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Russell Westbrook Passes
Nerve Condition To Sideline Warriors' Kevon Looney At Least Two Games
KEVON LOONEY
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Golden State Warriors center Kevon Looney will miss at least the next two games and see a team of specialists to evaluate what the organization said Saturday is an ongoing presence of a neuro- pathic condition in his body. Looney missed almost all of training camp as he dealt with a right hamstring injury and played only 10 minutes in Thursday's loss to the LA Clip- pers before he was taken out for what was termed "precautionary reasons." The Warriors believe the nerve condition is a "direct correlation" to the hamstring issue.
"It's not really his hamstring," Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. "It's kind of a neuropathic condition that he's had for a couple years. It's something he's been able to play through, but in this particular case, the condi- tion is affecting his hamstring. His hamstring is sound, the MRI is clean, but it makes it trickier actually that it's a neuropathic condition. That's really all I'm going to say on it because I have no idea what I'm talking about when it comes to these matters."
‘Truly Honored’: Dwyane Wade To Be A Basketball Analyst For TNT After Inking Multi-Million Dollar Deal
Magic Johnson For 2nd On
All-Time Triple-Doubles List
HOUSTON -- Russell Westbrook's first win with the Houston Rockets will be memorable for another reason: He climbed a rung on the all- time triple-doubles list.
Westbrook recorded the 139th triple-double of his ca- reer with his 28-point, 10-re- bound, 13-assist performance in Saturday's 126-123 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans, moving past Magic Johnson for the second-most in NBA history behind Oscar Robertson.
"I know nowadays, getting a triple-double seems normal, butItakeapride,alotofen- ergy, a lot of sacrifice, a lot of things I do off the floor to pre- pare myself to be able to com- pete every single night and play at a high level," Westbrook said. "For me, that's a great ac-
Dwyane Wade signed a multi-million dollar deal to be a TNT basketball commentator.
President Donald Trump Booed At Game 5 of World Series
Shaq’s Sister Dies From Cancer; Basketball World Mourns Loss
RUSSELL WESTBROOK
complishment, especially growing up and never even thinking I'd be playing in the NBA. Now being there and being in the history books is just a blessing to me and some- thing that I don't take for granted one bit."
Johnson tweeted congrat- ulations to Westbrook on his achievement.
Dwyane Wade and his wife Gabrielle Union may have been popping champagne in celebration not too long ago. Because it was recently an- nounced that Wade signed a new deal to be a basketball ana- lyst on TNT, as well as a pro- ducer. And he’ll start this season.
The retired NBA star re- portedly signed a multiyear, multi-million dollar deal with TNT and Warner Media. And on big events, like possibly the All- Star game and Finals, he’ll be part of the network’s “Inside the
NBA,” with Shaquille O’Neal, Kenny Smith, Charles Barkley and Ernie Johnson, Jr.
Wade will also join O’Neal and the WNBA’s Candace Parker as a regular commenta- tor on TNT’s Tuesday broadcast.
Back in April, it was re- ported that there was a bidding war between Warner Media and ABC/ESPN for Wade. Some may recall that the 37-year-old provided commentary for ESPN in 2015 when the Cleveland Cav- aliers lost to the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals.
President Donald Trump
was greeted with loud boos from the crowd at Game 5 of the World Series between the Nationals and Astros on Sun- day.
Trump was shown on the big screen at Nationals Park during the team's salute to vet- erans after the third inning. Fans in attendance loudly yelled "lock him up," a chant Trump supporters began in 2016 directed at his opponent and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Trump did not sit with the Lerner family, the principal owners of the Nationals. Ac-
Of The Orlando Nat
PRES. TRUMP AND MELANIA
cording to WUSA, a represen- tative for the Lerner family re- quested that MLB not put the family in a position to turn down a request from the White House to sit with Trump.
The sister of NBA Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal, Ayesha Harrison-Jex, died from cancer Thursday at age 40.
Harrison-Jex had been di- agnosed with cancer in 2016. She had been an important part of Shaq’s life, TNT’s Inside the NBA host Ernie Johnson said in a tribute posted on NBA.com.
“The big fella, who is self-de- scribed as the biggest kid in the world, his heart is breaking tonight,” Johnson said. “He said his world revolves around his brother and two sisters.”
Harrison-Jex, an Orlando native, will be buried in a mili- tary cemetery next to her father, sergeant Philip A. Harrison. O’Neal did not know his biolog- ical father, and Philip Harri- son filled the void.
Harrison married O’Neal’s mother, Lucille, when O’Neal was 2. The New York Times de- scribed Harrison as “a direct, passionate, vociferous defender of his son’s rights and protector of his back.”
Harrison saw O’Neal’s first dunk, the Orlando Sentinel re- ported in a 1994 profile of O’Neal.
“He’s the one who raised me and made me what I am today,” O’Neal told the Sentinel.
O’Neal, the oldest sibling, watched over Harrison-Jex as she grew up.
“...He was either taking care of
ive
AYESHA HARRISON-JEX
us or entertaining us,” she wrote in Shaq Talks Back, a biography on O’Neal, as reported by Heavy.com. “Shaquille taught us how to play basketball,” she wrote. “He taught us how to swim. All four of us used to just hang together.”
“Shaquille knows his family has his back,” she added.
Harrison-Jex received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Florida A&M University.
Harrison-Jex was first di- agnosed with cancer at age 23 while a college student, Chris- tian Broadcasting Network re- ported.
In May, Harrison-Jex walked the runway as part of a “Celebration of Life Fashion Show” according to photos on Facebook.
“Love u mama......” her son Bryce wrote on Twitter after her passing.
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