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  • Lakers' Luol Deng helped shape the Bulls' Jimmy Butler into the player he is today, and now they'll face each other

Lakers’ Luol Deng helped shape the Bulls’ Jimmy Butler into the player he is today, and now they’ll face each other

Los Angeles Times
Published November 19, 2016 at 6:50 PM
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As a rookie in 2011, Jimmy Butler quickly latched onto Luol Deng's routine. Deng was the Chicago Bulls' veteran small forward, the player Butler would one day replace. At the time, though, neither man was thinking like that. Butler had simply heard Deng had a habit of shooting each evening, so...

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