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He won a title with the Warriors this past season, but he only played an average of 9.5 minutes a game, averaging 4.8 points and 2.6 rebounds.
Walton gets to figure out how to meld these new players with returning players Ingram, Kuzma, Ball, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (who resigned with the Lakers) and Josh Hart, as well as first-round draft choice Moe Wagner.
Right now, the Lakers look like a team that will fight to get into the playoffs. If the young players mature, the Lakers should play in the postseason for the first time since 2013.
How far they go remains to be seen.
The Warriors, who signed center DeMarcus Cousins July 2, just got better and the Houston Rockets and Oklahoma City Thunder also will be among the top teams in the West.
The San Antonio Spurs have to decide what to do with Kawhi Leonard before we can rank them anywhere and New Orleans will be improved with the addition of Randle.
The Lakers probably will be in the second tier of Western Conference playoff teams, waiting for another superstar to join James next summer.
If nothing else, the balance of power has been restored in Los Angeles. The Lakers figure to be in the playoffs. And the Clippers probably will be on the outside looking in.
FAREWELL, DeANDRE: There was no one left to try to talk DeAndre Jordan into staying with the Clippers this time.
Three years ago, coach Doc Rivers and teammates Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and J.J. Reddick flew to Houston to talk Jordan out of signing with the Dallas Mavericks.
This year, only Rivers was left and he didn’t bother to talk Jordan out of signing a one-year contract with the Mavericks that will pay Jordan about $24 million next year.
That’s a lot of money to pay someone who has as little offensive skills as Jordan has. Jordan has always been a good rebounder and defender, but at 29 and with 10 years in the league, those skills are starting to go.
The Clippers are going to have to rally around sixth man Lou Williams and forward Tobias Harris and a roster that isn’t likely to make Doc Rivers stick around as coach, especially now that his son is no longer on the team. It looks like the Clippers are back in rebuilding mode.
WORLD CUP FEVER: Have you caught the fever yet? More and more people are waking up early to follow soccer from Russia as the World Cup moves into the quarter-final round. Imagine how many would be watching if the U.S. team had qualified.
The popularity of soccer continues to grow as people who played it as youngsters grow up and have kids of their own who are playing the sport. Also, Fox does a marvelous job of overhyping the games so much that you want to watch.
Then there are the sports bars that are opening early with drinks and food specials designed to bring in the crowds.
At my favorite neighborhood sports bar, you would have thought the NFL was back July 1, except the place was packed at 8 a.m., not 10 a.m.
You can mark my words, when the World Cup comes to North America in 2026 — the U.S., Canada and Mexico will be the hosts — soccer will have surpassed hockey in popularity among team sports in this country.
Dodger left fielder Matt Kemp is reminding fans of 2011 when he almost won the National League’s Most Valuable Player Award. Kemp is hitting .323 with 15 home runs and 55 runs batted in and should start for the National league in the All Star Game July 16.
IT’S 2011 AGAIN: In 2011, Matt Kemp was one of the best, if not the best, players in baseball.
He hit .324 with 39 home runs, 126 runs batted in and scored 115 runs.
Somehow, the baseball writers voted Ryan Braun the National League most valuable player, which made the writers look bad when Braun tested for positive for steroids in the offseason.
Kemp spent much of the next two seasons injured and when his numbers dropped to .287, 25 homers and 89 RBI in 2014, the Dodgers shipped him to San Diego for Yasmani Grandal the next offseason.
Last year, Kemp bounced to Atlanta, where he hit .276 with 19 homers and 64 RBI. So it was a surprise this past offseason when the Dodgers reacquired him in a trade that saw the Braves get aging first baseman Adrian Gonzalez and pitchers Brandon McCarthy and Scott Kazmir.
The Dodgers front office admitted the trade was a salary dump and said that Kemp probably wouldn’t be on the roster when the season opened in April.
Kemp surprised everyone by dropping at least 40 pounds on the offseason and reported to spring training looking like he looked in 2011. The Dodgers couldn’t trade him and Kemp opened the season in left field.
Now, he figures to start in left field in the All Star Game July 16.
In the first two games of July he went 8-for-9 with 8 RBI and is now hitting .323 with 15 homers and 55 RBI at the season’s halfway point.
Those are MVP-type numbers and Kemp is playing like the kid with unlimited potential he showed when he arrived on the scene in 2006. And the Dodgers are only a game and a half out of first.
It bodes well for the second half of the season.
Muayad Ahmed Muayad Ahmed is an Iraqi revolutionary socialist, and former secretary of the Worker-communist Party of Iraq. He and other activists recently parted ways from the WCPI. On a visit to London, Muayad spoke to Solidarity about what they are doing.
We have formed a new organisation, called the Organisation of the Communist Alternative in Iraq, OCAI. In July we issued a founding statement, in which our main programmatic aims and tasks are formulated in 34 clauses. The document will be available in English shortly.
The protests were triggered by the Iranian government cutting off electricity supplies to the major southern Iraqi port city, Basra, most of which come by grid from Iran rather than being generated locally. They then took up the issues of jobs - unemployment is very high in Iraq - and corruption.
A lull in conflict in the Middle East looks likely. But it may be short-lived, or not happen at all. None of the underlying drivers of tension have eased.
On the Gaza-Israel border, Israeli snipers killed 64 people on 14 May. That brings the total killed by snipers over weeks of protests, from which groups mostly of young men sally forth to throw stones and improvised firebombs, to over 110. Thousands have been injured.
Rescuers looking for survivors from the mudslide in the Philippines have been digging closer to a buried elementary school, although officials have said that no signs of life have been detected.
The school has become the focus of a hunt for about 1400 people thought to have been entombed by Friday's massive landslide.
On Tuesday nearly 1000 rescuers from at least five countries were battling muddy terrain made even more treacherous by heavy overnight rain.
The bad weather has set back efforts to unearth homes and other buildings in what was once the vibrant farming village of Guinsaugon.
our main obstacle now is the terrain. It changed overnight."
Four days after an entire mountainside crashed onto the village in Leyte Island, hopes of finding any survivors were almost gone.
Malaysian experts using listening probes said they had heard vibrations, but were unsure if it was an indication of life.
Cheng-Tsung Lu, leader of a specialist Taiwanese team, said: "We have not detected any sign of life so far."
Cheng said the school, which is feared to contain the bodies of 240 pupils and staff, was just under three metres of soil and rubble and not 20 to 30 metres as was first thought.
The force of the landslide, triggered by two weeks of abnormally heavy rain, had torn the school from its foundations and pushed it to a new location.
With aid and specialist equipment and trucks pouring in from around the world, the biggest obstacle was the weather.
Despite heavy rain the search continued overnight on Monday after emergency lighting was installed.
But the rain reshaped the sea of mud that now covers the village to an extent of 9sq km.
Malaysian, American and Filipino rescuers used a big log to bridge a creek that had sprung up overnight.
Rescuers temporarily suspended operations around midnight for safety reasons after minor earth slippages.
The civil defence office in Manila put the latest confirmed toll at 84.
Nearly 400 people who were out of the village when the disaster struck survived, leaving an estimated 1400 buried. Only about 20 were pulled alive from the slide.
Rudy Duhiling, 28,a coconut harvester, was collecting copra on the mountainside.
"I thought I was dead. I was just 100 metres away when the earth began moving. In seconds, the rolling rubble had hit my home. The coconut trees rushed down the mountainside," he said.
"I yelled to the other copra harvesters and they ran out. I told them the earth had slid and that we must go. Our homes have been destroyed. They said, 'Impossible'," Duhiling recalled.
"We descended and found a desert."
While his wife and child survived, he lost his mother and 20 other relatives.
Aid has poured in from all over the world.
The US military has committed about 2500 to 3000 troops to the rescue and relief operation to join Philippine military and civilian rescuers and Malaysians and Taiwanese.
A Spanish canine unit was the latest to arrive at the scene.
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Carlos Ghosn has accused “backstabbing” Nissan executives of a “conspiracy” to have him arrested over fears he planned to merge the Japanese firm with France’s Renault, in a video released Tuesday.
The footage, recorded shortly before Ghosn was re-arrested by prosecutors in Tokyo last week, did not however point the finger at specific individuals, with the tycoon’s lawyer saying it had been edited to remove names.
In addition to heading Nissan, Ghosn also oversaw the alliance that groups the automaker with Renault and Japan’s Mitsubishi Motors. He has previously suggested that concerns at Nissan about closer integration led to his arrest.
But while Ghosn’s wife Carole had said the auto tycoon would name “the people responsible” in the video, his lead lawyer Junichiro Hironaka told journalists that the defence team had opted to edit specific allegations out of the recording.
“There are various legal risks if we mention actual names in the video,” Hironaka said, adding that Ghosn had agreed to the edits.
Ghosn was re-arrested last week while out on bail after prosecutors announced they were investigating his transfers of Nissan funds totalling $15-million between late 2015 and the middle of 2018 to a dealership in Oman.
Ghosn spent 108 days in a detention centre in northern Tokyo before being dramatically released on bail of around $9-million on March 6, emerging from incarceration dressed in a workman’s uniform and face mask in an apparent bid to avoid the media.
Actor Sean Astin - a.k.a. Samwise Gamgee in "The Lord of the Rings" - trekked across much of Middle-earth wearing hairy prosthetic feet. It's easy to be motivated with a legion of orcs on your tail. But on the streets of Los Angeles on regular old Earth, Astin must find the drive to run from within. On March 18, Astin ran the L.A. Marathon for the third time - but as he explained in a recent interview, he doesn't always find it easy to push himself to lace up those shoes.
Hey you guys, don't sign up for a 'Goonies' sequel!
Every few years rumors percolate of an imminent sequel to the 1985 film classic "The Goonies. " Director Richard Donner reignited the buzz last week, telling TMZ that the project is in the works, echoing star Sean Astin's 2012 claim that a second movie is "1,000% certain. " Warner Bros., for its part, won't confirm or deny that a "Goonies 2" is in the works. If there is, that is a 1,000% terrible idea, and any plans for a "Goonies" sequel should be buried in a cave and surrounded by booby traps. If you grew up in the VHS era, chances are you have strong feelings about this movie.
The actor plays the hobbit Sam in "The Lord of the Rings." Flashback Friday: On a recent Friday we went to the Silent Movie Theater on Fairfax to see, on the recommendation of my father [actor John Astin], a film by Harold Lloyd that he loved when he was a kid. In L.A., one of my favorite things to do is spend time with my dad. We might go to Guido's restaurant on Santa Monica Boulevard, right by Bundy.
It's a measure of the sort of man he is that when colleagues talk about Sean Astin, it's not the work that's first in their minds. "The Lord of the Rings" star is an actor, the son of other actors, a real showbiz brat. But brat is precisely what Astin is not. "If you broke down on the road in the middle of the night and phoned him up, he'd be there in an instant to help," says Richard Taylor, the makeup and special-effects wizard who got to know Astin as they made "The Lord of the Rings."
The creative and marketing team behind the horse-racing mockumentary "And They're Off... " may have shot themselves in the, er, hoof by keeping this diamond in the rough away from reviewers. Turns out, the movie (filmed locally at Hollywood Park and Pomona's Fairplex Park) is a consistently amusing, sometimes hilarious spoof in the Christopher Guest mold; a warmly cockeyed look at a clumsy, yet hope-springs-eternal horse trainer, Dusty Sanders (Sean Astin), who's on a rocky ("Rocky?"
Sweet-natured and unsurprising--about as hard to resist (and as intellectually demanding) as an affectionate puppy--this 1993 tale of a guy who never gave up on his dream of suiting up as a football player for Notre Dame benefits from a charming and engaging performance by Sean Astin (pictured) in the lead role. Otherwise, it's "Never Say Die"/" Gotta Be Me" all over again (HBO Sunday at 5:15 p.m.; Friday at 7 a.m. and 5 p.m.).
ELIJAH WOOD, who is given the job of saving the world (or Middle-earth at least) in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, began his career modeling little boys' clothing in a mall. He was just 7 when his mother moved him from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Los Angeles in 1988, and his screen debut came almost immediately, with a small part in the second episode of "Back to the Future." Enough decent roles kept coming his way that he did not have time to do a single stage play or complete high school.
Filmmaker Marc Rocco understands how difficult it is to capture the immediacy of street kids' lives in a dramatized format. His 1992 film works best when it's at its loosest and most improvisatory. Whenever the seams in the script show, it loses its grit and takes on the aspects of a made-for-TV drama about runaways who end up on the streets of Hollywood.
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) Ty Outlaw caught a pass from driving teammate Wabissa Bede, set himself and fired away with a tiebreaking 3-pointer.
The way No. 20 Virginia Tech executed Tuesday, even Zion Williamson might not have made a difference.
Outlaw hit his big shot with 1:28 left and the Hokies beat No. 3 Duke 77-72 on a night when Williamson, the Blue Devils' star freshman, watched in street clothes for the second straight game because of a sprained right knee.
Bede pulled three defenders toward him as he powered toward the basket, leaving Outlaw completely uncovered.
Outlaw said most of the credit went to Bede, who has been pressed into extensive point guard duty because the Hokies' floor leader, Justin Robinson, missed his eighth straight game with a left foot injury.
Kerry Blackshear Jr. had 23 points and 10 rebounds, and Ahmed Hill scored 17 points for Virginia Tech (22-6, 11-5 Atlantic Coast Conference), which beat Duke at Cassell Coliseum for the third straight time. The Blue Devils (24-4, 12-3) had been the only team in the country yet to lose on the road this season, but Duke hasn't won at Virginia Tech since Feb. 25, 2015.
RJ Barrett scored 17 of his 21 points in the second half, but it wasn't enough to keep the Blue Devils from dropping out of a first-place tie with No. 2 Virginia and No. 5 North Carolina in the ACC. Cam Reddish added 17 points as Duke dropped its second in three games, including an 88-72 loss to UNC when Williamson was injured in the opening minute on Feb. 20.
''Today they got the better of us,'' Barrett said.
The Hokies seemed to have taken control with a 9-2 run to open a 68-61 lead with 4:32 to play, but two free throws by Barrett sparked a 9-2 run for the Blue Devils to knot it at 70 with 1:51 to play. Outlaw's 3 from the right wing followed, and after Reddish missed at the other end, Nickeil Alexander-Walker was fouled and made both free throws for the Hokies. Alexander-Walker had 13 points and six assists.
Tre Jones scored with 12 seconds left, but Blackshear made a pair of free throws with 11.4 seconds left to clinch it.
Hokies coach Buzz Williams has said many times he's not popular enough with his peers to win a conference coach of the year award, and he said that he's fine with that. But Krzyzewski was effusive in his postgame praise for his counterpart.
Williams is 3-3 in matchups against the Blue Devils.
Duke: Barrett came into the game averaging 28.7 points in his last three games. But he didn't make a field goal until his seventh attempt in the final seconds of the first half. He had four points at halftime, but made a driving shot 16 seconds into the second half and took over for the Blue Devils. Meanwhile, Jack White's string of consecutively missed 3-point shots climbed to 28 with a 0-for-3 effort.
Virginia Tech: The Hokies played their eighth game without floor leader and point guard Justin Robinson and had only 12 assists on 23 made field goals. But none was bigger than Bede's find of Outlaw, one of the most dangerous 3-point shooters in the country. Outlaw is 36 for 86 from behind the arc in ACC play (41.8 percent).
Duke: The Blue Devils host Miami on Saturday afternoon.
Virginia Tech: The Hokies play at No. 18 Florida State on Tuesday night.
For all the hype that surrounded No. 17 Washington before the year began and the disappointment of being out of the College Football Playoff conversation by midseason, the Huskies still have a legitimate shot at a more than acceptable consolation prize.
SEATTLE (AP) — For all the hype that surrounded No. 17 Washington before the year began and the disappointment of being out of the College Football Playoff conversation by midseason, the Huskies still have a legitimate shot at a more than acceptable consolation prize.
The Rose Bowl still carries significant meaning in these parts. And with two more victories — beginning Saturday against Oregon State — the Huskies would find themselves in the Pac-12 title game playing for a chance to go to Pasadena as the conference champion.
That sounds straightforward but navigating the next few weeks won't be easy. Facing the Beavers would seem the easiest of Washington's three tasks. That's followed by a showdown against No. 8 Washington State in the Apple Cup on Nov. 23 to likely decide the Pac-12 North title. And if the Huskies win both, they'd still have to get past the Pac-12 South champ in the conference title game on Nov. 30.
While the quest for a division title will take priority, Saturday is also a chance for Washington (7-3, 5-2 Pac-12) to say farewell to two of its most successful seniors in their final home game: quarterback Jake Browning and running back Myles Gaskin.
Browning is the school's all-time leader in yards passing, touchdowns, pass efficiency, and has won 36 of the 49 games he's started despite facing criticism from fans who have expected more. Gaskin appears recovered from a shoulder injury that kept him out of games earlier in the season and needs 271 yards the rest of the way to become the ninth player in FBS history to have four 1,000-yard seasons in their career, according to the school.