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LOS ANGELES — All Keldon Johnson wanted was his llama.

The NBA Cup comes with a substantial prize: a nice, clean, $530,933 per player if you win it all. That’s enough money to buy a condo in Cabo or a brand new Lambo.

Johnson would like something simpler than that. He’s building a pond at his ranch outside San Antonio. Like everything in Texas, it’s gonna be a big one.

His 11 or 12 goats — he’s lost count by now — four mini cows, two horses, six chickens and one donkey could use another friend to join them. He’s thinking a sheep or a llama.

Yeah, a llama would be nice.

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