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Because, if you haven't heard, this series may be Jordan's last. The complex derivative of keeping Jordan in the NBA probably involves the rehiring of coach Phil Jackson, who publicly feuds with both blowhard Bulls general manager Jerry Krause and cheapskate owner Jerry Reinsdorf. Jordan steadfastly refuses to play without Jackson. That could probably be resolved (suck it up for one more year, Krause). But Jordan, 35, most likely won't return without sidekick Scottie Pippen. Pippen originally refused to play this year, despises Krause even more than do Jackson and Jordan (who, high-school-style, doesn...
...only this time as the CEO he has been molding himself into. But even though 35 sounds too young to retire, it's old for an athlete, older for a shooting guard and ancient for the top player in the game. And, perhaps, just old. John Updike, who knows Phil Jackson, had his most famous character, Rabbit Angstrom, struggle to recapture the glory of his high school basketball days. "The fact that he peaked so early in his youth makes him true to life, truer than my own life is," Updike once told a reporter...
Their trademark was defense. "You don't know how lucky you are," veteran coach Don Nelson once told Phil Jackson, "when your two best offensive players are your two best defensive players." Nelson said that early on, before they added Dennis Rodman, himself a skilled defensive player. It was typical of Jordan, of the almost unique completeness of his game, that he willed himself to excel on defense as well as offense. He had been well coached in college; Dean Smith, sensing Jordan's offensive brilliance and his surpassing natural ability and that he had the possibility of a professional...
...from Arkansas, RON WATSON, are throwing a party--dubbed "The Last Dance"--at the Crystal Garden on Chicago's Navy Pier on June 17, the night of what would be the seventh game of the NBA finals. "It's a celebration party for Scottie and his friends," says restaurateur PHIL STEFANI, who is catering the event. Shirts and hats have already been printed, and 500 tickets for the event went on sale at $150 apiece in Stefani's restaurants this past weekend. "He's said over and over again, 'This is it. I'm leaving,'" says Stefani...
...truly need, like food, water, adequate sanitation and a decent sports bar. The very idea that a nation as poor as India would so desperately want the Bomb is a sign that its national priorities are skewed. Is this how it intends to deal with poverty, overpopulation and disease? PHIL PERRIER Watkinsville...