21.   Whenever the Knicks played the Nets during the season, Willis Reed would stop to say hello to Patrick Ewing.

22.   At the site of the shooting, mourners stopped to say the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead.

23.   He stopped to say hello to former teammate John Paxson, now the Bulls radio analyst, before heading for the visitors locker room.

24.   It was a neighbor stopping to say hello.