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The goalposts always move for me. We got a top-five defense, and it's like I've heard nothing about it. ... I do think I should be on an All-Defensive team. I feel like that's understood. But people might try to pick other dudes or whatever the case may be. They try to use anything. I don't even know what the criteria is anymore because at first it was about winning, and then you got guys that aren't winning that are on the team.

You got people that are alcoholics, you got people that are drug addicts and stuff like that. What was Zion's problem? Food! Food addict!

Billups and Jones are accused of luring unsuspecting players to poker games rigged by the mob. They and the rest of the defendants, who include purported organized crime figures and suppliers of equipment to rig the games, have pleaded not guilty.

It's an unnecessary move and a necessary reaction. There is no such a thing -- I think there's not supposed to be those things on a basketball floor. So it was just an unnecessary move and a necessary reaction by me.

I feel this is the most important game of the three-year span that I've been here. I think there are about seven variables that are crucial for this game. This was the only time in three years I didn't watch the film and wouldn't watch it and will never watch it.

There is a new candidate for MVP this season that is dominating the race, and it wears the number "65". A few years ago, the NBA set a threshold of 65 games played for any player to be considered for any individual award. The threshold was part of the league's effort to cut down on the perceived "load management" that was becoming very unpopular among the fanbase, but the decision has yielded unintended consequences.

Last season, Haugh was a key reserve for the Florida team that cut down the nets in San Antonio. This season, he is a bona fide All-America candidate and first-round NBA draft prospect who could lead the Gators to their second back-to-back national title reign in program history. His scoring average has increased from 9.8 to 16.9 points while maintaining a similar impact on the glass with 6.0 rebounds per game.

Randle enters Thursday with the 10th-most ESPN fantasy points, 49 points ahead of his far more ballyhooed teammate Anthony Edwards. Few would argue Randle is the better player, but because of durability and all-around game, the underrated Randle piles on the fantasy points, too.

It was crazy. It was fast. It was instant. There was no warning. I didn't have any time to prepare for it. I was getting ready to go on a date with my wife and the next thing you know I was on the ground.

The league lawyer that was doing the interview kind of unilaterally decided Aaron Nesmith, who had been injured the night before and couldn't hold the ball, should have played in the game, which just seems ridiculous. And during the interview process -- I was not in on it but I heard the details -- we asked them if they wanted to talk to the doctors, our doctors about it because it was something documented by our doctors and trainers. They said no, they didn't need to.