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Professional basketball offers Larry Bird, Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson. These players transcend the simple object of the game--to put the ball in the basket--and give us drama. They are better than their contemporaries because they alone can consistently turn the basketball into something...
Jordan uses the ball as a balloon to carry him from the foul line to the basket in one leap. Bird uses it as a torpedo, which he zips through opposing defenses and into the hands of an open man. Johnson uses it as a charm to hypnotise opposing players...
...Boston: Coach K.C. Jones knew the train was running out of fuel so he turned over his whistle to Jimmy Rodgers. The former Boston assistant coach faces a difficult task. Only one member of his starting five--Danny Ainge--is under 30 years old. Larry Bird (29.9 p.p.g.) was human last year in the playoffs against Detroit. He made just 35 percent of his shots...
Will Michael Jordan keep flying? Will Larry Bird keep swishing? Are the Charlotte Hornets for real? Will it be hot for the Miami Heat...
Sontag doesn't own a TV, though she did rent one last month to please a houseguest. (Regarding it with the look of a bird that has found a meteor plunked in her nest, she shrugs, "I haven't turned it on yet.") She also has no phone-answering machine, no word processor and, in most of her two-bedroom New York City duplex, no air conditioning. The coolest spot in the place is likely to be the sun-room that opens onto a small terrace. That was where she spent much of the past summer, with its Egyptian heat...