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Former Maryland center Bruno Fernando's name can be found all over the various mock drafts, from a top-10 pick to middle of second round. - Minnesota selected Kentucky's Karl-Anthony Towns with the first pick in the NBA draft on Thursday night, the first of three straight freshmen chosen before New York chose Latvian forward Kristaps Porzingis, triggering loud, long boos from their fans inside Barclays Center.
- The Baltimore-based NAACP will lay off 7 percent of its national staff as it continues to search for a permanent leader, a decision the civil rights organization says is necessary because of financial concerns.
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- If NBA can't force racist owner to sell then basketball fans will have to intervene
- NBA bans Clippers owner Donald Sterling, Manny Machado back in Baltimore, and more Baltimore sports news.
- Late in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film "Pulp Fiction," Marsellus Wallace — a criminal boss played by Ving Rhames — banishes prizefighter Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) from Southern California, telling him "You lost all your L.A. privileges."
