Brian Brown Dwyane Wade Dwyane Wade was born on January, 17 1982. His parents are Jalinda Wade and Dwyane Wade. Dwyane Wade went to college and chose Marquette University. Dwyane Wade entered the NBA Draft in 2003 and was the fifth overall pick.. He won three championships. Dwyane Wade had three kids and married Gabrielle Union. Dwyane Wade recorded the fourth triple-double in NCAA history in the midwest regional finals. During Dwyane Wade’s first year in the NBA, he averaged 16.2 points, 4.5 assists, and 4 rebounds. Dyane won the MVP award in 2006 and was known as Flash or D Wade. He had poor grades but made it to the NBA. Dwyane Wade’s kids names are Exvier Zeehariah, Zion Malachi Aimis, and Zaire Blessing. Dwyane Wade
Although he didn 't go to college and entered the NBA immediately after highschool he did graduate.
Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway is a gifted guard whose shooting, passing and athletic abilities earned him a spot on the All-NBA First Team and who helped the Magic reach the NBA Finals in 1995, only his second season in the league. The 6-7 Hardaway combines height, ballhandling and an accurate outside stroke into an exciting all-around game, although his scoring tailed off in his final two seasons with Orlando and he was traded to Phoenix prior to the 1999-2000 season. A native of Memphis, Tennessee Hardaway always seemed destined for roundball success. He was Parade magazine's National High School Player of the Year in 1990, when as a prep senior he averaged 36.6 points, 10.1 rebounds, 6.2 assists, 3.3 steals, and 2.8 blocks. He chose to attend nearby Memphis State (now the University of Memphis) but had to sit out 1990-91 in order to become academically eligible. Hardaway, who achieved a 3.4 cumulative grade point average in college, ripped up the Great Midwestern Conference for two seasons. As a junior in 1992-93 he averaged 22.8 points, 8.5 rebounds, and 6.4 assists; shot .477 from the field; recorded 2 triple-doubles; and set a school single-season record for points with 729. He was named conference Player of the Year, a First-Team All-American, and a finalist for the Naismith and Wooden Awards. The Orlando Magic, who had secured Shaquille O'Neal with the No. 1 pick in the 1992 NBA Draft, won the NBA Draft Lottery again in 1993. The team took Michigan's Chris Webber with the No.
Our staff tells you who was snubbed as an NBA All-Star starter. Jonathan Ebrahimi () : For starters, I think we all agree that Westbrook was snubbed this year. He’s keeping a largely under-talented Thunder team in the thick of the playoff hunt and is putting up historically great numbers to do it. Out East, there are two players I feel have been overlooked. For starters, Isaiah Thomas has been having a wonderful season for Boston.
Jay-Z was born Shawn Corey Carter on December 4, 1969. He grew up in the infamous Marcy projects in Brooklyn with a sister and a brother. You would think that just growing up on the Marcy projects would be hard enough on a kid, but at the age of twelve, Shawn’s parents got a divorce. Shawn then attended the Brooklyn High school with two of today’s better known rappers, Biggie Smalls and Busta Rhymes.
Steve Nash is considered one of the greatest point guards in the first decade of NBA, and he already became a national hero in Canada based on his tremendous achievement as a professional basketball player. However, according to his interview, Nash was considered a player without sufficient talent to be even a good college player in the United States. No college was willing to offer him a scholarship initially, because he was a Caucasian player from Canada. Caucasian players were widely considered as athletic inferior to African players, and Canada was also considered a country that has few talented basketball players. This is a typical stereotype about Caucasian basketball players in NBA, and usually
Everybody had high expectations about him, they were seeing in him a new leader, a new beginning for the Pistons. He didn’t prove anybody wrong. He started at the 1995 all-star game after becoming the first rookie ever to lead all players in fan voting. Along with Jason Kidd of the Dallas Mavericks, were co-voted as the Rookie Players of the Year. In the next four seasons, he started in all all-star games and averaged 23.2 Points Per Game, 7.6 Rebounds Per Game and 6.7 Assist Per Game.
Bill Cosby was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on July 12, 1937 as William Henry Cosby, Jr. In the 1950’s, Bill Cosby dropped out of high school to join the Navy. He did attend college on a football scholarship at Temple University years later. He also completed his doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts during the 1970‘s.
This rich NBA great was not always the wealthy man everyone knows; through hard-work, he achieved status. Earvin Johnson grew up in a large and poor family. “With so many kids to take care of, my parents didn’t have enough money left over for luxuries” (Johnson 6). Johnsons’ parents believed in the value of hard-work, and stapled this into his mind at a young age. With this idea in mind, Johnson picked up a basketball. Basketball was always a great love of his, and he always wanted to make it to the next level. With the preaching of this value by his parents, he worked hard and became very good. After years of practicing and coming up through a troubled childhood, Magic was presented a great opportunity. Since he was so good at basketball, all the major colleges wanted him to play for them, “I finally narrowed down the field to two choices… the University of Michigan and Michigan State” (Johnson 51). It was a decision that would change his life, and after many hard days of going back and forth, he decided to attend Michigan State University.
From carrying the team to the 2006 NBA title to executing the recruitment of Chris Bosh and LeBron James leading to two more NBA titles, D-Wade is the Miami Heat.
He had a rough start with the Suns, having to sit out several weeks with a fractured collarbone. But when he was finally back in playing form, he rallied, helping the team to playoffs for five seasons in a row.
Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born on February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York (Biography.com Editors). He was raised in North Carolina. His parents are Delores and James Jordan. He was very close with his dad and they both loved baseball above all things. He has an older brother Larry, who he worshipped. Larry played basketball and Michael followed in his footsteps. He attended Laney High school in Wilmington, North Carolina. As a sophomore he was
Michael Jordan was born on February 17th, 1963 to father James and mother Delores Jordan (King, Jason). Although the Jordans put real emphasis on academics over athletics, they encouraged Michael to practice hard, set high but realistic goals, and keep his grades up after learning that he had athletic skills. Michael preferred baseball and football to basketball, but one he hit high school he decided to play professional basketball (Michael Jordan).
Dwyane Tryone Wade Jr., identified as “D-Wade,” was born on January 17, 1982 in Chicago, Illinois. After his birth, Dwyane’s parents, Dwyane Sr. and Jolinda Wade, divorced; his mother was given guardianship of the two younger children, Wade and Tragil, his five years old sister. Wade's life changed when, at eight years of age, he was tricked by his sister. She told him they were going to the movies, but they went to a dissimilar South Side neighborhood in which Wade stayed with his father. The move guided him away from the perilous area he had lived with his mother. When Wade's father moved to Robbins, Illinois, Wade's new atmosphere allowed him to play basketball with his stepbrothers, new friends, and father. At Harold L. Richards High School in Oak Lawn, Wade worked hard to earn time on the varsity basketball court his junior year. After improving his ball-handling skills and outside game, Wade emerged as the basketball team's star. In his junior year, he averaged 20.7 points and 7.6 rebounds per game. His success continued in his senior year in which he was averaging 27 points and 11 rebounds per game, but due to his poor grades, he was only recruited by three college basketball programs.
Michael Jordan was born on February 17, 1963. His family moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, when he was a little kid.He was the fourth kid out of the five children, He has 2 older brothers, 1 older sister and 1 younger sister. Michael Jordan played baseball, football, & basketball at Esmley A Laney High School. He tried out for the varsity basketball team his sophomore year but he was cut from the team because he was too short and too small to play.
Born on 29th April 1899, Duke Ellington was raised by two middle-class musical parents, James Edward and Daisy Edwards, in the neighborhood of Washington D.C. He had a strong connection with music from the early age. He started learning piano at the age of 7. As early as 15, he