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The fleeting (and haunting) art of the sports dynasty

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Tuesday, July 9, 2002

Jan Stuart, whose knowledge of Chinese dynasties is exceeded only by her fabulous title -- associate curator of Chinese art at the Smithsonian Institution Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery -- is a good sport. Last week, while it was simmering outside her air-conditioned office in Washington, D.C., she tried to place the Los Angeles Lakers in a context with the heralded Tang, Sung, Yuan and Ming Dynasties. The Tang, of course, ruled through ancient China's golden age between ...

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