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Five Takeaways: Strong fourth quarter leads Nuggets to 121-111 victory over Toronto Raptors - Mile High Sports
The Nuggets walked away with another victory Thursday, defeating the Toronto Raptors 121-111 at Ball Arena.
Head coach Michael Malone recorded his 300th career victory (261st with Denver).
Fourth Quarter runaway
It was a strong fourth quarter that opened up a double-digit lead for Denver. The Nuggets shut down the Raptors in the final quarter, scoring the first 15 points and outscoring Toronto 34-26.
Heading into the final 12 minutes, the Raptors had kept pace with the Denver offense, trailing by just two points at the half and at the end of the third.
MPJ’s run continues
22-year-old guard Michael Porter Jr. led the Nuggets offensively with 23 points. He recorded the first five points of the game for Denver and shots 8-for-19 from the field and had a team-leading three makes from beyond the arc.
Prior to Thursday’s matchup, in the eight games since star guard Jamal Murray’s ACL tear, Porter took off — in a good way. Porter has stepped into Murray’s role, recording 26.6 points per game while playing over 35 minutes a game.
He led Denver with 35 minutes Thursday.
Porter ranks 14th in the NBA in points during that stretch. He also enjoyed a career-high (39 points) in a victory over the Houston Rockets on April 24.
Bench scorers
Toronto relied heavily on its starters. Each of the five starters played at least 32 minutes, led by Khem Birch, who had 20 points in 36 minutes. Long-time Raptors star Kyle Lowry also had 20 points and forward OG Anunoby recorded a team-high 25.
The Raptors bench combined for just 19 points. At the other end, Denver took advantage of its 20-point lead in the fourth quarter and used nearly its entire lineup. The Nuggets bench pitched in with 48 points. Austin Rivers (11), JaMychal Green (15) and Shaquille Harrison (11) all had double-digit point totals.
Clippers in sight
Winners of four straight, the Nuggets (42-21) suddenly trail the L.A. Clippers for third in the Western Conference by just half a game. The Clippers have lost two straight.
With Denver sitting in fourth, its current playoff matchup (if the postseason started today) would be against the defending NBA champions, the L.A. Lakers.
Jokic doubles up
In what has become a pattern this season and during his career, Jokic recorded a double-double. The M.V.P. hopeful had 19 points and 11 rebounds for his 55th double-double in 2021 and 247th of his career.
Jokic played 28 minutes and shot 8-for-13 from the field.
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All Ball sports: A line is drawn, from Kaepernick to Chauvin - Easy Reader
by Paul Teetor
Colin Kaepernick and Derek Chauvin will go down in the history books together, but for very different reasons.
One took a knee during the national anthem in principled protest.
The other gave a knee during an arrest made with mindless malice.
One is a woke football player who led his team to the Super Bowl, then sacrificed his career to draw attention to the issue of systemic police abuse of black people.
The other is a brain-dead, incarcerated ex-cop who didn’t have the God-given common sense – or even a sense of self-preservation – to realize he was suffocating George Floyd when Floyd told him 27 times that he couldn’t breathe and then called for his mama with his last breath.
Nor did Chauvin realize it when the murder was complete after six minutes. Floyd lay silent and lifeless with Chauvin’s knee on his neck for another 3 minutes and 29 seconds.
Unknowingly and unintentionally, in the process of killing Floyd Officer Chauvin completed what Kaepernick started just five years ago: he made the once-fringe issue of police abuse of black people into a national, mainstream issue.
Former Mira Costa High students Nia Marshall, Malachi McMahon, Dalia Feliciano, and Jemal Williams lead a Black Lives Matter protest against police brutality at the Manhattan Beach pier on June 2, a week after George Floyd was killed. Photo by JP Cordero
Now, after repeated showings of the video footage of a callous Chauvin defiantly ignoring the warnings of distraught bystanders that he was killing Floyd, not even Donald Trump and his sycophants can pretend there is not a police brutality problem that needs to be fixed – for the benefit of everyone, not just black people.
You wouldn’t know it from watching mainstream TV news, but there are plenty of white people – indeed, people of all skin colors – needlessly gunned down by out-of-control police who act like they’re trained to escalate tense situations instead of defusing them. That’s why Floyd’s arrest and subsequent murder was the inciting event behind the George Floyd Police Reform bill sponsored by Congressional Democrats and backed by President Joe Biden.
When the history of the modern social justice movement is written in the not-too-distant future, historians may well draw a direct line from Kaepernick’s “take a knee” stand against police abuse five years ago to the almost-universally acclaimed guilty on all counts verdict this week against Chauvin after his murder-by-knee-on-neck of Floyd.
Cultural analysts can tackle the linkage question and debate whether Chauvin’s conviction is just another moment in America’s long and troubled racial history – slavery, Selma, four little girls, Rodney King — or an inflection point for a 21st century social justice movement that is gaining steam by the day. As always with the incremental course of history, time will decide that debate.
But in a sports world with a growing focus on social justice, there was no debating the cause-and-effect link between Kaepernick’s activism and Chauvin’s multiple convictions this week.
While some Fox News hosts continued to debate the reasons for the verdict – aging frat boy Tucker Carlson actually argued that the jury returned a guilty verdict only because they were frightened by left-wing threats of riots – sports figures spoke with what seemed like one voice.
Since we live in Los Angeles, let’s start with Lakers star LeBron James, who tweeted one very appropriate word: “ACCOUNTABILITY.”
Former Lakers great Magic Johnson was a little more verbose: “Thank God…. guilty! Justice has been served.”
Others were more ambivalent, less triumphant. Naomi Osaka, the best female tennis player in the world, tweeted out a thoughtful response that mirrored the feelings of millions of her fans: “I was going to make a celebratory tweet but then I was hit with sadness because we are celebrating something that is clear as day. The fact that so many injustices occurred to make us hold our breath toward this outcome is really telling.”
Others, like Chargers wide receiver Joe Reed, were still angry even after the verdict was announced: “Throw the key away.”
A day later, something happened that would have been inconceivable when Kaepernick started his movement back in 2016.
Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis – son of the legendary Al Davis, who politically was slightly to the right of Genghis Kahn and Attila the Hun – used the team’s official website to tweet out: “I can breathe 4-20-21.”
Some Raiders fans objected, saying the team’s owner had no business aligning himself and his team with Floyd and his family. But Davis stood firm and refused to delete the tweet. Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, publicly thanked him for his support. “For the first time in almost a year, our family has taken a breath. And I know that goes for so many across the nation and globe, as well. Let’s take this breath together in honor of my big brother, who couldn’t. Let’s do it for George.”
Just when America seemed to be reaching a broad consensus that this was indeed a case of police abuse of black men, exactly the type of recurring problem that Kaepernick had pointed out over and over until it cost him his career, all hell broke loose once again over the issues of cops and violence and race.
This time it was the outcry over a police officer shooting and killing a black 16-year-old knife-wielding girl in Columbus, Ohio, named Ma’Khia Bryant.
Right smack dab in the middle of all the new controversy were two long-time sparring partners: Lebron James, normally so sure-footed with his public comments, and Trump, still seething from the time LeBron called him “a bum” three years ago.
This time LeBron tweeted out a picture of the Columbus cop, Nicholas Reardon, with the caption “YOU’RE NEXT!” along with the hashtag #Accountability!
Naturally, Trump immediately claimed LeBron was threatening violence against the officer. Of course he was doing no such thing, merely pointing out that Reardon could face the same legal accountability that Chauvin had.
But since Trump had spent years successfully confusing his fan base with tweets that Kaepernick’s take-a- knee movement was all about dis-respecting the flag while ignoring his real message that it was done to protest police brutality, he figured he would try to run another mis-direction play.
The world’s most self-involved but least self-aware man couldn’t resist the chance to take a shot at his long-time nemesis: “LeBron James should focus on basketball rather than presiding over the destruction of the NBA,” Trump, who is banned from Twitter for making false statements and inciting violence, attacked LeBron in a prepared statement sent out to the media. “His racist rants are divisive, nasty, insulting and demeaning. He may be a great basketball player, but he is doing nothing to bring our country together.”
Realizing he had been a bit premature with his warning to the cop, LeBron deleted the tweet because, he said, “it was being used to create more hate.”
He then issued a new tweet: “Anger does none of us any good and that includes myself! Gathering all the facts and educating does though! My sympathy for her family and may justice prevail!”
Trump has tweeted more than 60,000 times since he started on Twitter in 2009. Most of his tweets have been “divisive, nasty, insulting and demeaning” to someone and sometimes to everyone. And they did nothing to bring the country together.
It’s often said that you can judge a man by his friends. But the reverse can be just as true: you can judge a man by his enemies.
By that standard, LeBron is a superstar off the court as well as on it.
And Kaepernick is too.
Lakers facing a Brutal Reality
The Lakers with Anthony Davis back but still without LeBron James are like the Pelicans when AD was their star from 2012 to 2019: a middle of the pack team with playoff possibilities but no chance of being a championship contender.
This reality became painfully obvious once again after AD’s first two games back this week with the Lakers after missing 29 straight games. He scored only 4 points on 2 for 10 shooting in his much-anticipated return, a bad loss to the Dallas Mavericks and their mega-star Luka Doncic. He played slightly better in his second game, a 108-93 Saturday night loss to the very same Mavericks. Still, he hit only 5 of his 19 shots – making him an ugly 7-for-29 in the two games — and was clearly several weeks away from playing his best basketball.
And with only 3 weeks to go until the playoffs start on May 22, we still don’t know exactly when – or even if – LeBron will actually put on the purple and gold uniform again. The team is now 7-11 without him.
That means that without those early season wins piled up when both their stars were active and playing well, the Lakers would already be out of playoff contention. As it is they have fallen to fifth place in the ultra-competitive Western Conference, and are actually in danger of falling to 7th place or even lower if they don’t start winning soon.
That would put them in the precarious position of being part of the play-in system designed for the 7th to 10th place teams to fight it out for the last two playoff spots. A single loss in the play-in tournament could end their season right there without even getting a chance at the real playoffs. Without LeBron, that fate is a distinct possibility.
Bottom line: the Lakers are now a long-shot to make it to the Finals, much less defend their NBA title. Right now, Brooklyn – coached by Manhattan Beach’s own Steve Nash – has to be the heavy favorite to win the whole thing.
If the Lakers had a firm idea when LeBron will be back from the high-ankle sprain he suffered six weeks ago, they would say so. That means his rehab is not far enough along to zero in on a date.
His absence was conspicuous in the Saturday night loss. The raw truth in the NBA is that winning teams all have one common denominator: a dominant star who can get the ball in crunch-time and create a shot for himself or, if he is double-teamed, for an open teammate. Guys like Doncic for the Mavs, Kawhi Leonard for the Clippers, Nikola Jokic for the Nuggets, Donovan Mitchell for the Jazz, Kevin Durant or James Harden or Kyrie Irving for the Nets, and of course LeBron for the Lakers.
In that second loss to the Mavericks, the Lakers opened up a 15 point first-half lead that gradually evaporated. By late in the game, the teams were tied several times and the game came down to each team’s play-maker having to make plays.
For the Mavs, the 6-foot-7, strong-as-an-ox Doncic was magnificent, throwing in a buzzer-beating 3-pointer and finding teammates for open lay-ups several times. For the Lakers, all they had was pint-sized point guard Dennis Schroeder trying to use his jet-fighter quickness to get to the hoop and find an open shot or an open guy. He got his shot swatted several times, and in just the last 3 minutes it went from a close game to a 15-point Lakers loss.
AD, for all his multiple talents as a top-10 NBA player – great rebounder, great defender, great post-up player, good 3-point shooter – is not a shot creator. His most natural role is as LeBron’s wingman, the guy who gets the set-up pass when LeBron is swarmed by defenders and has the skill-set to finish the play.
The brutal reality: Even with AD back, the Lakers are not serious contenders.
Only LeBron can make that happen.
And time is getting short.
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Thursday, April 29, 2021
Five charged in snatching at gunpoint of Lady Gaga's dogs - Reuters
Five people have been arrested on charges stemming from the violent theft of two bulldogs belonging to pop star Lady Gaga and the shooting of a dog walker during the pets' abduction in Hollywood earlier this year, authorities said on Thursday.
Four of the five suspects were known street gang members, while the fifth was the woman who reported she had found the dogs and safely returned them after a reward was offered, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
The two bulldogs, named Koji and Gustav, were dropped off unharmed at an LAPD station on Feb. 26 and turned over to the musician's representatives two days after they were snatched at gunpoint by two strangers in a car. read more
The dog walker who was accosted, 30-year-old Ryan Fischer, was shot in the chest by one of the suspects as they grabbed the two bulldogs, but he survived. A third Gaga-owned bulldog out walking with Fischer at the time escaped and was later found safe by police.
In an interview days afterward, Fischer said he had suffered "a very close call with death."
Gaga, who was filming a movie in Rome when her pets were taken, had issued a public plea on social media for an "act of kindness" to bring them home, and offered a $500,000 reward.
Los Angeles police said on Thursday that detectives "do not believe the suspects were targeting the victim because of the dogs’ owner."
"However, evidence suggests the suspects knew the great value of the breed of dogs and that was the motivation for the robbery," the statement said.
Three people - James Jackson, 18, Jaylin White, 19, and Lafayette Whaley, 27, were charged with one count each of attempted murder, conspiracy to commit robbery and second-degree robbery. Jackson, the accused gunman, also was charged with assault and a weapons offense, according to the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office.
The woman who claimed to have found the dogs, 50-year-old Jennifer McBride, and a fifth defendant, Harold White, 40, were each charged with being accessories after the fact. McBride also was charged with receiving stolen property, while the elder White was additionally charged with illegal possession of a firearm, prosecutors said.
“This was a brazen street crime that left a man seriously wounded,” District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement. “We have alleged very serious charges in this case and have faith that justice will be appropriately served as this case unfolds in court.”
All five defendants pleaded not guilty on Thursday afternoon and were ordered to return to court on May 11.
Jackson was held on $3 million bond, while bail was set at $1 million each for Jaylin White and Whaley, according to Los Angeles City News Service (CNS). McBride's bail was set at $10,000 and she was ordered to submit to electronic monitoring under house arrest. Harold White's bail was set at $35,000, CNS reported.
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Five new COVID-19 deaths reported for Wasilla - Homer News
The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services on Monday reported 12 new deaths of Alaska residents with COVID-19 and one new death for a nonresident with COVID-19. All of the deaths were identified through death certificate review over the past several months.
Five of the deaths were Wasilla residents, one was a Mat-Su resident who died out of state, four were Anchorage residents, and the others were a Fairbanks resident, a Bethel resident, and an Aleutians West Census Area resident. The nonresident case was of a man in his 50s who died in the Aleutians East Borough. Several of the deaths were of people under age 60, including a Wasilla man in his 20s who died out of state, a female Mat-Su resident in her 40s who died out of state, a female Anchorage residenet in her 30s who died out of state and a male Anchorage resident in his 50s.
Statewide, DHSS reported 138 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday for the Monday, April 26 period, eight of which were among nonresidents. On the Kenai Peninsula, Kenai had two new cases and Homer had one. Elsewhere in the state, Fairbanks had 40 cases, North Pole had 20, Wasilla had 24, Anchorage had 19, the Fairbanks North Star Borough had 11, Palmer had five, Ketchikan had two, and there were one each in Big Lake, Chugiak, Delta Junction, Juneau, Nome and Utqiagvik.
The southern peninsula remained in the high alert level this week, according to the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District dashboard. There have been 20 reported resident positive cases of COVID-19 reported in the past 14 days, with seven in Anchor Point, 10 in Homer and three in the other Kenai Peninsula Borough south location.
There have now been a cumulative total of 64,916 COVID-19 cases in the state of Alaska, according to state data. Of those, 2,731 cases have been among nonresidents. A total of 341 Alaska resident deaths have been related to COVID-19, while five nonresidents have died with the disease while in Alaska.
Coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19, is the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
The alert level statewide is high, with 21.62 cases per 100,000 people. That compares with the national average of 16.24 per 100,000. On the peninsula, the alert level also is high, at 19.03 cases per 100,000. The alert level for the central peninsula is 23.71 per 100,000 and for the southern peninsula is 10.21 per 100,000. The Mat-Su has the highest alert level in the state at 40.21 cases per 100,000
As of Tuesday, there were 37 people being hospitalized in Alaska for COVID-19, as well as twp additional persons being hospitalized for a suspected case of the virus. According to the state’s hospital data dashboard, 3.6% of all people hospitalized in the state are being hospitalized for COVID-19. One person is on a ventilator.
There have been a cumulative total of 1,463 Alaska residents hospitalized for COVID-19 over the course of the pandemic.
According to the South Peninsula Hospital’s tally of positive cases through April, on the Kenai Peninsula there have been 4,224 people who have tested positive for COVID-19, with 710 in the hospital service area, 79 in Anchor Point, 19 in Fritz Creek, 493 in Homer and 119 in other small villages or census areas on the southern peninsula.
As of April 27, the hospital has done 21,628 tests, of which 20,956 were negative, 533 were positive and 139 are pending.
Free COVID-19 tests are offered 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. seven days a week at the lower level of the South Peninsula Hospital Specialty Clinic, at 4201 Bartlett Street, Homer. Please use the Danview Avenue access. Please call and pre-register before coming if and when possible.
Testing is also available through the SVT Health & Wellness clinics in Homer, Seldovia and Anchor Point. Call ahead at 907-226-2228.
In Ninilchik, NTC Community Clinic is providing testing on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The testing is only for those traveling, symptomatic, needing testing for medical procedures, or with a known exposure after seven days. Only 20 tests will be offered per day. To make an appointment to be tested at the NTC Community Clinic, call 907-567-3970.
On the central peninsula, testing is available at Capstone Family Clinic, K-Beach Medical, Soldotna Professional Pharmacy, Central Peninsula Urgent Care, Peninsula Community Health Services, Urgent Care of Soldotna, the Kenai Public Health Center and Odyssey Family Practice. Call Kenai Public Health at 907-335-3400 for information on testing criteria for each location.
In Seward, testing is available at Providence Seward, Seward Community Health Center, Glacier Family Medicine and North Star Health Clinic.
Reach Michael Armstrong at marmstrong@homernews.com.
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