DENNIS JOHNSON was a calm 24-year-old when he sat up in his bed in his hotel room in Washington. It was after the first game of the 1979 National Basketball Association finals. The calm might have seemed peculiar. His Seattle Supersonics had lost the first game to the Washington Bullets. The year before, the Sonics lost to the Bullets for ... (Full article: 758 words)

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