Indiana Pacers All-Star Tyrese Haliburton has been listed as questionable for Sport 3 of the staff’s Japanese Convention finals matchup in opposition to the Boston Celtics on Saturday due to a sore left hamstring.

Haliburton scored 10 factors and performed simply eight minutes within the second half earlier than leaving Indiana’s 126-110 Sport 2 loss Thursday due to the sore hamstring. He sat out the complete fourth quarter.

Haliburton additionally suffered what Pacers coach Rick Carlisle described as a chest damage that occurred throughout a first-half collision with Boston’s Jaylen Brown.

In the meantime, the Celtics’ damage report launched Friday listed middle Kristaps Porzingis (proper soleus pressure) as out and Luke Kornet (left wrist sprain) as uncertain.

Porzingis — out since struggling the calf damage in Sport 4 in opposition to the Miami Warmth on April 30 — may make his return to those Japanese Convention playoffs as quickly as Sport 4 on Monday, sources instructed ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Tuesday. The Celtics will not rush Porzingis again and wish to proceed to be conservative in his restoration, however sources say he’s inching nearer to a return.

Haliburton’s damage is a recurrence of a left hamstring pressure suffered Jan. 8 in opposition to the Celtics when he slipped and fell and needed to be helped off the courtroom. The Pacers went 6-4 throughout that stretch.

“He was sore at halftime,” Carlisle mentioned of Haliburton’s hamstring after Thursday’s sport. “He was getting work achieved for the whole lot of halftime. He got here out, gave it a shot and all the trouble that he may. I have never talked about it on to him, so I can not learn minds, nevertheless it wasn’t going properly. The trainers decided he needed to be delivered to the again to be labored on, after which he was dominated out.”

The Celtics will want two extra wins to succeed in their second NBA Finals in three years with the subsequent two video games being performed in Indianapolis, the place the Pacers are an ideal 6-0 this postseason.

ESPN’s Jamal Collier and The Related Press contributed to this report.

BOSTON — The Indiana Pacers aren’t solely in an 0-2 gap to the Boston Celtics within the Jap Convention Finals, however the group is now awaiting phrase on star guard Tyrese Haliburton. The 2-time All-Star left Thursday night time’s Sport 2 loss in Boston with a hamstring harm, placing his standing for the remainder of the collection in query.

Haliburton injured himself with simply over six minutes left within the third quarter Thursday night time whereas attempting to defend Jayson Tatum. He took an ungainly step whereas sliding with the C’s ahead, and grimaced in ache as he stumbled. He remained within the recreation and even introduced the ball up the courtroom on Indiana’s subsequent possession, however didn’t return after limping to the locker room with three minuets left within the quarter.

The Pacers dominated him out a short while later, and ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that Haliburton was coping with left hamstring soreness. That is particularly worrisome for the Pacers, as Haliburton missed 10 video games through the common season with a hamstring situation.

Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle did not have a lot on Haliburton’s standing after the sport, however mentioned that the hamstring was bothering his star level guard at halftime.

“He gave it a shot and gave all of it the hassle that he may,” mentioned Carlisle. “It wasn’t going properly. So the trainers decided that he wanted to go to the again and get labored on.”

The Pacers are hoping for excellent news on Friday, because the collection shifts to Indiana for Sport 3 on Saturday.

In his 28 minutes in Sport 2, Haliburton scored 10 factors and dished out eight assists. He was an actual thorn in Boston’s aspect in Sport 1, draining six threes on his strategy to 25 factors to go along with 10 assists, three rebounds, and three steals. 

Dropping Haliburton for any time can be an enormous blow to the Pacers and one other large break for the Celtics, who did not should take care of Donovan Mitchell of their last two video games of their second-round collection win over the Cleveland Cavaliers. If Haliburton is compelled out of the lineup, the Pacers will rely closely on Andrew Nembhard (16 factors in Sport 2) and TJ McConnell (9 factors) going ahead. 

However not having their star participant would make an uphill battle even harder, because the Pacers now must win 4 of their subsequent 5 video games towards a Celtics group that’s decided to win a title this season.

(TMX) – Kabosu, the Shiba Inu canine that starred in numerous memes and impressed the Dogecoin cryptocurrency, has died, in line with her proprietor.

Kindergarten instructor Atsuko Sato, 62, posted a poem on her weblog Friday confirming the information and thanking “everybody who beloved her.”

“At 7:50 a.m., she fell right into a deep sleep,” she wrote. “She quietly handed away as if asleep whereas I caressed her.”

Kabosu was adopted, however Sato, who’s from the town of Sakura in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, believes she was round 18 years previous.

In 2010, Sato posted a photograph of Kabosu giving a quizzical, side-eye expression, on her weblog, and by 2013 it unfold throughout the web, spawning “Doge” memes. The memes used Kabosu’s picture overlaid with phrases of amazement and surprise meant to be the canine’s inside monologue, typically in damaged English, comparable to “a lot wow” and “such freeze, a lot frosty.”

In December 2013, two software program engineers created the cryptocurrency Dogecoin, impressed by Kabosu, however what started as a joke grew to become the primary “meme coin” is now one of many prime 10 most beneficial cryptocurrencies on the planet, with followers together with billionaire Elon Musk.

“The impression this one canine has made the world over is immeasurable. She was a being who knew solely happiness and limitless love,” the official Dogecoin account posted on X, previously Twitter. “Please hold her spirit and her household in your coronary heart, and most significantly carry her with you as your story continues – we’re all lucky for hers to have touched and formed ours.”

In 2021, non-fungible token, or NFT, of Kabosu’s picture bought for $4 million. She grew to become well-known in her hometown of Sakura, with a bronze statue unveiled earlier this yr.

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The web-famous canine behind the enduring “Doge” meme has died, in line with an announcement shared Friday on the canine’s official Instagram account, run by her proprietor Atsuko Sato.

“To all of you who beloved Kabosu, On the morning of the twenty fourth of Could, Kabosu crossed the rainbow bridge,” the assertion, shared in Japanese and English, learn. “Thanks all a lot in your help over time.”

Kabosu, a Shiba Inu, went viral in 2013 after a photograph of the sunshine golden brown canine and their inscrutable facial features was shared on Sato’s weblog. Web customers rapidly dubbed Kabosu as “Doge” and images of Kabosu would get shared together with brief phrases, usually in damaged English and response phrases, like “wow,” meant for instance what a canine’s inside monologue would hypothetically say.

Kabosu even impressed the launch of the cryptocurrency DogeCoin in December 2013.

In keeping with Sato, Kabosu, whom she additionally known as Kabo-chan, was 18 years outdated and Sato cared for her for practically 16 years. They lived in Chiba prefecture, southeast of Tokyo, in Japan.

“She went very peacefully with out struggling, as if falling asleep whereas feeling the heat of my fingers petting her,” Sato wrote. “Thanks all a lot for loving Kabosu all these years. I’m sure that Kabosu was the happiest canine on this planet. That makes me the happiest proprietor on this planet.”

“I wish to specific my deepest appreciation to everybody who has despatched us a lot like to us,” Sato added.

That is the Prince Harry and Meghan Markle marriage ceremony for individuals whose royal household is the Home of Bon Jovi. Per the U.S. Solar, 20-year-old Millie Bobby Brown married Jon Bon Jovi’s son, 22-year-old mannequin Jake Bongiovi, in a secret ceremony final week. Nicely, it was solely a secret to us common people; the couple’s mother and father had been reportedly in attendance. The Solar described the occasion as a “very low-key, romantic affair with their closest household with them as they mentioned their vows.” It passed off within the U.S., so maybe Brown slipped into her American accent when she mentioned “I do”? The newlyweds are additionally mentioned to be planning one other bigger ceremony for later this yr. Matthew Modine has mentioned he had written vows and can be officiating this union, although it’s unclear whether or not he was booked for one or each of the weddings.

Brown and Bongiovi beforehand introduced their engagement in April 2023, a few yr and a half after they made their relationship official on Instagram (which is the place they met). Their engagement was met with some shock on-line, given their comparatively younger ages. Can this marriage actually final till loss of life does them half? Hey, Stranger Issues have occurred.

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We’re livin’ for this information: Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi are married.

The “Stranger Issues” actress and Jon Bon Jovi’s son — who obtained engaged in April 2023 — formally mentioned “I do” throughout a personal ceremony final weekend, a number of retailers report.

This relationship replace comes three years after Brown, 20, and Bongiovi, 22, first sparked romance rumors once they frolicked collectively in New York Metropolis in June 2021. Nonetheless, the duo did not formally affirm their relationship till November of that yr, when she posted a candy PDA pic with Bongiovi on the London Eye.

Since then, the couple hasn’t shied away from placing their love on show. In truth, it was only a few weeks in the past that Brown shared a candy birthday tribute to Bongiovi, writing on Instagram Could 7, “the day u had been born is my favourite day i like you.”

Earlier this yr, Bongiovi additionally celebrated Brown’s big day with a message of his personal. “Comfortable birthday my lovely fiancé,” he captioned an lovely Instagram pic February 19. “I really like you a lot.”

He even teased their upcoming nuptials, concluding his notice, “Huge yr forward.”

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And Brown, in fact, has the stamp of approval from Bongiovi’s well-known father.

“She’s fabulous,” the Bon Jovi frontman — who shares Jake in addition to children Stephanie, 30, Jesse, 29, and Romeo, 20, with spouse Dorothea Hurley — informed E! Information in April. “She’s actually great and her and Jake are an excellent couple.”

Millie Bobby Brown shares with Jimmy Fallon the complete story of how her fiancé Jake Bongiovi proposed.

In spite of everything, it did not take Brown and Bongiovi lengthy to fall for one another.

“I used to be serious about him and wished to know extra,” the “Damsel” star informed The Instances in August. “As quickly as we spoke I knew he was going to be an enormous a part of my life. I ran to my mum and mentioned, ‘I actually, actually like him!’ After we met we knew we by no means wished to go away one another’s facet.”

“You may’t pinpoint why, it is simply the sensation of realizing that that is the individual you need to spend the remainder of your time with,” she continued. “I feel a lot of life is overthinking. The one factor that made clear sense to me was him.”

E! Information has reached out to reps for Brown and Bongiovi for remark and has not heard again.

The Solar was first to report the wedding information.

LOS ANGELES — Caitlin Clark had 11 factors and 10 rebounds for her first WNBA double-double and the Indiana Fever beat the Los Angeles Sparks 78-73 on Friday night time to snap a season-opening five-game skid in entrance of a Sparks document crowd of 19,103.

Kelsey Mitchell led Indiana (1-5) with 18 factors and Aliyah Boston and Temi Fagbenle had 17 every.

Clark’s rebounds have been a profession excessive. She missed her first seven 3-point makes an attempt, however lastly made one with 2:27 remaining within the recreation, triggering an explosion of cheers and applause.

The sport featured the youth and way forward for the WNBA, with No. 1 draft decide Clark enjoying towards No. 2 decide Cameron Brink and fourth choice Rickea Jackson of the Sparks.

“They’re making a huge effect in our league,” Fever coach Christie Sides stated earlier than the sport.

Brink had 15 factors and 9 rebounds and Jackson added 16 factors off the bench for the Sparks (1-3). Dearica Hamby had 18 factors and 12 rebounds.

Jason Sudeikis, Rosie O’Donnell, Kathy Griffin, DeMar DeRozan of the Chicago Bulls, Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors, USC star JuJu Watkins together with teammate Rayah Marshall and coach Lindsay Gottlieb have been among the many franchise’s largest dwelling crowd for the Sparks’ first recreation at Crypto.com Area this season.

Clark gave a thumbs up and smiled as she walked throughout the courtroom after the buzzer and the group cheered her each transfer.

Boston, Fagbenle and Mitchell dominated the fourth quarter, with Mitchell hitting back-to-back 3-pointers.

Brink made a 3-pointer and Lexi Brown scored to attract the Sparks to 73-71. However Clark answered along with her second 3-pointer with 40 seconds left and the group roared once more as Indiana stayed in entrance, 76-71.

The Fever have been simply 7 of 25 from lengthy vary; the Sparks additionally struggled, going 5 of 24.

The Sparks performed their first two dwelling video games in Lengthy Seashore, however with Clark and the Fever on the town the sport was moved to downtown Los Angeles.

Trailing 45-34, the Fever opened the third quarter on a 16-3 run to guide 50-48. Fagbenle and Boston mixed to attain all of Indiana’s factors, with Fagbenle’s 3-pointer capping the spurt. Clark didn’t rating however she got here up with a giant steal at midcourt and after she missed Boston scored.

Up subsequent, the Fever go to the Las Vegas Aces on Saturday, and the Sparks host the Dallas Wings on Sunday.

The Fever and Sparks meet once more Tuesday in Indianapolis.

LOS ANGELES — For almost 38 minutes, all Caitlin Clark might do was miss.

It was not what the sold-out, document crowd, dotted with Clark jerseys in each Indiana Fever colours and Iowa shades, had come to witness.

Clark had scored solely 5 factors and watched in frustration as all seven of her 3-point makes an attempt clanked off the rim. Then with 2:24 left within the recreation and the winless Fever clinging to a 3-point lead in opposition to the Los Angeles Sparks, Clark stepped again from method past the 3-point line — 33 toes to be actual — and eventually discovered the underside of the online.

“I do not know if it is a good factor or a nasty factor, however I significantly suppose each shot I shoot goes to go in,” Clark stated. “Some nights are completely wonderful and a few nights you battle to shoot it just a little bit, however I need to take these pictures on the finish of the sport. I feel it is a mindset and a confidence that you must have about your self.”

After a whole recreation of uncharacteristic misses from deep, Clark’s first make introduced on a well-known face as she gave the opposing crowd a figuring out smile.

She wasn’t performed.

With lower than a minute left and the Fever now up by solely two, Clark pulled up once more, this time from 28 toes, and swished. The No. 1 general choose as soon as once more turned to the group with a smile and added a Michael Jordan-like shrug. The shot sealed a 78-73 win, giving Clark and the Fever their first victory of the season.

“We have been so shut,” Fever coach Christie Sides stated. “We simply stayed poised.”

In a marquee matchup between Clark and No. 2 general choose Cameron Brink, Clark would wish each little bit of her confidence. Friday’s recreation was her worst as knowledgeable, however what she lacked in scoring, Clark made up in almost each different facet of her recreation.

“She hit some enormous pictures however did all the pieces we would have liked her to do,” Sides stated. “She’s actually centered on actually serving to us out, getting higher on the defensive [end]. I am actually happy with her vitality.”

All through many of the first half, Clark was flummoxed by the Sparks’ protection, unable to get right into a rhythm. The Fever went into the locker room down 11 factors after taking pictures 39% from the sector and 22% from 3.

However within the second half, Clark adjusted. She stored taking pictures and stored lacking, however she additionally put her imprint on the sport by grabbing a team-high 10 rebounds, churning out a team-high eight assists — together with a number of eye-popping passes that threaded tight home windows — and snagging a team-high 4 steals.

Clark stated postgame that, regardless of the 0-5 begin, she has felt extra comfy in her previous few video games. She stated it has been useful to remind herself that it is “not all concerning the scoring” however somewhat how she will affect the sport in different methods.

“I believed I performed a extremely good recreation apart from [shooting],” Clark stated. “Whether or not I used to be rebounding, discovering my teammates, I believed I used to be actually energetic on protection, so I did not let that hassle me, and that is one thing I am actually happy with.”

If Clark discovered methods to make her presence felt on what was largely an off night time, then her teammates had been those who shouldered the load on the scoring entrance. Aliyah Boston shot 57% from the sector and had 17 factors, Kelsey Mitchell had a team-high 18 factors, and Temi Fagbenle added 17 off the bench. Clark’s protection, together with the remainder of the Fever’s efforts on that finish, held the Sparks to 11 factors within the third quarter.

After the Fever erased the Sparks’ 11-point halftime lead with an 11-0 run, the sport went backwards and forwards as each groups battled to make a run and keep forward. With time dwindling within the fourth quarter and the lead bouncing backwards and forwards, it grew to become clear that Clark’s passing, protection and rebounding wouldn’t be sufficient. A win would require her to do what she does greatest, what the group readily available had come to see her do: rating.

Clark stated she knew it was solely a matter of time earlier than the pictures began to fall.

“To be sincere, I went to the bench after I used to be like, ‘I used to be due, they needed to go in,'” Clark stated of her two late 3s. “I had missed so many all through the sport. It was time for them to go in.”

With simply two moments, Clark’s tough recreation was instantly reworked into an early profession spotlight. As she saluted the Los Angeles crowd that stayed after the buzzer to offer her a standing ovation, the scene was a reminder that though she is enjoying in a brand new league and for a brand new staff, Clark can nonetheless placed on a present.

“It has been a whirlwind,” stated Clark, now six video games into her WNBA profession. “That is my job, that is what I like to do, however I by no means need to lose the enjoyable of the sport, and nights like tonight remind me why I like enjoying basketball.”

NEW YORK — In 80 regular-season video games, Rangers heart Barclay Goodrow scored 4 targets. It has taken solely 12 playoff video games for him to equal that whole, together with his clutch extra time purpose to win Friday’s Recreation 2 of the Japanese Convention finals because the Rangers evened the collection with the Florida Panthers 1-1.

“I do not know. I simply attempt to deliver my greatest sport, each evening,” Goodrow stated when requested about his postseason offensive uptick. “It feels good every time you are able to do one thing to assist the group.”

That work ethic had Goodrow’s teammates ecstatic about one of many Rangers’ most unsung heroes getting his postseason second within the 2-1 victory.

“He is a type of guys that will get groups to win. He is a big-time participant who exhibits up in big-time video games,” captain Jacob Trouba stated.

“To see him rating a purpose like tonight is superior, as a result of his position does not all the time include that,” coach Peter Laviolette stated. “While you see any individual who does so many different issues that helps the group achieve success, you are actually completely happy for a man like that once you see him make a big impact on the sport.”

Goodrow scored at 14:01 of extra time. Trouba began the play with an outlet move from the Rangers’ defensive zone that Goodrow knocked down along with his stick close to heart ice. He moved the puck to teammate Vincent Trocheck, who despatched an aerial move again to Goodrow within the Panthers’ zone as linemate Will Cuylle drove to the web for a doable rebound.

“I suppose I do not actually keep in mind precisely the way it went in, however I simply keep in mind Troch made an amazing move to me,” Goodrow stated. “Cools was driving the web, opening up the lane. So it was an amazing play by these two.”

Goodrow fired a wobbly puck by way of Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky (28 saves) for the winner.

“I do not like to speak concerning the targets. He simply shoot and rating,” Bobrovsky stated. “It’s what it’s. Two good groups enjoying hockey. It is a good win for them.”

Because the Rangers mobbed Goodrow on the ice in entrance of a delirious Madison Sq. Backyard crowd, the Panthers stood at their bench, questioning if Goodrow had touched the puck with a excessive stick to start out the sequence. However the purpose stayed on the board.

Goodrow stated he by no means believed he struck the puck with a excessive stick. “No. Within the play, it by no means crossed my thoughts,” he stated.

Playoff success is nothing new for Goodrow. He was an important depth ahead on back-to-back Stanley Cup championship groups with the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2020 and 2021. He left the Bolts in July 2021 to signal a six-year free agent take care of the Rangers for $21.85 million.

After two seasons of double-digit targets, Goodrow’s offensive output slipped to 4 targets in 2023-24, his lowest whole in a full season since his rookie marketing campaign with the San Jose Sharks in 2014-15.

“It is humorous: When the puck’s not getting into, individuals sort of really feel like they’re by no means going to attain once more,” defenseman Adam Fox stated. “I’ve had that feeling, been by way of chilly stretches. Everybody needs to attain, however he is nonetheless going to do the opposite issues to assist us win. Our penalty kill has been big all yr and big within the playoffs. He performs in opposition to high traces. You by no means sense frustration when he is not scoring.”

Rangers goalie Igor Shesterkin, who was stable in making 26 saves within the win, pushed again on the notion that Goodrow’s season was inconsistent.

“Possibly for you he is up and down,” he stated. “However for me, he is all the time on the highest.”

A few of Goodrow’s targets within the 2024 postseason have been important. He tallied a short-handed purpose that ended up being the winner in Recreation 3 of the Rangers’ first-round sweep of the Washington Capitals. He had the series-clinching empty-net purpose in opposition to the Carolina Hurricanes in Recreation 6. Then got here Friday’s winner in opposition to the Panthers.

Goodrow was on the ice for that shift as a result of the Rangers wanted him to win a defensive zone faceoff, which he did.

“You see him take these defensive zone attracts on a regular basis,” Trouba stated. “It is truthfully a thankless job. He solely will get talked about if he loses them. When he wins them, which he does plenty of the time, no one ever talks about it.”

That is why Goodrow’s extra time purpose meant a lot to the Rangers. He is a grunt, a participant who does no matter is important to win however does not all the time get the headlines or the accolades.

“While you get a participant that may do every part, the place a coach can depend on that particular person, that is a fairly great tool within the toolbox,” Laviolette stated. “He takes faceoffs, performs all three ahead positions. You need him on the market on the finish of the sport. For those who’re successful a hockey sport, you may match him up in opposition to high traces. He brings physicality, brings management, brings plenty of qualities within our room. So once you get a participant like that, you respect it as a coach of all of the issues that he brings to the desk.”

Matt Rempe, the Rangers rookie who energized Madison Sq. Backyard along with his return to the lineup, stated Goodrow was a “16-win” sort of participant within the playoffs.

“Oh yeah. Goody’s that man,” Rempe stated. “Oh my gosh. That was unbelievable. That was an absolute snipe by him.”

Recreation 3 is Sunday afternoon in Dawn, Florida.