31.  Are any of them great players?

32.  Arthur Ashe, Butch Buchholz and Connors were other great players who grew up near Belleville.

33.  Arrington and Brown may both be great players, but there was a time when the Chargers thought the same thing about Leaf.

34.  As things worked out, Kidd became too great a player himself to have much of a chance of being paired in an NBA backcourt with Payton.

35.  As on the proverbial winding river, we should know by now there is always a next great player somewhere up ahead.

36.  As the talent is diluted, as more great players retire and more expansion teams thin the stock, clutch-and-grab is here to stay.

37.  At least, though, all four great players have had their moments, and we can get down to the real hard stuff ahead.

38.  Being a great player who is often overlooked is one thing.

39.  Bernard is a great player and I took it as a challenge.

40.  Bernard King sought treatment for alcoholism and became a great player, but only after he had left the Nets.