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Luka Dončić ‘doing fine’ after Mavericks star’s home burglarized, coach Jason Kidd says
Dallas Mavericks coach Jason Kidd said Luka Dončić is “doing fine” after the 25-year-old star’s home was burglarized Friday in what was the latest occurrence in a string of break-ins into professional athletes’ homes in the past few months.
“I reached out, texted him,” Kidd said Saturday. “He’s doing fine (after) going through that incident. Glad no one got hurt. I talked to him today.”
No one was home at the time of the break-in and an investigation into the incident is ongoing, Dončić business manager, Lara Beth Seager, told multiple outlets. Jewelry valued at around $30,000 was taken from the home, according to The Dallas Morning News, which obtained an internal police report.
It’s unclear who burglarized Dončić’s home.
Since September, the homes of at least six professional athletes have been burglarized, including Dončić’s. Minnesota Timberwolves guard Mike Conley’s home was broken into on Sept. 15. Milwaukee Bucks forward Bobby Portis had his home burglarized on Nov. 2.
On Oct. 6, there was a break-in at Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ residence in Missouri; Mahomes called the incident “frustrating” and “disappointing.” Travis Kelce, Mahomes’ teammate, also had his home broken into in October. Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow’s home in Ohio was broken into on Dec. 9.
The NFL and NBA issued memos in November about the threat of burglary groups targeting the homes of professional athletes.
The NBA’s memo indicated that the FBI had identified “transnational South American Theft Groups” that are “reportedly well-organized, sophisticated rings that incorporate advanced techniques and technologies, including pre-surveillance, drones, and signal jamming devices.”
Dončić sustained a left calf strain in the Mavericks’ Dec. 25 game against the Minnesota Timberwolves. He is expected to be sidelined for at least one month.
The Mavericks began a four-game road trip Friday with a win against the Phoenix Suns.
Required reading
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Welcome to Literary Quotable Quotes, a quiz that tests your recognition of classic lines. This week’s installment highlights observations from future or alternate worlds depicted in popular science fiction. In the five multiple-choice questions below, tap or click on the answer you think is correct. After the last question, you’ll find links to the books if you’re intrigued and inspired to read more.
Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about books, authors and literary culture. This week’s challenge tests your memory of books that made huge impacts on society after they were published — some of them even spurring changes to American laws. In the five multiple-choice questions below, tap or click on the answer you think is correct. After the last question, you’ll find links to the books if you’d like to do further reading.
Where do you turn when you need advice? A chatbot? A life coach? A wise and trusted friend?
How about a poet? Poets may not be famous for making the best life choices, but because they subject the mess of human existence to the discipline of language, they can be as helpful as any therapist or mentor.
Good poets know the rules and when to break them, which is something they can teach the rest of us.
To wit:
Giving advice is a peculiar literary undertaking. It flourishes in certain popular genres — graduation speeches, newspaper columns, country and western songs and poems like this one — but what, in these contexts, is it really for?
I’m thinking of situations when you don’t urgently need help but nonetheless enjoy reading answers to questions you may not have thought to ask. What interests you isn’t the content of the advice — you could get all the life hacks you want from A.I. — so much as the voice of the person dispensing it.
Wendy Cope is an English poet, born in 1945, who has been a fixture of her country’s literary scene since the 1980s. More recently, her short, buoyant poem “The Orange” has been widely memed online, bringing her to the attention of new readers beyond Britain.
Cope favors rhyme, meter, brisk jokes and tart aperçus. She addresses romance, friendship and the petty absurdities of modern life with disarming good humor. The last line of “The Orange” is “I love you. I’m glad I exist.” Somehow she makes it the opposite of cringe.
This isn’t the kind of poetry you would describe as “confessional.” And yet …
Question 1/7
Stop, if the car is going “clunk”
Or if the sun has made you blind.
Don’t answer e–mails when you’re drunk.
Tap a word above to fill in the highlighted blank.Want to learn this poem by heart? We’ll help.
Fill in the missing words below. You can always refer to the reading by A.O. Scott and full
text above.Let’s start with the first stanza.
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