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It's not you, it's jazz and the NBA

By Paul Shirley
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, May 11, 2009

I was host to a poker game on a Friday night just before the start of the NBA playoffs. After my friends and I had exhausted the usual topics of conversation -- current events, women and the prospects of a playoff berth for our beloved Kansas City Royals -- I posed a question. I wondered how many of the eight young men present could name half of the teams in the NBA playoffs. Everyone there could be considered a sports fan, and everyone there could be considered reasonably well-informed. Ye ...

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