The average Starcraft II professional player can average 300 APM.
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Parlow Cone is a soccer coach and former professional player.
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His father, Marko, was a longtime professional player in Europe.
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That is how the professional player has to do it.
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Now she's a professional player who has won more than $200,000.
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"I'm a professional player, been playing for over 20 years," she said.
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But, I mean, I just tried to stay like a professional player.
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That dream, which drives every professional player, loses meaning when champions cut corners.
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A 13-year-old boy from Kent, UK, has become Fortnite's youngest professional player.
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Google DeepMind's AlphaGo has won its second Go game against professional player Lee Sedol.
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"For us, he's royalty," said Darren Cahill, a tennis coach and former professional player.
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Jake Lyon is a professional player in the Overwatch League for the Houston Outlaws.
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So when I did become a professional player and started getting paid, that was a nice change.
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"I don't think AI can beat [a professional player], at least not in my lifetime," he said.
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She appeared healthier this year, though still far from the fitness required of a touring professional player.
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In discussions of professional player skill, esports fans typically break it down into two elements: execution and strategy.
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Many would be disappointed at having to abandon their dream of becoming a professional player, but not Aase.
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A former professional player herself, Shapovalov's mother later opened her own tennis academy in Vaughan, Ontario, outside Toronto.
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He became a professional player in 1999 and played in his first major tournament at the 2001 Australian Open.
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Andrew Woodward recently became the first professional player in Britain to go public with his story of sexual abuse.
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Waite also connected him with Jaymon Crabb, an Australian coach and former professional player, who is still working with Myneni.
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If you are a professional player, you need to be wherever you are told to be at the right time.
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Like Jack O'Connell, his counterpart in Sheffield, Mr. Schnetzer has had to learn how to look like a professional player.
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He played baseball at nearby Lafayette College before launching a four-decade career as a professional player, coach and manager.
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Serena's knees are doing very well if you consider that they are the knees of a 34-year-old professional player.
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"It was a little different (facing) the team that saw me grow as a professional player," Cueto said through a translator.
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It was September 22013, and Mr. Bennell told Mr. Woodward's parents that he could turn their son into a professional player.
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Of course — they'll have a little help as the pair will be teaming up with their coach and professional player Hunter Clawson.
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He said his family was always supportive of his dream, including his younger brother Jacopo, 20, who also became a professional player.
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The six-month suspension comes just over a week after the company suspended a professional player, Ng "Blitzchung" Wai Chung, for similar conduct.
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Censoring a professional player for expressing support for the democracy movement in Hong Kong — and seizing his money — is way over the line.
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The 2003-4 season was also the first in the N.B.A. for Barnes, who struggled to establish himself as a solid professional player.
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Airwaks, 24, from Switzerland, is a former League of Legends professional player who has now set his sights on the Fortnite World Cup.
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He also temporarily played for the Oakland Athletics before returning to San Francisco for his final seasons as a professional player, the Giants said.
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Professional player Jason Koon from the United States said he would try to exploit some of the recreational players for any mistakes they made.
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At first, Mr. Woodward recalled in an interview last week, the opportunity to become a professional player seemed almost too good to be true.
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He wanted to be a professional soccer player Maluma grew up playing football and trained for more than eight years to become a professional player.
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"She's one of the players still playing who I looked up to as a young girl wanting to be a tennis professional player," Konta said.
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Mr. Helgemo, a professional player who represents Monaco at tournaments, will not be allowed to participate in a bridge competition until November, the federation said.
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That total was surpassed on Monday by John Schmidt, a professional player who dedicated much of the last year to trying to top the mark.
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Jake Lyon, a 23-year-old professional player in the Overwatch League for the Houston Outlaws, joined the league in its inaugural season in 2018.
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Although the hero is no obsessive gamer himself, he hooks up with a professional player ("I kill zombies for a living") who calls herself GrindrGirl88.
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But replays showed Zidane racing toward the defender following an exchange of words and felled him with his head — his last act as a professional player.
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Embossed on a wall at Burnley's training ground are the three elements the club's coach, Sean Dyche, believes comprise a complete professional player: legs, hearts, minds.
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The 33-year-old professional player has admitted to underestimating AlphaGo's skills but also said the program was not perfect, asking supporters to keep watching the contest.
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The professional player said that playing against an AI program was different, and he felt he struggled to adapt to this at the beginning of the tournament.
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He also called Teqball "very, very fun," though the 39-year-old jokingly said he is now "too old" to become a professional player in the sport.
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His father, Slavko, a Bosnian Serb from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, was a professional player in his own right, but with a very different set of skills.
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Ramos's verbal warning for coaching, which could have been issued any professional player at any match at any time, to Williams felt like an attack on her person.
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The fact that Bulldog was previously a professional player and would have travelled to The International before on the same visa he has now is probably not coincidence.
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A Hollywood scriptwriter is planning to turn the Foxes' tale into a film, centred around Mr Vardy's journey from a semi-professional player to an England international striker.
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During a practice session last week, Rafael Nadal was the first professional player to hit a tennis ball at Arthur Ashe Stadium with its new retractable roof closed.
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Over the weekend, former professional player and Indian Wells CEO Raymond Moore had some less than enlightened things to say about the WTA and women's tennis in general.
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Video game developer Blizzard Entertainment has finally broken its silence after banning a professional player of popular virtual card game Hearthstone for voicing support for the Hong Kong protests.
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Fed up, Sánchez launched a lawsuit in January against the team and the Argentine Football Association (AFA) for failing to treat her like a professional player with labor rights.
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But Raonic, a professional player, who already hits well from both wings, is using Zepp's tech as a way to optimize his game, and play to his known strengths.
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Mame Aly Dyigo, a soccer coach and retired professional player, said he has moved his team's practices to the beach after exhaust fumes from nearby traffic were bothering players.
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It was a video about clips of him playing soccer and doing some amazing tackles when he was a kid all the way until he became a professional player.
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BEFORE HU JINZHOU began his climb into the foothills of fame, as a professional player of computer games in China's multi-billion-dollar livestream industry, he was a schoolboy tearaway.
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Tremendous news last week: Google announced that it had created a computer program that defeated a professional player at Go – an event that many thought was still a decade away.
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Rivera is the last living heir to a tradition that began in 1960, when a professional player from Guadalajara, Eduardo Colmenero, grew tired of using cleats that hurt his feet.
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"She's the first African American to break the color barrier in our sport," said one-time professional player and former United States Tennis Association (USTA) chairman and president, Katrina Adams.
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For the few weeks a year he does spend in Israel, he often trains with the Davis Cup team and with Dudi Sela, Israel's top professional player on the ATP Tour.
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Activision Blizzard suspended a professional player from an esports tournament and stripped him of his earnings after he made a statement over the weekend in support of protests in Hong Kong.
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Before Scooter Gennett hit four homers on Tuesday for the Cincinnati Reds, Ford was the most recent professional player to accomplish the feat, according to the Society for American Baseball Research.
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In order to be recognized as the world's oldest professional player, Bahader needs to play two 90-minute matches, a task he is training for, and hopes to accomplish in March.
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Since Andrew Woodward became the first professional player in Britain to go public with his account of repeated rapes by a childhood coach, at least 20 former players have come forward.
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Talking point: Mr. Tana is not actually Italian at all, but in fact a Yugoslavian former soccer prodigy who arrived in the U.S. in 1953 with hopes of becoming a professional player.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Serena Williams is a year short of spending a quarter of a century as a professional player but the learning has never stopped for the 23-times Grand Slam winner.
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During a post-match interview with the company's Taiwan stream, Chung Ng Wai, a professional player in Hong Kong, spoke out in support of the pro-democracy and anti-China protests there.
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Since Andrew Woodward, above, became the first professional player in Britain to go public with his account of repeated rapes by his childhood coach, at least 20 former players have come forward.
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In 2015, he shattered the NCAA Division I career scoring record at the University of Albany, and has continued to score goals in bunches while drawing big crowds as a professional player.
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Dear Basketball recounts Bryant's love affair with basketball from his childhood through his 20 years as a professional player; the short plays like a tribute to his own career in the NBA.
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DeepMind's broadcast showed its artificial intelligence bot, AlphaStar, defeating a professional player at the complex real-time strategy videogame StarCraft II. Humanity's champion, 25-year-old Grzegorz Komincz of Poland, lost 5-0.
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Melbourne Park was rocked by corruption allegations on its opening day, and a week later, integrity fears returned as a former Australian professional player pleaded guilty to match-fixing at a Sydney court.
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After my first Bandits match in 2008, I talked to a teammate about Justin Fashanu, who in 1990 became the first (and at the time only) professional player to come out as gay.
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Yeah, kids in Brazil grow up with dreams to play as a professional player, to defend the Brazilian colors on the national team , and I was just another one to get the dream.
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The case against the former coach, Barry Bennell, began in late 2016, when Andrew Woodward became the first professional player to say publicly that he had been molested by a coach, accusing Mr. Bennell.
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Some, like Huang Cheng Hui, a professional player from China who competes under the nom de guerre Lciop, said certain games could be toned down to make them Olympic-friendly without dampening their competitive spirit.
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But there's more: Video game company Activision Blizzard, which is partly owned by Chinese company Tencent, censored a professional player and rescinded his competition prize money after he expressed support for the Hong Kong protesters.
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If a human was able to do this in a competitive match against other humans, we'd probably call it cheating In June, a (human) professional player got his entire team disqualified for using a programmable mouse.
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Sandholm says that while it may be technically correct that DeepStack is the first to beat a professional player, the professional players who took part in that test are not among the best in the world.
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Isner had won only two matches in the first two months of the season, yet somehow Gimelstob — the television broadcaster, former professional player and a member of Isner's three-man coaching staff — was bubbling with confidence.
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South Korean professional player Lee Sedol, the holder of 18 international titles, conceded defeat in a match broadcast live, with one YouTube stream drawing tens of thousands of spectators worldwide, while domestic television gave frequent updates.
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Activision Blizzard, one of America's biggest gaming companies, just bowed to Chinese censorship in a disturbing way: suspending a professional player of Hearthstone, its digital card game, over a statement supporting the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests.
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Auger-Aliassime, 2, whose father was a professional player and coach in Togo before he immigrated to Canada, grew up playing in Quebec City, a town that has produced more than its share of great hockey players.
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Last year, Miura became what was believed to be the oldest professional player to score a goal, pouncing on a rebound at 50 years 14 days and launching into a samba strut known as the Kazu Dance.
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In 2018, he played the role of Uncle Drew in the self-titled comedy, which also featured former NBA/WNBA players Shaquille O'Neal, Chris Webber, Reggie Miller, and Lisa Leslie, as well as current professional player Nate Robinson.
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He may feel more comfortable surrounded by familiar faces than he was in New York or Cleveland, and more motivated once he realizes that this is probably his last chance as a professional player in a competitive situation.
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"We're seeing this heightened popularity of the sport that we've never seen before, but what's really missing is the connection between the recreational player and the professional player," said Gordon Kaye, the chief executive of U.S.A. Table Tennis.
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Because there was ample evidence that he exhibited C.T.E. characteristics before and after he was charged with killing his friend, Odin Lloyd, and, statistically, as a college and professional player, there was no surprise in his C.T.E. diagnosis.
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Outlined on Friday by the heads of Turkey's soccer federation and clubs' association, the plan must be approved by parliament but is backed by President Tayyip Erdogan, a semi-professional player in his youth who follows soccer closely.
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Although the fact that Mourinho never made it as a professional player is a key part of his legend and the psychology that has allowed him to build it, he had enough talent to play in Portugal's second division.
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Pressure is growing for the government to step in and support and monitor clubs in a country that is fanatical about the game and is led by Erdogan, who was a semi-professional player in his youth and follows soccer closely.
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Once a star player for the New England Patriots, Aaron Hernandez's life took a shocking dark turn when he was arrested and charged for the murder of Odin Lloyd, a semi-professional player who was dating the sister of Hernandez's fiancée in 2013.
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The group challenged the three-time European Go Champion Fan Hui to a series of matches, and for the first time ever, the software was able to beat a professional player in all five of the games played on a full-sized board.
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On the other hand, as Patricia Hernandez at Polygon rightfully points out, it's weird that Jarvis would get a lifetime ban while messing around at home while a professional player who was caught cheating at a competitive tournament only got a temporary ban.
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Stewart, the son of a United States Air Force airman and a Dutch mother, grew up in the Netherlands and was a successful professional player there when he committed to play for the United States in the months after the 1990 World Cup.
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Caleb "McGravy" McGarvey, a professional player who was traded from Overwatch League's Florida Mayhem to Los Angeles Valiant today, told VICE he enjoys playing GOATS, but that viewers aren't privy to the most exciting part: how teamwork-oriented it is, centered on precise communication.
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The Fortnite Pro-Am, as the event was called, featured big names like NBA player Paul George, rapper Vince Staples, and Twitch superstar Tyler "Ninja" Blevins, with everyone competing both in a solo contest and in teams of two (one celebrity and one professional player on each squad).
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That is a tribute to their childhood sibling rivalry, their talent and their work ethic, and also to their formidable tennis mother, Judy, a former Scottish professional player who has been a driving force with her intuition, her ambition, her sharp wit and her informed passion for the game.
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In 2016, another professional player — this time an Overwatch specialist — named Kim Se-yeon and known as Geguri, also faced charges of cheating from her male competitors, though in her case she was accused of simply hacking the game itself, not of having a man play for her.
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Meanwhile, Ayton's selection as the first pick of the NBA Draft almost ensures that he will sign a contract with the Suns that will pay him an estimated $6.8 million in his first year as a professional player, according to sports website RealGM, and he could get paid as much as $8 million.
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Homophobia and became an important agent in anti-discrimination initiatives, running workshops for clubs and organizations across Europe about how to create an environment where a professional player might feel able to come out and where fans might be able to challenge the perception that L.G.B.T. people weren't harmed by homophobic behavior.
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"The player of our squadron 'Atún' has a Razer Synapse mouse, which, like any professional player, has put its own manual configuration to be able to have a better use of Hardware in benefit of its efficient performance in each of the games played with this hero (Meepo)," Thunder Predator said in a statement on its official Facebook page.
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During the time xQc will be suspended from league matches, coaches and trainers will work with Felix to help him channel the competitive personality that has made him a great Overwatch player into achieving the levels of balance, focus and discipline in his life that are increasingly important to his development as a teammate and professional player in this league.
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Read more: Blizzard says its 'relationships in China had no influence on our decision' to punish an esports athlete who voiced his support for Hong Kong protestersEarlier this month, the firm handed the professional player Chung "Blitzchung" Ng Wai a yearlong ban and confiscated his prize money after he yelled "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our age!" in Chinese during a postgame interview.
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It's such a stupid play that the Raptors twitter feed, where I would normally go to find a clip of a dunk I am writing about, only posted a cursory GIF of the the dunk, with a compliment to Delon Wright's heads-uppedness: With all due respect to Delon, a fine professional player, this play just could not possibly have less to do with him, no matter how turned up his head happened to be.
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