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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Paul Pierce uploaded a picture to Instagram of him on a private jet with Al Pacino, the obvious question was, \"Why?\"\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thankfully, Pierce explained the whole thing in an interview with a Washington radio station Wednesday.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CI was scheduled to go check out his show out in Vegas,\u201D Pierce&amp;nbsp;told ESPN 980, according to&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;The Washington Post&lt;/em&gt;. \u201CAnd it just so happens the day I was leaving, he was leaving. The show was put on by the Bellagio hotel. They invited him. I always stay at the Bellagio. So my host called me and asked me did I want to fly with Al and go to the show. And it was perfect timing.\"\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"So me and a couple of my friends, we had a chance to get on a plane, meet him, talk to him,\" Pierce continued. \"He\u2019s a cool dude, down to earth dude. You wouldn\u2019t believe how down to earth he is. Shared a couple of stories with him. He loves basketball, he said he followed my career out in Boston and everywhere. So it was fun.\"\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well there you have it. Pierce and Pacino are not shooting a buddy cop movie. At least not yet.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;- Dan Gartland&lt;/em&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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