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House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries (D-N.Y.) in a new interview complained that President Trump is planning to attend Monday night’s Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs. “I’m not sure it’s going to be a good reception for him,” Jeffries said during the interview, which aired on CNN. “But why does Donald Trump always have to ruin a good thing, like literally the Knicks haven’t been in the finals for 27 years, the city is trying to celebrate. We’re trying to embrace this and this guy has to inject himself.”
Bobby Krivitsky: Isaiah Thomas was on the CNN Podcast All There Is with Anderson Cooper this week. After the tragic passing of his younger sister, Chyna, which happened right before the playoffs, he got a long text from Kobe Bryant. "At the end of the text, he said, ‘If you are going to play, there's no excuses. And you're going to be who you always been.' "Kobe Bryant is my favorite player ever. So to see him reach out to me and say, if you are going to play, you go out there and be who you are, because that's what your sister would want. There was no other way around it. That's what I was doing."
Isaiah Thomas was on the CNN Podcast All There Is with Anderson Cooper this week.
— Bobby Krivitsky (@BobbyKrivitsky) May 15, 2026
After the tragic passing of his younger sister, Chyna, which happened right before the playoffs, he got a long text from Kobe Bryant.
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Prosecutors pointed to (Terry Rozier’s lawyer Jim) Trusty’s comments in the days after Rozier’s arrest, where he said that Rozier told a friend that he would come out of the game. Trusty told CNN that Rozier “relied on a bad friend” and told Fox News, “whatever that friend did is not on Terry (Rozier).”
The alleged involvement of Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups in this large-scale sports rigging and gambling probe is likely to rock the NBA, according to CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig. Speaking on “The Situation Room,” Honig pointed out that many defendants in these two cases are not linked to the NBA at all, but members of the mafia or people who have become involved in gambling rings. “That’s what makes this case so remarkable – there’s such a sprawling enterprise,” said Honig. “And to see prominent members of the NBA working with, dealing with illegal gamblers – in some cases, perhaps mobsters – I think that’s going to send shockwaves through the NBA’s headquarters in Manhattan.”
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US Attorney Joe Nocella alleged that the poker game scheme went beyond just fixing poker games and involved violence, including robberies. “The defendants laundered their proceeds – including through cash exchanges, the use of multiple shell companies and through cryptocurrency transfers,” he said.
LeBron James said he’s “happy to have helped” Mirra Andreeva win the Indian Wells title on Sunday after the teenage tennis sensation says she drew inspiration from one of his old interviews. The 17-year-old Andreeva beat world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in Sunday’s final to become the youngest woman since Martina Hingis in 1997 to win back-to-back WTA 1000 (previously Tier I) titles after also picking up the trophy at the Dubai Championships two weeks ago.
Speaking to the tennis channel on Monday, Andreeva said: “I was listening to an interview with LeBron James and he was saying that even if you don’t play your 100% or even if you don’t feel you’re 100% physically, I’m going to choose to be 100% mentally. He said that’s what makes us champions, so I kind of tried to do the same. It didn’t really work in the beginning, but in the end, I managed to overcome that to really go for my shots and act like one of the legends.”
Natalie Gilbert returned to the Blazers' home arena nearly 22 years after her first performance on April 25, 2003, when the Blazers hosted the Dallas Mavericks in Game 3 of the first round of the Western Conference playoffs. Then 13 years old, Gilbert stumbled on her words and mixed up "twilight's last gleaming" with "stars last gleaming." Up stepped Portland's then-head coach Maurice Cheeks, who stood side-by-side with Gilbert to encourage her, saying, "C'mon," before singing "stars last gleaming" with Gilbert. The former Philadelphia 76ers guard continued to sing alongside her, and the crowd joined in as well. Cheeks and the teenager belted "home of the brave" together, and Cheeks gave her a hug to close out the heartwarming performance. They later appeared on "The Tonight Show" and CNN.
It’s rare that a sports parody account on social media has much resonance with professional athletes. But “NBA Centel” became so popular that even NBA teams and superstars were aware of it. On Wednesday, the popular parody account – famous for its humorous, fake viral posts on X, formerly known as Twitter – appeared to go offline, with users trying to view the account met with an error message saying: “TheNBACentel hasn’t posted, when they do, their posts will show up here.”
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The series debuts with the first episode Saturday (9 p.m. ET, CNN), one day before the five-year anniversary of his death in a helicopter crash Jan. 26, 2020, in Calabasas, California. Eight other people, including Bryant’s daughter Gianna, died in the accident. Each episode (the other two air Feb. 1 and Feb. 8 at 9 p.m. ET on CNN) is about 45 minutes, and the documentary tells Bryant’s story from a wide cast – friends, teammates, teachers, classmates, former players, current players, prosecutors, journalists and video clips from Bryant and his parents, Joe and Pam.
Los Angeles Clippers star Kawhi Leonard will miss the rest of the preseason due to inflammation in his right knee, head coach Ty Lue said on Monday. Leonard, a two-time NBA champion, is yet to play for the Clippers this preseason and will sit out the team’s final warmup game against the Sacramento Kings on Thursday. Lue said Leonard would “continue to keep rehabbing” his knee this week, according to Reuters. “Keep getting better. Keep checking the boxes,” he added ahead of the team’s 110-96 victory over the Dallas Mavericks.
