Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure, attendance and TV ratings could tank after the novelty of the first few games. Sneaker companies are already pulling back on player endorsements. Laker legend Magic Johnson believes the style of play and the marketing have to change. The NBA game, which used to be speed and motion, has gone flat for most teams. The league has promoted superstars, not teams, and the play reflects it. "Magic vs. [Larry] Bird was big," Johnson told TIME. "But it became so much bigger because it was the Lakers and the Celtics. I'm hoping we can get back to that...
...Indiana Pacers actually play that way under Coach Bird. But the Lakers-Rockets game was not what Johnson had in mind. It was a sloppy, out-of-breath affair that at times resembled a Catholic Youth Organization game with really tall Catholics. But it put five big names on the floor and matched the future (Lakers) against the fading present (Rockets...
...Karin G. Johnson '99, a flutist in theband, said that leading the Woman of the Yearparade had its drawbacks...
...when the final blow comes--whether Larry Johnson whiffs on a dunk, or Charlie Ward loses his dribble in the paint, or Ewing's ungracefully aging knees finally give out--I'll store up the memory and trot it out years later, maybe the way Red Sox fans grumble and whisper, with repressed pride, of the Curse...
Opponents of hate laws employ a simplistic and misleading argument: "All crimes are hate crimes," says Gov. Gary E. Johnson, the Republican governor of New Mexico, who has promised to veto any hate crime legislation that comes before him. No one would dispute his statement. But crimes based on hatred of an individual are different from crimes based on hatred of a whole part of our nation...