ERVING PASSES TORCH TO JORDAN, NBA'S NEW KING By GLENN NELSON February 5, 1987 Publication: THE SEATTLE TIMES Page: C3 Word Count: 1379 CHICAGO, Jan. 17 _ Early in Michael Jordan's first career backcourt matchup with Philadelphia's Julius Erving, Chicago's John Paxson is motoring downcourt on a fast breakaway. The standing-room-only Chicago Stadium crowd of …
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Of King James, Dexter and a Culture of Comeuppance
What comes around, goes around. Where and when I grew up, we’d say that so often, it became a way of life, a way of thinking and believing. A lot of NBA players come up in similar circumstances, so I can’t imagine that they didn’t also hear that bit of wisdom uttered a time or …
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