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Every day except for Monday Amin O'H Hasen and Charlotte Wilder, they put together Oddball.

It is a quirky fun, super-informed look at things throughout basketball and beyond. I don't know, because I have been away,

I don't know how Amin has felt about USA team basketball and South Sudan's near victory over team USA.

I hypothesized last week that I thought that if South Sudan had won that game that I would imagine it to be one of the great sporting achievements in the history of Sudan,

but I don't know the history, so I may have that wrong.

I want to talk to, I mean, about that and some other things including I mean

Paul Pierce and Gilbert Arena saying the following of the game before the

South Sudan game Paul Pierce said man they probably even got nobody over six three over

there. They got basketball teams out there do they even got basketball courts out

there anywhere and then Gilbert Arena said among other things,

come on man cool runnings we're not supposed to lose to the cool running's team

they don't even have shoes they get their shoes from America we got to ship them shoes

they don't even have basketball rims.

We're losing to people who got baskets in the back.

They shoot on bleeping peach baskets in dirt, no shoes.

Now Lou Aldang, always classy, Lualdeng, gave a long response to this and I will read only parts of it and

then I will go to a mean.

But he says, I normally don't pay attention to these types of comments, but as an African,

a leader in my community and the

president of the South Sudan Basketball Federation I feel it is important to

respond this is for those who have asked about these comments those who are

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