"You know, I was an avid skateboarder as a kid." "I had a big half-pipe in my backyard and that's what kind of drew me to snowboarding initially.

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Sometimes they had prayed together over the phone, in a kind of half code in case anybody accidentally picked up the extension.

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"In the first half we kind of held him under control and then he knocked down a jumper and he was aggressive, " Dallas forward Elton Brand said.

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"In the second half, we kind of started slacking and wasn't doing what we were supposed to be doing, staying patient on offense and rebounding, " Melvin said.

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