The corporate suite is filled with tributes to “Big Al,” including family photos, magazine spreads, editorial cartoons and even the 1989 proclamation from New Orleans City Hall declaring June 28 to be “Alvin Copeland Day.”

He hit the floor hard and assuming wrongly that Kite had also taken him down (or with some sort of built-in anger at him), Worthy came up swinging at Kite as both teams rushed to separate the pair. Earvin Johnson tried to grab the furious Worthy but couldn’t quite hold him back.

Perhaps another short passage from Strom’s book also helps explain the unfair ruling. After he called a flagrant foul against a Hawk player for undercutting Michael Jordan in the late 1980s, someone from the Atlanta bench yelled an oft-thought observation about NBA referees at the veteran official.

“Maddow’s Russia coverage has dwarfed the time devoted to other top issues, including Trump’s escalating crackdown on undocumented immigrants (1.3 percent of coverage); Obamacare repeal (3.8 percent); the legal battle over Trump’s Muslim ban (5.6 percent), a surge of anti-GOP activism and town halls since Trump took office (5.8 percent), and Trump administration scandals and stumbles (11 percent).”

A few moments later, Bird gave a fake pass near the left elbow and lost the ball in a crowd, and it trickled out of bounds. The normally non-demonstrative Bird gestured with his arms and angrily claimed he was fouled to Strom, who noted in his book that "Bird is very smart at picking his spots. Generally he has his say and it’s over. He is a throwback to the old players, he doesn’t harp and harp."

From the perspective of many people inside the department, the report was “exactly what the department is supposed to do, which is inform and educate our stakeholders about what we see as a threat,” Kayyem says. “This was not a political document.”

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