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Adam Himmelsbach: Kyrie Irving will be on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday.

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Nets Daily: Confirmed Prokhorov will be on Stephen Colbert's "Russia Week," with tentative date of Wednesday. Colbert was in Moscow last week.

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Second City in Chicago is one of America’s legendary comedy troupes. Its alumni include Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, John Candy, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, Bill Murray, Mike Myers, Harold Ramis, Amy Sedaris, Martin Short, and… JaVale McGee? He was on stage with them Wednesday night, as the Warriors were in town to take on the Bulls Thursday.

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Dan Gelston: Allen Iverson on The Late Show w/ Stephen Colbert next Wednesday. https://t.co/I4wCXDLZ2W

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Needless to say, Mark Cuban isn’t the biggest fan of Donald Trump. He’s spoken critically of the Republican Presidential Nominee before, but appearing on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” following another busy day at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, the Dallas Mavericks owner took the microphone and fired some serious shots at Trump.

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Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry appeared on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on Tuesday ostensibly to promote NBA 2K16, but he ended up in a completely different kind of game. After complaining that Curry's name shows up first in Google when you type in "Stephen," Colbert challenged the MVP to shoot socks into a laundry hamper. "Here's the deal," Colbert told his guest. "Our moms are coming to visit. We've gotta get our dirty laundry off the floor and into the hamper down there." And then they went at it:

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After signing Stephen Colbert to succeed David Letterman on “Late Night“ — trumping the CNN upfront presentation with the announcement — Moonves is moving to “Billionaires Beach.” Page Six has exclusively learned Moonves has bought Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s home on Malibu’s prestigious Carbon Beach for $28 million. Allen bought the gorgeous, white-walled and glass modern oceanfront house for $25 million in 2010.

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Erving hasn’t returned to a television studio since, save for some promotional trips (like this one, with Stephen Colbert) centered on the release of his new memoir, "Dr J.: An Autobiography.” And while he isn’t exactly burning television network bridges with one recently released excerpt, you can probably understand why Mr. Erving doesn’t exactly seem keen on re-joining the broadcast booth any time soon. From his book: I worry that I am not up to the task of explaining the essence of basketball as it is played at the highest levels. I feel that it is like trying to explain music through words or to describe a painting through text. You can give a feeling of the work, or compare it to something else, but you can't re-create the actual feeling of being on the court, or making that move, of imposing your will, of the precise moment that you realize you can reach the front of the rim.

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Stephen Colbert, cable television's premier satirist, has brought his pro-corporate schtick to the NBA lockout. After recently interviewing billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who defended his fellow owners as "kind" and "caring" people, Colbert has released a mock political advertisement vouching for the NBA owners in their ongoing labor dispute with the NBA players. The minute-long spot features a visual of an American flag, an unemployed businessman, mice chasing cheese, and a headshot of Cuban, as Colbert reads a voiceover script. "It's another sad day in America," Colbert says. "As the NBA lockout grinds on, depriving millions of their favorite sport. Meanwhile, the NBA players will stop at nothing to get all the cheese. With unemployment at an all-time high the players are demanding more millions." He continues: "But the NBA owners are on your side, they're working hard to save the season so Americans don't have to watch hockey. NBA owners are job creators who send our economy soaring... And heroes like Mark Cuban are the number one employer of our nation's tiny blimp pilots. The players have missed their shot, so call your local sports radio show and yell, 'We want our NBA.'"

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Tom Ziller: David Stern actually looked a little nervous on Colbert. I've never seen that before.

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Other finalists this year include President Barack Obama (the 2008 winner), Lady Gaga, Sarah Palin, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, conservative commentator Glenn Beck, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Also on the list: The trapped Chilean miners who spent more than two months underground before finally being reached and rescued in a gripping story that was covered worldwide. "That's just crazy," James said. "What those guys did, the courage and what they stood for, I should be nowhere near that list. Nowhere near it."

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