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Sasha Vujacic's New Best Pal

Will Leitch — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:00:16 EDT

So here's a reason to enjoy the "intimacy" of NBA basketball: Guys like Irv Bauman here can, right in the middle of the action, just start talking to one of the players. Can you fathom what he might be saying to Sasha Vujacic here?

We looked up Irv — positively identified by Getty Images — and it appears he was once a co-owner of Sun Mare Health Care. He seems to have sold his share in the company just in time: Before it went out of business, but after he had enough to afford courtside Lakers tickets close enough to talk to Sasha Vujacic.

We're fairly certain these two went out hunting for chicks postgame. Better fit 'em in before you gotta head back to Boston.

To Live, Lose And Be Pummeled In L.A.

Will Leitch — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:40:56 EDT

You might think it's a good idea to show up at one of those "viewing parties" at the stadium of the visiting team during championship series. What's safer than the Staples Center? Well ...

That's actually a substantial fight, one worthy of praise; had there been a game going on, they'd have broken it up so much sooner. We hope this was a run-of-the-mill dispute, the kind that happens when you file thousands of people into a confined space to watch the home team stink it up for three-plus quarters. If someone was wearing a Celtics jersey, at the Staples Center for a non-game, they probably had it coming.

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