"I always tell people I can stuff a basketball into a hoop, but I also have a mind, " he said.

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Lots of stuff that was translated into basketball.

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From the dance studios of Nagoya, Japan, to the New Jersey Nets' basketball court, Chio Yamada has strutted her stuff with a style that is part Janet Jackson and part Alvin Ailey.

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So perhaps young black men who might have been boxers a generation ago are instead strutting their stuff in the NBA and NFL. Even Jones is a frustrated basketball player.

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