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“Bobby ‘Slick’ Leonard: Heart of a Hoosier” depicts the impact one man can have on a family, a team, a city.

@TheJennaBee at the Brickyard 400: “It’s only 9 am and I’ve already found my hero: a bearded gentleman wearing floral cut-off jorts. I love this place. #SuperWeekend”

“The best part is that there’s so much people don’t know about Slick Leonard,” says filmmaker Ted Green. “He’s a documentarian’s dream.”

“There are actually a lot of fish that have this condition, but I thought it was pretty damn hilarious,” says Matthew Niemiller.

“When I build a team, I want diversity,” says Fever head coach Lin Dunn. “I imagine a team like a bowl of fruit: apples, peaches, pears, bananas, and some nuts. Different perspectives and different personalities. You can’t have too many nuts, though!”

Via @realjohngreen, “Very sad to hear of the death of Maya Angelou. She was a brilliant writer who used her platform with care and thoughtfulness. Godspeed.”

Louis C.K. accomplished what the Indiana Pacers couldn’t Monday night—he got rid of LeBron James and the rest of the Miami Heat.

Should the Pacers take care of business tonight at the Fieldhouse and advance to the conference finals, it’s tempting to throw Miami’s idiosyncratic Chris ‘Birdman’ Andersen into the villain matrix.

Via @colefarrell: “Walking downtown, I heard an older man refer to the farmers market as ‘that weekly veggie festival.’ I’m into it.”

Pictures are worth a thousand words, but in basketball it’s points that count—Hibbert finished with 28, Stephenson bounced back with 12, and Arenas had zilch.

Sadly, that’s not the only shot Hibbert or his teammates took on social media last night. Here’s a sampling of the sporty spice tweeted about them.

The purgatorial Pacers have put their fans through much since March, and tonight we see if they have the bite to climb back and level the series.

Via @TheJennaBee: “My boyfriend is watching wedding shows with me, in case you were looking for real life examples of Stockholm Syndrome.”

@IUBloomington offers the week’s best #humblebrag: “Just another day at IU (with Grammy Award winner Joshua Bell and Academy Award winner Meryl Streep).”

At stake tonight: possible home-court advantage in the upcoming NBA Playoffs. Who wants it? Who knows?