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NBA is a show that shames basketball

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Irving Roland is the personal mentor of basketball stars Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James on working with Black Mamba and Euroleague

Assistant head coach of the Houston Rockets from 2016 to 2019 Irving Roland in the second part of an exclusive interview told NEWS.ru about working with Los Angeles Lakers attacking quarterback Kobe Bryant, about how to become the best in the National Basketball Association, and explained why the Euroleague is cooler than the NBA and named the favorite team of the European championship.

“It’s no secret that Kobe Bryant was a man with a very difficult character. How do you remember him?

“I was very lucky to work with Kobe. I was morally weaker before I met him. Mamba was someone big before he became an NBA star. In general, in the history of NBA players I know two of the strongest basketball players – Kobe Bryant and Allen Iverson (“Philadelphia 76ers”). They are both very complex, but incredibly talented. Kobe was able to understand the instruction from the floor without asking questions. Watching him learn was something special for me. He was the best, the best. That’s why so many people want to be like him. He always achieved his goals. He was a great businessman, he had the right mindset.

How did he feel about his popularity?

He was a star. But what’s Kobe, that LeBron is great guys, fathers, basketball players who don’t have a star in their foreheads. “A lot of people hated Kobi. How do you feel about a man who aspired to be perfect on the floor? “They hated him because he wasn’t on their team. He was a great player like LeBron now.

Have you had any conflicts with him?

No, I don’t think so. Never. He’s a great friend. People don’t understand that basketball is not a battle, it’s a game. They do not think that outside the court basketball players cease to be rivals, they become buddies. yes, you’re going to do anything to win the game, but as soon as the final whistle sounds, you become a friend, a husband, a father. He’s the most non-conflict person outside the basketball arena I’ve ever known. Incredibly kind and wise.

“He was almost always with his family outside the playground. Can we say that he was not a sociable person?

I don’t think so. It should be understood that players spend most of their time without their family. You have to train all the time, play, prove it. And when there’s a minute to go, you don’t want to hang out with your friends. Plus he had his own business, which needed to be given time. And in L.A., there’s crazy traffic. If you go to the gym and then go home, you spend a lot of time on the road. He could take the kids to school, go to Lakers training, come back because he had to pick up the kids from school, then go to the game. And there’s not much time left to spend with his family. Yes, people make mistakes, but he always spent his free time traveling with his family. Family is always more important.

“There have been several major scandals around him, for example, he was accused of raping a 19-year-old hotel maid. What do you know about this?

DECEMBER 21 – WORLD BASKETBALL DAY

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Today is World Basketball Day! Congratulations to all basketball coaches, athletes, fans and basketball fans on this wonderful holiday! We wish you all good health, dizzying successes, boundless luck and the highest victories! For reference. The first mentions of basketball are deeply rooted in history. One basketball-like playground was found in Mexico and dates back to the first millennium BC.

In the Mayan Indians, a similar game was called Pok-ta-Pok. Maya viewed it as a model of Cosmos – the movement of the ball on the field reminded them of the movement of planets in the universe. The team had to score the ball, which was made of rubber and weighed up to four kilograms, into a ring made of stone and positioned vertically in the wall. There is also information that in the sixteenth century, a similar game of basketball was also the Aztecs.

The game of modern basketball was invented in December 1891 at the Christian Youth Association training center in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. Dr. James Nayasmith spent a long time looking for what to replace the boring gymnastics, in physical education classes. He introduced new competitions into the curriculum: tug-of-war, wellness games, but everything quickly bored. After analyzing all the games with the ball, he formed certain limits and rules of the game. On February 12, 1892, the first official match was held. After this match, the basketball spreads at the speed of sound.

In 1894, the first official rules were issued in the United States. During the development of basketball, most of the rules of that period remained. Since the twenties of the twentieth century, national basketball federations have been formed and international meetings have been held. In 1923, France hosted the first women’s international tournament.

In the U.S., blacks were banned from playing with whites. In Harlem, the first Black New York Renaissance team was formed in 1922. This team easily beat the white teams, and in 1927 there was a match: “New York Renaissance” with “Bolton Celtics”. Seven games were played, as a result of the battle draw, after this meeting the athletes were no longer divided into whites and blacks. And basketball has become a unifying link in this long-standing confrontation.

In 1936, the Olympic Committee introduced basketball to the Olympic sport. And in the same year he appeared in the program of games in Berlin. The first Olympic champion was the U.S. national team. And in 1950 the first World Basketball Championship was held, the winner was the Argentine team.

In Russia, the Russian propagandist of physical culture and sports Georgy Dupperon learned about basketball in 1901, in St. Petersburg. And in 1906 the first matches were held. And already in the USSR basketball took one of the leading sporting events. In 1947, the All-Union Basketball Section joined the International Basketball Federation. Now Soviet basketball players could participate in all international competitions held by FIBA. In the same year, the USSR men’s team won the title of European champions.

Basketball has achieved the most development in the United States. Where one of the strongest basketball championships was organized – the national basketball association (NBA) championship. In Lithuania, basketball is considered a national sport.

The 2021 Copa del Rey will be played at the WiZink Center in Madrid

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Madrid collects the witness of Malaga as the seat of the Copa del Rey basketball. In a year marked by the uncertainty generated by the coronavirus pandemic, doubts about where the KO tournament – the great jewel of national basketball – was cleared by the election of Madrid’s WiZink Center as its venue. In this way, Madrid has won the race over other candidates such as Valencia or Gran Canaria.

The tournament will have Real Madrid as host as the Madrid team with the best balance at the end of the first round (something that has already achieved mathematically) so it has already secured its participation. Alongside Pablo Laso’s team will be the top seven after the first 19 games of the season. In total, eight teams will see the faces in the capital of Spain from 11 to 14 February as Onda Madrid advanced and as confirmed by Marca.

Real Madrid will have the opportunity to revalidate the title they won last season at Martín Carpena in Malaga, with Facundo Campazzo as MVP, and will be able to remove the bad taste from the mouth of the final lost to Barcelona in 2019 when the Cup was also played in their ‘home’. In fact, with this election, Madrid will match Vitoria as the cities that have hosted this tournament the most times with five editions each.

The vice president and spokesman of the Government of the Community of Madrid, Ignacio Aguado, confirmed the agreement between the ACB and the CAM on social networks: “Good news for basketball lovers! Madrid will host the Copa del Rey de Baloncesto in February 2021. Our region will once again be kilometer 0 of Spanish basketball.

” NBA STYLEThe Real Madrid will now try to be the main favorite for a tournament that Iberostar Tenerife, Barca, TD Systems Baskonia, Joventut de Badalona, Hereda San Pablo Burgos, Unicaja, and Valencia Basket would play today, which surpasses in basketball-average UCAM Murcia and Baxi Manresa, who present the same balance as the ‘Taronga’. However, there are still five days to finish the first round, and teams such as Andorra, Obradoiro, Fuenlabrada, or Estudiantes will rush their options to be in the corpora appointment.

Faced with the uncertainty generated by the pandemic, the clubs have agreed that to decide the classification for the Copa del Rey the first criterion is the percentage of victories over the total matches played by the team, thus avoiding harming some club if it cannot play all its matches before the deadline of January 10.

Return of the Jedi and the exploits of Kurilchuk

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Of course, all these defeats had objective reasons, in addition to the absence of the leader. With the star UMMC, for example, it is impossible to play at all, if you have at least ten wisest coaches. But in any case, the return of Olga Alexandrovna was an important factor in the match against Sparta and K: the thinnest settings of the team’s game are available only to her.

And the opponent was not easy. Read-only the name of the team along with the city it represents: “Sparta and Co., Visible.” It sounds threatening at the present time. Okay, that’s just fun. And it all started for Enisey really not great. From the middle of the first quarter Sparta confidently began to break away, points to the Moscow team were delivered with surprising ease. And Sevara Nuritdinova completed the quarter with a 10-point lead, setting up an 11-point lead for Enisey at 7:30 p.m.

But in the second quarter, Sparta stopped scoring a third of what it created, and Enisey steadily reduced the gap. Daria Kurilchuk was in the incredible fire, and it was her five points at the end of the quarter that almost nullified Sparta’s advantage of 42:43. And after the first half, Dasha had 19 points and 3 accurate three-pointers.

The beginning of the third quarter was absolutely enchanting for Enisey: four three-pointers in three minutes – Bratchikova, Abaiburova, again Bratchikova, Kurilchuk. A couple of hours earlier the match of the men’s team “Yenisei” ended, so there the guys scored four threes for the whole game… True, Sparta scored in almost every attack, but the advantage of Enisey still grew. Closer to the end, the Redskins made a new spurt – 9 points in a row. The last word, however, was left for Sparta forward Daria Repnikova. But even after her long-range hit – 71:61, a good start before the final quarter.

The end is not bad, but Sparta quickly scored 5 points in a row, and from the free advantage of the Siberians there is little left. For such cases, the team captain “is required”: Katya Kiryanova single-handedly played these five points. In the middle of the quarter, Kurilchuk erupted again. Only rose from the bench – three, and then two free-kicks – 85:71. In the next attack, Repnikova committed a foul in the attack, and it all became very similar to the victory.

But… Then it is time for a sacramental exclamation: “It’s women’s basketball!” And Sparta managed to reduce the score to 5 points. But Daria Kurilchuk finished it all at 97:89.

Enisey has players who can “solve.” Yes, some problems with the composition are obvious: to put it mildly, not everything is great with the first and fifth numbers. But these problems are mitigated by the presence of leaders capable of taking responsibility at key moments. And thanks to them happen such bright victories.

Basketball: Ukraine national team concedes EuroBasket 2022

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Ukraine’s national basketball team failed to confront the current European champions – Slovenia team in the third round of Eurobasket 2022 qualifiers on November 28.

In the first “ten minutes” the Slovenian defeated the Ukrainian team, having a 24-point advantage (33:9). Before the big break, Ukraine’s national team was able to reduce the lag and then won by a few points in each quarter. However, this was not enough to at least equalize the score and translate the game into overtime. The result remained in favor of the Slovenian team – 84:73 (33:9, 17:19, 13:19, 21:26).

Volodymyr Gerun scored the most points in the Ukrainian team – 15. Debutant of the national team Anatoliy Sunddel recorded 14 points in his asset.

After three rounds, Ukraine’s national team is third in the Group F standings with four points. The blue-and-yellows’ win over Austria with a score of 88:73 back in February, as well as two defeats – from Hungary (60:62), and now also from Slovenia. The quartet F is led by Slovenia, who has 5 points, followed by Hungary with 4 points. The Ukrainian team will play the next match on November 30 at 18.10 against Austria. Games of the national team take place without spectators in a special isolated camp – “bubble” – in Slovenia.

Earlier it became known that another opponent of Ukraine in the group stage – Hungary – was forced to leave the isolated camp, due to the fact that six representatives of the Hungarian national team received positive tests for coronavirus. Now their matches, which were scheduled in November, will take place in February together with the games of the third game window – the 5th and 6th round of qualifying.

In the case of the Group of Russia, there is a grand rival – Italy, which can not strain to win all the matches, without problems it beat even Russia in the first round with a goal difference of 19. But Estonia and Northern Macedonia are the underdogs, who in the matches among themselves have to decide who goes next. In the first match, the Estonians won. Then Estonia was expected to lose to Italy and Northern Macedonia to Russia. Now they will be replaced by rivals. If Russia suddenly loses one match to Estonia, it will not be a tragedy. One victory over Northern Macedonia will lead to Eurobasket, but just for the sake of prestige, you need to win today.

For the Russian national team, the match against Estonia will be the third in this qualification, which is mostly a formality for most of the national teams that represent something in Europe. Eurobasket is a celebration of basketball for everyone, not getting to the tournament is harder than getting into. We need to try to take the last place in your group, as there are three teams at Eurobasket. Although frankly weak teams are screened in the preliminary stages of qualification, outspoken passengers are still there, and for them, the last place in the group is already prepared. Sometimes there are even 2 such passengers and they already decide among themselves who will get to the continental tournament.