Seattle SuperSonics Essays

Player of the year award, he declared for the 2007 NBA draft. He was drafted as the second overall pick by the Seattle SuperSonics. He played a great first season and was the NBA rookie of the year. He was one, of the three, teenagers to average over 20 points in an entire season. Kevin Durant shined even more during his second season of NBA basketball. After his team relocated from Seattle to Oklahoma City, Kevin Durant raised his average points per game by five. He was also a candidate for the most

Kevin Durant is one of the best basketball players in the world. He is self made man that works and thrives hard for what he does. By working hard look where he now. Coming to the draft everyone wanted to have him he was that good. Kevin Durant’s early life was rough but it made his career and life stronger mentally and stronger. September 29, 1988 in Suitland, Maryland was the day a legend entered the world. Growing up his favorite basketball player was Kobe Bryant. He was one of 4 children;

I am going to give you the reasons on why I absolutely hate Kevin Durant. First off you can’t say that Lebron James did the same thing left his own team to go to a dominate team because Kevin Durant leaves OKC but the thing is he left to go to the most dominating team in NBA history. which the year that Kevin Durant joined the Golden State Warriors the Golden State Warriors whent 73 wins and 9 loses in the past year. The Miami Heats record was 43 wins and 39 loses. People have found Kevin Durant

In the article, “The Brangelina of the NBA”, writer Jack Hamilton breaks down the gruesome and devastating friendship divorce of two all star basketball players: Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant. These two high-caliber players spent eight years together playing for the Oklahoma City Thunder. After the 2015-2016 season, Kevin Durant’s contract was up and he was left with the choice to either leave the Thunder or move on. During the summer of 2016, Durant chose to accept a highly luxurious contract

Fans of James Harden have been wondering how he is doing and what is going on now that news is out that Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom are not getting a divorce. Khloe was dating James before Lamar was found unconscious in a brothel and now she is back with him. Hollywood Life actually shared how James Harden found out that he was single once again and it doesn't sound like it went the way it should have, but James is just fine with it all. Harden has a lot going on in his life and maybe it just

James Harden played with Russell Westbrook on the Oklahoma City Thunder during the first 3 years of his career. After three years of trying to win a championship and an embarrassing 4-1 loss to Lebron James’ heat in 2012 James Harden made a grievous choice to leave the Oklahoma city Thunder. In every year since Harden has left Westbrook he has been an all star, made the all NBA first team three times and led the Houston Rockets to the 2nd seed in the Western conference all by himself. James Harden

As usual, hear me out and read what I have to say before you react. Go into this with an open mind and relax. Ok, now let me explain. The Oklahoma City Thunder will go down in history as the organization that ruined a team filled with three rising superstars in their prime. Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and James Harden are all MVP candidates this season and somehow they all ended up on the same team. Prior to the Demarcus Cousins trade, this could be looked at as one of the dumbest decisions

Rebuilding an NBA Team Once home to the Supersonics, Seattle was one of the most successful NBA teams from 1967 to 2008, until they relocated to Oklahoma City in 2008. However, with Seattle's rapid economic growth and the NBA's expansion plans, the citizens of Seattle hope that an NBA team can once again return to the city with its basketball heritage. Here are a few key factors that teams must consider bringing an NBA team back to Seattle and prevent Seattle from losing their team again. A strong

Starbucks opened in 1971 in Pike’s Place Market. Starbucks was public in 1992 however in 1990 to 2000 for franchise went from having 84 to 3,501. It shows when it started, how did it happened. It’s hard for people without coffee for 5 minutes. When it came to the company it was still growing, but that profits per share were 2 cents less than projected for the quarter, stocks plummeted by 11% on July 27th in after hours trade. On Friday they had a low point of Starbucks for about 41 years of perseverance

The headquarters of the ToolsCorp Corporation may be found in the city of Memphis, which is found in the state of Tennessee. There is a large selection of products available, including but not limited to microwaves, stoves, power tools, patio sets, and lawn mowers. These goods are produced in the surrounding region, and they are sold in a range of wholesale and retail establishments, including Walmart, Home Depot, and Amazon.com, in addition to being disseminated locally, regionally, regionally,

Like many businesses Starbucks started off small and local, however, eventually Starbucks began to expand into the popular business that it is today. As crazy as it may seem, however, Starbucks is not only popular for its many drinks and wide variety of food that is has to offer. Now fewer and fewer companies are focused solely on the products and money that they have at the end of the day. More and more organizations have taken their social responsibility into consideration, from how the costumers

Second Cup is a Canadian company that started in 1975. Over the years the company has expanded to have 345 different locations (see Appendix One). An interesting fact is that they are the retailers of their own coffee. Satisfaction is key to this organization. The importance of making customers smile and creating a safe environment for our employees to work in is priority. Not only is Second Cup committed to friendly service in their cafes, but we are also committed to coffee integrity. Giving back

Research: Duluth Trading Co. was started by two brothers in Duluth who worked in construction that started the brand by coming out with the “bucket Boss” a tool organizer that fits over a drywall bucket that allowed construction workers to carry around their tools efficiently. Duluth Trading Co. is a brand focused on catering to “innovation on the job site”, every product was tested on different job sites. In 2002 Duluth came out with the “Longtail T” a shirt with an extra 3 inches that solved

Monsanto’s Unethical Practices Monsanto has faced troubles for years, and they are currently facing millions of dollars in lawsuits. Instead of taking responsibility for the destruction their company has caused Monsanto is doing everything it can not to assume the responsibility. They are breaking their code of ethics policies and other business rules by not taking responsibility. Monsanto’s code of ethics is written based their duties and responsibilities to the environment and its people. In the

Starbucks, which is the biggest café organization on the planet, was started in the year 1971 on the 30th of March in Seattle, Washington. It was at first started by three accomplices Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl and Gordon Bowker. However, then was sold to Howard Schultz in 1988. That year Starbucks opened its first store in Chicago. The organization's name was inspired by Moby Dick. By the year 1992, the organization was successful in opening up to 165 stores. In the 1990s they began expanding in the

Starbucks Latarsha Reid MOD/440 June 7,2017 Kameke Payne Starbucks Starbucks is one the largest successful business running in the United States. However, the business still faces issues in the process of development of the business under the effect of the economic recession. The business mainly focused on the changing the company customer relationships, although the business did have to deal with certain problems in process of internal human resources and business productions. Starbucks is one

Johnny Allen Hendrix was born November 27th, 1942 in Seattle Washington. Johnny later renamed James Marshal Hendrix by his dad was born and raised in Seattle. It was soon apparent that young Jimi took a liking to music. Taking in from every genre at the time. At age 16 Jimi’s father bought him his first guitar and it was apparent that Jimi had a knack for it. Shortly there after he joined his first band and the legend was born. Without Jimi Hendricks extremely progressive style of rock, its hard

In 1971 three students meet at the University of San Francisco Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gordon Bowker. The three friends wanted to pursue new business ventures; therefore the first Starbucks’ was opened in Seattle Washington, in historic Pike Place Market. The three friends worked together and built their first store, each one raised $1,350 apiece, borrowed additional $5,000. The first store didn't sell coffee drinks, just beans and coffee equipment. It was not until Zev Siegl went to Berkeley

Trains are awesome if you ask me, they are very fun to ride and to take a load off and to talk with your family, friends or whoever you are traveling with. But then again trains can be very scary, they are huge pieces of metal traveling very fast. Like if you were to try to outrun a train, well lets just face the fact you wouldn't be able to. Trains are very safe and very dangerous at the same time. For example inside of a train is fairly safe compared to outside. When you are outside of the train

but also have nature and environmental differences. Seattle’s speech begins by addressing the offer given to the native tribes about purchasing land; although the natives believed the offer was harmless, Chief Seattle began to ponder on the offer, but then decided to agree. Furthermore, Seattle disapproved of the claim that Washington made saying they were like father and son, by stating that they have different views on religion and the environment. The Native tribes see the land as a sacred land where