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https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/20211833/nba-bust-darko-milicic-finds-success-back-home-serbia The world was quick to label Darko Milicic an epic NBA bust, but here are 10 reasons why he is an utter success. by Sam Borden ESPN - 04/09/20 Editor's note: This story was originally published on Aug. 2, 2017.  ESPN senior writer Sam Borden discusses Milicic's post-NBA life with Mina Kimes on the ESPN Daily podcast.   This story appears in Spanish here. 1. HE DOESN'T MIND TALKING ABOUT BEING A TOTAL FAILURE. Darko Milicic uses the word "bust" a lot, which is surprising. I thought he might avoid it or at least make a sour face when it comes up, but he doesn't stumble over it, doesn't stutter. It doesn't catch in his throat like phlegm. No, Darko is frontal. He is blunt. At 7 feet tall and approaching 300 pounds , he's roughly the size of a garage door, but, within the first 10 minutes of meeting me, he uses the word "bust" a half-d...

https://www.popmatters.com/180880-30-for-30-bad-boys-the-show-goes-on-2495668267.html The Piston's Isiah Thomas exhorts haters to "erase the labels that you've given us and the names that you called us, all those people who said we were thugs and vicious." By Cynthia Fuchs / 17 April 2014 “I don’t fight. I agitate, then I walk away.” — Bill Laimbeer “Is my shirt too light? No?” John Salley adjusts his jacket and applies make up as the camera repositions to find the right angle. “I had three shirts, when they said it was a warehouse, I didn’t know if a lighter shirt would lighten my face or not.” He goes with the darker shirt, a shade matching his plaid jacket, sharp. Salley knows how to present himself. The warehouse is a decent effect here, in the new 30 for 30 film, Bad Boys , but Salley’s a better one. While the brick walls and exposed fixtures in the building suggest the notorious blue-collar toughness of the late 1980s Detroit Pistons, Salley’s attention to sar...