Kobe Bryant, the Lakers' 23-year-old guard-of-all-trades, was already starting to get Jordan's number in 1998.
After I met Li I found myself looking through photos of the all-female Amazonian Guards of flamboyant Libyan despot Muammar Gaddafi.
About the time the 34-year-old All-Star guard of the Indiana Pacers reaches his first N.B.A. finals and returns home to his native Los Angeles, he has to play the nouveau California kids -- Kobe and Shaquille.
The other freshmen, all guards, are Ashley Battle of Pittsburgh, Maria Conlon of Seymour, Conn., and Morgan Valley of Colchester, Vt.
A control group consisted of all guards (n = 20) from the gates of the factory, which is 500 meters away from the production area.
"They are the guards of all the inefficiencies," said one man, pointing at rows of soldiers alongside their armoured cars, policing a protest about electricity shortages in the camp.
As the 18th century British philosopher Jeremy Bentham neatly put it, open justice is the "keenest spur to exertion and the surest of all guards against improbity".
While Kareem put up a whopping 38,387 points during his playing days, I can't look past the fact that he spent a good chunk of his career receiving passes from Oscar Robertson and Magic Johnson, the two greatest point guards of all time.
Under Thomas one of the greatest point guards of all time, and owner of an incredibly creepy smile the organization flubbed draft picks, chased overpaid veterans, and lost millions of dollars thanks to a sexual harassment lawsuit.
Now, Payton, the All-Star point guard of the Milwaukee Bucks, and Kidd, the All-Star point guard of the Nets, will duel in the first round of the playoffs.
