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Aches told people that he was playing to win and anything short of a championship would be a failure. Aches is the Greatest of All Time - eSportsNation

The trashtalk started a few weeks before the event when Censor posted this video to his YouTube. Aches then said on Twitter that he didn’t want to hear anything like that again and they had to win the event, which caused a lot of discussion in the community. Luckily for them, FaZe was able to win the event in the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-lbqFUmsSw

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Evil Geniuses, a very renowned organization in eSports, chose to buy out the roster from CompLexity. Aches is the Greatest of All Time - eSportsNation

Evil Geniuses is to eSports what the Lakers are to basketball basically. The company was founded in 1999 and quickly climbed its way to the top of the scene along with Team Liquid; their StarCraft teams were almost on par with the Korean ones and almost brought the StarCraft crown to the Western scene. (Polygon wrote a nice piece about it).

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Twenty-four years later, I pass my muse. Zero | The Players' Tribune

Coincidence?

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I learned that he had been cut from his high school team as a freshman; Zero | The Players' Tribune

Even though this is one of the staples of MJ’s legacy, his coach said that he was never “cut” from his high school team. Thomas Lake of Sports Illustrated profiled his coach, Pop Herring, and this is what he had to say about it:

In those days it was rare for sophomores to make varsity. Herring made one exception in 1978, one designed to remedy his team’s height disadvantage. This is part of the reason Mike Jordan went home and cried in his room after reading the two lists. It wasn’t just that his name was missing from the varsity roster. It was also that as he scanned the list he saw the name of another sophomore, one of his close friends, the 6'7" Leroy Smith. […] But in fact his name was on the second list, the jayvee roster, with the names of many of his fellow sophomores. Jordan quickly became a jayvee superstar.

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I considered maybe just giving up basketball and just focusing on soccer. Zero | The Players' Tribune

Soccer is the #1 sport in Italy and basketball isn’t really popular so it’d have been pretty easy for Kobe to start competing in soccer. Luckily enough, he didn’t!

After all these years he’s still interested in the sport though, after attending the World Cup in Brazil this year he’s in touch with an Italian club to become a part-owner.

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My father Joe “Jellybean” Bryant Zero | The Players' Tribune

Bryant Sr. played for the 76ers for 4 years before moving to the Clippers and then the Rockets. In 1984 he went oversea to play for the AMG Sebastiani Rieti and other Italian teams; this is the reason why Kobe speaks the language so well. He was a good player but not nearly as good as his son would become.

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Twenty-four years later, I pass my muse. Kobe Bryant – Zero
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I learned that he had been cut from his high school team as a freshman; Kobe Bryant – Zero
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Even though this is one of the staples of MJ’s legacy, his coach said that he was never “cut” from his high school team. Thomas Lake of Sports Illustrated profiled his coach, Pop Herring, and this is what he had to say about it:

In those days it was rare for sophomores to make varsity. Herring made one exception in 1978, one designed to remedy his team’s height disadvantage. This is part of the reason Mike Jordan went home and cried in his room after reading the two lists. It wasn’t just that his name was missing from the varsity roster. It was also that as he scanned the list he saw the name of another sophomore, one of his close friends, the 6'7" Leroy Smith. […] But in fact his name was on the second list, the jayvee roster, with the names of many of his fellow sophomores. Jordan quickly became a jayvee superstar.

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I considered maybe just giving up basketball and just focusing on soccer. Kobe Bryant – Zero
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Soccer is the #1 sport in Italy and basketball isn’t really popular so it’d have been pretty easy for Kobe to start competing in soccer. Luckily enough, he didn’t!

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Bryant Sr. played for the 76ers for 4 years before moving to the Clippers and then the Rockets. In 1984 he went oversea to play for the AMG Sebastiani Rieti and other Italian teams; this is the reason why Kobe speaks the language so well. He was a good player but not nearly as good as his son would become.

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