As a national college basketball …

As a national college basketball superstar at Virginia in the early 1980s, Ralph Sampson played against a young Michael Jordan and many other stars. “In college you’re playing against Gene Banks, and Albert King, Buck Williams, Al Woods and every team had an NBA player,” Sampson said on Sunday. “You had that, so you didn’t worry about Michael Jordan back then because every night you’d get your tail beat if you weren’t ready to play.”