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Until Tuesday afternoon, Donyell Marshall hadn't watched Stephen Curry's Monday night tornado of 3-pointers that broke his shared record for the most 3-pointers made in a single NBA game. But he definitely heard about it. "My son texted me when he saw Steph had 10 [3s] at the end of the third," Marshall said from the gym at Central Connecticut State, where he coaches the men's basketball team. "And I thought, OK, yeah, he's gonna get it. I got up to go to the bathroom at about 2 a.m. and looked at my phone and saw he had it."

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Jeff Goodman: Donyell Marshall is expected to be the head coach at Central Connecticut State, sources told ESPN.

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As the food arrives and the conversation heats up, Closs answers questions about why his three-season NBA career showed only glimpses of the freckle-faced Keith Closs who blocked an NCAA- record 5.87 shots per game at Central Connecticut State; the one the Los Angeles Clippers signed to five-year, $8.5 million deal in 1997. “I was drinking in the NBA,” Closs explains of his alcohol-abbreviated career in the League. “I was drinking on the bench, too. That wasn’t Gatorade in my water bottle; it was whatever I’d brought with me from the liquor store on the way to the arena. I had grown very resentful of the fact that I wasn’t playing…I felt like I was wasting away.”

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After an alternately inspiring and tumultuous two-school prep career that saw him smoke and drink almost as much as he scored and swatted, Closs ended up returning to his birth state of Connecticut for college. “I visited [Central Connecticut State University] and one of my future teammates knocked somebody out at a party at Trinity College,” Closs says. “I knew right there [CCSU] was where I wanted to be. I was into that type of thing. “I was already a full-blown alcoholic by then. I was living a double life,” Closs continues. “But college was the first time I actually had any real problems related to my drinking.”

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