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LeBron James Goes Undercover As Pizza Store Employee In California
LEBRON JAMES
The employee working at a pizza place in this Los Angeles suburb called himself Ron.
Sure, he was significantly taller than his colleagues, but there he was, working along- side them carrying pizza boxes and taking orders on March 11 at the Blaze Pizza store.
But Ron is no ordinary em- ployee. He is LeBron James, the basketball superstar and, as CBS Los Angeles reports, an investor in the Blaze Pizza franchise.
And James wasn't just working, he was also filming a commercial for Blaze.
Some of the customers did- n't recognize the four-time NBA MVP.
In a video, one customer says James "looks like Dwyane" - presumably referi- ing to Dwyane Wade, James' former teammate in Miami. LeBron answers back: "I heard of that guy."
Man Convicted Of Killing Michael Jordan's Father Seeks Hearing
DANIEL GREEN
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Attor- neys for the man convicted of killing Michael Jordan's fa- ther in North Carolina in 1993 and dumping his body in South Carolina say they have new ev- idence to bolster their request for a new trial.
Court documents claim mis- leading testimony and miscon- duct by the prosecutor and jury helped wrongfully convict Daniel Green of murder. His attorneys have long argued that Green helped get rid of James Jordan's body but didn't participate in the car- jacking.
They're seeking a hearing on their evidence.
Green and his friend Larry Demery were convicted 20 years ago of killing 56-year-old Jordan along U.S. 74 near Lumberton. Both were sen- tenced to life in prison.
A jury found that Green fired the fatal shot. The verdict has been upheld on several ap- peals.
FSU's Dalvin Cook Has Shoulder Surgery
The NBA Record For Wins In A
Season; Goes For Most Wins
Wednesday Against Grizzlies
Florida State running back Dalvin Cook had surgery on his shoulder earlier this week but is expected to be ready for preseason practice in August.
Cook finished in the top 10 in Heisman Trophy voting last year after he ran for a school single-season record 1,691 yards and had 19 rushing touchdowns.
Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher told reporters that Cook might have injured his shoulder in a recent practice when he felt something. Something was the labrum of his right shoulder.
The defending champs topped San Antonio on Sun- day night by a 92-86 score, in San Antonio’s building, run- ning its record to 72-9. With a win over a depleted Memphis squad on Wednesday night Golden State will finish its season at 73-9, setting an NBA record for wins in a sea- son.
Sunday’s conquest fittingly came against San Antonio, the team that has played the Warriors the best this season, one that features a coach in Gregg Popovich that twice employed Warriors coach Steve Kerr as his reserve hy- brid guard. Kerr also played the same role on the 1995-96 Bulls.
None of that palace in- trigue mattered on Sunday, as both teams battled through- out. Stephen Curry scored 10 of his 37 points in the fourth quarter, his final total outpacing both teams’ first half output after an opening 24 minutes that saw the score knotted at 35-35. Golden State’s first quarter tally of 14 points was its lowest of the
STEPHEN CURRY
season.
Both teams got on track
during the second half, how- ever, and Curry’s uncanny ability to free himself and fin- ish amongst the trees (though San Antonio was working without center Tim Dun- can; considered to be a liabil- ity in this matchup) helped prove the difference down the stretch. San Antonio’s LaMarcus Aldridge (24 points, 10 rebounds) had his way in the post for the Spurs, but it wasn’t enough in a world that allows Curry so much space to work.
The game acted as Golden State's first win in 33 tries in San Antonio, and San Anto- nio's first regular season home loss in 13 months.
DALVIN COOK
"We cleaned up some stuff in the back of his shoulder, and he'll be ready in a couple of months," Fisher told the Tallahassee Democrat. "He'll be ready to go in June or July, and train (for next season)."
Kobe Bryant Apple Commercial Debuts During Lakers-Rockets Game
Toasting The Mamba: All-Star Trio Honors Kobe Bryant
DWYANE WADE, CHRIS PAUL, KOBE BRYANT And CARMELO ANTHONY
Kobe Bryant appeared in an Apple commercial that aired for the first time during Sunday afternoon's broadcast of the Los Angeles Lakers- Houston Rockets game.
In the spot called "Father Time," Bryant is in a trailer talking to actor Michael B. Jordan, who is dressed in Bryant's high school jersey and playing him in a fictional movie about his life.
Bryant, originally told that Jordan is playing the young version of him, is greeted with the news that Jordan will be playing his entire life.
"I'm playing you all the way through, with makeup and prosthetics and all that," Jor- dan tells him.
After seeing a scene for the film, in which Jordan plays a "Benjamin Button" version of Kobe, Bryant kicks Jordan
MICHAEL B. JORDAN And KOBE BRYANT
out of his trailer.
The two use Apple TV and
the new Siri vocal recognition remote to show highlights and a film scene.
Sources said the spot with Bryant is a one-off rather than a full endorsement rela- tionship.
The $149 Apple TV went on sale in September. This is the second in a series of ads meant to promote the tech- nology.
During his farewell tour that concludes next week, Kobe Bryant has been showered with adoration be- fitting his status as one of the NBA's greatest ever.
But so far, the grandest and most star-studded cele- bration of all was also the lowest-profile, taking place during a private dinner in Toronto on Saturday night of All-Star Weekend in mid- February.
There, on the basement level of Parcae, located in a downtown boutique hotel, Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade and Carmelo An- thony headlined a group of nearly 100 others -- mostly family, friends and business associates -- who gathered to honor the Los Angeles Lakers icon exactly two months be- fore Bryant's final NBA game on April 13.
It was in this dimly-lit room that the 37-year-old Bryant received his most humorous collection of gifts to help him ease into retire-
ment, such as reading glasses, a cane, a robe em- broidered with "Black Mamba" in gold, underwear, a one-year Netflix subscrip- tion, a TV remote, compres- sion socks, denture adhesive and hemorrhoid cream. Bryant also received a bottle of Italian wine from 1996, a nod to the year he was drafted and the country in which he grew up.
But Bryant said the evening's most meaningful moment came when Paul, Wade and Anthony stood before the exclusive, invita- tion-only crowd and, micro- phone in one hand and champagne in the other, toasted Bryant, their guest of honor for an event the trio first hosted the year before in New York City, calling it The Gentlemen's Supper Club.
"I think all of the gifts they gave me, they all go hand in hand," Bryant told ESPN with a laugh recently. "I can use them all simultaneously, aside from the ass cream."
Johnny Manziel, Von Miller Become Roommates
Johnny Manziel has found a roommate who is on a quest to get the troubled quarterback back into the NFL.
"I'm living out here with my guy, Von Miller. Everybody knows Von Miller. Super Bowl MVP, Von Miller, my brother. I'm living with him right now," Manziel told TMZ on Saturday night. "We're getting our lives to- gether, bro."
Manziel's comments were made in the West Hollywood area. Manziel briefly com- mandeered the TMZ camera before the videographer started asking him questions.
A day earlier, Miller advo- cated for the reigning Super Bowl champion Denver Bron- cos to sign his fellow Texas A&M alum.
"If I had to make my deci- sion on it, he would already be
VON MILLER
on the Broncos," Miller told
reporters Friday. "But we've got guys in the front office that make those decisions, and they put us in champi- onships with those decisions.
"So I'm just going to follow those guys and have those guys take the lead."
The quarterback-needy Broncos were linked to Manziel this past week, when two team sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter that Denver coach Gary Kubiak spoke with the former Heis- man Trophy winner.
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