It was a hyperbolic announcement of the ascendancy of the black athlete in pro basketball.
Anybody who says pro basketball isn't worth watching anymore isn't watching pro basketball anymore.
Pro basketball player Andy Rautins is best known as a guard with the New York Knicks.
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Unashamed, pro basketball will be served for the holidays again, hooked to Santa's sleigh with a gimpy Rudolph signed to a mid-level exception.
He owns the Seattle Seahawks (pro football), the Portland Trailblazers (pro basketball) and is a part-owner in the Seattle Sounders FC (pro soccer).
Pro basketball teams are employing stat gurus who look past traditional stats like scoring and rebounding while measuring the effectiveness of various lineup combinations.
Mayor Bing, whose 100th day in office is Wednesday, is a legendary pro basketball Hall of Famer who played nine seasons with the Detroit Pistons.
Some were surprised to read that after a pro basketball player swatted a bat out of the air, he had to have rabies vaccinations.
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For the past couple of seasons the best way for a pro basketball player to make the evening news has been to start a bench-clearing brawl or run up into the stands to attack the fans.
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.
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.
Michael Jordan's postcareer business moves have been shaky at best: He's part-owner of pro basketball's woeful Washington Wizards, and with Wayne Gretzky and the retired football player John Elway he invested in MVP.com, a celebrity website that went under earlier this year.
If children without much money, but plenty of hair use that precious commodity as currency for charity, we can have fans with discretionary income among 32 pro football teams, and 30 pro basketball teams, and every other pro team sport do the same?
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" Time Warner Cable fired back on Wednesday with ads featuring a giant flattened basketball and made reference to a National Basketball Association labor dispute that scuttled the first months of the pro basketball season: "First they lock out the Knicks, now MSG wants to block out the fans.
That early culture-changing work is why it was "no big deal" as some writers said recently when Brittney Griner, the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft and one of the best female basketball players, came out of the closet, before she even played her first pro basketball game for the Phoenix Mercury.
It occurred to me that in sports in general these days, parity - or equality among the teams - is the watchword in almost every sport, in college football and pro-football and pro-basketball.
Both hockey and baseball require far more professional mentoring and apprenticeship and development than say pro football or basketball.
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And while pro football, basketball, baseball and hockey players have been making a fine living for a few decades now, the economic boom of the 90s and the corresponding leap in team valuations for owners has led to unimaginable salaries for the top players.
Pro baseball, hockey and basketball struck deals with their unions in 2005, so 2006 could be a year of labor peace.
Owns pro football's Seattle Seahawks, basketball's Portland Trail Blazers.
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The Women's National Basketball Association, the women's pro league, has had its share of milestones and openness as far as gays are concerned.
To address a problem that was costing NBA owners money and NCAA programs players, the NBA drastically changed their eligibility policies in 2005, essentially requiring players to play a year of college basketball before they could declare for the pro draft.
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He developed wide receiver Pete Gent, who had led Michigan State basketball in scoring from 1962-64, and also cornerback Cornell Green, a basketball star at Utah State who went on to make five Pro Bowls.
In the U.S., athletes are not allowed to go pro until they have been out of high school for three years ( except in basketball the number is one), so college sports is the only way for physically gifted kids to earn money from sports.
Specifically, broadcasters wanted the commercial breaks that had been built increasingly into football, baseball, hockey and basketball matches in the U.S. over 40 years of televising American pro sports.
During his first high school semester the coach of the basketball team sits him down and tells him that in order to be a pro one day, he is going to need to focus on one sport and give it his all.
The New York Jets' new quarterback Tim Tebow teared up after a loss while in college, and pro player Chris Bosh broke down when the Miami Heat were eliminated in last year's National Basketball Association finals.
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