Michael Jordan was drafted third in the 1984 Draft. Houston used their number one pick to select Hakeem Olajuwon and won two championships with him. Portland had the second pick and selected... Sam Bowie.
Kobe Bryant was selected 14 by the Hornets and then traded him to the Lakers. Manu Ginobili was selected 57th, and Ben Wallace didn't even made the draft and signed as a free agent.
Larry Brown broke a record in 2005-06... No, his 23 victories weren't the worst in Knicks history, but he used an NBA record 42 different starting line-ups. He started 16 different players and 29 of those lineups were used only once. And you were wondering why his players weren't happy with him...
In the same 2005-06 season, the other side of the coin was Detroit. The Pistons -- Larry Brown's former team -- set an NBA record by starting the same lineup for 73 consecutive games. Coach Flip Saunders finally was forced to end the streak because of Rasheed Wallace's suspension.
The Los Angeles Lakers' 33-game winning streak not only is an NBA record, it also remains the best in any major US professional sport.
In 1894 Dr. Naismith -- the inventor of the game -- asked A.G. Spalding & Bros. to develop the first basketball. Before that, the sport of basketball was played with a... soccer ball.
Carl Lewis, the 10-time Olympic medallist considered by many as the greatest athlete of all time was drafted by the Chicago Bulls in the 1984 Draft with the 208th overall pick. Of course Lewis never put on the Bulls uniform, other way he would have ended up on the same roster with Jordan, Chicago's first pick that year.
Kobe Bryant won't be using his famous number 8 jersey anymore. He didn't like Adidas releasing the shoes Crazy 8 in obvious allusion to Bryant, who is no longer under contract with them. Kobe's new number: 24. Any relation with Jordan's 23? He says no...
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Sport Curiosities
There are so many things you can find out about sports, there being a lot of curiosities which can stir anyone's interest. You should look into this kind of things whenever you have the chance because not only do they enrich your general knowledge, but these details are also very interesting.
First of all, you should know that football is the most beloved sport in the whole world. There is no other sport which has achieved the same performances when it comes to the number of amateurs of a particular sport. Then, you might want to know that boxing used to be an illegal sport, but it was legalized in 1901. Then, another interesting thing is that Jean Genevieve Garnerin was the first woman who preferred parachuting, being the first one to jump from a hot air balloon in 1799.
975 was the year when the first woman reached the top of the Everest Mountain, this woman being Junko Tabei from Japan. Larissa Latynina is the female gymnast who won the largest number of medals. She was a Russian gymnast who won eighteen Olympic medals in only three editions of the Olympic Games. The three editions were organized between 1956 and 1964.
The first edition of the ancient Olympic Games was won by Corubus and the first modern edition was held in Athens in 1896. Three hundred eleven men took part into the games and there was no woman involved. As for the modern ages, you might be curious about how many tennis balls the organizers of the Wimbledon Grand Slam Tournament change. If you are, you might be surprised to know that they change forty-two thousand balls in one edition. Last but not least, it is very interesting to know that golf was the first sport which was played on the Moon.
First of all, you should know that football is the most beloved sport in the whole world. There is no other sport which has achieved the same performances when it comes to the number of amateurs of a particular sport. Then, you might want to know that boxing used to be an illegal sport, but it was legalized in 1901. Then, another interesting thing is that Jean Genevieve Garnerin was the first woman who preferred parachuting, being the first one to jump from a hot air balloon in 1799.
975 was the year when the first woman reached the top of the Everest Mountain, this woman being Junko Tabei from Japan. Larissa Latynina is the female gymnast who won the largest number of medals. She was a Russian gymnast who won eighteen Olympic medals in only three editions of the Olympic Games. The three editions were organized between 1956 and 1964.
The first edition of the ancient Olympic Games was won by Corubus and the first modern edition was held in Athens in 1896. Three hundred eleven men took part into the games and there was no woman involved. As for the modern ages, you might be curious about how many tennis balls the organizers of the Wimbledon Grand Slam Tournament change. If you are, you might be surprised to know that they change forty-two thousand balls in one edition. Last but not least, it is very interesting to know that golf was the first sport which was played on the Moon.
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