Episode 3: The Four Freedoms Ticket of 1941

Michael Jordan at World Basketball Festival at Rucker Playground, Harlem

The 2010 World Basketball Summit

For fans like me, the amazing basketball events of last week — beautifully staged by Nike and the Basketball Hall of Fame, from Harlem to Springfield and back — might as well have been called the “World Basketball Orgy.”

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John Isaacs and some friends at the Madison Avenue Boys and Girls Club in the Bronx, August 2003.

Isaacs Free Throws

As with any long-lived icon of sports, culture, and history, it is nearly impossible to encapsulate all of the thoughts and remembrances of people into one service, one article, one story, one comment. So, I will continue to share topics relating to John Isaacs from time to time, starting with these.

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