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Here is a photo of him interviewing Allen Iverson. Here he is with Julius Erving, sweat-soaked, after a practice in the 1970s. Michael Ray Richardson’s autographed sneakers dangle next to his bed. The coat rack strains with press badges.
The apartment’s kitchen is a curio cabinet. Commemorative NBA glassware crowds the top of the fridge. Bobbleheads box out the coffeemaker. A program from longtime NBA commissioner David Stern’s 2020 memorial service lies in the living room. To get there, you walk through a short hallway line with more summons to the past, including the columns he wrote after his mother and father died.
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