Sentence examples for nba from inspiring English sources

If a woman were able to perform at NBA standards, there is absolutely no reason she should not be allowed to play.

The club was given a raw deal, as it inherited the defunct Detroit franchise's 2-17 record to begin the year and was left out of the NBL's merger with the rival Basketball Association of America — now known as the NBA.

However, the NBA color barrier was broken in 1950, just a year later, in large part thanks to the precedent set by the Rens and the NBL.

NBA hall-of-famer Charles Barkley made an illuminating appearance in support of Peterson on CBS.

The NCAA itself has criticised the law, as have former basketball players such as Charles Barkley and Jason Collins, the first openly gay athlete to play in the NBA.

As the Cavaliers and Warriors prepare to face off in the NBA finals, here's a look at how Cleveland and Oakland measure up where it counts: from pop-cultural cachet to historical arcana.

The "four major sports leagues" – MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL – have ruled the American sports landscape unchallenged for three decades.

Years later he'd join the show to discuss the Brett Favre sexting scandal, but the Round Mound of Rebound was still a Sixer when he first appeared shortly after the 1990 NBA All-Star Game.

It can be easy to forget in this era of gigantic, monolithic leagues – in which all four major leagues pull in billions of dollars of revenue yearly and in which MLB, NBA and NHL all own entire developmental leagues to pull talent from – that it wasn't always like this.

Believe it or not, his mere 6ft 6in (1.98m) actually qualifies as short in America's National Basketball Association NBAA).So let us offer a couple of heretical propositions: it is usually a disadvantage to be big; and, in any case, the best sports are those for all shapes and sizes with one in particular, we would argue, being paramount.The first heresy, admittedly, is a little tricky to prove.

When new players enter the National Basketball Association NBAA), they are assigned to teams in an annual draft, in which the clubs with the fewest wins the previous season get to pick first.