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Call me a traitor if you’d like. My freshman year roommate, senior Will Levine, used to call me a “Commie” because of my anti-American allegiance. But I just cannot root for a collection of NBA superstars against the world, especially when there seems to be little or no interest—even among the American players themselves...
...went to an Olympic basketball game in Atlanta eight years ago. It was Argentina against South Korea. Argentina won the game something like 80-20. Neither team had an NBA player on its roster...
...Olympics represent the grandest of stages. Wouldn’t it be fantastic for a little country to upset the U.S. on the court? For a bunch of 6’2 or 6’3 guards to run rampant over the NBA All-Stars? It would be like Harvard defeating North Carolina in college basketball. Only instead of a small school basking in five-minutes of glory, an entire nation would rejoice. It’d be fantastic to see, particularly for a war-torn country like Croatia...
ACQUITTED. JAYSON WILLIAMS, 36, former NBA All-Star; of aggravated manslaughter; in Somerville, N.J. He was convicted on four lesser counts, including tampering with evidence to try to conceal the fatal 2002 shooting of limousine driver Costas (Gus) Christofi by a shotgun Williams was handling at his mansion. He could face as many as 13 years in prison...
...year, Yao signed a deal with McDonald's, which had dropped its previous spokesman, Kobe Bryant. Kobe was supposed to be the next Jordan. Turns out the new Michael is a man named Ming. --By BROOK LARMER, author of a forthcoming book on China's great leap to the NBA...