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"We mourn the loss of a dear friend, and a remarkable man," she said.

This was a special dinner party with dear friends, and a supermarket bouquet wasn’t going to cut it.

“For me personally, there’s much bigger news out of San Antonio right now and that’s my dear friend Coach Pop,” James said after the Lakers’ 128-123 win over the Memphis Grizzlies.

The reckoning that needed to happen by the media in its normalizing of this man will now be replaced by the effort to hang on for dear life as the retribution begins.

“A lot of people make a lot of very dear friends. ... You see them every day, and you think it’s gonna be like that for the rest of the time, and it’s not.”