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He was the most noticeable player in the tournament. Many of the other matches, in their delicacy and grace, looked like some esoteric form of physical debate; Newlin’s matches resembled somewhat restrained brawls involving a ball and a hoop. When all the dust had cleared, Mike finished third, beaten finally by Bob Lanier of Detroit, who at 6’11” and 250 pounds was both tall and powerful enough to meet Newlin’s concentrated fury with calm precision. Mike’s skill at one-on-one developed early, since he learned basketball not as a team sport but as an individual one. His family lived in Portland, Oregon, until Mike was fourteen, when his father, a site negotiator for Safeway, was transferred to Southern California. In Oregon Mike’s first love was baseball; but when his family moved to La Canada, a small community near Pasadena, they arrived too late for Mike to go out for Pony League. Instead he spent the summer shooting baskets in a park not far from his new hom ....