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Jabari Smith Jr.: "Only thing I remember eating was McDonald's, ‘cause everything else was a little different, you know what I'm saying? I wasn't gonna hit the little Panda Express back then. I was just sticking with the McDonald’s. This was my second time having a chance to go on a tour of China. The second time, I had to try more. I did it with my shoe company—361. I had to try pretty much—not all their cuisines—but just their type of cultural food. And it wasn’t that bad. It really wasn’t." KCP: "Man, I wish I could. Hey, you got to have a palate for it, because it’s some sh*t, like—I'ma tell you, man, they bringing out full birdies. You know what I'm saying?" Jabari Smith Jr.: "No, but it tasted just like chicken, you know what I'm saying? It wasn't that bad. I played over there for three months, and it definitely didn’t pass the eye test. The food didn’t. But I tried it though. McDonald’s was closed—I wanted to go—but them folks closed at 10:00. It was about 10:30. I'm like, 'Hold on, I got to go get me some real Chinese food.' Get you some good noodles, rice. They got the orange chicken over there—you can kind of stick with that. But getting deeper into their culture, it wasn’t that bad. I actually tried pretty much all the bird. On a plate, with their wings like that—I can’t eat that sh*t, bro. I'm talking about feathers still on."

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Stephen Jackson: I didn't admire Michael Jordan. I admired Kobe Bryant because he was the same age as me. And the dedication that he put as a teenager, I didn't think was real. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like he was just so different. McDonald's, we all at the McDonald's game. All there for the same reasons. I should have won MVP that game. We going to McDonald's after practice. He says ‘I see y'all. I'm not eating that sh*t.’ This is in high school. Everybody eat McDonald's in high school! Everybody still eat to this day. I don't, but everybody eat McDonald's in high school! The Big Mac and two fries and strawberry shake, apple pie. Everybody had that. Not Kobe. Not Kobe Bean Bryant.

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Ott already holds one distinction. Having grown up in McConnellsburg, Penn., which sits a short drive from the Maryland border, no current NBA coach has come from a place so small. According to the 2020 census, McConnellsburg has a population of 1,150. The town features two stoplights and a McDonald’s. Visitors have to stay out of town because there’s no hotel. The nearest Walmart is 26 miles away. Kenny Welsh, the athletic director at McConnellsburg High School, has lived in the small town his whole life. He knows Ott’s parents — John, who once ran a store that sold tractor equipment, furniture and appliances; and Pam, a school librarian. On Wednesday, Welsh said the faculty was preparing for graduation, 75 seniors, one of the school’s bigger classes. The Ott news provided a jolt of excitement.

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“We lost in the state finals,” he continued. “My senior year, I make the McDonald’s (All-American) Game, I averaged three to four points less. (People asked), ‘What’s wrong with Vince?’ My scoring went down, but my rebounding went up, my assists when up. My other teammates’ scoring went up. And we won the state championship. “So I understood at a young age how important your guys you have on your team (are), and how important it is to empower them. As a superstar, and becoming a role player, I understood my role as a superstar: yes, they need me to score. But I need them. I could score 50 points, and we could lose by 30. So what?”

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Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan was at Sunday’s NASCAR race at Michigan International Speedway. Jordan is the co-owner of 23XI Racing, which fields a pair of Toyotas in the Cup Series – No. 23 Bubba Wallace and No. 45 Tyler Reddick. Both are sponsored by McDonald’s this week.

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NBA champ Payton Pritchard added another ring to his collection when he tied the knot with influencer Emma MacDonald on Cape Cod over the weekend. Almost two months after the Celtics won a historic 18th NBA title, the point guard exchanged vows with MacDonald at the Wychmere Beach Club in her native Massachusetts.

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Eastern Conference executive No. 3 on Cody Williams: I saw him a couple of times this year. Saw him at McDonald’s (All American Game), at the Hoop Summit. He’s never played well when I watched him play. I see the skill set. I see the shooting ability. I don’t see an alpha basketball player. His body is very thin and it’s going to take time. He could be very good because of his ability to shoot the ball. But when I saw him, there were times when I didn’t even realize he was on the court.

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Farbod Esnaashari: Some of the food that will be available at Intuit Dome. All of these are specially curated for the arena, and it won't be chain restaurants like Blaze Pizza or McDonald's.

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They stopped at McDonald's for milkshakes on the way home, just as the test results landed in Gina's phone. Another family meeting loomed in the kitchen. As it turned out, these were advanced forms of PKD, and will likely require Ava, Oskar and Lucy to undergo transplants before they turn 30 years old -- perhaps multiple times throughout their lives. "It is incredibly unfair," Hardy said. "Haven't they dealt with enough? But they handle it with such grace and positivity. They don't complain. They don't want people to feel sorry for them. I don't know how they do it -- it's a remarkable strength."

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NBA exec: 'I feel bad a little bit' for Bronny He was obviously on the high school circuit, and we all saw him. I thought there was a positive trajectory -- it went from "Why is this guy a McDonald's guy?" to "Oh, he's a reasonable player." I would have expected his freshman year to turn out somewhat similar to this, maybe a little better, because I thought USC would be a more coherent and functional team, which they weren't. I don't think he underachieved or overachieved in either direction.

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NBA Central: Stephen A. Smith calls out Zion "It’s not about his game. It's about how many burgers he's eating. Whether he is going to be in shape or keep eating McDonald's... That's what he has to prove, that the chefs don't love him any longer" (@PelsFilmRoom) pic.twitter.com/m1gfs7Db52

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A 17-year-old African American resident named Renae was sitting next to McCollum in what was described as a “restorative circle” in a classroom at the center’s Travis Hill School. The youths’ last names were not given to protect their identity, and the reason they were detained was withheld. Looking straight forward and deadpan, she told the Pelicans guard and everyone in the room what the young people needed most. “One thing we could use in the community is mentors because the people we look up to are the people that are not going down the right path,” Renae said. “We grew up knowing a lot of wrong. And if you are growing up and you don’t know that wrong is wrong, that’s what you do. You don’t have a lot of people there in the community that are doctors, teachers. We have people who work at McDonald’s and stuff like that. “You do what you see. I’m a product of my household. I was only able to take in and give out what I knew. And all I knew was hurt. So that’s what I was giving out.”

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Klay Thompson: Well, I love Mike Dunleavy. I grew up watching Mike play in Portland at Jesuit High School. For him to be McDonalds (All-American) and then go to Duke and then go to the league, that was a huge deal for Oregon. We didn’t have a lot of guys doing that. Now to be working with him, it’s crazy. The world’s so small.

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Trae Young: Congrats to them Burger Boys! 🍔 Nothin like that alumni group! Congrats @JaKobeWalter1 !!! My first McDonalds kid🥹 way to go, just the first step! @McDAAG @teamtraeyoungmb

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