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2016 NBA FREE AGENCY LOS ANGELES LAKERS SIGN TIMOFEY MOZGOV TO 4 YEAR CONTRACT... WTF JIM BUSS
Associated Press 11:19 a.m. EDT July 1, 2016
Timofey Mozgov, DeMar DeRozan and Hassan Whitside are some of the early NBA free agency signings. Time_Sports
Cleveland Cavaliers center Timofey Mozgov acknowledges the crowd during a rally June 22, 2016, in Cleveland.(Photo: Tony Dejak, Associated Press)
We"ll keep updating this story as players across the NBA sign this month.
Jeremy Lin is heading back to New York.
Lin tweeted that he was signing with the Brooklyn Nets. Terms were not immediately disclosed, and Lin cannot sign with Brooklyn until at least July 7 because of the NBAs off-season moratorium.
Lins breakout in the NBA came in New York with the Knicks during the 2011-12 season. The craze was dubbed Linsanity, when the then-little-known second-year guard from Harvard scored at least 20 points nine times in a 10-game span and blossomed into one of the leagues biggest stories at that time.
Lin started with Golden State, then played for the Knicks and has spent the past four seasons with Houston, the Los Angeles Lakers and most recently Charlotte. He averaged 11.7 points per game last season.
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Lakers land Mozgov, keep Clarkson
A person familiar with the negotiations tells the Associated Press that center Timofey Mozgov has agreed to a four-year, $64-million contract with the Los Angeles Lakers.
The Lakers moved swiftly in the opening minutes of the NBAs free agent signing period to use a big portion of their roughly $55 million in cap room on the 7-foot-1 Mozgov, a six-year NBA veteran.He won a ring with the Cleveland Cavaliers last monthbut barely played in the postseason, averaging 5.8 minutes in 13 playoff appearances. He started 48 games for the Cavs during the regular season, averaging 6.3 points and 4.4 rebounds while making 56.5%of his shots.
Meanwhile, guard Jordan Clarkson has agreed to a four-year, $50-million deal to return to the Lakers.
Clarkson is a rising star after two seasons with the Lakers, who acquired the 46th overall pick from Washington on draft night in 2014. The Missouri product has been a steady scorer and a rare bright spot on the two worst teams in Lakers history.
After averaging 11.9 points per game and making the NBAs all-Rrokie team in the 2014-15 season, he boosted his production to 15.5 points last season, second-most on the team behind Kobe Bryant.
Hassan Whiteside staying with Heat
A person familiar with the terms of the agreement tells the Associated Press that Hassan Whiteside will be signing a four-year contract worth the maximum amount the Miami Heat could offer, roughly $98 million.
Whiteside made his announcement on Snapchat and through a post on The Players Tribune, a few hours after he met with the Heat and the Dallas Mavericks in New York to hear their sales pitches. He went into those meetings leaning toward the Heatand apparently emerged even more convinced that staying with the franchise that helped him resuscitate his career was the best move.
It is life-changing money after a breakout season. Whiteside will be signing a contract worth roughly 100 times more than what he made this past season, when he averaged 14.2 points, 11.8 rebounds and a league-best 3.7 blocked shots per game. His career path is well-known, taking him to less-than-glamorous leagues in Lebanon and China, stints in the NBA Development League and even getting cut from teams at that level.
The Heat signed him in November 2014, and less than two years later, Whiteside has become one of the games most dominant centers and one of the highest-paid players in Miami franchise history.
Magic agrees to terms with PG D.J. Augustin
A person with knowledge of the situation tells the Associated Press that the Orlando Magic have agreed on a contract with former Detroit Pistons point guard D.J. Augustin.
Terms of the deal were not immediately available.
Adding Augustin gives new Magic coach Frank Vogel an experienced guard to play behind young starter Elfrid Payton.The 28-year-old Augustin played 62 games with Oklahoma City and Denver last season. He averaged 7.5 points and 3.2 assists in 19. minutes per game.
Hornets agree to terms with Batum on 5/$120M deal
A person with knowledge of the situation tells the Associated Press that the Charlotte Hornets have agreed to terms on a five-year, $120-million deal to keep Nicolas Batum.
Batum made no secret of wanting to stay in Charlotte and play for coach Steve Clifford, who helped revive his career after Batum was acquired in a trade with Portland.
Batum averaged 14.9 points, 6.1 rebounds and 5.8 assists for the Hornets last season and resumed his role as one of the top two-way small forwards in the game.
DeMar DeRozan staying with Raptors
A person with knowledge of the negotiations says All-Star shooting guard DeMar DeRozan is staying in Toronto after agreeing to the parameters of a deal.
DeRozan and the Raptors still were in the process of completing terms, though the sides agreed that he would be staying put.
DeRozan has spent all of his seven NBA seasons with the Raptors. He averaged a career-best 23.5 points this past season, when he helped Toronto reach the Eastern Conference finals.
[Ultra HD 4K] THE LEGEND OF TARZAN Official Movie TRAILERS Compilation (2016)
Yes, he does the yell. It comes late in the third act, emerging from off screen, thrown like a desperate, aural Hail Mary, a last ditch reminder that maybe this story about a man with ape-like superhero powers should be a tiny bit fun. But its too little, too late. The Legend of Tarzan ends up being a garbled, clunky production that tries to please everyone and ends up pleasing no one.
Director David Yates, who inherited the beloved Harry Potter characters and brought that series home in its final four entries, makes the wise decision to assume everyone knows who John Clayton, Lord of Greystoke, is. The specifics of how he became Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, slips into the narrative in some well placed flashbacks, but this is not an origin story. For that alone we lift our short glasses of dry sack and say chin-chin, as if we were Jim Broadbent in a ridiculous-looking beard (which he wears in his short, bookending scenes, toasting a bounteous expedition and cursing King Leopold II of Belgium).
The story commences after Clayton/Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgrd) is already a legend: raised by apes, beloved by local villagers, able to swing from vines and totes chill with every badass beast on the savanna. Now, hes living in Greystoke manor with his fiery American wife, Jane (Margot Robbie), and serving as a member of the House of Lords.
Undeniably cool Djimon Hounsou as Chief Mbonga in The Legend of Tarzan. Photograph: Jonathan Olley/AP
However, powerful forces want to send him back. Broadbent and other captains of industry are troubled by the way King Leopold has cut off access to the Belgian Congo, causing economic unrest. Maybe our boy Clayton can find out whats going on and stabilise things? (Yes, theres an old British men v Brussels theme in this film, so fire up your Brexit analogy engines.)
Before we get a chance to suggest that British colonial history isnt all roses, in walks the films get-out-of-jail-free card: Samuel L Jacksons George Washington Williams. Based on an actual American civil war soldier, author and statesman who visited the Belgian Congo in 1889, Williams pulls the reluctant Clayton aside. Forget the business interests, he says: he believes King Leopold is building his empire on brutal slave labour. Its a moral obligation that they take this voyage (with Williams standing in for the audience as we travel with Tarzan).
They go, and, of course, they are correct. There are images in this film of dazed Africans chained at the neck, being carted around in train compartments. It comes couched between a jaunty action sequence of vine-swinging and a WWE-style smackdown of dazed baddies from a shirtless wall of muscle, complete with a bonk! sound effect in the spirit of the Three Stooges. This 10-minute stretch should be shown in film schools as part of a masterclass on how to blend styles in the least effective and most inappropriate manner possible.
Christoph Waltz, doing his usual kooky bad guy schtick. Photograph: Jonathan Olley/AP
Tone-deafness aside, the film has plenty of troubles. For starters, it doesnt look good. Most of the scenes with computer-generated animals (lions, elephants and especially gorillas) are in the rain or dark or some sort of mist. Instead of inspiring awe, it led me to take off my glasses and check they werent smudged. I dont know if the recent Jungle Books computer whizzes had greater processing power, more time to render their shots or simply more dough, but the difference between the two films is extraordinary.
Theres also the tedium of its rote story. Christoph Waltz, doing his usual kooky bad guy schtick, is King Leopolds emissary, and he has worked out a complicated plot that involves getting a bunch of diamonds if he hands over Tarzan to Chief Mbonga (Djimon Hounsou), a fearsome warrior who wears the head of a leopard as a cowl and claws over his fists. (Although he has few lines, Hounsou is undeniably cool in a superhero-film kind of way.) Mbonga holds a grudge against Tarzan, which we learn about in flashbacks. We also see glimpses of Tarzans early years as an orphan raised by apes, and his time as a feral man-beast.
Kudos to Skarsgrd for not pussyfooting around. He doesnt quite bang on his chest, but he aspirates in a simian fashion; while its impossible not to laugh, he basically sells it. Robbies Jane (the daughter of an American teacher who tames the wild man before they fall in love) is bright and sunny and, like Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, loath to be considered a damsel in distress.
There is, however, the uncomfortable optic of this glorious white couple being cheered and paraded around by their happy, loving black pals. There are at least half a dozen images begging to be used as internet memes. Admittedly, this is no way to watch a film, but image-making is what it is, and The Legend of Tarzan is going to make a lot of people feel uncomfortable. Moreover, few will come to its aid, because its so dull and silly. When Tarzan leads a phalanx of computer-generated wildebeests like TE Lawrence into Aqaba, the audience is not supposed to laugh.
This film was always going to be inherently problematic. If the studio spoke to any 13-year-olds, they would discover that theres hardly an itch for a Tarzan film, even if its that most shimmering jewel: a dormant intellectual property everyone has heard of. The producers have bent over backwards to mitigate unease as much as possible, and not only by keeping Samuel L Jackson in every other scene so we can say: Well, if he thinks this isnt racist, it must not be.
Theres an anti-greed message and a green message and a feminist message, but there are also the asinine Hollywood story beats that must be hit. A zillion tribesmen must cheer when King Leopolds stooge is defeated, because Belgium never troubled the Congo again, right?
The best way to do a Tarzan film in 2016? Find a new story to tell instead.
Afterrumors swirled yesterday thatIggy Azalea hadbroken up with fiance Nick Young because he and his ex were pregnant, the rapper is now speaking out.
Reports that the couple had called it quits popped up last week, along with rumors that she had hisantique car towed and his stuff thrown out of the house. Early Thursday morning, Azalea explained why she and Young had split:
Whoa! That"s a lot of details! Now, I"m just waiting on TMZ to get that footage...
Now, if you aren"t totally bummed out, watch this fun video of Iggy talking about her music with Fuse:
Tequila Shots with Sarah Paulson and Marcia Clark by Dan Avery 14h ago
For its latest issue, W magazine got into bed with some of the small screens sexiest stars, who posed in their underwear (or less) for photographer Mona Kuhn.
When did TV stars get so hot? (Probably around the time of HDTV.)
We dont watch Ray Donovan, but looking at Liev Schreiber here, were about to start.
Tom Hiddleston showed off his fine form in The Night Manager, but we like photographer Mona Kuhns work here better.
And Sarah Paulson showed us why Holland Taylor is one lucky lady. (Very lucky indeed.)
Other celebs appearing in the issue include Juno Temple, Hugh Dancy, Thandie Newton, Krysten Ritter and Anthony Mackie.
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Scotty Moore, Elvis Presleys first lead guitarist who defined early rock & rockabilly, passed away on Tuesday. Nick Digilio visits with the great Steve King and Johnnie Putman about the influence of this founding father of rock & roll.
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JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. (AP) Joint Base Andrews tweets that the base is on lockdown due to a report of an active shooter.
The tweet sent Thursday morning instructs all personnel at the base in Washingtons Maryland suburbs to shelter in place and says more information will be released as it comes.
A second tweet from the base says the incident is ongoing at the Malcolm Grow Medical Facility and first responders are on the scene. It instructs everyone to continue to shelter in place, a precaution meant to keep people safe while remaining indoors.
