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Salvatore Pane

John Starks

Salvatore Pane
John Starks

There’s a glitch in NBA Jam only John Starks knows about. He sits in the dark in his duplex, the gummy carpet littered with empty forties and dead blunts. He selects his old squad, the New York Knicks, and chooses himself as the playable character. He looks at his face onscreen—grinning fifty years earlier—and taps in the code. In the twilight of his life, John Starks has discovered how to summon Michael Jordan in NBA Jam. Jordan refused to lend his likeness to the NBA Jam developers because … [Read more...] about John Starks

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