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...mean, when I think basketball, I think Magic Johnson and Larry Bird," she said...
Center stage in his prep room is one of his more interesting "toys." The structure looks like, well, a giant bird cage with a chair for a professor in it. Electrical current is run through the ungrounded cage. Sparks flying, the professor, unharmed, is able to lecture from within. Sound like...
Magic and The Bird...
...league owes Johnson a lot. He, along with Larry Bird, helped turn it from a struggling operation in the late 1970s into a worldwide enternatinment, marketing and sports success...
First, it seems that the most well-known, not necessarily the most talented, hoopsters have been selected. Admittedly, the team is awesome, and probably a near-lock for the gold in '92. But is aging, perennially injured Larry Bird worth an automatic bid, as opposed to Dominique Wilkins and Mitch Richmond? Instead of a well-constructed squad, we are sending to Barcelona the Olympic equivalent of an All-Star team. Other players, perhaps unsung but nonetheless solid, would possibly have fit in better with the workings of the team. Can you really see 10 or 12 of the biggest egos...