OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) His star point guard slowed by a sore left ankle, Warriors coach Mark Jackson told Stephen Curry in the first half he might shut him down for the rest of the game.

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The Spurs were already missing key players Stephen Jackson and Kawhi Leonard because of injury.

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Well, Stephen Jackson, a botanist and climate scientist at the University of Wyoming, says one thing that will happen is there will be some totally new climates.

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To date no Spur, for example, has gotten in trouble for shooting a gun outside a nightclub, as Golden State Warrior guard Stephen Jackson allegedly did earlier this season.

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Professor STEPHEN JACKSON (Botany, University of Wyoming): I think it like a "Twilight Zone" world, where a lot of what's familiar to us will disappear and climates that are completely unfamiliar to us will appear.

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Matt Bonner and Diaw made consecutive 3-pointers, Parker added another basket, and Stephen Jackson drove for a layup that made it 95-75 and had the Nets hearing boos in their new home for one of the few times this season.

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There, grandly, Trump receives such returning players as Gary Busey, Stephen Baldwin, LaToya Jackson and reality mean queen Omarosa.

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What really grips Tarantino is the chance to bait us, as he has done before, with metronomic mentions of the N-word uttered with especial relish by Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), the majordomo of Candyland, and the most terrifying of Uncle Toms.

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