All-Star weekend puts focus on Big Easy (AP)
Published 2/14/2008 at Yahoo! Sports - NBA News
Reminiscing about record crowds and the excitement of working in the NBA should be expected from someone like Bill Bertka, a longtime scouting director for the Los Angeles Lakers. Yet the topic of discussion wasn't all those Lakers championships. It was his stint as an executive for the New Orleans Jazz in the 1970s.
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