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...begins a tale in Haruki Murakami's After the Quake, a collection of six stories set in Japan immediately following the 1995 earthquake that ravaged the city of Kobe and gave a psychic jolt to the entire nation. In Murakami's novels, including A Wild Sheep Chase and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, a normal guy often experiences a life-changing event, usually with the help of some fantastical device. Ultimately, his struggle is psychological, and so it is in these short stories. Katagiri, for instance, needs giant insects to help him realize he must battle his personal frustrations before...
...Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant, the youngest pro basketball player ever to win three championship titles...
...great scorer but an inadequate floor general. Kidd immediately promised to lead the Nets to the play-offs, much to the media's disbelief. Now he's in the finals. He built an underperforming but talented team into a powerhouse by reminding people, in the age of Shaq and Kobe, that the person who can make things happen is the one who brings the ball up the court. Against the Celtics, Kidd averaged a triple double (double figures in points, rebounds and assists); the only other players ever to pull that off in a conference finals were Wilt Chamberlain...
...them is the Sacramento Kings, whose up-tempo team game, run by the Kidd-like guard Mike Bibby, put them into Game 7 with the star-driven Lakers of Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant. Either of these Western teams seems to have too much talent for the Nets to handle. Yet Kidd knows it will take a championship ring to satisfy his critics, who have been expecting big things from him since he was a high school phenom in the Bay Area. "The shoe fits perfectly for us," he says. "We're the underdogs. We've been put down...
...most interesting challenge for the current Lakers would have been Magic Johnson, James Worthy, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Showtime version from 1987. With Michael Cooper being a premier defensive stopper to use in neutralizing Kobe, and Byron Scott rounding off the best offense in NBA history with his assassin-like three pointers, a 6’9 Magic Johnson would have a field day running circles around the 6’1 Derek Fisher. Shaq would dominate Abdul-Jabbar, who weighs about 60 pounds less, but that would be the only bright spot for the current Lakers...