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25 Things We Miss In Basketball
1. Al McGuire
McGuire was not a color man, he was a poet. He took a televised basketball game and turned it into performance art. Big centers were “aircraft carriers.” A flashy, unnecessary move was “French pastry.” Traveling resulted from the insensitive (but innocently phrased) “Chinese steps.” You had to rely on “your seniors.” When a game was out of reach, it was “curtains,” and for the winners it was “seashells and balloons.” If you want to make the argument that every former coach or player dropped in front of a microphone tries to be a “personality” nowadays, you wouldn't be wrong, but in college basketball, every one of them owes a debt to McGuire. He did it first, and not to make his voice louder than the rest, but just because it was him. —Tim Layden