THE ZAPPER

John Walters

November 09, 1998

NBA players are threatening to boycott interviewers from NBC and Turner Sports when their season starts because they feel the networks are siding with the owners by paying rights fees during the lockout. No sweat for NBC, which has a plan: Place a cardboard cutout of Michael Jordan next to Ahmad Rashad, himself a nearly lifelike figure, and play a sound bite of MJ saying, "That's just Dennis being Dennis" or "We need to get the supporting cast involved."