For Readers and Writers, Here’s a Year of Best : No Repeat, Just Surrender
No team in the NBA, including Boston, can beat the Lakers, except the Lakers. This year the culprits seemed to be the 16-year jinx on champions repeating, Pat Riley and Mr. Clutch, Byron (Throw Up a Brick) Scott.
BRUCE ALAN
Sun Valley
Editor’s note: These letters represent many of the best received by The Times in 1986
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