Given the state of affairs in NBA attendance this year, I thought we should take a quick look at how the league fared over the course of the four-day holiday weekend.Thanksgiving means turkey, mashed potatoes, and basketball – at least to NBA fans, anyways. While it could be argued that Christmas Day is the start of the NBA season, the NFL is winding down, you get a couple of marquee games to watch, Thanksgiving is ...

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The view looking up is to a knurled-slate indigo sky through the blackened clawing fingers of a maple tree, its leaves stripped completely clean as of this last Samhain (November 1st). The bus is late as it labors around the bend when I look down, its two lamp eyes flickering not as its gaze is directed at the five of us waiting: Jake, G, next door neighbor, myself, and a replacement Bike Man replete ...

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