Most Valuable Player
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The Most Valuable Player (MVP) award is a recognition that is given to a member of a specific team who displayed an unmatched performance during the game. It is the most coveted individual award which players vie for because it honors and appreciates the recipient’s impeccable skills and the extra effort exerted during the game.
In selecting the Most Valuable Player awardee, players, fans and sports insiders are asked to vote for the player whom they would like to get the award. The votes are then tallied and combined with the game statistics, specifically the records indicating the number of points made by every player of each team. The player who has gathered the most number of points is then declared as the game’s Most valuable Player.
Anne Donovan, USA Women’s National Team head coach received the 2007 USA Basketball National Coach of the Year Award. She received the award together with Mike Krzyzewski who is USA Men’s Senior National Team head coach. With her almost 30 years of experience in USA Basketball, she led the USA Women’s National Team, 19-0 record and a 5-0 mark making them winner of FIBA Americas Championship. USA team is now qualified for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Included in her arrays of awards, Anne Donovan has 11 gold medals, four silver medals, one bronze and two more tournament titles to her name.
Hollywood Collectibles is a company that comes out various memorabilia for the different heroes of the sporting world. One of the latest tributes they came out with is an autographed statistics leather basketball (in a limited edition release) for one of the greatest in the game of basketball, Bill Russell. The leather wound ball sports the various statistical achievements of Bill Russell as a player which highlights how much the man has contributed to making the sport what it is today.
Women basketball started in 1892 which is actually just less than a year after the game was invented. Back then women wear concealing and constricting clothes for basketball. They then have a hard time moving because of the dresses they are wearing. Until bloomers were introduced at Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans by Clara Gregory Baer in 1896. If Dr. J was the inventor of the game, it was a visionary named Senda Berenson who is responsible for letting women play the basketball. And to please the society, she made some variations with the rules to make it easier for women to play the game.
The audio streaming of former college basketball coaches Dan Searl and Kevin Cantwell puts a whole new light to the game of basketball that so many people love. In their exchange of views, they talk about the statistics and how the game has moved to a phase where the mid-range game of basketball has become a lost art because many players opt to drive and dunk the ball or stop on a dime to shoot the three pointer.
If you believe that keeping statistics is a waste of time and that the only statistic that matters is the final score, think again. Although the final score is still vital, it is likewise important to see or know how the score was achieved. Coaches and players could use the statistics to study their opponents and give them pointers on their next game. But keeping a statistic is really a tedious job and time consuming as well. One needs a tremendous amount of organization and training. Let alone patience and talents in figuring out all the percentages required to have a good statistics.
