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...Tibetan monk (on hand for Buddhist duties in the Olympic Village) noted, "More will lose than win." And the losers were already finding reasons for reassurance, ways of measuring themselves against the insuperable, sources of delight. The Angolans, for example, seemed almost flattered when American Charles Barkley jabbed an elbow into one skinny Angolan. It suggested to them that Barkley was taking them seriously, treating them as roughly as he would his professional opponents...
...plaza leading to the basketball venue in the gritty Barcelona suburb of Badalona is free of T-shirt hawkers, ticket scalpers and the sunburned masses sporting Cleveland Indians caps and L.A. Raiders shorts. The basketball junkies from the land of Johnson, Jordan, Bird and Barkley are still asleep. But inside the arena, there are large men, graceful and lithe, already hard at work. Their goals: silver, bronze or merely a good finish in the basketball tournament...
...Skansi and other coaches, there are more immediate concerns as the tournament moves into the single elimination medal round this week. Can anyone stop Lithuania's Sarunas Marciulionis? Will Brazil's Oscar Schmidt ever forgo a three-point shot for a pass to a teammate? Will U.S. forward Charles Barkley keep his elbows to himself? The answers are: no, no and most definitely not. "Charles is Charles," says Michael Jordan. "He's not crazy. He just likes to push his behavior to the edge." Jordan and his teammates have been trying to push it back, with only modest success. When...
...There are passers with 360 degrees vision like Bird (despite his creaky back), John Stockton and Magic. Chris Mullin and Jordan are excellent three-point shooters. No one in possession of his faculties and desirous of retaining them would dare drive down the lane into territory defended by Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing and Karl Malone. Jordan and his Chicago Bulls teammate Scottie Pippen are tenacious open-court defenders. Then too there are Clyde Drexler and the Admiral, David Robinson. Twelfth man Christian Laettner will probably get a great view of all this talent mostly from the bench...
...players named last year are Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Karl Malone, John Stockton, Scottie Pippen, Chris Mullin and David Robinson...