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Article: Ovechkin, Crosby amaze
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- January 24, 2007
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DALLAS - Bird and Magic.
You knew those names would be invoked when Sidney Crosby and Alex
Ovechkin sat together during All-Star week festivities.
Fittingly, they spoke to reporters in an auxiliary gym that was
converted into a media work room for the week. Two basketball hoops,
raised to the ceiling, hovered above them at American Airlines
Center.
The question came early, when a reporter referenced Larry Bird and
Magic Johnson and how they'd re-energized and popularized the NBA in
the early 1980s, before Ovechkin, 21, and Crosby, 19, were born.
What's it like to be in a similar position, fellas?
What's it like to be the faces of your league?
"I feel fine," Ovechkin said, laughing. "I feel ...