51.   Already upset by his shaky play and frustrated with the officials enough to have been assessed a technical foul, Ewing was the only big man left standing.

52.   Although the Lakers need a backup center, Jackson said he had no interest in any big men on the market.

53.   Amaechi can be a free agent again this summer, and the Lakers will again be in the market for a versatile big man.

54.   Among the players who skipped college and survived in the NBA, big men predominate.

55.   And Albeck, who has coached Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Artis Gilmore, Caldwell Jones and Dikembe Mutombo among others, knows a good big man when he sees one.

56.   An unheralded point guard with limited skills, a versatile big man who publicly battled his coach and a pretty boy who toiled for a last-place team.

57.   And despite the big men in town, it could stay that way for at least another weekend.

58.   And for those who believe the Lakers desperately need another big man?

59.   And it is a big, fat, felt tip flair pen that the big man would like to use to create a wonderful end.

60.   And he was a big man.