John McDonough

Playoff Prep

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The best shooters are as competitive as the athletes they cover, so SI helps them keep score (and, yes, this list includes Joe DiMaggio, but, no, it's not the Yankee Clipper)

Mike Ditka mangled it. Bea Arthur smoked it. Mel Gibson risked his life trying to do it. *NSync asked to do it. Oprah refuses to do it. On a 90° day Joe Frazier froze in the middle of it.

For this year's NBA preview issue we constructed Frankenshaq, the perfect center to take on the NBA's reigning monster, Shaquille O'Neal, and it fell to photo editor Marguerite Schropp Lucarelli (left) to collect the...