The next day, Giannis made a special trip to the grocery store. Usually he was careful about making a list and only going once a week, but with the addition of a blender to his kitchen (and, therefore, smoothies to his diet), he had quickly consumed all the fruit in the house. There hadn’t been…
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Giannis eagerly tore apart the packaging in which was enclosed his new blender. The cardboard and plastic material was no match for his excitement to finally begin making smoothies at home. In no time at all, the blender was in parts on his countertop. Sticking out his tongue in concentration, Giannis wondered how the parts…
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“Khris, you gotta go with me to smoothie store in mall, it’s so good,” Giannis said excitedly. “My head almost blow up when I tasted for the first time.” Khris Middleton looked amused at Giannis’ childlike enthusiasm. “I don’t know, man. Are they better than the ones I make at home?” Giannis’ eyes nearly flew…
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Giannis was not usually fond of road trips. He preferred the comfort and familiarity of his own bed to the hotel room beds he slept in while on the road. However, this road trip was especially unpleasant, he thought as he looked out the window of the team plane to observe the starry night sky….
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The next day, thoughts of smoothies continually popped into Giannis’ head, and he was itching to go back to the mall to get another. It was a game day, though, so he had a strict nutrition and activity plan to follow, prepared specifically for him by the team’s trainers. His breakfast of granola and a…
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When the first splash of berry-flavored smoothie landed on his tongue, Giannis didn’t know what to think. As John Henson looked on expectantly, Giannis swallowed and smacked his lips, then pondered for a little bit. “It’s tasty,” he finally said. “What flavor it is?” “Berry,” John answered. “I think it’s strawberry and blueberry, and, uh,…
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“We’re here!” John Henson announced, parking the car in one of the parking lot’s plentiful spaces. Giannis Antetokounmpo unfolded his long legs from the footwell and stepped out into the bracing autumn air. The sheer size of the mall was amazing to him; malls in Greece were a lot more conservatively designed, at least the…
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(Jan. 20, 2014) Dear diary, Today my friend Ersan took me to the mall. There were malls in Greece too, but I never got to go. I never had the money to spend in them. Now that I have money, Ersan and I went just to hang out. I could have done that in Greece…
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