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Jordan showed that he is much more. In the final minutes of last week's final game, it was Michael's sharp assists to guard John Paxson, not his 30 spectacular points, that won the day and the series. Jordan's passing violates two sacrosanct rules: don't go up in the air unless you know what you're going to do there, and don't throw the ball crosscourt. Jordan invariably found the open man because he has a map of the court and all its players inside his head (he majored in geography at North Carolina). He knows...
...Reggie Lewis. Brian Shaw. Ed Pickney. Jim Paxson. Now those are post-season players...
There are sympathizers in the would-be adoptive state. Last week Wyoming State Representative Douglas Chamberlain introduced a bill supporting the secessionists. He got only 29 of the 40 necessary votes, but plans another try next year. "The general feeling," says Mary Paxson, of Torrington, Wyo., "is that it's never going to happen. We're nattered that they want us, but we really don't need them...
Breaks does have the occasional (and perhaps inevitable) excess, the overripe prose, the gimpy metaphor, the Jabbar-sized sentence. An example: "Indeed, Paxson, who was white, looked like the star of a new television sit-com about a healthy happy-go lucky midwestern college student who was always trying to borrow his parents' car and getting into trouble, but the kind of trouble that is easily rectified. (That is, no hard drugs.)" The book definitely suffers, too, for its lack of photographs, which would have helped in keeping the many names straight...
...problem, and not only on small papers in the hinterland. The New York Daily News, with the largest seven-day circulation in the country, still offers generally unimaginative fare, as does the New York Post. The Philadelphia Bulletin has not exactly lost its breath chasing changing times either. Marjorie Paxson, the Bulletin's women's editor, defends her paper's approach: "I think people here are very interested in society. Not all of the city is ghettos by any means. It is up to me to strike a balance." When the paper is serving a heavy diet...