Jim O'Donnell reflects on an unexpected interaction between a storied basketball player and writer.
Or at least, intersect.
Besides, young Magic Johnson was regaling all who wished to be regaled a few lockers away. He was the effervescent point pilot making the Lakers prime time again. The Bulls -- their final edition before the entrance of Michael Jordan -- were merely road rubble. "Lefty" will go in along with Seth Davis of CBS and The Athletic, the pioneering Lesley Visser of The Boston Globe and later CBS, Kevin Scarbinsky and Grant Wahl, the Sports Illustrated comet who died so sadly at age 49 last December while covering the World Cup in Qatar.
"Bob was such a professional," said Moran, who now serves as a professor and director of the Sports Capital Journalism program at IUPUI in Indianapolis. He gained national respect as a mainstay on the sports staffs of The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune and USA Today.
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