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Keith Van Horn wrote:One of the reasons I'd like to put forward for Allen starting is he had such a good rapport with Levert last season. They seemed to click really well together.

I'd keep him in to start, along with Rodi, then switch to Chandler/Jordan as the game progressed. Rodi and Allen will be way faster and should be a good pairing with Irving and Caris. Then Chandler and Jordan can be more physical along with Dinwiddie and Prince controlling the tempo.

I trust Kenny will put it all together though.

The addition of Jordan, Durant, and Kyrie Irving (fellow vegan and Beyond Meat investor) to the Nets has suddenly made the team one of the most exciting in the NBA, and definitely more dynamic than their crosstown rivals, the Knicks.
The Knicks had tried to attract top talent, but failed spectacularly during free agency this summer. Jordan, who spent the last months of the 2018-2019 playing for the Knicks, said that the culture the Brooklyn Nets have been building has been attractive. "Not to knock the culture the Knicks are creating," he said, "but we like what [Nets coach] Kenny [Atkinson]'s doing and [general manager] Sean [Marks]'s been awesome and the organization, from top to bottom, has been great. So you want to be a part of something like that, especially when you have a chance to play with other great players and build something."

The 6'11" Houston native is embracing his new town. "I love that you can walk everyone," Jordan enthused. "I've become a huge fan of the subway, even though I've gotten lost... well, not lost, but went the wrong direction on the subway a couple of times."

Jordan has previously linked his interest in going vegan to being conscious of his body as an athlete. He told CloseUp360, "For me, I care about my body, so whatever I put in it, I want it to be good to where I want to produce that. I'm a true believer in whatever I put in my body, that's what I'm going to produce."

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Paradise wrote:DeAndre is going to be a fun addition to the culture.

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The players have helped each other through NBA problems, too.

Late in the summer of 2015, after Jordan famously reversed course on the Mavericks, spurning them at the last second and instead re-signing with Los Angeles, he was shocked by the wave of negative energy that emanated from social media. Everything from typical NBA trash talk to death threats rolled in. Like a "dumbass," he says, he read through it all.

One message might read, "We're so glad you came back to the Clippers!" The next: "F--k you, I hope you die!" Jordan stared at his phone dumbfounded and hurt. He questioned himself. "I started to think, 'Damn, am I a bad person? Maybe I'm a bad guy, that I did this to these people.'"

Jordan is a people pleaser, and all that negativity—coming from, of all places, his home state of Texas—weighed on him. "I'm not going to say I went into a depression," he says, "but it definitely was a dark time for me during the rest of that summer."

"He was an outlet for me," Jordan says. The big man would show Durant some of the worst messages he received, which Durant downplayed. "He's like, 'Man, f--k that. Do you know them?'" Jordan recalls. "I'm like, 'No.' He's like, 'Well then, whatever. Go out there and hoop.'" The support was much-needed during a vulnerable time in Jordan's career. "That just shows me how much he cared about me as a person," Jordan says. "I always feel like I owe him for that."

”You're my friend before you're my co-worker," he told KD. "You told me the same: 'So what, who cares?' You made a decision you thought was best for Kevin."

"We've been through a ton of s--t," Jordan says. "We didn't care about any backlash or any talk. We've all been through that, so how bad is it going to be?"


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