Ceballos Quotes

Inside the Lakers’ locker room, the reaction was subdued euphoria. Ceballos was an obnoxious brat who played no defense and went AWOL. Horry, on the other hand, was a 6-foot-9 outside gunner (he was a lifetime 34 percent three-point shooter) and low-post defender joining an operation in need of long-range shooting and low-post defense. It was a trade that, by NBA standards, generated little attention. It was a trade that changed everything. Suddenly, instead of being a towel-throwing pain on an 11-24 team going nowhere fast, Horry was a coveted piece of a first-place club that sat 17 games over .500. During his first four NBA seasons, all with the Rockets, Horry had learned how to play with Hakeem Olajuwon, the 7-foot, 255-pound Nigerian center. He knew his job was to feed off the big man, and that a box score where Olajuwon scored 30 and Horry scored 12 usually meant Houston won. Now, with the Lakers, he was more than happy to acknowledge O’Neal’s place as the center of the basketball universe.

Tanto hizo Bolívar con la elocuencia como con la espada; sabía transfigurar a quien le escuchaba. Las tropas oyeron de sus labios palabras de fuego que las inflamaron hasta la ira: había que vengar a la vanguardia que acababa de ser sacrificada por el enemigo; el grito de los compañeros moribundos exigía retaliación; la crueldad de los realistas, la hostilidad de las guerrillas enemigas, diseminadas en todas direcciones, imponían la victoria, nada más que la victoria; era el hecho presionante, en momentos en que toda Venezuela y el mundo se disponían a aplaudir a los triunfadores. ¡Viva Bolívar! ¡Viva Venezuela! ¡Viva la libertad!, gritó el ejército, electrizado por la vehemente arenga. Y partió al trágico encuentro. Comandaban al enemigo, superior en fuerzas, los generales españoles Ceballos y Yáñez.

objetivo de una obra dramática es la verdad,