Overall, people will like reflect on his tenure and recall how Commissioner Stern grew the game of basketball.
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What do red state sensibilities have to do with the game of basketball?
It as if the game of basketball desperately needs Stern to step in as savior and serve as a deterrent against future mass benching by a head coach.
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Earlier this year a friend of mine and I were talking about the first Dream Team and a book he was reading, Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever.
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Yesterday, a group of Wounded Warriors visited the south lawn of the White House to play a game of basketball.
Increasingly, balance is the name of the game in college basketball.
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For example, my 10-year-old son, the day before the Shanahan-Griffin event, sat the third quarter of our basketball game after jamming fingers on the last play of the first half.
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In January of 1971, the Fordham University Rams played a basketball game against the University of Massachusetts Redmen.
The idea is to give the production the uptempo feel of a basketball game while covering plenty of material from the pair's first meeting in the 1979 NCAA championship game, to their decade-long rivalry, to Johnson's announcement that he was HIV positive, to Bird's struggles with late-career injuries.
The game capped a busy week of basketball at Barclays, where the Nets beat New Orleans on Wednesday before Barclays hosted the Atlantic 10 tournament.
In the meantime, the video-game industry is continually trying to increase the realism of its basketball players and brawny mercenaries.
But there were eight or nine other Harvard students on the plane, and one of them was able to stream the basketball game on his computer.
"He dominated the whole game in terms of where he wanted to go with the basketball, and a lot of it was at the rim, " Knicks coach Mike Woodson said.
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 was the kind of college-basketball game that used to guarantee a packed house.
The contest is described in the style of an American basketball game.
At a news conference later, before the Big East women's basketball title game, he gave few details of the financial deal that made Notre dame's early exit possible.
But if, say, A-10 newcomers Butler and VCU are reprising their historic 2011 NCAA semifinal in Sunday's title game, the here and now of the basketball will overshadow all that.
"I used to play a game of basketball in Paisley in the morning, then drive to Dumfries and play ice hockey at night, then the next day I'd have a basketball camp for Scotland and play again at night, " she explains.
The Cardinals will join them in ACC the following season but this was the game that was signifying the end of the Big East as we know it with the seven basketball-only schools leaving to form a new conference and keeping the name Big East and the tournament at Madison Square Garden.
Shelton and his crew (which includes cinematographer Russell Boyd and the editor Paul Seydor) have put together basketball sequences that capture the free-flowing rhythms of the game.
But Rodman is also a Hall of Fame basketball player and one of the best defenders and rebounders to ever play the game.
And we found him appropriately at a basketball game, in the evening hours of that day.
Instead, he told them first thing in the morning, before a day of family activities - going to a restaurant and a basketball game together - which he says displaced the bad news.
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For long stretches the game resembled half-court basketball, with goalkeeper Manuel Neuer occasionally sneaking into the midfield circle, perhaps out of boredom.
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"I really do believe that, based on the talent on display this weekend that I have seen we are in a golden age of basketball, that the appreciation of our game is really as high as it has been in recent memory, " said Stern, who has now run the NBA for 25 years.
So now we have a situation, to listen to the Chicken Littles, where the very integrity of the National Basketball Association is being threatened because one lousy, rotten referee apparently tried to manipulate game scores.
Moreover, there are a far higher percentage of college basketball players who leave to the professional game after one or two years.
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