Opportunity Shots

Greg Anthony for the Hall of Fame? Sure, the Expansion Hall of Fame. Last June's expansion draft provided a new lease on life for point guard Anthony, who went from the Knicks, for whom he averaged a mere 6.1 points and 15.5 minutes in 1994-95, to the Grizzlies, for whom, through Sunday, his numbers had, er, expanded to 16.4 and 31.9. This put Anthony on a pace to join a select group: players on first-year expansion, teams whose scoring averages jumped 10.0 points or more from their numbers in the previous season.

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