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Dez Bryant Saved His Words For After His Actions Had Paid Off
Wizards Guard Bradley Beal Fined $15K For Throat Grab
BRADLEY BEAL
Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal was fined $15,000 by the NBA on Sun- day for grabbing Orlando Magic swingman Evan Fournier's throat.
A foul by Orlando's D.J. Augustin on a Beal dunk at- tempt with 7:40 left in the Wizards' 94-91 road victory Friday night led to an alterca- tion between both teams' play- ers.
In the middle of the scuffle, Fournier bumped into Beal, who then grabbed Fournier by the neck.
Beal, Fournier, Magic center Bismark Biyombo, and Wizards forward Kelly Oubre, Jr. all received dou- ble technical fouls after the play.
Marcus Camby's Nephew Found Dead After Thanksgiving Disappearance
MARCUS MCGHEE AND MARCUS CAMBY
Police in Texas have found the body of the 9-year-old nephew of former NBA player Marcus Camby who went missing during the family's Thanksgiving celebration.
Pearland Police Lt. Ones- imo Lopez told the Houston Chronicle that the body of Marcus McGhee was found in a lake on Camby's Hous- ton-area property Saturday morning.
Lopez said there appeared to be no signs of foul play.
McGhee, who had autism and was nonverbal, was re- ported missing Thursday. He had traveled to Texas from Connecticut for the holiday.
A Coast Guard helicopter had searched local bodies of water Thursday but found nothing.
Kevin Martin Retires After 12-Season Run In League
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Kevin Martin announced his retirement from the NBA with an advertisement placed in his hometown newspaper, the Zanesville (Ohio) Times Recorder, on Friday.
Martin, who spent last season with the Minnesota Timberwolves and the San Antonio Spurs, played 12 years total in the league.
"My family and close friends have known since June of the direction I wanted my life to go. Those were the toughest conversa- tions that I have ever had, but with the ultimate support I knew I was making the right decision," Martin wrote in the advertisement.
Martin's most notable stretch came with the Sacra- mento Kings, where he played five full seasons. He
KEVIN MARTIN
finished 2008-09 with a ca- reer-high average of 24.6 points.
In 2010, he was traded at the deadline from the Kings to the Rockets in a deal that included Tracy McGrady. Martin spent the rest of that season with Houston.
Martin stayed in Houston for two more seasons before being traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2012. The Rockets acquired star James Harden as part of that deal.
After the game, Dez Bryant couldn’t stop talking about Josh Norman. With a crowd of reporters around Ezekiel Elliott, he wanted to make sure he had the full at- tention of the cameras and microphones, so he waited for the rookie running back to fin- ish.
First Bryant said the Washington Redskins need to get their money back from Norman, who was signed to a $75 million contract in the offseason. Then he called Norman “soft.” Then he said Norman wasn’t a lockdown corner because he “can’t even play man-to-man,” Bryant said. “Bail technique. That’s not man-to-man. It’s like you scared.” Then he said Nor- man was lucky.
“Yes, I am being extremely disrespectful to him because he disrespected me first, talk- ing about how he was going to throw up the X,” Bryant said. “OK. OK. Go look at the film, man.”
DEZ BRYANT
At least Bryant waited
until after the Dallas Cowboys beat the Washington Redskins 31-26 on Thursday to have his war of words with Norman. A couple of years ago, it might have been a little different.
“I would’ve beat him up right on the field,” Bryant said. “Straight up.”
About the only time Bryant got caught up in the emotions of the game against Norman came after a 13- yard catch early in the fourth quarter. Norman had a hold of his leg and wouldn’t let him get up. They exchanged some words and teammates stepped in.
“He could score 60 -- all the time.”
That was Cleveland Cava- liers coach Tyronn Lue talk- ing about Cavs guard Kyrie Irving after Irving dropped a season-high 39 points in a 112-108 win over thePhiladel- phia 76ers Sunday.
Yet what we’ve seen through the Cavs’ 13-2 start to their title-defending season is that the full-fledged scoring version of Irving is rarely needed for Cleveland to keep winning. Which means the re- markable thing about Lue’s statement is not that the 24- year-old Irving is capable of putting up numbers like that – his 55- and 57-point per- formances two seasons ago showed that – but that he is capable of resisting the urge to always play that way in the name of the Cavs’ success.
“It’s just about picking and choosing,” Irving said after scoring 10 of the Cavs’ first 13 points in the fourth quarter to help them come back from an early 14-point hole against Philly. “Knowing where your spots are. When you have great players like this on our team, it can come from any of us [at] any given moment. So, when any of us gets it going, we always continue to go to that person. But I wouldn’t trade it for the world. Whether it’s needed for me to go get however many in the fourth quarter -- or Kevin [Love] or Bron [James] or Channing [Frye]. It can be anybody’s night. It’s just that
KYRIE IRVING
we’re always trusting the pass, and we’re always trusting each other and making each other better. So that fourth quarter was just the night for me to be aggressive.”
Irving’s answer was telling, not only because he put himself in the same breath as Love and James – suggesting that Cleveland’s sometimes fragile “Big Three” is truly clicking as a triumvi- rate once and for all – but that he put himself on the same level as Frye, the Cavs’ sev- enth man in the rotation.
The Cavs are stacked, and they should be, considering their payroll is the largest in NBA history. James had his third triple-double of the sea- son Sunday with 26 points, 13 assists and 10 rebounds. Love had 25 points and 11 boards, marking the fourth time in his past five games he scored 25 or more. Frye was not with the team, as he mourns the death of his fa- ther, but he’s had his mo- ments too – scoring in double-digits in seven of the 11 games he’s played off the bench, including hitting the go-ahead shot late against Toronto.
Give Him The Ball In The 4th Because Kyrie Irving Is Cavs' Closer
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