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Word: attempting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alonzo Mourning, by all accounts the most deserving MVP candidate in the league, watched Houston's desperation attempt drop downward toward the paint. Mourning blossomed under Pat Riley's tutelage into one of the NBA's finest all-around centers, and almost single-handedly carried the Heat to the best record in the East...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dan-nie Baseball! | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

Jeff Van Gundy was simply too worked up to do anything but complain vehemently to the officials about Terry Porter's last-second attempt. Van Gundy can be forgiven his momentary lapse of perspective. The shock of keeping his job may have been too much for him to bear...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dan-nie Baseball! | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...percent free-throw shooter, he had even managed to shank an attempt earlier in the game. With his shaved head, he looked like a relic from playoff losses past, when the Knicks, in a New York rite of spring, would buzz-cut their locks as a gesture of the oft-discussed intangible "team unity...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: The Shot Finally Falls: Houston Provides Unlikely Game-Winner | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

Alonzo Mourning, by all accounts the most deserving MVP candidate in the league, watched Houston's desperation attempt drop downward toward the paint. Mourning blossomed under Pat Riley's tutelage into one of the NBA's finest all-around centers, and almost single-handedly carried the Heat to the best record in the East...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: The Shot Finally Falls: Houston Provides Unlikely Game-Winner | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

Jeff Van Gundy was simply too worked up to do anything but complain vehemently to the officials about Terry Porter's last-second attempt. Van Gundy can be forgiven his momentary lapse of perspective. The shock of keeping his job may have been too much for him to bear...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: The Shot Finally Falls: Houston Provides Unlikely Game-Winner | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

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