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Something called Team LeBron.

Apparently won the NBA All-Star Game. I don't know if that's the east of the west or somewhere in the middle.

I'm not sure.

But they called the

All-Star game in Los Angeles. No one will be talking about the All-Star game because something

else took the headlines away from that. Welcome in the beginning of another week of the Ben

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this highfalutin format. The abomination that is the NBA All-Star game continues. The

captain format, but it's all secretive how they picked the teams. I guess that's going to be changing

there. Now, if you're in the tank for the NBA,

you're going to say, man, that was a great game.

You had some defense.

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