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NBA ALL-STAR WEEKEND NOTEBOOK: BE VERY, VERY QUIET!

          The crowd of 18,325 at yesterday's NBA All-Star Game
     was the "biggest" ever at the Oakland Coliseum, according to
     Ann Killion of the SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, who writes that
     "at times on Sunday it was as quiet as the Warriors' usual
     home gathering."  Suns G Jason Kidd: "It was corporate.  I
     was just happy to see they had people in the seats" (S.J.
     MERCURY NEWS, 2/14). In San Jose, Mark Purdy writes that the
     sold-out crowd "witnessed an afternoon of reasonably fine
     entertainment, including a deafening halftime spectacular" 
     that included L.L. Cool J, who managed to rhyme the phrase
     "NBA dream" with "vanilla ice cream" (S.J. MERCURY NEWS,
     2/14).  NBC's Bob Costas said after the halftime show, "In
     thirty-plus years, the league has gone from hippies to hip-
     hop" ("NBA All-Star Game," 2/13).  In Boston, Steve Bulpett
     writes that during All-Star Weekend, the NBA "gives you 'The
     Ed Sullivan Show' with all its variety and borderline
     weirdness. ... The NBA All-Star Game is not so much a game
     as it is a three-hour infomercial" (BOSTON HERALD, 2/14). 
          NOTES: Michael Jordan watched Sunday's All-Star Game
     with Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley and
     Capitals Owner Ted Leonsis (WASHINGTON POST, 2/14)....West
     team coach Phil Jackson was sporting a "Bradley for
     President" button before the game, "but by game time it was
     tucked into his jacket pocket."   Jackson: "I wasn't told to
     take it off, but there was friendly persuasion."  One NBA
     official was overheard telling another after a conversation
     with Jackson, "Boy was Phil (ticked)" (ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS,
     2/14)....NBC's Jay Leno, on the All-Star Weekend: "You know
     what game I like, the day before when they have the Father-
     Illegitimate Son Game" ("Tonight Show," NBC, 2/11).

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