Over the past five seasons, Worthy has firmly—if unspectacularly—established himself as one of the NBA’s top forwards.
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It Takes Two: Johnny Dawkins and Hersey Hawkins, 1990
Watching the two players interact, one gets the sense that they are as advertised: good guys with good attitudes who don’t indulge in petty jealousies or self-promotion. They know Barkley and Mahorn are the stars of the team, yet they’re willing to accept their roles and abide by them.
Rick Mahorn’s Roman Holiday, 1992
Mahorn goes on, attending daily practices, playing one game a week, cultivating the mystery that has always been his calling card, Big Man, Big Mouth, yet with an underlying kindness that keeps you coming back to him, because you’re sure there’s a decent guy underneath all that bluster.
Adrian Dantley’s Inferno, 1992
“Guess we got to wait,” Dantley says. And we sit in the bleachers, behind a green net. There are two baskets, and one rim seems bent, I point at it. Dantley shrugs. It’s a long way from the NBA.
Bill Laimbeer: The Interview, 1991
He’s easily the most-despised player in the NBA, and one of the most-hated athletes ever to play professional sports. That is, when he’s not performing in front of the home crowd.
Shawn Bradley: Philly’s Big Gamble, 1993
“Sometimes I think, ‘Man, I’m really jumping in deep,’” said Bradley.
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