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NEW YORK – It was Christmas in March for Zach LaVine.
And the present he had just ripped open was a 6-foot-10 Montenegrin built to post double-doubles on a nightly basis and spread the floor with an ability to shoot long range.
He hugged it, he praised it. LaVine had finally gotten his very own “Vooch.’’
“I’ve always wanted to play with a dominant big, and you know we’re obviously going to have to figure out our chemistry,’’ LaVine said of the Nikola Vucevic trade back in March of 2021.