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How do you celebrate your team’s 27 game winning streak? Videobomb your teammates during their post-game interview, obviously. At least if you are LeBron James.
The Miami Heat star decided to videobomb Ray Allen’s moment in the spotlight … and it was well worth it. Click to watch the video.
Kobe Bryant is out indefinitely after landing on Hawks defender Dahntay Jones as he tried to put up a baseline jumper. Bryant is not happy - as you can imagine - and accused Jones of playing dirty.
‘He Jalen Rose’d me,’ he told reporters after the game. (Photo: Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/via The Associated Press)
The fun just doesn’t stop: Here is Dennis Rodman dressed in a brightly flowered jacket standing in front of the Vatican as the world waits for cardinals to elect a new Pope. Or as he probably calls it: “Wednesday.” (Photo: Andrew Medichini/The Associated Press)
LeBron James had 29 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists, and the Miami Heat tied a franchise record with their 14th straight victory, rallying to beat the New York Knicks 99-93 on Sunday. (Photo: Nick Laham/Getty Images)
Dennis Rodman is apparently living it up in North Korea filming a new HBO series. Here he is with Kim Jong Un, enjoying the Harlem Globetrotters playing an exhibition basketball game.
The unlikely encounter makes Rodman the most high-profile American to meet Kim since the young North Korean leader took power in December 2011, and takes place against a backdrop of tension between Washington and Pyongyang. North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test just two weeks ago, making clear the provocative act was a warning to the United States to drop what it considers a “hostile” policy toward the North.
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Dennis Rodman is in North Korea. Dennis. Rodman. Is. In. North. Korea.
Former NBA star Dennis Rodman brought his basketball skills Tuesday and flamboyant style — tattoos, nose studs and all — to a country with possibly the world’s strictest dress code: North Korea.
Landing in Pyongyang with VICE television, the American athlete and showman known as “The Worm” became an unlikely ambassador for sports diplomacy at a time of heightened tensions between the U.S. and North Korea.
Rodman and VICE said the Americans hope to engage in a little “basketball diplomacy” by running a basketball camp for children and playing with North Korea’s top basketball stars — and, they hope, drawing leader Kim Jong Un to a game. Kim is said to be a huge basketball fan.
“Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes,” said Shane Smith, the VICE founder who is host of the upcoming series, referring to North Korea by the initials of its formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. “But finding common ground on the basketball court is a beautiful thing. (Photo: Kim Kwang Hyon/The Associated Press)
Just like high school: This was a timeless victory for the streaking Toronto Raptors. At least it seemed that way on the floor.
“It felt like I was in high school again,” DeMar DeRozan said. “I think we got a shot clock violation — I couldn’t even find the shot clock.”
Playing with an improvised scoreboard, horn, game clock and 24-second clock because of a malfunction in the Verizon Center’s scoring system, the Raptors beat the Washington Wizards 96-88 Tuesday night. (Photo: Alex Brandon/The Associated Press)
Jerry Buss, the Los Angeles Lakers’ playboy owner who shepherded the NBA team to 10 championships from the Showtime dynasty of the 1980s to the Kobe Bryant era, died Monday. He was 80.
He died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said Bob Steiner, his assistant.
Buss had been in hospital for most of the past 18 months while undergoing cancer treatment, but the immediate cause of death was kidney failure, Steiner said. With his condition apparently worsening in recent weeks, several prominent former Lakers visited Buss to say goodbye.
“The NBA has lost a visionary owner whose influence on our league is incalculable and will be felt for decades to come,” NBA commissioner David Stern said. “More importantly, we have lost a dear and valued friend.”
Under Buss’s leadership since 1979, the Lakers became Southern California’s most beloved sports franchise and a worldwide extension of Hollywood glamour. (Photo: The Associated Press)
Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers and the Western Conference goes up for the dunk in the first half during the 2013 NBA All-Star Game at the Toyota Center on February 17, 2013 in Houston, Texas. Griffin finished with 19 points. (Photo: Bob Donnan/Getty Images)
CAT FACE: Dirk Nowitzki of the Dallas Mavericks tries to grab a loose ball against Zaza Pachulia #27 of the Atlanta Hawks in Dallas, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
