51.   In spite of the conditions, Angola still has the best basketball team in Africa.

52.   It has become a cliche to say that Jordan is the best basketball player to ever live.

53.   It was exactly what it was supposed to be, a bunch of the best basketball players in the world having fun in a game that means absolutely nothing.

54.   Jordan was not always the best basketball player who ever lived, but only because he is not older than the sport.

55.   Like they have so often in the past, the Wildcats appear to have saved their best basketball of the year for just the right time.

56.   Magic tells me he is playing absolutely the best basketball of his life right now, that he is amazingly strong and as quick as ever.

57.   Mashburn was playing his best basketball in Miami when he was injured, talking the ball to the basket and looking like the third option a contender needs.

58.   Mason played his best basketball for the Knicks when Riley was the coach there.

59.   Mike Krzyzewski is running the best basketball program in America.