The crew in the locker room really wanted to tell me what Lucas Nogueira had called out for on Friday night. With the Raptors in good spirits after a win, Bebe pushed for Norman Powell, in the process of being interviewed, to mention his underwear. (You can vaguely hear it at the start of this clip.) The idea was presented to me as something elemental to the Bringing Up Bebe ethos, a story ready to bloom to life directly from, uh, Bebe’s bloomers.
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There’s a moment in Ted Chiang’s short story “Seventy-Two Letters” when the protagonist is confronted with the evil he has unwittingly abetted.