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Welcome to the Morning Shootaround, where every weekday you’ll get a fresh, topical column from one of
’s NBA writers: Howard Beck on Mondays, Chris Mannix on Tuesdays, Michael Pina on Wednesdays, Chris Herring on Thursdays and Rohan Nadkarni on Fridays.
The most striking thing about the pandemonium that swept through Portland’s Moda Center on an April night in 2019 was that the man who sparked the happy mayhem did not participate in it.
Damian Lillard stood stoic, indifferent to it all. It’s there on tape, and in the iconic snapshot that followed his 37-foot, buzzer-beating, series-clinching shot to beat the Thunder in the first round of the playoffs.
The trials of Justise Winslow
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Do you know anyone that was simply born to do what they do for a living?
Justise Winslow is one of those people. Winslow is the youngest of a family filled with athletes. His older brother Josh was a football player at Dartmouth, his older sister Bianca was a basketball player at Houston. The Winslow name and University of Houston basketball are forever synonymous though due to Winslow’s father, Rickie, a member of the most famous fraternity outside of the Divine 9 - Phi Slama Jama - the renowned 1980’s Houston Cougars teams that made two NCAA Championship appearances led by Clyde Drexler and then named “Akeem” Olajuwon.
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On Sunday night, the short film “Two Distant Strangers” was awarded the Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film. Among the list of Executive Producers on the film is Utah Jazz All-Star point guard Mike Conley. Brooklyn Nets star, Kevin Durant, was another Executive Producer on the short. Conley and Durant join Kobe Bryant as NBA All-Stars to win Academy Awards. “Two Distant Strangers” carries a powerful message. The Utah Jazz recently watched the short film together as a team, and Quin Snyder described the film as “Impactful and timely”.
For those looking to watch “Two Distant Strangers”, it can be found on Netflix, and lasts only 32 minutes.