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In 2001, after lengthy consternation (Don + Walt bribed Rolling Stone founder/perv Jann Wenner with a large 3M digital recording machine, $10,000, and “a crate of homemade honey mustard”), Steely Dan were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the same good company as Queen. Fun
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Sixers can't just be normal0:00/2001× (Never Too Much podcast: Brooklyn and the best of Kyrie, Pau Gasol retires, Kelly brags about being flown to Orlando.) If you’re a Sixers fan, fine. Continue gnawing on your elbow. The rest of us? I think we’re supposed
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Boston acquired Paul Pierce with the tenth selection in 1998’s NBA draft and it was inexplicable then just as now. Nine different teams thought they’d selected the top overall prospect and only Dallas’ gamble was correct. The draft wasn’t a cautionary tale, nobody was in on a
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Funny Norm Macdonald0:00/2001× (Never Too Much podcast: what it was like to be a big ol’ fan of Norm MacDonald in 1996, why Tuesday was the only good day Twitter ever had, click ‘Listen in podcast app’ to subscribe.) You got the feeling that Norm MacDonald’s favorite
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PREVIOUSLY: Reworking the NBA’s Top 50 list : The Next 25 1. Michael Jordan — probably literally “wanted it more.” 2. LeBron James — just holding this spot down for Bronnie. 3. Bill Russell — was eating an ice cream sandwich when I met him, and what kind of a jerk interrupts a
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The NBA re-formatting its old Top 50 list into a new Top 75 list feels like a cop-out. The NBA intended 1996’s collection as a forever-list when it was published, that’s why voters included Shaq after only four seasons, why switch saddles in 2021? Don’t switch Shaq
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