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1. He doesn't mind talking about being a total failure.

Darko Milicic uses the word "bust" a lot, which is surprising. I thought he might avoid it or at least make a sour face when it comes up, but he doesn't stumble over it, doesn't stutter. It doesn't catch in his throat like phlegm.

No, Darko is frontal. He is blunt. At 7 feet tall and approaching 300 pounds, he's roughly the size of a garage door, but, within the first 10 minutes of meeting me, he uses the word "bust" a half-dozen times in a variety of ironic ways ("This isn't just about how I'm a huge bust, right?