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Not another brick in the wall

By Charley Rosen
Page 2 columnist

Wednesday, February 26, 2003

"The most important part of any season in any sport is the first five minutes of the first practice session." --Paul Brown, coach of the Cleveland Browns The worst opening-season gambit in the history of the NBA was presented by Roy Rubin, the spectacularly inept coach of the 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers. Facing his players for the first time, Rubin presented himself as a tough disciplinarian and said he'd accept no excuses for any infractions of the rules. The players would have a strict dre ...

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