While Burke may be the most-watched player in the second game, all eyes figure to be on Ware in the opener, even though he'll never touch a basketball.

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"It is something that he has wanted to do for a while, " Burke said.

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Consider that when freestyle skier Sarah Burke died while training for the 2012 Winter X Games, her contemporaries honored her memory by throwing down stunts in a halfpipe just like the one that caused her death.

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