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Fourteen members of the 1977–78 Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team died in a plane crash on December 13, 1977, along with fifteen others including head coach Bobby Watson. The players killed were: Seniors: Kevin Kingston, John Ed Washington, and Marion Anthony “Tony” Windburn; Juniors: Stephen Miller and Bryan Taylor
Nike has severed all ties with Kyrie Irving a month after the apparel company suspended its partnership with the Brooklyn Nets point guard amid controversy, a spokesperson told The Athletic's ...
Irving represented Nike from the moment he entered the NBA as the No. 1 overall draft pick in 2011. His first signature shoe launched in 2014, and he reportedly made a minimum of $11 million ...
Irving, 32, and the Mavericks open the Finals against the Boston Celtics — his former team — on Thursday, June 6, with the 13-year NBA veteran averaging 22.8 points per game as the franchise ...
The largest complaint came from the fact that players had not been consulted before the new ball was put into play. The NBA Players Association filed an unfair labor practice lawsuit against the league because of that fact, [105] subsequently dropping it after the league announced that it would revert to the leather balls starting on January 1 ...
The 2023 NBA draft, the 77th edition of the National Basketball Association's annual draft, was held on June 22, 2023, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.The draft consisted of 58 picks instead of the typical 60 for the second year in a row due to the loss of a second-round pick for both the Chicago Bulls and the Philadelphia 76ers for violating the NBA's tampering rules during free ...
A total of 69 players attended the NBA Draft Combine 2021, with these players undergoing a series of interviews, five-on-five games, drills, and measurements. [71] Lottery-projected pick Keon Johnson broke the combine's vertical leap record of 45.5 in (1.16 m), set by Kenny Gregory in 2001, with a vertical leap of 48 in (1.2 m). [ 72 ]
Last week, multiple NBA teams were represented and stayed the entire event as the top players from Nike's Elite Youth Basketball League were competing in the 15U, 16U and 17U divisions of Peach Jam.