Word: lockout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This series also asks the question, Did that lockout really matter? Not to Sprewell, whom it actually helped. He was supposed to serve a 68-game suspension. Instead, he showed up to the same first game as unfresh as everyone else and, at least to New York fans, began to represent, as he claims in his shoe commercial, some sort of American Dream. "I think the fans have taken to him because he plays so hard," says Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy. "He's handled himself very well. He's been trying to do a lot of things this year...
...York, like the rest of basketball fans, forgave and forgot the lockout. In return, throughout the play-offs their team has exploited the general disorganization in the league. It's the Knicks' Sprewell-led bench (and Spree, who will never be nominated for Mr. Congeniality, has made it clear that he should start) that fooled the Heat and Hawks with their transition game and spastic, slashing offense...
During the lockout, when official practices were illegal, the Pacers were the only team that left homes and families to have practices in a court in some rich guy's house. They taped their own ankles and made irrational demands of one another during drills, just as coach Larry Bird would. Nineteen-year-old rookie Al Harrington lived in teammate Antonio Davis' house, where he had a curfew and chores. This is the Little Team on the Prairie...
...Portland Trailblazers in Western Conference finals), this could be the best matchup of the play-offs. Though the Pacers are favored, many sportswriters are now wondering if the Knicks' slapdash style is the Taoist answer to a messy season. After all, if the fans didn't care about the lockout, why should the Pacers be rewarded for trying to act as if it didn't happen...
NAME: Tony "Slayed 'em in Vegas" Orlando D.O.B.: 4/3/44 OCCUPATION: smartly clad crooner BEST PUNCH: Sued Newton, his friend of 30 years, for $15 million, saying the lockout cost him revenue from canceled shows and damaged his reputation...