Why are basket ball players called "cagers"?
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Back at the turn of the 20th century, professionals played with the court ringed by a 12-foot, chain-link "cage" separating players from fans.\n\n\nThe first basketball cage originated in Trenton, N.J., and according to The Trentonian newspaper, fans would often stick hatpins and lit cigars through the cage and into opposing players’ bodies.\n\n\nAlthough the cages were phased out in the 1920s, newspaper headline writers delighted in calling basketball players "cagers" because the word is shorter than "basketball players."
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allen iverson.one is a streetballer and the other isnt.two different style of play.
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the positions are:\n\ncenter, usually the biggest guy gets alot of rebounds,blocks and takes the tip, stays under hoop(think of shaquille oneal)\n\npower forward, similar to center, except usually better at ball handling, more agile, stands down close to the basket but also can be far enough as 10 ft along the baseline usually\n\nsmall forward, usually a semi big guy but can also shoot well most all round player on the court, stays on perimeter of 3 pt line and usually cuts toward basket\n\nshoot guard, small player who scores alot and shoots threes, stays at top of 3 pt line and cuts towards the sides for a three\n\npoint guard, who dribbles the ball upcourt and gets alot of assists, can be good at scoring and threes but main purpose is to call plays and pass, also at top of 3 pt line but dribbles all around until people get open\n\nin many college teams there are 3 guards and 2 forwards, but not very often in the NBA, also there are 12 men on a NBA roster, sometimes the guards can be called the 1 and 2 guards, the 1 is point and 2 is shooting\n\na swingman, such as kobe bryant or tracy mcgrady can play either small forward or shooting guard
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I was sick of Jordan while he was playing, and I'm really over him now. Same with Kobe. Its overexposure, plus there are so many other talented baskteball players to talk about. People just like to concentrate on scoring. \n\nOscar Robertson is the best player in NBA history, if that's the point you were getting at. You'll hear no argument from me. He is completely underappreciated in this day and age.
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Because it is a rough sport.  It is also a MANS SPORT!!  woot woot go clippers!\n\nLol jk
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Probably not.  Michael Jordon brought ruin to basketball with his selfish play.  Passed the "If I get it I will shoot" type of play on to Kobe of the Colorado fame and it has spread throughout the NBA like a Texas wildfire.  Larry Bird was a team player with exceptional talents.  Oh where, Oh where have the team players gone.  Basketball has become as individualized as a Mexican Bullfight.
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Yh, 1 question: What has this got to do with Basketball??
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So they can overpower their opposition and score points easier. Simple. Size matters in basketball.
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Trainers is a name one hears a lot in England.  Gum-shoes was once used.  Baskets is used in France, derived from Basquettes, I like to think, rather than basketball, but who knows?  Tackies in South Africa, jong, or sand-shoes among the rooineks in Durban and the South Coast.
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Well there are a lot of international players in the NBA, but they really shouldn't call themselves that.  THere's the Olympics and International tournaments to determine world champions.
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It's a stereotype and like any one it's often not true. But because it is a permeating stereotype, some black people think they have to play basketball because they think they will do well at it, which causes other races to skive away from playing it, which makes it look like all black people know how to play basketball
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As it is confusing if there are people on the same team with two names or two different teams with same name players. They also do that to carry family pride.
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Basketball only discriminates against people who can't play the game. \n\nIf you can play, it doesn't matter how tall or short you are. \n\nMuggsy Bogues couldn't dunk, but at 5'3", he played 14 years in the NBA... of course, in his case, you can't tell me that there wasn't SOME guy out there on planet Earth who was 6'3 or so who wasn't better than Muggsy...but he did last 14 years in the NBA... of course, no team that had him ever amounted to anything. Same with Spud Webb (who, at 5'7, COULD dunk, and in fact won the slam dunk contest one year, around 1986 or 1987). Webb played for 12 years, but none of HIS teams ever won anything of significance either.\n\nBogues and Webb were valued more for their gate appeal than their ability to help their teams actually win something.
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Players are probably worse because of evolution.  "The athlete" is always involving and basketball players are always becoming better and better.  One day I was watching the 1990 Finals between the "Bad Boys" Detroit Pistons and the Portland Trailblazers. The players were in that game were incredibly skinny and appeared to be slow compared to today's players.  If those players were to step on the court with today's championship teams, they would push them around.  Today's athletes are stronger, faster, and more athletic which has a lot to do with how sports medicine and training has evolved.\nOn the other hand, today's players are out of touch with the common fan.  The players in the 60s and 70s made the same wages (or even lower wages) than the fans they entertained and many players had second jobs like selling insurance and cars.  The players of the past didn't gripe about getting paid $5 million per year and you would never hear any player back would never complain about not being able to feed their family off of a 3 year $21 million contract.
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because in the past dunking was a sign of direspect to the other team, but they reinstated it becasue its better entertainment. It was illegal in 60's-70's.
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1. Supposedly because the new ball has better grip and feel, eliminates the need for a break-in period, which is needed for leather balls, and has consistant characteristics from ball to ball.\n\n2. The league says the tights ban is because they don't like the look of the tights and thought players wore them as some sort of fashion statement. The league wants the look of players on the court to be consistant. They've also banned players from wearing rubber wrist bands that have writing on them like the players name.\n\n3. The Bulls have their own team rules, and one of those rules is that players don't wear headbands (the Utah Jazz have the same team rule). Players can be fined, benched and suspended fo breaking team rules. Teams have their own reasons for having team rules, such as putting out a particular image, as a show of team unity, etc. There's nothing wrong with wearing a headband, but players need to be aware of their teams rules and follow them. The flap with Wallace started because he says he didn't know about these rules at the time he signed with the team.
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It means that player has potential to get better as they make the transition from one stage to the next.  For example, a guy like Rodney Carney has loads of potential because he has room to improve on his jump shot, defense and his free throw shooting.  In college he got by on pure athletic ability and just being better than the competion.  In the NBA he won't be the best anymore and has to work at his game to reach his full potential so he can be as good in the league as he was in college...