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How Well Do You Know: 6/16/17-5/21/17
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If you're the horse that won Saturday's Preakness Stakes in a thriller, please step forward to accept your complimentary carrot and a nice ol' bucket of oats:
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Classic Empire
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Always Dreaming
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Cloud Computing
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Lookin at Lee
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Meanwhile, if you are an NBA MVP finalist, please step forw....whoa, not so fast there,
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Kawhi Leonard
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LeBron James
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Russell Westbrook
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James Harden
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The All-NBA team came out this week. Of the players mentioned in the preceding question, who was the only to receive 100 out of a possible 100 first-place votes?
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Kawhi Leonard
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LeBron James
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Russell Westbrook
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James Harden
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News was not so rosy for this burgeoning talent, who failed to make first-, second- or third-team All-NBA:
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Gordon Hayward
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John Wall
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Anthony Davis
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DeAndre Jordan
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In further Tales from the Association, this playoff team somehow walked away with the #1 pick in the upcoming NBA draft:
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The Celtics
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The Warriors
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The Spurs
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The Wizards
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A Game 2 injury means that this roundball superstar will miss the rest of the playoffs:
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Kyrie Irving
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Klay Thompson
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Manu Ginobili
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Isaiah Thomas
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Somehow, *somehow*, the Celtics were able to win Game 3, despite being without aforementioned floor leader Thomas, and despite getting absolutely blown out of Game 2 by this many points:
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39
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44
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53
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28
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Meanwhile, the Stanley Cup Playoffs are weird. In the ______ Conference Finals, ________ won Game 3 5-1, only to have ________ come back with an even more fustigating win in Game 5 by a 7-0 score:
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Eastern / Pittsburgh / Ottawa
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Western / Anaheim / Nashville
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Western / Nashville / Anaheim
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Eastern / Ottawa / Pittsburgh
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In Tennisland, this famous tournament said "No soup for you!" to Maria Sharapova, denying the star a wild-card entry into the tourney as she returns from a PED suspension:
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The US Open
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Wimbledon
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The French Open
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The Australian Open
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And an unlikely source let it slip that this NFL quarterback played last season with concussions, though he was never named on the team's injury report as such:
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Andy Dalton
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Matt Ryan
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Tom Brady
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Russell Wilson
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