Sunday, June 13, 2004

PUTTING THINGS INTO PERSPECTIVE: Regardless of what happens during the NBA Finals, these numbers are telling:
Number of league championships won by one man, Phil Jackson: 10 or 11, depending on your math. Nine as a coach (1991-93, 1996-98, and 2000-02), plus 1-2 as a player for the New York Knicks (1970 and 1973, though he didn't actually play the entire 1969-70 season because of injury).

Number of league championships won by every professional team playing in the entire city of Philadelphia in all four major sports ever: 10. Three by the Eagles (1948-49, 1960), two by the Sixers (1967, 1983), two by the Flyers (1974-75), one by the Phillies (1980), and two, which I guess count, by the now-in-Golden-State Warriors of the NBA (1947, 1956).

Bottom line: the Curse sucks, and something must be done.

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