Editor's note: This is a part of an occasional USA TODAY Sports series on the best moments, teams, players and figures in sports over the last 25 years. There's a long legacy of Hall of Famers ...

Eventually, they became elite, indispensable, a team’s best hope for transcendence. The best became franchise cornerstones, perennial all-stars, household names, MVPs. And then there were the true ...

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