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Nuggets' Ty Lawson To Enter Private Alcohol Treatment After DUI
Josh Smith Joins Clippers On One-Year Deal At Veterans Minimum
Josh Smith signed a one- year deal with the Clippers for the veterans minimum worth $1.5 million.
The Los Angeles Clippers have signed free-agent forward Josh Smith, who helped elim- inate them from last season's playoffs when he was with the Houston Rockets. The Clippers announced the deal Thursday.
Smith reportedly signed a one-year contract for the veter- ans minimum worth $1.5 mil- lion. Smith "chose winning and a defined role over money."
A quiet week in NBA free agency was interrupted by a couple of notable deals Thurs- day, including Josh Smith to the Clippers. Kevin Pelton ex- plains all the moves.
Smith played 55 games for the Rockets last season after the Detroit Pistons waived him in December.
"Over my pro career I have spent a lot of time in Houston with friends and family. Over the past year, while with the Rockets, the team, fans and people of Houston have made it a second home," Smith said in a prepared statement. "I want to express my appreciation to everyone for the support and kindness they have showed me and my family while I have been here. Thank you!"
After he was released by De- troit, Smith was recruited to sign with Houston by Dwight Howard, his childhood friend. It turned out to be a solid move.
Smith scored in double dig- its in 35 of 48 games where he came off the bench, with four 20-point games during the reg- ular season. His impact was even greater in the Western Conference semifinals. With the Rockets down 3-1 in the se- ries against the Clippers, coach Kevin McHale inserted Smith into the starting lineup for Game 5, and Houston ral- lied to win the series. In a do- or-die Game 6 in L.A., Smith and Corey Brewer combined to score 29 fourth-quarter points, helping the Rockets rally from a 19-point second- half deficit to win.
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DENVER -- Nuggets point guard Ty Lawson won't face DUI charges in California and Colorado until completing a 30-day residential treatment program, a Denver judge ruled Friday.
The troubled point guard at- tended a pretrial hearing Fri- day in Denver, in which his lawyer said Lawson enters treatment Saturday at Cliffside Malibu, a celebrity rehabilita- tion center in California that treats patients with addiction and psychiatric issues.
"We will be handling the personal needs of the defen- dant," said Lawson's lawyer, Harvey Steinberg, who added the program will "en- sure his sobriety."
Lawson did not speak at the hearing.
Lawson, 27, was arrested Tuesday in Los Angeles on suspicion of driving under the influence. He was arrested in Denver for the same thing in January.
"Now we have a new situa- tion that needs to be dealt with," Steinberg said Friday,
Ty Lawson has been arrested on suspicion of DUI twice in the past six months.
referring to the Los Angeles arrest.
Nuggets GM Tim Con- nelly said he talked to Law- son on Friday and told him the organization backs its point guard.
"Ty is going through a rough time right now, but we're all behind him," Connelly said after the Nuggets finished summer league play in Las Vegas. "Ty's a really good per- son. He's a Nugget, so when one of our guys goes through issues, we support him as a family and everyone stands behind him."
Serena Williams 'Confident'
Elbow Will Be Healed In
Time For Rest Of Summer
Wimbledon champion Ser- ena Williams will take the next week off in an effort to heal the right elbow injury that forced her out of the Swedish Open, she said in a Facebook post Saturday.
The 21-time Grand Slam sin- gles champion, who sustained the injury while practicing in Bastad, Sweden, on Thursday, said she is "confident" she'll be back on the court soon as she gears up to complete the cal- endar Grand Slam at the US Open.
"As much fun as we have been having the past 8 or so weeks I have to take some time to let my elbow heal. I am con- fident it will be ready for the rest of the summer. I need some time to recover and rehabit,butasofnowIam being forced to take the next week off. Love you all #re- nasarmy #teamrena," Williams said.
Williams withdrew from the Swedish Open ahead of her second-round match against Klara Koukalova, who ad-
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Serena Williams says she will take time off to recover from the right elbow injury that forced her to withdraw from this week's Swedish Open.
vanced to the quarterfinals by walkover.
"I was having some pain in my elbow, and I felt a little bit in my match," Williams said in an interview with tourna- ment organizers this week. "But [Thursday] morning it re- ally exploded [in practice] ... I really couldn't hit serves."
She called her move to with- draw a "really, really difficult decision
Infecting Partners With HIV
Athlete To 30 Years For
ST. CHARLES, MO -- A for- mer college wrestler was sen- tenced to 30 years behind bars on Monday for infecting a male sexual partner with HIV and putting four other men at risk.
Michael L. Johnson, 23, of St. Charles, Missouri was Johnson was convicted in May on one count of recklessly infecting another with HIV, and four counts of recklessly risking infection of another with HIV.
St. Charles County Circuit Judge Jon Cunningham told Johnson on Monday during the sentencing that he committed 'very severe' crimes, reports Stltoday.com.
Prosecutors said he commit- ted a crime by not telling his sexual partners that he has HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Johnson used online
MICHAEL JOHNSON
hookup apps and social net- working sites such as Grindr and Adam4Adam to meet sev- eral men in early 2013.
Johnson was sentenced to 30 years for infecting someone and 30.5 years for risking in- fection but the judge decided to let his lesser charges run concurrently with his 30-year sentence.
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