“The attitude of society towards these phases lead to a withholding or granting of support. The lack of support would then obviously make it difficult to deal with the transition period of each phase. The individual is then forced to build only internal resources,” she said.

Finally feeling warmed up after being temporarily freed of the constant Laker defensive restraints, Bird ran through a series of screens and received a pass on the next Boston possession. He dribbled to his left, stepped back behind a McHale pick and drilled an 18-footer from the left wing to prompt a Laker timeout as the bulge reached 15 points.

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.

Whether he was or not, he had not committed the foul on the play. Coming off of his fine play in game three one might think he would get better treatment, but by 1987 his uncharitable reputation was firmly in place.

The daughter of “Baby Doll,” a female wrestling star from the 1980s, wrestled Jessie Bell from Kentucky, the daughter of early ’90s World Championship Wrestling (WCW) star Tracy Smothers.

As Strom later wrote, "the instant replay that was shown to all the million of viewers watching the Finals clearly showed Kareem had hit the ball. The only person in the place who had it wrong was my partner, who had the responsibility to make the call…Had he come up to me and discussed it, we would have been able to straighten it out."

Had Bird seen him, he could have leaned forward and almost certainly drawn a shooting foul as a panicked Worthy streaked by in front of him, fearing the worst. But Larry’s eyes were locked on the rim, and time was running short.

The Bolt was designed and engineered to give GM options. They’ll sell some, they’ll lease some, but they’ll also plug the Bolt into GM’s Maven mobility division and into its partnership with Lyft for ride-hailing. They’ll build in self-driving technologies developed both in-house and technologies acquired through the company’s purchase of Silicon Valley startup Cruise Automation.

A person’s willingness to brawl was a point of pride. Some of the most ardent fighters, many of them felons, became celebrities in their own right, offered speaking slots at rallies, where their V.I.P. status earned them police protection. The Rise Above Movement, led in part by a gang member who had gone to prison for an attack, turned beat-downs into an art form, which they promoted on YouTube, drawing recruits. Nathan Damigo, a former Marine who was incarcerated for five years for armed robbery, used footage of his punching a young woman in the face during a Berkeley protest as a recruiting video for his white-nationalist organization, Identity Evropa. The Proud Boys went as far as to create an entire culture around gang-style rituals, including initiation beatings.

He had beaten Thompson with the same move earlier in the half, but this time he foolishly did it with Cooper and Jabbar all over him. Sensing the chance to strike and change the game, LA quickly leaked out on the break, Johnson penetrated and instead of taking it all the way to the hoop against the retreating defense, he cagily threw the ball BACK out to Cooper.

Riley was incensed by the call, but Sichting had given the leggy Cooper room to turn and step before running into him. It was another example of the feisty 6-1 Purdue guard making a smart play sacrificing his body, and a reason why he should have been given more minutes. In addition to his deadly (and more consistent outside shooting than Ainge), he was a very good passer and ballhandler rarely prone to turnovers, and a scrappy defender.

The refusal to name the attack as “terrorism” was, in some critics’ eyes, a crucial misstep that would have far broader implications. “I was very pleased when the Obama administration started and said, We’re not going to use the phrase ‘war on terror,’ ” says Erroll Southers, a former F.B.I. agent and now director of the Safe Communities Institute at the University of Southern California. “I think the Obama people decided, O.K., we’re not going to call it ‘terrorism,’ thinking it was a good thing. The problem was they didn’t realize how much it emboldened the other side and gave them political cover.”