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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Pelicans energy ahead Zion Williamson was scratched from the lineup for the membership’s common season opener towards the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night time.

Pelicans coach Willie Inexperienced stated Williamson was sick and never in attendance.

“He’s not feeling nicely,” Inexperienced stated earlier than the sport. “He has been sick the final couple days … It’s just a few kind of virus.”

With out Williamson, Brandon Ingram stepped up with 33 factors to steer New Orleans previous Chicago 123-111. CJ McCollum added 23 for the Pelicans and newly-acquired guard Dejounte Murray had 14 factors, 10 assists and eight rebounds.

Inexperienced stated the membership is hopeful Williamson, who averaged 22.9 factors per sport final season, will be capable of rejoin the workforce when the Pelicans start a four-game West Coast journey in Portland on Friday.

The 6-foot-6 Williamson, the primary total choice out of Duke within the 2019 NBA Draft, performed in a career-high 70 video games final season. However his absence on Wednesday night time turned his 207th missed common season sport in his injury-plagued professional profession.

Within the 184 NBA video games he has performed, Williamson has averaged 24.7 factors per sport.

US actor Ron Ely, finest recognized for taking part in the position of Tarzan within the Sixties tv present of the identical title, has died aged 86.

“The world has misplaced one of many biggest males it has ever recognized – and I’ve misplaced my dad,” the actor’s daughter, Kirsten Casale Ely, stated in an Instagram submit.

Tarzan initially aired on NBC tv community from 1966 to 1968, throughout which period the actor broke quite a lot of bones and was reported to have been attacked by animals whereas performing his personal stunts.

After retiring from performing in 2001, Ely turned an creator and revealed two thriller novels.

Ely made a quick return to performing for one tv movie, Anticipating Amish, in 2014, the place he performed an Amish elder.

Within the Eighties, he appeared in different hit tv programmes together with cruise ship-based comedy The Love Boat, in addition to Surprise Lady with star Lynda Carter.

Born in Texas in 1938, Ely went on to marry his highschool sweetheart in 1959, earlier than divorcing two years later.

He was additionally recognized for internet hosting the Miss America pageant within the early Eighties, the place he met his second spouse Valerie Lundeen. The couple went on to have three kids.

Lundeen was stabbed to demise aged 62 by their son, Cameron, at their California dwelling in 2019. He was then shot lifeless by police after being deemed a menace by attending officers.

Ron Ely filed a wrongful demise lawsuit in opposition to the power, although the decide dominated the officers had acted in self-defence.

The Tarzan star died at his dwelling in Los Alamos in Santa Barbara, California on 29 September.

Saying the demise in an Instagram submit on Wednesday, the actor’s daughter stated: “My father was somebody that individuals known as a hero. He was an actor, author, coach, mentor, household man and chief.”

She added: “I knew him as my dad – and what a heaven despatched honour that has been. To me, he hung the moon.”

It’s no secret that Tom Holland isn’t nice at conserving secrets and techniques. However this time he’s not solely allowed to blab, he’s inspired. Right here’s the whole lot we all know concerning the 4th Tom Holland Spider-Man film, together with Holland’s ideas on the script.

February 15, 2023: Time and time once more he’s fumbled an NDA as varied late-night talk-show hosts (and Instagram Reside members) attempt to sneak an unique reveal from the Spider-Man star. Nonetheless, the newest massive Marvel information comes from Mr. Marvel himself, Kevin Feige. He tells Leisure Weekly {that a} fourth Spider-Man film is in improvement and at present being written. “All I’ll say is that we now have the story. We’ve got massive concepts for that and our writers are simply placing pen to paper now,” Feige shared deliberately. However this leaves a bigger query: Did Holland know a brand new script was being written for him, making him the primary Spider-Man with a fourth film? Or did he examine Twitter, stunned and excited for what’s to return like the remainder of us normies? He hinted in 2019 that he was persevering with on because the superhero earlier than the announcement of No Means House. Holland hasn’t posted concerning the information simply but (he’s in all probability tap-dancing his coronary heart away as Fred Astaire), which suggests he was in all probability included within the Zoom conferences. Yay Tom for conserving a secret!

October 23, 2024: As soon as once more Tom Holland is blabbing on The Tonight Present. Thank goodness, this time it’s with Feige’s approval. Holland confirmed that his fourth Spider-Man is certainly taking place, and that taking pictures begins subsequent summer time. In a separate interview, Holland stated the script had him and Zendaya “bouncing round the lounge.”

“The concept is loopy,” Holland stated on Good Morning America. “It’s just a little completely different to something we’ve accomplished earlier than, however I feel the followers are gonna actually reply to it.” How completely different are we speaking? Will we get Spider-Man: the School Years? Perhaps a cinematic adaptation of the Clone Saga. Or will Peter Parker group up with a sure daywalker and begin slaying vamps? That’s proper, Spider-Man 4 is the perpetually delayed Blade 1! No, in all probability not that.

The Phoenix Suns and Los Angeles Clippers open their 2024-’25 NBA seasons with a battle amongst Western Convention contenders. The sport is scheduled to begin at 10 p.m. ET (7 p.m. PT) with TV protection on ESPN and streaming on-demand.

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Phoenix Suns at Los Angeles Clippers

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When: Wednesday, Oct. 23 at 10 p.m. ET (7 p.m. PT)

The place: crypto.com Enviornment, Los Angeles.

TV channel: ESPN

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The Suns performed their option to a 49-33 report final season and had been swept by the Minnesota Timberwolves within the first spherical of the West playoffs. Offensively, Kevin Durant and firm had been among the many most effective groups within the league final season, rating fifth within the NBA in subject objective proportion (49.3%) and 3-point proportion (38.1%) and sixth in free throws (81.8%).

The Clippers completed two video games forward of the Suns to win the Pacific Division and fourth within the West. 4 of the group’s 5 prime scorers are again from final season, highlighted by Kawhi Leonard (23.7 ppg) and James Harden (16.6 ppg). Regular star ahead Paul George (22.6 ppg) left the Clippers for Philadelphia in free company.

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2024 Season Sequence: Warmth 115, Magic 106 in Orlando on Dec. 20; Warmth 99, Magic 96 in Miami on Jan. 12; Magic 105, Warmth 87 in Orlando on Jan. 21; Warmth 121, Magic 95 in Miami on Feb. 6

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The primary recreation of the season is at all times filled with the unknown. The preseason is just useful for a lot. Gamers know the best way to tempo themselves and put together for the common season. The query is whether or not they can activate the change. Or, extra appropriately, can they discover their footing particularly when all of the vitality goes towards them on the street.

In reality, the Orlando Magic haven’t received a gap recreation on the street since 2004 when Tracy McGrady led the Magic to an extra time win over the New York Knicks at Madison Sq. Backyard. That could be a five-game opening evening street shedding streak.

That also needs to let you know how little the opening recreation can imply. The Magic received that recreation after which misplaced their subsequent 19 video games. Conversely, Orlando began 0-2 in 2009.

The purpose is don’t put lots of inventory into one recreation.

Historical past doesn’t predict future outcomes although. These groups aren’t this workforce. And the Magic hae much more they’re assured about than the Warmth do.

Nonetheless, that is the Warmth. They’re wholesome and have some stellar gamers in Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo. Each have quite a bit to show this season and loads of motivation. It ought to make for an intense opening recreation on Wednesday.

3. All about turnovers

The largest query dealing with the Orlando Magic this yr is, after all, centered on their offense. They had been twenty second within the league in offensive ranking, the worst offense from any workforce that made the postseason. And everyone seems to be attempting to determine how the Magic enhance.

Higher taking pictures will, after all, go a good distance. However the obsession for the workforce all through coaching camp was to cut back turnovers. That’s the normal obsession for each coach within the preseason.

For the Magic, it’s an particularly acute downside. The workforce had a 15.0 % turnover fee final yr, rating twenty sixth within the league. The Magic misplaced lots of bites on the apple by ending lots of possessions and not using a shot. That’s the baseline of what they want—extra pictures.

An enormous key to early season video games is how is sharper offensively. It’s about who will run their stuff and look nearer to their last type. There may be clearly a protracted option to go till everybody reaches that. However the Magic have to point out progress with their turnovers. And that’s the greatest query mark contemplating they left their level guard points unaddressed with anybody exterior.

2. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope’s debut

Opening evening is at all times an opportunity to start getting aware of the brand new gamers. For the Orlando Magic, with solely two new gamers on the roster primarily, they didn’t get the prospect to see their new gamers play very a lot earlier than the video games rely. Not less than, the general public didn’t.

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope performed solely 32.6 minutes in two video games preseason video games. Even when the Magic tried stretching out their starters’ minutes within the last preseason recreation towards the Philadelphia 76ers, they might not get him again in after an prolonged interval and not using a stoppage.

It’s secure to say the Magic didn’t see Caldwell-Pope absolutely unleashed. He scored 5 complete factors and made simply 1 of 6 3-pointers. He’ll clearly be quite a bit higher than that. And the specter of his taking pictures already creates house.

The common season ought to see Caldwell-Pope unleashed extra and fitted extra to his position. This opening recreation may very well be the primary time the Magic actually see him.

1. Paolo and Franz’s leap?

The Orlando Magic have made it clear their aim is to earn homecourt benefit and attain the second spherical of the playoffs. There are a ton of things that can decide whether or not that occurs. However no issue is greater than their stars taking their acceptable leaps.

Paolo Banchero has to grow to be extra environment friendly and a greater decision-maker. He confirmed indicators of having the ability to try this all through the preseason. He appears poised for an enormous third season that would vault him towards All-NBA consideration.

Usually discussions of what the Magic can do stops on the query of what Banchero’s final ceiling is. That is the yr he begins mapping it out.

Franz Wagner has to take one other leap too. He has to proceed discovering methods to diversify his recreation. Regaining his 3-point shot would go a protracted option to elevating his scoring and effectivity. It’ll all make the workforce higher.

One recreation is not going to decide their futures, after all. However quite a bit is resting on their shoulders to hold this workforce. And so they should set a tone towards a troublesome Warmth opponent off the bat.

Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson’s newest movie, Babygirl, has everybody speaking—and for good purpose.

Babygirl explores an age-gap relationship wherein a girl able of energy embarks on a sexual affair along with her intern. Sure, Kidman’s character is the one having the affair, and the intern is performed by the Iron Claw star. However the advanced energy dynamics aren’t fairly what you would possibly assume (assume much less “boss abusing energy” and extra “BDSM”).

In a brand new interview, Kidman known as the position “liberating” however mentioned she needed to pause filming at one level as a result of depth of the intercourse scenes and days of limitless contact.

“There was an unlimited quantity of sharing and belief after which frustration,” she mentioned. “It’s like, ‘Don’t contact me.’ There have been instances once we have been capturing the place I used to be like, ‘I don’t wish to orgasm any extra.’”

She went on to explain how exhausted she felt by the method, reflecting on her emotions: “Don’t come close to me. I hate doing this. I don’t care if I’m by no means touched once more in my life! I’m over it. It was so current on a regular basis for me that it was virtually like a burnout.”

In an interview with Individuals, she additionally talked about actually going there, in addition to the significance of getting a girl in cost. “There’s a kind a ‘bounce off the cliff’ factor the place you go, Okay, I’m simply going to desert the whole lot and discover this with the folks that I belief in a style that’s already set, however hopefully we will discover new territory and particularly with feminine on the helm,” she mentioned.

We additionally know that Babygirl director Halina Reijn was impressed by the sexual thriller Fundamental Intuition, which starred Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas, a few girl who hadn’t been sexually happy in her marriage.

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Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson don’t maintain again of their upcoming erotic thriller “Babygirl.”

How might they?

Within the movie, written and directed by Halina Reijn, Kidman performs the CEO of a tech firm who has a really kinky affair with a a lot youthful intern, performed by Dickinson. Kidman received the perfect actress award on the Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant in August for her work within the A24 film.

In fact, when it got here to probably the most specific and kinkiest scenes within the film, an intimacy coordinator, Lizzie Talbot, helped the information the 2. “We’d have a dialogue with the intimacy coordinator after which Nicole and I type of did our personal factor with it as soon as we set the parameters of what we have been each snug with,” Dickinson informed me Friday at a “Babygirl” screening on the London West Hollywod lodge. “The intimacy coordinator is saying, ‘What are you snug with, what would you like as a director, what are you snug doing from that imaginative and prescient? They’re facilitating that and doing it very delicately with out interrupting the precise scene.”

The night after the screening on the Academy Museum Gala, I requested Kidman what she discovered most difficult in regards to the film. She laughed, “The entire thing,” however then added, “Really doing it justice and attempting to be open and uncooked and out there every day in each which solution to discover. As a result of the character of that movie, it was both going to be utterly susceptible and uncovered, otherwise you have been going to be protected, after which the factor wouldn’t join. Once I met with Helena, and we talked by means of it, I used to be identical to, ‘Simply give us a protected house,’ after which, ‘Please don’t make me appear like a idiot.’”

In a single scene, Dickinson is virtually bare and dancing in a lodge room to George Michael’s “Father Determine.” Reijn provided him no rehearsals beforehand. “That was simply me shifting,” Dickinson stated, laughing. “Halina put the music and stated, ‘Simply dance.’ So I simply had a bit groove. Perhaps I had a bit whiskey earlier than. However it was embarrassing.”

Dickinson stated he was “pinching” himself every single day about co-starring in a film with Kidman. “Subtly, I stored asking her issues like, ‘What was it like working with Stanley Kubrick?’ I used to be there at all times like poking at the truth that she is that this monolithic determine in cinema.”

Kidman proved to be something however a standoffish Hollywood star. “She is like probably the most comforting, heat performer to work throughout from,” Dickinson stated. “She units the tone on set, and he or she makes it really easy to be susceptible and to be humorous, as a result of she is so daring. he’s so courageous, and he or she does stuff, and also you’re like, ‘What the fuck is that?’ You’ll be able to’t even consider it.

“And he or she’s simply bought this innate sense of playfulness,” he continued. “And when you will have that on set, every thing’s really easy.”

DENVER (AP) — Missy, Kimba, Fortunate, LouLou, and Jambo have lived in Colorado Springs for many years within the elephant exhibit on the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Now an animal rights group is attempting to launch the elephants from what they are saying is basically a jail for such very smart and social animals identified to roam for miles a day within the wild.

Colorado’s highest courtroom will hear arguments Thursday on whether or not the older African feminine elephants ought to be legally capable of problem their captivity underneath a long-held course of utilized by prisoners to dispute their detention. The animal rights group NonHuman Rights Challenge says the animals are languishing whereas “unlawfully confined” on the zoo, and desires them launched to an unspecified elephant sanctuary.

“They’re struggling immensely and unnecessarily. With out judicial intervention, they’re doomed to undergo day after day, 12 months after 12 months, for the remainder of their lives,” a lawyer for the group, Jake Davis, stated in a Might temporary submitted to the Colorado Supreme Courtroom.

The principle authorized difficulty is whether or not or not the elephants are thought-about individuals underneath the regulation, and due to this fact capable of pursue a petition of habeas corpus difficult their detention. The NonHuman Rights venture argues that authorized personhood isn’t restricted to people.

The lawsuit is much like an unsuccessful one the group filed difficult the confinement of an elephant named Glad on the Bronx Zoo in 2022. New York’s Courtroom of Appeals dominated that Glad, whereas clever and deserving of compassion, can’t be thought-about an individual illegally confined with the flexibility to pursue a petition searching for launch.

The New York ruling stated giving such rights to an elephant “would have an unlimited destabilizing affect on fashionable society” and alter how people work together with animals.

The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo says transferring the elephants and probably inserting them with new animals can be merciless at their age, probably inflicting them pointless stress. It says they aren’t used to being in bigger herds and, based mostly on its expertise, they don’t have the abilities or need to hitch them.

In an announcement forward of Thursday’s listening to, the zoo claimed the NonHuman Rights Challenge isn’t involved concerning the elephants however is simply attempting to create a judicial precedent that may enable the captivity of any animal to challenged.

“We hope Colorado isn’t the place that units the slippery slope in movement of whether or not the one you love and well-cared-for canine or cat ought to have habeas corpus and can be required to ‘go free,’ on the whim of another person’s opinion of them,” it stated.