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Rakeem Christmas has the NBA Draft’s wildest outfit

The second-round pick took the stage wearing a vest made out of your great-aunt’s tablecloth.

by Rodger Sherman
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Rakeem Christmas was just picked 36th overall by the Timberwolves and traded to the Cavs. He hadn’t been invited to the NBA’s green room, so we hadn’t seen him earlier in the evening. And when he took the stage... it was glorious:

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