In the basketball teams that fly charter, bosses take a back seat to the workers--literally.
"Those in the basketball world have known of his abilities for a while, " Haden said.
The market did not exist in the basketball hotbeds of Los Angeles or New York, but rather, thousands of miles and an ocean away in China.
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And even before EA canceled its NBA ELITE game, the NBA 2K franchise had been the annual sales champion and critically acclaimed winner in the basketball simulation market.
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But if there's been a consistent thread in the basketball life of Jeremy Lin, it's been people telling him he wasn't good enough, and Lin going out and proving his skeptics wrong.
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John Lucaswas the No. 1 pick of the 1976 NBA draft, had a 14-year pro career and coached in the NBA. North Carolina State's Mr. Thompson is in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
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The Fighting Irish, a member in all other sports since 1995, has reaped huge benefits from its inclusion in the best basketball conference in the nation.
The locals are particularly proud that their basketball team has been in the National Basketball Association Finals for the past two years.
An Olympiad? (Please don't say the Pro Bowl or the NHL All-Star Game.) Every spring someone trots out the claim that the flurry of buzzer beaters in the NCAA basketball tournament makes it the most riveting event in sports, and there's always the World Cup, but what's happening in tennis feels far more intimate, close up, personal.
Two nights later, Lin made his first start in the National Basketball Association lighting up the court with 28 points and 8 assists in a win over the Utah Jazz.
His team made history last weekend by being the first 15 seed in the NCAA Basketball Tournament to make it to the Sweet 16.
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The diagnosis raises doubt over the playing future of one of the biggest stars in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and one of the most famous celebrities to hail from China.
In pro basketball playoffs as well as in college basketball in the late 1980s and 1990s, coaches and players figured out that leagues and officials prefer not to foul out more than one or two players in a game.
The alleged investment scheme could prove to be embarrassing to the NCAA because Salinas was prominent in the Houston basketball scene, backing a summer league that attracted the best local basketball players.
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He went on to spend four years playing in the NBA, the top basketball league in the world, with Orlando Magic, Utah Jazz and Houston Rockets.
Back in the U.S., the news was dominated by events in Libya, the start of March Madness in college basketball and the latest court appearance of Lindsay Lohan.
In Sacramento, the professional basketball team plays in the Arco Arena, named after a company that no longer exists.
He played soccer in the fall and spring, and basketball in the winter.
Firm also owns the Alaska Aces, a contender in the Philippines Basketball Association league.
Top-seeded Indiana holds off Temple 58-52 to advance to round of 16 in the NCAA basketball tourney.
Mr. Carter is a minority owner in the National Basketball Association's Brooklyn Nets.
The Big Ten Conference, statistically the strongest in college basketball for the third straight year, still hasn't produced a champion since 2000.
Smith, Patty Mills, Kenyon Martin and Aaron Brooks who'd bet against a settlement by signing to play in the Chinese Basketball Association leaving isn't so simple.
He remains the record all-time scorer in the National Basketball Association.
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Americans Nurse and Finch cut their coaching teeth in the British Basketball League - Nurse with Derby, Manchester and Brighton and Finch with the Sheffield Sharks - before moving on to bigger things.
The Maloof family -- known for ownership of properties in Las Vegas, such as the Palms, among other business ventures -- has been trying for months to unload its majority owner stakes in the pro basketball franchise.
Last season, after decades of fielding mediocre basketball teams, Harvard was ranked among the nation's top 25 in basketball, and at the heart of the basketball team's success was a program dogged by controversy ever since Harvard hired former University of Michigan coach Tommy Amaker in April 2007.
Of the five positions in basketball, the Knicks have allowed the most points, by far, to point guards.
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Also, Duncan said that Miami was incorrect in its assertion that the NCAA was "incompetent, unprofessional, and uncooperative" in the timing of how basketball guard Durand Scott was declared ineligible on the very day the Hurricanes began play in the 2012 Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.
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