Just Sports; Does a Contract Mean Anything Anymore?
New Pittsburgh Courier; City Edition › July 30, 2009
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"Well, I think so," [Larry Bird] replied. "You know when I played, you had me and [Kevin Garnett] (McHale) and some others throughout the league. I think it's good for a fan base because as we all know the majority of the fans are white America. And if you just had a couple of white guys in there, you might get them a little excited. But it is a Black man's game, and it will be forever. I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American."
"I've thought about it a great deal," [Derek Fisher] said. "I think a lot of it depends on how we finish up as a team, what happens with the other players. We just have to focus in on finishing up this season and deal with that later." The Lakers might not be in the NBA Finals if not for Fisher, whose 18-foot jumper as time expired gave them a 74-73 victory over San Antonio in Game 5 of the Western Conference semifinals.The NBA won't be expanding to Europe any time soon, Commissioner David Stern said at his annual NBA Finals news conference. "With respect to international expansion, it's becoming clear to us that the infrastructure, meaning buildings, world-class arenas, are simply not there outside the United States yet," Stern said. "The fans in Europe have not been the beneficiaries of a building boom."See the full content of this document
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Just Sports; Does a Contract Mean Anything Anymore?
The Pistons blew a chance to put the Lakers deep in the hole but they are still where they want to be with the series tied at 1-1. This should be a really exciting series, but the Lakers will prevail, 4-3.
Even though I am not a Laker fan, it would be nice to see Karl Malone and Gary Payton win their first NBA c...See the full content of this document
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