Sure, that's fun and all: basketballs going in the hoops.
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Fans left flowers, basketballs, and sneakers in memory of Bryant.
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There aren't enough basketballs to go around on that team.
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They came out with basketballs and dribbled while they danced.
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Other companies like 94Fifty are also pushing their own smart basketballs.
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By that I mean T-shirts, letters, basketballs, stuffed animals, toys.
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They brought flowers, basketballs, posters and more in memory of Bryant.
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By that I mean, t-shirts, letters, basketballs, stuffed animals, toys.
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Some are shaped like basketballs; others have appendages sticking out of them.
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But when he's fed helium, nearly 28,249 basketballs could fit inside him.
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Students with ID cards can rent Zhulegeqiu basketballs for free, Technode added.
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Who cares about bunnies when you have basketballs and brackets to worry about?
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When mummy-looking balls get their skins, they finally start looking like basketballs.
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Hot dogs, marshmallows, trees, and basketballs have thoughts, feelings, and tiny smiley faces.
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"9. Asked at Delta Airlines: "How many basketballs would fit in this room?
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We're flying around, helping each other, getting our hand on basketballs, getting out on transition.
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I love the popcorn buckets, but my true passion will always be these multiplayer basketballs.
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As kids, they slung on their backpacks and dribbled basketballs on their way to school.
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Others shot basketballs at a hoop with a picture of James taped to the backboard.
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Besides giving props to the Mamba's basketballs skills, he seemed to tap him for public office.
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Image: Simon Lock, Harvard UniversityPlanets sort of look like big basketballs in space, floating around aimlessly.
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A hoop will appear as will a series of basketballs at the bottom of the screen.
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"We didn't have enough basketballs to give away back then," Dambrot said in a telephone interview.
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Researchers asked participants to watch a brief video of six people passing basketballs to each other.
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Sneakers squeaking and basketballs bouncing on the hardwood were the game's soundtrack for the first half.
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Pairs of black holes spin like basketballs, and how their spins align can determine how they formed.
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Finally, I shuffled over to a tiny basketball court, where two employees held basketballs in their hands.
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She extended the idea to include mundane objects like basketballs, McDonald's grub, and even an asthma inhaler.
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About 50 rocks were on the boat, including three about the size of basketballs, the observer said.
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A purple and gold-hued makeshift memorial swelled with thousands of basketballs, flowers, toys, signs, and shoes.
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Fans of the late Lakers star had left more than 1,403 basketballs at the memorial in tribute.
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People left jerseys and basketballs among the flowers and candles to pay tribute to the basketball icon.
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But the dessert table also included Rebecca's Cake Pops shaped like baseballs, tennis balls, footballs and basketballs.
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On Sunday, officials tweeted a shot of a few UMBC players standing under a net clogged with basketballs.
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Kaufman recalled their visit to a Jeff Koons retrospective in Bilbao, where they saw basketballs in fish tanks.
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But sellers on auction sites are demanding hefty sums for Bryant trading cards, autographed basketballs, jerseys and shoes.
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And the fences around the basketball courts weren't high enough and when basketballs went over, the neighbors were complaining.
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The moment I spawn in to one of these spaceship levels, I always start punching and shooting the basketballs.
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And the gym's ceiling fans are encased in cages, as if to insure that no stray basketballs get shredded.
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According to Schiefelbein, protesters threw basketballs at an image of James and chanted their anger at the Lakers superstar.
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Preston threw a rubber chicken through a hoop while his friends did push-ups, jumped rope and shot basketballs.
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So he bought three Under Armour basketballs to practice with them and to adjust to the way they felt.
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He responded by tossing rolls of paper towels into the crowd like basketballs and boasting about the recovery efforts.
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Tell Me This New Planetary Object Isn't A DoughnutPlanets sort of look like big basketballs in space, floating around aimlessly.
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The country's urbanites already use smartphones to rent umbrellas, mobile-phone chargers, basketballs and other necessities for a small fee.
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Curry gets in a squatting stance and dribbles two basketballs in unison, putting them between his legs every couple bounces.
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Celtics game, the Atlanta Hawks energetic and spirited mascot — Harry the Hawk — had a very unfortunate accident involving his... basketballs.
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He can cut an OK snarling promo and it's really impressive when he throws other men around like they're basketballs.
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An impromptu memorial appeared outside the gymnasium that bears his name, as stunned fans brought basketballs, bouquets and Bryant jerseys.
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Basketballs are left outside Bryant Gymnasium at Lower Merion High School, where Bryant formally attended school in Philadelphia, Jan. 27.
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I don't even like restriction around my waist now, and it is nowhere near the size of a couple basketballs.
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Tasks included bouncing basketballs for the GQ/Instagram shoot, signing an autograph on a glass screen for Vine, and...more swag.
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I stuck to houses and geometric shapes; they pulled limbs out of the air, molded orange basketballs, rendered figures in motion.
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At one point during warm-ups, the team paused and coolly tried to stack eight basketballs at once in the hoop.
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There were also some pillars of basketballs with the handprints of different basketball players, like Los Angeles Lakers center DeMarcus Cousins.
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"We can have friends over, and sit up there and eat," without worrying about stray basketballs from the children playing below.
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"Imagine you are seeing them in a thousand years, uncovered in some future a archeological excavation," Arsham says of his basketballs.
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Manuel first started shooting foam basketballs through a plastic hoop when she was only 15 months old, reports The Times-Picayune.
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The conference initially said it would also use "hospital grade disinfectant" to sanitize basketballs and locker rooms between games and practices.
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Mr. Tallman inherited the store from his father, whose picture hangs on the wall alongside abalone shells the size of basketballs.
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The center has a small office space with basketballs and soccer balls strewn across the floor, near an indoor putting mat.
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On the 215-28 St. John's men's basketball team media guide, players Ron Mvouika and Durand Johnson stand, unsmiling, holding basketballs.
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Craftsmanship goes courtside with the opulent stained-glass backboards, gilded basketballs, roped-off trophies, and chain mail jerseys from artist Victor Solomon.
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Even right now, players are finding ways to take out opponents with basketballs, the tomahawk projectile, and by crashing vehicles into another.
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With two basketballs balanced in her hands, the 4-foot 9-inche athlete tried to emulate some of the team's cool moves.
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December 133 is "Active" day, which means you can save on athletic gear, like up to 40% off on basketballs from Spalding.
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There were also a few stands holding basketballs with the handprints of different basketball players, like Los Angeles Lakers center DeMarcus Cousins.
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The facilities will typically only have to provide water, basketballs and a working scoreboard for the visitors to feel right at home.
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Staples Center president Lee Zeidman shared on Twitter an image of some of the 1,353 basketballs -- many of them containing handwritten messages.
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"You're hungering, you're thirsting, your souls are thirsting after sin," he tells a group of teenage boys wearing jerseys and holding basketballs.
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Psychologists Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons created a short film in which a team wearing white and a team wearing black pass basketballs.
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The American defense was ferocious; DeAndre Jordan and DeMarcus Cousins smacked at basketballs as if they belonged in the volleyball final next door.
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The 40th Road cacophony includes the ping of basketballs in the playground at one end, and a fruit stand's chatter at the other.
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Lee Zeidman, President of the Staples Center, tweeted images of 1,350 basketballs a huge quantity of flowers that were part of the memorial.
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"But this blade jumps and leaps...it lets me run faster," he said after running and shooting basketballs on the library's sports track.
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He recently pitched during a softball game with his aides and others in Iowa, and often was seen on the trail shooting basketballs.
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When their coach took away their basketballs, a group of students decided their fun could not be stopped and continued to play without one.
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But he is also a skillful maker of objects, fashioning sculpture out of old paintings or furniture, basketballs, kitchen appliances, food, junk or weapons.
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Behind his desk a wall of bookshelves held the sports trophies he collects, among them signed Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant and Wilt Chamberlain basketballs.
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The Staples Center, where thousands are expected to gather for a memorial on Monday, has removed the flowers, basketballs and jerseys left for him.
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In 2013, another coach, Mike Rice, was fired, after being caught on video berating his players with homophobic slurs and pelting them with basketballs.
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According to Christgau, Joe's school only had two basketballs; practicing at home meant pretending to dribble a sock stuffed with rags, toilet paper, or sawdust.
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The collection of items left at the L.A. Live entertainment center included flowers, candles, balloons, artwork, photographs, jerseys, basketballs and stuffed animals, among other items.
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Some of them are off dunking basketballs, or fighting in a ring, or doing whatever it is one does on an American Ninja Warrior course.
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As the water retreated, chunks of the ice rolled over in the wet sand, forming orbs the size of tennis balls, bowling balls and basketballs.
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One big-time college conference first planned to slather hospital-grade disinfectant on basketballs and stock Lysol in locker rooms during postseason play this week.
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Mr. Weldon described embers larger than basketballs flying past his house and a fire so intense that it roared as loudly as an aircraft engine.
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In 2013, he was fired as the basketball coach at Rutgers after a videotape surfaced showing him hurling basketballs and homophobic slurs at his players.
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Even when we're in the house and we want to have family time, he always has one of those small Fisher Price basketballs in his hand.
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But until recently, those particles were too big to attach to viruses — imagine trying to do your Gollum impression with basketballs taped all over your body.
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Which also makes sense, because he used his head like he was testing the density of nearby objects Like basketballs... And basket stanchions... And Dwight Howard.
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Undisturbed by defenders, Curry casually knocks down 26-foot jump shots like they're free throws and dribbles numerous basketballs like he's controlling them with invisible strings.
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Related: Here's Why Contemporary Art Is Obsessed with Basketball Tyson Reeder Unveils a Basketball for Art Ballers Blue Crystal Basketballs Memorialize the Future of the Game
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Related: Here's Why Contemporary Art Is Obsessed with Basketball Tyson Reeder Unveils a Basketball for Art Ballers Blue Crystal Basketballs Memorialize the Future of the Game
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Imitators sprouted by the dozen, and other start-ups angled to find the next big thing in sharing: umbrellas, basketballs, cellphone power banks, even concrete mixers.
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"H-O to H-O-R-S," my 22-year-old son shouts over the rapid-fire thunder of his friends bouncing basketballs in the driveway.
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Outside he could hear hip-hop music playing from passing cars and the thwack of basketballs on pavement as kids made their way to the courts.
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Atkinson pointed to China's robust mobile usage as a factor facilitating growth in the space, which has seen everything from basketballs to battery packs on loan.
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The shoe company vultures have heard the thump of northern basketballs and see Canadian players pouring into top American college programs, and they are heading north.
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" "I tried to shoot some basketballs yesterday, and I didn't get any of them in the net, not that I'm a good basketball player in general anyway.
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Kelly also said he thinks his coordination is a bit off as he adjusts back to life with gravity, noting some trouble he had shooting basketballs Thursday.
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Among the echoes of basketballs bouncing and sneakers squeaking on the gym floor, Averill often would hear girls who she thought were her friends singing a jingle.
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"Haha @GayleKing is really out here shooting her shot w/ @LennyKravitz on @BravoWWHL #WWHL like...," one person tweeted along with a gif of a woman shooting basketballs.
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During a trip to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island, Trump flipped rolls of paper towels into the crowd as if he were shooting basketballs.
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Gordon will come onto court dressed as a 19th-century bricklayer, very dusty, accompanied by a beleaguered Stuff the Magic Dragon pushing a wheelbarrow filled with basketballs.
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The jersey is part of a wider sale of Bryant memorabilia, which includes trading cards signed by Bryant, signed basketballs, and replica jerseys signed by the star.
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In a quartet of studio shots, Bass styles herself as a posthuman athlete, so at one with her game that a pair of basketballs replaces her derrière.
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You can share an apartment with someone else, summon a stranger in a car, and even grab a bicycle off a street with just an app. But...basketballs?
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You're literally balling, but what do you have to go with your gilded basketballs and chain mail jerseys, stained glass basketball hoops, and pulverized quartz Chicago Bulls jacket?
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So when Chapman comes in to pitch, there is a curiosity in observing him do something no one else can do, akin to watching Stephen Curry shoot basketballs.
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There are flattened basketballs and battered baseball mitts, once used as props for the modeling, on the floor, alongside the heavy mallets, saws, wrenches and clamps Hanlon uses.
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KT: I would have picked "Equilibrium" [a series of works in the mid-1980s that included basketballs suspended in tanks of distilled water], if it were Jeff Koons.
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KT: I would have picked "Equilibrium" [a series of works in the mid-1980s that included basketballs suspended in tanks of distilled water], if it were Jeff Koons.
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Related: Courtside Crafts: The Gilded Basketballs and Chain Mail Jerseys of Literally Balling Data Artists 3D Print All 50 Super Bowls as Sculptures Are Paintings Pricier than Soccer Players?
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Fans gathered outside the Lakers' home arena, joining together in chants of "M-V-P," writing messages in chalk around the plaza, leaving flowers, thousands of basketballs, and more.
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Painting, dribbling basketballs, and shooting squirt guns are all things you can do for free at home — so why pay $15 to do it for 15 minutes in VR?
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Both Bird and Nowitzki are shaggy white men who shoot basketballs extraordinarily well and have won a number of NBA championships not less than one or greater than three.
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It was huge, on a hill, with a big yard, and every Christmas it was filled with toys: "Bicycles and skis and basketballs," my dad, Jack, now 79, recalled.
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Katherine Bernhardt's enormous spray-painted canvas is a tropical 90's throwback, mixing graffiti-esque renderings of Lisa Simpson with neon pink-outlined cigarettes, palm tree leaves, and basketballs.
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Baden Sports, a sporting-goods manufacturer in the Seattle suburb of Renton, provides basketballs and baseballs for youth leagues and college tournaments, many of which are now being canceled.
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The Seattle Seahawks QB is being sued along with a food company called Eat the Ball -- which makes bread in the shapes of footballs, baseballs, basketballs and soccer balls.
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But however attached their elders may be to the homeland, few if any of the youngsters dribbling basketballs on the new court at the Lithuanian World Centre intend to return.
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So they rented a helicopter, loaded it up with Globetrotter Bull Bullard and what must have been a million basketballs, and went to town on a bucket 210 feet below.
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He then handed some packages of rice out to the crowd, before picking up packaged rolls of paper towels and throwing them into the crowd as if they were basketballs.
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One screen showed dancers rehearsing, another Campbell's audio files; on the third was Arsham's video backdrop—rose-quartz casts of basketballs, microphones, and body parts being shattered in slow motion.
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This is not an especially good bonus level (I prefer the one with the basketballs or the electric eels), but it would be much worse if you needed to shoot elderberries.
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Whether they're flipping bottles off of basketballs, off speeding cars or hawking already-flipped bottles for upwards of $15 grand on eBay, this phenomenon has proven itself to be extremely entertaining.
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The officer, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak, said that a number of seniors that year posed for a photo holding armloads of basketballs, footballs and baseballs.
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She does so in sharp contrast to Trump, who shot rolls of paper towels like basketballs at desperate Puerto Ricans who survived Hurricane Maria during his short visit to the island.
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Now Clooney settles into a leather chair in his own modest office (think basketballs and a plastic Batman mug) to sit down and chat with West Coast bureau chief Elizabeth Leonard.
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There are dunked basketballs, exploding bombs, flourishing labs and cities — all designed to show Kim what's possible if he engages with the West, and to warn him darkly of the alternative.
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A young contortionist shoots a bow and arrow with her feet, a quintet drinks a lot of milk, a man dresses like an alien and a dog jumps on some basketballs.
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BRUSSELS — In the atrium outside a rehearsal space at La Monnaie opera house here recently, a rack of basketballs was stashed haphazardly beside a vending machine and a janitor's cleaning cart.
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She was frustrated with the pillows currently available—which are all of busty anime women whose breasts share more in common with basketballs than the fleshy fat sacks human women lug about.
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McConnell -- an alum of both schools who proudly displays basketballs from both in his office -- even told Katz and Klein that he looks forward to college basketball more than the Kentucky Derby.
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In the US, they need to be sturdy enough to hold at least two basketballs' worth of air—they can blow up to about 2 1/2 feet long before they burst.
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Lakers guards are turning over women like they do basketballs ... first Nick and Iggy, now D'Angelo Russell is on the market ... after a breakup with his superstar college athlete GF Niki Withers.
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I'm already not great at shooting basketballs, so lending a lack of calibration to my lack of coordination made for a bit of a mess – even picking up the ball proved difficult.
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Sitting on that float decorated with bombed churches and flogged backs, baseball bats and basketballs, Fishbone records and railroad tracks, are Lead Belly and Howlin' Wolf playing dusty blues for Big Pun.
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Anyhow, the pugs I know are sort of like basketballs with legs in stature, so I don't think of them as TOY DOGS, but that is the group that they show in.
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Chatsworth, California (CNN)On the surface, the squeaks on the hardwood, the bouncing basketballs and the coach's voice reverberating around the gym sound like a typical high school practice in late October.
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The city of Los Angeles is also grieving, after Lakers fans erected a memorial of flowers, signs, and basketballs outside the Staples Center where Kobe used to play until he retired in 2016.
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The artist took on a related social phenomena in his previous project, Literally Balling, which literalized society's deification of sports figures through his collection of gilded basketballs, stained-glass backboards, chain mail jerseys.
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President Berdymukhamedov, the most flamboyant among the generally dour Central Asian leaders, regularly appears on state television performing various athletic feats such as firing a gun or throwing basketballs while riding a bicycle.
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Over the last five or six years, I'll go back home and see my family, my nieces, and nephews, and they're talking, playing, shooting basketballs, and I'm like, 'Dang, I missed all this.
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His latest work is a rack of basketballs created with a technique he and his studio have been developing for six years, which will be displayed at Art Basel in Switzerland next month.
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Carden, who lives in the suburbs of the western city of Perth, told Nine News Perth that she also has issues with her neighbors smoking cigarettes and allowing their children to bounce basketballs.
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After companies like Uber and DiDi proved the viability of ride sharing, China's start-up world tried out every possible iteration of it: shared basketballs, shared umbrellas, shared bicycles, shared mobile phone chargers.
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In one particularly egregious incident in 1998, American astronauts discovered that dirty water globules—some of which were roughly the size of basketballs—were casually free-floating behind some of the station's service panels.
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Maddy sustained ligament damage to her right hand, the one she uses to write and shoot basketballs as a member of the girls' basketball team, according to her doctors who spoke with The Sun-Sentinel.
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She described compiling a list of round objects—from watermelons to beach balls to basketballs—to paint on her pregnant belly for a series of novelty photos to present to her husband as a gift.
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"Sharing basketballs, sharing umbrellas — these are all bad ideas," said Allen Zhu, Shanghai-based managing director at GSR Ventures, which was an early investor in Didi Chuxing, the popular bike-sharing company Ofo and Xiaodian.
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He was brought in to clean up the program after Mike Rice was fired when a videotape surfaced showing him hurling basketballs and homophobic slurs at his players, but Jordan never got things turned around.
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The city of Los Angeles is grieving alongside the Bryant family, as Lakers fans erected a memorial of flowers, signs, and basketballs outside Staples Center, where Kobe Bryant played all 20 seasons of his NBA career.
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Wisconsin stats fast, holds off No. 2 Maryland COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Wisconsin forward Nigel Hayes complained on Thursday about the basketballs used at home games by the University of Maryland, which is affiliated with Under Armour.
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With a backdrop of era-appropriate dancehall and shelves freighted with "South Park" dad hats, Polo-branded basketballs and yellow Sony cassette players, Timbaland offered a running commentary on past creative partners and far-flung musical inspirations.
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A makeshift memorial of flowers, basketballs and Bryant jerseys quickly formed on Sunday outside the Lower Merion gym, where Bryant sometimes showed up at 5 in the morning in high school to practice shots before classes began.
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Lower Merion High School, Pennsylvania Some of Bryant's jerseys, a pile of basketballs and bouquets of flowers lined the entrance of the gym at Lower Merion High School, where Bryant went to high school in Ardmore, Pennsylvania.
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Dressed head to toe in sparkling pieces from the jewelry brand, Goldblum is taken aback to find the shop empty of customers but filled to the brim with dazzling trophies, Tiffany Blue basketballs and even a motorcycle.
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You could very easily walk by without noticing the case, and if you did notice it, your eye might be drawn to a couple of old footballs and basketballs and a handful of black-and-white photographs.
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In less than half a century, computers don't just exist in multiple rooms of our homes, they've taken over our pockets, our wrists and are embedded in a multitude of products around us, including light bulbs and basketballs.
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Fluorescent light fizzed and lit up the shop of Muhammed Noor, 40, the only place back in business, revealing fruit and vegetables, cabbages the size of basketballs as well as sweets, snacks and a shelf of light bulbs.
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The system, currently being used by more than 60 college basketball programs, incorporates wearable devices, "enabled" basketballs and on-court sensors to instantly feed more than 70 statistics — such as shot count and points won — to its users.
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The items in the band's trailer include 3 kids razor scooters, 3 bikes, a homemade lemonade stand, a unicorn kiddie pool with a unicorn sprinkler, pool toys, bubbles, chalk, kickballs, basketballs, baseball gloves and bats ... and some workout gear.
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Using aluminum framing, eight propellers and sensors to fly — and cushioned by basketballs attached to the bottom of its frame — Cartivator's Sky Drive vehicle flew to eye level for several seconds before crashing back to the earth and suffering damage.
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Next to it are major pieces from the 1980s, such as the Hoover vacuum cleaners and shampoo polishers that Mr. Koons displayed as "ready made" art, and the basketballs that he suspended in a half-filled tank of distilled water.
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For those who don't have young children, Sky Zone is a place where people of all ages, races, creeds and political persuasions jump up and down on trampolines, as they play dodgeball, dunk basketballs or just bounce to their heart's content.
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Here's a picture before the Portuguese Water Dogs bounded out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: THE CLOSER And finally … Something odd is floating in the South Pacific Ocean: Rocks, some as large as basketballs, as far as the eye can see.
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I think when I was nine years old, for Christmas, my uncle bought me my first official WNBA indoor basketball and outdoor basketball and I carried one of those basketballs around with me everywhere, every tournament until I was 16.
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And then, minutes later, see them out on the patio, covered in tin foil and playing a steel drum, as was the case for artist Tyson Reeder who made a series of limited edition art basketballs in tribute to the venue.
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The memorial will be held at the Staples Center, where Bryant played for the Los Angeles Lakers and where his fans gathered to comfort each another after his death, building a makeshift monument out of flowers, letters, basketballs and jerseys.
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Porrino said infractions included overinflated basketballs, which bounce off the rim and make a shot "nearly impossible" to make, and crane games where the claw is not being capable of supporting the weight of a prize or items being in unreachable places.
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They used to throw passes to one another, to shoot basketballs together, saying things like, "If I make this last shot, I'm going to go to the N.F.L." If Reed didn't sink it, Cochran said, he'd shoot again and again until he did.
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They feature visuals that connect readers to sounds and lyrics — even emojis, like dollar signs, basketballs and dolphins — and they offer a casual view of a star (the next Diary of a Song features a famous artist walking around in her robe).
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As fans continue to mourn the death of NBA legend Kobe Bryant, a Los Angeles auction house will sell off a game-worn jersey from the 1998-99 season, along with other Bryant memorabilia, including signed trading cards, basketballs and a replicated jersey.
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Staples Center President Lee Zeidman said on Twitter that people had paid tribute to the nine passengers who died in a helicopter crash with more than 1,300 basketballs, 25,000 candles, 5,000 signs, 500 stuffed toys, 350 pairs of shoes and 14 banners.
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Read more:Lakers fans paid tribute to NBA legend Kobe Bryant by leaving more than 1,300 basketballs outside the Staples CenterVanessa Bryant posted touching tribute art of 'Gigi' Bryant in Kobe's No. 24 jerseyKobe Bryant, 41, dies in helicopter crash in Calabasas, California
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Screenshot: TwitterThis week, the Oogie Boogie Man made of deflated basketballs currently residing in the Oval Office, Donald Trump, made good on his threat to shut down the federal government if Congress doesn't approve $5.7 billion in funding for his U.S.-Mexico border wall project.
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This could be paired with Koons's Nike posters featuring black basketball players, which were included in his exhibition, Equilibrium, in the East Village gallery, International With Monument (1985), the show that also featured the first appearance of his basketballs floating in tanks of water.
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Even as he explains that the basketballs he finds are never doctored up, simply shown as they're found, you're transported to a court somewhere in New York City, maybe to a bustling game, or beside one person shooting threes alone on an overcast day.
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"We will catalog and box up all the non-perishable items like T-shirts, letters, basketballs, other toys, stuffed animals, and we're going to put them in containers and ship them to Vanessa Bryant and the family," Staples Center president Lee Zeidman told CNN.
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As we walk by Pfizer's world headquarters, he tells me how he used to chuck basketballs at the building's facade and get into arguments with the security guards there, describing his hatred of Big Pharma as an inspiration for his small company—the millionaire as underdog.
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Redick cycles through six devices — dumbbells, a weighted tube, a balancing plate, a large inflatable ball, a blue cushion and an elastic band — before he picks up two basketballs and holds each aloft as he crosses his right leg over his left leg, then vice versa.
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The gap between "fun to play with" and "devastating to think about" could not be any wider, and even in a thought exercise about a game in which players leap hundreds of feet in the air and dunk fiery basketballs, this might just be too real.
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Admittedly, this might have been cooler if the Warriors hadn't blown a 3-1 series lead to the Cavaliers in the NBA Finals a month ago, but it's still awesome anytime you juxtapose grown men shooting oversized basketballs while sliming some of their young fans in the process.
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First, there was the sight of Stephen Curry, absent for the first three games of his team's Western Conference semifinal series with the Portland Trail Blazers, striding onto the court at Moda Center on Monday night so he could dribble two basketballs at once, a staple of his pregame routine.
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Sports of The Times LAS VEGAS — Far from the hysteria of March Madness, its billion-dollar television deal and its sold-out stadiums, the largely empty arena at the Mandalay Bay Events Center this week reverberated with the sounds of bouncing basketballs, squeaking sneakers and coaches' loud, sometimes profane exhortations.
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After a helicopter crashed this weekend with the basketball star Kobe Bryant on board, fans across the country paid tribute, building a shrine of flowers outside Staples Center in Los Angeles, where he became a star, and carrying jerseys and basketballs to his high school near Philadelphia, where it all began.
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Read more:An official Kobe Bryant memorial is planned February 24 at Staples Center, where he once dominated for the Los Angeles LakersGianna Bryant's school retired her No. 2 jersey in an emotional memorial ceremonyLakers fans paid tribute to NBA legend Kobe Bryant by leaving more than 1,300 basketballs outside the Staples Center
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Hornick writes, "The howler monkey sees Mary Magdalene's altruism and emboldens her to give to herself and express loudly while listening, instructed by his jungle cry; serious playing ensues…" A farcical scene unfolds in which basketballs bounce and ham sandwiches are served to Queen Isabella of Portugal and Madame Bonnier de la Mosson.
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"Joralemon Street becomes like this funnel of kids who are already very agitated running down the street screaming, bouncing basketballs, taunting pedestrians, taunting cars," said Linda DeRosa, the president of the Willowtown Association, a local civic group, referring to times when fights have caused the park to be closed by the police.
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In several scenes in "Uncut Gems," what draws the most attention is a mundane sound, amplified but not overdramatized — the whoosh of the revolving door at a fancy Midtown office building, the slamming of basketballs against parquet courts, the cold click of utensils striking dinner plates, the wobbly hum of a helicopter landing.
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Inside the 25-page bill are tariff reductions for hundreds of such items: baby strollers, hiking boots, pimiento-stuffed olives, boxing gloves, coffee makers, toasters, plastic spoons and forks, sparklers and party poppers, nicotine gum, pet toys, pajamas, reusable grocery bags, leather belts, sweaters, glass vases, basketballs, unicycles, yoga mats and vertical waffle makers.
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The installation is a jumble of things, commonplace and arcane: basketballs, whiskey bottles, cigarette packs, Snoopy dolls, military dog tags, C-ration cans, clothing, personal letters, handwritten poems, prosthetic limbs — things that have intimate personal associations with some of the 58,000 soldiers listed on the memorial, and meaning for their surviving families and friends.
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There are individual pieces that feel casually indifferent, such as Katherine Bernhardt's "Two Simpsons, Plantains, Basketballs, Cigarettes" (2016): it's a painting of cartoonish figures borrowed from pop culture and everyday life that just wallows in mundanity — which I can't help but read as a kind of complacent self-satisfaction that is coextensive with the gallery's attitude about this show.
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But over the years they've mutated—I'm sure Topsfield is no outlier—into vulgar bazaars where people might spend $20 for the chance to shoot ten basketballs at a hoop that's been bent so that no basketball can possibly fall through its net, or where one might spend $13 for the opportunity to eat cheap meat out of a dog bowl.
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Kobe Bryant talked about his daughter Gigi and his love for family in his last sit-down interview with the LA TimesLakers fans paid tribute to NBA legend Kobe Bryant by leaving more than 1,300 basketballs outside the Staples CenterCarli Lloyd says that watching Kobe Bryant look 'so happy' in retirement gave her comfort about 'what my post-soccer career might look like'
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Read more:Kobe Bryant's body has been returned to his family, who can now organize a funeral for him and GiannaLeBron James gave a loving eulogy to his 'brother' Kobe Bryant before the Lakers first game since tragic helicopter accidentKobe Bryant, 41, dies in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, CaliforniaLakers fans paid tribute to NBA legend Kobe Bryant by leaving more than 1,300 basketballs outside the Staples Center
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Read more:Kobe Bryant's body has been returned to his family, who can now organize a funeral for him and Gianna LeBron James gave a loving eulogy to his 'brother' Kobe Bryant before the Lakers first game since tragic helicopter accidentKobe Bryant, 41, dies in helicopter crash in Calabasas, CaliforniaLakers fans paid tribute to NBA legend Kobe Bryant by leaving more than 1,300 basketballs outside the Staples Center
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"I don't think there is much overlap between art and sport," Mr. Brown said, referring to the artists Damien Hirst (with his love of snooker, a form of pool) and Jeff Koons (who often uses basketballs and other sports objects) and Andy Warhol (whose informal Polaroid photos of sports stars were recently included in Gail Buckland's well-received show, "Who Shot Sports," at the Brooklyn Museum).
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The NBA has urged its players to avoid physical contact including high-fives with fans and strangers amid fears of an outbreak of coronavirus in the U.S. In a memo sent to teams Sunday, league officials spelled out a list of 10 recommendations including avoiding physical contact with fans as well as accepting items such as pens, jerseys, or basketballs from people seeking autographs, according to The Associated Press.
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Last fall, T gathered some of these artists to discuss the East Village and its influence: Ashley Bickerton, 280, who moved to New York in 21987 and now lives in Bali, whose work includes assemblages made of found objects and corporate logos; Barbara Bloom, 21980, a New York-based conceptual photographer and installation artist who lived in Berlin for much of the '270s but was a fixture in the East Village galleries, unsparingly documenting American greed and shallowness; Peter Halley, 143, a born-and-raised New Yorker, abstract painter and co-founder of the influential Index Magazine; Jeff Koons, 214, who moved to New York in 25 and whose use of banal objects like vacuum cleaners and basketballs later made him, for many, an emblem of the avarice his generation had started out critiquing; and Joan Wallace, 220, who came to New York in 1981 and, in those years, collaborated with her artistic partner Geralyn Donohue on monochrome paintings that also included found commercial objects such as rearview mirrors.
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