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As the world's top professional basketball league gears up for Sunday's preseason launch in Mexico City, National Basketball Association officials are hinting at permanent expansion south of the border.

While college may be the first stage the general public sees of an NBA player's career, there is much more behind a player's journey to the NBA.

Throughout the Suns' wild ride to the precipice of a playoff berth, head coach Alvin Gentry has insisted he does not believe in "must-win" games because what do you tell your team if you lose? "So if it's a must-win situation today and we lose, do we not go to Utah and play?" Gentry asked before the Suns did indeed lose to the Nuggets on Saturday.

One of the less-hyped events of the action-packed NBA All-Star Weekend 2012 is the Sprite Slam Dunk Showdown.

In the spirit of HP's own NBA historian, Curtis Harris, today we have a very special guest who takes a look back at an historic time in the NBA: One of the most dynamic offensive battles to have ever taken place in the game of basketball.