Pacers give Heat "butt-kicking", Spurs clip LA
Posted on May 20, 2012
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(Reuters) – The Indiana Pacers, showing the poise and determination Miami was supposed to have, routed the cold shooting Heat 94-75 on Thursday to take a surprising 2-1 lead in their best-of-seven Eastern Conference semi-final series.
Out West, the San Antonio Spurs continued their dominant ways, defeating the Los Angeles Clippers 105-88 for a 2-0 series lead. The Spurs, who have now won 16 consecutive games, were led by Tony Parker who scored 22 points on his 30th birthday.
Indiana was expected to be no challenge for Miami in the series, but suddenly it is the Heat who must regroup after being outscored 51-32 in the second half for a second consecutive loss.
“The game was won once again with defense and rebounding, and that’s (what) this team’s identity is about,” Pacers coach Frank Vogel told reporters.
Big man Roy Hibbert played the meatiest role, muscling his way to 19 points and 18 rebounds against a Heat team again missing injured forward Chris Bosh.
“His favorite saying is ‘send them to Big Dog,’” Pacers guard George Hill said of Hibbert. “When we’re in trouble, he’s our bail-out.”
Hill helped out with 20 points and forward Danny Granger collected 17 as the Pacers head into Sunday’s Game Four in Indianapolis with the upper hand.
Miami tried to shake up its lineup, but it had little effect.
“It was a good, old-fashioned butt-kicking,” said Miami coach Erik Spoelstra.
Regular Mario Chalmers scored 25 while the NBA’s most valuable player LeBron James had 22.
The three other Miami starters collectively scored five points, all by an ice-cold Dwyane Wade.
The normally high-scoring All-Star guard did not have a point in the first half for the first time in 95 postseason games.
“I guess I made history tonight,” said a frustrated Wade, who was 2 of 13 from the field and screamed an expletive at Spoelstra during the third quarter.
Shane Battier, who started at small forward, missed all seven of his shots, and replacement center Dexter Pittman lasted less than three minutes as Indiana jumped out to an 11-2 lead.
The Heat fought back for a 26-17 advantage at the end of the first quarter, though that would be the last period the Heat would dominate.
The Pacers tied the score by halftime and controlled the game afterwards, holding Miami to 12 points in the third quarter as they stormed to a 69-55 lead before closing it out in the final period.
At San Antonio, Parker made up for scoring only nine points in the opening game of the series.
“They tried to take me out of Game One, so I had to be patient,” he said after celebrating his birthday with a crucial win.
“In the first half they did the same thing. In the second half things started opening up.”
Tim Duncan added 18 points for the Spurs while Blake Griffin topped the Clippers with 20.
Chris Paul scored just 10 for the Los Angeles team, having twice as many turnovers (eight) as shots made. Parker said there was a reason.
“I’m just trying to do my best stay in front of (Paul, on defense) and make sure he takes hard shots,” he said.
“It’s not just me, it’s the whole team. It’s the whole team focusing on Chris to make sure he doesn’t get going.”
Game Three is in Los Angeles on Saturday.
(Reporting By Gene Cherry in Raleigh North Carolina Editing by Alastair Himmer)
Article source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/18/us-nba-playoffs-idUSBRE84H03O20120518
Kim Kardashian Lets British TV Host Alan Carr Grope Her "Big Butt"
Posted on May 19, 2012
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Let’s hope Kanye West isn’t the jealous type.
The 34-year-old rapper’s girlfriend, Kim Kardashian, 31, got cheeky during a taping of England’s Alan Carr: Chatty Man (airing Friday at 10 p.m.).
“I would love a bum like yours,” host Alan Carr, 35, told the buxom E! reality star. “If I had a bum like yours I would walk in to a room backwards. How honored are you when people say you have the best bum in the world?”
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Kardashian admitted that “it’s weird to think of yourself like that, but I do work out all the time. I also think it’s like an Armenian thing; it runs in the family, and we are all really curvy. So I thank my roots for giving me a big butt!”
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After explaining that her butt is all real — “no implants!” — Kardashian invited Carr to check it out for himself.
“You know what a real butt feels like, right?” Kardashian laughed, as Carr placed his hand on her famous derriere.
Though Kardashian didn’t say much about her relationship with West, she was happy to address critics who say she’s only “famous for being famous.”
“You know, it doesn’t really bother me. I’m pretty realistic: I don’t sing, I don’t dance. I’m not that kind of celebrity,” Kardashian said. “I don’t think reality people get that much respect. I have to get people to like me for being me, not for a script that someone’s written for me.”
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She added: “I’m just thankful we’re on the seventh series of our show and people are still in to it and think we’re fun and crazy. There are a lot of things that I do so I don’t really look at it negatively. I’m pretty realistic.”
Article source: http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/kim-kardashian-lets-british-tv-host-alan-carr-grope-her-big-butt-2012185
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