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Kyrie Irving Fined For
Tyson Chandler Signs With Lakers
TYSON CHANDLER
The Los Angeles Lakers have struggled on the defensive end so far this season.
With that in mind, the team is making a move to try and bolster their frontcourt. The Lakers announced on Tuesday afternoon that veteran center Tyson Chandler had cleared waivers and signed a pro-rated veteran's minimum deal with the Purple and Gold which will pay him $2.1M for the remain- der of the season.
In seven games this season, Chandler is averaging just 3.7 points and 5.6 rebounds in just 12.7 minutes per contest. Chandler didn't play in Fri- day's 107-98 loss to the Toronto Raptors and only scored 22 total points in Phoenix's previous four games.
Floyd Mayweather
Throwing Ball Into Stands
Says He Agreed To
After Jamal Murray Shot
Small Exhibition Fight,
Kyrie Irving lost his cool on Monday night, and now he's paying for it.
The Boston Celtics star has been fined $25,000 by the NBA for throwing the basket- ball into the stands following his team's 115-107 loss to Den- ver.
The incident occurred after Nuggets guard Jamal Mur- ray, looking to turn his ca- reer-high 48 points into an even more impressive 51, took a 3-pointer at the final buzzer with the game already de- cided. Irked by Murray's de- cision, Irving grabbed the ball and chucked it into Den- ver's Pepsi Center stands.
When asked after the game if the shot bothered him, Irv- ing responded, "What kind of competitor wouldn't it bother?"
"I don't want to make a big deal out of it," he said. "Obvi- ously, I was pissed off after the
Not Official Bout
KYRIE IRVING AND JAMAL MURRAY
game but it's time to decom- press and move on. Congratu- lations to him having 48 points. But the ball deserves to go in the crowd after a (exple- tive) move like that. So I threw it in the crowd."
Shortly after the fine was announced, Irving doubled down.
Murray, meanwhile, downplayed the incident.
"I was trying to get 50, I didn't mean no harm," he said after the game. "I shouldn't have done it, but they under- stand I was trying to get 50."
If you're a Floyd May- weather fan, don't go book- ing your trip to Japan for the New Year's Eve return to the ring that he announced Monday at a news confer- ence in Tokyo.
Mayweather on Wednesday pulled back from his announcement, posting on Instagram that he had never agreed to a formal bout with Japanese kickbox- ing phenom Tenshin Na- sukawa and that he and his team were "completely de- railed" by the magnitude of the event announced.
"Now that I am back on U.S. soil after a long and dis- appointing trip to Tokyo, I now have the time to address you, my fans and the media in regard to the upcoming
FLOYD MAYWEATHER
event on December 31st that was recently announced," Mayweather wrote. "First and foremost, I want it to be clear that I, Floyd May- weather, never agreed to an official bout with Tenshin Nasukawa. In fact (with all due respect) I have never heard of him until this recent trip to Japan."
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