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But that’s the thing about basketball: you don’t play games on paper.

Bill Simmons

Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams.
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Different Generation Happiest Member Movement People Some
There’s a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams .
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Basketball Drawn Kinda Play Soccer Teamwork Tipping
In 1994, nobody could have predicted ‘Shawshank’ would one day be an iconic movie – and believe me, that would never have happened if Danny Glover had been Red instead of Morgan Freeman.
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Believe Day Happened One Red
If you have a privately owned system, there’s going to be monies leaving the community that will go towards shareholder dividends and high salaries.
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Communication Community Leaving Morning
I think one of the great things about a football season is that you see teams play in all types of environments, and if you can’t handle one of them, you probably don’t deserve to win anyway.
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Environmental Football Probably Season Team Winning
I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. 30 for 30 had a big impact because I loved how that was about finding, empowering and working with these incredible directors, and I thought the same thing could work for writers.
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Empowering Impact Same Sports Time Work
One of my favorite things about basketball is that you can’t break it down into some sort of science that makes total sense.
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Basketball Favorites Sense Things Total
like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics – teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.
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Brook Lopez had a better game than Deron Williams
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Coffee is the highlight of my day. After coffee everything is downhill.
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Coffee Day Downhill Everything Highlights
You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn’t care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers.
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Always Perspective Proves Sports Tragedy
Anytime someone calls you and identifies themselves with their full name, odds are it isn’t someone you want to talk to under any circumstances.
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Don’t worry about what other people are doing. Worry about what you’re doing.
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Has there ever been anyone quite like Paul Pierce ? No.
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But that’s the thing about basketball: you don’t play games on paper.
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Basketball Games Inspirational
I’m going the other way – sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.
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Everything Going Other Perspective Sometimes Way

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