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For $50K You Can Buy Kobe’s Old Face Mask
Chris Bosh Releases New Video, Says He Isn't Giving Up On Playing
Chris Bosh hasn't been cleared for basketball activi- ties, and isn't in the Miami Heat's plans.
Miami superstar forward Chris Bosh has issued a re- sponse to those who might think he should abandon his hopes of playing in the NBA again in order to ensure he's healthy to raise his five chil- dren.
His message: His children are why he wants to keep play- ing.
Bosh released the latest -- and since it was called "Fi- nale," presumably the last -- installment of his video series on LeBron James' Uninter- rupted platform Tuesday, parts of which were apparently taped on the day the Miami Heat began training camp in the Bahamas last month.
Bosh -- who had his last two seasons cut short because of blood clots -- remains on the Heat roster, though is no longer in the team's plans going forward after he failed his preseason physical last month and wasn't cleared to resume basketball activities.
He's owed nearly $76 mil- lion for the next three seasons, money that is guaranteed even if he doesn't play.
Cowboys QB Dak Prescott Makes
Black Mamba fans... get your coins up for this one.
Kobe Bryant’s historic protective mask which he wore in the 2012 All-Star game will be auctioned off and is likely to fetch upwards of $50,000. The L.A. star received a nasal frac- ture from Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade during a game. He was then forced to wear a protective mask for the rest of the season.
The clear mask is now up for auction while bidding will continue on through October 29th according to TMZ.
Diehard fans of Kobe seem so have no problem with
Kobe had to wear a protec- tive mask after getting his nose broken by Dwyane Wade in 2012.
spending an absurd amount of money for an exclusive item. The online fanboys are going crazy over this already.
Cowboys rookie quarter- back Dak Prescott's mete- oric rise has now landed him on the cover of Sports Illus- trated, according to the mag- azine.
Prescott has piloted the Cowboys to a 4-1 record in the injury absence of usual stater Tony Romo. The cover story on Prescott, written by Pete Thamel, looks at how he's exceeded all expectations at the start of his NFL career.
Prescott has yet to throw an interception in 155 pass- ing attempts. That's creeping on Tom Brady's record of 162 pass attempts without an
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interception to start an NFL career. Now let's just hope the old Sports Illustrated curse can't bring him down.
NBA Star Derrick Rose Testifies In Rape Lawsuit Trial
Mayweather Advises
The night after Derrick Rose and two of his friends had sex with his ex-girlfriend, he had a hunch she was going to claim they raped her, the- New York Knicks star testified Tuesday.
Rose said he became sus- picious of the woman when she texted later the same day of the alleged early morning attack in August 2013 to say how inebriated she had been and to describe burns she claimed she got on her hands from a fire pit outside his Bev- erly Hills house. Rose said he believed she was sober and never witnessed any burns the night before.
Rose testified for a second day in the $21.5 million law- suit that claims he and his friends had sex without the woman's consent when she
People To ‘Follow Order’
Cover Of Sports Illustrated
Because ‘All Lives Matter’
Losing the 2016 NBA Finals might have given the Golden State Warriors a big win.
Superstar Kevin Durant said Monday night that the Warriors' collapse against Le- Bron James' Cleveland Cav- aliers helped his free-agency decision.
"[My agent] Rich [Kleiman], who's here, we were watching Game 7," Du- rant told reporters at a cere- mony in which the Warriors were presented with the EN- CORE Award from the Stan- ford Graduate School of Business. "Well, as it started to unfold, it was, 'No question, no way could you go to this team.' And I was just like a kid, like, 'I'd really like playing with these guys. I'd get wide-open 3s, I could just run up and down the court, get wide-open layups.' I was basically begging him. I was like, 'Yo, this would be nice.'"
Durant continued, explain- ing how his thinking changed
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as the Finals progressed and the Warriors went from being up 3-1 to losing the title.
"As they lost, it became more and more real every day," Durant said. "You start to think about it even more. To see if I would fit. Then once I sat down with these guys, everything that I wanted to know about them, they kinda showed me. But we don't have to talk about [what would have happened if the Warriors had won the title], because they didn't get the job done, and they came after me.
"I guess you could say I'm glad that they lost."
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was incapacitated from drink- ing and, possibly, drugs.
The woman claims the three entered her apartment and had sex with her while she was blacked out after drinking tequila at Rose's rental house earlier and other booze she had before she got there.
Rose testified he was raised by a single mother, who was his mentor and had taught him to respect women.
Floyd Mayweather at- tempted a one-two punch to the Black Lives Matter move- ment and Colin Kaeper- nick last weekend when he declared that “all lives matter” and insinuated that if people just “follow order,” society would be a better place.
“I’m here to say all lives matter,” the retired boxer told “The Boxing Voice” on Satur- day. “You know, a lot of times, we get stuck, and we are fol- lowers. When you hear one person say ‘black lives matter’ or ‘blue lives matter,’ all lives matter.”
He continued: “What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don’t give nobody a hard time.”
What started off as a philo- sophical musing, however, soon became a matter of best practice for Mayweather, who related his position to his finances.
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“When someone breaks in your house, when someone breaks in your car, the first thing we do, we call the po- lice,” Mayweather said. “With me being a fighter, and my hands being registered, if I hit a guy for breaking in my house, or breaking in my car, it’s gonna cost me more money, so I gotta work smarter, not harder. I’m gonna call the cops.”
Mayweather stopped short of placing blame for po- lice killings, many victims of which have been unarmed black men. Instead, the 39- year-old opted to vaguely call out all parties involved.
Kevin Durant: Warriors' NBA Finals Collapse Helped Free-Agency Decision
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