...The people who are successful in life persist on their goals even through physical and conceptual problems. Regarding the doubt and pain Stephen Curry has dealt with, he was still able to change his destiny in basketball. From not being able to receive a high classed division one basketball scholarship to becoming an NBA superstar and all time scorer in the NBA. In his high school debut, the 6’2 point guard from Charlotte Christian High School, Stephen Curry was always the leader in his team and the best scorer as well. He had the ability to shoot off the net of the rim, bring competitive chemistry into his team mates, and ultimately provide great confidence in his games. Many division one colleges, considered Stephen Curry unvaluable player...
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...I think that the year of 2016 is going to be great for the NBA star, Stephen Curry. He was the 2015 MVP of professional men’s basketball. In 2016, he is going to be known as the best player in the NBA. All Lebron fans might as well say goodbye to their “king” and say hello to new royalty. Steph Curry will be known all around the world if he isn’t already. Wardell Stephen “Steph” Curry was born on March 14, 1988 in Akron, Ohio. Steph was born into a very athletic family. Steph’s mother, Sonya, played college volleyball at Virginia Tech. His father, Dell, played in the NBA and was very successful. But in 2016, Stephen will prove that he is far better than his father was. Stephen Curry is very good right now but as the NBA season...
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...When we talk about notable players in the NBA, what comes into mind? The answers vary, starting from Michael Jordan all the way to LeBron James. These players are recognized for notable plays they made for their team and the business they are in today. However, one player that should be recognized is Stephen Curry, one of the best point-guards and three-pointers in the league right now. Of course, today he is known for the best player in the Golden State Warriors. But the real question is what steps did he take to take this title in the nation. Where did he start from, what is his influence, or what challenges did he overcome? These are questions that should pop up in your head. Stephen Curry was born on March 14, 1988 in Akron, Ohio. He is the oldest child of his family, consisting his younger brother, Seth Curry, and his youngest sister, Sydel Curry. Throughout his childhood, he was raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, where his father, Dell Curry, played for the Charlotte Hornets. With his father being a basketball player, Curry became involved in basketball in his early years. For example, during his father’s shootaround, Curry would sit aside and watch him practice. Later on, Curry became more involved in basketball by shooting basketballs around...
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...information for the source in your discussion post. ESPN First Take - Stephen Curry Will Win MVP Over James Harden, LeBron James & Russell Westbrook ? First Take - ESPN Topics - ESPN 2 - ESPN.com First Take is an American morning sports talk program on ESPN2 and ESPN2HD. Two back-to-back two-hour episodes air each weekday from Monday through Friday, with the live episode airing from 10 a.m. ET until noon, followed by a repeat. Skip Bayless (born December 4, 1951) is an American sports columnist, author, and television personality who is best known as the star (with Stephen A. Smith) of the ESPN2 show, First Take. Stephen Anthony (A.) Smith born October 14, 1967), more commonly known as Stephen A., is an American television personality, host, radio host, and former sports journalist. Smith is a commentator on ESPN First Take, where he appears with Skip Bayless and Cari Champion. Smith also currently hosts The Stephen A. Smith and Ryan Ruocco Show on ESPN Radio New York 98.7 FM and is a featured columnist for ESPNNY.com. The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America, and is widely considered to be the premier men's professional basketball league in the world. Association Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given since the 1955–56 NBA season to the best performing player of the regular season. • Determine the issue that is being discussed and...
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...Curry’s reign at the top Stephen Curry is becoming the hottest and most well known player in the basketball world setting up his position as the perfect role model whoever watches him making everyone look up to him, being and staying humble, while also going through a tough journey he never quit. Everyone is loving the Curry show and how he’s changing the game making it a three point shooting contest every night. Steph is growing fast now becoming the new face of the NBA he has responsibilities to step up to and he makes sure he keeps that by staying humble even while being on one of the best teams in the league while also being the biggest name in sports. Stephen is proving himself as the face of the NBA not just by being the best...
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...and world champion Stephen Curry without bringing up his rise from an undersized, scrawny point guard to the baby-faced assassin of the Association. And in Kevin Pelton’s excellent article, he does just that, bringing Curry up as one of the prime examples of UPenn Professor Angela Duckworth’s new definition of “grit”: “passion and perseverance for long-term goals.” Indeed, he is deserving of the praise, overcoming the many doubts surrounding him entering the league and inspiring young players, showing them that you don’t need to be a freak athlete along the lines of LeBron James to have success at the highest level. But six-foot-three isn’t exactly short or undersized in the NBA at the point guard position. In fact, according to Draft King,...
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...I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life...That is why I SUCCEED.-Michael Jordan.In this quote Michael Jordan shows us that we can’t be successful without learning from our mistakes.In michael Jordan's career he made many mistakes, but is still one of the best basketball players of all time. Michael Jordan learned after getting cut of his Varsity team to try harder and to never give up. My thesis would be, you can’t be successful without learning from our mistakes. Another example of a struggle would be Stephen Curry. Stephen Curry has hurt his right ankle many times during his NBA career. In the 2011-2012 season, Stephen Curry underwent 2 surgeries. Curry managed 26 games in his 3rd season. After this injury Stephen curry learned...
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...Young 1 Troyvon Young Nestor Guardado English 101 10 October 2015 “Hoop Dreams” Basketball is something America is proud of. Where I come from though, it is used as a tool to encourage the youth to make something out of themselves. I am not saying that other sports cannot impact someone’s life, but basketball has always highlighted most kids’ childhoods. There were always different types of ballers back in the day though. One of the fundamental divisions of sports is into team and individual activities. Basketball can be broken down into many different groups. That depends on a few factors such as, geography, culture, and skill. In the United States we have the highest level of basketball, the NBA. Now even in the pros there are a few levels that can be broken down. There are the greatest players, Jordan or LeBron, and then you have players that do not even make it a full year. There is the kind of ball player that practices every single day trying to perfect his craft, and maybe make it to the pros. He is the guy that does not have the newest sneakers or the most expensive gear. That stuff does not matter to him. He will never be able to attend one pro ball game, but will never miss a game on his local television channels. He will imitate every move, like the one Iverson crossed Jordan with, and he will dedicate his life to school because he knows that basketball is merely a dream. There is the kind of baller that just does one thing, shoot the ball. He does not...
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...The Golden State Warriors have the Cleveland Cavaliers right where they want them. The Dubs are up 3-1 in the NBA Finals and will play Game 5 at home at Oracle Arena. The Warriors record at home during the regular season was 39-2, and during the postseason, 11-1. If that isn’t gloomy enough for the Cavs, no team has ever come back from a 3-1 deficit in the NBA Finals to win the title. So, if history is any indicator, it appears that LeBron James and the Cavaliers are about to lose in the NBA Finals for the second year in a row to the Warriors, which would put Golden State point guard Stephen Curry in an exclusive group of players to win back-to-back regular season MVPs and NBA championships. James’ record in the NBA Finals stands at 2-4,...
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...Stephen Curry only had one dream for christmas-to win the championship game for his basketball team. So far, he was only one step away from it. After grinding through multiple games, all the Wildcats had to do was beat the Rams in the finals. The Rams were the best defensive team in the country and had RJ, one of the best defenders and the most explosive forward in the United States. He was also one of the sneakiest players in the game, trash talking, pushing, and bruising up anyone that he faced. Steph was confident going into the game. Not so much now though. The problem that he had right now was that they were down by 15 with only two minutes left to play. Most of his team was injured and bruised up by the unfair play by the Rams, his leg...
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...Andris Biedrins fouled out at preseason game. Andris Biedrins is now the only basketball player in NBA(National Basketball Association) from Latvia who is now playing for Utah Jazz. Last game against Oklahoma City Thunder he got fouled out and Utah lost the game. He played 13 minutes and 12 seconds in that time he got six fouls, one rebound, blocked one shot and got one turnover. He was the only one from his team who got fouled out. Why Biedrins is playing so bad for few of last seasons? Biedrins has a contract for one more year for nine million dollars. This seasons Goldenstate Warriors traded him to Utah Jazz that is obvious why – because of his playing level. Last season was the worst in his nine year carrier. It is realy interesting why? Because at 2008./2009. season he was one of the best playing centers in the whole league. But now he is one of the worst. This happened after Goldenstate Warriors drafted Stephen Curry and Monte Ellis at 2009./2010. season who where leaders of the whole team and everybody forgot about Biedrins. Now Biedrins os one of the most overpaid players in the league. Andris is a good player if you trust him, he is now psychologically down and needs to be motivated. It is realy sad to see him now how he is playing and remembering how he had played befour. Last season when both other centers in Goldenstate Warriors were sick Biedrins played 35 minutes got 25 points and 20 rebounds. It was a huge supprise for everybody and it means that there is something...
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...rest of their peers. This is not because they’re too lazy or unnoticed to make one for them self; it is due to the fact that it takes time to build something out of yourself for other people to recognize. If you take a look at Stephen Curry, he is an example to all of someone who made a personal brand out of himself. Coming from a small college, Davidson, no one thought that he would make out to be the player that he is today. In saying that, if you beyond the type of basketball player that he is, he is also a person that has made a statement of the type of person off the court he is. If you didn’t know, Stephen Curry writes his favorite Bible verse on all of his shoes, which happens to be Philippians 4:13, and when he asked Nike to stitch this on his shoes, they told him no. At this time, Nike accounted for 95.5 percent of the basketball sneaker market in 2014, according to The Washington Post. Shortly after they denied him this, he switched over to Under Armour, where they were more than happy to put this Bible verse on his shoes. For me, this is what made Stephen Curry’s personal brand, not the fact that he ditched the most popular shoe brand, but because he showed that his faith was more important to him than having a huge contract with the best company in the world. In...
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...Nike brand. Nike continued to gain momentum through the decades through pairing cutting edge sophisticated sports apparel and peripheral merchandise with league branding. It is now considered to have more than 67.2% of the global footwear market share (Nike INC, 2013). Under Armour founder, Kevin Plank, was a former football player for University of Maryland. Much like the founders of Nike, in 1996 he saw a need in sport apparel that was not currently being addressed (Under Armour, 2013). Performance apparel began with developing the perfect t-shirt for athletes that would be compressing but also would remain drier and lighter than cotton. This idea steam rolled into a publically traded company. Their portfolio has grown from clothing to other peripheral merchandise and their newest launch is to take on the shoe industry hegemon, Nike. Promotional Strategies Both companies rely heavily on athlete endorsements as part of their promotional strategies. There is a striking difference however between the types of athletes that the companies are targeting. For example Nike has its endorsement deal with Michael Jordan with his own line of basketball footwear that has become almost a cult hit among youth and adults. These “sneaker...
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...Perhaps the most important objective in the economic theory of profit maximization is acquiring the best talent possible. Regardless of sport or league, the task is daunting and can cause general managers, player operation personnel and coaches to lose their jobs. According to Humphreys (2015), “winning percentage of the team is assumed to be a choice variable – an owner can choose to field a team that wins a large fraction of its games, about half of it games or small fractions of its games”. To a degree this approach may appear to be unethical, however, depending on the franchise and its objective, then the approach can pay huge dividends. The NBA’s Golden State Warriors are a prime example of a franchise that focuses on profit maximization through winning. This past season the Warriors surpassed Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls record 72 regular season wins by winning 73 regular season games (Strauss, 2016). The Warriors also fielded a team that included three NBA all-stars, Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green. The play of each of these players has packed Oracle Arena nearly every home game. The Warriors finished the...
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...Depending on the sport, the best player in the female league could potentially be paid less than a male who sits on the bench for most or all of their season (Hill, 2017). This is true when comparing the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) with the National Basketball Association (NBA). The maximum salary for a WBNA player is $95,000. Nneka Ogwumike, a player for the Los Angeles Sparks, only earned $95,000 in 2016 and that was only after she won the WNBA most valuable player (MVP). Meanwhile, Stephen Curry, 2016 NBA MVP made $11.4 million. The average WNBA player only earns about $72,000 a year, which is about 1% of what the average salary is for an NBA player (Gaines, 2016). Many say this is attributed to the fact men’s basketball, including the NBA, is more entertaining to watch than women’s sports. This also implies that because people do not want to watch it and do not pay as much to watch in person, the WNBA does not bring in as much revenue as the NBA creating a difficult decision for those in charge of the league. Their options include paying their players less so they can have a bigger profit and keep ticket prices low or increase their pay and increase ticket prices and potentially force the league to disband because of...
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