Morning

The text was written some five years ago when this unchallenged fighter ended his career without fail. By all expectations and statistics for children growing up without parents, Zo has become a top basketball player and an even better man. Someone who has managed to find the right time during youth and later on with their engagement and finances helps the thousands of poor and sick. "Above this, there is only a paradise," said legendary coach Nolan Richardson after he and Alonzo Mourning got to the House of Fame on Monday. Nolan has suffered...

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BAD BOYS

"Bad Guys" were reunited 10 days ago in Detroit and tomorrow will be broadcast a documentary film dedicated to this many-unique team. Center that spurs the trophies and does not know how to play back to the basket. Beekeepers who mostly play on cuddly. A low wing that only plays back and only occasionally opens for a shot from distance. A winged center that jumps in attack and plays defensive. 10-Player Rotation. Rhythm control and offensive jump. Faul's and after judging ads. Tripping. Strikes in the face. Elbows in ribs. Hitting the hook. Provoking....

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ABA F4

The passage to the final brings salvation in the form of playing in Euroliga, which in three of the four participating teams means survival at the European level. For Partizan, Red Star and Cibona, Euroliga's placement brings a great sigh of relief and gives answers to at least some questions regarding the future. Cedevita is the only team in this quartet that does not depend on state aid. They are the only ones who fail to say "ok, let's try again next year", which of course does not diminish their desire to end the best European competition. (adsbygoogle...

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MAGIC

After eight seasons in the league and a pile of individual awards, Paul and the ever-fought Clippers under the guidance of a top trainer are finally looking for a breakthrough in the NBA Finals. Their destiny is in the hands of someone who is at the same time the best and most respectable player and opponent. Chris Paul has always had justification, so at least they say. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); His reputation until this season was mostly unripe. Here and there someone would have mentioned that he never went beyond...

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POP

Each trainer comes to a time when years of stress, nervousness, sleepless nights, bad food, tablets, alcohol and cigarettes do their job. For most of the top trainers, nothing was easy. The effort is enormous, and the reward is often not in line with the efforts made. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); As one great master of the job told me, "When I finally became a European champion, after those initial minutes and two hugs and congratulations I looked around and thought, 'Fuck, is that all this? Is this the reward for all...

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TIMI

Now it's clear. Since retiring Michael Jordan, no one had a more successful career than Team Duncan. Quite silent, Timmy has compiled 17 consecutive seasons of victory, title, hard work, looking at his job, and some individual acknowledgments that do not matter. His only interest was that his team played well and did it all the way. A fake champion, 5-1 in the final, his team never missed a plej-of. Successful? The most successful ... (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Tony Rutland. I was waiting for him to finally look at the...

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Tarpley

Tarpley helped all and everything was in the end in vain. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Roy was not a depressing drunk, no, no ... Roy had that natural smile of a cheerful man without much concern in life. He liked the company, joked with everyone. He helped with money or presence wherever he could, but at the end of the day no one could help, and everyone or almost everyone tried it. Yes, he was such a good player that neither in the world of evil and envious people nobody wanted Tarpley to fall. The basketball was...

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Coach K

Mike Krzyzewski scored a 1000th NCAA career a few days ago, the absolute record of this competition. The US national team selector has only two Olympic gold, two World Champions titles, and one NCAA title in his last six years in his biography. The story of a man who has become a living legend beyond expectations (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); "In coaching business, the most important thing is that you have someone who keeps your back. Knowledge, motivation, preparation, everything is important, but if you do not have someone...

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BEARD

We met Lamont Smith with last summer in Novi Sad. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Smith is currently the first assistant coach of the New Mexico University to look at potentially interesting players from this part of Europe for his college. Why is Smtih relevant to this story? In the 2008-12 season, Smith was an assistant coach at Arizona State at Herba Sendeka and spent most of his time working individually with James Harden. The story of the then still neatly shrouded bush has a tendency. A good number of them are unfortunately...

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ANIMAL

No fear, no preconception. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The basketball camouflage lives in Oklahoma, where he arrived from Los Angeles and at this time there is no person playing with less fear for his health than Russell Westbrook. I remember the scenes from the final of the SP 2010 year. The rejected ball is played by Asik, Gonlum, Turkoglu and Chandler. From the fifth plan, like jumping into a pool with fully-fledged legs, as if he had a cloak on his back, down Westbrook. For the elbow is higher than the other in...

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Dominique Wilikins

They missed him in the famous selection for the top 50 NBA players of all time. He was not in the original Dream Team either. He was defeated by the champion title. Atlanta, his home team, sent it to Clipperse at the time it was first in the East. In Greece, he won the first important trophy in his career and packed his coats before the end of the contract. He was the best shooter of Spurs in their worst season. It is often omitted from various polls and voting, but no one can deny that Nique was one of the most attractive players ever playing...

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Dean Smith.

He was probably the best player of all time, and it would only be enough to write about him and the story forever, and that was just part of what Dean Smith represented. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Greater glory hardly could have led the humble man. He never wanted to win at all costs, he just wanted to convey knowledge. He raised dozens of top players and coaches and was there for them every day whenever he needed something, and he never wanted anything in return. He went the way he came, quietly, without the pumps....

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Garnett

Garnett's ability to not even notice 20 journalists in the dressing room and not react to anything they ask, so ... strange. But so. Garnett does not answer the questions before the movie ... learn about the mistakes of a fractured fellow (or his while you're in love with a girl who turns out to be Kevin's wife). (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); He was born in the village. Rural South Carolina. Where segregation, at least silent, always existed. He watched a pair of his companions lean on a white boy in the school who...

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Zeljko-Obradovic

He opened the drawer and pulled out a thick book without a cover ... "Look at this," with a smile, "I only consult this from time to time ..." (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); San Antonio's action from last, championship season. Season in which they cleared the floor with Miami Heath. The book for free evaluation has 150 pages of drawings. All kinds of combinations for all types of defense. From the front car, from the ball to the side. What is the Spur Specification, the release of a spell while you are thinking of...

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Chris Webber

Chris Webber united MTV and basketball, overcame shots and black socks and called for time-out that was not there. It was supposed to be one of the best in NBA history but it was still a step short. A good boy who wanted to be a rebel, a criminal, and a reperor. The most talented player of the modern age that this talent has never realized until the end. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); "Unglaublih vas man trift! Kriz Veba! Traum !!" ... Frank Bušman from the German DSF fell into trans on Chrisa Webber's moves in his first...

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Printezis

She was patient every morning waiting for some of the older players to drop off for training. Junior joined the first team as all juniors imagined to play for the first team. From the start he played unusual. It seemed as if he had come out of a Spanish workshop with all those darts with one hand and a shot from the ground. Jonas Kazlauskas thought he was not good enough. He went for a good contract at Unica, where he mostly carried the epitaph of the predicted player. "Close his roling to the left and that's it." Then he broke his hand and slowly...

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Dejvid Blat

The American in Tel Aviv is all but a rare occurrence. Businessmen, politicians, spies, lobbyists and of course athletes from the United States often visit this city. American players, regardless of the tensions and the constant threat of armed conflict, are one of their favorite destinations. The answer is always the same: "It's like I'm at home." Everyone is talking English, TGI Friday, McDonalds, Burger King, Dunkin 'Donuts, Pizza Hut. A handful of US managers have strong ties to Israel, so their clients - if the small financial difference -...

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CIBONA

I still remember the first season of the Adriatic League. There was no drug in the cold Zetra viewers. Bosnia won two victories in this premier edition of this competition, and during the mandate of Draško Prodanovic he has drawn over 20 players. The best shooter of the league was Marino Baždarić, then Rijeka player, Triglav Osiguranja, as they were called at that time. Baždarić was also 13 years later in the league. His team-mates in the Cedevita training center cloaked a picture of this season, which he is set to miss, only with the ball in his...

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ALI

"How to strike, what you do not see ..." As in every Yugoslav family and in my house, every possible sport was watched. Biathlon, nordic running, jumping, tennis, what your heart desires. Again, in addition to the usual football and basketball tournaments, the number one sport in Avdić's home was Boxing. Daddy, and just before him, they were all around for important boxing matches. It did not miss it. Meza and drinks in pajamas like Reuf, Nele and Minka in Nadrealists. I remember sitting early in the morning in the living room after Tyson's shocking...

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