I was digging in my email, as one does, looking for a photo of myself and Jason Whitlock. In the process, I found a passage from a 2014 draft of a piece.
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I genuinely didn’t know if this was a piece that had ever seen the light of day. After googling a few phrases, however, I learned it most certainly was. And wow — can’t believe ESPN published this.