1.   As of Saturday, both seemingly interminable droughts were over, sending historians in the organization scurrying for the record book.

2.   Should they succeed, the record will require considerable straightening the record book, that is.

3.   The same would be said of two men with individual sights on the record book.

4.   But the record book lies beyond the bounds of argument.

5.   And the record book will confine itself only to the win-loss record.

6.   Beyond the measuring stick and the record book, their four-year ties will feel good forever.

7.   Billy Cunningham made it home for the fourth quarter Wednesday night, in time to watch Allan Iverson erase him from the record book.

8.   All the man has to do is point to the record book.

9.   But get ready for a rewrite of the record book.