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TANKONIA

Lords of Tankonia: Your Crown Awaits, Manny Harris

By Chris Ryan at

When you go to the NBA's YouTube page and click on Tuesday's Top 10 Plays the guy who does the voice-over says, "After mining through 240 minutes of hoops action, our editorial geniuses at NBA.com have decreed that YES we are going with the full top 10."

Just so we're clear, THE NBA ITSELF is equating watching Tuesday night's NBA games with DIGGING IN THE EARTH FOR MINERALS. They actually had some kind of meeting to determine whether there were 10 plays worthy of highlighting. The no. 10 play is something that happened in the Pacers-Sixers game after the whistle blew and the no. 9 is O.J. Mayo saving a ball from going out of bounds. Crack open the smelling salts and call me Hasheem. We are truly living in the age of Tankonia.

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