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Is Kevin Durant a Barb?

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Hunter Harris
Apr 02, 2021
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This is The Friday Post, Hung Up’s weekly roundup of celebrity mess and miscellanea. If you like this kind of thing, why not subscribe?

The only thing I know for sure about basketball is: six-way parlay, Celtics-Sixers game. Plus one, OK. So I want the Celtics to cover. I want the Celtics halftime. I want Garnett points and rebounds, Garnett blocked shots, Celtics opening tip. Do you take lightning bets? And also: a very specific memory of every NBA player to have a cameo in Like Mike, like so specific that the one time a year someone mentions the name Dirk Nowitzki or Jason Kidd in my presence, I am suddenly too invested in the conversation. 

I don’t mean this in a goo goo gah gah sportsball-way. I wish I knew more about basketball, I know I’d love it. (I am competitive and also petty.) However: being a “savant” of meaningless information like J. Lo wearing nude lipgloss or Ben Affleck’s Dunkin’ order or the way Jeff Bezos is not seeing heaven for Amazon but also for the $12.99 bus dri…

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