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Kyrie Irving And Kids Foot Locker Donate 190 Pairs Of Sneakers To Cleveland Boys & Girl Clubs
Black Girls Rock: Biles And Douglas Head Up Gymnastics Team At Olympics In Rio
SIMONE BILES AND GABBY DOUGLAS
The U.S. women’s gymnas- tics team headed to the Sum- mer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will have that familiar gold- medal feeling.
Any drama about the final five waned early Sunday night at the Olympic Trials, as Gabby Douglas paired a clutch vault with a nearly flaw- less uneven bars routine to ce- ment her chance to defend her first-place all-around finish at the 2012 London Games.
She will be joined by the woman most likely to take her individual crown, Simone Biles, who was so amped up during her floor exercise that she took a step forward and got a deduction. No matter – Su- pernova Simone is the run- away favorite in Rio and anything but an all-around gold would be a surprise.
James Harden Signs New Contract With Houston Rockets
JAMES HARDEN
Following a news conference to introduce two new Houston Rockets, Ryan Anderson and Eric Gordon, the team stunned reporters by announc- ing leading scorer James Harden signed a contract ex- tension on Saturday.
The extension, which runs through the 2019-20 season, is worth $118.1 million, according to multiple sources. Harden, who had two years remaining on his original deal with the Rockets, received raises of $26.5 million for 2016-17 and 28.3 million for 2017-18.
In the last two years of the deal, Harden will make base salaries totaling $63.1 million.
"He'll be around here for a while," Rocket owner Leslie Alexander said. "I don't think people appreciate how great he is, but we certainly do."
Last season, Harden, in leading the NBA in minutes, had career-average-highs in points (29) and assists (7.5), while playing in 38.1 minutes per game. Harden also had 12 games with 40 or more points and had 18 games where he fin- ished with double-digit assists.
Serena Wins Single And Doubles In Same Day
SERENA AND VENUS WILLIAMS
Beauty Unlimited
KENDRA
This week’s Beauty Unlimited feature is Kendra. She wants everyone to know that she is a force to be reckoned with, and she won’t stop until she reaches her goal of total success. Congratulations to Kendra as this week’s Beauty Unlimited feature.
Serena Williams won her second Wimbledon title within five hours with victory in the women's doubles alongside sister Venus.
The pair won 6-3 6-4 against Timea Babos and Yaroslava Shvedova to claim their sixth Wimbledon doubles title and 14th dou- bles Grand Slam.
The win means now only Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver have won more doubles Grand Slams
as a pair.
"It's awesome to win an-
other doubles at Wimble- don," said Serena.
Earlier Serena beat An- gelique Kerber 7-5 6-3 to win her 22nd Grand Slam, equaling Steffi Graf's open era record.
Venus said: "I never want to make a mistake. I don't want to let Serena down. She brought the energy from the singles on to the doubles court."
After An Amazing Career Tim Duncan Announces Retirement
Kyrie Irving is still riding high after helping the Cavs win their first NBA title in franchise history, but took some time out of his hectic schedule to give back to the community of Cleveland.
Irving teamed up with
Kids Foot Locker to donate 190 pairs of his Kyrie 2 to Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland.
The star point guard gave out the sneakers during his Kyrie Irving Basketball Pro- Camp, which was held in In- dependence, OH.
Kyrie Irving gives back.
San Antonio Spurs for- ward Tim Duncan an- nounced Monday that he will retire after 19 seasons with the organization.
Since drafting Duncan, the Spurs won five champi- onships and posted a 1,072- 438 regular season record, giving the team a .710 win- ning percentage, which is the best 19-year stretch in NBA history and was the best in all of the NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB over the last 19 years.
Originally selected by the Spurs as the first overall pick in the 1997 NBA Draft, Dun- can helped San Antonio reach the playoffs in each of his 19 seasons and became the only player in league his- tory to start and win a title in three different decades.
The 40-year-old Duncan comes off of a season in which he led the NBA in De- fensive RPM (5.41) and be- came just the third player in league history to reach 1,000 career wins, as well as the only player to reach 1,000 wins with one team.
He helped the Spurs to a franchise-best 67-15 record and also became one of two players in NBA history to record at least 26,000 points, 15,000 rebounds and 3,000 blocks in his career (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar).
In his NBA career, the 15- time All-Star appeared in a total of 1,392 games and av- eraged 19.0 points, 10.8 re-
TIM DUNCAN
bounds, 3.0 assists and 2.17 blocks in 34.0 minutes. He shot .506 (10,285-20,334) from the floor and .696 (5,896-8,468) from the free throw line.
The Wake Forest graduate is the Spurs all-time NBA leader in total points (26,496), rebounds (15,091), blocked shots (3,020), min- utes (47,368) and games played (1,392), as well as third in assists (4,225). In NBA history, Duncan is fifth all-time in double-dou- bles (841) and blocks, sixth in rebounding and 14th in scoring.
As the only player in NBA history to play over 9,000 ca- reer minutes in the playoffs, Duncan ranks first all-time in postseason double-dou- bles (164) and blocks (568), third in rebounds (2,859) and sixth in points (5,172). For his career, Duncan ap- peared in 251 postseason contests (second all-time) and averaged 20.6 points, 11.4 rebounds and 3.0 assists in 37.3 minutes while shoot- ing .501 (1,975-3,939) from the field.
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