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"The only reason we showed it to the press was so they would know we were serious," attorney Burt Boltuch told me. "No. I don't want it out there in the media." I told him we did this kind of thing here. Didn't change his mind. More »
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Per the Contra Costa Times: More »
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"I'm going to improve every part of my game. That's what I do. That's why I play basketball...to improve and to become the best player [who] ever touched a basketball." Monta Ellis said that just over a month ago, right after he received a six-year, $66 million contract extension from the Golden State Warriors. Now Ellis is recovering from a severely sprained left ankle and surgery to repair a torn deltoid ligament in the same ankle, a double-injury that occurred while he was "working out" in his hometown of Jackson, Mississippi. Or...did it? More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5045030&view=rss&microfeed=true That's Golden State Warriors swingman Monta Ellis, who's having a breakout year. He's come out of nowhere to average better than 18 points and 4 assists per game for the Warriors. It's the kind of performance that gets a guy picked up in a lot of fantasy leagues, and then gets a guy enough attention to appear on the Jim Rome show ... where Baron Davis smashes what is evidently a gasoline pie in his face. More »
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