SI Vault Driving For a Title Jack McCallum May 11, 1992 Clyde
Drexler, now no worse than the NBA's No. 2 player, is gearing up
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CoverRead All Articles View This Issue  Contrary to popular
belief, the Portland Trail Blazers are not a collection of dour
souls waiting nervously and irritably for their inevitable fall.
Consider their warmup drill before what turned out to be the
finale of their first-round Western Conference series against
the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday afternoon. Inspired by the
college atmosphere in the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas,
to which Game 4 had been moved to escape the civil turmoil in
Los Angeles (page 24), Clyde Drexler, Jerome Kersey, Cliff
Robinson and Alaa Abdelnaby engaged in a Vegas-style show of
dunking one-upmanship designed to win friends and influence
people. "I admit it," said Drexler after the game, which ended
in a 102-76 Trail Blazer rout, "we