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They gave me one or two speeches where I had to get into that dynamic and I was like, “Oh, my God, I’m gonna have a panic attack. This is not why I came back.”

“I said, if I win, I’m gonna bump myself up to first class tomorrow,” Lindblad said she joked Saturday.

“You know this Minnesota team, they’re gonna be physical,” forward LeBron James said.

“I didn’t think second place was gonna sting as much as it does, but I think when you’re in a competitive sport getting so close, it does sting,” Coach Janelle McDonald told reporters in Fort Worth.

“There’s a lot of people complaining — they came here in 2009 — they still want MGMT, they want Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and they want time to stop. You have to be eternal. I don’t mean you’re gonna live forever. I mean, when the music moves, you move with it. You can’t pine for yesterday.”