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Shumpert, Bieber Team Up in Atlanta
Former OPRF hoops star and global pop sensation pair up, clown around at charity basketball game.
Iman Shumpert is many things: basketball legend, hometown hero and freshly drafted, highly anticipated NBA draft pick for the the New York Knicks.
And now, he's a Belieber.
A video circulating the web shows Shumpert, 21, donning a mask of the Canadian teen sensation and giving the camera a locker room pep talk, of sorts. (Via Deadspin and Posting & Toasting)
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"Team Bieber and all that. We win," he says.
Bieber joined Shumpert and several NBA stars over the Labor Day weekend in Atlanta for LudaDay, a celebrity charity basketball game thrown by another celebrated former Huskie, Ludacris.
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Shumpert, an All-American at OPRF, was selected as the 17th overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft back in June. He pledged for the upcoming NBA season.
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