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How Caron Kicked The Dew

Earlier today, we found out that Gilbert Arenas avoids painkillers for a variety of reasons. Now, teammate Caron Butler is coming clean about his Mountain Dew habit. It's in the past tense, which means he's ready to talk publicly about it.

During his UConn days, Butler "drank a two-liter of Mountain Dew" before every game. From the D.C. Sports Bog:
"Yeah, I'd be wired," Butler confirmed. "I'd drink half [before the game], and then I'd drink half at halftime. Because, you know, it shoots you up. And then there's a down, and you're flat-lining, and you've got to go back up again. That's what I've been doing, but they don't want me to drink it any more. They done took my Mountain Dew from me."
Between this and Butler's straw habit, it's clear dude has some serious issues with compulsion. Seems like he stopped it with the deadly soda just in time to have a career year. Who knows what heights he could scale if he would only put down that other, plastic vice?

A straw-less Caron Butler equals next year's MVP. Book it.
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