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Remember Cliff Robinson? The sharpshooting power forward was ahead of his time in the NBA, making the 1994 All-Star game and enjoying a long, productive career.
Here's a career update: The player once known as "Uncle Cliffy" now goes by "Uncle Spliffy" — he's a marijuana activist in Oregon.
Robinson will be a featured speaker before 2,500 guests at the 2016 Cannabis Collaborative Conference in Portland on Feb. 3 and 4, according to the Portland Business Journal.
"It's an opportunity for me to get out there and tell people a little bit about myself outside of basketball," Robinson told the publication. "People in Oregon know me as a basketball player, but I want to distill the stigma around cannabis, the misperception that athletes and cannabis are incompatible."
Robinson played 18 NBA seasons between 1989 and 2007, scoring more than 19,000 career points. Oregon voted to legalize recreational marijuana in...
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