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...decorating," Silverman adds, looking around the common room, which is an elaborate shrine to Chicago Bulls' star Michael Jordan, whose photograph stands behind the basketball hoop. "When you dunk the ball," Silverman says, pushing the basketball through the net once more, "you can see Jordan's face through the backboard...
Just look at the New York Knickerbockers. Long-suffering Knick fans have watched their beloved five rise from the Atlantic Division cellar to the attic loft in just three years, CBA rejects like Ken "The Animal" Bannister--who once shot a free throw off the side of the backboard--have been replaced by legitimate NBA stars...
...athleticism. Athleticism? Yeah, that's not Larry's forte, but there's that unforgettable play in the '81 Championship Series against the Rockets when he threw up a shot, ran to grab the rebound along the baseline, then shot the ball lefty to avoid hitting the backboard as he fell out of bounds--all in one motion. "Greatest play I ever saw," Red Auerbach said...
Shooter's touch? There's the shot that made those NBA "Fantastic" commercials. The one where he's on the baseline and shoots it over the top of the backboard...
Among some Jackson advisers, the savvy Lewis, 50, is known as the "mother of us all." A former political director of the Democratic National Committee, a thoughtful, deep-dyed liberal and feminist, Lewis rarely accompanies Jackson but acts as a kind of backboard off which he bounces ideas. She functions as a conduit to party Pooh-Bahs and the media...