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If the Spurs or some other team somehow managed to topple the Warriors on their road to the Larry O'Brien trophy, it would be a truly historic upset of a truly historic team. (Witness what he did to Chris Paul last month.) According to metrics developed by advanced analytics pioneer John Hollinger, the Warriors have a 37.3 percent chance to win the title, which puts them at more than double the odds of the next-closest team, the Spurs
Siblings, mother, recall Michael Jordan's formative years
"Then, when I was 13 and Michael was 12, our Little League baseball coach got us involved on our first organized basketball team."But the one-on-one battles continued."I won most of them until he started to outgrow me," said Larry, "and then that was the end of that."Still, Larry insisted there was no resentment as his little brother soared past him."We played one year of varsity basketball together when I was a senior and Michael was a junior, and that's when his play just went to another level," he said. "I guess I had seen it before."Now a regional sales manager for Upper Deck with a passion for restoring classic cars, Larry Jordan said the murder of their father James during a carjacking and robbery on the side of a road near Lumberton, N.C., in the summer of '93, hit the family understandably hard.Michael's brother Larry noticed something strange during Michael's first game back from retirement in 1995
Michael Jordan's sons are learning a hard lesson- ESPN The Magazine
And no matter what mistakes we've made, we still have the chance to give our own children, our own sons, something that even Michael Jordan could not give his: One day we won't be their fathers anymore. Interrupting his blistering of former coaches, employers and teammates, Jordan turned to his three children (he also shares a daughter with his ex-wife, Juanita) and said: "You guys have a heavy burden
Smith was never a good fit with the Pistons, who tried to use him at small forward, a position he had not played in nine seasons with the Atlanta Hawks. The Kings never quite got over the top or past the Lakers for Western Conference supremacy, but it was definitely fun to watch them play and to soak in the atmosphere
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For hours at Jordan's house, they discussed the cons (he could fall below expectations) and pros (a glimpse of his talent would suffice in shortened play). "You got the sense that you were involved in something a bit bigger than basketball," said Longley, who hadn't really gotten to know Jordan until early March, along with around half of the team
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Magic Johnson said, "There's Michael Jordan and then there is the rest of us." Larry Bird, following a playoff game where Jordan dropped 63 points on the Boston Celtics in just his second season, appraisal of the young player was: "God disguised as Michael Jordan. Although, a summary of his basketball career and influence on the game inevitably fails to do it justice, as a phenomenal athlete with a unique combination of fundamental soundness, grace, speed, power, artistry, improvisational ability and an unquenchable competitive desire, Jordan single-handedly redefined the NBA superstar
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