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These guys are the same person: Check this out:

Career Stats:
Dominique Wilkins:
24.8 ppg, 6.70 rpg, 2.5 apg, 1.28 spg, .60 bpg, 46.1 FG%

Kobe Bryant:
24.6 ppg, 5.2 rpg, 4.5 apg, 1.5 spg, 0.60 bpg, 45.3 FG%

Professional Championships:
DW: 1 Euroleague Title (as the leader)
KB: 3 NBA Titles (as 2nd Option to Shaq)

NBA Finals MVP:
DW: 0
KB: 0

League MVP:
DW: 0
KB: 0

Scoring Titles:
DW: 1
KB: 2

All-NBA Team Selections:
DW: 7
KB: 9

All-NBA Defensive Team Selections:
DW: 0
KB: 7

All-Star Games:
DW: 9
KB: 9

Rookie Honors:
DW: All-Rookie 1st Team
KB: All-Rookie 2nd Team

All-Star MVP:
DW: 0
KB: 2

Slam Dunk Titles:
DW: 2
KB: 1

Seasons Averaging 30 Points Or More:
DW: 2
KB: 3

Seasons Averaging a 50% or more FG%:
DW: 0
KB: 0

Play-Off Career Point Average:
DW: 25.4 ppg
KB: 23.3 ppg

Seasons Averaging Under 20 pgg
DW: 4
KB: 3

Scary how close these guys are, huh? But I’m going with Wilkins.

KOBE BRYANT SUCKS!

They usually say that basketball wins are owed to the proper playing of the defenses. Honestly, when the best defense is projected at every single level of the basketball game, everything will turn out well for the team.

The best coaches know for a fact that basketball defense should be made the topmost priority. After all, basketball defense determines the after-effect of the players’ efforts on the courts. But are you sure that your team knows how to play basketball defense the right way? Will their knowledge on basketball defense satiate the requirements for bringing home the bacon?

Being cultured with the proper basketball defensive knowledge is hard to deal with especially with the lack of effort and time spent both by the player and the coach. Getting into the core of basketball defense is all about desiring to improve the rest of the fields of the game. Basketball isn’t only about passing, dribbling, or shooting. Furthermore, it is all about learning basketball defenses so these aspects will be perfected. Most dedicated coaches can attest to how vital basketball defense is especially when a team’s heart is into winning.

Here are the valuable tips that need to be kept in mind as one learns the ropes of basketball defense:

You’ve got to quicken your hands and feet.

Know how to repeatedly and swiftly jump.

Practice your instincts and reflexes so you can immediately jump into action. Be with a coach who prioritizes commitment and focuses not only on the individual members of the team but basketball defense as well.

Learn the different basketball defenses such as half-court trap, man-to-man defense, full-court press, and many others.

Be quick in your transitions from that of the offensive floor end to the defensive positions.

Comprehend the overall grasp of the game alongside its strategies and concepts.

Be an expert in handling not only the strong side basketball defense but also the weak side.

Constantly practice the necessary positioning, defensive bearings, and footwork. 

The fans usually roar as they spot their favorite players handle the basketball defenses the flawless way. In reality, basketball defense is actually all in the mind and being in the right attitude. If one truly desires to win, his heart extends to being willing to handle basketball defensive learning. Remember that playing basketball isn’t only a matter of shooting the ball and scoring. Executing the best defenses should likewise be vitally played.

The history of basketball is much easier to trace than other sports. It is clear that Dr. James Naismith is credited with creating basketball and much of basketball history. Dr. Naismith, born in 1861 in Ontario, Canada first came up with the concept of basketball during his youth school days in the area where he played a game that involved knocking a rock off an object by attempting to throw another rock at it. The game obviously evolved from there and began the history of basketball.

Mr. Naismith taught at the YMCA School in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891, where the sport of basketball was created. He was faced with a problem of finding a sport that could be played indoors during the harsh Massachusetts winters. He needed to come up with a game that could be played in and outdoors and one that adopted a sense of skill and not just brawn. He first developed the game by involving a soccer ball and two peach baskets, who would have ever thought basketball history, could come from a soccer ball.

In addition to creating basketball Dr. Naismith became a medical doctor focused on sports science and was a minister. Naismith watched his sport grow to become one of the world’s most popular sports that saw its entrance in the Olympics in 1936 at Berlin and he fixed himself a spot in basketball history.

The history of basketball began with teams of five and was the sports standard by 1897. The sport became popular to both men and women and began to spread throughout Canada and the US. The US servicemen took the sport overseas with them in WWII and the history of basketball became global.

U.S. colleges accepted the game and began to have it as a standard college sport. College basketball history took off around the late 1890’s and the first college game began at the Madison Square Garden in New York.

Professional basketball history first began when the National Basketball League was created in the late 1800’s around 1898. The league however did not last and was broken up after 5 years providing a rough start to basketball history. The break up just led to a number of random leagues forming themselves in the early 1900’s and each was very loosely organized. Ironically enough the first super team was the Celtics but they were from New York City not Boston. The famous Harlem globetrotters were also founded around this time in 1927 and hold a place in basketball history as being the most entertaining of basketball teams.

It wasn’t until 1949 that two professional basketball leagues the NBL and the BAA merged to create what we all know now as the National Basketball Association or the NBA. The Boston Celtics dominated the NBA from the late 1950s through the 1960s. By the 1960s, professional teams had formed throughout the United States and basketball was a mainstream powerhouse. Players such as Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russel and Kareem Abdul-Jabar all became household names that drew millions to watch them play as they all found a spot in basketball history.

National Basketball Association fell off the charts and was surpassed by football in popularity through the 1970’s then got a resurgence from the popular Larry Bird and Magic Johnson era. Michael Jordan carried the league through the eighties and nineties and the torch has been passed on to Shaquille O’neal, Kobe Bryant and Lebron James. The history of basketball has never been so fascinating and it is all thanks to Dr. James Naismith.

reginsky asked:


We all know the ACC perennially brings out tournament teams every year , but the Big East and Big 10 have become as strong , and some may argue , better than the ACC. And don’t forget , the national champions come from the SEC , which may not be as tough in basketball as they are in football , but have a lot of good teams in LSU , Kentucky , Alabama , and Florida.

Im going to LA next summer and am a huge Laker fan but not sure what to choose? I already have a Kobe Bryant jersey in White.

Please help me decide.

Thanks.
Is Lamar Odom A Good Choice?

the team is getting much better and kobe is forcing issue but not taking too many shots. It is just me or does anyone else think they are a contender for a championship this yr. led by the legendary kobe bryant?

Next year I will be going into highschool & I am trying out for Basketball and we have this summer training and stuff. I have never actually played basketball on an actual team, but I do play it in gym and my friends say I am pretty good. So I just want to know what are some good workouts and some things like tricks or formations.

I’m going to the LAS Vegas for La Lakers game. SHould I go casual or chic and sexy? I am single and ready to mingle.