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At the risk of stepping on the toes of both Deadspin and Idolator, we follow up the Fabolous shooting on Tuesday morning. What seemed like your typical New York-rapper-gets-shot story has taken a turn for the curious.

It just so happened that Boston Celtics point guard Sebastian Telfair, a Coney Island native (see, local angle!), had his chains stolen outside Justin's, Diddy's restaurant, 20 minutes before Fab was shot in a parking garage near the restaurant. Telfair claimed the timing of the two incidents were just a coincidence, a security camera at the garage begged to differ. Turns out, the men who stole Bassy's chains are also Fab's weed carriers, as they say in the industry.

The lesson here? Kids, if you want to be a good weed carrier, make sure the $50,000 chains you're stealing don't belong to anyone who can round up a crew pretty quickly, you know, like a local hoops phenom, or you just might end up getting your boss shot.

Vid shows rapper's pals in rob [NYDN]
Telfair robbed at NYC club — Point guard pulled from game to view police lineups [Boston Herald]