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The last few days have been a whirlwind for Jovic, but the 19-year-old Serbian forward was not surprised when he was told Friday to take a flight to South Dakota to join the Sioux Falls Skyforce for one G League game. “Nothing was a surprise,” Jovic said, as the Heat returned to Miami following Monday’s 101-93 road loss to the Memphis Grizzlies to open a three-game homestand on Tuesday against the Pistons. “I knew at one moment that I was going to go because they told me they want me to play a little bit. At this moment, there was no space for me to be on the court with the Heat guys. But they told me they want me to play. So I kind of knew [I would go to the G League], I just didn’t know when. It just happened to be now and I was really happy.”
Republican Rep. Dusty Johnson of South Dakota introduced a bill Friday to protect the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in response to calls by former NBA player and ESPN analyst Jalen Rose to retire the use of "Mount Rushmore" when listing all-time greats over claims it is "offensive." The Mount Rushmore Protection Act prohibits the use of federal funds "to alter, change, destroy or remove the likeness, the name of or any of the faces on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial," according to a press release from Johnson’s office.
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A guy from Williams College transfers from Division III to Division I, goes undrafted out of Michigan by NBA teams, gets a two-way contract with the Miami Heat, toils on a G League team in South Dakota, signs a minimum deal with the Heat, earns a spot in the starting lineup for an NBA Finals team and proves himself to be a historically great 3-point shooter with a lucrative future in the league. Now he’s taking the next step of his NBA career: He’s starting a podcast. The first episode of Robinson’s show, The Long Shot, is being released this week through a podcast company founded by New Orleans Pelicans guard JJ Redick, the latest development in the rapidly expanding universe of NBA players illuminating their trade.
Dion Waiters’ return looks to be near. The Heat guard traveled to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on Friday morning to join the organization’s G League Team as part of a plan to get him back into game shape. Waiters has not played in a game since undergoing surgery Jan. 22 to repair instability and a preexisting navicular bone fracture in his left ankle.
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The plan had been to get visas to the U.S. and join family in Sioux Falls, S.D. But they ended up spending three long years in the refugee camp, where disease, hunger and poverty made a dangerous mix. “Tough times there. We don’t have food, no clean water. It was like a desert area,” Pillow told The Post. “There was no water, but then when it rained there was flooding. There was no money at that time. There were big tents with a lot of people in them. There was disease. “I had to find work to support my family, but it was hard. … They gave you food for a month, but it doesn’t last. It was gone in about a week.”
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