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John Starks
John Levell Starks (born August 10, 1965) is a former basketball player who gained fame while playing for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association in the 1990s. Starks played basketball for several small colleges before finishing his collegiate career at Oklahoma State University. Undrafted, John worked his way into the NBA after stints in the CBA and the World Basketball League . John Starks performed one the most famous plays of Knicks basketball in the 1993 playoffs series against the Chicago Bulls. Starks became trapped in the Bulls' defense, split the defenders and dunked over Michael Jordan and Horace Grant.
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