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Jack Ramsay: On Clyde Drexler, 1994

Drexler, like the Energizer battery bunny, still is going . . . and going . . . and going.

Wilt Chamberlain vs. Bill Russell: A Decade of Battle, 1969

Russell or Chamberlain? How do you like your steak—rare, medium, or well done?

Bernard King Takes New York, 1985

King has forged a good life for himself back home and, in the process, given New York basketball the transfusion it desperately needed.

Lenny Wilkens: A Pro’s Pro, 1973

Wilkens doesn’t fool anybody anymore: Everybody knows he’s a ballplayer.

Jim Haderlein: Rookie Camp at St. Leo’s, 1971

How could I forget the Floridians? How could I forget St. Leo’s College. Or Coach Bob Bass?

Cazzie Russell: Cazzie’s Corner, 1969

It’s Cazzie’s Corner now, and the Knicks brass is so impressed that they are even experimenting with Bill Bradley in the corner.

Hubie Brown: How to Watch the NBA, 1994

Let’s go inside the game in the 1990s NBA.

A Tribute to Bob Cousy, 1962

Basketball is an endless search for the “open” man today. An orthodox pass will never find him. Cousy has practiced the no-look feed so expertly, there have been movements to frisk him for mirrors.

Harold Miner: Turning Up the Heat, 1994

Cool Harold has proven that he has no problem turning up the heat on the basketball court. When he learns how to keep the fire burning, to bring the smoldering style of his favorite soft jazz musicians like Grover Washington, Jr. to the basketball court, he’ll become more than just a sideshow at future NBA All-Star games.

Chris Webber’s Growing Pains, 1996

They slap hands, and Webber heads for the locker room, where he straps on an ice pack, sits by his locker, and talks about his ultimate goal in life, the one above basketball, the one above everything. “I want to be a man of the people,” he says.