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| | Charles Barkley - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | It was a humbler, portlier, more emotional Charles Barkley who said goodbye to the sport of basketball April 19, the last day of the NBA regular season and the final night of his roundball career, which had spanned 16 riveting, often maddening, always dramatic years. |
 | | Barkley had blown out a knee in December, playing for the Houston Rockets in Philadelphia, where his pro career began in 1984. |
 | | And then he took the microphone, and the Charles Barkley I'd gotten to know a decade ago emerged, the one behind the macho pose. |
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