Basics of Basketball: For newbies or anybody who wants to know

Basketball is one of the most popular game throughout the globe. It is as much fun while playing as it is while watching. If you are are a newbie and find it difficult to understand how it's played or what all rules are applicable or what officials are concerned with the game, there is no problem. Just click on the link below which will take you to a PowerPoint Presentation including everything you need to know about basketball to improve your basic knowledge about the game. 

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Is Abdul Jabbar’s most points record unbreakable?

The all-time NBA great celebrated his 71st birthday in 2018, over 34 years after he set the NBA record for most career points. Cap would go on to finish with 38,387 career points, a record that still stands. Many regard the stat as one of the NBA's truly unbreakable records. Still, records are meant to be broken and it's only a matter of time before a once-in-a-generation scorer comes along to break his record.

There was no shot more unblockable than Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's sky hook. Try as many scorers might, they don't have a shot in their arsenal as consistently devastating as Abdul-Jabbar's iconic shot. 

Without an unstoppable go-to weapon like that, no other NBA player will be able to touch his record. Plus, the all-time great stuck around for 20 seasons. With the players becoming stronger and faster, body breakdowns happen more often. Even if a great scorer comes around, he won't stay around long enough to top Abdul-Jabbar's mark.

Even the most impossible feats eventually fall. "Records were meant to be broken" may be cliché saying, but it is for a reason. While Abdul-Jabbar's scoring record seems untouchable, it's only a matter of time before a better scorer comes along and destroys it, especially with the NBA trending towards offense the way it has. 

The three-pointer has pretty much become a mandatory weapon in the NBA and getting foul calls have become a skill as essential as a jump shot. The rules are there to benefit scorers.

 Thus, Abdul-Jabbar's record isn't going to stick around forever.

India's terrific performance at Gold Coast 2018

Indian Shuttlers after winning Gold in team event

The Commonwealth Games 2018 have given India innumerable pleasing memories as our athletes have achieved new heights in almost every event. India has delivered such tremendous performance only twice before in Commonwealth Games. This year, it appeared as if India was on a gold rush achieving maximum golds in their medal tally as India's figures were: 26 Golds, 20 silvers and 20 bronze medals. India obtained the 3rd highest number of golds this year and 4th highest overall medal count. 

The women who brought glory to India

India according to figures was the best nation in 5 disciplines, weightlifting, shooting, wrestling, badminton and table tennis, and the second best nation in boxing. India topped it's previous CWG medal count by finishing their run with a handsome 66 medals in it's pocket. These games displayed the young talent in India as this year young athletes have achieved new feats.

Manika Batra was the star performer in these games as she secured 4 medals to her name icluding 2 golds, a silver and a bronze. The 22 year old became the first Indian woman to win a gold in Table Tennis singles. Our youngsters, Manu Bhaker and Anish Bhanwala won gold medals in shooting at mere 16 and 15 years of age respectively. A gold medal in Javelin throw by Neeraj Chopra is one such feat that India has never achieved before. Our wrestling contingent displayed a 100% result as each and every wrestler who participated won a medal. 

Apart from this, Indian weightlifters brought 9 honors to the country and our shuttlers added 6 honors to India's name. India's boxing performance was also exceptionally good as we won 9 medals in boxing including a medal from Mary Kom who won  a gold in her first Commonwealth participation. There were many instances this year where India won 2 medals in the same event. Also who would not like to see more matches like that of Saina Nehwal and P.V. Sindhu battling for gold and confirming both gold and silver for the country in the same event. 

Saina vs Sindhu - Both gold and silver ensured

But while India performed exceptionally good in some events, others were disappointing too  for example: Atheletics. Though this time India sent many athletes, still it managed to grab only 3 medals: A gold from Javelin throw and a silver and bronze from discuss throw. Also the performance in men and well as women hockey was disappointing as both the teams lost their semi-finals as well as their respective bronze medal match. There was disappointment in cycling and swimming too as India didn't even finish close to a medal.

These are the fields where India needs to improve and these have been the weak points of India since the beginning. Though there is a bit improvement but still India has miles to go, if it wants to win medals in these fields in future. Overall, it was not the best but one of the best run by India as far as Commonwealth Games are considered and performing better and better in future is the only thing one can hope for, to successfully reach where one dreams to be. 

Manika Batra – India's most recent table tennis champion

Batra's dominant run at Gold Coast 2018

Indian table tennis star Manika Batra emerged as India's star entertainer at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, winning four awards to her name through the span of the competition. She delivered some fantastic shows in high-weight experiences against higher-positioned resistance and featured the Indian ping-pong's unexpected and marvelous appearance.

With four medals – two gold, one silver and one bronze to her name, Manika Batra has emerged as India's star entertainer from the Commonwealth Games 2018. To place things into viewpoint, had she been a nation, she would be positioned eighteenth on the award count out of 71 countries. 

The 22-year-old from Delhi, who likewise took an interest in the Rio Olympics in 2016, turned into the main Indian lady to win an individual award in table tennis at the Commonwealth Games. A gold each in the ladies' singles and group occasion, a silver in the ladies' duplicates with Mouma Das and a bronze in the blended pairs with Sathiyan Gnanasekaran – Batra's decoration count is a genuinely incredible one.

In the ladies' blended group occasion, Batra drove from the front and in the last against Singapore, she won both her singles matches against Feng Tianwei, who is an Olympic silver medalist, and Zhou Yihan. In the ladies' singles, she crushed a previous World Championship gold medalist as Yu Mengyu and that too in straight recreations (11-7 11-6 11-2 11-7) with her uncommon strike system utilizing the dimpled elastic leaving adversaries confused. Her fantastic ascent has enchanted fans the nation over, who hailed her as India's saint from Gold Coast and even engaged make her the banner carrier for the Indian unexpected in the end function."I am extremely upbeat that I won a gold award for India, and I am holding up to return and meet my family, my mentor Sandeeep sir and every one of the Indians who upheld me, thank you so much," she told ANI. Hopefully she proceeds on her way and gets more shrubs to the nation the coming years.

The high jumper destined for glory

Actions speak louder than words and Tejaswin Shankar is a demonstration of the phrase. The slender high jumper from New Delhi, in only a traverse of two or three years, has set up himself in both, the national and the universal circuit. The 19-year-old now has some lofty records to his names, however the voyage to the best has not been simple.

The 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games are around the bend and every republic country is going for only a certain something: to top the award count. The Indian unforeseen approach and objective are the same. In the midst of a few renowned names that are required to bring an award clearly, there's a youthful chap from Delhi who is gradually rising to the enormous scene.

From 22 yard cricket pitch to a bounce of 2.28M .

Physical Education instructor Sunil Kumar Patial saw the potential High Jumper in Tejaswin. Like most adolescents in India, Tejaswin Shankar too wished to play cricket for India. He was on the way to turning into an effective right arm quick bowler until the point when his physical training educator saw his athletic potential. Sunil Kumar Patial understood that Shankar was a whiz when it came to High Jump and unequivocally exhorted him to seek after High Jump. Also, as is commonly said, the rest was history.

Tejaswin at that point began preparing under his mentor and hasn't thought back from that point forward. Positive consequences of his preparation began coming in, and in 2015 at the Asian Youth Championships in Doha, he secured his first global decoration in type of a bronze.

2016 was the genuine advance of youthful wonder Tejaswin Shankar

It was at the 2016 South Asian Games that everybody saw this wonderboy from Delhi.

It was in the year 2016, when individuals in the games business all of a sudden began seeing Tejaswin. In February that year, he won his real global decoration. At the South Asian Games in Guwahati, Tejaswin Shankar secured the silver decoration, completing second to gold medallist W.P. Manjula Kumara from Sri Lanka. He figured out how to clear 2.17m and through this hop, he set another national record for his age gathering.

Soon thereafter in September amid the Open National Games, Shankar bettered his own particular best by hopping 2.22m, which was likewise the second most astounding in Indian history. Hoever, not long after this occasion, Shankar confronted his first real profession hiccup when he was compelled to miss the Poland World Junior Championships because of crotch damage.

Much the same as great days, awful days reach an end also.

Shankar performing to qualify for CWG2018

10th November 2016, the date that Tejaswin Shankar will always remember. The crossbar was set at 2.26m and Shankar was prepared at the beginning line. 13 stages and one hop later, Tejaswin had turned into the new national champion. He broke a 12-year-old national of 2.25m set by Hari Roy at the 2004 Asian All-Stars meet in Singapore.

2018-A positive begin for youth Tejaswin Shankar

Quick forward to February 2018, Tejaswin Shankar contents history indeed at the Big 12 Indoor Athletics Championships in Iowa. He by and by set another national record by hopping 2.28m and turned into the primary Indian to clear the stamp. He didn't stop there.

Can Tejawin give Indian fans recollections of a lifetime by winning Gold in his introduction CWG appearance.

The AFI (Athletics Federation of India) Federation Cup in Patiala, the capabilities for the forthcoming CWG occurred. The capability stamp for high hop was set at 2.25m. Tejaswin, proceeding with his grand frame, measured up to his up to this point best execution by bouncing 2.28m and effectively met all requirements for the 2018 Gold Coast Games. Will he have the capacity to accomplish a comparative accomplishment at the up and coming diversions is the genuine inquiry.