英语流行话题听力:Unit95 NBA——篮球运动员的宫殿

[00:00.39] Unit 95 NBA -- Palace for Basketball Players The National Basketball Association( NBA) is the major professional basketball league in the world, [00:13.38] with teams from the United States and Canada. [00:16.59] With the addition of the Toronto Raptors and the Vancouver Grizzlies, the NBA expanded to 29 teams competing in the Eastern and Western areas in four separate divisions. [00:29.21] Each team conducts a training camp in October to determine its 12-player roster. [00:35.26] Training camp allows each team to evaluate players, especially first year players, to see the team's strengths and weaknesses, [00:43.45] and to prepare players for the upcoming season through a series of on court drills. [00:49.46] After a series of exhibition games, the NBA begins its 82-game regular season in the first week of November. [00:58.42] In the second week of February, the NBA interrupts its season to celebrate the annual NBA All Star game, [01:06.06] with the game's best players as selected by fans throughout the US and Canada. [01:11.57] After the NBA season concludes in the third week in April, a total of 16 teams qualify for the playoffs. [01:20.25] The playoff spots are awarded on the basis of win loss records, regardless of division. [01:26.41] The playoffs start with the teams with better records playing the teams with worse records in a best of-five series, [01:34.05] in which the winner is the first team to win three games. [01:38.02] In subsequent rounds best of-seven series are played, with the first team to earn four victories winning the round. [01:46.29] The playoffs continue in this way until a champion is crowned. [01:51.05] The champions from the Eastern and Western areas then meet in a best of-seven series to determine the NBA champion. [01:59.31] Every June the league conducts its amateur draft, in which each team obtains the rights to the professional services of the best collegiate and international players. [02:11.13] Any player who has graduated from high school and is at least 17 years old qualifies for the NBA draft. [02:19.21] To determine the draft order the NBA uses a draft lottery, introduced in 1985. [02:27.02] Those teams that failed to qualify for the playoffs the previous season are qualified for the lottery. [02:34.33] The lottery determines the first three teams to select in the draft. [02:39.32] The remaining teams draft according to their win loss records of the previous season, so that teams with poorer records draft higher than those with better records. [02:51.22] The NBA draft consists of only two rounds, with a total of 58 players chosen. [02:58.36] Those players not selected in the draft can be invited to try out for a team and are sometimes signed to playing contracts.

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