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It sounds like the 1952 NBA All-Star Game, which featured Paul Arizin and Max Zaslofsky.

It sounds like the 1971 champion Milwaukee Bucks, who had Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Zopf.

It sounds like the history of Lithuanian centers, from Arvydas Sabonis to Zydrunas Ilgauskas.

It also sounds like a good way to take a look at the 2009-10 NBA season:

LAS VEGAS -- Roddy Beaubois has turned a lot of heads thus far in summer league play, but late in the game on Monday, it was for all the wrong reasons: he hit the deck hard with less than a minute left in the game, grabbing his left knee while writhing on the floor in obvious pain.

Beaubois was eventually helped off the court by a pair of Mavericks' trainers, careful not to put any weight on his left leg.

While everyone else in the gym was fearing the worse, Beaubois knew it wasn't serious -- just extremely painful. "I just bumped knee to knee," he told reporters, speaking with a bag of ice taped to his knee. "I had a previous injury [there], so it just hurt. But it's not bad, it's not bad."