Though O'Neal won four championships - a total that places him among the game's greats - we will always wonder how much more he could have done had he been a little more accommodating, a little more dedicated, a little less antagonistic.
In the wider art world, traditional scholarship is beginning to accommodate science a little more willingly.
It's hard to envision, but Bellosguardo — where the "garage" was large enough to accommodate a ballroom — was a modest little place by the standards of the Clark family.
During negotiations, they accommodated me a little, but not much.
To accommodate Joel, Skip made a little plywood box that just fit on the parcel shelf behind the seats, and Barbara padded it.
"I guess we could accommodate them for a little while, but they can't stay". Michael Brick contributed reporting from Brooklyn for this article.
Certainly the herding of the extras from place to place and the setting up of chairs and tables to accommodate them is a little distracting.
Elsewhere, we encounter an elderly lady who finds a way to accommodate the little people she has begun to see everywhere, another woman is mistaken for a vampire and – perhaps most intriguingly – a 1.9 billion-year-old Arctic stromatolite helps to revenge an old crime.
It should be noted, though, that a properly cut model will accommodate little more than a dress shirt and a light sweater: no suit jacket, no bulky knits and no carbs.
