Damn....everyone is balling tonight. Ball is probably the lowest profile player right now and he has 7 assists and 5 steals. I hope they make a real run at .500. 40 wins would be great too.
When you think somebody may have finally injured LeBron and he gets up and immediately throws down a vicious dunk. Simmons is a stud, but damn he can't shoot a lick
Great win, especially under the circumstances with Hart now out On the downside, Ingram nicked up again
Miami currently the 8th seed in the east Lol Spurs on Saturday, already without Kawhi, will probably be without Aldridge as well ( ankle), so a winnable game
More time for IT to show he's back. And Lonzo to get his legs back. If we dont go after Bron then IT and Randle should come back next year next to Paul George.
Leave it to Donald Trump to prove to the world that there is a bigger lying asshat blowhard than Lavar Ball. Arrrrrrrrrggghh http://www.totalprosports.com/2018/...p-lied-about-freeing-ucla-basketball-players/ REPORT: Turns Out President Donald Trump Lied About Freeing UCLA Basketball Players by: Darrelle Lincoln On Saturday, March 3, 2018 Tags: President Donald Trump Ucla Bruins Back in November, LiAngelo Ball, Jalen Hill, and Cody Riley were all arrested in China after surveillance video caught them stealing from four high-end stores. At the time, many believed they were staring down 3 to 10 years in Chinese Prison. At the same time they were stuck in this jam, Donald Trump just so happened to be in China as well, and he was said to have put in a good word for the boys to get them released. Upon returning to the United States, Trump had this to say via Twitter: Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump Do you think the three UCLA Basketball Players will say thank you President Trump? They were headed for 10 years in jail! 7:11 AM - Nov 15, 2017 Months after the fact and more details have emerged. This latest information paints the President in a terrible light, because they show just how much he lied about his involvement. ESPN has the story: “Among the new details that have emerged: what the players stole from the other two stores besides the sunglasses from Louis Vuitton; that the players were required to leave the police station multiple times to return the items they stole to all three stores; that one player hid a pair of stolen sunglasses in UCLA head coach Steve Alford’s hotel room; how UCLA and Pac-12 officials bailed the players out of jail without committing an NCAA violation; how charges were dropped, the bail refunded and the players’ passports returned two days before White House chief of staff John Kelly called the players to inform them that President Donald Trump was working on their release; how UCLA appeased Chinese authorities by keeping the players in China for 72 hours after the rest of the team had returned to Los Angeles; and why school officials thought it wise to thank Trump and Kelly while still unsure of the impact of their efforts. Three UCLA freshmen, Ball (18 years old at the time), Riley (19) and Hill (17), walked to Pinghai Road, where they entered the Louis Vuitton store shortly after sunset, made their way to the second floor and looked at a display of sunglasses. Ball attempted to buy a pair that retailed for $730, but his credit card was declined, not an uncommon occurrence for people on a trip who had not alerted their credit card companies of their travels. Ball, Riley and Hill left the store and talked outside before re-entering a few minutes later. The players returned to the second floor, and each took a pair of glasses and exited without paying. The trio then walked across Pinghai Road to a mall with more affordable retail stores such as Uniqlo, Zara and H&M and took more sunglasses, these of the $15 variety, from a local boutique store before walking into H&M and snagging a 5-pack of beaded bracelets retailing for $6. When Ball, Riley and Hill made the short walk around the street corner back to the Hyatt, the three freshmen had shoplifted from three stores in a span of 90 minutes. Donald Trump first found out about the situation, according to The New York Times, when members of his staff saw it on CNN just before Trump’s dinner with the president of China, Xi Jinping, in Beijing on Thursday. Trump would later tell reporters on Tuesday, Nov. 14, that he first heard about the situation “two days ago,” at which point he personally asked the Chinese president to look into the matter. The White House did not respond to requests to clear up the timeline, but UCLA sources say they didn’t become aware of Trump’s involvement until Sunday when White House chief of staff John Kelly called the players to say that Trump was intervening on their behalf and that he was optimistic of a quick resolution. A Pac-12 source, who was not present for the actual call from Kelly, confirmed the UCLA sources’ description of the timeline. “The situation was already resolved by the time we heard about Trump’s involvement,” one team source said. “That’s not to take away from the fact that he got involved, but the players already had their passports back and their flights booked to go home Tuesday night when Gen. Kelly called the players.” In a New York Times story headlined “How Trump Helped Liberate UCLA ‘Knuckleheads’ from China,” Kelly said Trump’s intervention, as well as efforts by State Department diplomats, led to the reduction of the charges to the equivalent of misdemeanors as well as the release of the three players to their hotel where they were placed under temporary house arrest. “The players were already checked into the hotel before the public discovered they were arrested,” a team source said. “They also were not under house arrest. It was our decision to keep them at the hotel until the situation was resolved. The charges were dropped, they weren’t reduced, and that happened two days before we heard from Gen. Kelly.” It turns out LaVar Ball was 100% right when he elected not to thank Trump for his involvement, because it was already handled before he intervened." ------------------------------------------------------- Arrrrrrrgggghhh I HATE having to come down on Lavar Ball's side of ANYTHING. Ever. Thanks Trump, yooooooooouuuu dick!
^ would have been better in the political thread tbh and gee "sources" say... who would think months after the fact that "sources" would get your panties in a twist about something so trivial? obsessed much?
Trump's is awful, but ESPNs "journalism" is probably worse. I think they really fucked up with the Sean Miller thing. They're still claiming to stand behind it, but they're probably going to have to eat some serious crow on that one. If there was any substance at all to the accusations, Arizona would have fired Miller, not re-instated him.
