"I wish everything will work out well for Yao Ming, " says another teenage basketball fan.
On the sports end of things, the billionaire basketball fan plans on buying an N.
Though Michigan State and West Virginia are a bit further away, they also have loyal basketball fan-bases.
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North Korea leader Kim Jong-un, who oversaw the country's recent nuclear test, is known to be a basketball fan.
Hamlin is a big-time basketball fan who has a full court with lights and a scoreboard at his house.
Any college-basketball fan with any sense of history would hesitate to pick Kansas.
"We want the most die-hard basketball fan to walk in and say, 'Yeah, they did it right, that was real, '" Kail said.
Rodman said after his trip to North Korea that he planned to return in August to vacation with Kim, a diehard basketball fan.
An avid basketball fan, Hughes examined the tournament structure of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and applied that structure to the software competitions held by TopCoder.
When Mr. Obama, a basketball fan, occasionally saw her, she says, he seemed more interested in whether her husband at the time, NBA star Tony Parker, was around.
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Bieber, who celebrates his birthday today, is a basketball fan.
And if he didn't hit a home run, he at least had a stand-up triple -- or a 25-point game if you're a basketball fan, or a three-touchdown performance if you're into football.
Could the connection between Rodman and Kim, who classmates said was a huge basketball fan as a teenager -- when Rodman was winning five NBA championships -- help cool down this international hotspot?
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One such editor, Dennis Murray of Pittsburgh, said he's not a big basketball fan and had never even heard of Bo Ryan before Friday, when he changed the page to "semi-protected" status, restricting who could edit it.
With President Barack Obama a basketball fan who picked Indiana to win the title and NFL Rookie of the Year Robert Griffin III of the Washington Redskins sitting in the crowd, Syracuse harassed Marquette into missing 14 of its first 15 tries from beyond the 3-point arc.
Names like Tim Hardaway Jr. and Glenn Robinson III sound familiar to any seasoned fan of basketball.
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Just wait to see how expensive it is to operate a basketball team with no fan base.
Fan sites like Basketball Reference have filled in the gaps in the past, but this should bring a new level of accuracy and analysis to bear.
During a historic visit to North Korea in 2000, then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright presented Kim Jong Il, famously an NBA fan, with a basketball signed by Jordan that later went on display in the huge cave at Mount Myohyang that holds gifts to the leaders.
To put it very plainly, stardom achieved by Bird and Johnson on the collegiate level greatly intensified fan interest in a National Basketball Association that up until then was somewhat subdued.
He has landed deals with the Indianapolis Colts and Cincinnati Reds, along with a rising fan favorite in Indiana, Butler University basketball.
His tastes in entertainment lean towards basketball, as he is purported to be a fan of the NBA and has overseen the construction of courts throughout the country.
Also, it could be a stretch, but the sponsorship might actually help mesh the fan base of more urban sports, like basketball, and racing, which would be a big leap racially.
President Obama is a known sports fan and, reportedly, a fierce competitor on the basketball court.
Unlike basketball or hockey--sports that have a major, consistent fan following for both live and television events--snowboarding usually has a small audience.
He said Galfy loved to travel and was a fan of the New York Giants and the Seton Hall University basketball team.
During the NBA Jam Session, which is a fan-attended exhibition, State Farm hosted several pop-shot basketball hoops, where attendees could attempt to score as many points possible in a limited amount of time.
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