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Lou Williams Becomes NBA's All- Time Scoring Leader As A Reserve Player
LOU WILLIAMS
Los Angeles Clippers guard Lou Williams has solidified his standing as one of the game’s greatest-ever sixth men.
With his 11,148th career point on Monday, Williams passed Dell Curry to become the NBA’s all-time leading scorer as a reserve.
Williams led the way for the Clippers with 34 points in a 140-115 win over the Boston Celtics.
N.C.A.A. Tournament: Duke And The A.C.C. Rule The Bracket
Zion Williamson and Duke received the top seed in the N.C.A.A. tournament.
Duke was given the No. 1 overall seed in the N.C.A.A. Di- vision I men’s basketball tour- nament Sunday night, starting Coach Mike Krzyzewski and his star freshman Zion Williamson on a path to what they hope will be the Blue Devils’ sixth national title.
Duke (29-5) was one of three Atlantic Coast Confer- ence teams to receive top seeds, joining Virginia (29-3) and North Carolina (27-6). It was the second time members of the same conference were named three of the four No. 1s; the Big East did so in 2009.
The fourth No. 1 seed was Gonzaga (30-3), the small stal- wart from Spokane, Wash. While the Bulldogs lost the West Coast Conference title game to St. Mary’s last week, they already have a win over Duke on their résumé from a tournament in late November in Hawaii.
Of course, a top seed is no ticket to the Final Four in Min- neapolis.
How Errol Spence, Jr. Schooled Mikey Garcia In The Sweet Science
ERROL SPENCE, JR. AND MIKEY GARCIA
BEAUTY UNLIMITED
YARI
This week, we’re bringing back Yari as our Beauty Unlimited feature. Although her looks are stunning, don’t think for one minute she’s not accustomed to working hard to achieve her goals. Yari loves all styles, young and old, and has high expectations for herself and she hopes being this week’s feature will join her with people who are after the same goals as she is. Let’s all learn a lot from Yari and congratulate her for appearing as this week’s Beauty Unlimited feature.
Dwight Howard Speaks On
Errol Spence, Jr. was the bigger man on Saturday, but it wasn’t his size that won this fight over Mikey Garcia before a crowd of 47,525 at AT&T Stadium.
Garcia was by far the best opponent that Spence ever faced, yet the tale of the tape will duly note that Spence had four inches of height and reach on the four-division world champion.
Anyone, though, who thinks this was simply the case of a bigger man using his size to impose his will is wrong.
Dead wrong.
Yeah, size was a factor, be- cause Spence used a brilliant jab that he mixed up and used repeatedly, to control the dis- tance. Garcia fought proba- bly 32 of the bout’s 36 minutes outside of his punching range, and paid a dear price every time he attempted to get in- side.
Spence won in a shutout, retaining the IBF welterweight title by scores of 120-108 twice and 120-107, vaulting him to
the highest reaches of the sport.
Spence never let Garcia change the distance and it was a wipeout as a result. Spence landed 345 of 1,082 punches, many of them clean, hard shots to the head. Garcia landed just 75 of 406 shots.
Is Manny Pacquiao Next For Errol Spence, Jr.?
Sadly, we’re about to see a rerun of the dragged out nego- tiations between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd May- weather, who first spoke about fighting in 2009 but didn’t get into the ring with each other until 2015.
Pacquiao climbed into the ring on Saturday and showed some interest in fight- ing Spence next. Asked if he’d do it, he didn’t jump at the chance, but nor did he de- cline.
“Yes, why not?” Pacquiao said of fighting Spence. “We'll give the fans a good fight.”
‘Money Grab’ By Man Who
Claims They Were Lovers
Dwight Howard is being sued by a man who reportedly claims the two stopped dating because of the NBA star’s in- fidelity with other transgen- ders.
Masin Elije’s suit alleges that Howard approached him in Nov. 2018 and threat- ened him to sign an NDA “regarding their communica- tions.” When he refused, Dwight became hostile. But Howard says Elije’s claims are BS — telling TMZ Sports he’s never even met Masin.
“I don’t know this person, never seen him. Any allega- tion said about me is false,” he said.
The outlet obtained a copy of Elije’s suit, filed in Geor- gia. In the documents, Masin is not specific about what ex- actly Dwight wanted to keep on the low, — but says he re- fused to sign the NDA and
DWIGHT HOWARD AND MASIN ELIJE, inset
tried to end all contact with Howard.
Elije claims Dwight then became hostile — and made “threats on his life.”
Elije claims he contacted Dwight’s family members and also police in the hopes of getting the threats to stop ... “all to no avail.”
He is now suing for assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress and puni- tive damages, the report states. Masin also wants the judge to force Dwight to cover all of his legal expenses.
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