71.  As Kentucky's Mark Pope said, "They are a really great team.

72.  He added that these Lakers would not beat the great Boston teams of the 1980s, which featured Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish.

73.  He had great teams before that and after that team.

74.  Harris announced before the season began that "if we do it right, this should be the next great Laker team."

75.  He helped the Islanders to four Stanley Cups, but they already were a great team."

76.  He knew we have a great team and we knew what we needed to do.

77.  He knows they can, but he doesn't know that they will in the way he once knew those great Giant teams would.

78.  He notes that this country did not lose its infatuation with distance running when the great Villanova teams of the 1970s and early 1980s imported white stars from Ireland.

79.  He returned the Globetrotters to those roots, explaining, "We want to be able to measure ourselves against great teams."

80.  He has seen great teams slump, and bad teams experience winning streaks.