Lopez called the Barclays Center "astounding, " and said he couldn't wait for opening night.

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Brown was so excited, though, that he couldn't wait to see Stigler.

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"I couldn't wait for it all to be over, " he said.

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The president also declined to take the sort of executive actions that he took on Wednesday, even as the White House shaped a public campaign around other unilateral moves that couldn't wait for Congress.

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