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BOSTON — Evan Turner could predict where Anfernee Simons would be during each halftime early in his Portland Trail Blazers tenure. No matter what had happened over the first two quarters of a game, Turner would watch Simons walk up to Damian Lillard’s locker and receive a breakdown of the action. Simons would stand near Lillard’s seat and receive a high-level basketball education from the All-Star point guard.

“And this is every halftime,” Turner said. “And he would just go up to Dame and be like, ‘What did you see?’ And Dame would be coaching him. And then, he would just go sit right back down. He wouldn’t make a peep.”

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