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Being there for the first Blue Arrow sighting in 5 years is a core memory

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I feel alive again

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🚨 Daniel Jones has been fully cleared from his torn Achilles and will be on the field when Colts training camp begins, per @PatMcAfeeShow. 🚨

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The best thing the PGA Tour has posted in its existence.

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JAMAL MURRAY attending Switzerland - Serbia to root for NIKOLA JOKIC

(🎥 via @KSSrbije )

#FIBAWC #StepItUp

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The Nuggets are showing deep interest in Jaylen Brown, per @ChrisBHaynes

(Via @NBATV )

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Hayden Christensen was 23 when Revenge of the Sith came out. He was 42 when he returned to the role in Ahsoka.

For 17 of the 19 years in between, he was effectively exiled from the franchise and from Hollywood.

The exile was not voluntary at first. Christensen was the focal point of the cultural backlash against the Star Wars prequels in the mid-2000s. The performances were mocked. The dialogue was mocked. The acting choices were mocked. He was 22 years old playing the most analyzed character in cinema history and the analysis decided he had failed.

He kept working for a few years. Jumper in 2008. Takers in 2010. A handful of smaller films. None of them landed. By 2012, the offers were drying up and Christensen had largely stepped back from acting. He moved to a farm in Ontario. He spent years out of public view. The Hollywood narrative was that he had been broken by the prequels.

Two things happened during those years that the Hollywood narrative missed.

The first was the cultural reassessment of the prequels. The generation that watched them as children grew up and rewatched them as adults. What had read as wooden dialogue in 2005 started to read as deliberate stylization. The political plot, which critics had dismissed as boring senate scenes, started to read as one of the most substantively serious treatments of how democracies collapse into autocracy ever put in a blockbuster. By 2017, the prequels were being rediscovered as the most thematically ambitious Star Wars films in the franchise.

The second was what Christensen was doing on the farm. He kept training. The lightsaber choreography he had learned for the prequels was technically demanding stage combat, taught to him by stunt coordinator Nick Gillard over months of rehearsal for each film. Christensen never stopped practicing it. When he came back to the choreography in 2022 for Obi-Wan Kenobi and 2023 for Ahsoka, the muscle memory was intact. He was technically better at 42 than he had been at 23, because he had spent 17 years quietly preparing for a return nobody had told him was coming.

The Ahsoka scene that the fan accounts keep posting is from the episode where Anakin confronts Ahsoka in the World Between Worlds. The choreography is fast, precise, and recognizable as the same combat style Christensen used in the prequels two decades earlier. The body knows what to do. The body has been keeping the role alive while the rest of the industry was writing him off.

What landed differently in the return is that Christensen at 42 has a stillness the 23-year-old version did not. The 23-year-old was performing Anakin's intensity. The 42-year-old is embodying it. The role finally fits the actor in a way it did not when he was first asked to carry it.

The audience that mocked him at 23 had also grown up. The audience that watched the return at 42 had spent fifteen years missing him without realizing it.

The exile turned out to be the preparation.

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@atioberoi Gimme Deebo

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@Marks800 I raise you

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It’s refreshing to see a player refuse to ring chase like LeBron, KD and Giannis did

[Wes @6ManYT]

My goats never backdoored anyone, never requested a trade, never thrown any coaches or teammates under the bus.

I wish you could contest shots better but no ones perfect

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“I want to be Nugget forever.” - Nikola Jokic

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Nikola Jokic is one of the all-time greats:

8x All-Star
7x All-NBA
2023 NBA Champion
2023 Finals MVP
3x MVP
2023 WCF MVP
2026 AST Champ
61-10-10 Game

Make no mistake, this is one of the greatest players of this era, his era.

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Si hoy los Denver Nuggets ganan a los Minnesota Timberwolves y empatan la serie, vamos a sortear la camiseta de Nikola Jokic entre todos los que deis RT y nos sigáis a mí y a @NBAFutQuality2

El ganador elegirá la talla que desee

MUCHA SUERTE A TODOS

[Rachel Strand @MileHighRachel]

When life replicates art.

Shot went in too, btw.

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Imagine being the team that has to stand between this mf and bringing the Larry OB back home to his horses

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@GoodlandCards @CardPurchaser Hangers are indeed bangers (plus a couple blasters lol)

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Durag Jokic 🤣🃏

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