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Over the 162-game regular season, there's time for the elite teams and players to shine; in a five- or seven-game playoff series, however, any team can beat any other team. That's not chemistry; that's good luck...
Pittsburgh--you failed to sell out a playoff game. Houston--I'm still bitter about those horizontally-striped uniforms from the eighties. Seattle--you beat the Yankees too much. Milwaukee--you're just plain pathetic...
...Mart. That's why the Houston Rockets' pivotman, Hakeem Olajuwon, got a $55 million, five-year contract extension and another African-born center, Dikembe Mutombo, signed with the Atlanta Hawks for a five-year, $50 million deal. The Miami Heat is on the verge of re-signing playoff flop Alonzo Mourning for $115 million over seven years rather than lose...
...millions of dollars at free agents, the NBA must wonder whether it will be felled by the same problems that have damaged Major League Baseball. In one weekend, teams committed nearly half a billion dollars to eight free agents, three of whom have yet to win a single NBA playoff game. And that doesn't include the biggest fish in this summer's free-agent sea -- Shaquille O'Neal, who has been offered $115 million over seven years to re-sign with Orlando. The barrage of deals began after the league and its players agreed last Thursday...
...with that, Harvard roared back, cutting the lead to 9-7 behind three goals each from Wojcik and sophomore Mike Ferrucci. The team went on to win the contest, 12-10, thereby keeping the playoff hopes alive...