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DENVER -- Houston Rockets second-year center Clint Capela, who grew up near Paris, said he has spoken to relatives who live in Paris about the series of unprecedented terrorist attacks that occurred Friday.

"It hurts me a lot," Capela said prior to the Rockets' game against the Denver Nuggets on Friday night.

"It was last year, the same thing happened," he added, referencing the January terrorist attack on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery that left 20 dead, including the three attackers. "That's hard for me because this is like my country because I grew up there.