“Sprays” — his word for plays on which a player inside …

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Those are notable, but they do not take the crown. The biggest upset, by far, is that it took Knicks coach Mike Brown 1,276 words into his ebullient, borderline-ecstatic stream-of-consciousness news conference after his team’s Game 2 win before he finally blurted out the word “spray.” “Sprays” — his word for plays on which a player inside the 3-point line kicks the ball out to a player beyond the arc, whether as a result of a drive, catch, offensive board or divine intervention — might be the defining term in the Brownian lexicon. While it took him a comparatively long time to get around to it after the game on Friday, he normally uses this term with the frequency you might expect from, say, a proprietor of specialty hoses, or perhaps the CEO of Aqua Net.

New York Times

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