Word: nba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aviv), "Beverly Hills 90210," "Family Matters" and "Full House" are on the menu daily, not to mention CNN. There are also some shows you might have missed the first time around, like "Mr. Rhodes" and "California Dreams." Kellogg's, Subway and Puff Daddy are household names here, and NBA basketball is followed closer than in the States. English words in Hebrew-Aramaic characters fill the newspapers, as do all-too-familiar faces--from George Clooney to Kenneth Starr...
...NBA Commissioner David Stern and players' union rep Billy Hunter meet to discuss the league's labor stalemate. But don't look for an end to the lockout anytime soon -- Stern goes on vacation next week...
...glorious moment in the annals of sports history when Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls won their sixth NBA championship [MICHAEL JORDAN: THE END OF THE LINE?, June 22]. I haven't always been an avid Jordan fan. I once thought he was overpaid, that nobody was that good. But no more. He's turned playing basketball into an art form. He is the Lord of the Hardwood Floor, a unique athlete and classy human being. We've seen basketball played with perfection by the greatest player ever. JOHN L. HORTON Norfolk...
...increases. Wuhan, China's fifth largest city, is the transfer point for cargo from oceangoing ships to smaller boats heading further upriver, and has long been a center of commerce. Here are department stores with imported brands, stock-trading houses, U.S. fast-food chains--and "Balls," a newly opened NBA theme bar run by a former car salesman from Taiwan. Not so slick as Shanghai, Wuhan still has its pretensions, enough to attract people such as "Johnny" Wang Liang, a hairdresser who left fashion-conscious Guangzhou "because it was already full of people like me." Wang finds Wuhan fairly tame...
...view revenues and sales of merchandise (toys, video games, hats, tank tops, temporary tattoos, backpacks, beach towels, hot sauces, Halloween costumes) are well over a billion dollars; and celebrities are beginning to make cameo appearances. In July, for example, Karl Malone and Dennis Rodman, lately of the NBA finals, will do battle as members of opposing tag teams in a WCW match. There is even a plan for a chain of WCW theme restaurants, the first of which will open this September in Las Vegas...