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I heave the basketball I know it sails in a parabola, exhibiting perfect symmetry, which is interrupted by the basket. It's funny, but it is always interrupted by the basket.

Michael Jordan

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Michael Jordan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 17
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