That year, the league champion Los Angeles Lakers drafted the Hall of Famer James Worthy at No. 1. Worthy played immediately, but he was 21 and had three years of college experience at North Carolina.
The Knicks had their own highlight-reel worthy plays, from Bill Walker's dunk over Bogut to Landry Fields's slamming in Wilson Chandler's missed shot.
While "The Model Apartment" had a brief, non-commercial run Off Broadway, some worthy plays travel the regional theater circuit, never getting to be known, sometimes in a perpetual state of revision.
Even in its floundering days, the little theater cum gallery went for broke, staking its claim to mostly non-mainstream fare, at times distressingly undoing an otherwise worthy play by overreaching with wrong-headed casting, or stilted direction.
It seems odd that a worthy play like David Feldshuh's "Miss Evers Boyss," which has been seen often around the country since its premiere in 1989 and was adapted into an Emmy-winning television movie, is only now getting to New York.
It was decided there were no worthy plays that year.
The veteran Gerard Warren is also worthy of playing time.
Hubert Sumlin was the man worthy of playing guitar next to Howlin' Wolf for many years.
"We'll see who takes the challenge," D'Antoni said of finding other backups worthy of playing time.
— When Coach Mike D'Antoni considered the Lakers, he noted that their roster had stars worthy of playing in Los Angeles.
Torres, Mapletoft and Godard are scrappers by comparison, and Laviolette said each proved he was worthy of playing with the Islanders.
