The birth of the NBA

             

              

    

    

    On this day in 1949, the National Basketball Association was born. This association was the role model of the basketball world, before we could see the different generation of stars of today. NBA serves as a role model in the sport of basketball. In our country here in the Philippines, even the little kids know much about NBA even to the simplest kind of people, they can name an NBA player, so let's just say that NBA has marked the minds of all people but also in all of our hearts.

    The history starts between the rival of  Basketball Association of America (BAA) and National Basketball League (NBL) have dealt with a merge. The BAA established itself in much known larger cities which like Fort Wayne, in Indiana, Sheboygan and Akron in Ohio. The NBL By the 1948-49 season, the BAA had begun to attract some of the country’s best players, and four NBL franchises–Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Minneapolis and Rochester–moved to the BAA, bringing their star players.

            

           

    Finally the 2 associations merged in the city of New York to finalized everything. A person who was elected as the head of the new formed league named Maurice Podoloff, who also served as the BAA. It came to a time when NBA from the start was formed with 17 teams, and then around 1954, some teams dwindled, then only 8 teams remained. Because of it, the NBA has changed its rules which gave birth to the 24 second shot clock for every team playing in the court. The association from then on grew from 1960’s to present with 30 franchises already which is praised by people around the world.


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U.S congress sanctions China

China, in the early part of June of 1989, Chinese troops and police made some actions towards a group of protesters, they smashed and making a sick response towards these people, who wants to voice out about more freedom into their own home land. This even took place in the well-known landmark in Beijing, which is the Tiananmen Square.President George Bush immediately ordered sanctions against the Chinese government, including a ban on arms shipments, the cessation of high-level talks with Chinese officials, and a suspension of talks about nuclear cooperation. Bush hoped that these sanctions would be enough to indicate the American government’s displeasure and anger over the events in Tiananmen Square, but many members of Congress felt that the president had not gone far enough in punishing China for its egregious human rights violations. 

The House of Representation objected most of it and passed a new package of sanctions on this day in June 29, 1989.  It is more clearly viewed that in this new package China would only be sanctioned if only there were assurances that China was making progress in the area of human rights. It is friendlier and is more into the trade relations between the China and the United States. It would took for almost a year before some of the arrested protesters were being released from the prisons. China remained undiminished and somewhat no feelings at all by what their fellow people did to their own people. Most of those sanctions was only put aside and not being raised into discussion and talks about it and what so ever.

To this day, China is again making some violations not to its people, this time, to other territories specifically the West Philippines Sea, treating it as a part of their territory already. This is really clear that they don’t have any evidence stating that its part of China. Most of the people here in our country, hoping that they would not continue making progress in the area and hoping that these matter would later be resolved for the better future of everyone.



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