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Rick Adelman selected as winner of Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:24:24 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Rick Adelman’s influence is all over this year’s NBA Finals, which makes his being honored during the title series even more fitting.Adelman was announced Sunday as the 18th recipient of the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by the National Basketball Coaches Association. It preceded Game 2 of the NBA Finals between Denver and Miami; Nuggets assistant coach David Adelman is Rick’s son, and Heat coach Erik Spoelstra is a Portland native who vividly remembers Adelman’s Trail Blazers teams.“To be included with the past winners is special,” said Rick Adelman, who was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2021. “Chuck was a great coach and respected by all those who coached against his teams. To receive an award like this I have to thank all those who helped me along the way, in particular my assistant coaches and front offices. I would also like to thank the players I had through the years. Their effort and cooperation made everythin...

Nuggets' 2-man game of Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray is setting new pick-and-roll standard in NBA

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:24:24 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra practically snickered when asked about neutralizing the effective two-man game played by Denver Nuggets teammates Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray.“Yeah, where do you start? You have two guys that can score 50 in a playoff game. One guy is a triple-double machine that loves to get guys involved,” Spoelstra said.“You go down the list of myriad of things you can do defensively, you have to check off some things that you don’t really want to do because of both their ability to score and Jokic’s ability to create something off-script."Spoelstra knows what the Heat are up against; it's nothing new for Denver. The Nuggets' potent duo has been nearly unstoppable in powering Denver's 13-3 run through the playoffs, including a 104-93 win in Game 1. Heat looking to get to the line more, while Nuggets vow to be better in Game 2 A win Sunday night would make them just the second team this century to win its first 10 home games in a single postseason....

Search halted for man missing in Grand County

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:24:24 GMT

GRAND COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) -- The ongoing search for a man missing for a week was temporarily discontinued as of Sunday until the conditions of the Colorado River improve.On Saturday, six dog search teams focused on the area of Byers Canyon and downstream toward Parshall to find Ari Harms, a white man in his 30s. The Eagle County Sheriff's Office said a river closure was issued and went into effect on Saturday morning for the part of the Colorado River from CR 50 to Kemp Breeze. Body of minor recovered from Colorado River following rafting accident GCSO had to implement short-term traffic closures in Byers Canyon while the dogs worked along Highway 40 on Saturday. "As we close out another day, we have still been unsuccessful in locating Ari Harms. Sheriff Schroetlin will be working with Ari’s family on determining the next steps in our quest for a resolution to this unfortunate incident," the sheriff's office posted on Twitter. Campers said Harms was going kayakingThe Pioneer Par...

Strawberry moon illuminates the sky this weekend

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:24:24 GMT

(CNN) — The strawberry moon is lighting up the night sky this weekend.You can watch the full moon’s rise just after sunset in the southeast direction. The orb reached peak illumination at 11:42 p.m. ET Saturday and will appear full for three days, according to NASA. Find out your local peak time using The Old Farmer’s Almanac’s full moon calculator and check the local forecast.The name of this last full moon of the spring, which is sometimes the first full moon of the summer, has nothing to do with the moon’s appearance or color. The strawberry moon got its name from Native American tribes “to mark the ripening of ‘June-bearing’ strawberries that are ready to be gathered,” according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac, which notes, “As flowers bloom and early fruit ripens, June is a time of great abundance for many.”This year, according to NASA, some moon gazers will get an additional treat. People in Argentina and the Atlantic Daylight Time zones “eastward across the rest of North Ame...

Remains of 5 Native American children who died at Indigenous boarding school are being returned to their tribes over a century later

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:24:24 GMT

(CNN) — The remains of five children who died at a Pennsylvania boarding school for Native Americans are going to be exhumed and returned to their families who have waited for their return for more than a century, the Office of Army Cemeteries (OAC) has announced.The children died between 1880 and 1910 while attending the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, a boarding school for Native American children known for physical and sexual abuse, the US Department of Interior detailed in a 2022 report.They were forced to assimilate into White society, stripped of their Indigenous names and banned from speaking their languages. If they resisted, they were punished, often violently, according to the report.The names of the children who are being repatriated to their tribes, the OAC announced May 24, are: Edward Upright from the Spirit Lake Tribe in North Dakota; Amos LaFramboise from the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation in South Dakota; Be...

Oprah, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, on Forbes’ list

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:24:24 GMT

Forbes released its list of America’s richest self-made women, and all your faves are on it.Rihanna, Beyonce and Taylor Swift are among the top entertainers who made it onto the list of America’s top 100 highest-earning women.Forbes reported that the rebound in the stock market helped bolster the women, who are cumulatively worth $124 billion, up nearly 12% from a year ago.Oprah Winfrey, 69, is the highest earning woman on the list of celebrities at 13, with a net worth of $2.5 billion. Her self-made score, which Forbes calculated by assessing the women’s background and the adversity each has overcome, is a 10. Forbes classifies this as someone “who not only grew up poor but also overcame significant obstacles.” Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi and survived sexual abuse.According to Forbes, the OWN network creator received a $2 billion return from reinvesting her profits from “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and profits from her fi...

‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ spins up massive $120M opening 

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:24:24 GMT

NEW YORK — “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” opened in U.S. and Canadian theaters with a massive $120.5 million, more than tripling the debut of the 2018 animated original and showing the kind of movie-to-movie box-office growth that would be the envy of even the mightiest of Hollywood franchises.Sony Pictures’ “Across the Spider-Verse,” the multi-verse spinning animated Spider-Man spinoff, sailed way past expectations, according to studio estimates Sunday, riding terrific reviews (95% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and strong buzz for the hotly anticipated follow-up to the Oscar-winning “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.”In the sometimes formulaic realm of superhero movies, 2018’s “Into the Spider-Verse” offered a blast of originality, introducing a teenage webslinger from Brooklyn, Miles Morales ( Shameik Moore ), a punk-rock Gwen (Hailee Steinfeld) and a host of other Spider-People. It launched with $35.4 million on its ...

Jimmy Carter and the Kings: A key alliance for race relations, but only after MLK’s assassination

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:24:24 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — The voice of Martin Luther King Sr., a melodic tenor like his slain son, carried across Madison Square Garden, calming the raucous Democrats who had nominated his friend and fellow Georgian for the presidency. “Surely, the Lord sent Jimmy Carter to come on out and bring America back where she belongs,” the venerated Black pastor said as the nominee smiled behind him. “I’m with him. You are, too. Let me tell you, we must close ranks now.”Carter then shared a moment with Coretta Scott King, clasping hands and locking eyes with the widowed first lady of the Civil Rights Movement, their children looking on. For the Kings, closing the 1976 convention affirmed their continued reach — and their pragmatism — eight years after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. For Carter, it marked the evolution of a white politician from the Old Confederacy: As a local leader and state senator who aspired for more, he had mostly avoided controversial stands during the civil rights era....

Comey: Trump 'could be wearing an ankle bracelet' while accepting GOP nomination

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:24:24 GMT

(The Hill) – Former FBI Director James Comey predicted on Sunday that former President Trump “could be wearing an ankle bracelet” when accepting the GOP nomination if he wins it in 2024, as the former president faces a number of legal challenges.Comey said on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki” that he doesn’t “want to” but “could” envision Trump getting the Republican nod. “I mean, it’s this crazy world that Donald Trump has dragged this country into, but he could be wearing an ankle bracelet while accepting the nomination at the Republican convention," Comey said."You would be rejected if you put it in a script for a show, but you could have a president who is potentially incarcerated when he is elected president,” he added.Trump if facing a slew of legal woes including an indicted on criminal charges in New York, and two Justice Department inquiries led by special counsel Jack Smith. A Georgia prosecutor is probing attempts to overturn the state’s election results in 2020, and T...

RECAP: What to know about Raul Meza Jr.'s arrest, criminal history

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:24:24 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Since his arrest by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force on May 25, Raul Meza Jr., 62, faces four charges and has combined bonds amounting to more than $3 million.Of the four charges, two were for murder, one for capital murder by terroristic threat and another for the unauthorized use of a vehicle.As of Sunday, Meza remained booked in Travis County Jail.What we know of Raul Meza’s criminal historyMeza’s criminal history dates back decades, including convictions in an aggravated robbery as well as murder.Meza was sentenced to 20 years for a 1975 aggravated robbery. He served five years of the sentence before being released on parole.In 1982, Meza was sentenced to 30 years for murder. An additional 16-year-sentence was placed on top of his 30-year sentence due to his 1977 conviction on the aggravated robbery case.Meza was released from prison in 1993 after serving just over 11 years of his sentence for the 1982 murder.1n 1994, Meza was sent back to prison for parole viol...