Viva Shaun Livingston: Why Steph Curry's replacement is beloved by basketball fans
 

Viva Shaun Livingston: Why Steph Curry's replacement is beloved by basketball fans
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Shaun Livingston was supposed to be here all along. It just wasn't supposed to look like this.*

Livingston should have been point guard for a playoff team, tasked with guiding his squad through the first round — then on toward the ultimate goal, an NBA title.*

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It should've been an easy road. Livingston was a skinny teenager from Peoria, Illi**is. He was the kid who had the giant afro. He was the kid who had the NBA scouts drooling, the one who didn't even need college to make the pros.*

Livingston did everything right. He was never an ego case, or a reckless knucklehead. He was cool and reserved, hard-working and earnest about becoming the transcendental point guard everyone saw within him.* Read more...


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