Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's magic seems to be working abroad as well as at home. In the past, many foreign leaders privately scorned the former actor as a Hollywood cowboy, a naïf at statecraft. Yet even the most skeptical heads of government at the Western economic summit were reassured by Reagan's poised leadership style...
...seems in the proper order of things that the Boston Celtics are champions and the Los Angeles Lakers runners-up, a feeling yet persists that the Lakers are the better basketball players, while the Celtics' virtues extend beyond the sport's linear boundaries, just out of Magic Johnson's range at 24, no longer within Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's reach...
Momentarily, 6-ft. 9-in. Laker James Worthy seemed about to redefine the forward position with his quickness, just as Magic Johnson, roughly the same size, has revolutionized guard play with his height. But the last few regulation seconds in Game 2 were unpromising for both men. Protecting a two-point lead but not the ball, Worthy tossed the tying basket directly into Celtic Guard Gerald Henderson's grateful path, and dribbling absently Johnson lost track of the time. As would become increasingly clear, the new model is an improvement over Oscar Robertson only in the open court...
...Celtic Whooping Crane Kevin McHale's impersonal garroting of horn-rimmed Laker Kurt Rambis in Game 4. But there was a more telling development during that game, when Boston Guards Henderson and Dennis Johnson decided themselves to swap defensive assignments, and the latter efficiently took custody of Magic Johnson. The fact that K.C. Jones was open to the idea describes the Celtics' first-year coach, a humble former backcourtman who minimizes his part in eight Celtic championships by saying, "My fingerprints are all over the coattails of Bill Russell...
Though they man different posts, direct comparisons between Magic and Bird have been unavoidable since Michigan State and Johnson beat Indiana State and Bird in the National Collegiate Athletic Association finals of 1979. Johnson is more dazzling, but Bird is more amazing...