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Jamie Squire, Gary Bassing, Rocky Widner / Getty Images Shareef Abdur-Rahim s NBA teams lost a lot more often than they won, but at peaks among the valleys, the retired forward positioned himself in the presence of greatness. He was drafted third overall in 1996, two picks behind Allen Iverson and ahead of Ray Allen, Kobe Bryant, and Steve Nash. As a Team USA bench player at the 2000 Olympics, he saw Vince Carter, ball cocked overhead, vault a 7-foot-2 Frenchman and slam. At All-Star Weekend in 2002, his lone appearance on the stage, he wandered courtside during a lull in Philadelphia and shook hands with a childhood idol, Muhammad Ali. ....