1.   Bradley was booed during introductions Saturday night, and he was booed every time he touched the basketball.

2.   But in the final eight minutes of the game, Jordan showed why he is without a doubt the greatest player ever to touch a basketball.

3.   He spent two years in Spain, seldom touching a basketball, losing strength and agility but gaining insight.

4.   How long can Shaq and Kobe peaceably coexist, especially now that Kobe has become so anxious to cast off each time his impatient hands touch the basketball?

5.   I am not allowed even to touch a basketball.

6.   Seven months earlier, he had first touched a basketball.

7.   They passed the basketball, everybody touched the basketball.

8.   For all the stories, Bradley mostly will not touch a basketball in front of the news cameras except for autographs.