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  • Sarah Hyland Gets Her Boogey on With ‘The Penguins of Madagascar’ at Delta Holiday Party

    Sarah Hyland got her boogey on with The Penguins of Madagascar at the Delta Airlines annual holiday party at LAX Wednesday.

    The Modern Family star and singer Jordin Sparks joined the festivities at Delta’s Holiday in the Hangar celebration, “Flight to the North Pole,” for children of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and it looked like the 24-year-old had the time of her life.

    Others to make the event memorable for the kiddos included Toothless, the Coca-Cola Polar Bear, LA Lakers alum A.C. Green, LA Kings’ Bailey mascot, Ice Crew, and Chariot Staff. And, of course, Santa Claus and his elves were there.

    Kids attending the party had a lot of fun things to do — participating in sports games with the LA Lakers and the Kings, DJ “spinning” with the Grammy Museum, making holiday arts and crafts and singing Christmas songs with Santa and his elves.

    Also. This happened today. Grindin on penguins. Cool sarah.

    A video posted by Sarah Hyland (@therealsarahhyland) on

    Hyland posted a video on Instagram, which showed the actress dressed in a white skirt, a white mid-drift-baring top and white pumps, “grindin on penguins” at the event. Hyland also posted a photo to her Twitter account.

    Hyland, who plays Haley Dunphy in the ABC series, will next be seen in the upcoming comedy drama See You in Valhalla.

  • Miami Heat Rumors: LeBron Still in No Man’s Land

    On Wednesday, LeBron James met with President of the Miami Heat, Pat Riley. And at the end of said meeting, nothing was accomplished – a scary thought for fans of the Miami Heat.

    In case you have been living under a rock for the past month (or just too caught up in all the World Cup fervor), Miami Heat star LeBron James is now a free agent and on the market, looking for the best NBA team at which to win his fourth championship. Not only did James opt to become a free agent, but his two compadres, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh, did as well. While Wade is expected to sign with the Miami Heat again regardless of James’s decision, Bosh has been rumored to want to wait until LeBron decides where he wants to go before making a decision.

    What that decision from James will be is anyone’s guess. Before Wednesday’s meeting, most Heat fans would have guessed that LeBron was staying with the Heat due to the recent acquisitions of Josh McRoberts and Danny Granger – two pieces Riley and the Heat acquired in order to rebuild the team around LeBron.

    However, with LeBron leaving his hour-long meeting with Riley on Wednesday without a commitment, Heat fans should be worried as to what is to come.

    Especially with the recent moves from the Cleveland Cavaliers. If you remember (And who couldn’t?), LeBron played for the Cavs for seven years before snubbing them to go to the free agency market and eventually signing with the Heat. After his “betrayal”, the city of Cleveland and Cavs owner Dan Gilbert effectively disowned James, calling him a coward and attempting to strike his name from the history books.

    Now that the Cavs have the opportunity to woo LeBron back, though, all is seemingly forgiven.

    Yesterday, Cleveland composed a three-team deal which would drop $9.5 million from their salary cap, leaving the team $21.7 million under the cap overall. All of this wiggle room not only allows Cleveland to sign LeBron, but also makes their pursuit of LeBron’s friends and teammates (such as Ray Allen and Mike Miller) all the more plausible.

    With LeBron voicing his opinion that he most certainly wants a max contract (putting him at $20.7 next year), the odds are looking in Cleveland’s favor right now.

    That is, unless Chris Bosh goes to the Houston Rockets, clearing enough space for the Heat to land Carmelo Anthony. Or, perhaps LeBron will sign with the Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets, or LA Lakers – all teams his agents has visited.

    In the end, one thing is certain – LeBron James will be making much, much, much more money than you, I, or anyone else we know next year. And in LeBron’s world, that seems to be what matters.

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  • Jeanie Buss Reveals Feelings of Betrayal in Memoir

    In an updated version of her memoir, Laker Girl, Jeanie Buss reveals her true feelings towards the Lakers’s hiring of Mike D’Antoni over Phil Jackson this past year. Buss, the executive vice president of business operations for the Lakers and Jackson’s fiance, was “stunned” when Jackson informed her that D’Antoni was chosen over him and felt that the incident was a “betrayal”:

    “The sequence of events — Phil almost coming back and then being told someone else was better for the job — practically destroyed me. It almost took away my passion for this job and this game. It felt like I had been stabbed in the back. It was a betrayal. I was devastated.”

    The incident nearly killed Buss, but how did Jackson – the man actually affected by the decision – feel? According to Buss’s memoir, Jackson appeared to be fairly nonchalant about the choice:

    When he hung up, I asked him what that was about, and he said, “Mitch called to tell me they’ve hired D’Antoni. He said that they feel given the personnel they have that D’Antoni is a better fit. He said they know they are going to take a bit of a PR hit, but he thinks it will blow over in a month…”That was really odd,” he said in the quiet of our bedroom as he replayed the conversation in his mind.”

    Jackson appeared to be able to relay the news in a calm manner, and his only comment was that the decision was “odd”. This is a reaction that makes sense. Jackson retired after the 2011 season, after coaching for 27 years and winning 11 NBA championships – 6 with the Bulls and 5 with none other than the Lakers. Jackson had already had his chance in LA with Kobe, and as Buss stated, “Phil wasn’t looking for the job.” (Even thought Jackson apparently thought that he was a better coach for Dwight Howard than D’Antoni.)

    Perhaps the most interesting and ironic comment by Buss was when she said, “I hope the flirtation with Phil wasn’t just a PR stunt. I still can’t get my head around the whole story.” If one takes the time to read the excerpt of the memoir released to the LA Times, the entire thing reads as a huge PR stunt. Buss had to be sent home from the gym because she was crying; the decision “practically destroyed” her; she felted betrayed and devastated…. And she wasn’t even the one who wasn’t hired.

    And better yet, Buss and Jackson seem to be capitalizing from the life of ownership drama Buss now lives, following her father, Jerry Buss’s, death, in a new Showtime drama.

    Unfortunately, it seems as if Phil Jackson wouldn’t have been the saving grace the Lakers were looking for, regardless. Kobe Bryant faced an injury-prone season once again, Steve Nash seemed older than ever, and Dwight Howard was….Dwight Howard. Since the end of the season (in which the Lakers were crushed in the first round of the playoffs by the Spurs), Howard has taken his talents to the Rockets over disagreements with D’Antoni (OK – so perhaps Jackson was a better coach for Howard), and Bryant has stated that he will not look to take a pay-cut in order to land a big-name free-agent next year.

    In her memoir, Buss stated that the decision to hire D’Antoni probably came due to her father’s wishes “to go back to playing Showtime basketball.” It seems as if Jerry Buss is going to get his wish, only in a slightly altered, and much more dramatic, manner.

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