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Rookies are not supposed to want the ball when the game is gone. Hersey Hawkins never seemed to get that message. Philadelphia traded blows with Houston all night on January 7, 1989, and with his team down two in the closing seconds, the first-year guard stepped behind the arc and let it go. The triple dropped for a 96-95 win. Charles Barkley did the heavy work inside with 22 points and 12 rebounds, but the ending belonged to the sixth overall pick, who closed the year on the All-Rookie First Team and built a 14,470-point career on exactly that kind of nerve. Hawkins finished with 31 points and four rebounds on 12-of-18 shooting.
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