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NBA Changes All-Star Game Format: No More East Vs. West
Chris Bosh Thinks LeBron And D-Wade Can Win Title
CHRIS BOSH, DWYANE WADE AND LEBRON JAMES
Chris Bosh believes the Cleveland Cavaliers have the potential to win an NBA cham- pionship with LeBron James and Dwyane Wade leading the team.
Bosh said "of course" when asked if he thought James and Wade could win another title together.
Bosh, James and Wade played with the Miami Heat from 2010-14. That trio went to the NBA Finals in each of their four seasons together, winning back-to-back championships in 2011-12 and 2012-13.
Retired Boxing Champion
LeBron James and Kevin Durant – despite playing in different conferences – on the same All-Star team? That’s a possibility under the new NBA All-Star Game format.
In an attempt to revitalize the NBA All-Star Game, there will be no Eastern Conference vs. the Western Conference at the 2018 All-Star Game in Los Angeles.
Instead, two captains – the leading fan vote-getter from the East and leading fan vote-getter
from the West among starters – will select players for their squad regardless of conference affiliation. The captains will se- lect from a pool of 22 other All- Stars. In total, there will still be 12 All-Stars from each confer- ence.
The NBA and National Bas- ketball Players Association an- nounced the new format on Tuesday, and the Los Angeles contest on Feb. 18 will be the first NBA All-Star Game that is not East vs. West.
Floyd Mayweather Says
He's Now A Billionaire
There's a reason he's called
Steph Curry Calls Out Sports
According to Forbes, the American athlete had amassed $700 million in ca- reer earnings before he even came to blows with Conor McGregor in August.
Mayweather said the bout with the UFC star would see his salary from sports blast past the billion-dollar barrier.
Now, just six weeks after his tenth round knockout vic- tory over McGregor, May- weather says he has achieved his goal. What's more, he's said it was "easy."
"I already made a billion dollars," he was heard shout- ing when he exited the War- wick club, an exclusive Los Angeles hangout, last week- end. "That was easy!"
And it's not all from fight- ing. Mayweather has finan-
Illustrated For Exclusion Of
Colin Kaepernick In Cover Story
Sports Illustrated’s latest cover is a tribute to the athletes and influencers of the sports world who took a stand against Donald Trump’s attacks on civil rights and the injustices suffered by people of color in this country.
The cover title, “A Nation Divided Sports United,” fea- tures several of these figures, with one person noticeably missing: Colin Kaepernick.
Stephen Curry says the SI Cover is ‘Terrible” for not ac- knowledging Kaepernick.
Speaking to reporters after practice last Wednesday, the Golden State Warriors point guard said he was disappointed Kaepernick, who began protesting police brutality and social injustice during the na- tional anthem last year, was not included.
“That was terrible,” Curry
FLOYD MAYWEATHER
cial interests outside of box- ing.
He owns Girl Collection, a Las Vegas strip-club, in addi- tion to a property portfolio. He has even backed a number of Initial Coin Offerings.
Floyd "Money" weather.
May-
LaVar Ball Is Pulling LaMelo From
His High School To Make Him
‘The Best Basketball Player Ever’
LaVar Ball, the father of Lakers rookie Lonzo and UCLA freshman LiAngelo, announced a major decision in the basketball development of his youngest son, LaMelo.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, LaVar told the paper that he will be pulling LaMelo out of his high school at Chino Hills (Calif.) and will train him for the next two seasons. LaVar says that his son, who is com- mitted to UCLA, still intends to play for the Bruins in two years.
The decision to take LaMelo out of Chino Hills comes after last season's 30-3 season was plagued with in- fighting between the teams, then-head coach Stephan Gilling and LaVar. Gilling was fired after the season, and
LAVAR AND LAMELO BALL
LaVar continued to have is- sues with the new coach Den- nis Latimore.
LaMelo broke onto the scene as among the biggest names in high school sports with his 92-point perform- ance and his own signature shoe from LaVar's Big Baller Brand.
An AAU game between LaMelo and top-recruit Zion Williamson drew over a million views on internet streams.
The latest cover of Sports Il- lustrated attempts to illustrate the civil rights issue and the in- fluence of sports, however Colin Kaepernick is not in- cluded.
said, according to the San Francisco Chronicle’s Connor Letourneau. “...If you don’t have (Kaepernick) front and center, something’s wrong.”
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