"I played baseball, and thats pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so thats why I probably play it the way I do."

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Eric Williams

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Eric Williams was a Trinidadian historian and politician, known for his influential work 'Capitalism and Slavery,' which examined the economic roots of colonialism.

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