April 2022

The NBA MVP race and its international flavor

The votes are in. Over the coming days and weeks, the NBA will announce the various award-winners for this regular season. And while nobody knows with absolute certainty where any of the trophies are going yet, what is known is that the MVP is going to be an international player. Again. Prepare for history, because it’s coming. The consensus seems to be that this season’s MVP will be either Nikola Jokic, Joel Embiid or Giannis Antetokounmpo. Jokic is from Serbia. Embiid from Cameroon. Antetokounmpo from Greece, with ties to Nigeria. When the winner is revealed, it’ll be the fourth consecutive season in which the MVP won’t have been born in the U.S. something that has never happened.

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Love at first bite

In one of his first interviews in Hays, Michael Huskey was asked what he wanted to get out of working at a fast food restaurant. In his early twenties, just looking to make some extra money, “For whatever reason I told him that I wanted to open a restaurant some day.” In a smug, ‘yeah right’ kind of tone, Huskey was told “good luck”.

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