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 Upon
conceiving this book, I wondered how it would hang together—how
one chapter would bind itself to the next, and whether some sort
of story line, or recurring characters, would emerge. As it turned
out, Doc Naismith became a leitmotif. So did the dualism implicit
in the backdoor, Princeton’s signature play. But one man kept
cropping up again and again: Vlade Divac, the Serb who plays for
the NBA’s Sacramento Kings.Seeing him once more at the European Championships in Paris, suiting up for a country that had so recently been the target of NATO attacks, provided a chance to mull over basketball’s potential to forestall conflict and breach cultural barriers. I took it as a hopeful sign that, even before the dying days of the Milosevic regime, Divac had aligned himself with the reformers who would ultimately seize power. Here Divac proudly wears the gold medal he helped win for Yugoslavia at the European Championships in Rome in 1991, just as the wars of his country’s destruction began.  TWENTY-FIVE:
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