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The Last Great Escape – the NBA in 2020

Jazz Center Rudy Gobert was on my fantasy team this year but the first time I actually saw him on TV was in March. Crouched like a daddy long legs over a podium, he wiped his hands on the press conference mics to make a joke about the Coronavirus Pandemic. He later became the first NBA player diagnosed with COVID-19, leading to the cancellation of the season. It was his most dominating performance of the season. The cancellation of the NBA …

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The Third State Solution

I woke up hungover in downtown Austin on Juneteenth 2002, three months before I moved to Israel for the first time. I called my pop from a payphone and waited for him across the street, at a park where a church was having a BBQ or a picnic. A nice older woman gave me an orange soda and offered me a plate, perhaps seeing what state I was in. I chugged the can and waited for my pop, but by the …

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