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GET READY TO SLAM DUNK YOUR STYLE GAME WITH THEBEST4YOU: UNLEASH YOUR BASKETBALL FERVOR WITH OUR INCREDIBLE COLLECTION OF JAW DROPPING BASKETBALL JEWELRY AND FINE GIFTS THAT WILL HAVE YOU ON CLOUD NINE, NOT JUST DURING MARCH MADNESS, BUT ALL YEAR ROUND!


WOW! March Madness is in full swing, and if you really are a basketball lover like me, then you know that the game is more than just a sport, it is a way of life! That is why I am so excited to tell you about TheBest4You's awesome collection of unique basketball jewelry and fine gifts!

March Madness is here, my friends, and let me tell you, there is no better way to ignite that fiery passion for the game than by sporting the most captivating basketball jewelry and exquisite gifts, brought to you by none other than TheBest4You! Whether you bleed basketball or simply crave an accessory that screams style, our collection will leave you breathless. So, gear up and get ready to conquer the court of fashion, because I am about to unveil our absolute must haves!

Attention, all the amazing basketball loving moms out there! Mothers Day is right around the corner, and can you think of a better way to show your awe inspiring mom some love than with a jaw dropping piece of jewelry from our collection? Brace yourselves for the awe inspiring Basketball Mom Jewwlry! Crafted with love from top tier materials and enhanced with a dazzling basketball charm, the bracelet is the epitome of appreciation for all the endless hours of cheering and support your mom has bestowed upon you. Trust me, folks, this exceptional jewelry will instantly become her favorite accessory, and every time she wears it, she will proudly showcase her unwavering love for her baller.

Now, my fellow basketball enthusiasts, listen up! You and I both know that basketball is not just a sport; it is a heart pumping way of life! That is why we have unleashed the Basketball Leather Bracelet, an accessory so sleek and stylish that it will have heads turning at every hoop gathering. This baby is made from genuine leather, carefully crafted to perfection, and carefully decorated with a breathtaking basketball charm that screams "I AM a baller, and I own it!" Whether you are dribbling on the court or simply chilling with your crew, this bracelet is the ultimate heartfelt expression of your fiery love for the game. Get ready to take your style game to new heights, my friends!

Hey, personalized jewelry shoppers, we have got something extra special just for you! At TheBest4You, we understand that each of you is a unique star, and that is why we have created our sensational Personalized Basketball Necklace. Brace yourselves, folks, because this necklace allows you to imprint your name or even your favorite player's name on a remarkable basketball pendant. Picture this: a one of a kind piece of jewelry that will have jaws dropping left and right. Crafted with the utmost care from high quality materials and available in a large selection of vibrant colors, this necklace is an absolute must have for any basketball fanatic. Trust me, folks, this will become your go to accessory, the cherry on top of your incredible style.

But hold on tight, my friends, because we are just getting started! For all you gift givers out there, listen up, because this is a game changer. Introducing TheBest4You's Basketball Gift Set, the epitome of gift giving perfection! This set includes a mind blowing basketball bracelet, a jaw dropping basketball keychain, and a breathtaking basketball necklace, all presented in an elegant, stylish gift box. Crafted with loving care from top quality materials and embellished with basketball charm that will make hearts skip a beat, this gift set is guaranteed to score big with any basketball enthusiast. Get ready to witness the joy and excitement on their faces as they unwrap this treasure trove of basketball brilliance.

Are you a super fan looking to show your love for the game in style? Then check out our Basketball Leather Bracelet, made from genuine leather and embellished with a basketball charm, it is the ultimate expression of your passion for basketball. And if you want to take it to the next level, then our Personalized Basketball Necklace is the way to go! With the option to add your name or your favorite player's name to a basketball pendant, you can create a one of a kind piece of jewelry that will be perfect for any occasion!

But that is not all, folks! We have got something for everyone, including the Moms who love basketball. Mothers Day is just around the corner, and what better way to surprise your basketball loving mom than with picks from our Basketball Mom Jewelry? Made from high quality materials and beautified with a basketball charm, it is the perfect way to show your gratitude for all the time and effort she has put into cheering you on throughout the years.

And for the gift givers out there, we have you covered too! Our Basketball Gift Set includes a basketball bracelet, a basketball keychain, and a basketball necklace, all packaged in a stylish gift box. Made from high quality materials and enhanced with basketball charm, this gift set is sure to score big with any basketball fan!

But here is the best part, folks. At TheBest4You, we do not just offer jewelry for basketball enthusiasts, we offer quality jewelry and fine gifts that are made to last. We pride ourselves on offering the highest quality products that you can wear for years to come. So, whether you are a die hard fan or just looking for a stylish accessory, you can trust TheBest4You to deliver!

So what are you waiting for? Score big this March Madness and beyond with TheBest4You's amazing collection of unique basketball jewelry and fine gifts! Trust me, you will not regret it!


Score Big with The Best 4 You: Unique Basketball Jewelry for March Madness and Beyond

March Madness is in full swing, and there's no better way to show your love for the game than with The Best 4 You's collection of unique basketball jewelry and fine gifts. Whether you're a die hard fan or just looking for a stylish accessory, our collection has something for everyone. So, if you want to score big this March Madness and beyond, read on to learn more about our top picks.

For the Moms Who Love Basketball

Mother's Day is just around the corner, and what better way to surprise your basketball loving mom than with a piece of jewelry from our collection? Our Basketball Mom Bracelet is the perfect way to show your appreciation for all the time and effort she's put into cheering you on throughout the years. Made from high quality materials and adorned with a basketball charm, this bracelet is sure to become her new favorite accessory.

For the Basketball Enthusiasts

If you're a basketball enthusiast, you know that the game is more than just a sport, it's a way of life. That's why we've created the Basketball Leather Bracelet, a sleek and stylish accessory that's perfect for any occasion. Made from genuine leather and adorned with a basketball charm, this bracelet is the ultimate expression of your love for the game.

For the Personalized Jewelry Shoppers

At The Best 4 You, we know that everyone's style is unique, which is why we offer personalized basketball jewelry. Our Personalized Basketball Necklace allows you to add your name or your favorite player's name to a basketball pendant, creating a one of a kind piece of jewelry that's perfect for any occasion. Made from high quality materials and available in a variety of colors, this necklace is a must have for any basketball fan.

For the Gift Givers

Looking for the perfect gift for your basketball loving friend or family member? Look no further than The Best 4 You's Basketball Gift Set. This set includes a basketball bracelet, a basketball keychain, and a basketball necklace, all packaged in a stylish gift box. Made from high quality materials and adorned with basketball charms, this gift set is sure to score big with any basketball fan.

The Best 4 You: Quality Jewelry and Fine Gifts

At The Best 4 You, we pride ourselves on offering the highest quality basketball jewelry and fine gifts. Our products are made from high quality materials and designed to last, ensuring that you can wear them for years to come. So, whether you're looking for a stylish accessory or a meaningful gift, you can trust The Best 4 You to deliver.

Super Fans

We know that basketball is more than just a game, it's a way of life. That's why we've created a collection containing unique basketball jewelry and fine gifts that allow you to show your love for the sport in style. Our Basketball Leather Bracelet is the perfect accessory for any occasion, whether you're shooting hoops or just hanging out with friends. And our Personalized Basketball Necklace is the ultimate expression of your love for the game, allowing you to add your name or your favorite player's name to a basketball pendant.

But we don't just offer jewelry for basketball enthusiasts, we also have gifts for the Moms who love basketball. Our Basketball Mom Bracelet is a perfect way to show your appreciation for all the time and effort she's put into cheering you on throughout the years. And for the gift givers, our Basketball Gift Selections are sure to score big with any basketball fan.

So, whether you're a die hard fan or just looking for a stylish accessory, The Best 4 You has something for everyone. Our jewelry products are made from high quality materials and designed to last, ensuring that you can show your basketball spirit to the world!

 

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It took 4 games, but The Las Vegas Aces put the cap on an incredible season by winning the WNBA Championship! After winning the first two games at home here in Las Vegas, the series moved to Connecticut for games 3 and 4.

Getting a little roughed up in Game 3, The Las Vegas Aces re-grouped and came out in Game 4 a little more composed and ready to take it to the Sun! Winning Game 4 78-71 in front of a very hostile crowd in New England, the Aces came away with the win and the WNBA Championship for 2022.

Lead by a former All-American and an undrafted rookie who went on to become a six time WNBA All-Star, Head Coach Becky Hammon, a longtime former assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs, proved to a lot of fans who thought she couldn’t handle the job wrong! The first year coach lead the team all the way to the championship finals and walked away with a ring…Coach Hammon was also named “Coach of the Year” by the league.

With A’ja Wilson already winning the league MVP and Defensive Player of the Year,  Chelsea Gray led the Aces with 20 points in Game 4 and was named the Most Valuable Player of the Finals.

 All in all, it was a great season for The Las Vegas Aces that bring the first major league sports championship title to the city of Las Vegas!

-- 96.3 KKLZ  https://963kklz.com/2022/09/19/congrats-las-vegas-aces-wnba-champions/

 

 

 

The Las Vegas Aces are an American professional basketball team based in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. The Aces compete in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) as a member club of the league's Western Conference. The team plays their home games at Michelob Ultra Arena in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.

The team was founded in Salt Lake City, Utah, as the Utah Starzz before the league's inaugural 1997 season. It then moved to San Antonio, Texas before the 2003 season and became the San Antonio Silver Stars, later shortened to the San Antonio Stars in 2014. The team relocated to Las Vegas before the 2018 season. The Aces, who are owned by Mark Davis, the current owner of the NFL's Las Vegas Raiders, are one of three WNBA franchises who compete in a market that lacks a current NBA team; the Seattle Storm (who were founded in 2000, when Seattle was also home to the NBA's then Seattle SuperSonics now Oklahoma City Thunder) and the Connecticut Sun are the two other such franchises.

As the Stars, the team qualified for the WNBA Playoffs in seven of their fifteen years in San Antonio. The franchise has been home to many high-quality players such as all-star point guard Becky Hammon, solid power-forward Sophia Young, former first-overall draft pick Ann Wauters, seven-foot-two-inch center Margo Dydek, two-time Sixth Woman of the Year Dearica Hamby, and 2020 league MVP A'ja Wilson. The franchise has gone to the WNBA Finals three times: first in 2008, losing to Detroit, in 2020 losing to Seattle, and in 2022 winning against Connecticut.

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In December 1891, James Naismith, a Canadian professor of physical education and instructor at the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School (now Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts, was trying to keep his gym class active on a rainy day. He sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied and at proper levels of fitness during the long New England winters. After rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he invented a new game in which players would pass a ball to teammates and try to score points by tossing the ball into a basket mounted on a wall. Naismith wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto an elevated track. Naismith initially set up the peach basket with its bottom intact, which meant that the ball had to be retrieved manually after each "basket" or point scored. This quickly proved tedious, so Naismith removed the bottom of the basket to allow the balls to be poked out with a long dowel after each scored basket.

 

Women's basketball began in 1892 at Smith College when Senda Berenson, a physical education teacher, modified Naismith's rules for women. Shortly after she was hired at Smith, she went to Naismith to learn more about the game. Fascinated by the new sport and the values it could teach, she organized the first women's collegiate basketball game on March 21, 1893, when her Smith freshmen and sophomores played against one another. However, the first women's interinstitutional game was played in 1892 between the University of California and Miss Head's School. Berenson's rules were first published in 1899, and two years later she became the editor of A. G. Spalding's first Women's Basketball Guide. Berenson's freshmen played the sophomore class in the first women's intercollegiate basketball game at Smith College, March 21, 1893. The same year, Mount Holyoke and Sophie Newcomb College (coached by Clara Gregory Baer) women began playing basketball. By 1895, the game had spread to colleges across the country, including Wellesley, Vassar, and Bryn Mawr. The first intercollegiate women's game was on April 4, 1896. Stanford women played Berkeley, 9-on-9, ending in a 2–1 Stanford victory.


Women's basketball development was more structured than that for men in the early years. In 1905, the executive committee on Basket Ball Rules (National Women's Basketball Committee) was created by the American Physical Education Association. These rules called for six to nine players per team and 11 officials. The International Women's Sports Federation (1924) included a women's basketball competition. 37 women's high school varsity basketball or state tournaments were held by 1925. And in 1926, the Amateur Athletic Union backed the first national women's basketball championship, complete with men's rules. The Edmonton Grads, a touring Canadian women's team based in Edmonton, Alberta, operated between 1915 and 1940. The Grads toured all over North America, and were exceptionally successful. They posted a record of 522 wins and only 20 losses over that span, as they met any team that wanted to challenge them, funding their tours from gate receipts. The Grads also shone on several exhibition trips to Europe, and won four consecutive exhibition Olympics tournaments, in 1924, 1928, 1932, and 1936; however, women's basketball was not an official Olympic sport until 1976. The Grads' players were unpaid, and had to remain single. The Grads' style focused on team play, without overly emphasizing skills of individual players. The first women's AAU All-America team was chosen in 1929. Women's industrial leagues sprang up throughout the United States, producing famous athletes, including Babe Didrikson of the Golden Cyclones, and the All American Red Heads Team, which competed against men's teams, using men's rules. By 1938, the women's national championship changed from a three-court game to two-court game with six players per team.


The NBA-backed Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) began in 1997. Though it had shaky attendance figures, several marquee players (Lisa Leslie, Diana Taurasi, and Candace Parker among others) have helped the league's popularity and level of competition. Other professional women's basketball leagues in the United States, such as the American Basketball League (1996–98), have folded in part because of the popularity of the WNBA. The WNBA has been looked at by many as a niche league. However, the league has recently taken steps forward. In June 2007, the WNBA signed a contract extension with ESPN. The new television deal ran from 2009 to 2016. Along with this deal, came the first-ever rights fees to be paid to a women's professional sports league. Over the eight years of the contract, "millions and millions of dollars" were "dispersed to the league's teams." In a March 12, 2009 article, NBA commissioner David Stern said that in the bad economy, "the NBA is far less profitable than the WNBA. We're losing a lot of money among a large number of teams. We're budgeting the WNBA to break even this year."


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The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is an American professional basketball league. It is composed of twelve teams, all based in the United States. The league was founded on April 22, 1996, as the women's counterpart to the National Basketball Association (NBA), and league play started in 1997. The regular season is played from May to September, with the All Star game being played midway through the season in July (except in Olympic years) and the WNBA Finals at the end of September until the beginning of October.

Five WNBA teams have direct NBA counterparts and normally play in the same arena: Indiana Fever, Los Angeles Sparks, Minnesota Lynx, New York Liberty, and Phoenix Mercury. The Atlanta Dream, Chicago Sky, Connecticut Sun, Dallas Wings, Las Vegas Aces, Seattle Storm, and Washington Mystics do not share an arena with a direct NBA counterpart, although four of the seven (the Dream, the Sky, the Wings, and the Mystics) share a market with an NBA counterpart, two (Mystics and Dream) play in NBA G League arenas, while the Storm shared an arena and market with an NBA team, the SuperSonics, at the time of its founding. The Dream, Sky, Sun, Wings, Aces, Sparks, and Storm are all independently owned. The Aces are owned by an owner who also owns an NFL team (Mark Davis of the Raiders, who have the same market).

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