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No emotional farewell for stubborn Packer -

The Big Lead found this 7/15/2008 on newsday.com

"It just isn't," he said from his home in North Carolina. "I've never looked upon stuff like that." Um, how about a favorite game or other memory? No dice. And there will be no book, either. "I have things I want to do that are more productive than writing books, " he said. Packer, 68, would not say what those things are, but he is working on "some business projects involving basketball" and ...