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...selling R.-and-B. track in the U.S. Sammie doesn't plan on being a one-hit wonder. "I want to win Grammys," says the Miami tyke, who phoned in at noon on a school day ("I'm just missing one day," he assured). Comparisons to Michael Jackson could give Sammie a big head, but he still makes time to sign autographs for classmates. "It's kind of a weird thing. But they're fans, so I take time out for them...
...Angeles Lakers win the NBA championship this year, their fans will have two people to thank: Phil Jackson and Friedrich Nietzsche...
...Jackson, the head coach of the Lakers, has always had an appealingly philosophical approach toward coaching, one that can coax five NBA-size egos into performing like a marching band at full sprint. "All of us had flashes of this sense of oneness--making love, creating a work of art," he says in his autobiography, Sacred Hoops, "when we're completely immersed in the moment, inseparable from what we're doing. This kind of experience happens all the time on the basketball floor...
Well, not in L.A. last year, where the Lakers went through two coaches on the way to being swept out of the play-offs. This year, his first with the Lakers, Jackson has a roster brimming with talent, including superstar-of-the-future Kobe Bryant, superstar-of-the-present Shaquille O'Neal and old pros such as Glen Rice, A.C. Green and Ron Harper...
...very much the same team, a bit more mature perhaps, and Shaq is healthy, but the big difference is that the Lakers are winning. Under Jackson, the Lakers sport the glossiest record in the NBA (51-11), and O'Neal is having an MVP season. "We've had a good first half," says the massive 315-lb., 7-ft. 1-in. O'Neal, who is averaging almost 30 points a game. "Now we have to maintain." Adds Jackson: "To be quite frank, I didn't think they'd be this far along...