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Enjoy this picture of Cliff Robinson, shown here not smoking weed. This will be the last mention he gets here on The Daily Dave.

Following Cliff's suspension by the NBA last week, the Nets abruptly lost three games in a row and got booted from the NBA playoffs last night. I watched probably 70 of the Nets games this season and really believed that the team could make a run for the championship. While I can't say for sure that Cliff being there would've guaranteed that the Nets would've advanced further, his absence was a huge hole for the team.

I know that athletes shouldn't be role models, and that we all do stupid stuff, but this one hurt me personally. The guy, who I wrote about just a month ago, screwed his team, the fans and himself. To me though, he was the last remaining athlete from my childhood, who then in my adulthood became the guy who got suspended for drug use during the playoff run of my favorite team. There's some irony in there somewhere.

The point here is, of course, that you shouldn't do drugs if your job drug tests and other people depend on you.

However, if you are a comedian, and only your goldfish depend on you, well, do what ya gotta do...