61.   First he labored to live, then to play basketball, then to reclaim his professional basketball career.

62.   For all his stumbles along the way, Michael Jordan represents just about everything that is admirable in professional basketball today.

63.   For an American playing professional basketball in Israel, tough decisions must be made.

64.   Fifty years ago, no one in professional basketball, or any other sport, had health benefits.

65.   For example, professional basketball players shoot thousands of free throws in practice so the shot becomes automatic in games.

66.   For proof we only need to look at the shambles in which professional basketball now finds itself.

67.   For what we have here is nothing less than the best legitimate old-time rivalry in professional basketball, and perhaps in all of American professional sport.

68.   Former professional basketball player Nate Williams is the father of outside hitter Natalie Williams.

69.   Free agents jumped teams with abandon, juveniles leaped from high school to professional basketball, franchises went for epic prices.

70.   Having proven his point to himself, he retired from professional basketball.