SUMMER GAMES SPOTLIGHT : BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS : SECOND-STRING MAGIC
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He and Larry Bird played together on an all-star team in 1978 but were second-teamers.
Who started ahead of them?
Bird played behind Rutgers’ James Bailey, and Johnson behind Kentucky’s Kyle Macy.
Bird was going into his senior year at Indiana State, Johnson his sophomore year at Michigan State.
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