" He said that kids wouldn't like someone named "Professor, " so let's change it to "Doc Brown.

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Not possessing Doc Brown's DeLorean time traveler, we'll have to use our brains and instincts to discover the answers.

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Let's fire up Doc Brown's DeLorean time-traveler and return to 1976.

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Or if Doc Brown had strapped a flux capacitor to the back of a comfy chair in Back to the Future (1985) instead of that iconic DeLorean?

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Also at first, Doc Brown didn't have a pet dog.

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These astral connections create flux transfer events (we've got Doc Brown's attention) -- high-energy particle flows responsible for, among other things, the eerie twinkling of the polar auroras.

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Those who are being considered include Indiana Pacers assistant Brian Shaw, former Nets and Knicks coach Larry Brown, current Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers and former Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan.

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