Nov 30, 2001 11:21 AM EST
The Washington Post reports that the Wizards are excited about rookie center Brendan Haywood. The seven-footer has made an immediate impact in the interior after sitting out the first 12 games because of torn ligaments in his left thumb. Haywood has come off the injured list to grab 14 rebounds, block three shots, alter several others and give the team a low-post presence.
With help from starting center Jahidi White, Haywood played a huge role in containing 76ers center Dikembe Mutombo in the Wizards' 94-87 victory. Mutombo collected just five rebounds and six points and routinely was shielded from blocking shots or was boxed out of rebounding position by Haywood.
"Defensively, he changes everything for us," Wizards Coach Doug Collins said of Haywood. "He gives you a long, active guy, plus Brendan has energy. He can cover, he can get back, he bothers guys' jump shots. With Brendan [on offense], we feel very good that we can throw the ball in there and he can pass out of it.
Collins said one of the main missions of the franchise is to find out if Haywood could develop into the team's starting center. However, there is no rush at this point and Haywood will continue to play as a reserve.
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Nov 30, 2001 10:39 AM EST
Charles Barkley is apparently thinking once again about making a comeback and helping his buddy Michael Jordan in Washington.
ESPN.com reports that Barkley told HBO's Real Sports on Thursday that he may become Michael Jordan's teammate with the Washington Wizards once he gets in better shape.
Over the last several months, Barkley has stated several times that he is intrigued by the idea of coming back. However, Barkley says he needs to get in better shape before such a comeback is possible. Barkley told HBO he is down to 290 pounds.
"I'm thinking about it," Barkley told HBO. "I miss playing. I feel bad Michael is struggling and I think I could help him, but I need to lose another 25 pounds before I could help him."
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Not much has changed with Michael Jordan's game since the last time he played a regular-season game in Miami.
After a three-year layoff, Jordan, 38, still is averaging more than 25 points, still talking trash and challenging younger players. The difference is for the first time in his career, he probably will be watching the playoffs.
"I don't think it's any different than what it was than when he was here in Chicago," Heat coach Pat Riley said. "Everybody expected that he would take the majority of the shots and (Richard) Hamilton would play a factor in it. The Bulls had three guys that averaged in double figures and that was about it when he was here and everybody else played a supportive role. I think everybody figured he was going to carry the load and he is."
Jordan's traveling show comes to Miami tonight. The Wizards, despite their 4-10 record, are packing arenas. Jordan is the show, averaging 25.7 points and taking 147 more shots than anybody on the team.
Jordan leads the team in assists with 4.9 per game and is second in rebounding with 6.4, but his shooting percentage of .402 is down from his career average of .505, and he is not going to the free-throw line as much as in past years.
Like Riley, Bulls assistant coach Bill Cartwright, who played with Jordan in Chicago, is not surprised at Jordan's production.
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Wizards Nov 2001 Archive
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| Nov 30, 2001
When/where: 7:30 p.
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| Nov 30, 2001
"This is an absolute mess," Pat Riley said last week of his Heat.
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| Nov 30, 2001
Michael Jordan's comeback tour rolls into Miami tonight, certainly with a sense of anticipation but without much of the mystery that surrounded his preseason visit in October.
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| Nov 29, 2001
According to guard Bimbo Coles, Michael Jordan has lost more than the hops.
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| Nov 29, 2001
There is a game Saturday which will be televised nationally and should command great national interest.
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| Nov 29, 2001
Don't look now, but the Wizards have won just four of their first 14 games, and two of those victories have come against the Sixers.
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| Nov 29, 2001
A night after saying his team ''stinks,'' Michael Jordan scored 30 points as the Washington Wizards defeated the 76ers 94-87 on Wednesday night in Philadelphia.
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| Nov 28, 2001
According to the Washington Post, Washington Wizards swingman Michael Jordan didn't mince words after his team's pitiful performance tonight during a 94-75 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers before a sold-out Gund Arena crowd of 20,562.
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| Nov 28, 2001
LeBron James.
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| Nov 28, 2001
Cavaliers guard Ricky Davis wanted to dunk on Michael Jordan, and he did.
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| Nov 28, 2001
Craig Ehlo has spent the last 13 years trying to erase the final moments between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Chicago Bulls on May 7, 1989, at the Richfield Coliseum.
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| Nov 28, 2001
Michael Jordan and Washington Wizards coach Doug Collins began the season with a plan.
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| Nov 28, 2001
The hops are history.
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| Nov 28, 2001
Start with the end last time.
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| Nov 28, 2001
The Wizards weren't good, and Michael Jordan wasn't all that great.
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| Nov 27, 2001
According to the Washington Post, Michael Jordan might be in good shape.
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| Nov 27, 2001
Last Friday in Philadelphia, Cavaliers guard Ricky Davis dunked over Dikembe Mutombo and rookie guard Jeff Trepagnier rammed one home over Allen Iverson.
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| Nov 27, 2001
Tip-off: 7 tonight at Gund Arena.
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| Nov 27, 2001
Once he was Air Jordan.
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| Nov 26, 2001
For the past 12 years, Wayne Embry has seen the image over and over of Craig Ehlo sprawled on the ground and Michael Jordan pumping his fist.
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| Nov 26, 2001
Jerry Eaves will understand the butterflies and the wide-eyed looks associated with Michael Jordan's return to Cleveland tomorrow.
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| Nov 25, 2001
Sideshow Mike comes to Gund Arena in need of a good carnival barker.
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| Nov 25, 2001
William Gildea writes in the Washington Post that no matter how many points he scores -- and with an average of 26.
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| Nov 23, 2001
How did so many teams pass up the opportunity to draft Jamaal Tinsley? Scouting staffs around the league must be working overtime preparing their excuses because they are looking worse and worse all the time.
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| Nov 22, 2001
How much more can MJ take?
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| Nov 21, 2001
Picture a Jordan/Bryant Backcourt...
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| Nov 21, 2001
It's still a three-ring circus at times.
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| Nov 21, 2001
"I've never experienced seven (consecutive) losses," Michael Jordan said.
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| Nov 21, 2001
Baron Davis woke up early Tuesday in a Washington hotel, jumpy, excessively hyper and ready to play basketball.
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| Nov 21, 2001
It's not yet Thanksgiving, and the Michael Jordan ticket frenzy is already over, according to the Washington Times.
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| Nov 21, 2001
It's still a three-ring circus at times.
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| Nov 21, 2001
If Jordan's comeback is measured in wins, which it isn't, he would be failing miserably.
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| Nov 20, 2001
The papers covering the Wizards each have an article about their disgruntled young guards, each starters last year, who are now relegated to the bench.
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| Nov 20, 2001
Paul Silas isn’t unlike most NBA coaches this season who have praised Michael Jordan’s return to the game.
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| Nov 20, 2001
Given his druthers, Paul Silas would prefer that Michael Jordan had not come out of retirement this season.
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| Nov 20, 2001
The Hornets are off to see the Wizards, and frankly this meeting with Michael Jordan and the gang couldn't come at a worse time.
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| Nov 20, 2001
CHARLOTTE (4-5)
AT WASHINGTON (2-7)
8 p.
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| Nov 20, 2001
Given his druthers, Paul Silas would prefer that Michael Jordan had not come out of retirement this season.
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| Nov 18, 2001
So far, all is as expected on the comeback tour.
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| Nov 18, 2001
When the Hawks signed backup center Nazr Mohammed to a five-year, $25 million contract last summer they may have raised some eyebrows.
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| Nov 17, 2001
Michael Jordan scored a season-high 44 points in the best game of his comeback, but he also matched the longest losing streak of his NBA career as Utah beat host Washington 101-92 Friday.
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| Nov 16, 2001
For Jordan and Coach Doug Collins, there are at least four early-season problems that already need to be digested, according to the Washington Post's Thomas Boswell.
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| Nov 15, 2001
The Washington Post reports that The Wizards have held trade talks with several teams regarding center Jahidi White and several other players, sources with knowledge of the situation said.
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| Nov 15, 2001
The Washington Post reports that the Wizards' fifth straight loss at the hands of the Milwaukee Bucks was a watershed game.
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| Nov 13, 2001
"We're playing really bad right now, we don't trust each other," Wizards coach Collins was quoted as saying in the Washington Times.
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| Nov 13, 2001
The Washington Post's Michael Wilbon writes that Michael Jordan has never had a stretch poor shooting like this, not in 11 full NBA seasons or two partial seasons (1986, 1995).
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| Nov 13, 2001
Michael Jordan missed his first 14 shots on the way to his first four-game losing streak in almost 12 years.
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| Nov 12, 2001
The Wizards are bad, there is no denying this, but with Michael Jordan in the fold they are bound to get exposure, and as far as Turner Sports are concerned will continue to get exposure.
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| Nov 12, 2001
Throw the ball to Michael and let him shoot.
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| Nov 12, 2001
They flew in from Pittsburgh to get a glimpse of Michael Jordan, to relive the past and revel in the present.
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| Nov 12, 2001
HIGHLIGHTS: Brent Barry, not Michael Jordan, threw one down off a fast-break feed from Gary Payton, triggering a big run in the third quarter.
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| Nov 12, 2001
They don't know what it was like back then.
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| Nov 12, 2001
PLAYER OF THE GAME: Will Gary Payton still have it at age 38? The Sonics guard certainly does now.
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| Nov 12, 2001
Much of the sell-out crowd of 20,674 fans at the MCI Center wasn't there for the home team's usual cast of characters, which includes the likes of Kwame Brown, Popeye Jones and Jahidi White.
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| Nov 12, 2001
WHITNEY INJURED — Starting point guard Chris Whitney suffered a sprained right ankle late in the second quarter and it is not known if he will be available for Wednesday's game against Milwaukee.
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| Nov 12, 2001
It took 14 attempts and nearly three quarters for Washington Wizards swingman Michael Jordan to hit his first shot, a futility that ran its course through the entire lineup.
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| Nov 12, 2001
In this week's NBA notebook Jeffrey Denberg looks at Magic Johnson's plea with Michael Jordan not to return to the NBA, where MJ putting himself into a losing situation will do nothing for himself.
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| Nov 11, 2001
Whether it's his hand-switching layup against the Los Angeles Lakers in the Finals, his dunk over Patrick Ewing, his final shot over Bryon Russell to win his sixth championship, or something more personal, everybody has a memory of Michael Jordan.
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| Nov 11, 2001
Notes: The Sonics play the Wizards one more time during the regular season — March 15 at KeyArena.
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| Nov 11, 2001
They don't know what it was like back then.
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| Nov 11, 2001
Chris Tomasson of the Akron Beacon Journal discusses Majic Johnsnon's reaction to Michael Jordan's comeback.
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| Nov 11, 2001
Michael Jordan is getting his points.
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| Nov 11, 2001
Michael Jordan missed seven straight shots in the first half, had a brief flurry late in the third quarter and played on a near-empty tank in the fourth, scoring 32 points in 38 minutes as the Washington Wizards lost 109-100 to the visiting Golden State Warriors on Friday.
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| Nov 10, 2001
WASHINGTON -- You can nit-pick about some of the small things, but the bare essential is that the Warriors handled the Washington Wizards and Michael Jordan on Friday night at MCI Center.
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| Nov 10, 2001
PLAYER OF THE GAME: Seattle could not stop Paul Pierce all night.
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| Nov 10, 2001
You know the deal.
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| Nov 10, 2001
After the Detroit Pistons blew away the Washington Wizards by 22 points two games ago, Michael Jordan said if Washington suffered a few more shellackings, he would be one frustrated athlete.
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| Nov 9, 2001
Washington Wizards Coach Doug Collins will shuffle his lineup again against the visiting Golden State Warriors tonight, hoping to add some depth to an injury-depleted front court with the addition of No.
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| Nov 9, 2001
Michael Jordan gave Antoine Walker some lessons when they practiced together in Chicago during the summer.
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| Nov 8, 2001
Michael Jordan called Boston's Antoine Walker one of the most talented players in the league Tuesday, and one night later Walker proved him to be right on the money.
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| Nov 7, 2001
The Associated Press reports that Loy Vaught has officially retired.
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| Nov 7, 2001
For 10 years, the Chicago Bulls' combination of Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen was easily the most lethal in the NBA, perhaps in history.
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| Nov 7, 2001
The fact that Washington Wizards small forward Michael Jordan was looking forward to facing Boston Celtics swingman Paul Pierce again wasn't the part that raised eyebrows, especially since some trash was talked and a few elbows were exchanged in Boston's 107-93 preseason-ending victory Oct.
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| Nov 6, 2001
The housecleaning continues in D.C.
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| Nov 6, 2001
Washington Wizards forward Popeye Jones never sold himself short, even though he felt the rest of the league had.
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| Nov 6, 2001
Well, that was fun for a few minutes, wasn't it?
Now what? What comes after the drumroll?
It is four games into Michael Jordan's grand comeback, and I've already seen enough.
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| Nov 6, 2001
Michael Jordan scored 19 points in 22 minutes Sunday, but the Detroit Pistons humbled the visiting Washington Wizards 100-78.
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| Nov 5, 2001
It didn't take long for Michael Jordan to get a taste of what life has been like for the Washington Wizards.
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| Nov 5, 2001
Now you know why John Thompson calls Michael Jordan "Floor Jordan.
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| Nov 5, 2001
It was a chant loud enough to reach the United Center, where echoes of past Michael Jordan uprisings have faded to whispers.
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| Nov 4, 2001
On a screen, the old pictures played.
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| Nov 4, 2001
They were teasing and taunting just like grade-school bullies.
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| Nov 4, 2001
There is a sentiment about Michael Jordan's comeback that rankles me a bit.
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| Nov 4, 2001
It's a long haul between now and the final regular-season game.
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| Nov 4, 2001
Michael Jordan's latest comeback began in a humbling manner as he looked mortal -- and 38 years old -- in the season-opener against the New York Knicks.
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| Nov 4, 2001
If you're going to appreciate Michael Jordan this time around you'll have to forget about flying from the foul line, switching hands in mid-air and 50-point outbursts.
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| Nov 4, 2001
The Wizards were without backup center Etan Thomas, who sat out with a sinus infection.
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| Nov 4, 2001
With Michael Jordan providing the steady hand, Richard Hamilton, Popeye Jones and the rest of Jordan's backup band led the Washington Wizards to a convincing 90-76 home-opening victory over the injury-depleted Philadelphia 76ers last night before a rocking sellout crowd of 20,674 at MCI Center.
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| Nov 4, 2001
The sellout crowd of 20,674 had reason to cheer.
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| Nov 4, 2001
Michael Jordan showed he still knows a thing or two about winning.
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| Nov 3, 2001
The Washington Wizards' new homecourt is the same one on which the Los Angeles Lakers won their first of two championships.
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| Nov 3, 2001
Michael Jordan didn't just assert himself on the court in Thursday's 98-88 victory over the Atlanta Hawks.
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| Nov 3, 2001
Iverson's elbow may render him a spectator
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| Nov 3, 2001
The Wizards may be mediocre, and the Hawks may be battling for attention in Atlanta, but the name Michael Jordan retains the magic of old.
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| Nov 2, 2001
Wizards rookie Kwame Brown sat out with a sprained ankle he suffered against New York in the opener.
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| Nov 2, 2001
Michael Jordan showed tonight he was much better than he was in his first game back from a three-year retirement.
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| Nov 2, 2001
When it was suggested in 1992 that Portland's Clyde Drexler might be Michael Jordan's equal before the NBA Finals, M.
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| Nov 2, 2001
DerMarr Johnson, the second year guard from the Hawks, denied the words written by a national magazine writer last winter which quoted him as saying he could beat Michael Jordan with his crossover move.
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| Nov 2, 2001
Not all of the Bulls were glued to the television Tuesday night watching the greatest Bull of all, Michael Jordan, begin his second comeback by scoring 19 points in a loss to the Knicks.
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| Nov 1, 2001
Terry Porter put on his uniform.
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| Nov 1, 2001
It may be unfair to judge the comeback of Michael Jordan on just one official NBA regular-season game, but it really is all we have to use right now.
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| Nov 1, 2001
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| Nov 1, 2001
Man, basketball, moment.
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