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How Dr. J Blackified Pro Ball, Found Himself, And Stayed Eternally CoolOriginally published in Esquire in February 1985 and anthologized in Teenage Hipster in the Modern World, a stellar collection of Mark Jacobson's non-fiction. Reprinted here with the author's permission....

Area Man Nods Approvingly at Wikipedia Entry On SuffrageYou can't fault David Stern's Machiavellian labor-negotiating skills. Even though we're two years away from him pulling a Gary Bettman, he's already tossing throwaway bombs, like this one launched into the lap of SI's Ian Thomsen: Chicks in the NBA!...