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With chants of "M-V-P" raining down on Tim Duncan from the largest crowed in the NBA this season, the Spurs played an inspired fourth quarter and defeated Utah 84-78 to prevent the Jazz from clinching the conference...
Burgess is the third Blue Devil to leave the team in the past two weeks. Fellow sophomores Brand and William Avery had announced their intentions to enter the 1999 NBA draft...
Freshman Corey Maggette was also reportedly considering leaving early for the pros but hadn't made up his mind as of late last week. The deadline for underclassmen to send a letter to the NBA declaring for the draft...
During this time, I fielded questions about the game of basketball from my less-than-knowledgeable companion who was attending an NBA game for the first time...
Having reached an agreement with team owners over that thorny lock-out issue, the NBA players association has turned to another matter plaguing professional basketball: impudent mascots. The association has filed a complaint against the Phoenix Suns, alleging that the team's mascot, the GORILLA, insulted visiting Sacramento Kings center OLIVER MILLER. At a recent game the Gorilla donned a Kings jersey with Miller's No. 8 on it and stuffed it with pillows, a rather unkind jab at Miller's robust 6-ft. 9-in., 370-lb. physique. Miller called the skit racist and said it embarrassed...