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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.”
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.”
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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.”
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.
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"It's mind-boggling to me that everyone all of a sudden is a CNN reporter," Beverley continued. "'Did you know, did you know, did you know?'- that's all I hear. I talked to an American who played there, he's not currently on the team, 'It's paradise. Went to the beach every single day for six hours a day, I had no bad experience at all. I played basketball in paradise.'
“When the national anthem was sung, you know, it just gave me goosebumps, and I realized that this was bigger than basketball,” Deng told CNN Sport’s Amanda Davies. “And you know that the support is going to be there. “This is really a credit to our fans who supported us from day one. And now, we have such a huge following and huge (fanbase) that we really believe that it’s so inspiring because of the fans. The energy and everything that they’re bringing is inspiring everybody else to pay attention to it.”
“We didn’t just randomly put a team together. I’ve known a lot of these players since they were so young, and I’ve kept up with a lot of other players that I didn’t know, but they were on my radar,” he told CNN. “And before I took over the president of the federation, I did imagine, ‘What if those guys committed to play for our nation?’ And this is the result because it’s all come together.