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...Nets have been so hard to stop. "The Nets will be a blueprint for any team out there," Kidd said after the Boston series. "If you get a good group of guys who believe in each other and want one another to succeed and not be selfish, and nobody cares who scores the most or who has the winning basket, good things will happen. You'll see a lot of teams play our style...
...environment has eliminated the selfish style of play that poisoned past seasons...
...with all due respect to Bowen, Shulman and Josefowitz, the relationships I have enjoyed in college with student-athletes have proven to me that they are not the ones responsible for degrading the “Harvard experience.” Rather, it is those selfish individuals among us who have never played sports, who do not understand the meaning of putting the team before the self, who barge through life prioritizing their individual agendas over everyone else’s, who make it difficult for the rest of us to play nice with others when we step into...
...merit of accepting athletes at Harvard, I am shocked by the number of seemingly intelligent individuals who don’t value the worth of student-athletes. Not only do my blockmates make commendable grades (and even get higher thesis readings than I), but they have also taught selfish wallflowers such as myself the importance of dedication and perseverance...
...course, I am not claiming that all non-athletes are selfish, aggressive go-getters who don’t value compromise and understanding. I do believe, however, that athletes at Harvard have taught us lessons far more important than what we crammed into our heads before Thursday sections and have made my experience at this school much more vibrant and rich than it would have been if my two close-minded friends at the MAC had had their...