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Cru Thick

By Chris Palmer

Monday, November 24, 2008

Richard Hamilton plops his angular frame into a chair in front of a mirrored barbershop wall on the second floor of his 5,000-square-foot crib in the Detroit suburb of Birmingham. His personal barber, James Wilson, gets down to trimming the stragglers on his forehead and temples. In walks Hamilton's first cousin, Jontue Long, in a size 52 jersey embroidered with "Rip City" on the front and "Coatesville" on the back. Rip calls the jersey Jontue's tux. Henry Cooper, a friend of 12 years and Rip's ...

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