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FUN BALL

By Eric Neel

Friday, February 15, 2008

ON the morning in January that the Phoenix Suns announced they'd traded for Jim Jackson, head coach Mike D'Antoni stood in the hallway outside his office before a group of reporters. "How long do you think it will take before Jackson is comfortable with the system?" someone asked. "It'll be a little while, I'm sure," D'Antoni said in his affable West Virginia drawl. "We have to go over the playbook with him." Then he casually reached into his back pocket and pulled out a single sheet of paper. ...

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