1.   Hype has been known to beat the most talented of teams, and it crosses generations and sports with the ease of a breeze.

2.   Kamloops is the defending Memorial Cup winner as champion of the Western Hockey League, which many consider the most talented of the junior hockey organizations in Canada.

3.   Then again, this was a team Hakeem Olajuwon had called the most talented of his Rockets career.

4.   Always struggling to lure talented young athletes away from the soccer fields, Italy has not produced the NBA talented of the Balkan countries just across the Adriatic Sea.