Michael Jordan's return obviously adds fuel to the debate about which player will be the most electrifying in the NBA this season.
Can Jordan regain his crown from the top contenders during his retirement – namely Kobe Bryant, Vince Carter and Allen Iverson? Only the one-on-one battles will help answer that.
But before the foursome takes to the court, we can at least decide which player has the most electrifying Web site.
Unfortunately, only Jordan has an official site, meaning Bryant, Carter and Iverson must rely on their best available fan sites. But don't let the difference fool you – a player's official site doesn't necessarily mean a better one.
With that in mind, here's how they rank:
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Aaron McKie is as aware as anyone that his country is at war. The basketball court, his place of employment, is his crucible, the area where he feels the most comfortable, "where I can block everything out and play a game.''
Only he can't yet do that. McKie still is recovering from arthroscopic surgery on his right shoulder, still doing strengthening drills and non-contact basketball work. He and teammate Allen Iverson (arthroscopic surgery, right shoulder) could only sit and watch last night's season-opening, 83-74 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves.
"That's where the big child comes out, where you can go out and play a game,'' McKie said, "where you can forget everything else that's going on. It's human nature to be concerned [about world events], but you've got a job to do.''
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After holding a 21-11 first-quarter lead, the Sixers were beaten by the Timberwolves, 83-74, and except for a late rally, looked like an NBA wannabe rather than the defending Eastern Conference champions.
It was not all that surprising, given the preceding tumultuous four weeks of teaching and building by coach Larry Brown, then tearing down and starting over by Brown and the organization. These Sixers have coexisted for five days now, and as Brown is quick to point out, that is not nearly enough time to produce a winner.
"Our execution is not there," Brown said. "We've got guys, I'm explaining things every time-out, and obviously we haven't handled it well right now."
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Sixers Oct 2001 Archive
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| Oct 30, 2001
What should be an exciting time for fans has been derailed by a myriad of injuries and questionable deals.
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| Oct 30, 2001
Ashley McGeachy of the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Allen Iverson will have a tough time repeating last season's success.
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| Oct 30, 2001
Phil Jasner of the Philadelphia Daily News writes that Matt Harpring's window to negotiate an extension of his contract with the 76ers closes Wednesday.
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| Oct 29, 2001
Frank Hughes of the Tacoma News Tribune reports: The Sixers, inundated with injuries, went back to the past, trading with the Charlotte Hornets for Derrick Coleman, who wreaked havoc in the City of Brotherly Love for four years before being let go.
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| Oct 29, 2001
Phil Jasner of the Philadelphia Daily News reports that the trade that brought Derrick Coleman (among others) to the Sixers in exchange for George Lynch (among others) has been finalized and cannot be negated.
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| Oct 28, 2001
The Sixers will go to war for Brown, and that includes Coleman.
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| Oct 28, 2001
Talk about keeping your team motivated.
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| Oct 28, 2001
Larry Brown made a series of sweeping changes in the offseason designed to make his team younger and more athletic.
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| Oct 28, 2001
"I couldn't play basketball, I thought about him," Iverson said "When I was sleeping, I was dreaming about him.
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| Oct 28, 2001
John Delong of the Winston Salem Journal is reporting that the three team trade that saw George Lynch become a Hornet and Derrick Coleman return to Philadelphia was contingent on all eight players involved passing their physicals by today, but there was a problem.
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| Oct 27, 2001
Medical logic seems to indicate his surgically repaired right elbow won't be ready.
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| Oct 27, 2001
Coleman was eager to ditch the Hornets and move to what he considered a better situation for him - a more promising team and a more understanding coach, one that reminds him of one of his favorites, Chuck Daly.
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| Oct 27, 2001
When the Philadelphia 76ers jumped to a 10-0 start last season, they made it clear in November where they expected to be in June -- at the NBA Finals.
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| Oct 26, 2001
Larry Brown wanted everyone to know this wasn't about flaunting a situation at Pat Croce, it was about an attempt to markedly improve the 76ers.
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| Oct 26, 2001
"It's business; I knew that coming into the league, I know it now,'' said Lynch, who signed with the Sixers as a free agent in January 1999.
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| Oct 26, 2001
"Derrick has talked to me for two years about coming back here,'' Brown said.
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| Oct 25, 2001
The Sixers concluded their 1-6 preseason with a dismal 81-65 home loss to the San Antonio Spurs last night.
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| Oct 25, 2001
This was the 76ers' preseason that ended with a whimper last night, in an 81-65 loss to the visiting San Antonio Spurs.
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| Oct 25, 2001
Three-team deal confirmed
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| Oct 24, 2001
It's no longer a question of when Robert "Tractor" Traylor will recognize the opportunity the 76ers have given him; it is whether he will.
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| Oct 24, 2001
John Smallwood of the Philadelphia daily News reports that the Sixers have gotten the word on the rehab time for one of their walking wounded, and it isn't good.
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| Oct 24, 2001
Well, it is finally official.
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| Oct 23, 2001
Washington Wizards swingman Michael Jordan showed that his game is coming back to him and did it without pouring in an arena full of points.
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| Oct 23, 2001
But even with Jordan, the Wizards could not beat the Sixers, who finally won a preseason game, 91-87.
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| Oct 23, 2001
This section opens with an obligatory preface: The following rumor comes from Peter Vecsey.
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| Oct 22, 2001
Phil Jasner of the Philadelphia daily News reports that Larry Brown and Billy King are working the phones in an attempt to improve an ailing Sixers team.
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| Oct 22, 2001
Mutombo and the Sixers will see Jordan again tonight, but the "legend," as Mutombo calls No.
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| Oct 21, 2001
Miami, here I come..
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| Oct 21, 2001
Miami or Philadelphia?
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| Oct 21, 2001
With the start of the regular season nearly upon them, the mounting casualty list for the Sixers is becoming a legitimate cause for concern.
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| Oct 21, 2001
The real story of last night took place before the doors opened to Sovereign Bank Arena before the Sixers fell to the Utah Jazz by a 96-86 margin as the work crews tried to convert this hockey arena into a temporary basketball home.
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| Oct 21, 2001
Only a few months removed from the sight of Dikembe Mutombo sticking his face into Shaquille O'Neal's elbows, the Philadelphia 76ers have finally toppled the Los Angeles Lakers.
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| Oct 21, 2001
Strickland decided that he would head to South Beach to play with center Alonzo Mourning and for coach Pat Riley instead of with a friend in Allen Iverson and for a former coach in Larry Brown.
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| Oct 21, 2001
Brown never has been in the situation he is now.
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| Oct 20, 2001
At that point in time when all of the pieces are supposed to be falling into place, the 76ers are only in pieces.
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| Oct 19, 2001
Strickland and Coleman in Philly? Together?!?
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| Oct 19, 2001
Given their accumulation of injuries, the 76ers need help at point guard and power forward.
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| Oct 19, 2001
Right now, the kid is all they have at the position where the game begins.
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| Oct 19, 2001
(AP) At the midpoint of the preseason, the list of injured NBA players — which already includes Antonio McDyess and Chris Webber — keeps growing.
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| Oct 18, 2001
Brown returned to Kansas for the 100-year celebration of basketball at the university.
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| Oct 18, 2001
Snow replaced by Strickland?
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| Oct 18, 2001
With the 76ers reeling after another disturbing injury and their third consecutive loss of the preseason, Dikembe Mutombo addressed the skeleton squad, those who, unlike Eric Snow and Allen Iverson and Aaron McKie and George Lynch, are not held together by bandages or surgical screws.
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| Oct 17, 2001
Snow's return: thumbs down
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| Oct 16, 2001
Brown expects to see a lot of zones, but not to use many.
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| Oct 16, 2001
Mourning the death of a close friend, Allen Iverson did not travel with the 76ers yesterday to San Antonio for their exhibition game with the Spurs tonight.
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| Oct 15, 2001
Andy Schwartz of ComcastSportsNet reports that the Sixers are still searching for who will play along side Dikembe Mutombo in the frontcourt.
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| Oct 15, 2001
The Sixers will take their memories of the fire station at 48th Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan with them wherever they go, snapshots indelibly etched in their consciousness.
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| Oct 15, 2001
A groomsman in Allen Iverson's August wedding was found shot to death early yesterday in Newport News, Va.
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| Oct 15, 2001
'Tracy McGrady recently was asked to name the best player in the NBA.
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| Oct 14, 2001
They still have heart and hustle, but keeping the magic that touched last season will not be easy.
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| Oct 14, 2001
At head coach Larry Brown's urging, the Sixers visited the firefighters at Fire Station No.
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| Oct 13, 2001
The good X-ray news for 76ers forward George Lynch is that the negatives from Thursday's tomogram on his re-injured left foot showed no fracture.
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| Oct 12, 2001
Alvin Jones, who was the second of the Sixers' second-round picks in June's NBA Draft, realizes Dikembe Mutombo, Matt Geiger and Robert "Tractor" Traylor are likely to handle the bulk of the center and power forward minutes.
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| Oct 12, 2001
Snow is improving
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| Oct 11, 2001
During the summer, Raja Bell proved he belongs with the Sixers.
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| Oct 10, 2001
Dirk Nowitski scored 16 points and Tim Hardaway added 13, leading the Dallas Mavericks to a 96-87 victory over the 76ers tonight in the preseason opener for both teams.
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| Oct 10, 2001
THE FULL SURGE of electricity will flow through the 76ers when Allen Iverson and Aaron McKie come back from their arthroscopic surgeries.
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| Oct 9, 2001
Iverson and McKie played one-on-one, with Iverson prevailing by 10-8 when he drove past McKie and threw up a perfect lefty layup.
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| Oct 9, 2001
Michael Jordan's home opener for the Washington Wizards on Nov.
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| Oct 8, 2001
NBC will broadcast the Washington Wizards' home opener against the defending Eastern Conference champion Philadelphia 76ers and the Dec.
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| Oct 8, 2001
The role Claxton will serve has not yet been determined.
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| Oct 8, 2001
The Michael Jordan trickle-down effect is in full operation.
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| Oct 8, 2001
Last week, as the 76ers opened training camp at Penn State, George Lynch said he had no intention of playing power forward once he returns from a left-foot fracture suffered during the playoffs last season.
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| Oct 7, 2001
"I'm the type of guy that if we play a zone, I'm convinced that everybody we play against is going to make every outside shot," Brown said.
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| Oct 6, 2001
After two fractures and after two surgeries, the last a few days after the 76ers lost in the NBA Finals, Eric Snow is recovering, aware that the ankle most likely never will be 100 percent while he continues playing.
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| Oct 6, 2001
The waiting is finally over for Speedy Claxton.
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| Oct 5, 2001
Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald reports: For now, the Heat will not sign a veteran point guard.
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| Oct 5, 2001
Philadelphia is going to have a very hard time duplicating last season's 56 victories and finishing at the top of the East.
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| Oct 5, 2001
Herb Brown has joined Maurice Cheeks' staff in Portland.
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| Oct 5, 2001
After three days of training camp, though, Brown praised Traylor's savvy and skills.
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| Oct 4, 2001
M*A*S*H* was never like this.
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| Oct 4, 2001
By all accounts, Claxton has brought his quickness and a healthy knee to training camp.
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| Oct 3, 2001
"I'm trying to go as hard as I can go," he said after the Sixers' morning practice session, which because of myriad injuries to key players resembled a summer-team scrimmage instead of a preview of the defending Eastern Conference champions.
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| Oct 3, 2001
How will Alonzo's kidney hold up with an 82 game season on the horizon?
I'm through with it," says Allen Iverson on the topic of his rap CD, which he has decided not to release.
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| Oct 2, 2001
It's last call for "40 Bars.
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| Oct 2, 2001
Ashley McGeachy of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes that Dikembe Mutombo is not impressed.
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| Oct 2, 2001
The latest arrival was 6-7 Michael Smith, a tenacious rebounder with seven seasons of experience - three-plus with Sacramento, parts of two seasons with Vancouver and the last two with Washington.
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| Oct 2, 2001
"We've been dealing with that for so long,'' the Sixers' Aaron McKie said, sighing deeply.
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| Oct 2, 2001
In what could serve as a slogan for what is to come this time around, Allen Iverson declared: "We're not going to have any easy nights.
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| Oct 2, 2001
Sixers coach Larry Brown acknowledged yesterday that the absence of Iverson and McKie would be "a setback" and that "we have a lot of issues out there we have to address.
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| Oct 2, 2001
The transformation is complete.
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