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" Whatever people want to call me, I'm cool with, except 'Zinger.' "

Kristaps Porzingis

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" A coach I had in Spain, Scott Roth, he used to call me Zinger. He would yell at me all the time, 'Zinger!' It's just stuck in my head that I don't like that name. "

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