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Joel Anthony was traded to the Houston Rockets on Thursday along with a top-eight protected 2016 first-round pick in exchange for Donatas Motiejunas and Marcus Thornton, Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports reports.
Anthony had only made appearances in 13 games for the Pistons this season, as he was slotted into an emergency depth role behind Andre Drummond and Aron Baynes. His opportunities with his new team will be virtually the same while now ranking behind Dwight Howard Clint Capela, Josh Smith, and Terrence Jones on the depth chart. Anthony has little hope of ascending to fantasy relevancy over the remainder of the season.
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After vaporizing records, the superhero movie will easily top the box office for a second consecutive weekend, pulling in $55 million. Thats in line with what Fox, the studio behind the $58 million comic-book adaptation, predicted Deadpool would pull in during its premiere. It ended Presidents Day Weekend with $152.3million in its war chest. That bested the openings of Tiffany comic book brands such as the X-Men and Superman, defying conventional wisdom that blockbusters cant come with an R rating, and resurrecting star Ryan Reynolds career in the process.
By the end of the weekend, Deadpool will cross the $200 million mark domestically.
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Though the mercenary in red tights will remain a juggernaut, some brave new releases will try to shoulder in on the action. Among them, Race, a drama about Jesse Owens, the black Olympian who captured four gold medals in the 1936 Berlin games. His triumph came as Adolf Hitler was in firmly in control of Germany and Nazism was on the rise. Focus Features bought domestic rights to the film for $5 million. It should make $9 million when it debuts in 2,300 locations.
Then theres Risen, a religious drama from Sony Pictures, that follows a Roman soldier tasked with examining rumors of Jesus resurrection. It cost $20 million to produce and unspools across 2,912 theaters. Tracking suggests that the film will bring out the faithful to the tune of $10 million. There are a number of things working in its favor. The opening coincides with Lent and the Christian community is one that Sony has shown an ability to reach in the past, having successfully fielded the likes of Heaven is for Real and War Room.
The biggest question mark is The Witch, a creepy horror flick that A24, the indie label behind Room and Ex Machina, picked up over a year ago at the Sundance Film Festival for just under $1 million. The pre-Salem story of a Puritan family that becomes mysteriously afflicted has been embraced by critics and currently enjoys an 87% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Its also popping on social media platforms and earning the endorsement of novelist Stephen King. That response has some analysts predicting it has breakout potential.
The Witch was originally intended to be a multi-platform release, pairing an on-demand debut with a limited theatrical roll-out. But A24 rethought its strategy based on the reactions it was getting in screenings. It decided instead to push The Witch on to 1,800 theaters, marking the widest release in the companys history. To limit its financial exposure if the bet fails to pay off, A24 has leaned heavily on digital promotions instead of more costly television spots.
Tracking has the film connecting with horror aficionados and racking up more than $10 million. However, the studio insists that given its limited marketing spending, it would be content with an opening in the $3 million to $4 million range. That could happen, of course. There are plenty of films that stir excitement on social media only to collapse away from the comforting confines of Twitter.
But many box office sages believe that The Witch can cast a strong enough spell to convince people to see what all the buzz is about and what kept no less an authority on the macabre than King up at night.
It is 30 years ago, and the 1985-86 season. An earnest young coach has been struggling to get his program to full blossom, but now has seniors hardened by adversity. They went 11-17 as freshman, and 3-11 in their unforgiving league. But they are so much older now, and they are ready.
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This is Duke. And it is dawn of the Mike Krzyzewski empire.
Thirty years later, they remember how it was and what it meant, the Blue Devils of 1986. How they won 37 games, and carried Krzyzewski, in his sixth season, to his first Final Four. How they set the table for the enormous Duke glory to come. And how they fell one half short of a happy ending.
From Johnny Dawkins, then the star and now the coach at Stanford: "I think its special for all of us. Everything has a beginning, and that was the beginning of what Coach has put together. Who could have dreamed what would happen?"
From Jay Bilas, then the starting forward, and now an ESPN analyst: "There were certainly times we talked about laying a foundation, especially when we were first there, and building a winning culture there. But I think we also wanted to win for ourselves, instead of trying to become some sort of founding fathers."
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From Tommy Amaker, then the point guard and now the coach at Harvard: "Maybe you didnt know it as much at the time, but as you moved on, you realized how fortunate you were to be part of it. Sometimes, the floodgates can open after cracking something."
And from the coach who still toils for Duke, as he did then, 30 years and 12 Final Fours and five national championships ago.
"Certainly there wouldnt be a second time unless you had a first time,"Krzyzewski said. "To have a first time going to the Final Four is like a rite of passage for your program, for a coach, for a player.
"The 86 team is really the rock for our program, and I love all those guys."
The record will show the 1986 Duke team finished 37-3, and entered the NCAA Tournament as the No. 1 ranked team the first of seven Krzyzewski teams to do that. It will show four veteran seniors Dawkins, Bilas, Mark Alarie and David Henderson teamed with junior Amaker for the starting lineup, with Danny Ferry and Billy King first off the bench.
It will show they fought off No. 2 Kansas 71-67 at the Final Four in Dallas the last of 11 ranked opponents they beat that season to land in the national championship game, all set for one shining moment. But then ran into Louisville and a most precocious freshman Pervis Ellison and lost 72-69.
It will show they eventually went their separate ways to real life success after their playing days. Dawkins and Amaker to coaching, Henderson to coaching and scouting, Bilas to law and the broadcast booth, Alarie to investment-money management, Ferry and King to NBA front offices.
And it will show the coach they left behind kept stacking great Duke seasons one atop another, until he was a legend.
"Getting to the Final Four and playing the national championship game is a stamp that you can do it," Krzyzewski said. "Look, you can say youre going to do it, but until you do it, you havent done it. So theres a road map that you followed, and it worked. Now the fact that youve done it, can you do it again? In that nine-year period, we went seven of the nine years, so we followed the road map pretty well."
It was a special season from the start. A pre-season NIT championship led to a surge through December and January. The Blue Devils lost back-to-back games to Georgia Tech and North Carolina in January, but those would be the only stumbles. By March, they had given Duke its first sole ACC regular season title in 20 years, and added a conference tournament title, with a one-point win over Georgia Tech.
"I was sure of character when I recruited them," Krzyzewski said. "Theyre all so smart, successful, people-savvy, highly ambitious and team players. They had every ingredient that you would want to build a championship-level team with."
They were also a collection of accomplished young men, knowing where they wanted to go in basketball, and life. Dawkins still remembers postgame tomfoolery, when Bilas the future broadcaster -- would pretend to be interviewing his teammates with a fake microphone. He would do that from time to time, grab a fork or a spoon and say, "Hey, whatd you think about the game?" You kind of knew he might end up going that direction."
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They entered the NCAA Tournament driven by memories of disappointment. They had narrowly lost in the second round in 1984 and 85, by two points to Washington and one to Boston College. "We werent going out like we did the previous two years," Dawkins said. "That was not happening."
Except, they almost did in the first round, against No. 16 seed Mississippi Valley State. Duke was pressured into 23 turnovers, trailed by seven points in the second half, couldnt get the lead until under the 12-minute mark, and escaped 85-78.
Krzyzewski remembers his team being worn down a bit by the ACC grind, and how fearlessly and well the underdog opponents played.
Bilas remembers the red shoes of Mississippi Valley State coach Lafayette Stribling, and how hard it was to chase the Delta Devils spread offense. "It was not a pleasant 40 minutes."
Amaker remembers the second half and how Johnny just took over. He put us on his back. Dawkins scored 16 of his 27 points in the final 12 minutes.
Dawkins remembers what a close call it was, and the lesson from it.
"I still use that example in every one of my coaching years when we get to the tournament. I will never forget the game. It was basically 1 vs. 64."
Bilas has a postscript.
"After the game, some of the Mississippi Valley State players came into our locker room. We were like, "d**n, you guys are good." They asked if they could get our autographs. We said, "You guys were kicking our a*s out there and you want our autograph?"
"We could have been the first No. 1 seed to lose."
It was the quintessential survive-and-advance. "I think that really propelled us from that point on," Dawkins said.
Next came Old Dominion and DePaul. Then Navy with David Robinson, to get to the Final Four. Then second-ranked Kansas, for Dukes 21st win in a row. That left only 31-7 Louisville.
The Blue Devils led 37-34 at halftime, but the Cardinals could not be held back. Ellison scored 25 points, becoming the first freshman in 42 years to be named Most Outstanding Player at the Final Four. The Duke team that shot 52 percent for the season hit only 40.3 percent that night.
Thirty years later, the pain is still there.
Amaker: "It was kind of hard for us to stomach that we didnt capture it all, given the kind of year we had, and the run we were on, and the team we had assembled . . . thats why it still cuts us today."
Dawkins, who scored 24 points and averaged 25.5 for the tournament: I remember an airball shot that Pervis tipped back in late. I remember them defending me differently, switching and keeping different guys on me, which was something I hadnt seen that much that year.
"Ive never rewatched that game. Im still getting over that one. You can tell 30 years later. Theres a good chance I wont ever get over it."
Krzyzewski: When I look back on the 86 team, I wish I was older coaching them. I think I did a good job with them, as good as I thought I could do. But they were a team worthy of winning it all, and where they came from, 11-17 to 37-3, is really one of the great journeys in the history of college basketball.
"The Final Four, I thought our game against Kansas was a war. Kansas was so good and we won a war. In playing Louisville, they were outstanding and coached by one of the great coaches in Denny Crum, and I thought we ran out of gas the last 10 minutes. I think Louisville had a lot to do with that but I also think the semifinal game had something to do with that."
Bilas: We went to something we had gone to most every game that we played that year. We called it 2-3 motion and every time we went into, we never lost. And that was the one time we lost. Some people say we took our foot off the gas too early. Some said we were tired. Nobody ever said we were tired when we won. We got beat, and we got beat by a really good team.
"There was this talk about where that Duke team fit in among the greatest teams to ever play, and if you win that championship game youre not only national champs, we would have won 38 games. Thirty-eight would still be standing (as a record, with 2012 Kentucky). It would have put us sort of in that mythical category among the greatest teams to ever play. When we lost, all that talk went away. The difference between winning and losing might be a bucket, but it seems in other ways its a world away.
So it was frustrating at the end. But look what it started.
Thirty years later, those Blue Devils are still close, still chat with one another, text, remember.
Amaker on Krzyzewski: Knowing what he has been able to accomplish and become such an icon, to be able to say we were a part of the beginning of that for him, that feels really cool. Thats one of the things that helped me do what were trying to do at Harvard. We talked a lot about trying to win our first Ivy League championship five years ago (and four more since), and we mentioned that in some of the stories in recruiting. How wonderful its going to feel to know that you were one of the early ones.
Bilas: To me, the honor is I get to say I played for Coach K. I get to say Johnny Dawkins was my teammate. Mark Alarie was my teammate. Tommy Amaker was my teammate. David Henderson was my teammate. Thats honor enough for anybody.
Dawkins: We were fortunate to be at the beginning. Ill carry that experience with me for the rest of my life. I think it made me a better person.
Said Krzyzewski, That team was as good as any team Ive coached at Duke.
And they will always be his first to get the Final Four. Right?
Id rather, Bilas said, be the first one to have won it.
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"Grease: Live!" star Vanessa Hudgens and model/actor boyfriend Austin Butler are in a bit of hot water after a romantic Valentine"s Day weekend in Sedona, Arizona.
Hudgens, who came to fame starring in Disney"s 2006 hit, "High School Musical," posted anInstagrampicture of the love birds" names carved into the rock surrounded by a heart. (The post has since been removed.)
There"s just one problem: The carving may be located in the Red Rock Ranger District of the Coconino National Forest, and it"s against federal law to damage "any natural feature or other property of the United States," according to a statement issued by Brady Smith, a Coconino National Forest spokesman.
The maximum fine is $5,000 and/or six months in jail.
It"s hard for federal officials to catch people in the act, but posting it toInstagramis what may get Hudgens in trouble.
"On Monday, Feb.15, we became aware -- via media and public reports -- of anInstagramposting by Vanessa Hudgens showing a scratching or carving of a heart with two names in it on a rock that allegedly is on the Red Rock Ranger District of the Coconino National Forest," Smith said in the statement.
Smith declined to comment more on the specific incident until the Forest Service Law Enforcement investigation is completed.
"I can say that the issue of people carving their names and other things in rocks in the Sedona and surrounding area is always a challenge we face, and (we) try to inform people about its destructive nature." he said.
"We have found that when one person carves something, it encourages others to carve," Smith said. "Carving of any kind affects the natural beauty of the area."
Even if the feds don"t punish her, people are already smacking Hudgens around on social media.
"Many Arizonans work really hard to preserve the land and to keep the state a nice one,"Instagrammember_jamie_jeffries_posted onHudgen"sInstagramaccount. "Plus it"s just rude to go to someone"s home and vandalize it. Just disrespectful to those of us who actually value our state."
"What moron would graffiti on Sedona"s red rocks?! I hope Vanessa Hudgens is punished for carving on one of the most spectacular places in AZ," posted Meghan McCain, daughter of Sen. John McCain.
Hudgens"Instagrampost is gone, but Phoenix-basedKSAZ-TVWeb Producer BrentCorradotook a screen grab before it was removed.
Fans can still enjoy other posts from Hudgens" trip to Arizona that are still up.
Vật Vờ| Tìm hiểu về Freedom 251 smartphone giá 80.000đ: mua được không?
Update: The 251 Freedom site has now stopped taking orders due to overwhelming response that has led to the servers to crash. We receive approx 6 lacs hits per second as a result of which due to your kind overwhelming response servers are over loaded, the site claims. It has also said to have taken a pause and will resume in 24 hours.
Those who woke up early this morning (read me) to book the just launched Freedom 251 were treated to the Freedom 251 site that refused to load. Soon, people took to Twitter to vent out their frustration as thesite crashed even before the bookings started.
The site is up and running now and bookings seem to be open. Rs 251means less than a monthly mobile bill and the curiosity has drove everyone to the site. We also tried securing a handset and heres what you need to do. Head to the official Freedom 251 page. Though the phone is priced at Rs 251, one may have to shell out an additional Rs 40 as shipping charges. This means, you are paying Rs 291 overall for the phone.
You will then have to enter your shipping address, mobile number and email ID. Also required to tickthe terms and conditions checkbox before buying the device. Once we hit on buy, it brought us to the same page asking to insert the shipping address and other details. Each time we tried, we were reverted backand couldnt make it to the payments page. As you see in the screenshot above, the page also states four months of delivery time. It is quite possible, it may be doing it to avoid going the Aakash way (cheap tablet from Datawind).
The Freedom 251 is supposedly the Adcom Ikon 4, which is priced way higher. In fact, a new report statesmobile industry body ICA has written to Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad to get into depth of the issue asking the rate could not be below Rs 3,500 even after a subsidised sale.
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The Indian Cellular Association (ICA) had also said thatit is not appropriate for the senior political and government leadership to be present at the launch till the air around this is cleared and it is not shrouded under controversies. And there are other problems related to the manufacturer of the smartphone denying that it is not aware ofthem as well.
Moreover, Ringing Bells is anunknown Indian company founded in 2015. If some reports are to be believed than the site itself was created this month. It has become popular overnight due to the ridiculous pricing of Rs 251. In terms of specs, the device comes with a 4-inch qHD IPS display, 3.2MP AF rear camera, 0.3MP front camera and1.3GHz quad-core processor. Read more about its specs here.
SIA is hard to miss with her elaborate hairpieces which she wears to every red carpet event she attends.
The Australian singer has opted to remain anonymous for the latter part of her career, donning headwear that covers her entire face whenever there is a camera in sight.
Sia in her disguise [Getty]
The star, who has worked with stars like Diplo and The Weeknd, took part in James Corden"s Carpool Karaoke this week - but STILL kept her face hidden.
But despite appearances, Sia doesn"t wear a wig ALL the time.
The 40-year-old songstress has been snapped without her disguise at some very special events, and she actually looks like this:
This is what Sia really looks like [Getty]
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Sia told chat show host Ellen Degeneres that she keeps her identity hidden most of the time to protect her privacy.
"Its just so that I can go to Target and buy a hose if I want to," she said.
Sia with a smaller wig [Getty]
"Or if I find Im in need of a restroom and I can"t find one I can go in the side of the road and no one would be following me with a camera trying to get a shot."
The star did, however, perform on the show without her disguise.
In an interview with ABC, Sia said: "I don"t want to be famous or recognisable.
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"I don"t want to be critiqued about the way that I looked.
"I"ve been writing pop songs for popstars for years and I"ve become friends with them and I"ve seen what it"s like and it"s not something I want."
