the move would be temporary. As you've guessed, it wasn't. But after thirty years, very few people even find it strange anymore, and it's become something of a quirky Utah tradition to append one or two Z's to the end of a professional team name or have a Z somewhere (the WNBA and women's soccer's "Starzz", the minor league "Orem Owlz", the "Blitzz" of a long forgotten soccer league, the minor league hockey Grizzlies). Additionally, there were 15 teams back in the 1940's and 1950's that no longer exist, even if some of their names ended up being revived altogether. Some teams' stories are more interesting than others, but they're all still dead. These are their stories.
* The Anderson Packers (sometimes known as the Anderson Duffy Packers or even the Chief Anderson Meat Packers; 1946-1951) were the last champion team for the NBL, which was a big chunk for the early NBA. In their one season with the NBA (1949-50), they ended up defeating their division rivals in the Tri-Cities Blackhawks and the Indianapolis Olympians before being bested by the eventual champion Minneapolis Lakers. After their failure in the NBA, they decided to move on to the failing NPBL before folding.
* The Baltimore Bullets (1944-1954) are currently the only dead NBA team to end up winning an NBA Finals championship. Baltimore began as an ABL team that once won a championship there against the Philadelphia Sphas (who are now known as the Washington Generals) before moving to the BAA in 1947-48, where they had their best success as a team. They are also the only ABL team to move to the NBA. Afterwards, the team had unfortunate luck, making it to the playoffs twice before folding after 14 games into the 1954-55 season. Also, they shouldn't be confused with the Baltimore Bullets team that are now the Washington Wizards.
* The Chicago Stags (1946-1950) was Chicago's first attempt at having an NBA team before they settled with the Chicago Bulls. The Stags had a good opportunity with being the first of two teams to enter the NBA Finals. Unfortunately, the success they had was short-lived, as while they did make it to the playoffs in all the other years, they just didn't have the luck, cash, or talent needed to help keep the team around, despite the aquisition rights to eventual Boston Celtic Bob Cousy and having a leading scorer in Max Zaslofsky. They do hold some remembrance, as the Stags' old jerseys were worn in a few NBA games back in the 2005-06 season. They are also one of the original 11 NBA teams in their first ever NBA season.
* The Cleveland Rebels (1946-47) was Cleveland's first attempt at an NBA team before getting the Cleveland Cavaliers. They were also an original 11 NBA team. In their one year with the BAA/NBA, they ended up grabbing an average record, and ended up losing to the New York Knicks in the first round of the playoffs. After that, they just went out of business.
* The Denver Nuggets (1948-1950) was Denver's first ever professional team. Unfortunately, they were probably the worst team they had. In their two years with the NBL/NBA, they ended up getting two losing records, the second of which being the worst. On the plus side, they were a great un-named Denver amateur team back in 1938-48, and they put the city on the map in terms of sports. Just like Baltimore, they shouldn't be confused with the current Denver NBA team of the same name, albeit that Denver Nuggets weren't originally named the Nuggets to begin with.
* The Detroit Falcons (1946-47) was Detroit's first NBA team before they acquired the Detroit Pistons, as well as an original 11 NBA team. Their team was a bad one, with their only star, Stan Miasak, making it on their first ever All-BAA/NBA First Team. Combine that with the Detroit of the past, and it's no wonder why they didn't work out.
* The Indianapolis Kautskys (1937-1949) was the first chance Indiana had for a professional basketball team. The Kautskys weren't really one of the best NBL teams around, even going around and temporarily suspending operations for the 1940-41 season and from 1942-45, which was most likely due to World War II happening. Along with the Lakers, the (Zollner) Pistons, and the Rochester Royals, the Kautskys ended up moving from the NBL to the BAA in their 1948-49 season, and rebranded themselves as the Indianapolis Jets. Unfortunately for them, they still ended up having a losing record, and they folded after one season with the NBA. However, not all hope would be lost for Indiana...
* Because they ended up gaining another NBA team! The Indianapolis Olympians (1949-1953) were Indiana's second chance for a professional basketball team after the failed Kautskys/Jets experiment. Unlike the first Indianapolis team, the Olympians were led by some players who were on the U.S. Olympic team in 1948. They even ended up gaining a winning record in their first year, and even ended up making it to the playoffs for every season they played. Unfortunately, when the NBA discovered that two key components admitted to point shaving during their college careers in Kentucky in 1951, they were banned from the NBA for life and the Olympians were never the same, despite having a winning record again after that year. When they had a horrid losing record that still made it to the playoffs and your first opponent would be the eventual champion Lakers, you might as well consider yourself dead afterwards. On a plus side, they were the winners of a six-overtime game against the Rochester Royals in 1951. Despite that long amount of time, the score on that game was rather small, since it ended with the score of 75-73! Eventually, Indiana finally found a NBA team to truly call their team... with a former ABA team entering the NBA.
* The Pittsburgh Ironmen (1946-47) was the NBA's only attempt to venture out to the land of Pittsburgh, but it wouldn't be the end of their ventures in Pennsylvania. They were also an original 11 NBA team. In their one year around, they were the worst team with a 15-45 record. On a trivia note, the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers were temporarily renamed the Pittsburgh Iron Men back in 1941.
* The Providence Steamrollers (1946-49) was the last professional team in general to ever play in the state of Rhode Island, as well as an original 11 NBA team. The Steamrollers were simply put, a horrible team, with one season giving them only 6 wins! (They still aren't the worst team, percentage-wise. That dubious "honor" now goes to the 2011-12 Charlotte Bobcats.) They also played the oldest NBA player ever in a guy named "Nat Hickey", who decided to play while still being a head coach for the team as an early birthday gift. He only scored two points via free throws, thus making him the oldest NBA player ever at 45 years, 363 days old!
* The Sheboygan Red Skins (1938-1952) from the Wisconsin lakeshore city are a team with a somewhat tragic end. They began as a few successful small teams like the Ballhorns, the Art Imig's, and the Enzo Jels (all local businesses which still exist today) before being renamed as the Sheboygan Red Skins in the NBL, which they admitted in due to their performance against Hall of Fame teams in the New York Renaissance and even the Harlem Globetrotters! After a bad first NBL season, they revamped themselves with a new coach, and later a new arena to help them not only enter the finals, but even win a championship in 1943. After that, they ended up entering a finals a few more times and even joined the playoffs for a few more years afterwards, but they never could replicate the success found in that year. They were the second-longest team to ever play in the NBL and the team with the second-most NBL championship appearances, being only behind the Oshkosh All-Stars in each experiment. Unfortunately, they didn't fare so well despite starting out so well in the 1949-1950 NBA season. With the Red Skins playing in the smallest market and arena in professional basketball history (a 3,500 all-bleacher seat building meant more as an armory), it wouldn't really help Sheboygan's cause. After giving the Olympians a scare in the playoffs despite having a losing record, they withdrew to the aforementioned NPBL, where they posted the best NPBL record there (29-16). After that experiment, the Red Skins had one last chance in saving them, and two other former NBA teams by creating a new ten-team league, but they realized how big the NBA was, and they ended up being an independant team for one year before folding altogether due to sparse crowds and the team losing to College All-Stars.
* The St. Louis Bombers (1946-1950) were the NBA's first attempt at having a team in St. Louis, as well as an original 11 NBA team. When the NBA was the BAA, they did pretty good, with the team always entering the playoffs, but losing in either the quarterfinals or the semifinals. When the BAA changed into the NBA, however, they never were the same, as the Bombers suffered a losing record that resulted in the team folding afterwards, despite them having star guys in Grady Lewis and Ed Macauley. They also sort of hold an Unfortunate Implications team name.
* The Toronto Huskies (1946-47) were the NBA's first attempt at bringing in a Canadian basketball team, as well as being an original 11 NBA team. They were the losing team of the first ever NBA game, they played at the Maple Leaf Gardens, and they ended up holding four different coaches in their only season, one of which didn't win a game at all. They also had a famous promotion gimmick in the first game ever played by giving anyone who was taller than the Huskies' tallest player (6' 8" C George Nostrand) free admission. With a lack of organization, a lack of talented players, and odd promotions found (i.e., free stockings for all women in attendance), the franchise ended up folding after their only season. Despite the flaws, they're still remembered just like the Chicago Stags by having the Toronto Raptors wear the Huskies' old jerseys for 6 games in the 2009-2010 season. However, unlike the Stags, the Huskies have a movement where loyal Huskies fans want to see the Raptors abolished and replaced with the old Huskies name, and they apparently made a bit of a mark with the Raptors keeping the retro jerseys beyond that season, the Raptors' official website holding a Toronto Huskies banner, and one game even had the team referred to as the Huskies instead of the Raptors.
* The Washington Capitols (1946-1951) were the NBA's first attempt at having a team in the U.S.A.'s capital. They're also not only an original 11 NBA team, but they also were the former head coaching team of famous head coach Red Auerbach, and it does show since they were one of two former NBA teams to lose in the NBA Finals. After the Capitols lost Red as their head coach, they never were the same, as they kept losing and losing until the Capitols ended up folding with a record of 10-25. Also, they shouldn't be confused with the current NHL team that spells their name as "Capitals", nor should they be confused with the ABA team that abbreviated their name as "Caps".
* The Waterloo Hawks (1948-1951) were the only sports franchise to ever hold a permanent home somewhere in Iowa. The original Hawks team started out as a more-or-less average team when they were in the NBL. When they transfered to the NBA, however, they did a horrible job there. When the Hawks finally made it to the NPBL, they actually were a good team, setting out a 32-24 record. Unfortunately for the Hawks (as well as the Packers and the Red Skins), the NPBL failed without a champion truly being awarded, and the Hawks soon folded afterwards. Additionally, the BAA had planned on creating some new Buffalo and Indianapolis teams for the BAA only. However, due to the NBL-BAA merger, those plans were permanently scrapped.
- Basketball is a Muggle team sport invented on December 21, 1891 by Canadian Dr James Naismith while he was teaching at the International Young Men's Christian Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts. [1] Basketball consists of two teams of five that try to score points by throwing or shooting a ball through the top of a basketball hoop. The team with the most points at the end of four quarters wins the game. Harry Potter first compared Quidditch to this sport to Oliver Wood in 1991, though Oliver had no idea what Harry was referring to. The American National Quidditch team had a signature move called The Harlem Shuffle that was inspired by the sport of basketball.
- Basketball is a word for an object that doesn't exist. Scientists have been trying to figure out what the object is for years, but little progress has been made, for the Scientists are Scientists that don't exist trying to figure out what the unknown objects is.
- Basketball was a peaceful planet with no weapons, but it got blowed up real good by the Death Star anyway. It was a cool, fast-paced planet with lots of action, but there was a lot of crime amongst the populace which was rarely punished, and the refs never called traveling on the most popular people. The planet made a tidy profit with its sporting arenas, tattoo parlors, and bizarre hairstyling salons. Darph Nader destroyed Basketball mostly because he liked planet Hockey better and was angry it didn't get enough recognition.
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- thumb|300px|Carl Johnson s’essayant au basketball dans GTA San Andreas.Le basketball est une activité que peut pratiquer Carl Johnson (le protagoniste) seul après la réussite de la mission intitulée « Tagging Up Turf » dans Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
- Benny Russell played basketball when he was a teenager, but considered himself to be too slow to properly play the game. Willie Hawkins was known in Harlem to be an expert basketball player. (DS9 novelization: Far Beyond the Stars) While baseball had mostly died out on Earth by the 2040s, basketball remained popular well into the 22nd century. One of the shuttlebays of the Earth Starfleet vessel Enterprise (NX-01) was designed so that it could be converted into a basketball court. At one point, with the exception of T'Pol, the entire senior staff played a game of basketball in the shuttlebay. (ENT episode: "The Forge") Stephen Foyle and Gage Pembleton played a game of basketball on the Columbia. (ST - Destiny novel: Gods of Night) In the alternate reality created by Nero's temporal incursion, James T. Kirk was kicked off the basketball team in his senior year at Riverside Central. (TOS - Starfleet Academy novel: The Gemini Agent) In this same universe, a young Leonard McCoy wanted to be a professional basketball player when he was young. (TOS comic: "IDW Star Trek, Issue 17") A variation of basketball known as Aztec basketball became popular in the 24th century. (SCE eBook: Enigma Ship) Elim Garak, a Cardassian, once commented that he considered basketball to be "mindless monotony". (DS9 novel: A Stitch in Time)
- See w:c:AforAthlete:basketball
- The Harlem Globetrotters were a notable basketball team who played against Hubert J. Farnsworth's Atomic Supermen. The Supermen almost won, though due to time lapses in space, they became confused and the Globetrotters took advantage of this in order to win the game. During the game, one of the Supermen, Arachneon, was killed.
- LEGO Basketball was a subtheme of Sports that ran from 2003 to 2004 with sets and to 2005 with accessories.
- thumb|Die Crew der NX-01 spielt Basketball Basketball ist ein alter Sport von der Erde. Es spielen zwei Teams mit mehreren Spielern gegeneinander, deren Ziel es ist, einen Ball in einen an der Wand hängenden Korb zu werfen. Wer am Ende des Spielzeit die meisten Punkte hat gewinnt. Im Jahr 2154 spielen die Führungsoffiziere auf der Enterprise, außer T'Pol, Basketball, bei dem das Spiel anscheinend immer von dem Team gewonnen wird, bei dem Phlox mitspielte. (ENT: )
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- Basketball is a sport played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet high mounted to a backboard at each end. Fox Mulder was a fan of the New York Knicks basketball team.
- Un drama que sigue los amores, los conflictos, la unidad, y la victoria emocional de las personas, e incluye la primera y última vez que Corea tenía un equipo de baloncesto nacional único. Justo en el momento en el que el primer equipo de baloncesto nacional de Corea que entró en las Olimpiadas de Londres en el año de 1948. Kang San es de una familia pobre. Él lucha para escapar de la pobreza. A través del juego de baloncesto, se convierte en éxito y se encuentra con una chica de la clase alta. Sueña con su amor superar las disparidades en el nivel social. Choi Shin Young, viene de una familia rica en la capital Kyeongseong (actual Seúl) y asistió a la escuela en Japón, después de regresar a Corea comienza a trabajar como periodista de una revista. Chi Min Ho, es una estrella del baloncesto que goza de popularidad en todo el país. Con su fama, inspira orgullo y el espíritu supera las dificultades sufridas durante el imperialismo japonés. Bong Soon, es una criada que habla con un dialecto de Chungcheong. Ella vino a trabajar para la familia de Shin Young después de que su familia perdió sus tierras durante el imperialismo japonés. Tiene un carácter brillante y una habilidad en la búsqueda de soluciones realistas a los problemas. Un hombre y sus amigos superan los conflictos en ideas, el imperialismo japonés y la independencia con "el baloncesto".
- The Knicks were a better team back in 1990's. They had a great squad in those days. They had Patrick Ewing. He's the Knicks all-time leading scorer and rebounded. They also had John Starks. He was a great point guard for them. HE was also a good dunker. Charles Oakley was a good power forward for them as well. But I think Allan Houston was there top player next to Patrick. Allan Houston was the purist shooter in the NBA in the 1990's. He was also a great three-point shooter. He was also in the slam dunk contest in 1994. He was also there best free-throw and 3-point shooter back in the day. Now he's nothing. Once and a while when he's not injured he makes some good shots but I think he should retire at the end of this season because he's always injured and never has played a full season. He should be an assistant for the Knicks teach the young guys something new.
- Sport ou l'Amérique est le seul continent représentatif dans lequel 5 noirs font des allers-retours intensifs sur un terrain à peine plus grand qu'un court de tennis et simulent une activité physique intensive.
- A ball is placed in a time capsule. It is shot into the air, and forgotten about. Soon, it travels far beyond the bounds of existence. It reaches a new plantation. As those people uncover the ball, it becomes like an alien life form, something about parallel parking. Sometimes, it gets to the point where I don't even remember where I put my pants anymore. Anyway, the ball makes up for 12% of the economic progress of Whales and some of Sweden, Denmark, and possibly Europa Europa, and this excites the aliens greatly. The ball becomes a symbol of poverty for the rich and riches for the rich also. Everybody loves it.
- Basketball ist ein sonstiger Gegenstand der in Fallout: New Vegas vorkommt.
- About Agility, every brawlers can attempt to snatch the ball from an opponent player who has the ball, the snatch has a reload time and its reload time is based on the agility (more agility means faster snatch reload speed). This prevents brawlers to keep snatching while moving. There is also a snatch reload time after certain amount of snatch attemps in the origin nitendo ds game mario hoops 3 on 3. Speed are agility may sound similar buy they are different in this game mode, the differences are that speed is just the movement speed in this game mode and the agility isint about the movement speed and its about moving around easily in this game mode. The term mobility in the all other general/official game modes splits off into 3 kinds of stats in this game mode which is speed agility and size... The game here functions like the real basketball game, the score system works exactly like the real basketball game that the score is increased by 2 when someone shoots the ball inside the semi circle or dunks the ball, and 3 points when someone shoots the ball while outside the semicircle. And there are no draws in the game, when both teams has the same total score by the end of the match, there will be an overtime of 1 minutes, it does not means score next goal to win, but rather is by the end of that 1 minutes, the team with more score again will win (this rarely happens), and if the overtime ends in a tie, the overtime of 1 minutes will happen again until the team with more score by the end of the next overtime. Before the the start of the match, 3 brawlers from each side initial spawn area is lined up in a curve and is very close to one another, so are the other team and both teams are facing very close to the ball (see picture). The screen panning is not moving as the field is a bit smaller and will show the position for few seconds before the match starts. When the match starts ("brawl!"), the ball will be tossed in a random direction of left or right (potrait view) and the ball is free for brawlers to obtain. When a brawler obtain the ball, it will make the same sound as the ball obatained in brawl ball, and he/she will bounce the ball as an animation and can be snatched. The brawler has the ball, now he/she can move with the ball to dribble and also has the ability to pass the ball to friendlies. With the ball, he/she will move slower and this is because it allows opponents without the ball to catch up and tries to snatch the ball, and when the ball is snatched he/she will lose the ball and gets staggered and stunned for a short time, when you are about to have your ball snatched its a good idea to pass the ball to your teammate. The ball pass can be stright or lobbed and has a pass distance and offset from the pass aim line (the distance depends the strength of the brawler) (and the offset depends on the accuracy, higher accuracy means lower offset +-), when the ball is passed, it will travel across and it can be grabbed by the pass target, but this means that opponents can also grab the ball is the ball touches the opponent instead of the pass target. When a brawler manages to dribble near to the hoop, he/she can attempt to shoot the ball in with the similar control of passing or snatching (tap/drag). The pass aim line will become lobbed when the player drags the throw destination towards the hoop, that lobbed aim line can be thrown further away if that brawler has higher strength. When someone receives the ball from passing, the ball will by dribbling at the same direction of the ball receive direction. When player attempts to shoot the ball will travels to the hoop, even when he/she aims perfectly on the hoop the ball is not guaranteed to enter the hoop due to the accuracy value and the distance from the hoop, higher accuracy brawler socres easier when throwing it into the hoop. When the brawler shoots the ball and the ball will either bounce around the hoop or just make it in without bouncing acound. Balls can be saved by jumping to take the ball before it enters the hoop by double tapping/dragging. When the ball manages to enter the hoop, the team scores 2 or 3 points and the field will not reset, like the real basketball game the ball drops from the hoop (the match will not be paused and the timer continues going) and the ball is available for anyone to take again when it falls from the hoop so the defending team of that hoop still have to run there to take the ball to stop that opposing team from trying to score again, so the game resumes with both teams continuing to play till the times up so positioning is quite important trought out the game. The player can also attempt to dunk the ball into the hoop, he/she has to dribble the ball near to the hoop to dunk the ball (with an animation) and the aim line will disappear, doing this is a guaranteed score as accuracy does not matter in dunking. But dunking can be stopped by jump stealing, jump stealing can be done by going near the hoop and double tap/drag on the screen to do that while an opponent is attempting to dunk the ball. When timed right, that opponent will stagger and stunned for a short time similar to when ball is stolen and the ball will drop down to the floor. The dunk animation takes some time to perfrom so that it looks realstic and gives enough time to jump steal the ball. Each dunk will gives 2 points to the team. Players can also throw the ball into the hoop far away from it (outside the semicircle), as this will gives the team 3 points if the ball manages to enter. Its ideally done when the player has high accuracy or there are opponents in front or time is running out. You can try different brawlers in this mode, each of them are good in certain attribute and bad in some. There is something that i have to say too: when the ball enters the hoop the cheer sound and animaiton will play. With after all these gameplay explainations, the game ends when the time is up the team scores more points (not necessarily amount of goals) is the wining team. Note:
* When trying to aim and shoot the ball into the hoop, the aim line will show in a lobbed path to show how the ball will travel in the lobbed aim line, the aim destination should be
* Not sure if the map should be played landscape or potrait.
* And i highly doubt that there are more than one map for this mode as this is a minor mode? but its also a dark mode that is equal to the other dark modes.
* Brawlers does not hold weapons in this mode as this a weaponless mode. No shovel for mortis (fun fact: mortis has to place his shovel in the lockers).
* In this mode, players cannot walk on top of someone, it means that brawlers can block an opponent brawler from catching the ball when the ball is flying.
* Shit... This mode is a bit of luck based due to the accuracy mechanics.
* Dunking is the guaranteed way to score goal when no one jump steals. Friendlies cant jump steal as its an unrecognized command.
* Typically brawler with more strength is also bigger in size.
* Jump stealing will always suceed, strength does not matter or the mode will be broken.
* Brawlers sound effects are still here in this mode.
* The stagger and stun animation and mechanic is same as in that ds game.
* This dark mode is 3v3 and lasts shorter than the other dark mode so the exp given for this event is lower compared to the other dark modes.
* The jump feature is exclusive to this mode, and players can jump and jump steal anythere according to the senario needs.
* The ball control method if quite similar to brawl ball, meaning that the player is not able to dribble the ball any direction around the player, and the player will always face the same direction as the ball (like football), unlike the mario hoops 3 on 3 where the players can dribble the ball in any direction around him/her and still the player faces on any direction which are independent to the ball direction around the player.
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- Basketball in The Sims is played on the SuperDoop Basketball Hoop, which must be placed outside. If Unleashed is installed, Sim Central Park in Old Town has a couple of basketball goals. While adult Sims don't gain much fun from it, and usually won't stay long, children stay around 35% longer.
- This game is played using only the Wii Remote connected to Wii MotionPlus.
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- Sgt. Bates was fond of this sport and often watched it with his brother. (SGA: "Letters from Pegasus") Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell and Dr. Daniel Jackson were seen playing basketball on several occasions and once teamed up against Vala Mal Doran and Teal'c. (SG1: "Beachhead", "The Fourth Horseman, Part 1")
- En 2000, un match de basketball fut retransmis à la télévision. (VOY: "11:59") En 2154, l'équipage de l'Enterprise NX-01 a joué un match de basket dans le hangar à navettes 2 converti en terrain de basketball. Le Dr Phlox montra une nette précision dans les tirs. (ENT: "The Forge")
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- Basketball was a sport developed on Earth during the 19th century. It involved two teams competing against each other by attempting to get a ball in a basket as many times as possible within the game's time limit. It was a common fixture in high school and in university although university-level competition had a wide range of competition levels, ranging from beer league-level (KU Leuven) to near-professional-level (University of North Carolina). Dunames Lopez played basketball through university, although she was never considered an elite player at the university level, despite taking part in two EuroBasket Women High School finals back in high school. (Star Trek: False Vacuum: "Dear Sixteen-Year-Old Me") Timothy Sinclair was taught to play basketball by Mary Barranco. (Star Trek: Pendragon) M'Kalek played basketball at Starfleet Academy. (Seventh Fleet RPG) Tyria Rohallin captained Starfleet Academy's women's basketball team in 2398. (The War of the Masters: "The Silence Ends")
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- The objective is to win with a spherical game piece called the ping-pong ball. After clinching the division's worst record with a winter full of egotism, poor team play, crossed signals, and horrible shooting, the team that prevails hopes to obtain a ping-pong ball that gives it the right to draft one or more competent players. It then prepares for the next season, playing an odd sport with a much larger rubber ball. The sixteen teams that fail to get access to the ping-pong ball are relegated to a more boring pastime called the Championships.
- Marvin was showing Plinky how to play basketball and he told her he was the "wizard of the basketball court," after she had expressed how easy the game seemed to her. He later told her that she has good hands, noting her skill to grab the ball away from him with air suction. Marvin realized his basketball team at his school was never going to win, because they are not tall enough. So he tried to use stilts to see if that would help him get taller, but he realized that it would never work, after he fell and broke the stilts. He later used the reverse setting of the handheld minimizer to either make his team taller, or the other teams shorter, although he claims that he only played against girls, which is why every other team was shorter. In 1985, Nicholas, a handicapped kid from the Special School for Disabled Children, told his friend Victor Stone that now that he's getting used to his new artificial leg, he'll be back to playing basketball again in no time.
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- Basketball is a physical game invented by Humanity. It is a multi-player game, with a lower limit of 2 people for an active game. A ball is thrown and 'dribbled,' and the players attempt to throw the ball into the round hoop on the opposite side of the court. It is a popular sport on the Systems Commonwealth vessel Andromeda Ascendant, as Captain Hunt brought the sport with him on board the ship when he assumed command. It is played in Andromeda Ascendant Hydroponic Garden, which is the crew's de facto recreational area. ("Home Fires", "D Minus Zero") While Beka, Trance, and Harper rarely played with Dylan, the Nietzscheans in his crew such as Tyr Anasazi and Gaheris Rhade would frequently play with him. However, they often used ploys and violence to try and win the game, in keeping with their Nietzschean philosophy. ("Home Fires")
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- During the 20th and 21st centuries, basketball was played as a sport for fun or could be played professionally, in a league. Professional games were often televised and shown in bars. (VOY: "11:59") Basketball was still played in the 22nd century. One of the launch bays on Enterprise could be converted into a single-sided basketball court. In 2154, the starship's senior staff (with the exception of Commander T'Pol) played a game of basketball in Launch Bay 2. Doctor Phlox, who found the sport similar to Octran fertility contests, showed that he had superior skill in shot accuracy. (ENT: "The Forge") Most of the basketball outfits worn by the actors in "The Forge" were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. They included the outfits worn by Connor Trinneer, [1] Dominic Keating, [2] Linda Park, [3] and John Billingsley. [4] TNG guest star James Worthy played professional basketball from 1982-94 for the Los Angeles Lakers, and is a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame. Basketball was referred to in a stage direction from the final draft script of TOS: "Miri" ; one or more elaborate badminton "set-ups" (along with badminton gear and other equipment) was to have been visible in the window of Biggs' toy store. In issue 17 of Star Trek: Ongoing, it is revealed that Leonard McCoy originally had dreams of being a professional basketball player when he grew up.
- In 1978, the Harlem Globetrotters taught the Doctor how to spin a basketball on his finger. (PROSE: Dark Horizons) In 1986, Sherman used a basketball to in his model to represent time travel. (AUDIO: The Way Forwards) The Torchwood Three crew had a Torchwood-branded basketball net installed in the Hub and occasionally played basketball to unwind, as well as determine who would pay for drinks. Even Myfanwy got involved in the game. (TV: Cyberwoman) The Pharos Institute experimented with having a test subject move a basketball telekinetically, with the aid of the MITRE headset. (TV: The Lost Boy)
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