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We Had To Be To The Stadium At Six O'clock For Home Games, And Traffic Was So Bad It Would Take Us An Hour And Fifteen Or An Hour And Thirty Minutes To Drive. So Now I'm Sitting In A Car For Almost An Hour And A Half And I'm Very Tense. I'm Worried About The Traffic. So I Started Smoking A Cigar Going To The Games.

-Michael Jordan

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Michael Jordan

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We Had To Be To The Stadium At Six O'clock For Home Games, And Traffic Was So Bad It Would Take Us An Hour And Fifteen Or An Hour And Thirty Minutes To Drive. So Now I'm Sitting In A Car For Almost An Hour And A Half And I'm Very Tense. I'm Worried About The Traffic. So I Started Smoking A Cigar Going To The Games.

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