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Grizzlies PG Mike Conley Expected To Miss 6 Weeks
76ers' Nerlens Noel To Do
Iman Shumpert Says He Won't Visit White House Under Donald Trump
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that. He not finna start no civil war out here. I do think he's crazy—straight up. I think he did that stuff to get people to think he's willing to shake it up. But did I vote for him? No. The other stuff that comes with him, I can't get with. But now that he's here, I'm not finna drag my feet. I gotta work here, at least until the offseason, if I wanna go get a crib in the Islands.
Shumpert and the Cava- liers visited President Barack Obama at the White House earlier in November to celebrate last season's title. The guard became an internet sensation during the meeting for his reaction when staff members quickly moved the lectern off stage.
Memphis Grizzlies point guard Mike Conley will miss an extended period with transverse fractures in the vertebrae in his lower back, the team announced.
The Grizzlies said Conley is expected to miss six weeks and will be re-evaluated in four weeks. Conley's injury is expected to resolve itself with rest, the team said.
Rehab With D-League Team
Cleveland Cavaliers shoot- ing guard Iman Shumpert stated he won't make a return trip to the White House if his team wins another champi- onship for as long as Presi- dent-elect Donald Trump holds the highest office in the land.
Karizza Sanchez of Complex spoke with the re- serve about a variety of issues and passed along his com- ments Wednesday. When it came to the topic of Trump and a potential return to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue after this season, Shumpert's statement was clear.
"I'm not going to the White House," he said.
More specifically, Shumpert expressed con- cerns to Complex about Trump's controversial re- marks and said he believes the future president is "crazy":
I understand people's stance on Trump. I can't get caught up in the racial, sexist bulls--t he's got going on. That's his personal thing, ya dig? But I just don't think he can make anything shake like
MIKE CONLEY
Homeless Sisters Named Sports Illustrated ‘Sportskids Of The Year’
NERLENS NOEL
The Philadelphia 76ers have sent forward Nerlens Noel to their D-League affil- iate on an injury rehab as- signment.
Noel was scheduled to practice Wednesday with the Delaware 87ers, who are owned and operated by the Sixers, as part of his recovery from an October arthro- scopic knee surgery.
Noel's stint with Delaware, sources said, is purely for rehab purposes and won't involve any game action, similar to what the Sixers did recently with vet- eran guard Jerryd Bayless.
On Monday, Noel told The Philadelphia Inquirer that he's likely "a couple of weeks" away from returning to the Sixers' active roster.
"I think I'm in a good place right now to start building back up into game shape," Noel told the newspaper.
The three sisters crushed the competition at this year's Junior Olympics, but getting there didn't come with ease. Three years ago, the girls lost their 17-year-old half-brother to gun violence. And their mom raised them on her own from a two-bedroom unit in a Brooklyn homeless shelter since last September.
Before taking any interest in track and field, the girls were participants in an after school chess club, played the piano and had a love for books. The course of their lives changed when their babysitter signed them up for indoor track meets. What began as a just for fun sport, took on a greater meaning once the sisters caught the eye of their now coach, Jean Bell, at the Col- gate Women's Games.
With initial hestitancy, their mom, Tonia Handy won- dered how athletics would im- pact the girls' education.
From there the girls trained
Tai (11), Rainn (10) and Brooke Sheppard (9) are no strangers to overcoming hurdles on and off the field.
at Bell's all-girls Brooklyn- based track club soon racking up medals and trophies at local and regional races. Tai and Rainn led their team to gold at the AAU Junior Olympic Games in Norfolk, Va. The three sisters also qual- ified for the AAU meet in Houston with the help of a Go- FundMe campaign to fund the trip.
Darren Sharper Sentenced In Los Angeles To 20 Years In Prison
Former NFL star Darren Sharper was sentenced Tuesday to a 20-year prison term in the same courthouse where he first admitted drug- ging and raping women in four states.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor de- nounced Sharper's "horrible conduct'' and "disgraceful abuse of trust'' during the hearing that concluded pros- ecutions that unmasked the former All-Pro safety and Super Bowl champ as a serial rapist.
Under the terms of a plea deal negotiated with prosecu- tors in four states, Sharper will be eligible for parole in about eight years because Cal- ifornia law requires he serve half his sentence and he has already been behind bars more than two years since his arrest. But he will probably serve more time if an appeals court upholds an 18-year prison sentence handed down by a New Orleans federal judge who rejected the deal as
DARREN SHARPER
too lenient.
Sharper has appealed that
harsher sentence.
Sharper, 41, sat quietly in
court in orange jail scrubs and never addressed the court or two emotional victims who spoke about evenings that began innocently enough par- tying with friends but turned into nightmares they can no longer escape after he secretly slipped drugs into their shot glasses and insisted they drink. Both women blacked out and later awoke to the groggy reality that something had gone terribly wrong that they couldn't immediately comprehend in their drug-in- duced daze.
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