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Long leash?

Work will likely receive a warm reception on Capitol Hill. Rep. Randy Forbes, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, welcomed the “rumor” that Work would be nominated while acknowledging the White House hadn't formally done so.

- Meet the Man Who Will Be Slashing the Pentagon’s Bloated Budget, ForeignPolicy.com, February 5, 2017.

3. Oklahoma City Thunder coach Scottie Brooks met with Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook individually at the end of last season and gave them the same message: Trust your teammates more. He told his two stars the same thing at the start of this season, saying no matter how great they are, they won’t be successful without the help of their teammates.

“I told them that we have to make another jump with our team passing and that it starts with the two of them,” Brooks told Yahoo Sports. “We are still a work in progress, but made a jump this year.”

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Thunder veteran guard Derek Fisher had seen this before with two young star teammates in Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal with the Los Angeles Lakers. But Bryant and O’Neal shined while also trusting their teammates enough to win three straight championships from 2000-02.

While Durant and Westbrook are close and don't have the same level of friction Bryant and O’Neal did, Fisher does see some similarities.

“That goes for all of the greats,” Fisher said. “What makes them great is the supreme confidence they have in themselves, which seems abnormal or uncanny or unfair at times. But that is what really separates them from everybody else. They have the physical gifts of a great athlete, but mentally and psychologically they believe they are the best in the world.