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Albany Academy graduate Andre Jackson Jr. was giving away school supplies at Creative Connections Clubhouse in Amsterdam on Saturday. More than 100 kids and families were offered food, games, clothing and supplies.

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Arash Markazi: Great scene in Amsterdam as Team USA won its first 3X3 World Cup championship in five tries. USA, Latvia and bronze medalist Poland all qualified for next spring's Olympic Qualifying Tournament. The top three teams in that 20-team field will advance to the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. pic.twitter.com/t4YuNNVK41

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Nike Basketball: July 21: Amsterdam. July 22: Milan. July 23-24: Paris. Follow the Black Mamba through Europe.

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During Sunday's game against the Detroit Pistons at Staples Center, the Los Angeles Lakers will honor three Americans who in August thwarted a terrorist attack aboard a passenger train heading from Amsterdam to Paris. Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler, who tackled and subdued a gunman on the high-speed train that was less than an hour away from Paris, will attend the game and be introduced during a brief on-court pre-game ceremony, according to the Lakers. They will also meet with team president and co-owner Jeanie Buss. Sadler, a college student in Sacramento, was wearing a Lakers shirt during the heroic act.

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Jeff McDonald: According to our man in Amsterdam @Mike Monroe, Othyus Jeffers deal could be completed later today or tomorrow morning. By Amsterdam, I mean Atlanta, which I hear is just like Amsterdam only with more Chick Fil As.

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Fourteen miles south, at Will Rogers World Airport, Chesapeake leases a fleet of planes that shuttle executives to oil and gas fields -- and the McClendon family to holiday destinations. On one trip, the clan took flights to Amsterdam and Paris that cost $108,000; McClendon counted the trip as a business expense. In another case, Chesapeake logs show, nine female friends of McClendon's wife flew to Bermuda in 2010 without any McClendons aboard. The cost: $23,000.

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Ask Greene -- who has played briefly for the Pacers and Kings, as well as in New Zealand, Jerusalem, Amsterdam and Orem, Utah since leaving the Celtics -- and he'll tell you the same thing. "The drug test. That night in Boston. Everything. ... I would have done a lot of things different. If not for those, maybe I wouldn't be at this point right now," he explains. "That's the thing: I wish that I would have been a little bit more professional when I was in the league."

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