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Meet Hudson Butcher, the 8-year-old whose Utah Jazz hype video made him the talk of the NBA

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“OK, Ace Bailey and the other players, let’s do good, OK? Let’s win an NBA Finals!” Hudson yells in the video he shot in his bedroom on his mom’s phone. Pointing directly at the phone, Hudson addresses his favorite Jazz player, “Even you, Darryn Peterson,” before proceeding to dunk on the basketball hoop hanging on his closet door.

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