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Michael Sewha ices his arm before returning to play. Sewha is the closest thing the All-Ibuprofen League has to a professional player. He used to play for a team in Slovakia, back when it was Czechoslovakia, and got paid about $1.89 per game for his efforts. He was a volunteer teacher in a small town called Levice, where basketball was a big thing. He didn’t get the job he wanted, but he did come home with a wife and child — and pretty good basketball skills.

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