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Twenty minutes of nightmarish basketball later, those hoop dreams seemed a distant reality...
...becoming a basketball sideshow, a one-man Harlem Globetrotter surrounded by a bunch of clowns called the Washington Wizards, a team whose only trick was to make itself disappear come play-off time. "He is not going to dominate night in and night out," warned his buddy, the noted hoop philosopher Charles Barkley. "I don't think they will make the play-offs." Neither Jordan nor the Wiz did anything to dispel that notion, dropping 10 of their first 13 games, including an eight-game slide, the longest of Jordan's career. He scored a personal-low 6 points...
...Lake County (Ill.) Circuit Court in Waukegan, citing "irreconcilable differences" in seeking to end their 12-year marriage. She wants sole custody of their three children and some part of Jordan's estimated $400 million net worth, plus the couple's 25,000-sq.-ft. compound in Highland Park, hoop court included. Jordan's career choice to play in Washington and live away from home may have been the breaking point for Juanita...
...Milwaukee last weekend--"saving the legs," he said. On the floor, Jordan's understanding of the game is unparalleled. "I think great athletes have some special quality, where their minds function entirely differently," says Collins. "They see the game almost in slow motion or something." It's a hoop technology transfer: Jordan is trying to download his database to his young charges over the course of the season...
With Nwagbo patrolling the area under the hoop, the Crimson was forced to push the ball outside and take some longer range shots. Harvard put up 16 first-half threes, making six of them. Both Monti and Peljto notched two treys before the first-half buzzer and kept the Crimson in the ball game at the break...