EVANS MAKING MARK WITH KINGS GREAT LEAPER JUMPED ALL OVER GLOBE, LANDED IN SACRAMENTO.(Sports)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: January 26, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: JOE DAVIDSON Sacramento Bee

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Early on, Maurice Evans relied on artificial lifts to find his rarified air.

Some cinderblocks, a block of wood, anything to get that extra elevation to reach the rim in his front-yard role of Michael Jordan.

Then one day, he didn't need the launching pads anymore. He had developed his own hops, with muscled calves, increased speed and improved timing. And the shaved head for the M.J. look...