One of the sports highlights of the summer for me was watching Team USA basketball. With NBA superstars like Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, and Dwayne Wade leading the team, obtaining the gold medal appeared to be a formality. Players like LeBron James have superhuman leaping abilities that allow him to explode off the ground and accelerate toward the rim at a rapid rate. Acceleration is the the change of velocity over a defined period of time. LeBron has a vertical leap of about 44 inches and he reaches the peak of his jump in around .25 secs. At this rate his average acceleration is about 176 in/sec2. This superhuman acceleration helped Team USA achieve the gold medal and helped restore USA as the dominant force in world basketball.
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the olympics gold medal game was really good. Kobe's long hang time must have helped out USA
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