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SLAM Online:
Well, this is certainly an interesting way to apply for an NBA job: “Based on how this summer has gone for the Heat, it can be safely assumed that lobbying on Twitter for a job might not be the best way to submit one’s resume. Yet there is Bonzi Wells, the former Trail Blazer, Grizzly, King, Rocket and Hornet, lobbying at 140 (or less) characters at a time, as he works out in Chicago alongside Dwyane Wade and Jermaine O’Neal. ‘I’m trying to get on wit miami but its political,’ was one of his tweets. ‘i would love to b in miami i could help them cats fa sho,’ was another.”
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