{"id":4034,"date":"2009-06-07T06:56:06","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T10:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4034"},"modified":"2009-06-07T06:56:06","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T10:56:06","slug":"family-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/family-affair","title":{"rendered":"Family Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"

This piece by baseball player Doug Glanville on how little players know about their teammates’ lives<\/a> reminded me of the story about how Michael Jordan was shocked to discover that his teammate Steve Kerr’s father had been shot to death<\/a>, albeit under much different circumstances than Jordan’s dad’s shooting death (PLO vs. two of the dumbest criminals ever<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I can’t recall if Jordan learned about that common bond before or after punching Kerr in the face during practice for guarding him too tightly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This piece by baseball player Doug Glanville on how little players know about their teammates’ lives reminded me of the story about how Michael Jordan was shocked to discover that his teammate Steve Kerr’s father had been shot to death, albeit under much different circumstances than Jordan’s dad’s shooting death (PLO vs. two of the … <\/p>\n

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