Cousy makes plea for old-timers.(Bob Cousy, old basketball players)Smith, Sam
I told myself not to include too many MJ and LeBron games since they have the majority of the top-scoring games of players aged 39 and 40, but I have to include the game when MJ became the first 40-year-old to score 40 in an NBA game. On February 21, 2003, just four days afte...
The aims of this study were (a) to identify and compare the speed and agility of 12- and 14-year-old elite male basketball players and (b) to investigate relations between speed and agility for both age groups of basketball players, to help coaches to improve their work. Sixty-four playe...
Data was collected from basketball-reference.com Age was calculated using the 1st January for each season (e.g 1st January 2022 for 2021/22 season) Exact age is used for the statistics (26.5 years instead of 26 for example) Graph 1: Average Age of NBA Players by Year: Average Age Weight...
Background: The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of one or two changes of direction (COD) on performance indices in a 10x15 m repeated sprint ability exercise (RSA) in 9-year-old basketball players. Fourteen basketball players (age 9.4 ± 1.7 yrs, height 142 ± 13 cm...
Effects of season period, team quality, and playing time on basketball players' game-related statistics The aim of this study was to identify within-season differences in basketball players' game-related statistics according to team quality and playing time. ... J Sampaio,EJ Drinkwater,NM Leite ...
Debuts have a particular position in the world of professional basketball. It’s the moment when raw talent collides with the vast stage, and comparisons are unavoidable.Victor Wembanyama, the 7ft 4′ French phenom, did not disappoint on the night...
Basketball players jump a lot. They jump high. They jump high, for example to dunk the ball, putting the basketball in the hoop from on top of the basket, which is ten feet or 3.05 meters in the air. But they can’t do that anymore or as well when they are old. ...
The titans who lorded over the NBA for over a decade -- LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant -- have all faded out by the end of the first round, a sign that an entire era of the NBA is coming to a close.
“Players win games. Coaches win practices”. Practices are the time coaches have the biggest opportunity to impact the basketball skills of a player… However, I constantly attend practices that are inefficiently run. The coach spends half of practice trying to work out what drill to run next...