I'm kicking myself a little bit for never having interviewed Mavericks head coach Rick Carlisle. It's not like I haven't had the opportunity. Carlisle is from a small town in my newspaper's coverage area and my fellow reporters have interviewed him many times. Today it makes me laugh that someone from that town, in as rural of a county that you will experience in the Northeast, is now the leader of a championship team in the most urban sport in the country. But I've never talked to him myself and I don't even have a card of him (something that needs to be rectified soon), so I can't do a Brush With Greatness segment on him. So, I'll do the next closest thing -- and by that I mean someone who is not close to Carlisle in any way at all. Marty Reasoner almost had a chance to be a champion this year. He was rumored to be headed to the Vancouver Canucks in a deadline deal at the end of February. A couple of reports already had him traded to Vancou...
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