Word: guards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...realize you're different when you have a lot of college coaches calling your house," says Teresa Edwards, a 5 ft. 11 in. guard from Atlanta and the first American basketball player, man or woman, to compete in four Olympics. "But when you get to this level of international competition as a member of one of the best teams in the world, boom! Now you know 'I'm good.' You have to be good to be on this team...
...salary cap. O'Neal follows Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as great centers who came to the Lakers in the middle of their careers. Ironically, O'Neal and his Orlando teammate Anfernee Hardaway were often compared with Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson, as the next great center-point guard combination in the NBA. But now that O'Neal has left the Magic, the question in Orlando has changed from whether the duo will match Kareem and Magic's five titles to whether the Magic will even win one championship. -->
...YORK: Every available Coast Guard craft, including helicopters, ships and planes, were scrambling to reach an area fifgy miles south of Long Island, New York late on Wednesday night after TWA flight 800 crashed shortly after takeoff from JFK airport en route to Paris. The plane reportedly exploded in mid-air. Early Coast Guard reports mentioned life rafts and wreckage in the water, and recovery of some bodies. Some 212 passengers and 17 crew were aboard the flight. -->