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In sports (especially in North America), a three-peat is winning three consecutive championships or tournaments. The term, a portmanteau of the words three and repeat, originated with the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association, during their unsuccessful campaign for a third consecutive championship during the 1988–89 season, having won the previous 2 NBA finals.
From the 1986–87 season through the 2007–08 season, the three-point perimeter was marked at 19 ft 9 in (6.02 m) for both men's and women's college basketball. [2] On May 3, 2007, the NCAA men's basketball rules committee passed a measure to extend the distance of the men's three-point line back to 20 ft 9 in (6.32 m); [2] the women's line ...
The team completed their second three-peat by beating the Jazz 4–2 in a rematch of the previous season, with Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals famously ending with Jordan's last shot in a Bulls uniform, a play now considered one of the greatest moments in NBA history. [35]
Mar. 11—OTTUMWA — Indian Hills Community College will honor the 1996-97, 1997-98, and 1998-99 national championship-winning men's basketball teams this weekend as part of a virtual induction ...
Already the No. 1 recruit in the 2024 class, Flagg boosted his profile the summer, when he competed on the United States select team and held his own in a scrimmage against the NBA’s best ...
Patrick Andrew McCaw (born October 25, 1995) is an American professional basketball player for the Delaware Blue Coats of the NBA G League.He played college basketball for the UNLV Runnin' Rebels and earned second-team all-conference honors in the Mountain West Conference (MWC) as a sophomore in 2016. [1]
With back-to-back Super Bowl titles under their belts, the Denver Broncos became the first team to bid for a three-peat with a new quarterback when John Elway retired after the 1998 season.
Horry went on to be a key member of the Rockets' title teams and began to build his "Big Shot" reputation [10] with a game-winning jumper with 6.5 seconds left in Game 1 of the 1995 Western Conference Finals versus the San Antonio Spurs and hitting a three to put Houston up 104–100 with 14.1 seconds left in a 106–103 win in Game 3 of the ...