Greg Minor

Fathering out-of-wedlock kids has become commonplace among athletes, many of whom seem oblivious to the legal, financial and emotional consequences

2,500,000Average annual salary, in dollars, earned by Boston Celtics guard Greg Minor under the five-year contract he signed before last season.

On Jan. 27,1976, professional basketball's first slam-dunk contest was held at the ABA All-Star Game in Denver and won by a mightily Afro'd Julius Erving, then a New York Net. Twenty years later the dunk's in a bit...