61.   The former Connecticut center, acquired by the Comets from the Liberty in an April trade, knows a thing or two about knee injuries.

62.   The matchup between Mourning and Ewing is not a true one-on-one battle, because the two former Georgetown centers do not guard each other for most of the game.

63.   The Nets will receive the former Knicks center Chris Dudley, but the Nets will probably waive him.

64.   The Kings fell behind on two goals by Travis Green, the former Mighty Ducks center.

65.   The reaction among the University of Massachusetts basketball team to the latest allegations involving former center Marcus Camby is disappointment bordering on anger.

66.   There are other scouts who compare Yao more favorably to former Indiana center Rik Smits.

67.   There was Oates, the former Giants center who holds two Super Bowl rings and still practices law in the off season in Morristown, N.J.

68.   This game was not about Patrick Ewing, never mind the fans who had ventured through the tunnel to see the former Knicks center now dressed in rust.

69.   This one was for the intrepid fan who once walked up to former Kentucky center Rick Robey and clipped off a souvenir swatch of his locks.

70.   Unlike in Philadelphia, Bradley will have a personal tutor in Clifford Ray, a former center in the National Basketball Association, who is a Nets assistant coach.