Basketball

NBA All Star Break-Rating the 1st half

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  NBA All Star Break- Considering the pandemic and it’s havoc that it has wreaked across society and the sports world, NBA basketball has been pretty entertaining. Consider the start of the season and the protocols in place for Covid, a lot of the starters on these teams hadn’t been together enough to really get a good momentum going. The one team that was on a roll was the Utah Jazz. Remember the team that canceled their games about a year ago because 2 of their players had tested positive for Covid. Remembering Rudy Gobert …READ MORE

This Year Last Year- A tale for the future

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This Year Last year will be something to talk about ten years from now, provided that situations don’t escalate. Go back to last year, when the shocking news that we lost Kobe Bryant on a very overcast Sunday in late January. This was a shock to the world. This bothersome event lingered on throughout the Sports World and beyond. Early talks of the pandemic was just starting to get traction, and then March hit, where NBA games were canceled and then league play would be suspended until the summer. Baseball, Football camps were delayed. The …READ MORE

Christmas Holiday with the Pandemic in Mind

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Christmas Holiday this year has brought on a strange and ominus feeeling! You can remember the times after the Thanksgiving Holidays, where folks were standing outside all night to get to the deals of the year and getting ready for Christmas. That chore turned out to be a ugly and dangerous practice this year.Customers honing masks and stores metering people into their buildings, as state laws and business responsibilities took hold. Yes you can’t crowd up folks like you use to in areas, as the pandemic has controlled the idea of togetherness and threw that …READ MORE

NBA in the Bubble-2020-Strange Season

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NBA in the Bubble has been somewhat a unusual season. Take for example, the teams that got eliminated that were supposed to be in at least in the conference finals; Milwaukee Bucks, L.A. Clippers.  Both of these teams just didn’t seem to be all there.  You look at the Bucks, who wanted to boycott, the season. It just appeared as though their heart wasn’t in it after the boycott for social injustices. Considering for the most part, a lot of NBA players thought the bubble thing and the extension of the season due to the …READ MORE

Orange County-2nd-worst COVID19 outbreak-California

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Orange County now has the second-most coronavirus infections in California, as the region and state continue to grapple with sharp spikes in the number of confirmed cases. The cumulative COVID-19 case count in Orange Count was 29,986 Tuesday, just ahead of Riverside County’s 29,983. Only Los Angeles County is higher, with nearly 160,000 cases. Over the last 14 days, Orange County has reported 12,104 additional COVID-19 cases, a figure that trails only that of Los Angeles, according to The Times’ coronavirus tracker. During that same time, Riverside County has confirmed 9,428; San Bernardino County, 8,754; …READ MORE

Six Flags a preview of entertainment parks opening

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Six Flags Entertainment Corp. became the first major U.S. theme park company to release a set of safety protocols for the reopening of all its U.S. parks, saying it will limit the number of people allowed in, check guests’ temperatures and require everyone to wear masks and spread out in lines and on rides. The new protocols offer a preview of how theme park fans are likely to experience U.S. parks in the COVID-19 era. “It’s a new wave,” said Dennis Speigel, president of the consulting firm International Theme Park Services. “That is the way …READ MORE

Competition and Sports in American Society

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Competition and Sports in American Society plays a key part in American Culture. The COVID-19 pandemic exposes this, as sports took a hiatus since Mid-March; when the NBA shut down, and then other sports proceeded to shut down activity until they could get a handle on this unfortunate outbreak. Sports was just starting to heat up with the NBA, NFL hockey runs for the playoffs were just getting started. Teams were about to jockey for position in their prospective sports. The NFL had to zoom the draft; the MLB had to postpone preseason and the …READ MORE

The Life We Know-Anxiety in getting the ball rolling again!

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The Life We Know – You go to a ball game and you are sitting about a few inches away from the seat next to you on either side. The seat behind you is only about a foot or more away, as well as the seat in front of you. You get up to get something to eat or drink, and depending where you sitting at; you will have to go by several folks at a close proximity. Then you get to the vendor where you want to purchase something to eat or drink and …READ MORE

Statistics NBA-All Time-ABA should be included

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  Statistics NBA-All Time-Points: I looked at this and found that Julius Erving had scored 30026 pts in his career, unfortunately 11062 of the points were scored in the ABA. Do you think the NBA should had combined those records?  Why not; these were professional basketball players period.  Consider if they had, Erving’s stats considered from the NBA, he would had been ranked 8th in all time scoring. It’s a travesty,  that they didn’t include all of the stats together. Do you need to shop->click here Create Amazon Business Account How about George Gervin with …READ MORE

Corona Virus CoVid-19- Shutting down everything

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Corona Virus CoVid-19 Shutting down everything and can you imagine back in January we would be where we are at today. The big kicker started with the NBA wanting to play games in an empty arena, but that changed shortly once Rudy Gobert was diagnosed with this disease. In the midst of starting the late games on Wednesday night, the NBA decided to shut it all down for a while, by declaring they would suspend the League’s play. Wow! Okay that was a kicker, but then several other leagues started to think this out and …READ MORE