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Spencer Haywood, the first player ever to skip college for a career in the National Basketball Association (NBA), said that missing college was a mistake...
...game takes place right here on Harvard campus. Forget the start of baseball, with cries of “This is the year!” echoing around Boston. Forget the Stanley Cup playoffs, with pucks and blood and teeth bouncing around on ice together. Forget the race for NBA seeds, with no-look passes and jaw-dropping dunks making the highlight reels...
...National Basketball Association has 65 foreign-born players and is hoping to expand overseas [BUSINESS, March 17]. The NBA is still a joke and has been for years. People forget that the National Hockey League has had international players in its system for its entire history. Basketball is the most selfish team sport in our society. Until all the thugs and gangsters leave the NBA or learn to behave like adults and not spoiled children, it will continue to be a joke. The NBA should show its games on the Cartoon Network because the sport cannot be taken seriously. ERIC...
Harley saved his profits to buy classic jerseys from M&N's sole retail store downtown. (The company still has only one store, a popular destination for NBA stars when their teams are playing in Philly. Most of M&N's business involves wholesaling jerseys to 220 retailers around the country.) Back in West Philly, everyone would ask Harley where he got his Hank Aaron jersey, but Harley would not tell. "I loved them so much, I just wanted them as my own," he says. "But just seeing a cat's reaction, I knew this could really catch...
...embarrassing early exit from last year's World Basketball Championship (the winner was Yugoslavia). But he is quick to add that by that time, the league could be deriving up to half its revenue from outside the U.S. The world doesn't have to take over the NBA, Stern would like to think, for the NBA to take over the world. --With reporting by Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas, Jackson Baker/Memphis, Sean Gregory/New York, Laura A. Locke/Sacramento, Adam Pitluk/Houston and foreign bureaus