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I were 11ot in'ected. We got to really k11ow that team we had four future NBA rook- l,   -' 4
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each other. " 1es of tl1e year! It was agjoy to fellowship ‘ , c_*,.§?ie_ 3;
O11 its way to tl1e gold medal, tl1is with otl1er athletes and to come home       Q
team beat live teams by 50 points or to the great fanfare people gave you.” ‘ __ ”"”`    
1 111ore, two teams by 70 points and Russia Sa111 Bowie, 1IO\V a C€lIlCl` witl1 the \       if
l by 43 points i11 the linals . "Of`, course,” Newjersey Nets, knows tl1e thrill ol` B B · B
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I adds Evans, ll helped that we had Bill being chosen lor the OlyIIIPlCS, but 11ot I
Russell and K.C. _]ones on that team.” tl1e fulfillment ofthe promise. Bowie’s
Evans is another player who believes, 1980 [CHU] was a casualty oi` politics N
“that had I not played for UK and Rupp, when President_]immy Carter decided
Iwould 11ot have had the CIIZIIICC to even that the U.S. tea111 would boycott tl1e The 1948 Olympic
try out. Like so n1a11y other things in mv games in Moscow. Bowie l`ClIlClI1l)Cl`S '°°'“ ""l"d°d UK
l.i1 . UK 'l . .l Y ,, ’ _, k. . 1 A I I 1 1 othletes #27 W¤II¤ce
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Adrian “O(l1€” Smith of the 1958 the hnal hstol )l21YCl`S(’”()1ll(’ to alayand #15 Alex Grozu, iw. ‘ l5l ·
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‘ Olympic team that played 111 Ro111e, to represent llly C()lll]ll`y a11d be a part kneeling for right,
Italy. He was 011ly tl1e tl1ird `unior col- of that. It is one ol`the l1i rhli rhts ol`mv ‘°°‘l" Ad°lPh R"PP·
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` you (l()II`l believe 111 miracles, you ought 111y basketball career IlICIIl()l`lCS. ` IT Committee.
to because that`s a miracle, a miracle
that a poor farm boy l`rom \t\'estern Ken- Li: Ielvward `6tS’, `73 is {IS.S`I.S`[(l)I[ rlirr·r/or/in·
tuckv one day stood up for his country mmmuzzim/{mis {1/ //1w I 'K,·\/umni1»l.s·.swir1-
on another C0l][ll]€Il[ accepting a gold limi and wlilor Q/B{(/Illlllll/}l([)[I('(([l()}IS.
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