Who is the only Black American that owns a MBA Basketball Team& what is the team?
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Bob Johnson, Charlotte Bobcats
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Da Franchise used to be my favorite balla. He erupted into the limelight when he went to Maryland after San Jacinto College. Continued his superstar ascendance with the Rockets and then got traded to my team the Magic. But thats when it all went into a freefall, right now he looks like he lost all his passion and he isnt playing like he used to. I wanted him to get back on top but he isnt going to be on top again with his growing ego and attitude. Its a shame and a waste of talent. Francis is a wash now.\n\nedit: Hey Michellee, dont worry about the magic. They are not suffering. Trading away francis was the best thing to ever happen to them. They made the best trades of any team this past midseason when they dumped francis' bloated contract for trevor ariza, and topped that off by trading kelvin cato's 8 mil per season for darko milicic and carlos arroyo, which is already arguably the worst trade in nba history for the pistons. Grant Hills 15 mil is also about to come off the books after this season so that magic will have the most cap room of any team in the summer of 07 (20-30 mil). Theyve already resigned jameer nelson who has been a better starter at PG than francis, and they resigned Dwight Howard, Tony Battie, and working on extending Darko. They also have the eleventh pick in the upcoming NBA draft. Heres the crazy reality of it all. \n\nyou have a young talented team with in my opinion the best PG depth in Nelson, Arroyo and Dooling.\n\nShooting guard is the weakest position with deshawn stevenson, but he still isnt that bad. He has good defense and at times he provides offense. The magic will probably use their top pick for a SG and im praying for Brandon Roy, who is an assasin, deadly shooter in the mole of Gilbert Arenas.\n\nHedu Turkaglu is still an underrated player. When he starts he is a machine, plain and simple. He was their leading scorer for the last several months of the season. Trevor Ariza is capable of becoming a good bench player because he is very energetic. He has a knack for rebounding and he could develop into a Tayshaun Prince type of player. Hence, you have to like how they look at small forward for next season. However, you have to take into consideration all that money the magic have to spend after next year, when the likes of carmelo anthony and vince carter are free agents. There is one other player that could be a free agent if cleveland does not give him an extension, and yes that player is lebron james. I've heard rumors that the Magic are set themselves up to sign him so if he is not on the cavaliers in 2008, he will be a magic.\n\nDwight Howard at PF. Enough Said.\n\nDarko Milicic at C, forming the 7 foot 20 yr old twin towers is deadly. They compliment each other formidably. \n\nThis team has the best future and chance to be the greatest team ever, if king james does become a magic, can you say dynasty? yes.
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Bob McNair is the primary owner.  Minority shareholders include Ray Childress, Javier Loya, Chuck Watson.
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UCONN; they just wear the other teams down. Just look at all of their starters: they're all good enough to be on an NBA team. Rudy Gay, Josh Boone, Hilton Armstrong, Marcus Williams and Rashad Anderson. Even some of their bench players are talented enough to start on any NCAA BB roster.
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jazzie606 and ong jon  pretty much have it right.\n\nBasketball is not a 'black' game... it's a city game.\n\nHistorically, whatever 'group' of people comprise the majority of inner city populations, also happened to be the dominant players in basketball.\n\nBack in the 1920s and 1930s, the majority of inner city residents were Jewish, Jewish players dominated basketball. As we moved into the 1940s and 1950s, Jews moved out of the inner cities, blacks from the south moved into the inner cities, and basketball was soon dominated by black players.\n\nI remember on an NBC special re: the dominance of blacks in sports, they interviewed a Jewish player from the 1930s, and he said that "we used to say that every Jewish kid was born with a basketball in his hands"... of course, the same was later said about blacks.\n\nBut basketball is a city game (don't need much space or equipment to play), and this is why the majority of the best/most exciting players come from big ciites.
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This is not a complete list:\n\nRELATIVES IN THE NBL, BAA, NBA & ABA\nCompiled by John Grasso and Robert Bradley\n\nFATHERS & SONS\nBARRY - Rick and Brent, Jon & Drew\nBIBBY - Henry and Mike\nBRYANT - Joe and Kobe\nCHAPMAN - Wayne and Rex\nDUMAS - Rich and Richard\nELLIS - Leroy and Leron\nFERRY - Bob and Danny\nGUOKAS - Matt and Matt, Jr.\nHIGGINS - Earle and Sean\nHOSKET - Bill and Bill\nJONES - Wali and Askia\nMANNING - Ed and Danny\nMARAVICH - Press and Pete\nMcGUIRE - Al and Allie\nMIKAN - George and Larry\nMOUNT - Pete and Rick\nPAXSON - Jim, Sr. and Jim, Jr. & John\nPIATKOWSKI - Walt and Eric\nSALVADORI - Al and Kevin\nSCHAYES - Dolph and Danny\nSZCZERBIAK - Walt and Wally\nVAN BREDA KOLFF - Bill and Jan\nVANDEWEGHE - Ernie and Kiki\nVAUGHN - David and David III\nWALKER - Jimmy and Jalen Rose\nWALTON, Bill and Luke\n\nBROTHERS\nANDERSON - Willie and Shandon\nBARRY - Brent, Jon and Drew\nBRADLEY - Charles and Dudley\nCORLEY - Ken and Ray\nDAVIS - Brad and Mickey\nDOUGLAS - John and Leon\nFISHER - Derek and WASHINGTON - Duane\nFITZGERALD - Bob and Dick\nGERVIN - George and Derrick\nGONDREZICK - Glen and Grant\nGRANT - Harvey and Horace (twins)\nGUOKAS - Al and Matt, Sr.\nJOHNSON - Eric and Vinnie\nJONES - Caldwell, Charles, Major and Wil\nJONES - Nick and Steve\nKING - Albert and Bernard\nLEE - Ron and Russell\nMcCRAY - Rodney and Scooter\nMcGUIRE - Al and Dick\nMELCHIONNI - Bill and Gary\nMIKAN - Ed and George\nNATT - Calvin and Kenny\nNORRIS - Audie and Sylvester\nO'BANNON - Ed and Charles\nOGDEN - Bud and Ralph\nOTTEN - Don and Mac\nPAXSON - Jim , Jr. and John\nPEARCY - George and Henry\nPERSON - Chuck and Wesley\nPRICE - Brent and Mark\nPRICE - Jim and Mike\nROLLINS - Kenny and Phil\nRUSSELL - Campy , Frank and Walker\nSCHEFFLER - Steve and Tom\nSHORT - Eugene and Purvis\nSIMMONS - Connie and Johnny\nSOJOURNER - Mike and Willie\nSTITH - Sam and Tom\nTHOMAS - Carl and Charles (twins)\nTRAPP - George and John Q.\nVAN ARSDALE - Dick and Tom (twins)\nVINCENT - Jay and Sam\nWILEY - Michael and Morton\nWILKINS - Dominique and Gerald\nWILLIAMS - Gus and Ray\n\nCOUSINS\nEvers Burns and Len Elmore\nVince Carter and Tracy McGrady\nJevon Crudup and Robert Parish\nByron Irvin and Doc Rivers\nStephon Marbury and Jamal Thomas\nLamond and Tracy Murray\nWillis Reed and Orlando Woolridge\nDanny Vranes and Jeff Judkins\n\nSECOND COUSINS\nRobert Parish and Larry Robinson\n\nUNCLES AND NEPHEWS\nJim Brewer and Doc Rivers\nWalter Davis and Hubert Davis\nAl Guokas and Matt Guokas, Jr.\nMel Hutchins and Kiki Vandeweghe\nJohn Long and Grant Long\nJohn Long and Terry Mills\nDick McGuire and Allie McGuire\nEd Mikan and Larry Mikan\n\nGRANDFATHER AND GRANDSON\nJohnny Townsend and Eric Montross\nBruce Hale and Brent, Jon & Drew Barry
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It was announced today (Mar 27)\n\nAP All-America teams \nFirst team: \n• Adam Morrison, Gonzaga, junior\n• J.J. Redick, Duke, senior\n• Randy Foye, Villanova, senior\n• Shelden Williams, Duke, senior\n• Brandon Roy, Washington, senior\nSecond team:\n• Dee Brown, Illinois, senior\n• Rodney Carney, Memphis, senior\n• Rudy Gay, Connecticut, sophomore\n• P.J. Tucker, Texas, junior\n• Leon Powe, California, sophomore\nThird team:\n• Craig Smith, Boston College, senior\n• Glen Davis, LSU, sophomore\n• Tyler Hansbrough, North Carolina, freshman\n• Nick Fazekas, Nevada, junior\n• Allan Ray, Villanova, senior
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My theory is this. Unfortunately a lot of black kids grow up in poor communities. Baseball you need a field ( not gonna find many in the projects ) 18 people, gloves ( at least 9 of'em ) baseballs and bats ( and all of that equipment is expensive ) Football....need a field...at least 22 people...and the equipment is even costlier. Basketball, all you need is a ball and a hoop...and most inner cities have basketball courts in walking distance of nearly any neighborhood. So poorer kids black & white gravitate towards basketball....think about it...most of the white NBA players who are'nt European...are farm boys..like Larry Bird was.
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Wilton Norman Chamberlain, commonly known as Wilt Chamberlain (August 21, 1936 – October 12, 1999) was a former National Basketball Association basketball player. Known as Wilt the Stilt (a nickname he hated) or The Big Dipper, he is regarded as one of the greatest and most dominant basketball players of all time for the incredible statistical achievements he attained throughout his playing career.
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How about (since I'm assuming the idea is to appeal to an older group of players) the "Masters League"...a man could get all carried away and use Masters Basketball Association...MBA?... I know...gettin' a little goofy
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The Boston Celtics, win 16 NBA titles.\n\nThe LA Lakers have been to the most NBA finals however, making it to the final stage 28 times, although they only won the title 14 times.\n\nThe Celtics in the time of Bill Russell was the greatest dynasty in NBA history, winning 10 titles in 11 years between 1959 and 1969.
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BASKETBALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!
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I too would have to say Michael Jordan as well. That nigga is the best thing that ever happend to B-ball!!!
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I'm guessing Bill Laimbeer... I don't know exactly what his father did for a living, but I remember hearing sometime during his career that his father was very wealthy, and actually did make more than his NBA son.
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Larry Brown.  It is the only team he has not coached.
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O'Neal left LSU for the NBA after three years. However, he promised his mother he would eventually return to his studies and complete his bachelor's degree. He fulfilled that promise in 2000, earning his degree in business. At his graduation, he told the crowd "now I can go and get a real job". It has yet to be decided if he will actually pursue this career after retiring from basketball.\n\nSubsequently, O'Neal earned an online MBA through the University of Phoenix in 2005. He has stated his intentions to begin work on his doctoral degree in psychology or criminology in 2006.
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the lakers isnt a team any more its just Kobe and coach phil jackson, and they are still the only team that won 3 straight in a long time what about the pistons?