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Darren Fenn
Darren Fenn (born February 17, 1980), is an American former professional basketball player and current owner of the Buffalo eXtreme. He also owns and operates the XGen Elite basketball academy in West Seneca. Early life Fenn was born in Tonawanda, New York. He played basketball at Canisius High School, where he was named Western New York Player of the Year in 1997. He later played college basketball for Canisius College, where he was team captain for their 2001–01 season and led his squad to the 2001 MAAC men's basketball tournament championship game. Playing career After turning professional, Fenn played internationally with Limoges CSP (2001–2002), PBC Ural Great Perm (2004), KK Bosna (2004–2005), KB Trepça (2005), Eisbären Bremerhaven (2005–2006), Bamberg Baskets (2006–2008), Artland Dragons (2008–2012), Hitachi SunRockers (2012–2013), JDA Dijon Basket (2013), BC SCM Timișoara (2014) and s.Oliver Baskets (2014). He won the 2004 Russian Basketball Cup wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Center (basketball)
The center (C), or the centre, also known as the five, the big or the pivot, is one of the five Basketball position, positions in a regulation basketball game. The center is almost always the tallest player on the team, and often has a great deal of strength and body mass as well. In the National Basketball Association, NBA, the center is typically close to tall; centers in the Women's National Basketball Association, WNBA are typically above . Centers traditionally play close to the basket in the low post. The two tallest players in NBA history, Manute Bol and Gheorghe Mureșan, were both centers, each standing tall. Centers are valued for their ability to protect their own goal from high-percentage close attempts on defense, while scoring and rebounding with high efficiency on offense. In the 1950s and 1960s, George Mikan and Bill Russell were centerpieces of championship dynasties and defined early prototypical centers. With the addition of a three-point field goal for the 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bamberg Baskets
Bamberg Baskets is a German professional basketball team from Bamberg, Franconia/North Bavaria. The club has won the German Championship title nine times and the German Cup six times. The club currently plays in the German top tier Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) and the FIBA Europe Cup. The license holder of the club is Bamberger Basketball GmbH. The club was co-owned and sponsored by the German automotive supplier Brose Fahrzeugteile and was known as Brose Baskets and Brose Bamberg between 2006 and 2023. History 1955–2003: first Bundesliga years The 1. FC 01 Bamberg basketball team was promoted to the Basketball Bundesliga, the German Basketball League, for the first time in 1970. In 1988, after being relegated and promoted twice (relegations in 1979 and 1983, promotions in 1982 and 1984), and with 1. FC 01 Bamberg facing bankruptcy, the basketball division split to form a new club: TTL Basketball Bamberg. TTL stands for Tapeten-Teppichboden-Land, which is a wallpaper and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RealGM
RealGM.com is a sports website created in 2000. The site was originally a basketball site, but has since expanded its scope to provide information about American football, baseball, ice hockey and soccer. According to Alexa, the site ranked in the top 5000 of most visited sites in January 2009. The site includes basketball team forums as well as off-topic, media, and graphic arts forums. The site also offers the sale of sporting event tickets. It focuses its news mainly on players and their movement and actions in their respective leagues. In the media CBSSports.com wrote that the core writers at RealGM.com "have produced quality work over the years". ''Sports Business Journal'' called the site "one of the most influential independent voices within basketball". In 2005, a thread on the RealGM.com forum was mentioned as a source of motivation for Washington Wizards guard Juan Dixon after a playoff game in which he scored 35 points. Dixon told reporters that he had been notified ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indiana Hoosiers Women's Basketball
The Indiana Hoosiers women's basketball team is the college basketball, intercollegiate women's basketball program representing Indiana University Bloomington. The school competes in the Big Ten Conference in NCAA Division I. The Indiana Hoosiers, Hoosiers play home basketball games at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall on the university campus in Bloomington, Indiana. History Early years Maxwell era (1891–1928) The Maxwell Era of Women's Basketball at Indiana University saw the expansion of athletic opportunities and acceptance of women as athletes. Basketball was integrated into the physical education curriculum followed by interclass competition and intramurals. Juliette Maxwell dedicated her career to the advancement of athletics for the women at Indiana University. The 1922 Arbutus reported women's athletics had taken hold of the co-ed especially basketball: "Basketball, the most popular sport of the Indiana coed, attracted more attention this year than ever before. More than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Basketball Association (2000–present)
The American Basketball Association (ABA) is an American semi-professional men's basketball minor league that was founded in 1999. ABA teams are based in the United States, with one traveling team from Japan. The league previously had international teams based in Canada, China and Mexico. League management infamously maintains low requirements for franchise ownership, and hundreds of ABA teams have either folded or defected to rival leagues. The league licenses its name and use of ABA trademarks from the National Basketball Association, which absorbed the American Basketball Association (1967–1976) during the ABA–NBA merger featuring legendary players like Moses Malone, George Gervin, Artis Gilmore, and Julius Erving. The Women's American Basketball Association has operated as a sister league to the ABA since 2017. History Launch and suspension, 1999–2002 The league was originally co-founded by Dick Tinkham and Joe Newman in 1999 as ABA 2000. Tinkham had previously co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada). The NBA is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and is considered the premier professional basketball league in the world. The league is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan. The NBA was created on August 3, 1949, with the merger of the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and the National Basketball League (United States), National Basketball League (NBL). The league later adopted the BAA's history and considers its founding on June 6, 1946, as its own. In 1976, the NBA and the American Basketball Association (ABA) ABA–NBA merger, merged, adding four franchises to the NBA. The NBA's regular season runs from October to April, with each team playing 82 games. The NBA playoffs, league's playoff tournament extends into June, culminating with the NBA Finals championship series. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan Nwora
Jordan Ifeanyi Nwora ( ; born September 9, 1998) is a Nigerian-American professional basketball player who play for Crvena zvezda of the ABA League and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the Louisville Cardinals. He plays internationally for the Nigeria men's national basketball team. Nwora won a championship with the Milwaukee Bucks in 2021 before being traded to the Indiana Pacers in 2023 and again to the Toronto Raptors in 2024. Early life Nwora was born on September 9, 1998, in Buffalo, New York to a Nigerian father and an American mother. His father Alexander Nwora, a basketball coach, helped Jordan in developing his basketball abilities. High school career Nwora started playing basketball at Amherst Central High School in the 2013–2014 season, before transferring to The Park School of Buffalo for two seasons. At The Park School he shot 42 percent from three-point range, leading the Pioneers to the New York State Federation Class B championship, averaging ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nichols School
Nichols School is a private, non-denominational, co-educational college-University-preparatory school, preparatory day school in Buffalo, New York, United States. The average enrollment is 565 students with an average Upper School grade/class size of 100 students. The average classroom size is 14 students. History Nichols School was founded in 1892 by William Nichols. The school was founded as an all-boys school with its campus on Amherst Street in North Buffalo. After many years of remaining an all boys school, it joined with Nottingham Academy, an all-girls school, becoming a co-ed Middle and Upper School. The Upper School was located on the original campus, and the Middle School was located on Nottingham Terrace. In 2001, a new Middle School building was constructed on the main campus, attaching itself to an older building on campus. That building used to be home to the basketball court and swimming pool, which have been converted into the dance studio and music room, respect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basketball Cup Of Bosnia And Herzegovina
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's Basket (basketball), hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a Backboard (basketball), backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A Field goal (basketball), field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the 3 point line, three-point line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one, two or three one-point free throws. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play expires with the score tied, an additional period of play (Overtime (sports), overtime) is mandated. Players advance the ball by boun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Basketball Cup
The Russian Basketball Cup is the primary professional national domestic basketball cup competition of Russia. History After the cease of the USSR Basketball Cup in 1987, the Russian Federation did not launch any Cup competition in the following years despite the fact that the Russian Basketball Super League 1 had started in 1992. The first cup tournament took place in the year 2000 with the Final Four being hosted at Sochi. It was not held in the following two seasons, but it returned in 2002. Starting from the 2014-15 season most of the VTB League clubs withdrew as the Russian Federation did not allow the use of foreign players in the competition resulting in only 3 VTB teams (BC Khimki, Khimki, BC Krasnye Krylia, Krasnye Krylia and BC Krasny Oktyabr, Krasny Oktyabr) participating. BC UNICS was the last club from the VTB League to win the trophy in 2014. The last two seasons (2020-22) no VTB club applied to participate in the competition as normally two or three teams would join ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BC SCM Timișoara
BC Timișoara is a professional basketball club, based in Timișoara, Romania. The club competes in the Liga Națională. Season by season Honours National competitions National League *''Runner-up'' (2): 2008–09, 2011–12 National Cup *''Winners (2):'' 2010, 2015 *''Runner-up'' (3): 2007, 2008, 2012 European competitions Alpe Adria Cup Alpe Adria Cup was an international basketball club competition. In the 2023–24 season, the league comprised teams from seven countries: Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. It was played under the rules o ...: *''Runner-up'' (1): 2023–24 Current roster Notable players - Set a club record or won an individual award as a professional player. - Played at least one official international match for his senior national team at any time. References External links * BC Timișoara At Frbaschet.ro BC Timișoara At Totalbaschet.ro BC Timișoara At Eurobasket.comBC Timișoara At B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
