Basketball

Kobe Bryant between Derek Fisher and President Barack Obama at White House in 2010

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In the course of the match played yesterday between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Golden State Warriors, Kobe Bryant got injured seriously. The diagnosis is a torn Achilles tendon, an injury that requires from 8 to 12 months to come back. Today he should have an MRI to understand the severity of his injury.

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On Tuesday april 9 the basketball Euroleague 2012/2013 quarter-finals will start. This round will be played in a playoff series to the best of five games in which the teams qualified from each group will cross path the the ones qualified from the other group. With the new Top 16 format the first classified teams of each group will lay the fourth classified ones of the other group and the second classified ones of each group will play the third classified ones of the other group.

Michael Jordan with the Chicago Bulls in 1997

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Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born on February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York. In his NBA career he won 6 titles with the Chicago Bulls. He wan the gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1984 and in 1992 with the legendary Dream Team.

Hakeem Olajuwon (Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries)

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Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon was born on January 21, 1963 in Lagos, Nigeria. First overall pick at the NBA draft, he won two NBA titles in 1994 and 1995. In 1996 he won the gold medal at the Atlanta Olympic Games.

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Thursday December 27, 2012 the basketball Euroleague 2012/2013 Top 16 is starting. In recent years, the Top 16 started around mid-January but this season the formula has been changed. In the new Top 16 there are only two groups of 8 teams each so there will be more games. This new structure with 4 teams for each group that will go to the quarter-finals will definitely change this second phase of the Euroleague.