Word: dunks
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...tank at the b.o. "There's only one issue for a filmmaker," he says. "Will this make its money back so I can make the next one? With Phantom Menace, we didn't know. It didn't have Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher. It was not a slam dunk." Well, maybe, but even so, the new picture looks like Shaquille O'Neal standing three feet from the basket. Though it faces sticky competition from Spider-Man two weeks before--and, in weeks to come, from Men in Black II, Austin Powers in Goldmember and Steven Spielberg's Minority Report...
...when you consider the following: Chris Webber has never shown the ability to be a clutch player when it matters (Tyra Banks excluded), Tim Duncan has a 19-year old starting point guard passing him the ball and a gimpy 36-year old Admiral who is a frequent Shaq dunk victim, and Rasheed Wallace is about the most irritable man in America...
After my 40th marriage, things seemed to be going well for me. I was night manager of my local Denny’s and had just won the NBA Slam-Dunk Contest. Or I should say, should have won the NBA Slam-Dunk Contest. I don’t want to go into all of the details now, suffice it to say that it didn’t help that the debacle coincided with the onset of World...
Profiting from Chinese basketball ought to be a slam dunk. The fans are there; attendance at Chinese Basketball Association games has been rising steadily and is on pace to break 600,000 this season. Valuable sponsors are eager to plaster their logos on team jerseys and arena signboards. Homegrown superstars are emerging, such as rangy prodigies Hu Weidong, a crowd-pleasing Jiangsu Dragons forward, and Yao Ming, a 2.23-m windmill who regulates the paint for the Shanghai Sharks. Showtime in the CBA has all the trappings of big-time hoops. It's becoming a credible entertainment replete with thunderjams...
...first round of match play. It got me thinking. Yes, yes, sure: Judged sports are, by their nature, subjective. But isn't it awful that a skater can't come from behind and surge to glory? That's the very quintessence of athletic achievement. The comeback. The pass or dunk or kick with .01 on the clock...