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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Weekly Run podcast: Reaction to Rudy Gobert snub, trade deadline talk

  01-02-2019 23:55 via sportspyder.com
  Rudy Gobert wasn’t named as an All-Star reserve.
  
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• Favors vs. Collins 🗝 #KeyMatchup | @USFcorp https://t.co/qW4MiAA20y

  01-02-2019 23:45 via twitter.com
  
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• After the worst home loss in Dave Rose’s tenure, BYU hopes to regroup Saturday vs. defense-minded Loyola Marymount

  01-02-2019 23:44
  Provo • A day after coach Dave Rose proclaimed that BYU’s best basketball in the 2018-19 season “is ahead of us and in front of us,” the Cougars were thoroughly dominated by No. 4-ranked Gonzaga Thursday night at the Marriott Center.Gonzaga handed BYU its worst home loss in Rose’s tenure, a 93-63 beatdown that might have surpassed New Mexico’s 90-48 thrashing in 1997 for worst margin of defeat ever in Provo if coach Mark Few hadn’t called off the dogs wit
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Goodbye, 3.2, hello, 4.8? Utah lawmaker pushes bill to allow stores to sell stronger beer

  01-02-2019 23:31 via sportspyder.com
  A century-old law that caps the alcohol content of beer sold in Utah grocery and convenience stores — and often makes the state the target of jokes — could topple in 2019 — if Utah adopts a bill coming before the Legislature.
  
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• Cold extracts human toll: more than 2 dozen dead in 8 states

  01-02-2019 23:29
  Chicago • The dangerous cold and heavy snow that hobbled the northern U.S. this week has retreated, but not before exacting a human toll: more than two dozen weather-related deaths in eight states and hundreds of injuries, including frostbite, broken bones, heart attacks and carbon monoxide poisoning.In Illinois alone, hospitals reported more than 220 cases of frostbite and hypothermia since Tuesday, when the polar vortex moved in and overnight temperatures plunged to minus 30 or lower &mda
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Tres Tinkle could have been a Ute, but then his dad was named Oregon State’s coach. Now, he’s Utah’s problem.

  01-02-2019 23:24 via sportspyder.com
  Larry Krystkowiak played and coached at the University of Montana and loves the school as much as anyone. As Utah's basketball coach, he just thought he could offer Tres Tinkle a bigger forum than the Big Sky Conference.
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - REPORT: Sixers, Jazz interested in Pelicans’ Nikola Mirotic

  01-02-2019 23:24 via sportspyder.com
  The Philadelphia 76ers and Utah Jazz are reportedly interested in trading for New Orleans Pelicans stretch forward Nikola Mirotic, according to Sean Deveney of Sporting News. After Anthony Davis’ trade request, the Pelicans have been getting calls...
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Nuggets news: Isaiah Thomas apologizes to Jazz’s Rudy Gobert

  01-02-2019 23:24 via sportspyder.com
  On Friday, Utah Jazz big man Rudy Gobert was speaking to reporters about his All-Star snub and then began to wipe away tears before walking away. Gobert was talking about his mother, whom Gobert said called him up crying when she heard the news that...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Judge in Roger Stone case warns she might impose a gag order

  01-02-2019 23:18 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • The federal judge overseeing the criminal case against longtime Trump friend Roger Stone said Friday she is considering whether to impose a gag order after Stone went on a week-long media blitz to discuss the allegations against him.
  
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• Weekly Run podcast: Reaction to Rudy Gobert snub, trade deadline talk

  01-02-2019 23:15
  Rudy Gobert wasn’t named as an All-Star reserve.How did this happen? Why did this happen? What does it mean? Those are the primary topics on this week’s edition of the Weekly Run podcast, with Andy Larsen and Eric Walden.At 1:00 - Our reaction to the news, just about a half hour after the announcement.At 22:10 - Kristaps Porzingis was traded from New York to Dallas. Why did New York do that, did they have to do it, and how does it change the West for the foreseeable future?At 31:41 -
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - U.S. Olympian Mick Dierdorff claims his first gold in snowboardcross on Day 1 of the FIS World Championships — and the party is on

  01-02-2019 22:57 via sportspyder.com
  Solitude • No more than a few seconds after he allowed his momentum to carry him into the inflatable finish line barrier on purpose, sending a plume of snow swirling into the sky, Mick Dierdorff was smack-dab in the center of a mob. Still strapped...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Bagley Cartoon: Putting the People on Hold

  01-02-2019 22:51 via sportspyder.com
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:
  
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• [CBS Sports] - NBA All-Star Game 2019: Jazz star Rudy Gobert gets emotional talking about snub, draws ribbing from other players - CBSSports.com

  01-02-2019 22:51 via sportspyder.com
  Gobert missed out on a $1 million bonus, but he isn't getting a pass from other players
  
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• Tres Tinkle could have been a Ute, but then his dad was named Oregon State’s coach. Now, he’s Utah’s problem.

  01-02-2019 22:50
  Larry Krystkowiak played and coached at the University of Montana and loves the school as much as anyone. As Utah's basketball coach, he just thought he could offer Tres Tinkle a bigger forum than the Big Sky Conference.And then Tinkle’s father became a Pac-12 coach, ruining everything.Oregon State’s father-son duo will visit the Huntsman Center on Saturday afternoon. Krystkowiak will have a reunion with Wayne Tinkle, his Montana teammate and former assistant with the Grizzlies. And
  
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• 😤 RUDY. GOBERT. #InstantRewind | @AFCU https://t.co/0NHk3wJ1VL

  01-02-2019 22:44 via twitter.com
  
  😤 RUDY.GOBERT. #InstantRewind | @AFCU https://t.co/0NHk3wJ1VL
  
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• Judge in Roger Stone case warns she might impose a gag order

  01-02-2019 22:37
  Washington • The federal judge overseeing the criminal case against longtime Trump friend Roger Stone said Friday she is considering whether to impose a gag order after Stone went on a week-long media blitz to discuss the allegations against him.U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson told prosecutors and Stone's attorneys to file any opposition to such a directive by next Friday. Stone, a political operative who relishes press attention, has said he worries about a possible gag order becaus
  
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• [KSL] - Frustration and tears: Rudy Gobert speaks about not being selected to the All-Star game

  01-02-2019 22:30 via sportspyder.com
  Rudy Gobert's media session Friday ended early as his emotions overcame him while talking about All-Star snub.
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Putting the People on Hold

  01-02-2019 22:21
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/02/01/bagley-cartoon-present/" target=_blank><u>Present Since the Collusion</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/01/30/bagley-cartoon/"><u>Legislative Life Hack</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/01/29/bagle
  
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• Rudy Gobert’s reaction to All-Star snub: Frustration, fury, and tears

  01-02-2019 22:11
  Rudy Gobert started off stoic and defiant on Friday at Zions Bank Basketball Center, discussing having been snubbed from the upcoming NBA All-Star Game.Many thought he was a lock given his performance — after all, he is averaging 15.0 points and 12.8 rebounds, 2.2 assists, and 2.2 blocks per game, while leading the league by shooting 65.0 percent from the field. He also is leading the league in win shares and defensive real plus/minus.But he was not picked. And he still can’t quite u
  
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• Utah asks U.S. Supreme Court to reject Republican Party appeal seeking to overturn state election law

  01-02-2019 22:06
  The Utah Attorney General’s Office now argues that for the U.S. Supreme Court to remain consistent with a half century of its own rulings, it should reject an appeal by the Utah Republican Party challenging a 2014 state election law.That law, called SB54, allows candidates to qualify for primary elections either by collecting signatures and/or through the caucus-convention system. The GOP asserts that the law unconstitutionally interferes with its right to choose how to select its own nomi
  
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• Nora, one of Utah’s Hogle Zoo’s two polar bears, has a broken bone and needs a big surgery

  01-02-2019 22:06
  One of Utah’s Hogle Zoo’s polar bears has a broken bone and will be healing out of sight for “the next several months.”Nora, a 500-pound polar bear, broke the humerus bone on her front, right leg Wednesday night, the zoo says — presumably from “her signature style of roughhouse play.”“She’s a very rambunctious bear,” said Lead Keeper Kaleigh Jablonski in a news release. “It’s not unusual to watch her head-dive into the snow
  
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• Rudy Gobert Breaks Down In Tears While Talking About His All-Star Snub

  01-02-2019 22:04 via deadspin.com
  Rudy Gobert should be an all-star this year. He’s averaging 15 points, 12.8 boards, and 2.2 blocks per game, and he anchors the league’s fifth-best defense, which is 7.7 points per 100 possessions better than league average when he plays. The Jazz have turned their season around and solidified a playoff spot as Gobert…Read more...
  
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• Longtime monument critic and former Utah legislator has been cleared in an investigation into whether he tried to shrink Grand Staircase for his own benefit

  01-02-2019 22:03
  An inspector general’s investigation into the reduction of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument found that a controversial former southern Utah lawmaker exerted no undue influence on the decision to cut the monument’s acreage by half.A longtime critic of the monument’s 1996 designation, Mike Noel, the recently retired legislator from Kanab, owns a ranch in Johnson Canyon, where 40 acres had been inside the original monument boundaries.That parcel was removed from the
  
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• Jazz have made offer to Grizzlies for point guard Mike Conley

  01-02-2019 21:58
  As the trade deadline approaches, the Utah Jazz have made an offer to the Memphis Grizzlies involving Ricky Rubio and a 2019 first round pick for point guard Mike Conley, The Salt Lake Tribune has learned.The Grizzlies didn’t immediately accept the offer, though considered it in the context of other offers that they’ve been getting for Conley from other teams around the league. Memphis says they’ve received offers including better first round picks than the Jazz’s —
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Jazz center Rudy Gobert moved to tears by All-Star snub

  01-02-2019 21:54 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) blocks the shot of Minnesota Timberwolves guard Josh Okogie (20) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, in
  
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• [Fox Sports] - Jazz center Rudy Gobert moved to tears by All-Star snub

  01-02-2019 21:52 via sportspyder.com
  'I feel disrespected': An emotional Rudy Gobert speaks out about not getting picked as an All-Star
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Rudy Gobert talks about his All-Star snub

  01-02-2019 21:47 via sportspyder.com
  Rudy Gobert talked about not being selected to the All-Star team in Friday's media availability ahead of the Jazz's matchup against the Atlanta Hawks.
  
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• Proposal would allow state grants up to $250K per company in effort to create jobs in rural Utah

  01-02-2019 21:34
  Last year, Rep. Carl Albrecht, R-Richfield, sponsored and passed a bill aimed at boosting the number of jobs in rural Utah by offering state grants of up to $25,000 apiece to companies hiring new employees. Now, just seven months after HB390 took effect, he wants to increase the incentive cap tenfold, to $250,000.Soon after HB390 kicked in, Albrecht says, an employer approached him, saying he wanted to hire more than 30 workers in rural Utah. But the way the law was structured, he’d only b
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Martellus Bennett: We teach black boys sports are their only hope. What if we let them dream bigger?

  01-02-2019 21:30 via sportspyder.com
  As young black boys in Alief, Texas, my friends and I often spent afternoons imagining ourselves scoring the game-winning touchdown at the end of the Super Bowl. Each time we went through it, the final play would become more outlandish.
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Risk or reward: Knicks eye free agency after Porzingis trade

  01-02-2019 21:26 via sportspyder.com
  Boston Celtics guard Kyrie Irving, center, who is sidelined with a hip strain, watches play from the bench with forward Marcus Morris, left, during the first quarter of the team's
  
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• 📹| “It’s just about my legacy … everything I do, I do to win." #ZionsBank | @ZionsBank » on.nba.com/2MJ9opH

  01-02-2019 21:19 via twitter.com
  📹| “It’s just about my legacy … everything I do, I do to win."#ZionsBank | @ZionsBank » on.nba.com/2MJ9opH
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - NBA adds Dwayne Wade, Dirk Nowitzki to All-Star player pool

  01-02-2019 21:18 via sportspyder.com
  Miami • Dallas' Dirk Nowitzki and Miami’s Dwyane Wade are both NBA champions, NBA Finals MVPs and longtime ambassadors for the game of basketball.
  
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• Olympic champion among 12 Russian athletes guilty of doping

  01-02-2019 21:18
  Geneva • Evidence that Russia ran a state-backed doping scheme for several years has been used to prove new cases of cheating by track and field Olympic and world champions.Ivan Ukhov, the 2012 Olympic high jump champion was among 12 Russian track and field athletes found guilty Friday of taking part in "systemic doping," the Court of Arbitration for Sport said.Ukhov was disqualified from the 2012 London Games, while hammer thrower Tatyana Lysenko and high jumper Svetlana Shkolina also have
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Brad Rock: Rudy Gobert doesn't have enough nonsense for NBA All-Star Game

  01-02-2019 21:10 via sportspyder.com
  The "midseason classic" is all about the shooting and how those shots are taken. NBA coaches went with the fan-pleaser in that regard.
  
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• Martellus Bennett: We teach black boys sports are their only hope. What if we let them dream bigger?

  01-02-2019 21:00
  As young black boys in Alief, Texas, my friends and I often spent afternoons imagining ourselves scoring the game-winning touchdown at the end of the Super Bowl. Each time we went through it, the final play would become more outlandish.Blue 42! Blue 42! Check Check Check! Omaha! Omaha! Set! Hut!The quarterback would take the snap, drop back and throw a short pass to the wide receiver or, in my case, the tight end. (I always loved short passes more than Hail Marys, because you could really show o
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Rudy Gobert’s reaction to All-Star snub: Frustration, fury, and tears

  01-02-2019 20:52 via sportspyder.com
  Rudy Gobert started off stoic and defiant on Friday at Zions Bank Basketball Center, discussing having been snubbed from the upcoming NBA All-Star Game. Many thought he was a lock. But he was not picked by the Western Conference coaches as a reserve.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - National parks rush to repair damage after shutdown

  01-02-2019 20:52 via sportspyder.com
  Salt Lake City • National parks across the United States are scrambling to clean up and repair damage that visitors and storms caused during the recent government shutdown while bracing for the possibility of another closure ahead of the busy...
  
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• [ESPN] - Crying shame: Gobert in tears over All-Star snub

  01-02-2019 20:50 via sportspyder.com
  Jazz center Rudy Gobert, the reigning defensive player of the year, walked away in tears after describing the disappointment of not being named to the All-Star Game as a reserve.
  
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• Brad Rock: Rudy Gobert doesn't have enough nonsense for NBA All-Star Game

  01-02-2019 20:50
  SALT LAKE CITY — Assessing why Rudy Gobert was snubbed as an All-Star doesn't require a deep dive. It takes a splash in the shallow end. That's what the "midseason classic" is anyway.The All-Star Game has always been about exaggerated lob passes and uncontested dunks and unfunny hijinks. It's the Globetrotters without a confetti bucket. And it has as much substance as a comic book.Gobert actually has plenty of style, but he's an acquired taste. All-Star games are something entirely differe
  
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• [Larry Brown Sports] - Warriors players take ruthless shots at Rudy Gobert for crying over All-Star snub

  01-02-2019 20:48 via sportspyder.com
  No player in the NBA is more upset over not being selected to the All-Star Game than Rudy Gobert, and to say the Golden State Warriors have no sympathy for the big man would be an understatement. Gobert was overcome with emotion while speaking about...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Rudy Gobert emotional discussing All-Star snub, calls it 'disrespectful'

  01-02-2019 20:43 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz center began to cry as he talked on Friday morning about not being named an All-Star.
  
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• 📓| “I’m always going to be about winning. I don’t want to be focused on those things. But at one point, I’d still l… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-02-2019 20:32 via twitter.com
  📓| “I’m always going to be about winning. I don’t want to be focused on those things. But at one point, I’d still l… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• [NBA] - Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert feels 'disrespected' after being left off NBA All-Star roster

  01-02-2019 20:31 via sportspyder.com
  The NBA’s All-Star Game is a showcase with more emphasis on celebrity than substance. But the tears that formed in the corners of Rudy Gobert’s eyes on Friday morning were proof of how much the honor
  
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• Rudy Gobert emotional discussing All-Star snub, calls it 'disrespectful'

  01-02-2019 20:30
  SALT LAKE CITY — Rudy Gobert held it together for more than six minutes, but eventually the emotion became too much.Eighteen hours after surprisingly being omitted from the Western Conference All-Star team, the Utah Jazz center met with local media Friday morning after the team's shootaround in preparation for the evening's game against the Atlanta Hawks.Asked about being motivated to succeed regardless of being named an All-Star, the big Frenchman said, "It's always going to be that way"
  
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• Rudy Gobert cries discussing All-Star snub, calls it 'disrespectful'

  01-02-2019 20:30
  SALT LAKE CITY — Rudy Gobert held it together for more than six minutes, but eventually the emotion became too much.Eighteen hours after surprisingly being omitted from the Western Conference All-Star team, the Utah Jazz center met with local media Friday morning after the team's shootaround in preparation for the evening's game against the Atlanta Hawks.Asked about being motivated to succeed regardless of being named an All-Star, the big Frenchman said, "It's always going to be that way"
  
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• What a January. #TakeNote | #TeamIsEverything https://t.co/bi64kpTppJ

  01-02-2019 20:14 via twitter.com
  
  What a January.#TakeNote | #TeamIsEverything https://t.co/bi64kpTppJ
  
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• National parks rush to repair damage after shutdown

  01-02-2019 20:13
  Salt Lake City • National parks across the United States are scrambling to clean up and repair damage that visitors and storms caused during the recent government shutdown while bracing for the possibility of another closure ahead of the busy Presidents Day weekend later this month.Visitors left human waste, piles of trash and graffiti, created unauthorized trails and damaged Joshua trees at the namesake park in California during the 35-day shutdown. Many of the parks went unstaffed, while
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - NBA adds Dwayne Wade, Dirk Nowitzki to All-Star player pool

  01-02-2019 19:48 via sportspyder.com
  Dallas' Dirk Nowitzki and Miami's Dwyane Wade are both NBA champions, NBA Finals MVPs and longtime ambassadors for the game of basketball.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Nora, one of Utah’s Hogle Zoo’s two polar bears, has a broken bone and needs a big surgery

  01-02-2019 19:47 via sportspyder.com
  One of Utah’s Hogle Zoo’s polar bears has a broken bone and will be healing out of sight for “the next several months.”
  
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• NBA adds Wade, Nowitzki to All-Star player pool

  01-02-2019 19:21
  MIAMI (AP) — Dallas' Dirk Nowitzki and Miami's Dwyane Wade are both NBA champions, NBA Finals MVPs and longtime ambassadors for the game of basketball.And now, one more time, they're All-Stars.By special order of NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, Wade and Nowitzki were added Friday to the pool of players for the All-Star Game that will be played in Charlotte on Feb. 17. Each team will now have 13 players instead of the customary 12, and LeBron James — one of the captains — will be
  
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