Pat Riley wishes nothing but the best for LeBron James in his 7th straight NBA Finals appearance … but he doesn’t want us to forget Magic Johnson’s number. We got Pat Saturday in Malibu, where we asked if he was wishing LeBron luck for Sunday’s…
Showing posts with label Finals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Finals. Show all posts
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Wednesday, December 7, 2016
The Voice Results: Who Made the Season 11 Finals?!
Which FOUR singers are headed home after The Voice results were announced, and which four are headed to next week’s epic finale?
If you thought the previous three weeks – which cut the field down from 12 to eight – were suspenseful, this was downright nerve wracking.
For the elite eight, it went down to the wire Tuesday …
Billy Gilman, Sundance Head, Josh Gallagher and Christian Cuevas occupied the top four spots of the iTunes download charts Tuesday.
Brendan Fletcher, We McDonald, Ali Caldwell and Aaron Gibson … did not. In fact, none of those four even cracked the top ten list.
Downloads of The Voice Top 8 performances are only one aspect of The Voice results, along with online, Facebook and app votes.
And, of course, there is the Twitter save. But still … the downloads are often a pretty good indicator of who’s getting all kinds of votes.
How did it shake out at the end of the night? Let’s see:
The Top Three, Advancing to the Season Finale:
Billy Gilman (Team Adam)
Sundance Head (Team Blake)
Wé McDonald (Team Alicia)
It’s not clear the order in which they placed, but Billy and Sundance were locks, and We had the fan base to overcome one off night.
The Bottom Two, Instantly Eliminated:
Brendan Fletcher (Team Adam)
Aaron Gibson (Team Miley)
Not surprising, really, in terms of either grouping comprising those five. So that left three singers vying for the final, coveted placement.
Singing For Their Lives:
Christian Cuevas (Team Alicia)
Ali Caldwell (Team Miley)
Josh Gallagher (Team Adam)
None of their performances were game-changers, or deal-breakers, but Ali seemed to perform best. Twitter would have the final say.
Eliminated:
Christian Cuevas (Team Alicia)
Ali Caldwell (Team Miley)
Saved:
Josh Gallagher (Team Adam)
Well, there you have it. Josh will have his work cut out for him to compete with those three, and the producers will have to ask themselves:
Is this format really best? Should the playoffs be extended, and the eliminations done one or two at a time, throughout the live rounds?
Discuss in the comments!
Friday, June 17, 2016
Ayesha Curry Calls Out NBA Finals as "Rigged for Money"
Ayesha Curry has done at least two things right.
She is the mother of a pair of totally adorable children.
But the wife of two-time NBA MVP Steph Curry made a very wrong move on social media on Thursday night, reacting it utter outrage over the result of Game 6 of the NBA Finals.
The Cleveland Cavaliers dominated Curry’s Golden State Warriors, racing out to a 20-point first quarter lead, controlling the entire contest and cruising to a 115-101 victory.
LeBron James scored 41 points and, at one point in the second half, scored or assisted on 35 of his team’s 36 points.
As for Steph Curry?
He shot pretty well. He finished with 30 points.
But he also fouled out for the first time this season, prompting his wife to jump on Twitter soon after her husband got ejected for flinging his mouthpiece in response to his sixth foul.
“I’ve lost all respect sorry this is absolutely rigged for money,” she wrote. “Or ratings in (sic) not sure which. I won’t be silent. Just saw it live sry.”
Ayesha Curry, always one to speak her mind, later deleted the message.
She tried to walk it back by Tweeting “tweeted in the heat of the moment because the call was uncalled for” and even added:
“Police racial profiled my father and told him to remove credentials and tried to arrest him. It’s been a long night for me. I apologize:
“I’m okay that we lost… I just can’t take people coming at my family for absolutely no reason. Something I don’t understand or stand for.”
Wow. Well… okay then.
We can’t speak on the racial profiling or anything going on with Ayesha’s family.
But we can say that two things stood out from Game 6 of the Finals:
1. LeBron’s total domination. The way he is playing, it’s not hard to see him going into Oracle Arena on Sunday night and leading his squad to the title.
2. Curry’s total stupidity. He committed reckless fouls, reaching in on numerous occasions and taking himself out of the game early on after picking up a pair in the opening few minutes.
There’s no conspiracy here, Ayesha. Nothing is rigged.
There’s simply LeBron getting into the head of your husband the Warriors needing to regroup quickly, left they go from a historically successful regular season to a historic collapse in the Finals.
Ayesha Curry Calls Out NBA Finals as "Rigged for Money"
Ayesha Curry has done at least two things right.
She is the mother of a pair of totally adorable children.
But the wife of two-time NBA MVP Steph Curry made a very wrong move on social media on Thursday night, reacting it utter outrage over the result of Game 6 of the NBA Finals.
The Cleveland Cavaliers dominated Curry’s Golden State Warriors, racing out to a 20-point first quarter lead, controlling the entire contest and cruising to a 115-101 victory.
LeBron James scored 41 points and, at one point in the second half, scored or assisted on 35 of his team’s 36 points.
As for Steph Curry?
He shot pretty well. He finished with 30 points.
But he also fouled out for the first time this season, prompting his wife to jump on Twitter soon after her husband got ejected for flinging his mouthpiece in response to his sixth foul.
“I’ve lost all respect sorry this is absolutely rigged for money,” she wrote. “Or ratings in (sic) not sure which. I won’t be silent. Just saw it live sry.”
Ayesha Curry, always one to speak her mind, later deleted the message.
She tried to walk it back by Tweeting “tweeted in the heat of the moment because the call was uncalled for” and even added:
“Police racial profiled my father and told him to remove credentials and tried to arrest him. It’s been a long night for me. I apologize:
“I’m okay that we lost… I just can’t take people coming at my family for absolutely no reason. Something I don’t understand or stand for.”
Wow. Well… okay then.
We can’t speak on the racial profiling or anything going on with Ayesha’s family.
But we can say that two things stood out from Game 6 of the Finals:
1. LeBron’s total domination. The way he is playing, it’s not hard to see him going into Oracle Arena on Sunday night and leading his squad to the title.
2. Curry’s total stupidity. He committed reckless fouls, reaching in on numerous occasions and taking himself out of the game early on after picking up a pair in the opening few minutes.
There’s no conspiracy here, Ayesha. Nothing is rigged.
There’s simply LeBron getting into the head of your husband the Warriors needing to regroup quickly, left they go from a historically successful regular season to a historic collapse in the Finals.
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Dancing With the Stars Results: Who Made the Season 22 Finals?
After last week’s elimination of Jodie Sweetin, Dancing With the Stars had this going for it if nothing else on Monday’s results show:
There’s no way that level of bulls–t could be topped!
Still, a double elimination night is guaranteed to spark controversy, especially late in the game when everyone left has a lot of support.
Heading into last night, and this season in general, Wanya Morris and Nyle DiMarco felt like the two with the most rhythm, style and talent.
The former, however, never quite reached his potential.
A semifinal elimination, along with partner Lindsay Arnold, was at once surprising and not for the singer, who couldn’t reach his pinnacle.
Conversely, Antonio Brown, who was also eliminated, came on strong later in the season after a slow start, but it wasn’t quite enough.
A lackluster beginning this spring gave way to a man possessed, an athlete who worked with Sharna Burgess to achieve true greatness.
He may have been the weakest of the remaining five dancers heading into Monday’s competition, but he left everything on the floor.
That leaves just three stars remaining to vie for the crown:
Nyle DiMarco, Paige VanZant, and Ginger Zee are your finalists, set to battle it out for that coveted gold piece of hardware, the Mirrorball.
Is it the right trio to finish out the season? Most likely.
Is Dancing With the Stars is rigged in favor of Nyle? The jury is still out on that one, but conspiracy theories abound as they often do.
What do you think? Did America get it right? Who will take home the Mirror Ball trophy and join this illustrious list of DWTS winners?
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