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Jon Krawczynski: Jordan Bell says he was chilling with Ryan Saunders in Vegas and they started talking about Drake. “Coach Kerr’s never talked to me about Drake before.” Cmon @Steve Kerr. Enough with Sinatra for these kids
“He did it his own way,” Erving said, comparing basketball’s “Chairman of the Boards” to another. “You have to compare him to Frank Sinatra, a guy who did it his own way and in the process, changed everything. Moses wasn’t the smoothest. He wasn’t the most articulate. There’s a short list of things he wasn’t and a long list of things that he was. “I feel like he completed his mission. He always had a mission, the message that he carried around in his bible. He did what it said. He was a man who loved his family, loved life to the fullest and got the most out of his time here.”
Mark Berman: Julius Erving (Dr. J) was at Moses Malone's funeral: "When he was given that stage he made the best of it and he did it his own way. You've got to compare him to Frank Sinatra, a guy who did it his own way, and during the process of doing it his own way, changed everything."
In 2012, he hired Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin impersonators for a party to celebrate the Clippers' playoff berth. The Marilyn impersonator tried and failed to coax Blake Griffin and Chris Paul up on stage with her before seductively serenading then-coach Vinny Del Negro while everyone in the room watched. "It was awkward, to put it nicely," Griffin says. "Vinny ended up biting the bullet for us there."
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And we have entered the Super Bowl phase of Knicks vs. Celtics - Carmelo Anthony was asked, "what type of music inspires you now? "I listen to Frank Sinatra a lot," Anthony said. "I love Frank, man. It keeps me calm. I’m already a mellow guy, but it keeps me super calm. I don’t like to get too excited. You got to expect the unexpected in situations like this." What else? Tony Bennett? "Sometimes, sometimes," Anthony said with a smile. "I listen to Tony Bennett when I’m sitting home drinking wine by the fireplace, a Christmas-time thing."
The commissioner wasn't about to do reporters' and critics' work for them, though, summing up his achievements and regrets (though he did quote a line from Sinatra's "My Way") Besides, this isn't an obituary. "I would say `the best' is a long list of things," Stern said. "It's hard to even pick." For the record, he did mention the Dream Team as one.
Bell was hurled violently around the vehicle’s interior and suffered multiple lacerations as well as a fractured skull after hitting the pavement headfirst. Smith was thrown through the open sunroof and injured his left shoulder upon landing on the road. He immediately called his father, Earl Jr., a well- to-do mason, at the family’s festivities. “J.R. was crazy, hollering and screaming,” the elder Smith says. Silence ensued, interrupted only by sirens shrieking from onrushing emergency vehicles. Sinatra and Marshall escaped with minor injuries. Both Bell and Smith were rushed to Jersey Shore University Medical Center by ambulance. “Absolutely horrifying to see,” says Smith’s sister, Stephanie. Bell never regained consciousness. He died 44 hours later. Smith, then 21, recovered at the hospital for a week. His father stood bedside around the clock. “I was extremely lucky,” Smith says now. “God blessed me.”
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