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Tenth overall is an eerie spot to pick in the NBA Draft. Historically, most tenth overall picks have gone on to be steady role players. Some have seen their basketball careers flame out quickly, while others went on to enjoy Hall-of-Fame-caliber tenures.

The Washington Wizards got what they expected, if not what they had hoped, in the draft lottery on Tuesday night: the No. 10 overall pick. Its certainly not a bad spot to be in, but the players available at 10 wont be expected to singlehandedly turn a franchise around.

Odds might be in Washingtons favor, though, as from 1969-2017, there was a future All-Star available at No. 10 in all but one of those NBA drafts. Caron Butler will not appear on this list, though, for while he was one of the Wizards best players of the 21st century, he was drafted by the Heat 10th overall in 2002.

With that in mind, lets delve into the history of the No. 10 overall NBA draft pick.

2003: Jarvis Hayes (G/F, Georgia) Fitting into the mold of role players, Washington selected the Georgia product 10th overall in 2003. He had a decent if not inspiring career in D.C., being selected to the All-Rookie Second Team after putting up 9.6 ppg and 3.8 rpg. Injuries would hamper the rest of his career, though, and he would end up playing four of his seven NBA seasons in Washington putting up role player caliber numbers.

1983: Jeff Malone (SG, Mississippi State) Malone, to date, has been the Holy Grail of Wizards No. 10 overall picks and one of the best all-time selections at the spot. He was a lethal shooter during his 15-year NBA career, seven of which he spent with the team that drafted him. As a Bullet, Malone made the All-Rookie first team, two All-Star appearances, and became one of the best players in franchise history. By the end of his stint in D.C., Malone averaged a splendid 20.2 points of 47.7% shooting.

1998: Paul Pierce The Truth is pretty much all you need to know about what a home run Boston hit in 98. Pierce was one of the leagues best players during his prime, earning a whopping 10 All-Stars during his Celtics tenure while leading them to the NBA Championship in 2008, where hed earn Finals MVP. Not for nothing, he also hit one of the biggest shots in Wizards history:

1999: Jason Terry The definition of a sharpshooter, Terrys talents were enjoyed by Atlanta before he spent eight years in Dallas. As a Maverick, Terry would Sixth Man of the Year in 2009 and an NBA Championship ring in 2011. Hes made the leagues seventh-most three-pointers to date.

2008: Brook Lopez Lopez epitomizes the sink or swim mantra of the modern NBA. He couldnt shoot coming out of college but developed an outside shot as a veteran while bolstering his defense. His knack for molding his game to his surroundings was a huge reason for Milwaukees championship last season.

2010: Paul George George is one of the best players in the NBA today, plain and simple. A seven-time All-Star, 2019 All-NBA First Team, and 2013 Most Improved Player go to show that hes a dominant force on both sides of the ball. An elite scorer with three-level ability who can defend 1-4, George is a key piece of what could be a title-contending Clippers squad.

2013: C.J. McCollum Not a lot of players garner buzz coming out of Lehigh. McCollum was the exception and for good reason, as the shooting guard was one-half of a devastating backcourt in Portland before his recent trade to New Orleans. He hasnt been named an All-Star yet (which is unfair considering his production), but hes one of the leagues brightest and most useful players at the two-spot.

2018: Mikal Bridges Every team in the NBA needs a Mikal Bridges type to contend for a title. Hes a young, versatile wing who can shoot efficiently and defend four positions. He was a runner-up for Defensive Player of the Year this year and with Phoenixs lethal rotation, he could be in line for another Championship appearance before too long.

1984: Leon Wood Wood probably wouldnt appear on this list if it werent for John Stockton. Philadelphia selected Wood at No. 10 and he would go on to have a decent career (his best year actually came in Washington, where he would put up 9.7 ppg in 1985-86), but Stocktons selection six picks later makes this a swing-and-a-miss.

1985: Ed Pinckney Again, Pinckney wasnt a total bust and would enjoy some production during his decade-plus career. He was the original Villanova legend leading the Wildcats to their miracle NCAA title in 1985 with the legendary upset of Georgetown. But, the Suns took Pinckney ahead of such luminaries as Karl Malone, Joe Dumars, A.C. Green, Terry Porter, and even Manute Bol. Yikes.

1996: Erick Dampier Dampier played for 15 years in the NBA, which is impressive considering he only put up double-digit scoring numbers twice. He retired in 2012 with a career average of 7.4 ppg, which really isnt bad. But, like most other guys on this list, the men who followed him in the draft make it tough to exclude him: Kobe Bryant, Peja Stojakovic, Steve Nash, Jermaine ONeal, and Zydrunas Ilgauskas.

2006: Mouhamed Sene Easy choice here. Sene was a seven-foot prospect out of Senegal who the then-Seattle Seahawks took a chance on. It didnt workhe played just 47 career games averaging 2.2 points. What makes it tougher for Seattle was that they couldve taken JJ Redick, Rajon Rondo, Kyle Lowry, P.J. Tucker, or Paul Millsap.

2011: Jimmer Fredette Look away, Wizards fans: this was the Jan Vesely draft. Fredette made waves in college with his unreal three-point shooting, but he never amounted to much in the NBA as he put up just six points per game over his career. He was taken ahead of Klay Thompson, both Morris brothers, Kawhi Leonard, Nikola Vucevic, Tobias Harris, Jimmy Butler, and Isaiah Thomas.

2016: Thon Maker Like Sene, Maker was an intriguing prospect because of his size. His career fizzled when he couldnt find the starting lineup, though. Its tough for Bucks fans to hear they couldve had Domantas Sabonis (the very next pick), Malik Beasley, Pascal Siakam, Dejounte Murray, or Malcolm Brogdon to supplement their championship core. They might have multiple titles by now if they'd made a different decision in 2016.

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Laurence Tribe, who turned eighty last year, has been one of the most prominent liberal legal scholars of the last half century. A professor to John Roberts, a mentor to Barack Obama, and an advocate who has appeared dozens of times before the Supreme Court, Tribe has also published numerous books about the Constitution and the Courts history. More recently, Tribedespite the reverence with which he initially wrote about the Courthas been highly critical of what he sees as its increasing rightward tilt and politicization by Republican-nominated Justices. Tribe has also established himself as a prolific commenter on current affairs, both on television and Twitter (where he has more than a million followers), specifically by making caustic attacks on former President Donald Trump, whom he has accused of committing multiple crimes.

I recently spoke by phone with Tribe, currently the Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard, several days after the leak of Justice Samuel Alitos draft opinion that argued for overturning Roe v. Wade. During our conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity, we also discussed his impressions of Justice Roberts throughout the decades, his changing views of the Courts role in American life, and how he looks back on his controversial work for the coal industry.

How has your thinking about the Supreme Court as an institution changed over the past fifty years?

I would say that because I am part of the generation that grew up in the glow of Brown v. Board of Education and of the Warren and Brennan Court, and identified the Court really with making representative government work better through the reapportionment decisions and protecting minorities of various kinds, I saw the Court through rather rose-tinted glasses for a while. As I taught the Court for decades, I came to spend more time on the dark periods of the Courts history, thinking about how the Court really preserved and protected corporate power and wealth more than it protected minorities through much of our history, and how it essentially gutted the efforts at Reconstruction, and I focussed more on cases like Dred Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson and Korematsu.

And in recent years, as the Court has turned back to its characteristic posture of protecting those who dont need much protection from the political process but who already have lots of political power, I became more and more concerned about its anti-democratic and anti-human-rights record. I continued to want to make sense of the Courts doctrines. I wrote a treatise that got very frequently cited around the world and that shaped my teaching about how the Courts ideas in various areas could be pulled together. But then, after I had done the second edition of that treatise, and it became relied on by a lot of people, I decided [after the first volume] of the third edition, basically, to stop that project.

What were you arguing in the first two editions?

The first was the first effort in probably a hundred years to pull together all of constitutional law. And it led to a rebirth, or flowering, of lots of writing about constitutional law, and writing more focussed on methodology, with different forms of interpretation. I was very excited about that project, and [the second edition] continued it. Most of what I did was to see connections among different areas. I would be writing about commercial regulation, and I would see themes that popped up in areas of civil rights and civil liberties. Or Id be writing about separation of powers, and I would see problems that arose elsewhere.

And I was always trying to find coherence, because my background in mathematics had led me to be very interested in the deep structures of things. I was working on a Ph.D. in algebraic topology when I rather abruptly shifted from mathematics to law. And so, in my treatise, I developed what I thought of as seven different models of constitutional law. Im always fascinated by different perspectives and lenses and models. Ive never thought of law and politics as strictly separate, and efforts by people like Steve Breyer to say that we shouldnt concede that constitutional law is largely political have always seemed to me to be misleading. That said, I still saw efforts at consistency and concerns about avoiding hypocrisy from the Court. But those things began getting harder to take seriously.

And then Steve Breyer wrote me a long letter saying, When are you going to finish the third edition of your treatise? And I wrote him a letter back, which then was published in various places, saying, Im not going to keep doing it. And heres why. It was a letter that described how I thought constitutional law had really lost its coherence.

At one level, youre saying something really changed with the Court. But earlier you said that the Court has always had some history of protecting the powerful and not protecting minority rights or the powerless. So did something change, or did the Court just have this brief period, after the Second World War, when you saw it as different before returning to its normal posture?

I think theres always been a powerful ideological stream, but the ascendant ideology in the nineteen-sixties and seventies was one that I could easily identify with. It was the ideology that said the relatively powerless deserve protection, by an independent branch of government, from those who would trample on them.

Right. The Warren Court was also ideological; it just happened to be an ideology that you or I might agree with.

Exactly. No question. It was quite ideological. Justice Brennan had a project whose architecture was really driven by his sense of the purposes of the law, and those purposes were moral and political. No question about it. Im not saying that somehow the liberal take on constitutional law is free of ideology. There was, however, an intellectually coherent effort to connect the ideology with the whole theory of what the Constitution was for and what the Court was for. Mainly, the Court is an anti-majoritarian branch, and its there to protect minorities and make sure that people are fairly represented. I could identify with that ideology. It made sense to me, and I could see elements of it in various areas of doctrine. But as that fell apart, and as the Court reverted to a very different ideology, one in which the Court was essentially there to protect propertied interests and to protect corporations and to keep the masses at baythats an ideology, too, but it was not being elaborated in doctrine in a way that I found even coherent, let alone attractive.

Maybe Im wrong about this, but I see more internal contradiction and inconsistency in the strands of doctrine of the people who came back into power with the Reagan Administration and the Federalist Society. Im not the person to make sense of what theyre doing, because it doesnt hang together for me. Even if I could play the role that I think I did play with a version that I find more morally attractive, its a project that I would regard as somewhat evil and wouldnt want to take part in.

Im not trying to paint the picture that says everything was pure logic and mathematics and apolitical and morally neutral in the good days of the Warren Era, and incoherent and ideologically driven in other times. I think that would be an unfair contrast. So I hope what Ive said to you makes it a little clearer.

You wrote a rather striking piece in The New York Review of Books recently, called Politicians in Robes, where you take issue with Breyer essentially still believing that the Court can be apolitical. How should we view the Court now? I think that there is a tendency to say, These guys are politicians, and they make partisan choices the way anyone else does.

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The Supreme Courts History of Protecting the Powerful - The New Yorker

Arts and entertainment

May 19, 2022

Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the UW community every week!

Gospel Choir

May 23, 7:30 PM | Meany Hall

Phyllis Byrdwell leads the 100-voice gospel choir in songs of praise, jubilation, and other expressions of the Gospel tradition.

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Astronomy on Tap: Technology in Earth Orbit and Beyond

May 25, 8:00 PM | Bickersons Brewhouse

First, Dr. Meredith Rawls, a research scientist at the UW Department of Astronomy, will talk about her work addressing the growing number of satellites around Earth and how that affects astronomy. Then, Dr. James Davenport, Associate Director of the UW DiRAC Institute will talk about how hes looking for signs of intelligent life on other planets!

Each FREE Astronomy on Tap event features accessible, engaging science presentations on topics ranging from planets to black holes to the beginning of the Universe. Most events have games and prizes to test and reward your new-found knowledge! There is always lots of time to ask questions and interact with the presenters and other scientists who inevitably stick around for the beer.

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School of Art + Art History + Design Graduation Exhibitions

May 25 28 | Jacob Lawrence Art Gallery

Join theSchool of Art + Art History + Design for a the Honors Graduation Exhibition for students receiving Bachelor of Arts degrees in Art.

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Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist:Heri Purwanto

May 27, 7:30 PM | Meany Hall

The master Javanese gamelan musician Heri Purwanto from Indonesia performs with his students in this evening of music from central Java, Indonesia in this event sponsored by the School of Music.

2022 MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition

May 27 June 26 | Henry Art Gallery

The graduation exhibition for students receiving masters degrees from our Division of Art and Division of Design.

The exhibition is organized by Eric Zimmerman, Henry Art Gallery Exhibition Designer and Preparator, and alum Katie Miller, former Henry Art Gallery Assistant Registrar of Exhibitions. They conducted two studio visits and have worked closely with the students to facilitate their projects and prepare them for exhibition.

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Doctor Tom Frist with 1304 Chickering Road (Eagledj CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons, Redfin, iStock)

A Nashville mansion is asking the highest price in the states history.

The 19,811-square-foot Chickering Road home was listed by billionaire businessman Dr. Tom Frist Jr., who founded HCA Healthcare, for $50 million, the New York Post reported.

1304 Chickering Road (Redfin, iStock)

Located in the pricy Belle Meade neighborhood, the five-bedroom house sits on just under 50 acres and is a half mile from the road. A separate buildable 9-acre parcel at 1230 Chickering Road is also included in the property listing. The home, built in 2001, was designed by New York architects Ferguson & Shamamian, who have won multiple awards for high-end residential projects.

The large home resembles other Southern estates with features such as exterior columns and double balcony porches on the front and back of the house.

Ferguson & Shamamian featured the mansion in their book City and Country Residences, in which they wrote: Centered on colonnaded porches in front and back, the house may have an impressive presence, and the body language appears to be formal. But the house that is scaled for entertaining and steeped in regional references offers a surprisingly comfortable, even relaxed environmental reality inside.

In addition to the five bedrooms, the home also has six full bathrooms and four half baths.

The interiors of the home were designed by well-known New York designer Bunny Williams.

The mansion has indoor and outdoor and formal and informal areas to entertain guests, including a screened porch, a large living room, a covered porch with fireplace and a large family room that has vaulted wood ceilings and two fireplaces.

1304 Chickering Road (Redfin, iStock)

The home also includes an elevator, swimming pool, tennis court and guest house.

Dr. Frist is selling the mansion because his wife died last year and he wants to move to a smaller home.

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History of Slavery at the University of Georgia will host an all-day community event titled Tell the Whole Story on May 21 to engage the Athens community through shared activities of historical significance.

Moving through multiple locations throughout the day, the event will begin at Brooklyn Cemetery, a historic African American cemetery. Then, the rest of the event will take place at Morton Theatre, which was built, owned and operated by Monroe Bowers Morton, an African American.

At the theater, archival readings, vignettes, art and music and dance performances will be presented. The night will end with a screening and panel discussion of the film, Below Baldwin: How an Expansion Project Unearthed a Universitys Legacy at Slavery.

The events title, Tell the Whole Story, refers to the unanswered questions concerning the history of slavery at UGA, according to Barbara McCaskill, an English professor at UGA and a member of the events planning team.

What were the names and stories of all enslaved persons and families residing on or laboring at UGA's campus?, McCaskill said. How and why were so many forgotten? Who are their descendants in Athens' African American community? In what ways has slavery continued to influence the health, wealth, education and social mobility of contemporary Black Athenians? Why is it important for all of us to confront this difficult, uncomfortable past?

History of Slavery at the University of Georgia will host an all-day community event titled "Tell the Whole Story," on May 21. (Courtesy/Jennifer Rice)

At Brooklyn Cemetery, attendees can view historical gravesites and hear the stories of several descendants of the deceased. There will also be a song performed by the students of Clarke Middle School and a chance to submit requests for genealogy research through the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, according to Linda Davis, a board of education member for the Clarke County School District and member of the events planning team.

Davis said the History of Slavery at UGAs plans include creating a reburial site for the reclaimed remains of potentially enslaved African Americans from the excavation of Baldwin Hall.

The remains were discovered in 2015 during construction for an addition to Baldwin Hall. Davis said the events program is reflective of the past, present and future of those impacted by this history of slavery.

The present reveals a past that inspired a people born out of the most heinous institution of oppression imaginable to honor their kin and leave evidence of their existence, Davis said. The present is all about love of family and community and caring enough to be a part of something that celebrates our humanity and connectedness.

Also at Morton Theatre, attendees can view ATHICAs poster art gallery By Any Other Name and the finished quilt from the Linnentown Quilt Project. Linnentown was a historically Black neighborhood demolished to build UGA dorms and parking, thus displacing residents.

McCaskills planning focused on the program of events at Morton Theatre. She said the combination of dance, drama, music, literature and spoken word illustrates how American history and culture has been shaped by the lives of those enslaved.

The events are meant to inspire participants to understand that citizen is a verb, McCaskill said. Active engagement in community and cultural affairs is vital in making Athens a unified, thriving and exciting city.

History of Slavery at UGA first began in 2019 as a research grant funded by the universitys Office of the President and titled Documenting the History of Slavery at the University of Georgia, 1785-1865, according to Jennifer Rice, a geography professor at UGA and the events planning chair. The grant solicited proposals from faculty to conduct scholarly research on the role of slavery in the early development of UGA, according to the call for proposals.

When the grant concluded in 2021, the organization evolved to include faculty, staff and community members seeking to build on the research with additional foundations, resources and activism, according to Rice. Last year, the group organized a symposium on recognition, reconciliation and redress.

Through an exploration into the legacies of slavery both at UGA and in the larger Athens community, History of Slavery at UGA seeks to establish new possibilities for racial, social and economic justice. Rice said she hopes the event will encourage attendees to learn, reflect, take action and have fun.

If we do not fully understand our history, we will not be able to imagine and build more just futures, Rice said. It is often difficult and uncomfortable to think about the legacies of slavery that still negatively impact Black communities today, but we believe engaging this process is the only way to truly address racism and inequality.

The event is free of charge and open to the public. Face coverings are strongly encouraged at Morton Theatre.

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History of Slavery at UGA to host daylong event - Red and Black

Remember that one command that solved your problem? Was it cat, less, more, wc or something else? When were at the terminal, we can issue dozens of commands to solve a problem and in the background our Linux OS is recording these commands to a history file.

In this how-to well look at various ways of searching and re-using our command history. Whilst you become accustomed to these commands its important to double check you dont unintentionally reissue a command that could cause problems. Take your time using these new techniques and double check the details before pressing enter!

All the commands in this how-to will work on most Linux machines. Weve used a Ubuntu 20.04 install but you could run this how-to on a Raspberry Pi. All of the how-to is performed via the Terminal. You can open a terminal window on most Linux machines by pressing ctrl, alt and t.

The simplest way to look through your recent commands is to use the up and down arrow keys on your keyboard to scroll through the previous commands. If you want to reissue a found command simply press the enter key.

The history command, in its most basic use case, lists and annotates the last 1000 commands issued in the terminal emulator. Each command has a number associated with it.

1. Run the history command to see a list of the last 1000 commands. Youll see that all the listed historical commands are given a unique reference number.

2. Reissue the history command but constrain the amount of results to a specific number. This is useful if you know roughly when a command you are looking for was issued. You should see only the last 20 results listed.

Now we can use history to view our previous commands, we can choose and reissue a command using the number assigned to the history results.

1. Run history 20 to create a list of commands, choose a command to reissue making sure that the chosen command is safe to run. Choosing a simple command like cd Music (1660) is a good safe example. Note there is no space between the exclamation mark and the command number.

By piping the output of history into grep we can perform a search of our command history returning results for a specified term or string. This is an excellent approach for finding a partially remembered command.

1. Search for a specific term using history and grep. We used the example search term silhouette as we recalled we had issued some commands to rectify a problem with a silhouette vinyl cutter. Replace that search term with something suited to your machine.

Another handy approach to retrieve previous Linux commands is to use the reverse search function built into the terminal. To enter this mode you simply press ctrl and r. You can then enter a search term and use repeat presses of ctrl and r to step back through the list of previous commands containing that term. When you find a command you want to reissue press enter.

1. Press ctrl and r enters the reverse search mode, you should see the prompt now reads (reverse I search)`':

2. Type a search term and you should see the last command issued that contained this term. For example we added the search term sudo to show the previous commands issued with sudo privileges.

3. Repeat pressing ctrl and r to step through other results.

4. Run a previous command by pressing enter or quit the reverse search by pressing esc .

Often we will want to simply rerun the last command we issued. We can achieve this simply using the !! command.

1. Run the ls command to set this as the example to test.

2. Reissue the last command using !!. Note that the previous command is listed and performed.

Sometimes we may try to reuse a command that requires elevated privileges, for example editing a file outside of our home directory. To do this we can preface the previous command with sudo. In the following example we append the first ls command to be reissued with sudo.

There may come a time where you need to keep a command out of your history, and if that scenario ever occurs, all you need to do is preface the command with a single press of the spacebar.

For example here are two ls commands, the second has a single space, hiding it from the history file.

With a little practice all the above approaches become quite instinctive to use and can make your terminal session more powerful and efficient. The ability to locate and reissue commands is extremely useful, especially when recovering a rarely used command or a command that was hard to create in the first instance.

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Your Ole Miss Rebels just made history by sweeping the LSU Tigers for the first time ever in Baton Rouge. Not only did they win convincingly, but the Rebels might have just made every single Ole Miss fan buy in for the rest of the season.

No question about it, were ready to get hurt again.

Theyre back, baby.

Ole Miss is on a hot streak winning nine of its last 11 games. Dylan Delucia, starting pitcher on Friday night as well as Saturdays continuance game, gave the Rebels the edge they needed. Pitching overall the entire weekend was great, but it was the aggressive and leave no doubt offense that won this series for the Rebels.

In game three, Derek Diamond got the start on the mound, going for 4.1 innings, allowing six hits for four runs with five strikeouts. As per the usual, Diamond was solid first time through the line-up then began to struggle.

Peyton Chatagnier was electric for the Rebs going 3-for-5 with a double, home run, and two RBI. Justin Bench had two doubles on the day, and both Hayden Leatherwood and Kemp Alderman sent balls over the wall in the series sweep. Heading into the ninth, Ole Miss had the 8-5 lead just needing three outs to make history.

Brandon Johnson came in to close, and wanted to add a little spice to keep Ole Miss fans on their toes late in the ninth. Per usual, he brought it and was all of us after the final strikeout.

Talk yo sh*t, Brandon.

Ole Miss continues what feels like its week six road trip to Jonesboro, Ark. to take on the Red Wolves of Arkansas State, before returning to Swayze Field when No. 10 Texas A&M comes to Oxford. Rebs will take on Arkansas State on Tuesday at 6 p.m. C.T.

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Ole Miss baseball makes history in Baton Rouge with first ever sweep of Tigers - Red Cup Rebellion

The Dallas Mavericks are set to take on the Phoenix Suns on Sunday in Game 7 of the Western Conference Semifinals. The winner moves on to the Western Conference Finals to take on the Golden State Warriors. The loser gets to start their summer vacation early.

The Mavericks havent played in very many Game 7s over the course of their franchise history. Theyve only participated in seven winner take all matches, partly because they were established in the 1980s. The Boston Celtics, for instance, have played in 33 Game 7s.

So before the Mavericks take on the Suns, heres a breakdown of every Game 7 the Mavericks have played:

The 1987-88 Mavericks featured a deep squad determined to avenge a stunning playoff upset the previous year. The 1986-87 Mavericks won 55 games and entered the postseason as the No. 2-seed in the Western Conference, but lost in the first round in four games to the No. 7-seed Seattle SuperSonics.

That squad returned in 1987-88 with one goalwin a championship or bust. The team featured Derek Harper, Rolando Blackman, Mark Aguirre, Sam Perkins, and James Donaldson. They finished the season as the No. 3-seed and cruised through the first two rounds of the playoffs. Unfortunately, they ran into the Los Angeles Lakers, who were on the back end of the one of the greatest dynasties in NBA history.

The home team won every game of the series (sound familiar?), with the Mavericks forcing a Game 7 after tight 105-103 Game 6 win in Dallas. The Mavericks hoped to carry momentum back to Los Angeles with them, and for a while, they did. Dallas trailed 54-53 at halftime, and 87-79 after the third quarter. But Magic Johnson took over in the fourth quarter, and the Mavericks had no answer. They ended up losing their first Game 7 in franchise history 117-102.

The 2002-03 Mavericks almost made the worst kind of history. After taking a 3-0 series lead against the Portland Trail Blazers, the No. 3-seed Dallas proceeded to lose three games in a row to the No. 6-seed Portland. They even entered the fourth quarter of Game 7 down by two.

But the Mavericks were rescued by a 31 point effort by Dirk Nowitzki. Nick Van Exel chipped in 26 points on 10-of-15 shooting. This was a physically and mentally draining series, said Michael Finley after the game. Nothing Sacramento can do will be tougher than what we faced here. The Mavericks would soon find out true that was.

The Mavericks caught a break in the second round of the 2003 playoffs against the Sacramento Kings when the Kings best player, Chris Webber, went down with a knee injury in Game 2. Still, the teams traded games back and forth all series, until they reached Game 7 in Dallas.

They were buoyed yet again by Nowitzki, who scored 30 points and grabbed 19 rebounds. The rest of the roster stepped up as well, with another great performance by Van Exel, who scored 23 points. Steve Nash and Finley scored 18 points each, with Nash dishing out 13 assists. Raja Bell scored 12 as well.

Unfortunately, the Mavericks would go on to lose in six games in the Western Conference Finals to the San Antonio Spurs. The Spurs would go on to win the NBA Finals.

The Mavericks faced off against the Houston Rockets in the first round of the 2005 playoffs. Dallas entered the playoffs as the No. 4-seed amid a odd season where head coach Don Nelson re-signed in March. Assistant coach Avery Johnson took over, and all seemed well until the Mavericks lost the first two games of the series against the Rockets.

They rebounded, though, and won three of the next four games to force a Game 7. This time, though, it wasnt Nowitzki who saved them. Jason Terry scored 31 points and Josh Howard hassled Rockets Tracy McGrady into 10-of-26 shooting from the floor. Nowitzki scored 14 points, but it didnt matter. The Mavericks won the game in a route, 116-76, and won the series. Theyd go on to lose in the next round to the Phoenix Suns.

In what is probably the defining series against their in-state rivals the Spurs, the Mavericks blew a 3-1 lead in the series and a 20 point lead in Game 7, but still somehow won. Dallas had lost its previous two series against San Antonio.

But 2006 would be different. You know all the moments. The Nowitzki drive to the basket. The Manu Ginobli foul on that drive. Nowitzki making a key block on the other end. An overtime wracked with tension. The Mavericks would go on to win 119-111, sending them to the Western Conference Finals. There, theyd defeat another rival, the Suns, and go on to the NBA Finals. No need to go into what happened next.

Eight years later, the Mavericks found themselves in another Game 7 against the Spurs. The circumstances were a bit different this time, though. The Spurs were the No. 1-seed bent on winning a title after a crushing defeat in the NBA Finals against the Miami Heat in 2013. The Mavericks were a plucky No. 8-seed just happy to be there.

What followed was a back and forth series that looked like a matchup between two of the best teams in the NBA. It featured an iconic shot and stellar performances by some of the greatest players in both teams histories. But Game 7 didnt go the Mavericks way at all, and the Spurs cruised to a victory 119-96. They would go on to win the NBA Finals in five games.

Seven years would pass before the Mavericks next Game 7. It would come in their second consecutive matchup with the Los Angeles Clippers. The Mavericks actually held a 3-2 lead in the series with Game 6 in Dallas. But the Clippers stole Game 6 behind a 45 point performance by Kawhi Leonard, and forced Game 7 in Los Angeles.

In Game 7, it was Luka Doncic who put on a stellar performance, scoring 46 points and dishing out 14 assists. It wasnt enough, though, to defeat the Clippers balanced attack. Leonard scored 28 points, and Paul George scored 22. Marcus Morris chipped in 23 points. No other Maverick outside of Doncic scored more than 18 points. The Clippers won the game 126-111.

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Much of Florida's history is literally underfoot. Now there is now a major effort to find and preserve the state's many lost cemeteries where that history resides.

Barbara Clark, regional director of the Florida Public Archeology Network, was giving dozens of people a Saturday morning tour of Tallahassee's Old City Cemetery. She stopped at a grave marker for Thomas Brown, who died in 1867.

"He was from Virginia," she said of Brown. "He was our only Whig governor of Florida. While he was in Virginia, he was clerk of the post office there."

Clark told the group Brown was in Virginia when he invented the post office box. He also lent his name to Tallahassee's Tom Brown Park.

Untold numbers of stories like this are lost to history because, as Jonathan Grandage with the Florida Division of Historical Resources noted, most of the state's forgotten graveyards are on private property.

"There may be 7,000 or 8,000 unrecorded cemeteries in the state of Florida. About 1,700 are recorded in the Florida Master Site File. So we want people to know they can get in touch with us or the Florida Public Archeology Network to help document the location of cemeteries," he said.

Success in that endeavor, Grandage explained, will literally uncover many lost chapters of Florida history.

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A new investigation found that family history was an important contributor to the pathogenesis of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), and was responsible for much of its effect on mediated by loop gain and neck size.

The data was presented at the American Thoracic Society 2020 International Conference in San Francisco.

Previous research found that first-degree family history of OSA could be a potential risk factor for the sleep disorder, with estimates stating indicating ~40% of the variation in the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI).

However, the mechanisms of this effect have not been fully established.

As such, an investigative team led by Jeremy Orr, MD, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at UC San Diego, tested the hypothesis regarding the effect of family history on AHI and how it is mediated through 1 or more known traits underlying OSA pathogenesis.

Orr and colleagues created a retrospective cohort based on a previous chart review of consecutive patients who were diagnosed with OSA (AHA5) based on an in-lab polysomnogram between January 2017 and December 2018. Each patients family history-status was explicitly noted.

The investigative team quantified 4 pathophysiological traits for each subject, including anatomical collapsibility, arousal threshold, loop gain, and pharyngeal dilator recruitment, which were determined via a validated polysomnography-based algorithm.

Following log-transforming of the AHI to increase normality, Orr and colleagues performed simple mediation analyses that included structural equation models. From there, the 4 traits and 2 proxy-markers of anatomical collapsibility functioned as candidate mediators, with age and sex being included as covariates.

A total of 355 patients with OSA were included in the study, all of whom had available data on family history of OSA and OSA traits. Among these patients, 104 (29%) has positive family history of OSA.

Investigators noted that both groups were similar in term of BMI, race and ethnicity. However, patients with a positive history of OSA tended to be younger compared to those without a positive history, with the median ages being 50 and 56, respectively.

Patients with a positive family history also tended to be female (50% versus 41%), and had more severe OSA based on a higher AHI (29 [17-60] vs 23 [12-50]).

Additionally, a positive family history was associated with a 37% (e=1.37) (P=0.001) higher AHI, partially mediated by loop gain (P>0.4). As such, this did not mediate its effect on the AHI.

In addition to confirming family history as an important contributor of OSA, the investigative team also believed this study suggested that high loop gain be considered as an endotype/phenotype for genome-wide association studies that focus on the genetic underpinnings of OSA.

However, the majority of family historys effect on AHI was not explained by traditional traits and markers of an unfavorable anatomy, and residual confounding or reverse causation cannot be excluded, the team wrote.

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