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...senior, Duke's Christian Laettner topped of one of the finest collegiate careers ever by helping the Blue Devils win the NCAA men's basketball championship. The title was Duke's second straight, and, incredibly, Laettner led his team to the final four in all four of his years...
...Harvard men's basketball team enters its final weekend of the year, it appears that there is little chance for a Laettner to emerge. After all, the Crimson (4-20 overall, 2-10 Ivy) are mired in second to last place in the Ivies and have lost 17 of its last 18 games...
While players like Laettner seemingly lose any rewards in the world to come by magically sinking shots in clutch situations (see versus UConn in the 1991 tournament and versus Kentucky in 1992 said venue), Harvard players have not had to make such Faustian bargains this year...
Score of the Olympic men's basketball finals. The boast that the games showcase amateur athletics was never more hollow than when attached to the U.S. hoop squad. The Dream Team (the N.B.A. 11 best players plus Duke's Christian Laettner) naturally gave opponents the DTs. It was a brutal, pointless spectacle, akin to the Harlem Globetrotters doing their sideshow humiliation, for fun and profit, of a flat-footed pickup team...
...middle ground somewhere between amateurism and full- court-press plutocracy? The demand by the I.O.C. that no one earn money strictly for an appearance in the Games is one indication of the enduring strength of the Olympic ideal. The fact that one non-N.B.A. basketball player, Christian Laettner, has been included on the American squad seems to be yet another bow to the notion of sport for its own sake. The gesture bespeaks an ambivalence -- one that will not soon vanish from the Games...