If you are the die-hard fan of NBA and you pay for a game with great expectation, but you find actually the game is boring beyond your imagination as one team want to lose game deliberately. What’s you feeling? Disappointment, sadness and even outrage. This is what NBA tanking brings to its fans. NBA tanking…
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World’s hottest chip challenge makes NBA star O’Neill burst into tears within two seconds
Do you want to try a terrible spicy challenge of taste buds ? #OneChipChallenge is a hashtag campaign through social media which asks people to post the videos of them attempting to eat a single Paqui Carolina Reaper tortilla chip. In mid-September 2016, the tortilla chip company Pacqui launched the #OneChipChallenge social media campaign for participants to publish…
Basketball world doesn’t have a tournament with global influence compared with football
For this post, I’d like to share with you an interview of a famous football blogger Carol XIang which has 1 millon followers. He is famous as his unique opinion on some football teams. Meanwhile, he is also a fan of Lakers and watch NBA everyday, so he is suitable for me to ask some…
The different prediction on Southeast Division in NBA
Recently, I read a post about the prediction on Southeast Division published by the Joel Deering who has 1252 followers on WordPress. The title is that “2018-19 NBA Predictions: Southeast Division and the content is about the speculation of the 5 teams’ season behaviour and final record in Southeast Division. The post link is as…
More than 60% respondents believe that this season’s competition in Western League is the most fierce one in the history
In a blog I wrote before, I mentioned the current situation in Western League: an extreme fierce competition. If you want to have a look, please click here: jrn1609034xmu.wordpress.com/2018/11/25/a-crazy-western-league-14-teams-compete-for-8-positions-of-palyyoffs/ This week, I conducted an online survey for 40 NBA die-hard fans to study their attitudes and opinions on this condition. The below is the survey result and anyone can access it: https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-N388TV7DV/ There are many…
VBlog: What NBA brings to me
Hi, I’m Zhao Hanyi, a third-year journalism student in Xiamen University Malaysia. I’m a big fan of NBA and a die-hard fan of Rockets team. I have been watched NBA for more than ten years and I think NBA accompanies my youth and we still have a long way to stay with each other in…
A crazy Western League: 14 teams compete for 8 positions of playoffs
If your favourate team is in the Western League, your should know that it faces a fierce competition with other 13 teams excluding the Suns. As the graph shows below, it’s easy to find that from the top to fourteenth positon in Western League standings, there is a narrow gap. The Ultah Jazz is ranked…
Does NBA games style become pay more attention to offense and give up defense?
“No one in the NBA is serious about defending now,” said by Derrick Rose, a famous player in Minnesota. (Resource from Zhiboba) Through the interview, Rose expressed some real opinion that nowsdays players pay more attention to offense and forget to defense compared with 15 years ago and it lacks of body opposition in many…
Can James rank as the first place in NBA’s Career Records for Points in the future?
Although many people may have no access to watch Michael Jorden’s games, but they are luckly to witness Lebron James’s dominant era. Wednesday night’s Lakers game is a milestone for the James- the top player in NBA. He passed Wilt Chamberlain — another all-time great who joined the Los Angeles Lakers in the latter stages of his…
Traditional NBA Center+ Modern NBA Center=Joel Embiid
Can you imagine a NBA center which not only has a low-post dominance but also can be a jumper that extends well past the 3-point line? If you can’t, Joel Embiid is a absolute answer for you. Joel Embiid got 42 points and 18 rebounds to lead Philadelphia 76ers‘ overtime victory against the Charlotte Hornets. Embiid…