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Tyrese Haliburton is Giannis Antetokuonmpos' New Daddy

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Milwaukee Bucks Berhasil Juarai NBA, Giannis Antetokuonmpo Raih Gelar MVP

Milwaukee Bucks Berhasil Juarai NBA, Giannis Antetokuonmpo Raih Gelar MVP

123berita.com – NBA musim 2020/2021 resmi usai setelah Milwaukee Bucks berhasil tumbangkan Phoenix Suns, Rabu (21/7/2021) pagi WIB di Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee, Amerika. Dalam game keenam laga grand final tersebut, Bucks mampu tumbangkan Suns dengan skor 105-98 dan jadikan skor akhir 4-2. Sejak kuarter pertama dimulai, Giannis Antetokounmpo beserta rekan timnya langsung menggempur pertahanan Suns.…

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Milwaukee Bucks Berhasil Juarai NBA, Giannis Antetokuonmpo Raih Gelar MVP

Milwaukee Bucks Berhasil Juarai NBA, Giannis Antetokuonmpo Raih Gelar MVP

123berita.com – NBA musim 2020/2021 resmi usai setelah Milwaukee Bucks berhasil tumbangkan Phoenix Suns, Rabu (21/7/2021) pagi WIB di Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee, Amerika. Dalam game keenam laga grand final tersebut, Bucks mampu tumbangkan Suns dengan skor 105-98 dan jadikan skor akhir 4-2. Sejak kuarter pertama dimulai, Giannis Antetokounmpo beserta rekan timnya langsung menggempur pertahanan Suns.…

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Victor Wembanyama could be the NBA's next top draftee

Victor Wembanyama could be the NBA’s next top draftee

Is Victor Wembanyama be the Giannis Antetokuonmpo-Kristaps Porziņģis mashup NBA followers have been ready for?Picture: Getty Pictures Now that Aleksej Pokuševski and Franz Wagner have understudies and Jabari Smith Jr. has a pair extra guards who gained’t go him the ball, it’s time to peek contained in the 2023 NBA Draft. And in the event you’ve executed that, you’ve little doubt come throughout…

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A mash up CG & live action mixed media approach for Str8 Fragrance and aftershave with NBA superstar Giannis Antetokuonmpo.

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Week 6:  Has any fandoms you’re involved in been part of any protest or acts of social activism?

As part of a basketballer and a NBA (national basketball association) fan, i am really interested in what is going around the NBA and NBA fandoms and the NBA association itself also took part in the social activism of BLM (Black Lives Matter.) BLM were organized way back in 2013 and the topic started to rise again and blew up back in May 25,2020 when ex-police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on the neck of George Floyd, a black man who inspired the world.

As can be seen by the picture above, George were being held by the ground by a knee of the police officer which George shouted that he cant breath begging the officer to let go which he did not. This caused George to fell unconscious due to lack of oxygen and sadly passed away. Ever since then, peaceful protests have been ongoing around the world and has even reached until the NBA. Many NBA players too have lead peaceful protest around city. For example, Jaylen Brown drove all the way to Atlanta to take part in the protest and invited others as well through Twitter to walk with him.  Lebron James, Russell Westbrook, Draymond Green and many others too, participated in the walk against racism and police brutality. 

Giannis Antetokuonmpo, the reigning MVP went to the protest wearing a shirt written “I Can’t Breathe’ which was what George Floyd said with his last breathe. He said that he wanted his children's in the future to walk on the streets without any fear of being discriminate. Steph Curry, along with his family, also participated in their BLM campaign to voice out and lead their support at the America Century. 

Not only that, NBA has also taken many actions towards the BLM community. Many NBA players have took the knee (kneeling down) during their national anthem as to show respect for the crisis that has been goin on and all of their jerseys name have been changed too. Names such as “Peace”, “Equality”, ”Freedom” and more were worn all over NBA players during their match up. Not only that, several players such as Dwight Howard will be donating part of their salaries to foundations to show their support as well.

This is were only the NBA fandom. Can you imagine how others fandom will be doing too in order to show their support towards social activism such as BLM. It is very important for the public to be united as one and stand strong together when crisis like this is happening so that the voices can be heard around the world and actions will be taken. references:  Jaiswal, R 2020,  5 Ways in which NBA players have supported Black Lives Matter from Orlando, Sportskeeda, viewed on 13 October 2021, https://www.sportskeeda.com/basketball/5-ways-nba-players-supported-black-lives-matter-orlando Deb, S 2021,  As Protests Spur Posts From Athletes, N.B.A. Players Take to the Streets, the New York Times, viewed on 13 October 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/sports/basketball/george-floyd-nba-protests.html Beer, T 2020,  Prominent NBA Players And Even Some Owners Protested This Weekend, Forbes, viewed on 13 October 2021, https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/06/08/prominent-nba-players-and-even-some-owners-protested-this-weekend/?sh=269747d4b05c

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For fantasy sports players, Harden is the NBA MVP

BOSTON (AP) — Giannis Antetokuonmpo may have helped his team win 60 games and earn the No. 1 seed in the NBA during the regular season. For fantasy sports players, Harden is the NBA MVP

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WARRIORS, RAPTORS, FACE OFF IN NBA FINALS

by Bert A. Ramirez / May 29, 2019

Top Raptors star Kawhi Leonard drives against Klay Thompson of the Warriors in a battle of two of the league’s best two-way stars. (Photo by Nathan Denette of The Associated Press)

                If one were to decide off hand on which team has the edge in the NBA championship series that starts today, Friday in Manila, then the Golden State Warriors come out as the runaway winner against their opponents, the Toronto Raptors.  Heck, even the Las Vegas oddsmakers have tabbed the two-time defending champions, winners of the NBA’s biggest hardware three of the last four years, as prohibitive favorites, with one’s $280 being wagered on the Warriors to win just $100.

               Yet, the chances of the Raptors beating this Warriors mini-dynasty are not that remote, if one were to look more closely.  The Raptors, who have scored a breakthrough that might be bigger than they realize now – putting basketball on the Canadian map that’s been dominated for centuries by ice hockey – might be new on the sport’s ultimate stage, but that doesn’t make them any less capable of scoring an upset. Just ask the Milwaukee Bucks, who began writing them off after blowing them out in the first two games at home in the East finals.

               What would probably be etched in the mind of Giannis Antetokounmpo and his teammates is how this Raptors club took everything that they threw at them, including a 15-point handicap in the third quarter of the decisive Game 6, and got up and gave it back.  That kind of resilience should serve Toronto well in this matchup against the Warriors, whose ability to get back from big deficits also enabled them to sweep Portland in their own duel in the Western finals.

               So how do we see this final matchup going – a newcomer versus a team going into its fifth straight date on basketball’s biggest stage?  Do we see someone wilting under the lights while somebody asserts itself, or do we expect a pair of protagonists going at each other the way old-time gladiators did, with the only difference being all of them are in sneakers fighting not with swords but with an inflated ball almost 30 inches in circumference?

               Here’s how we see it, using several areas as point of reference.

Starters

               Let’s face it, nobody beats the Warriors’ starting five, regardless of the absence of Kevin Durant or a fifth All-Star, DeMarcus Cousins, out since April 15 after tearing his left quadriceps muscle in the Warriors’ Game 2 loss in the first round to the LA Clippers.  A starting unit with Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green plus Andre Iguodala and Kevon Looney is still as potent as they come, and no greater proof of that can be seen than in Golden State’s dismantling of the Portland Trail Blazers in the conference finals.

               But the Raptors’ first five of Kawhi Leonard, Kyle Lowry, Pascal Siakam, Marc Gasol and Danny Green isn’t bad either, with that starting corps perhaps as tailor-fit as any to counteract the caliber and style of play used by the Warriors’ first-stringers.  The presence of Leonard on that corps changes the equation, particularly with Durant, who has been out since injuring his right calf against Houston in Game 5 of the Western semifinals on May 8, doubtful about playing at all in these finals. Leonard has the reputation of giving the Warriors fits, whether as a Spur (remember the 2017 playoffs before he first suffered the injury that changed his course in San Antonio, or the 2015 game where he torched Stephen Curry in a 15-point win, or another blowout, this time by 29, in 2016 during Durant’s Warriors debut?), or as a Raptor (take the game where Toronto beat Golden State in overtime last November 29 as Leonard scored 37 points on 14-of-24 shooting).  The Raps, in fact, were 2-0 against the Warriors this season after also creaming the latter at their home 113-93 last December 12.

               Still, we will give the edge here to the Warriors, but only by a thin margin.

Bench

               The Warriors’ bench has produced in a way that would encourage their brass even with the injuries to Durant and Cousins, and this is particularly true in their sweep of Portland.  But with Durant still iffy at this point (only Cousins has been cleared for the series), this bench – Shaun Livingston, midseason returnee Andrew Bogut, Alfonso McKinnie, Quinn Cook, Jordan Bell and Jonas Jerebko – would be forced to produce even more consistently especially against a Toronto support cast that has admirably also delivered, particularly against a Milwaukee squad that was arguably the best in the league all season long before running into a tough Raptors bunch that stripped it of its aura of invincibility.

               Erstwhile starter Serge Ibaka, Fred VanVleet, whose son’s birth in the middle of the Milwaukee series triggered a superb performance the rest of the stretch, Norman Powell and, if he returns from an appendectomy that he underwent before the playoffs, OG Anonuby, all can help the Raptors’ starters while enabling them to hardly miss a beat.  Curiously, there are two veterans on the bench, Jodie Meeks and Jeremy Lin, who could conceivably still produce but have not been used extensively, but they give Toronto additional options in any case.

               Edge: Even.

Offense

               When one talks of offense, nobody can possibly hold a candle to the Warriors, certainly one of the great offensive juggernauts of modern times as attested to by their postseason-leading 117.3-point scoring average and a 115.0 offensive efficiency, also tops in the playoffs. This is demonstrated even more clearly by what they’ve done in the absence of Durant, who by himself had accounted for a performance never before seen since the prime of Michael Jordan (how about 34.2 points per game?).  When you have Curry, who can make a case as the greatest three-point shooter in history, along with Splash Brothers sparmate Thompson and a ball-rotating system that’s been perfected through the years by this Warriors club, you can produce points in a jiffy (did you see that, Portland?), and the rest of the cast simply take from that system.

               The Raptors may not have as potent an offense as the Warriors do, but it’s not bad either, with Leonard, arguably the best two-way player in the game today (yes, after we all doubted him when he got hurt in San Antonio), one of the best isolation scorers in creation who is capable of breaking the toughest of defenses, while guys like Siakam, Lowry, Gasol, Ibaka, Green, VanVleet and Powell are all capable of contributing their share of the points.

               Edge: Warriors.

Defense

               Now, you’re talking Raptors here.  And why not?  You simply have the best defender in the game here with Leonard, that guy some call “The Klaw” for hands that measure almost 10 inches long and nearly a full feet wide from pinky to thumb who anchors a defense featuring himself, a two-time Defensive Player of the Year (2015, 2016), and another former Defensive Player of the Year (2013) in Gasol plus such All-Defensive Team stalwarts as Ibaka and Green and pesky defenders Siakam, Lowry and VanVleet.  This is a group that will not be confused by the Warriors’ ball movement and offensive pace.  Whether it’s one-on-one or within the context of a swarming team scheme (just look at what it did to the Greek Freak and his gang in the Milwaukee series), Leonard and company are a deadly defensive bunch that can take the life out of some elite offenses.

               The Warriors themselves are excellent defenders, but without Durant’s length, or with Cousins still getting up to par, a large part of that defensive moxie is taken away.

               Edge: Raptors.

Coaching

               Steve Kerr obviously has the edge in experience, having coached the Warriors to their last three titles and, at least on paper, to their fifth straight finals appearance (he was nominally their headman in 2016 when Golden State set that all-time regular-season mark of 73-9 but became the first team to lose a 3-1 advantage in the finals in bowing to Cleveland as Luke Walton held the reins for him while he recovered from back surgery through most of that campaign).  But this has got to be the greatest challenge yet for Kerr, trying to defend a title without Durant, widely regarded as one of the top three players in the game today along with perhaps Leonard and Steph (sorry, Giannis, James Harden and Bron-bron).

               On the other hand, one has to give it to Nick Nurse, who before this season came along was a complete stranger to many a pundit (except for his having been the Raptors’ assistant for the previous five years) but has certainly proven his coaching acumen by doing what guys before him like Dwane Casey, Sam Mitchell and Lenny Wilkens failed to do – bring the Raptors to the NBA finals.  Granted he now has that transcendent star his predecessors never had, Leonard, to do it with, Nurse’s handling of the Raptors, especially in those four straight victories over Milwaukee, which never lost more than two straight games all season, was something to behold.  He designed a defensive system which would not only stymie Antetokuonmpo, whose length and strength and superb one-on-one skills were a nightmare to other defenses, but also take much of the virulence away from the Bucks’ gunners like Khris Middleton, Nikola Mirotic, Malcolm Brogdon and Irsan Ilyasova, swarming effectively to the ball without compromising the rest of their defense. Kerr might have the seasoning and the savvy but Nurse, to our mind, would not be outcoached.

               Edge: Even.

Intangibles

               Let’s be honest here.  The Warriors, whatever happens, have already carved out one of the most dominant stretches of any NBA franchise, comparing favorably at least with those Jordan Chicago Bulls that essayed a double three-peat between 1991 and 1998 and perhaps nearly matching those Laker teams of the ‘80s that won five titles and went to the finals eight times and the San Antonio Spurs clubs that won five titles and earned six finals trips between 1999 and 2014.  The Bill Russell Boston Celtics of the ‘50s and ‘60s of course are on a different plane.

               Such a winning environment and an entrenched system that defines a team’s philosophy and culture have definitely served the Warriors well through the last seven years.  How such an environment and system can make up for the injuries besetting them now will largely determine if these Warriors are going to add to their championship hardware.

               To be sure, the Raptors themselves are not without their share of the physical travails that usually affect teams at this point though not on such a scale, with Lowry himself, for example, playing with an injured left thumb he sustained in the Philadelphia series that has affected his passing and shooting, and Anonuby, who averaged 7.0 points in the regular season, still working himself into game shape for a possible return in the finals.

               But the Raptors have an extra motivation and burden on their shoulders.  They’re the first Canadian team to reach the NBA finals, having survived 24 years in the league while a contemporary, the Vancouver Grizzlies, had to move to Memphis six years after their inception in 1995 after a lukewarm reception in Western Canada.  A victory here will not only serve as the ultimate milestone in franchise history but also augur well for the future of basketball in Canada, and this certainly has to weigh on this bunch regardless of this benchmark-setting accomplishment.

               If these Raptors don’t win now after having come so close, when would they have another such opportunity?  Will Leonard, an impending free agent, go and sign with another team if he doesn’t win with this group?  How the Raptors deal with this motivation and burden at the same time will provide the counterpoint to that challenge confronting the Warriors now with Durant’s injury.

               Edge: Even.

               It’s easy to see how evenly-matched this year’s finals protagonists are after going through our points of reference, notwithstanding the decided edge in firepower the Warriors have.  This is a matchup that might just be decided by the proverbial breaks, or whatever edge either team can get over the other as the series goes along. The Warriors, for the first time in their five-year finals run, won’t have the homecourt advantage, and it’s important that the Raptors establish themselves early against the reigning champs if they are to have any realistic chance of pulling this one off.

               In the end, the uncertainty of how the Raptors will respond to this unprecedented feat of theirs somehow makes us inclined towards picking the Warriors to win, but not before it takes all of seven games to do it.

               Here are the complete playoff stats for each NBA finalist (figures are arranged according to games played, average minutes, points per game, field goal percentage, three-point percentage, free throw percentage, rebounds per game, assists per game, steals per game, and blocks per game):

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The NBA is mad as hell … and fans just want to consume it more

The league this season sometimes appears to be fighting and arguments with a few games thrown in. And that makes the players all the more relatable

The NBA is in the midst of a season in which TV ratings are up double digit percentage points, young and exciting teams like the Philadelphia 76ers and Minnesota Timberwolves are arriving as contenders and, night after night – from LeBron James to Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook to Giannis Antetokuonmpo – fans can enjoy a depth of skill and athleticism that has never before been seen in the sport. While the talk around the NFL is how that league is past its peak in popularity, the narrative on the NBA’s future is nothing but positivity and light. It’s easy to make the argument that there has never been a better time for the NBA. Now someone just needs to let the NBA’s players in on the news.

While NBA fans swoon over pretty much everything about the league in 2018 – dip a toe into NBA Twitter on a random Tuesday and you’ll see it hype a game between the Grizzlies and Suns like its Game 7 of the Finals – the players themselves apparently don’t feel the same way. Just in the past seven days, we saw a player angrily score 46 points on an opponent after mistakenly thinking he was picked last for the All-Star teams and then, three days later, a player dismissively stared down the opposing bench while dribbling out the final seconds of the clock in a victory. OK, so both of those were produced by Russell Westbrook, already the NBA’s all-time career leader in completely invented indignation. But it’s not just Westbrook who is made out of mad anymore. The whole league seems pissed off.

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Kevin Love either didn’t see Jeff Green sitting there, or just, uh, threw his warmups right on his head…

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Mavs draft regrets of 2000s: Dallas missed on Draymond Green, Giannis Antetokuonmpo in consecutive years

3. Etan Thomas (No. 16 pick in 2000) He never played for the Mavericks, but he did serve a purpose. He was included in the trade for Juwan Howard from Washington. Thomas actually had a functional stretch of seasons with the Wizards while Howard had a decent year with the Mavericks before he was sent

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