Houston Style Magazine Vol 33 No 27

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Volume 33 | Number 27

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Jesse Jackson

SCOTUS Guarantees That Poor Women Will Suffer

Houston Rockets Pick. . .

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Cassidy Hutchinson

The 'Jan 6th' Star Witness America's Been Waiting For

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Ketanji Brown-Jackson Sworn-In As 104th Associate Justice Of SCOTUS

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at the Supreme Court of the United States. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., will administer the Constitutional Oath and Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer will administer the Judicial Oath in a ceremony in the West Conference Room before a small gathering of Judge Jackson’s family.

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A formal investiture ceremony will take place at a special sitting of the Court in the Courtroom Ketanji Brown-Jackson at a later date.

The ceremony can be he Honorable Ketanji Brown streamed live on the homepage of Jackson was sworn in as the 104th Associate Justice of the Supreme the Court’s website

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COMMENTARY

SCOTUS GUARANTEES THAT POOR WOMEN WILL SUFFER

By Jesse Jackson, National Political Writer

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n their decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the six right-wing judicial zealots on the Supreme Court scorned legal precedent and mocked history to deprive women of equal citizenship under the law.

No one should be fooled. The Dobbs case, a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that held the Constitution of the United States does not confer any right to abortion, overruling Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, addressed a Mississippi anti-abortion law, but it shattered the foundation of equal justice under the law for women. It wrenched the most intimate choice about their bodies and their life from women and gave the right to decide to the states. And, as Justice Clarence Thomas detailed in his utterly unprincipled and hypocritical concurring opinion, the Court’s rightwing majority now has its sights on the right to contraception, the right to same-sex sexual activity and the right of gay couples to marry. (Thomas, characteristically and hypocritically, did not mention the right to interracial marriage, equally at risk from the decision, but omitted presumably because he enjoys that right).

The right-wing activist majority invoked the doctrine of “originalism,” suggesting that a constitutional right must be found either in the plain words of the Constitution or in the concurrent history - either of the founding or of the passage of the 14th Amendment in question under Roe. Remarkably, as historian Jill Lepore notes, the Court’s zealots take no notice of the fact that at the time of the Constitution or the passage of the 14th Amendment, women had no legal

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Protesters take to the streets, marching in protest to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade standing. In fact, at the passage of the Constitution, the majority of Americans, including women and people of color, had no right to vote or to run for office. It is not surprising that the men involved in framing the Constitution or the amendments would overlook the question of women’s rights.

But even that assumption is an insult to any serious historical record.

In historical reality, women’s right to their own bodies, particularly around the question of intercourse, conception and pregnancy, was central to the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments passed after the Civil War to end slavery and give African Americans equal rights under the law.

Under slavery, the sexual exploitation and forced pregnancies of Black women were central to the economy of the plantation. Slaves were

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valuable property. Black women were raped and impregnated, and had their babies sold off from them as a matter of commerce.

Ending forced sexual and reproductive servitude for Black women - and providing personhood for their offspring - was central to the passage of the 13th and 14th Amendments that abolished slavery and guaranteed all people equal protection under the law.

As law professor Michele Goodwin concludes, “Mandated, forced or compulsory pregnancy - ripping the choice of pregnancy from the mother to the state - is a direct violation of the 13th Amendment’s prohibition against involuntary servitude, as well as the 14th Amendment’s defense of privacy and freedom.” In their peremptory decision, the six reactionary activists essentially erased the reality of Black women’s

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servitude and their liberation from their constitutional history.

The stakes involved are matters literally of life and death. Women are 14 times more likely to die by carrying a pregnancy to term than by having an abortion. Those who suffer most are poor women. Most poor women are white, yet Black women are over three times as likely to die by carrying a pregnancy to term than white women.

In Mississippi, the state that Dobbs gave the right to force women to carry a pregnancy to term, a Black woman is 118 times as likely to die by carrying a pregnancy to term than by having an abortion.

The six judges distorted the history and ignored the implications of their decision because they were concerned not about the Constitution or about judicial precedent or about the implications of stripping women of this fundamental right, they were focused only on the outcome that they sought.

As the three dissenting judges wrote, “The Court reverses course today for one reason and one reason only: because the composition of this Court has changed. ... The majority has overruled Roe and Casey for one and only one reason: because it has always despised them, and now it has the votes to discard them. The majority thereby substitutes a rule by judges for the rule of law.”

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OPINION: Cassidy Hutchinson Is The Witness America Has Been Waiting For Opinion By Elie Honig for StyleMagazine.com

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n Cassidy Hutchinson, the House select committee on January 6 has found its most compelling witness to date.

Hutchinson, an aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, gave the committee and the American public a historically unrivaled look at a president unhinged, enraged and apparently willing to cross any line to remain in power. She provided a riveting firsthand look at wrongdoing by an astonishing range of powerful people, up to and including former President Donald Trump.

Hutchinson’s testimony landed like a bomb. She addressed several of the most pressing questions before the committee, including who knew what and who did what during the crucial moments before and during the January 6 Capitol attack. Hutchinson made clear that Trump did plan to go to the Capitol as the riot was unfolding on January

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Cassidy Hutchinson is the former aide to Donald Trump's White House chief of staff – Mark Meadows 6, and testified that she was told he had lashed out physically -- at one point grabbing for the steering wheel of his armored vehicle and then lunging at a Secret Service agent -- when he was told he could not go.

She testified that White House lawyer Pat Cipollone expressed concern

OPINION: Trump Lunged At Secret Service and Steering Wheel When Told He Couldn't Go To Capital On Jan 6th

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assidy Hutchinson testified during the hearing that she was told that former President Donald Trump became “irate” when informed by security that he would not be going to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, because the situation was not secure.

And she testified that she heard a secondhand account of how Trump was so enraged at his Secret Service detail for blocking him from going to the Capitol that he lunged to the front of his presidential SUV and tried to turn the wheel.

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deputy chief of staff, told Hutchinson that Robert Engel, who was the Secret Service agent in charge on Jan. 6, 2021, repeatedly told Trump on their way back to the White House after Trump’s Ellipse speech that it wasn’t safe to go to the Capitol.

According to Hutchinson, Ornato recounted Trump screaming, “I’m the F’ing President. Take me up to the Capitol now.”

Trump then “reached up toward the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel,” Hutchinson remembered learning. She added that,

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that White House officials would get charged with various federal crimes including obstruction of justice, obstruction of the electoral count in Congress and inciting a riot. The President’s key legal adviser recognized that his conduct likely could be charged as criminal.

according to Ornato, Trump used his other hand to “lunge” at Engel.

Here’s how Hutchinson described the President’s anger at being prevented from going to the Capitol: “Tony proceeded to tell me that when the President got in the beast, he was under the impression from Mr. Meadows that the off-the-record movement to the Capitol was still possible and likely to happen, but that Bobby had more information. So as the President had gotten into the vehicle with Bobby, he thought they were going up to the Capitol and when Bobby relayed to him, we’re not, we don’t have the assets to do it, it’s not secure, we’re going back to the West Wing, the President had a very strong, very angry response to that.

Tony described him as being ‘irate.’ The President said something to the effect of ‘I’m the F-ing President, take me to the Capitol now.’”

Engel and Ornato have both testified to the committee behind closed doors, but their statements have not been used in today’s hearing.

Asked by CNN for comment about today’s testimony regarding Trump allegedly lunging at his security detail and other claims about security on Jan. 6, a Secret Service spokesperson said the US Secret Service has “been cooperating with the Select Committee since its inception in spring 2021, and will continue to do so, including by responding on the record to the committee regarding the new allegations surfaced in today’s testimony.”

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une is a popular month for weddings and the Harris County Clerk’s Office (HCCO) is happy to announce that its Personal Records office in downtown Houston recently issued its one millionth marriage license. According to Harris County Archives, HCCO recorded its first marriage license in 1837.

“On average, our office issues about 2,500 marriage licenses each month,” said Harris County Clerk Teneshia Hudspeth. “Some couples even opt to get married on the same day, which involves finding a Judge that will waive the 72-hour waiting period.”

The one millionth marriage license was issued to Mr. and Mrs. Marcelo Pestana on June 22. The happy couple was married that same day

by Judge Michael Newman, Harris County Probate Court #2.

In 2019, HCCO issued nearly 32,000 marriage licenses; however, that number dropped by half in 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Last year, the number of marriage licenses issued rose to more than 28,000 after vaccine rollouts and restrictions were lifted. So far this year, the office has issued more than 15,100 marriage licenses.

“We are thrilled to see the numbers rise now that the COVID-19 threat is lower,” added Clerk Hudspeth. “Our office is open for business, and we look forward to serving our residents.”

Couples can apply for a marriage license in person at one of our 11 locations.

A valid I.D. is required and the fee is $74.00.

For additional info., visit: www.cclerk@hctx.net or call the Personal Records Department at 713-274-8686.

How To Ensure You Are Getting High-Quality Cancer Treatment

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eciding where to receive treatment is one of the most critical decisions you can make when you receive a cancer diagnosis.

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H Houston ICON – Rev. Bill Lawson Turns 94 H Community Leaders laud Reverend William Lawson who is a retired pastor and the namesake of an Institute focused on helping the community. He was born on June 28, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri to Walter and Clarisse Lawson.

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EV AUTO: brightdrop First 150 EV Delivery Vans Integrated Into FedEx Fleet This Milestone Marks Nation's Largest Deployment Of Commercial Electric Last-Mile Delivery Vans To Date

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edEx announced it has received its first 150 electric delivery vehicles from BrightDrop, the technology startup from General Motors decarbonizing last-mile delivery. This marks a critical milestone for FedEx as the company plans to transform its entire parcel pickup and delivery (PUD) fleet to all-electric, zero-tailpipe emissions by 2040, and comes just months after BrightDrop’s commercialization of the Zevo 600 as the fastest vehicle to market in GM’s history.

“At FedEx, we have ambitious sustainability goals, and our phased

approach to vehicle electrification is a crucial part of our roadmap to achieve carbon neutral global operations,” said Mitch Jackson, chief sustainability officer, FedEx. “In just under six months, we’ve taken delivery of 150 BrightDrop Zevo 600s for our parcel pickup and delivery fleet. In today’s climate of chip

shortages and supply chain issues, that’s no ordinary feat and a true testament to the collaboration between FedEx and BrightDrop.”

“This shows how BrightDrop is delivering sustainable solutions at scale to customers today, and we couldn’t be happier to be part of FedEx’s sustainability journey,” said Travis Katz, president and CEO of BrightDrop. “Our Zevo 600 has been a record-setting vehicle from the start.

From a record-setting time to market, to delivering one of the largest fleets of electric delivery vans on the road today, BrightDrop is showing the world what sustainable delivery looks like.”

To support the new vehicle technology, FedEx is building charging infrastructure across its vast network of facilities, including the more than 500 charging stations the company has already installed across California.

FedEx is also actively working with utility companies to help evaluate and determine the capacity needed for elec-

trical grids to support such charging infrastructure and is investing to expand on-site generation and procurement of renewable energy in its facilities.

“For FedEx to successfully achieve our sustainability goals, it will require collaboration across the public, non-profit and corporate sectors,” said Jackson. “Our ongoing collaboration with BrightDrop is a perfect example of what is possible when two organizations come together and work toward achieving similar goals in pursuit of a better world.”

To complement the company’s efforts to reduce its environmental impact in its own operations, FedEx has been a vocal advocate for improved fuel efficiency standards and policies to support the commercial deployment of alternative-fuel vehicles.

For more on sustainability at FedEx, please visit fedex.com/sustainability.

EV AUTO: Hyundai Unveils IONIQ 6 Electric Streamliner – EPA Rated For 303 Mile Range IONIQ 6 Will Offer 303 miles of Driving Range To Compete with Tesla Model 3

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environmental responsibility.

“IONIQ 6 connects an emotional convergence of functionality with aesthetics,” said SangYup Lee, Executive Vice President and Head of Hyundai Design Center. “The distinctive streamlined design is the result of close cooperation between engineers and designers, with obsessive attention

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yundai, this week revealed the streamlined and timeless design of the highly anticipated IONIQ 6, the second model in its IONIQ dedicated all-electric-vehicle lineup brand. IONIQ 6, which Hyundai describes as an Electrified Streamliner, is aerodynamically sculpted and makes innovative use of sustainable materials to reflect today’s EV customers’ values.

Inspired by Hyundai’s Proph-

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ecy EV Concept, IONIQ 6 is characterized by clean, simple lines and a pure aerodynamic form that Hyundai designers describe as Emotional Efficiency. IONIQ 6’s electrified streamliner typology and mindful cocoon-like interior embody a silhouette for the new era of electric mobility, while the overall design theme of Ethical Uniqueness reflects Hyundai’s customer-centric commitment to energy efficiency and

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to detail and customer-centric values at the core. We have created the IONIQ 6 as a mindful cocoon that offers personalized places for all.”

For more information on IONIQ 6, please visit: https://ioniq6.hyundai.com

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UVALDE: The Butt Family and H-E-B Donate $10 million The Butt Family Leads the Way To Help Build A New Elementary Campus In Uvalde

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n partnership as founding donors, the Butt family and H-E-B, which are longtime supporters of public education, will work with other stakeholders and organizations on the development of this project. Texas firms Huckabee and Joeris General Contractors, which are also founding donors, have also made generous commitments to donate their services and time to this project, which will help the children, families, staff and Uvalde CISD community move forward together.

“Our first store in Uvalde opened in 1959, and Uvalde people are our people,” said Charles Butt, H-E-B’s Chairman. “As we continue to mourn tremendous loss, I join with my family and H-E-B in working to ensure the Uvalde community can move forward from this tragic event. Our children are this country’s future, and our schools should be a safe place where children can thrive and envision new possibilities.”

For those who would like to join the effort, contributions to support this project can be made by donating to the Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation, a nonprofit charitable organization established to help raise funds for the new elementary campus as well as serve the immediate and ongoing financial needs of Uvalde CISD. Donations can be made by visiting UvaldeCISDMovingForward.org.

The new campus will significantly enhance educational offerings

and implement state-of-the-art safety and security measures, and infrastructure to support the availability of new technology. The location and design of the new campus and timeline for the project have not been determined. The school district will work closely with the Uvalde community, donors, and other stakeholders to solicit ideas and gather feedback for the project.

Built in the 1960s, Robb Elementary serves approximately 538 students in grades second through

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ART: Houstonians Can See These Exhibits This Week

Bring The Family to Community Artist Collective for Tokie Rome Taylor, Museum Fine Arts for Leandro Erlich and $25 Million and New Name for Alley Theatre – Meredith Long Theatre Center

By Kathy Coleman, ARTS Editor – StyleMagazine.com • Newswire

Leandro Erlich: Seeing Is Not Believing

Tokie Rome-Taylor: What Remains

MFAH • June 29–September 5, 2022

Installation view at MFAH: Leandro Erlich, Bâtiment, 2004, Nuit Blanche, Paris, France. ©Leandro Erlich Studio

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onceptual artist Leandro Erlich creates visual paradoxes and optical illusions that force you to question your perception of reality. He renders everyday situations confounding—a staircase that misleads

to go nowhere; an elevator that appears partially stuck below ground; a swimming pool that appears to reflect one group of onlookers above the water’s surface and a different group below.

Seeing Is Not Believing features two of Erlich’s most iconic installations: Bâtiment (Façade) and Le cabinet du psy (The Psychoanalyst’s Office). These immersive, room-size environments and a selection of additional works span the career of the acclaimed Argentinean artist, whose psychological subversion of the everyday seems to defy the basic laws of physics while challenging your sense of balance, space, and the absolute.

Born in 1973, Erlich lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Montevideo, Uruguay. He was an artist-in-residence in the Glassell School of Art’s Core Program at the MFAH from 1997 to 1999. Seeing Is Not Believing serves as both a homecoming for him and a revelation for MFAH visitors.

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CAC • July 2 – August 27, 2022

Artist explores self-perception and the sense of belonging formed in childhood

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tlanta-based artist and educator Tokie Rome-Taylor examines themes of time, spirituality, visibility, and identity through photography and cyanotype in “What Remains,” the exhibition opening Saturday, July 2, at 2 p.m. at the Community Artists’ Collective, 4101 San Jacinto, Suite 116.

The exhibition continues through August 27 and is part of Print Matters Houston, a biennial city-wide celebration of original prints, the artists who create them, and the people who collect them.

“My practice is grounded in the understanding that one’s self-perception and sense of belonging in a society begins in childhood,” Rome-Taylor explained.

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“Children are the subjects I use to explore how we gain a sense of belonging within our society,” she continued.

“These works explore what we pass down. From our family, culture, and life experiences, we pass down artifacts in the physical and spiritual. Here, digital photographs are converted into large-scale negatives, which are then exposed on fabric and cotton rag paper that has been coated with cyanotype chemicals. ‘What Remains’ after the prints are washed is a visual image of family artifacts and an exploration of history and spirit. It is what remains of our archives, ancestors, and artifacts.

Rome-Taylor is a Funds for Teachers Fellowship recipient and studied photography in Santa Fe, N.M. In San Francisco, Calif., Her work has been a part of many national and international exhibitions, is held in multiple public and private collections, and was recently acquired by the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art. Her work is a part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, The Fralin Museum at the University of Virginia, and the Southeastern Museum of Photography.

For more info call 713-523-1616 or visit:

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Alley Theatre Receives $25 Million Matching Grant

utch Mach, Alley Theatre Board Chair and Chairman of the Alley Theatre Vision for the Future Campaign, is pleased to announce that the Tony Award®-winning Alley Theatre received a $25 million matching grant from an anonymous donor as part of the $80 million Alley Vision for the Future Campaign. This is the largest gift in the 75-year history of the Alley.

In recognition of this gift, the 615 Texas

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Avenue Theatre Building will be named Meredith J. Long Theatre Center in honor of the Theatre’s longtime Chairman Emeritus who passed away on June 3, 2020.

“This benevolent gift allows the Alley to flourish for decades to come,” says Alley Theatre Board President Kenneth P. Kades.

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DIGITAL FILM: Zack Snyder's Justice League Justice League Comes to Digital Download • July 19, 2022

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he age of heroes is upon us when the Warner Bros. Pictures and DC full-length HBO Max Original feature film “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” comes to Digital on July 19.

The screenplay is by Chris Terrio, story

by Chris Terrio & Zack Snyder and Will Beall, based on characters from DC, Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The film’s producers are Charles Roven, Deborah Snyder, with executive producers Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas, Wesley Coller, Jim Rowe, Curtis Kanemoto, Chris Terrio and Ben Affleck.

In “Zack Snyder ’s Justice

League”, determined to ensure Superman’s (Henry Cavill) ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) aligns forces with Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions. The task proves more difficult than Bruce imagined, as each of the recruits must face the demons of their own pasts to transcend that which has held them back, allowing them to come together, finally forming an unprecedented league of heroes.

Now united, Batman (Affleck), Wonder Woman (Gadot), Aquaman (Jason

Momoa), Cyborg (Ray Fisher) and The Flash (Ezra Miller) may be too late to save the planet from Steppenwolf, DeSaad and Darkseid and their dreadful intentions.

On July 19, “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” will be available to own digitally in high definition and standard definition from participating digital retailers where you purchase movies.

Additionally, a Trilogy bundle will also be available on Digital on July 19. The three-film collection includes Man of Steel, Batman v Superman Ultimate Edition, and Zack Snyder’s Justice League.

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SPORTS: ROCKETS SELECT JABARI SMITH JR Jabari Went Third Overall In The 2022 NBA Draft

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he Houston Rockets were in a winwin situation, waiting to select their pick in the 2022 NBA Draft. After Duke forward Paolo Banchero was chosen with the number one overall pick by the Orlando Magic, the Oklahoma City Thunder took Gonzaga forward Chet Holmgren second, putting the Rockets on the clock.

Houston selected forward Jabari Smith from Auburn University.

Most mock drafts had Smith going number one overall to the Magic, but when he didn’t hear his name called, it added more fuel to the fire that burns inside of Smith.

“Definitely added a chip, but God makes no mistakes, so I’m happy to be here,” said Smith. “I’m happy to be where I’m wanted. I’m happy to get to Houston and just show them, give them what they picked. Just happy to be here.”

The 6-10 forward dominated

"He's probably the best shooter in the draft, and at his height, that's extraordinarily unusual."

– Rafael Stone Houston Rockets GM Jabari Montsho Smith, Jr. the SEC leading the Tigers in scoring at 16.9 points a game and hitting 42 percent of his attempted three-pointers on the season. Smith was able to help Auburn secure the No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament, but they were ousted in the second round by Miami.

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