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Article: YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET.(Sports)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- June 6, 2001
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Byline: KAREN CROUSE
The face that's launching the NBA into the new millennium is like one of those computer-generated composites.
You look at Kobe Bryant and you see Earl Monroe's spin move and Bob Cousy's creativity and Maurice Cheeks' defensive conscience and Jerry West's iron will and Oscar Robertson's fundamentals and Julius Erving's drives and Magic Johnson's showmanship and Larry Bird's jumper and Michael Jordan's haughty repudiation of failure.
The picture is striking, but you don't dare frame it. You're smart enough to recognize the folly of trying to impose boundaries on evolution.
All the people coming out of the hardwood ...