My New All-time Favorite NBA Player

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As the 2021–2022 National Basketball Association season begins, I think back to all the players whose careers I have followed through the last 60 years or so. Some of them are truly great players whose accomplishments will never be matched. Others, meanwhile, were players from the area where I live, so I had a long, rooting interest in their basketball exploits. My newest favorite player falls into that latter category, but…