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When Jerry Stackhouse entered the NBA during the first Clinton administration, he had a shaved head, hardly any stubble on his chin and displayed out-of-the-gym leaping ability in his signature Fila sneakers. Eighteen seasons later, with President Obama set to embark on his second term, Stackhouse still has a shaved head but now has gray hairs sprinkled into a fully-grown goatee and chooses layups over dunks in re-released models of those same shoes.
When he first pulled on his No. 42 jersey with the Philadelphia 76ers, Stackhouse didn’t realize he would be around long enough to see the NBA undergo so many transitions...
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