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...trying to turn her outrage over gun violence into a national movement. If each of us has a tipping point for tragedy, Dees-Thomases' happened last August, as she watched TV coverage of nursery-school children holding hands in a line and being led away from a shooting spree at the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills, Calif. "I just thought, 'Those children could be my own!'" she says. "So I decided to try and do something before it was too late." Dees-Thomases scrawled her plans for a march on Washington on the back of an envelope...
...five-year, $61 million deal with the Knicks--that he's there to stay. Until recently he lived at a Marriott Residence Inn, where his black Mercedes CLK 430 was parked out front with all the other vehicles. The car seemed a raven among sparrows, and it stated emphatically: Spree is home...
Since then, Sprewell has been a favorite among New York's hard-hearted fans, who have embraced his maturity and industry. He still blazes with intensity--his suffocating defense on Carter included a flagrant but not malicious foul that floored Air Canada. But Spree leaves it all on the court, and even NBA commissioner David Stern has had kind words for him. It's Sprewell's face, after all, that the League elected to represent the Knicks in its playoff commercials. "I'm glad I was able to turn it around," Sprewell told reporters last week. "It could have easily...
University of Washington professor David Shields, author of Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season, sees Spree's silence as finesse. "He's never gonna tell. He'd be playing into sports journalism's hand. Like the racial situation in America--silences speak more than the utterances." Shields says Sprewell is one of the few players in the NBA--along with Seattle's Gary Payton, Houston's retiring veteran Charles Barkley and former Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman--who consistently, either consciously or subconsciously, bring racial issues to the fore through their use of language and symbols...
...doesn't push it where he lives, though: at home Spree's cornrows are fuzzy, not as tight and glossy as they are on game nights. "The bad-boy thing doesn't bother me," he says. "People are going to think what they're going to think. The first impression of me is the incident with P.J. I understand why I have the image. I'm not trying to downplay the incident. It wasn't right. We make mistakes, and we've got to move...