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| Introduction | |
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| Prologue: The Dream Team Gets a Name | |
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| Before The Dream | |
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| The Inspector of Meat-Pros in the Olympics? It Was His Idea, and Don't Let Anyone Tell You Different | |
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| The Chosen One-Sneaker Porn Is Born | |
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| The Commissioner and the Inspector of Meat-The NBA Sticks a Tentative Toe into International Waters | |
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| The Legend-"I'm the Three-Point King" | |
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| The Outcast-Isiah Throws It Away … Then Throws It AM Away | |
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| The Magic Man-With a Junior Skyhook, He Claims' His Place on Top | |
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| The Shooter-Mullin Puts Down the Bottle and Puts Up the Numbers | |
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| The Christian Soldier-The Admiral Takes an Olympic Fall | |
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| The Chosen One-And So Does a Fork Become a Holy Relic | |
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| The Old Guard-Here Today … Gone Real Soon | |
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| The Shadow Man-For the Kid from Nowheresville, Arkansas, Playing Alongside Michael Could Be a Real Headache | |
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| Interlude, 2011: The Shadow Man-"Michael Got Away with a Lot of Things" | |
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| The Coach-A Man of Both Style and Substance | |
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| The Jester-Sir Charles Wants to Be an Olympian … He Just Doesn't Always Act Like One | |
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| The Committee and the Dream Team-Okay, Superstars, Prepare for Deification. … Uh, Isiah? Not So Fast | |
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| The Chosen One-Michael Seems to Have It All… But 'All" Comes with a Burden | |
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| The Spokane Kid and the Outcast-Isiah Sends an Olympic Message … and the Mailman Follows with a Special Delivery | |
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| The Dukie-Wanted: College All-American … Must Perform Scut Duty on Summer Vacation | |
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| The Glide-Clyde's on the Team, and Jordan Shrags | |
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| Interlude, 2011: The Glide-"Jordan Was Damn Good … But Was He Better Than Me?" | |
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| The Dream Unfolds | |
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| The Writer-And So It Begins … at a Cattle Call in San Diego | |
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| The Magic Man-For a Man Who's Dying, He Sure Looks Pretty Alive | |
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| Interlude, 2011: The Magic Man-"It's My Mind-Set That's Kept Me Alive" | |
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| The Coach-Chuck Has a Message for His Assistants: Make Sure to Ignore | |
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| The One-Day Wonders-These Were the Best Days of His Life. … Surely Grant Hill's Wife Understands | |
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| The Writer-The Action Begins in Portland and Everyone Wants a Piece | |
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| The Legend-Larry Shoots and Scores … and at Night Lies Awake in Pain | |
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| The Kid from Spokane-Daly Had a Pistons Phone Number in His Hand … and It Wasn't Isiah's | |
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| Interlude, 2011: The Kid from Spokane-"You're Not Writing That Down, Are You?" | |
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| The Chosen One-So Many Balls to Sign … and Jordan Almost Reaches His Breaking Point | |
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| The Writer, the Jester, and the Christian Soldier-Monsieur Barkley Will Indeed Take a Hit on 19 | |
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| Interlude, 2011: The Christian Soldier-And What Shall a Man Do with All His Gifts? | |
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| The Greatest Game That Nobody Ever Saw-"They Just Moved Chicago Stadium to Monte Carlo. That's All They Did" | |
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| The Writer-"There's Helicopters Up There-This Shit Is Serious!" | |
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| The Jester and the Angolan-"I Did Not Know That He Would Make Violence with Me" | |
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| The Kukoc Game-"They Were like Mad Dogs on Toni" | |
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| The Coolest Room in the World-"Charles, We're Sorry, but This Is a Ring Table. …" | |
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| Interlude, 2011: The Chosen One-"I Know My Father Was Up There Watching Me" | |
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| The Tie-Dyed Darlings-Sabonis Wins Bronze, Then Sleeps It Off | |
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| The Gold, the Flag, and the Chosen One-Some Wear Old Glory … Though Not in the Service of Patriotism | |
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| The Aftermath-Michael/Magic/Larry … and Then There Were None | |
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| The Impact-"We Were Like Actors in a Play" | |
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| Epilogue: The Legend-"I Would've Like to Have Touched Gold When I Was a Kid" | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |