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Why’s Chris Brown Wearing A Hand Cast After Frank Ocean Fight?
So, we know that Frank Ocean got a hand injury during his scuffle with Chris Brown and crew thanks to a tweet (“cut my finger now I can’t play w/two hands at the Grammys”) but apparently Brown got roughed up in the incident also? The singer was spotted in LA this week wearing a hand cast.
Brown was wearing the cast on his right hand just a few days after the Sunday night fight in a Los Angeles recording studio. Frank Ocean is seeking to have Brown charged in the incident, and Rihanna’s ex is apparently ready to tell his side of the story to cops. Earlier this week TMZ reported that Brown’s camp was hoping to defend him with video footage of the fight which shows that he wasn’t participating…
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CP3 leads Clips past Grizz in OT to 3-1 lead
The Los Angeles Clippers’ 10-point lead late in regulation had evaporated, and Blake Griffin stood helplessly at their bench with hands on hips after fouling out in overtime. A building full of red-shirted fans sat nervously, dreading another disaster for a franchise with more than its share.
Except Chris Paul wasn’t around for any of the Clippers’ bad times.
While everybody else worried, he calmly shepherded his club out of another perilous spot and onto the brink of something big.
Paul scored eight of his 27 points in a dynamic overtime performance, and the Clippers moved to the verge of their second playoff series victory in 36 years with a 101-97 win over the Memphis Grizzlies on Monday night, taking a 3-1 series lead.
“It’s fun, it’s exciting,” said Paul, who atoned for his inability to score at the regulation buzzer.
“The worst mistake I probably made in the game was not getting the shot at the end of regulation,” he added. “If I was at home watching it on TV, I’d be talking so bad about me. But you’ve got to get through it. The (best) thing about it is that I have teammates that have confidence in me. Everything that we do is a team win.”
Maybe so, but the Clippers were ever so grateful to rely on their All-Star point guard.
Griffin had 30 points and seven assists before fouling out with 2:26 left in overtime for the Clippers, who blew an 84-74 lead over the final 41/2 minutes of regulation before Paul took charge in the overtime. He played with the same intensity he showed late in regulation, heedlessly flinging himself over the front row of chairs in an attempt to save a loose ball.
“He’s a great player, and that’s what great players do,” Memphis coach Lionel Hollins said.
Game 5 is Wednesday night in Memphis, with Game 6 back at Staples Center on Friday if necessary.
After Paul hit consecutive jumpers to put the Clippers ahead 99-93 with 44 seconds left, Mike Conley’s layup with 8.1 seconds left trimmed the Clippers’ lead back to two points. But after Mo Williams hit two free throws with 7.2 seconds left and Rudy Gay missed a meaningless 3-pointer, Griffin and Paul embraced while another frenzied sellout crowd of long-suffering Clippers fans roared.
“Chris is always intense,” Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro said. “That’s what makes him special. Chris is so good, not only at making plays for himself, but making the right play. That’s what makes him a star.”
Conley scored a career playoff-high 25 points and Gay had 23 on 8-of-25 shooting for the Grizzlies, who couldn’t match Paul’s late-game poise in another thrilling chapter of a highly entertaining series with four games decided by a total of 15 points.
“It’s good TV, man, get the ratings up,” Paul said. “We don’t want any blowouts. There’s a reason we finished 4-5 (in the Western Conference standings) with one game between us. We have a lot of competitive guys that don’t give up in this series. We have two teams that are going to fight until the end.”
In their breakthrough season since pairing Paul with Griffin, the Clippers need one more victory to win their second playoff series since the erstwhile Buffalo Braves moved to California. Los Angeles beat Denver in the first round in 2006, but hadn’t been back to the postseason until this spring.
Caron Butler, playing with a broken bone in his left hand, scored 14 points for the Clippers, who still can’t be comfortable after getting outrebounded 47-36 and giving away a big late lead.
After the Clippers rallied from big fourth-quarter deficits in their first two victories, Memphis rallied to 85-83 on Zach Randolph’s jumper with 1:25 left. Gay hit the tying jumper in the final minute of regulation, and Paul drove for the go-ahead layup — his only points of the fourth quarter — before Randolph coolly hit two tying free throws with 20.4 seconds left.
Paul couldn’t get a shot on the final possession of regulation, with Tony Allen and Gay swarming him — but he didn’t quit.
“It’s Chris Paul. He made his name off doing that,” Gay said. “He’s a tough guard. We can try and make it tougher on him, but still he’s going to make plays and make his teammates better. That’s what he’s been doing.”
The Clippers led 95-89 when Griffin fouled out, and the Grizzlies trimmed it to two points on jumpers by Conley and Gay. Paul went to work, shaking loose from defenders and hitting back-to-back jumpers sandwiching a turnover by Conley.
“Defensively in the overtime, we got three stops in a row, and Chris came down and hit big shot after big shot,” Griffin said. “We keep telling ourselves, and we’ve said this all year, it starts on defense for us.”
Fans filled Staples Center well before tipoff, donning their giveaway red T-shirts and standing to cheer on the majority of Los Angeles’ possessions. They raised Staples Center’s intensity to a level it hadn’t seen since … well, Sunday, when the Los Angeles Kings’ fans roared throughout their second-round NHL clincher over St. Louis.
The tone was set in the first quarter: In a scintillating 21/2-minute stretch, the teams combined for six 3-pointers, an alley-oop from Paul to DeAndre Jordan and a technical foul for Gay. Butler, who broke his hand in the opener and sat out Game 2 before surprisingly returning for Game 3, scored 11 points and checked out to a standing ovation in the first quarter.
Memphis kept constant pressure on Griffin, forcing the two-time All-Star to be resourceful while keeping his temper in check. Randolph got a technical foul in the second quarter when he fouled Griffin roughly on the shoulder and then chest-bumped him, but Griffin only chuckled while Randolph, the former Clippers big man, was pulled away from him.
The Grizzlies got tough, but the NBA’s leaders in steals didn’t get a single steal in the first half.
Notes: Paul picked up his second technical foul of the series, a double T with Dante Cunningham. The Clippers have seven technical fouls in the series to the Grizzlies’ six. … The NBA finalized the start time for Game 5 in Memphis. It will begin at 9:30 p.m. EDT. … After going 13 for 30 on free throws in Game 3, the Clippers made 10 straight to open Game 4, but finished 28 of 40.
(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Man leads police on wild chase ending in dog bite
A robbery suspect led police on a chase through Los Angeles suburbs that included his apparent girlfriend climbing into his still-moving van and ended with a dog bite.
West Covina police tell City News Service the man jumped into a white van outside a just-robbed credit union Monday, and police gave chase.
It led to Whittier, where the van slowed while the woman jumped on, then climbed in through a rear window.
The van soon stopped and she surrendered, but he refused.
Police sent in a dog and he scampered out as it bit his legs, cash spilling from the van.
Police say they recovered a gun tossed from the vehicle.
The man was hospitalized for the dog bite and the woman was arrested. Police have not released their names.
(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
FBI made bi-coastal effort to find B.I.G. leads – AP
Records show FBI agents on both coasts participated in an 18-month investigation aimed at finding out who killed the Notorious B.I.G. and determine whether any Los Angeles police officers were involved.
The inquiry ended in early 2005 after federal prosecutors concluded there wasn’t enough evidence to pursue a case against any Los Angeles Police Department officers or another man implicated in the rapper’s 1997 shooting death.
The rapper, whose real name was Christopher Wallace, was killed on LA’s Wilshire Boulevard after leaving a music industry event.
The FBI late last month posted the B.I.G. case file on its website, The Vault, which contains the bureau’s most-requested case files that can be released.
The heavily-redacted records show agents in California and New York conducted surveillance on possible witnesses and suspects and traded information with attorneys for Wallace’s estate in an attempt to solve the killing.
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Serena Williams has pulmonary embolism – AP
People magazine is reporting that tennis star Serena Williams has undergone surgery for a pulmonary embolism.
Spokeswoman Nicole Chabot tells the magazine that the blood clot in Williams’ lungs was discovered last week, and that she had “emergency treatment (Monday) for a hematoma she suffered as a result” of that treatment.
Williams is being treated at a Los Angeles hospital.
“Doctors are continuing to monitor her situation closely to avoid additional complications,” Chabot tells the magazine.
Williams has been sidelined by two operations on her right foot after getting cut by glass at a restaurant, and has not played a competitive match since winning Wimbledon on July 3.
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Fields, Griffin win NBA Rookie honors for December | NBA.com
The New York Knicks’ Landry Fields and the Los Angels Clippers’ Blake Griffin today were named the Eastern and Western Conference T-Mobile Rookies of the Month, respectively, for games played through December…
Fields, Griffin win NBA Rookie honors for December | NBA.com.
