Jumat, 31 Januari 2020
Shaquille O'Neal Will Do 'Whatever' Kobe Bryant's Kids Need (Exclusive) - Entertainment Tonight
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2020-02-01 04:39:21Z
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Patrick Mahomes: Kliff Kingsbury, Andy Reid encouraged my no-look passes - NBCSports.com
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When Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes throws a no-look pass, it looks like improvisation. But it’s something he’s practiced, and something that both his NFL head coach and his college head coach have encouraged him to try.
Mahomes said that he started throwing no-look passes at Texas Tech, when he was coached by Kliff Kingsbury, now head coach of the Cardinals. He then kept working on them as a rookie, as Andy Reid encouraged him to throw no-look passes to keep the Chiefs’ defense off-balance when Mahomes was the scout team quarterback.
“It’s stuff that I’ve worked on – that’s the biggest thing. I did no-look stuff when I was in college with Coach Kingsbury, and he would encourage us to do stuff like that. Then, when I got to the NFL with Coach Reid, I started doing it on scout team and he let me do it,” Mahomes said. “He let me go out there, do some of that stuff and just tinker with things. He always says that training camp is the time to throw interceptions and the time to try stuff that you might not try in a game, so he lets us go out there and be who we are and it’s allowed me to have confidence to do those things in games.”
Mahomes is a uniquely talented quarterback, but that doesn’t mean his success was preordained. Some coaches would have tried to force Mahomes into playing a style of football that doesn’t fit his skill set. Mahomes has been fortunate to work for two coaches, Kingsbury and Reid, who encourage quarterbacks to get creative.
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2020-01-31 15:12:00Z
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Super Bowl 2020 prediction: 'Madden' simulation says 49ers shut down Patrick Mahomes, dominate Super Bowl LIV - CBS Sports
Super Bowl LIV is just a couple days away, and it seems the expectation of the public is that the Kansas City Chiefs will beat the San Francisco 49ers behind their MVP quarterback, Patrick Mahomes. But before you lock in your pick for the game, ask yourself this: Throughout the history of this game, doesn't it always feel like every Super Bowl zigs when you think it's going to zag? Take last year for example: You had the No. 1 scoring offense in the regular season in the Los Angeles Rams muster just three points against the New England Patriots. Bananas!
With that in mind, when I sparked up the ole' XBox One and set up our latest CBS Sports Madden Super Bowl simulation, I was expecting some shenanigans to go on, but not what ultimately transpired. In the real world, Patrick Mahomes is currently in the midst of one of the great statistical playoff runs of all-time. That gets put to a halt, however, in this Madden universe as the San Francisco 49ers pick him off not once, not twice, but three (!) times en route to a 20-7 victory in Super Bowl LIV.
Jimmy Garoppolo was sharp throughout the contest and completed his first six passes of the night. He finished connecting on 14 of his 21 throws for 149 yards and one touchdown. By looking at Mahomes' stats, you'd think that the two quarterbacks had a pretty similar outings, but most of his passing marks were in garbage time. His three picks were the real story and ultimate demise of the Chiefs.
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At the start, it looked like Kanas City was going to to do Kansas City things -- put points up in bunches. However, with just under two minutes left in the first quarter and the game still scoreless, Mahomes dropped back to pass from the San Francisco 19 yard line and was picked off in the end zone by safety Jaquiski Tartt. Mahomes was targeting tight end Travis Kelce in the back of the end zone, but simply didn't put enough on his pass and Tartt jumped out in front of it.
It was after that turnover when the 49ers were able to march down the field and fourth string running back Jeff Wilson Jr., of all people, was able to score Super Bowl LIV's first touchdown off a toss from the 3 yard line. While Wilson Jr. was surprisingly the back who hit pay dirt, it was Tevin Coleman who was the star offensive weapon for San Francisco, finishing with 143 yards from scrimmage.
Kansas City, meanwhile, continued to have trouble protecting Mahomes and was shut out heading into the locker room for halftime.
The second half only had more heartbreak for Kansas City as the Madden Gods took away what looked to be a fumble recovery by safety Tyrann Mathieu. Niners receiver Kendrick Bourne hauled in a deep shot from Garoppolo around the Chiefs 20 yard line and as he turned up field, defenders swarmed him, the ball appeared to pop out, and Mathieu recovered it. Upon review, however, officials determined that Bourne's knee was down prior to the fumble. Niners ball.
Just three plays later, Garoppolo delivered a dart to rookie Deebo Samuel to put San Francisco up 14-0 with less than a minute remaining in the third quarter.
On the ensuing Chiefs possession, Mahomes threw his second interception of the evening, but it was hardly his fault. The virtual Sammy Watkins had one of those plays that would make you either snap your controller in half, throw it at your television or shut the game off entirely. He had the ball go right through his hands and it fell into the breadbasket of middle linebacker Fred Warner, who would later be named Super Bowl MVP.
Kansas City did show a brief glimpse of brilliance as Mahomes went on a surgical fourth quarter drive where he completed all six of his passes for 75 yards, including a 12 yard touchdown pass to running back Damien Williams. That cut the 49ers lead to 10, but a late field goal by Robbie Gould really put a comeback out of reach. With just three second remaining in Super Bowl LIV and the Chiefs still trying to cling to any remaining hope of a championship, Mahomes' deep shot was caught for title-clinching interception by veteran cornerback Richard Sherman.
And with that, the San Francisco 49ers are Super Bowl champions!
Whew!
This Madden simulation wasn't the high-flying event many are expecting from the actual Super Bowl, but if even some of the dramatics from this game come to fruition on Sunday down in Miami, we'll be in for quite a show.
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2020-01-31 14:35:00Z
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2020-01-31 12:37:57Z
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Severe storms could kick off Super Bowl weekend - CNN
Fans arriving in Miami late Friday for the game between the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs may be a little disappointed in the weather, with a 50% chance of drizzle Friday afternoon.
The rain is expected to strengthen overnight as a cold front moves through the Miami area.
There is a slight risk these storms may become severe, especially early Saturday.
The storms will bring the possibility of strong wind, small hail, and minor flooding.
Even though the severe threat will be over by mid-morning Saturday, showers can be expected to linger into the early evening.
By Sunday, everything dries out.
The storms are forecast to leave the area entirely by Sunday, leaving behind cooler, dry air.
Fans could enjoy highs near 70 during the day, and a temperatures of around 65 at the time of kickoff, 6:30 p.m.
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2020-01-31 09:45:00Z
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Severe storms could kick off Super Bowl weekend - CNN
Fans arriving in Miami late Friday for the game between the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs may be a little disappointed in the weather, with a 50% chance of drizzle Friday afternoon.
The rain is expected to strengthen overnight as a cold front moves through the Miami area.
There is a slight risk these storms may become severe, especially early Saturday.
The storms will bring the possibility of strong wind, small hail, and minor flooding.
Even though the severe threat will be over by mid-morning Saturday, showers can be expected to linger into the early evening.
By Sunday, everything dries out.
The storms are forecast to leave the area entirely by Sunday, leaving behind cooler, dry air.
Fans could enjoy highs near 70 during the day, and a temperatures of around 65 at the time of kickoff, 6:30 p.m.
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2020-01-31 09:00:00Z
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Vigil honors memory of Alyssa Altobelli, 14-year-old killed in helicopter crash with Kobe Bryant - KABC-TV
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- Friends and family gathered in Newport Beach to honor the memory of Alyssa Altobelli, a 14-year-old girl who died in the same helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant.
Vigil organizers say Alyssa grew up in the Newport Beach area, attended Mariner Elementary School and was in the 8th grade at Ensign Intermediate.
Friends say sports played an important role in her life. They read a poem written by Alyssa in grade school as they shared their own memories of her.
Alyssa and both her parents, Orange Coast College head baseball coach John Altobelli and his wife Keri, were among the among the nine killed in the horrific crash that also claimed the lives of Kobe and his daughter Gianna.
Hundreds of people showed up to a candlelight vigil to honor Alyssa's memory. They read poems she had written when younger, and praised her for her strong work ethic and contagious smile.
"If she was smiling, other people were always smiling around her," Ellie Robinson, a friend. "She was respectful. She knew how to handle herself. She knew what to say. She was nice, she was funny."
Vigil organizers say Alyssa grew up in the Newport Beach area, attended Mariner Elementary School and was in the 8th grade at Ensign Intermediate.
She was a point guard with the girl's Mamba basketball team.
Friends say sports played an important role in her life. They read a poem written by Alyssa in grade school as they shared their own memories of her.
They lit candles in the shape of the number 5 - Alyssa's number - and released lanterns with messages honoring her.
They also lit nine lanterns - one for each of the victims who died in the crash.
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2020-01-31 06:11:50Z
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Kamis, 30 Januari 2020
Andy Reid Stretched the Limits of Offensive Innovation to a Super Bowl - The Ringer
Football is not a sport of giant leaps. There are only, by rule, so many ways you can line up on a football field, and even the biggest innovations are small, nuanced changes building on decades of other modifications before it. The best minds, like Andy Reid and Bill Belichick, are to football what Malcolm Gladwell once dubbed Steve Jobs: tweakers, who don’t invent a lot but change a lot. Reid started as a West Coast offense scheme baron. He worked under West Coast offense legend Mike Holmgren as an assistant before taking the offense, which relied on short, horizontal passing routes, with him as a head coach in Philadelphia. Reid kept incrementally building the offense until it included, well, basically everything. The Fast and the Furious started out as a pretty basic car racing movie in 2001, and by 2017, its plots involved Russians with nuclear weapons. Reid began his career as a West Coast savant who built an offense that folded in nearly every innovation of the sport. But, in both the Fast franchise and in Reid’s career, the main ingredients are still there.
He has built an offensive empire in Kansas City, one brick at a time. Pro Football Focus has a play-by-play coaching metric that determines the most valuable play-callers in the sport—Reid is no. 1 over the last two years and has ranked in the top 10 in every year since 2014. The story of offensive football is about small, almost imperceptible changes to schemes that one day create something that shocks you and goes for a 70-yard touchdown. In that regard, the story of offensive football is also the story of Andy Reid.
Reid is coaching in his second Super Bowl on Sunday against the San Francisco 49ers, 15 years after losing to the Patriots and Belichick in his last one, with the Eagles. Only Dick Vermeil’s 19-year absence between Super Bowls, which culminated with the 1999 Rams victory, was a longer stint. There are limitless stats to explain Reid’s offensive brilliance, but very few tell the story as succinctly as making two Super Bowls spread that far apart. It was so long ago that Troy Aikman and Joe Buck called the last game. Ah, right, they are doing this one too.
Reid is 61 years old. He was a BYU offensive linemen when 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan was born, and he led the Eagles to three NFC championship games before Shanahan became a coach in the NFL. The clearest argument that geography is not destiny is that Jeff Fisher and Reid were born in Los Angeles in the same year, 1958: One became a beacon of offensive brilliance, and the other became a retrograde offensive disaster. Innovation is not about age, it is about being smarter than the guy across the field from you. Reid usually is. “If you get stuck in the past, that’s when defenses have the opportunity to catch up to you,” Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bienemy told me Wednesday. That Reid has become a symbol of youthful innovation alongside Shanahan is a testament to the way his brain works and the ability for him to get players—like Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce—to help make the innovation run smoothly.
In 2013, I sat down with Reid in a plain room in a college building in St. Joseph, Missouri, where the Chiefs held their training camp. He told me that the college game is five years ahead of the pro game and that in five years, the spread offenses that had thoroughly dominated the college game would finally dominate the NFL. Five years later, it happened. The Eagles beat the Patriots in what Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley told me looked like a Big 12 game. I tell this story often for two reasons: Because it’s amazing how prescient Reid was, and because it explains Reid perfectly. He not only sees the future, but he helps shape it. Reid spent those five years borrowing liberally from other levels of football and has now perfected the form. In 2017, spread plays he ran against the Patriots were stolen by the Patriots and a slew of other teams. Reid famously stole a play last season from North Dakota State. The result? “College” plays are rarely discussed anymore. The levels of football have merged, which Reid helped. There are no longer NFL or college plays anymore, only football plays.
“He studies like no other coach I’ve ever been around,” Chiefs receivers coach Greg Lewis said. “He studies college games, high school games, CFL games, European games. He’ll go look at stuff from 1910. He knows everything. He has a beautiful mind. He is able to compartmentalize everything then bring it out at the right moment, ‘Oh, this is something I saw on film from 70 years ago.’” Then comes the most important part: “He’s able to put it in terms everyone understands, and that’s special.”
“Some of the stuff we were doing in 2003 or 2004, we still have, we’ve blended it with the college stuff. He is so open to adapting and adjusting the nuances of the offense. He has never been stuck on what he did before,” Lewis said.
This season, the Chiefs scored the second-most points per drive in the NFL, behind Baltimore. They scored on nearly half of their possessions, also behind only Baltimore. They faced the third-fewest third downs in the league, the sign of a good offense, and led the league in third-down conversion rate anyway. Few teams are better at running run-pass options. Only Drew Brees sees more open receivers beyond the first-down marker:
Highest percentage of throws at or beyond the first down marker where the intended receiver was open:
Drew Brees 76.8%
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Patrick Mahomes 74.6
Teddy Bridgewater 74.1
Matt Ryan 74.0
Jimmy Garoppolo 73.3
Derek Carr 72.7
Ryan Tannehill 71.4
Lamar Jackson 71.3
The Chiefs offense works so well because it pairs a coach who knows how to give every advantage with a quarterback who is so good he doesn’t even need them. If you have one or the other, you can be a great offense. If you have both, you are unfair. Reid has played a small role in nearly every offensive innovation over the past two decades. He hired pistol offense lord and former Nevada coach Chris Ault as a consultant to teach him the offense in 2013. Around that time, the Chiefs ran the pistol with Alex Smith, and the 49ers used it to perfection with Colin Kaepernick. Six years later, the Ravens, with former 49ers coordinator Greg Roman in the same position, unleashed the pistol with Lamar Jackson, this season’s presumptive MVP. Once again, Reid saw the future. Sometimes, that can be a little too early. Former Eagles executive Joe Banner once told me that when the team signed Michael Vick in 2009, Reid planned to run the spread. It ended up being a little early for the full version of the spread. Reid turned Vick into an MVP candidate anyway with Vick’s arm and his legs, but it didn’t kickstart a revolution.
The through line in all of this is that Reid is open to anything. Joe Bleymaier, the Chiefs’ passing game coordinator and assistant quarterbacks coach, told me that Reid wants to pick everyone’s brain to see what is possible on a given concept. He’ll take a play, Bleymaier said, and start considering small but crucial changes. “If he sees a play he’s run forever one way, and then sees it implemented in another way [on another team], he wants to know how far he can take it. He wants to push the boundaries and ask, ‘What’s the limit of this concept?’ There are no rules.” He added that this could mean anything within the play: how many receivers are on which side of the field or how the offensive line is stacked. Any small change could dramatically shift the odds in favor of the offense, and Reid wants to explore every possible one.
In 2018, Belichick said Reid has “over the course of time, been able to modify some of the traditional West Coast principles from Coach [Paul] Brown to Coach [Bill] Walsh to Coach Holmgren and so forth to fit his personnel and to fit new scheme ideas that he’s incorporated. So, West Coast offense is still built around speed, space, and balance—catch and run plays, yards after catch, balance between the running game and the passing game, and getting the ball to skill players so they can make yards with it.”
This was reflected by current Chiefs defensive assistant Brendan Daly, a former Patriots assistant, who said he’s been wildly impressed by Reid’s ability to build off of the West Coast offense. “At one point in time, I used to think of Coach Reid as one of the bare-bones offensive coaches. It has been fascinating to see him, over the years, as offenses change, as players change. Competing against him over the years, I was so impressed how incredibly open-minded he was to new concepts,” Daly told me Wednesday. “To new ideas. Formations, plays—his ability to incorporate so many new things into his offense but holding the same characteristics that he’s had his entire career.”
This includes a next-level mastery of the deep pass, which has come to the forefront since Mahomes became the deep-passing king of the sport in 2018.
“[Reid] never stops learning. He continues to push the boundaries of what we can get away with, and he also allows players and coaches to put their own twist on it,” quarterbacks coach Mike Kafka said. “If it makes sense for us and is sound, we’ll do it. He has an open mind about those types of things.” Kafka explains that Reid is flexible within his offense to allow players freedom. He uses the example of the team’s star tight end. “Kelce understands space and open spaces in the defense and has a great ability to find it. A route might be drawn up a certain way, and Kelce will understand how to make it different because of that. It’s fluid and Andy has an open mind about those things.” Well, of course he does.
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2020-01-30 13:38:29Z
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Roger Federer: "Today was horrible!" | Australian Open 2020 Press Conference SF - Australian Open TV
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2020-01-30 13:12:31Z
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Djokovic vs. Federer, a Rivalry for the Ages, Is One-Sided This Time - The New York Times
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2020-01-30 11:56:00Z
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Chris Jones: We want to put the game on Jimmy Garoppolo’s shoulders - NBCSports.com
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The fact that the 49ers only threw the ball eight times in the NFC Championship Game has been repeated over and over since they beat the Packers and the Chiefs have certainly heard it once or twice.
Defensive tackle Chris Jones said on Wednesday that a team that can run that much and still put up more than 30 points is “dangerous.” As a result, he thinks the best way for the defense to go is to take that away from the 49ers and put the game on quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo‘s shoulders.
“1,000 percent,” Jones said, via Tom Pelissero of NFL Media. “And we’ll see where it goes from there.”
This isn’t the first time that the 49ers have heard talk about Garoppolo being their weak link and Garoppolo responded to Jones later on Wednesday. He said he thought it was great Jones feels that way and noted that other teams have tried that approach over the course of the 49ers’ run to the Super Bowl, but that he remains confident that their offense can find a way to win every time they take the field.
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2020-01-30 11:48:00Z
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Roger Federer vs Novak Djokovic - Match Highlights (SF) | Australian Open 2020 - Australian Open TV
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2020-01-30 11:11:02Z
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Jae Crowder-ESPN analyst get in Twitter spat after Knicks' fiasco - New York Post
Jae Crowder didn’t just draw the ire of the Knicks for his controversial late steal, he caught the attention of ESPN analyst Tim Legler.
Legler, who played in the NBA for 12 seasons before retiring in 2000, said Wednesday night it was a bush-league move for Crowder to steal the ball with 18 seconds left in the Knicks’ 127-106 blowout loss to the Grizzlies at the Garden.
Crowder stole the ball after a lazy backcourt pass from Julius Randle and dribbled the ball to the right corner for a 3-pointer which he missed as an incensed Elfrid Payton pushed him in the chest. Crowder got up off the floor and went after Payton and a mini-fracas ensued with Randle, Marcus Morris, and Damyean Dotson trying to get after Grizzlies players.
“My take on the hostilities tonight bw @nyknicks and @memgrizz. What the hell was @CJC9BOSS thinking? Seriously,” Legler tweeted. “And if someone says “play til the final buzzer” then I know they have never played at any level. 18 point lead? :50 left? Stealing the inbounds? Shooting a 3?”
This drew a sarcastic response from Crowder.
“Aye Tim with all due respect I only play one way and thats hard til the buzzer sounds,” Crowder tweeted in all caps. “Im sorry if it disgusts you. I know Knicks are your team but U should tell them to play harder and less talking!”
Legler pushed back at the talk that he is a Knicks fan.
“People making me laugh as if I care about @nyknicks. Zero allegiance,” he tweeted. “Never played there. Don’t talk about them on the air EVER (laughing emoji) it wouldn’t matter who the team or player is… the other team is going to respond.”
Legler also said this broke the NBA’s unwritten rule of how teams should act in games that are clearly decided.
“I DO NOT believe there is such a thing as “running up the score” in high major college or professional basketball,” he tweeted. “I HATE when teams take a shot clock violation late in a game to avoid scoring when the outcome is decided. It’s actually more humiliating.
“But this is different. NBA teams respect end of game culture. I wouldn’t care at all if they steal the ball once it’s advanced. That’s not what we are talking about. The reaction here is typical fan bias. Love it if it’s us… take him out if it’s them. I get it.”
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2020-01-30 07:10:00Z
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Marcus Morris blasts Jae Crowder's 'female tendencies' after Knicks madness - New York Post
The tension had been boiling all night between Marcus Morris and Jae Crowder, even before a fight broke out late in the Knicks’ 127-106 loss to the Grizzlies on Wednesday at the Garden.
But Morris didn’t hold back from voicing his feelings postgame, either.
“I think dude is just, he plays the game a different way. A lot of female tendencies on the court,” Morris said. “Flopping, throwing his head back the entire game. It’s a man’s game and you just get tired of it at the end of the day.
“When you step back and shoot a 3 and try to rub it in that they’re winning, it’s just unprofessional,” Morris added. “That’s soft. His game is soft. He’s soft. That’s how he carries [himself]. It’s just very woman-like.”
Later, Morris apologized for his comments.
“I apologize for using the term ‘female tendencies,’ Morris tweeted. “I have the upmost respect for women and everything they mean to us. It was a Heat of the moment response and I never intended for any Women to feel as though in anyway I’m disrespecting them. Again I apologize with my comments.”
Crowder pushed the Knicks over the edge with less than a minute to go in the fourth quarter when he stole a careless inbounds pass from Julius Randle, then walked over behind the 3-point line and chucked up a shot. Elfrid Payton wasn’t having it, shoving Crowder down with two hands as he got off the shot, sparking the scuffle.
Morris came over and shoved Ja Morant, who had gotten in the middle of the mess, which led to Morris’ technical foul and ejection for escalating the incident. At the time, the Grizzlies were up 124-106 and there were 48.1 seconds left.
Morris said he didn’t have a problem with Crowder making the steal. What came next is what ticked him off.
“Obviously at the end, that was very unprofessional,” Morris said. “They’re winning the game, that’s a good team. [Crowder] does stuff like that.”
Morris and Crowder — both former Celtics, though they never overlapped — had gotten tangled up earlier in the night. Morris, who finished with four personal fouls, was charged with an offensive foul for pushing Crowder in the first quarter and then were chirping later in the third quarter.
“The game is watered down,” Morris said. “It’s not tough. We can’t play physical, you can’t bump. It’s starting to get comical at this point.”
Asked if the way the game ended was related to Crowder’s actions or the Knicks’ frustrations boiling over, Morris picked the former.
“No frustration,” Morris said. “The game’s over. [If] y’all win the game, y’all win the game. You’re the better team that night. That [what Crowder did] is unprofessional on every level, no matter who it is. … He knows better. He’s a vet in this league. But that’s his tendencies, man.”
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2020-01-30 04:36:00Z
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Patrick Mahomes extension may come in a year or more, Chiefs co-owner says - Fox News
Kansas City Chiefs co-owner Clark Hunt said Tuesday he might wait a year before extending the contract of star quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
Mahomes signed a four-year, $16.4 million contract when he came into the league and still has one more year left on the deal in which he will be paid $750,000. He is earning $645,000 this season. On the possibility of re-signing Mahomes after Super Bowl LIV, Hunt said he could wait before extending him.
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“There will be a right time sometime in the next 12 to 15 months to extend Patrick, and when I say right time, I mean right time for both the player and the club,” Hunt said, according to ESPN. “I don't want to say necessarily it has to be this offseason, but I will say that it's a priority to get him done.
“I hope Patrick is here for his entire career, and that's going to be our goal.”
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The Chiefs could even prolong things even further by exercising the team’s fifth-year option on Mahomes.
The star quarterback was asked Wednesday about Kansas City and what makes the city special, according to the Kansas City Star.
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“It was the people,” he said. “The people are what really drew me to Kansas City, and what I hope I get to play there the rest of my career there now.
“Just the people and how [they] accept you and how they care more about you as a person than they do as a player. And how much passion they have for the Chiefs, it’s special and it’s somewhere where I want to be for the rest of my career.”
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Mahomes, who already has an MVP and an All-Pro and Pro Bowl selection, is looking to add to his trophy case with the Lombardi Trophy come Sunday.
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Kobe Bryant Was Making Huge Plans For Gianna's Future Days Before Their Tragic Deaths - Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Kobe Bryant was making big plans for his second-oldest daughter, Gianna, right before their tragic deaths. Days before Kobe and Gianna, also known as Gigi, passed away in a helicopter accident, the Los Angeles Lakers star filed a trademark for her nickname on the basketball court. The filing was a clear move that Kobe had major plans for Gianna’s future, which likely would have included an appearance in the WNBA.
Kobe Bryant files a trademark for Mambacita
On December 30, Kobe filed paperwork to trademark the name “Mambacita.” The nickname is a reference to Kobe’s moniker in the NBA, Black Mamba. It is also a testament to Gianna’s talent on the court.
According to TMZ, the trademark documents outlined a plan to use the name on a variety of sportswear, including hoodies, shorts, sweatshirts, shirts, hats, sweatpants, and jerseys.
Kobe Bryant first started calling his daughter Mambacita on social media. In a post from November, for example, Kobe shared a clip of Gianna making a fade-away against one of her teammates, Alyssa Altobelli, during a scrimmage.
In the caption, Kobe praised Gianna for making a move that looked similar to his trademark fade-away. He also complimented Alyssa for playing great defense. Alyssa and her parents, Keri and John Altobelli, also passed away in the helicopter crash.
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Kobe retired from the Los Angeles Laker back in 2016 and penned an emotional letter, titled “Dear Basketball,” following his retirement.
With Kobe revealing that he gave the game of basketball his all, few thought he would ever return to the court. But that all changed when Gianna showed a growing interest in the sport.
Although coaching was not in Kobe Bryant’s original retirement plan, he gladly accepted the role to teach his daughter everything he learned from the game. The father and daughter developed a tight bond over their love for basketball and were often spotted at NBA games analyzing the action.
Kobe and Gianna were on their way to a basketball game when their helicopter crashed into a hillside near Calabasas, California. There were a total of 9 people on board the craft when it down, none of whom survived.
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A few years ago, Kobe discussed Gianna’s future in basketball during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. The former NBA star revealed that his daughter had dreams of playing for the University of Connecticut and felt confident about continuing his basketball legacy.
He also hilariously revealed Gianna’s response whenever people told him that he needs to have a son.
”The best thing that happens is when we go out and fans come up to me, and she’ll be standing next to me and they’ll be like: ‘You’ve got to have a boy. You and [wife Vanessa] have got to have a boy, someone to carry on the tradition, the legacy.’ And she’s like, ‘Oh, I got this,’” he shared.
There is no doubt that Kobe had major plans for Gianna’s future. The ultimate plan would have been seeing his daughter drafted into the WNBA and later profit off her nickname.
Kobe Bryant was a huge supporter of the WNBA over the years and was not shy about expressing his love for the game. Not only did he attend games and watch film, but he also coached Gianna’s team and ran basketball camps in the area.
It is such a shame that both of their lives were cut short in the helicopter crash, along with the other seven victims of the crash.
The world mourns Kobe and Gigi’s tragic death
In the hours and days following the tragic helicopter accident, fans from around the world mourned the loss of Kobe and his daughter.
A slew of current NBA players have paid tribute to Kobe Bryant and Gianna on social media, as well as NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, who said that Kobe “will be remembered most for inspiring people around the world to pick up a basketball and compete to the very best of their ability.”
Former WNBA star and University of Connecticut center Rebecca Lobo also expressed her condolences for losing Kobe and his daughter.
“No @NBA player supported the @WNBA or women’s college basketball more than Kobe,” Lobo shared. “He attended games, watched on TV, coached the next generation. We pray for his family.”
Kobe and Gianna will continue to receive tributes on social media as fans around the world deal with the shock of their loss. It is still unclear why the helicopter crashed, but weather and possible mechanical issues are believed to be at fault.
Kobe Bryant was 41 years old and Gianna was 13 years old at the time of their deaths. Kobe retired from the NBA in 2016 but remained active in many current players’ lives.
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2020-01-29 12:41:38Z
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New audio of Kobe Bryant helicopter crash discovered; aircraft did not have terrain warning system: NTSB - Fox News
As the investigation into the wreck that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others continues, a Google Nest recording has surfaced with audio of the helicopter’s last moments in the air.
Also, the NTSB revealed that the aircraft that crashed Sunday in the Los Angeles suburb of Calabasas lacked a terrain awareness system that would have warned of an approaching hillside.
Ronna Leavitt’s doorbell recording, which was obtained by ABC 7 Los Angeles, has a time stamp of 9:45 a.m. — the same time contact was lost with the doomed aircraft. What is believed to be the NBA legend's helicopter can be heard at varying sound levels and ends with a thump.
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The pilot of the helicopter chartered by Bryant had received permission to follow special visual flight rules (VFR) during the flight because of the intense fog, which allows pilots to navigate using landmarks. It also meant he needed to fly lower to be able to see the ground, instead of using instrument flight rules (IFR) which helps pilots navigate through clouds, the Los Angeles Times and NPR reported.
National Transportation Safety Board investigator Jennifer Homendy said the pilot had rapidly ascended to get out of a cloud bank and the helicopter was at 2,300 feet when it lost contact with air traffic control. It then descended at more than 2,000 feet per minute.
“We know that this was a high-energy impact crash, and the helicopter was in a descending left bank,” Homendy said.
The helicopter crashed on the hillside at an elevation of 1,085 feet, the Times reported. The plane was about 30 feet from clearing the land.
His decision to proceed in deteriorating visibility, though, has experts and fellow pilots wondering if he flew beyond the boundaries of good judgment and whether pressure to get his superstar client where he wanted to go played a role in the crash.
"The perceived pressure is, `Man, if I don't go, they're going to find somebody who will fly this thing,'" Jerry Kidrick, a retired Army colonel who flew helicopters in Iraq, said.
The impact spread debris over more than 500 feet. The remains of all the victims were recovered Tuesday and so far the remains of Bryant, pilot Ara Zobayan and two other passengers have been identified using fingerprints.
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Homendy said it was too soon to say whether the pilot had control of the helicopter during the steep, high-speed descent, although she noted that "it wouldn't be a normal landing speed."
She said the NTSB recommended the Terrain Awareness and Warning System (TAWS) be made standard on all helicopters with six or more passenger seats. The helicopter Bryant had charted, which he used regularly, didn’t legally need to have it, the Times reported.
Bill English, investigator in charge of the NTSB's major investigations division, said it's not clear yet whether "TAWS and this scenario are related to each other."
The system would have sounded an alarm if the helicopter was approaching the ground.
She said the Federal Aviation Administration “failed” to act on the recommendation, an assessment the FAA has disputed, citing the system is required on all helicopter ambulances, the Times reported. It is not required on other helicopters.
After the NTSB’s recommendation following a 2004 crash that killed 10 people in the Gulf of Mexico, the FAA questioned whether the system could cause too many false alarms and distract the pilot since helicopters are allowed to fly close to the ground.
“Certainly, TAWS could have helped to provide information to the pilot on what terrain the pilot was flying in,” Homendy said.
Helicopter pilot and aviation lawyer Brian Alexander said it “wouldn’t necessarily have prevented the crash if this was a combination of a deteriorating weather situation and the pilot experiencing spatial disorientation. Your body is sensing something that isn’t happening. Another warning system screaming at you isn’t going to help.”
Zobayan was an experienced pilot with thousands of flying hours. He had flown Bryant before and flew a similar route from Orange County to Ventura County the day before the crash, but on the ill-fated flight he had to divert because of the thick fog.
While TAWS was not installed on the helicopter flying Bryant, the aircraft did have a warning system using GPS, said pilot Kurt Deetz, who flew Bryant dozens of times in the chopper over a two-year period ending in 2017.
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Investigators have not determined the cause of the crash yet, which could take months, and it’s unclear if TAWS would have made a difference.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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2020-01-29 12:38:22Z
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Helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant and 8 others was 20 to 30 feet from clearing a hilltop when it crashed, investigators say - CNN
As federal investigators wrapped up operations at the crash site, the NTSB's Jennifer Homendy said preliminary information suggests the plane descended rapidly and was likely in one piece before it slammed into the hill.
"The descent rate for the helicopter was over 2,000 feet a minute, so we know that this was a high energy impact crash," Homendy said. "This is a pretty steep descent at high speed. So it wouldn't be a normal landing speed."
The crash occurred about 1,085 feet above sea level, missing the top of the hill by 20 to 30 feet, investigators said. Parts of the helicopter were found scattered around a crash site that stretched 500 to 600 feet, the NTSB said.
The NTSB will release its preliminary report on the crash in 10 days, Homendy said.
"Its not going to contain our findings, our analysis, it's not going to contain any safety recommendations or probable cause but it's going to provide some factual information -- more than we have now, but just the facts."
A final report will be out in about 12-18 months, she said.
NTSB recommended a safety system
On Tuesday, NTSB turned over the accident site back to local authorities after recovering pieces of the wreckage, an iPad, cellphone and documents including maintenance records, the helicopter's registration and the airworthiness certificate.
The helicopter did not have a terrain awareness and warning system -- a safety feature which provides the pilot with information about the terrain, Homendy said.
The NTSB recommended that similar helicopters be equipped with the system after a fatal Texas crash in 2004 that killed 10 people. The Federal Aviation Administration failed to implement the recommendation, Homendy said.
In his last communication with air traffic control, the helicopter's pilot said he was climbing to avoid a cloud layer, the NTSB previously said. But when air traffic control asked him what he planned to do, there was no response.
Radar data indicated the helicopter climbed 2,300 feet and began a left descending turn, Homendy said.
That last contact was around 9:45 a.m. The first 911 call about the crash came in two minutes later, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said.
Weather experts are studying that morning
The morning of the crash had been particularly foggy.
Visibility was so low Sunday morning that the Los Angeles Police Department had decided to ground its helicopters.
But comparing the police helicopters with the one Bryant was flying in -- a Sikorsky S-76B -- isn't accurate, Homendy said.
"It's an apples to oranges comparison. It's a different helicopter, different operations, they have 4-person helicopters, this is outfitted for more than that," she said. "We have to look at this specific crash, this specific helicopter."
The S-76 line serves as offshore oil and gas transportation, air ambulances, executive transport and search-and-rescue aircraft. One aviation expert calls it a "workhorse."
Homendy said a weather expert on staff is studying the weather that day and the decision-making behind flying Sunday.
Moments before the crash, air traffic control approved pilot Ara Zobayan's request to fly with SVFR clearance -- special visual flight rules clearance -- which allows pilots to fly in weather conditions worse than those allowed for regular visual flight rules.
And while she said that clearance is very common and nothing out of the ordinary, Homendy said investigators will look into whether Zobayan should have been granted that special permission.
Families mourn mothers, daughters, siblings
Meanwhile, families are mourning the nine people who died Sunday -- including 41-year-old Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna.
"The first day was brutal," Matt Mauser, whose wife was killed, said. "I woke up this morning and I said, 'I'm OK,' and then I walked out and I started to cry. And then I saw my kids and I started to cry."
Christina Mauser was an assistant girls basketball coach, former teacher and mother of three. Her youngest daughter is turning four years old next week. Mauser had been recruited by Bryant himself, her husband said, to help coach a team in his basketball academy.
Three young girls on the helicopter -- including Gianna -- were on their way to a basketball game in Thousand Oaks.
One of them, Alyssa Altobelli, was flying with her parents, John and Keri.
Another, Payton Chester, was flying with her mother, Sarah Chester.
They all were killed in the crash.
"While the world mourns the loss of a dynamic athlete and humanitarian, I mourn the loss of two people just as important ... their impact was just as meaningful, their loss will be just as keenly felt, and our hearts are just as broken," Todd Schmidt, a former principal at the elementary school Payton once attended, wrote in a Facebook post.
Zobayan, who also died, had more than 8,200 hours of flight time, Homendy said, and had been working with Island Express Helicopters, which owned the Sikorsky S-76B.
The LA County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner announced all nine bodies had been recovered -- four of which were officially identified through the use of fingerprints.
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2020-01-29 11:48:00Z
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Shaq leads crowd in 'Kobe, Kobe' chants after emotional tribute - New York Post
Shaquille O’Neal led the crowd near the Staples Center Tuesday night in a chant for Kobe Bryant hours after he gave a tearful tribute to his longtime Lakers teammate who was killed in a Southern California helicopter crash on Sunday.
O’Neal, who was walking out onto the street, quieted the crowd to lead them in a loud chant of “Kobe, Kobe, Kobe!”
Earlier, the 47-year-old O’Neal, who had an up-and-down relationship with Bryant, was grief stricken about his former teammate’s death.
“I haven’t felt the pain that sharp in a while,” O’Neal said as part of TNT’s tribute to his former Lakers running mate.
O’Neal said the loss of the 41-year-old Bryant hurt even more because Shaq had just lost his younger sister Ayesha to cancer in October.
“Now I lost a little brother,” Shaq said, referring to Bryant, as the rest of the panel including Ernie Johnson, NBA greats Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Dwyane Wade consoled him.
O’Neal, who won four NBA titles in his illustrious career, captured three with the Lakers. Shaq and Kobe, who won five rings with Los Angeles, led the Lakers to three consecutive NBA crowns from 2000-2002.
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2020-01-29 10:00:00Z
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Audio of Kobe Bryant helicopter crash captured on Nest camera - Fox News
A California woman who lives near the site where Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crashed says her Google Nest camera captured audio of the doomed aircraft’s final moments, a report said.
Ronna Leavitt’s recording, which was obtained by ABC 7 Los Angeles, has a timestamp of 9:45 a.m. — the same time Bryant’s Sikorsky S-76B plummeted into the hills of Calabasas.
What is believed to be Bryant’s helicopter can be heard at varying levels of intensity throughout the 43-second clip.
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Three seconds before the clip ends, a thump can be heard, followed by silence.
Leavitt told the network that she heard the chopper Sunday morning before it made a U-turn and crashed into the nearby hilly terrain.
She provided the video to investigators.
The 41-year-old NBA legend, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others were killed in the wreckage.
Leavitt’s Nest video is not the only footage purported to capture Bryant’s chopper.
Glendale resident David Lyudmirsky shot cell phone video of what is believed to be Bryant’s helicopter “performing a very aggressive circling maneuver’’ a half-hour before it crashed.
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He turned over his video footage to the NTSB on Monday night.
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2020-01-29 09:30:02Z
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Magic Johnson on Kobe Bryant, The Lakers & Vacations with Jimmy Kimmel - Jimmy Kimmel Live
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2020-01-29 08:30:00Z
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Rick Fox recounts false reports that he died in Kobe Bryant helicopter crash - New York Post
Kobe Bryant’s former Lakers teammate Rick Fox addressed false reports that he was one of the nine people that perished in Sunday’s helicopter crash that killed the NBA legend.
Fox discussed the reaction of his family after several early reports suggested Fox was on board the chopper at the time of the crash. Initially, five people were believed dead in the wreck and it wasn’t until NBA TV’s Jared Greenberg tweeted he communicated with Fox that the NBA veteran was ruled out.
“My family went through, in the midst of all this, something that I couldn’t imagine them experiencing,” an emotional Fox said Tuesday during TNT’s NBA coverage. “One of my daughter’s greatest fears is finding out that one of her parents has been lost through social media, instead of from a loved one or a family member. And she fortunately called me and we were just talking and crying about the news of Kobe.”
Fox spent seven seasons as Bryant’s teammate with the Lakers, guiding L.A. to three NBA championships in the early 2000s. The duo remained close following Fox’s retirement from basketball in 2004.
The 50-year-old said he was talking to his daughter — who was unaware of circulating reports her father died – when his phone became inundated with calls. Distraught by the news of Bryant’s passing, Fox said he did not answer calls until he noticed close friend and basketball coach, King Rice, reaching out.
“I’m seeing King’s number repeatedly going and going and going, and so I think he’s worried about me, so I said, ‘I’m gonna talk to my best friend,’ so I answered and said, ‘Hey man, this is crazy about Kobe,’ and he just was bawling,” Fox said.
“He was like, ‘You’re alive!’ And I was like, ‘Well, yeah. What do you mean?’ And it was in that moment that my phone just started going, and my mom and my sister and my brother [were calling].
“I’m glad [the rumor] is over with, but it was hard to deal with because it shook a lot of people in my life.”
Fox was part of a star-studded panel on Tuesday which included hosts Shaquille O’Neal, Kenny Smith, Charles Barkley, and Ernie Johnson. Dwyane Wade and Derek Fisher also made appearances to discuss Bryant’s legacy and passing.
After re-living Sunday’s traumatic experience, Fox was given a playful warning from his former teammate “Shaq.”
“I’m glad you’re alright,” O’Neal said to Fox. “But the next time I call you and you don’t call me back I’m gonna put these hands on you.”
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Super Bowl: 49ers loose, confident, during opening night of Super Bowl week - Niners Nation
Opening night at the Super Bowl media was a circus, to say the least. The questions surrounding the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs were A magician interviewed Dante Pettis. One media member asked Richard Sherman if he would come back to the Seahawks after apologizing on behalf of all of Seattle’s fans. Circus is selling what transpired Monday short. There’s no better character for this stage than tight ends George Kittle and Travis Kelce. The duo took the stage and exchanged compliments about each other Monday night:
Kelce spoke to Deion Sanders about Kittle as well:
“George Kittle, man, I was just talking about his tenacity. How he runs routes, how he plays the game with a certain level of energy and enthusiasm. You gotta love it. There’s nothing that you dislike about that guy’s game. Just trying to take it to the next level every single time he plays.”
To which Kittle responded:
“Early in my college career, I watched so much of him. To get a compliment from him is pretty spectacular. When you got a player like that who, in my opinion, is the best red zone threat in the NFL. Scores touchdowns left and right all the time.”
Both tight ends have plenty of flair on and off the field. Both know they are good and act like it. I love that.
Kittle was his usual witty self once we got past the pleasantries. Kittle was asked if his shoulder injury impacted him on the field, to which he responded, “Does it look like it is?” His bromance with 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo continues to grow. Kittle was asked what a “not so perfect side of Jimmy is,” to which George responded:
Kittle was asked what a “not so perfect side of Jimmy is,” to which George responded: “He is the worst texter of all-time. I’m telling you, he leaves me on read all of the time. I’ll be like, ‘Hey Jimmy; I got a question. Maybe on this play should I run my route like this.’ No response. ‘Jimmy, do you want to go to a movie?’ No response. And then the next day he’ll be like, ‘yeah, I got your text, I just didn’t respond.’ Thanks, Jim, that’s awesome. So yeah, he’s a bad texter.”
The mood of the 49ers team as a whole was loose. They looked calm but confident. In a surprise to nobody, Kendrick Bourne and Kwon Alexander were dancing as the team took the stage. Though the team wasn’t uptight, they didn’t shy away from any questions, either. It’s enjoyable to watch the Niners be themselves in any setting. Part of that may be because the game-plan has already been installed, so the 49ers no longer have to “study” as they may have earlier in the week like most other weeks leading up to a game. Peace of mind goes a long way, as does a brotherhood:
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2020-01-28 14:01:00Z
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