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Durant Inducted Into Oklahoma Hall Of Fame
TULSA, Okla. -- When Kevin Durant was drafted No. 2 overall in 2007, he prob- ably had dreams of finishing up in the Hall of Fame. But probably not the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.
On Thursday in a packed banquet hall, with virtually the whole Oklahoma City Thunder organization in attendance, in- cluding the entire team, Du- rant was inducted into said Oklahoma Hall of Fame.
"I was just overwhelmed [when I found out last year]," Durant said. "At 26-years-old to be told you're a Hall of Famer at anything, any Hall of Fame at that age is pretty young. I felt pretty good, but I didn't know how to feel. I feel likeIcandoalotmore.Ifeel like I've got a long ways to go, but it's still a great honor and I'm just honored to be here. Happy to represent my family and where I come from as well.
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Jason Pierre-Paul
FaceTimes Boy Who Had
Parts Of Fingers Amputated
Jason Pierre-Paul's re- covery from his July 4 fire- works accident has gone well beyond the football field, and he's using what happened to him as a way to reach out and help people in similar situa- tions.
Pierre-Paul recently had a FaceTime conversation with an 11-year-old boy in Pennsylva- nia who had to have parts of two fingers amputated after getting his hand caught in a bi- cycle chain.
The boy's plastic surgeon told him to look up Pierre- Paul's story, and his sister, Janie, reached out to Pierre- Paul via Twitter. Pierre-Paul replied and set up a FaceTime conversation with the boy, Seamus Bohannon of Fol- som, Pennsylvania.
"This guy, he didn't have to do that," Seamus' mother, Christine, told NJ.com. "We
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were just taken aback by it. My son is in his glory right now. Just the fact that someone was reaching out to him."
Christine Bohannon told NJ.com that Pierre-Paul's message to her son was to "stay strong" and "don't listen to other people" when others make jokes or hurtful com- ments about him.
" At 26 years old to be told you're a Hall of Famer at any- thing, any Hall of Fame at that age is pretty young," Kevin Du- rant said of his latest honor.
It's an amazing day."
Durant selected teammate
Russell Westbrook to be his presenter.
"That was an easy pick," Du- rant said. "Somebody that's with me more than anybody, who knows me inside and out. Just wanted to share this night with him."
DeMarcus Cousins called his tie-up with Al Horford "basi- cally a reaction."
NEW YORK -- Sacramento Kings star forward DeMarcus Cousins was suspended one game for hitting Atlanta's Al Horford in the head with a forearm.
Cousins missed Thursday night's 116-109 loss to Miami. The Kings are now 11-38 when Cousins does not play, includ- ing 0-5 this season.
"He's one of the best bigs in the NBA, so I'd have liked to take that challenge on and re- ally compete against him," said Heat center Hassan White- side, who played 18 games with Cousins as teammates with the Kings in parts of two seasons in 2010-12.
Heat coach Erik Spoelstra: "Obviously, they were missing a major piece of what they do."
The NBA announced the penalty a day after Cousins and Horford tangled late in the first quarter at Atlanta.
"It was basically a reaction. I was trying to get him off me be- cause when I shot the shot I [got hit] in this area," Cousins, 25, told reporters, pointing to his neck and collar- bone. "I was just trying to get him off."
Holly Holm And Floyd Mayweather Pose Together At Clippers Game
Newly crowned UFC cham- pion Holly Holm and retired pound-for-pound boxing king Floyd Mayweather both at- tended the LA Clippers game last night in Los Angeles and posed together for a couple of photos.
Interestingly, Holm re- ceived the biggest cheers of all the A-list celebrities that were shown on the big screen. The 34-year old boxing champion dethroned UFC superstar- Ronda Rousey with a stun- ning head kick knockout at
Holly Holm and Floyd May- weatehr
UFC 193 last Saturday.
After several verbal ex-
changes in the past, May- weather publicly sided with Rousey afterwards and stated that he believes, the former champion will be able to 'bounce back'from the first loss of her career. Mayweather retired with a perfect 49-0 record after a unanimous deci- sion victory over Andre Berto in September. Holm will likely face Rousey in an rematch next year.
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