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Article: VAN HORN POSTPONES RICHES UTAH'S STAR FORWARD REJECTS NBA DRAFT TO FULFILL PROMISE TO FATHER.(Sports)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- June 30, 1996
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Byline: Tom Friend The New York Times
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- He is in his fire-red Nissan pickup truck (101,000 miles on it) when he sees his Lexus in the showroom window (zero miles on it). After he is done drooling, he drops his fiancee at the Italian restaurant where she works, drops his 1-year-old at the in-laws and drops himself at the weight room.
He looks in the mirror there and does not like what he sees; there are not enough muscles on top of his muscles. Marcus Camby is scrawnier than him, Stephon Marbury is shorter than him and Kobe Bryant is more naive than him - but they must not be looking in the same mirror. He will be returning to ...