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Detroit defeated New York, as the NBA resumed play after the All-Star Break. NBA recap. Page...
...All-Star Game...
...headed for stardom. You can't talk it, and you can't teach it. The fans are getting hungry-hungry-and are getting tired of immature athletes. They want something better." They have it in Hill, who downplays his burgeoning popularity. "I don't carry myself like an All-Star," he says. "I carry myself as if I'm a rookie trying to make it in the N.B.A. and be as good as I can be. Look at the way I walk. I don't strut; I don't swagger...
There is, and his name is Grant Hill. A rookie who plays forward for the Detroit Pistons basketball team, Hill has already made N.B.A. history. When fans finished voting last month for the players they wanted to see in the All-Star Game, to be played next Sunday in Phoenix, Arizona, Hill, 22, received more ballots than anyone else. It was the first time ever that a rookie had led the polling. Not even Michael Jordan, to whom Hill is often compared, was the top vote getter during his first year...
Averaging 18 points, five rebounds and four assists a game, Hill certainly has All-Star talent, but the fans were responding to more than the stat sheet. Basketball has become ever more raucous and ill-mannered in recent years, and the fans want relief from selfish, trash-talking stars like the Phoenix Suns' Charles Barkley, who earlier this season announced that were it not for him, his fellow Suns would be decent players on bad teams...