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...bottom line was that these shoes were as much about the teams as they were about the players, which exemplified the NBA during its glory years of the 1980s. Players were identified prominently with their teams--Larry and the Celtics, Magic and the Lakers, Dr. J with the 76ers--and fan bases were built up through the success of a consistent group of players. From year to year, a fan knew that the same core group of players was going to make up their team...
Guess so. The visiting Bulls beat the Nets 113-100 last Thursday for their 67th win of the season, then returned home to play Philadelphia the next night and demolished the 76ers, 112-82, for No. 68. The victory over the Nets was particularly instructive, because while most of the 20,000 fans had come to see Jordan, Rodman and Pippen, they ended up seeing an awful lot of Randy Brown, James Edwards and Dickey Simpkins. At one point in the fourth quarter, with Jordan and Pippen on the bench, the Nets closed to within nine points. Coach Phil Jackson...
...signature move, not the spectacular drive to the basket." That's not to say Jordan is getting old at 33. He can still put on a show, especially if he wants to teach the younger players in the league a lesson. Back on Jan. 13, he lit up the 76ers for 48 points just to leave an impression on rookie and fellow North Carolina alum Jerry Stackhouse. In fact, there are those who say the best there ever was is even better this time around. "The game's easy for him now," says Pippen. "He's a much smarter player...
...with Magic on the floor." (According to the Centers for Disease Control, a basketball player's chance of contracting AIDS from incidental touching is 1 in 85 million.) There are still a few holdouts on the side of ignorance, such as troublemaking guard Vernon Maxwell of the Philadelphia 76ers, who said last week, "You get scratched on your hand, and then he might get an open wound. I don't want to be there with that. I have a wife and kids." But as Johnson said, when told of Maxwell's concern, "The guy has never cared about anyone...
...Denver Nuggets defeat the Philadelphia 76ers. Page...