81.   The point is that Michael Jordan has given Chicago much more than the chance to be home to perhaps the best basketball player ever.

82.   The Rockets have played their best basketball on the road during the playoffs, but they can sense another title.

83.   The Sonics played their best basketball early in the fourth quarter when they erased an eight-point deficit.

84.   The Warriors, locked in the worst kind of national media meltdown, somehow have managed to put together their best basketball of the year.

85.   The Z-Man went out and got the best basketball man available.

86.   Then the best basketball player in the U.S. Senate stepped forward and told the story of a successful lawyer he knew who enjoyed playing the trumpet more than lawyering.

87.   There goes Michael Jordan, the best basketball player the world has ever known, the fiercest competitor in the history of sports.

88.   They are the best basketball team for miles, undefeated and often unchallenged.

89.   They are the team that is playing the best basketball right now.

90.   They fail to confess that this was an off-year for the best basketball league on the planet.