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An "Answer" to a crazy day

By Jon Greenberg
ESPNChicago.com

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Now that he's gone to Motown, or more specifically, suburban Motown, to be the second coming of "The Microwave," I think we missed the boat on nicknaming Ben Gordon. We should have dubbed him "The Professional," after the 1994 Luc Besson movie about a quiet hitman named Leon. Another marketing opportunity lost, alas. Gordon was a basketball assassin, a sniper of the first order who radiated cool, calm and collectedness during his four-year tenure in Chicago. He was everything you could wa ...

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