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Create-a-Caption: ‘It’s OK, little man, don’t cry — I’ll help you learn how to play defense’

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"Well ... yeah. But, um, that was last year. You know, we're the New Orleans Pelicans now!"

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"... So, anyway, this is how you get in a defensive stance."

Best caption wins a trip to Tony Allen's camp, where this sort of impudent conversation has consequences. Good luck.

In our last adventure, lo those many moons ago: Mike Miller and Shaquille O'Neal scoff at suggestions that the former will be amnestied and the latter will be inaccurately quoted in Reader's Digest. That's what you call a real "double whoops."

Winner, Russell S: Mike Miller couldn't help but laugh; he just heard there's a "Kazaam 2" in the works.

Runner-up, Larry B: Mike Miller has learned a few tricks from the old people living in Miami — If you have no idea what a person just said, just laugh and pretend you heard everything loud and clear.

Second runner-up, EJ: Mike Miller laughs as Shaq shamelessly plugs for the IcyHot patch to fix Miller's bum elbow.

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