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The Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio, was flooded with millennials and Gen-Zers on Feb. 21, all buzzing in excitement for the first night of Sza’s Sos tour. Advertisements for a “Seek & Destroy” speciality cocktail — made with pink lemonade, Tito’s, and cotton candy — were posted throughout the arena. Fans flocked for tour merch, poring over psychedelic graphic tees, chrome-emblazoned caps, and a purple-and-tan tote bag made by Los Angeles fashion company Online Ceramics. Less than three months after the long-awaited release of Sza’s second album, her performance would differ...

Longtime sports journalist and broadcaster Rachel Nichols will join Showtime Basketball as a show host and producer, contributing to multiple platforms, programs and projects, the network said Friday.

“We are delighted to welcome Rachel Nichols to the Showtime Basketball family,” said Brian Dailey, senior VP of sports programming and content for Showtime. “Rachel brings unmatched journalistic credibility, great familiarity with our roster and a work ethic that will take us to another level.”

Nichols will contribute to Showtime Basketball’s premium, award-winning storytelling as she bolsters a group that features Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Jr Smith and King of NBA Twitter Josiah Johnson.

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“I’ve been so fortunate to live my dream job alongside some of the best journalists in the business for more than 25 years, and this new development deal with Showtime Sports gives me my most broad playing field yet,...

Rachel Nichols, a veteran sports TV host whose lengthy ESPN tenure was cut short by controversy, is finally re-emerging in a new on-air home.

She is joining Showtime Basketball, a new content vertical on the Paramount Global premium network, and will contribute to multiple programs and projects. Along with the announcement of her new corporate address, Nichols took part in her first sit-down interview about the circumstances surrounding the ESPN situation.

In 2021, Nichols was removed from The Jump, ESPN’s signature NBA show, and the show was canceled after an audio recording surfaced including comments Nichols, who is white, made about former colleague Maria Taylor, who is Black. Nichols contends that an ESPN staffer recorded her without her knowledge via a remote-video hookup and then supplied the recording to The New York Times. The news outlet framed the audio as evidence of racial insensitivity directed at Taylor. Nichols later settled with the network, but in the interview with All the Smoke, a Showtime video podcast hosted by former NBA players Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson, Nichols describes what she says were extreme restrictions on her options during and immediately after an internal ESPN investigation into the matter.

In the All the Smoke conversation, Nichols pushed back on the characterization of her exit by The Times and other outlets. She said her contract extension in 2019 had included a stipulation that she would be the studio host for the ESPN/ABC coverage of the NBA Finals on NBA Countdown, which she called “my dream job.” When Taylor was positioned in 2020 to host Countdown instead, Nichols said, “I thought, ‘I have worked so long for this’ … I wanted the chance to do it.” When she vented to a friend about the situation during the bubble environment in Florida in 2020, a colleague cherrypicked material from that conversation.

Nichols, who has developed a specialty in NBA coverage during her 25-year career, will join a roster at Showtime that includes Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Jr Smith and Twitter influencer Josiah Johnson.

“We are delighted to welcome Rachel Nichols to the Showtime Basketball family,” said Brian Dailey, SVP Sports Programming & Content at Showtime Networks. “Rachel brings unmatched journalistic credibility, great familiarity with our roster and a work ethic that will take us to another level.”

Nichols created and hosted The Jump from its inception as a daily ESPN show in 2016 to 2021. She has also covered multiple Super Bowls, World Series, Stanley Cup Finals, Olympic Games and tennis and golf majors, after nearly a decade writing for the Washington Post. At Turner Sports from 2013-16, she hosted Unguarded with Rachel Nichols on CNN, covered the NBA for TNT, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament on CBS and TBS, the MLB playoffs on TBS, the NFL and boxing. During her first stint at ESPN starting in 2004, she covered the NFL, NBA, contributed as a correspondent for E:60 and appeared on SportsCenter.

“I’ve been so fortunate to live my dream job alongside some of the best journalists in the business for more than 25 years, and this new development deal with Showtime Sports gives me my most broad playing field yet,” Nichols said. “They’ve asked me to produce, create and host new sports programming across platforms, working alongside Hall of Famers, multiple guys with championship rings and an uber-creative team behind the camera. We’re going to have so much fun.”...

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Rachel Nichols has landed at Showtime Basketball, the sports-focused vertical of the pay TV channel and streaming service.

Nichols will serve as a host and producer for Showtime Basketball, which produces video and audio podcasts, docuseries and documentary programming, among other fare.

Programming from the vertical includes the series Kevin Garnett: Anything Is Possible, and SpringHill’s Shut Up and Dribble. Its talent includes people like Garnett, Paul Pierce, J.R. Smith and Josiah Johnson.

“I’ve been so fortunate to live my dream job alongside some of the best journalists in the business for more than 25 years, and this new development deal with Showtime Sports gives me my most broad playing field yet,” said Nichols in a statement. “They’ve asked me to produce, create and host new sports programming across platforms, working alongside Hall of Famers, multiple guys with championship rings and...

LeBron James might just be Nostradamus ... because he predicted Lonzo Ball would run from the wrath of a royal thunder dunk ... and in Thursday night's game, Ball did just that. Lbj made the prognostication while visiting kids at the Cleveland Clinic (awesome guy) earlier this week when a brave young man named Andrew asked him to dunk on Lonzo. "He might not be in my way! Once he sees I'm about to take off,...

J.R. Smith is taking his hoodie beef with Stephen A. Smith to the next level -- dropping brand new "ugly sweater hoodies" for the holiday season ... and TMZ Sports has the first pics.  In the spirit of the "ugly sweater" holiday traditions -- J.R. decided to evolve the look to the hoodie ... complete with the phrase, "Merry Swishmas." Remember, J.R. and Stephen A. beefed a few months ago when the Espn star ripped J.

[[tmz:video id="0_zew8aiad"]] LeBron's a nightmare to opponents on the court ... but he was even more frightening at the Cavs Halloween party, 'cause the King's Pennywise costume is sure to keep you up at night. The Cavs always go over-the-top for their annual team gathering ... and Monday night was no exception -- from Kyle Korver's Willy Wonka (complete with Oompa Loompas!!) to J.R. Smith and his wife, Jewel, going as the Coneheads. But it was Tristan Thompson and...

[[tmz:video id="0_vpif6747"]] Tristan Thompson got totally roasted by his teammates during a fan event Sunday night ... when he was asked if he's already gone fur coat shopping for his baby with Khloe Kardashian. TMZ broke the story ... the Cavs star and Khloe -- his girlfriend of 1 year -- are expecting their first child together. So when T.T. was asked about having "his and her" fur coats with Khloe at the Cavs' annual "Wine & Gold United" event on Sunday,...

Khloé Kardashian and NBA boyfriend Tristan Thompson are together in Cleveland, Ohio, amid news that they are expecting a baby.

On Monday, the mother-to-be, 33, shared a photo of Lake Erie on Snapchat along with the caption: “I’m back!”

And on Tuesday, Thompson, 26, was spotted at the first day of the Cleveland Cavaliers training camp in Independence. The power forward practiced with teammates LeBron James, Richard Jefferson, Kyle Korver and J.R. Smith. Newest team member Dwyane Wade was not in attendance.

Thompson, who is already a father to 9-month-old son Prince Oliver with his ex-girlfriend Jordan Craig, spoke to the...

After a few love false starts, Khloé Kardashian finally has her Prince Charming – NBA player Tristan Thompson.

With the announcement on Tuesday that the couple are going to be parents, it’s time to take a look back to where it all began.

He’S Very Much Her Type

From day one it was clear that the twenty-six-year-old Thompson had the sporting skills that in the past turned the reality’s star head. Thompson already has an impressive NBA career under his belt. Originally from Canada, he was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2011, and helped the team win its first NBA Championship in June.

Amid rising tensions between President Trump and the National Football League, a meme saying NFL players only started appearing on the field for the national anthem in 2009 — after they were paid to do so by the government — is making the rounds on social media. But is it accurate?

According to the widely circulated image, players stayed in locker rooms during the anthem for games prior to 2009, when the U.S. Department of Defense and the National Guard began paying the NFL millions of dollars to hold patriotic displays.

The fact-checking website Snopes.com looked into the meme and determined that...

[[tmz:video id="0_id2rpoaa"]] J.R. Smith was asked about LeBron James ditching the Cavs ... and went Completely Nuclear -- telling the guy who brought it up to get the "f*ck outta here!" It all went down outside Poppy in L.A. -- one of the hottest new restaurants in West Hollywood -- when a photog hit a nerve by asking if LeBron was gonna leave Cleveland (again) after this season. Smith, one of Bron's Cavs BFFs, wasn't havin'...

[[tmz:video id="0_jebaqbaw"]] LeBron James says Conor McGregor was "tough as a motherf**ker" during the Mayweather fight -- and joked there's no way in hell he coulda gone 10 rounds with Tbe. TMZ Sports was right outside the T-Mobile Arena when we spotted Bron and Cavs teammate J.R. Smith breaking down the fight. LeBron: "You gotta respect [McGregor]." Smith: "The thing is he came out strong in the beginning of every round. He burnt himself out." LeBron: "You gotta...

Cleveland Cavaliers star J.R. Smith is opening up about his miracle baby.

In an emotional sit-down with Espn's Rachel Nichols, the 31-year-old NBA player and his wife, Jewel "Shirley" Harris, discuss their daughter's battle after being born five months premature.

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The couple welcomed Dakota in January, and she weighed less than one pound. Following her birth, Harris recalls telling doctors to "do what you got to do to save her life."

"I could literally hold her in one hand," Smith says of how small Dakota was at the time.

Throughout the ordeal, Harris turned to her husband for support. "It was times that I know he wanted to break down but he didn't and that allowed me to draw strength from him," she says.

For Smith, the hardest part of watching his daughter fight for her life, was not having...

Baby Kota is home! This past January, Cleveland Cavaliers player J.R. Smith's wife Jewel Harris gave birth at Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights, Ohio to their daughter, Dakota, five months early at 21 gestational weeks. The baby weighed one pound—at least five times less than the normal birth weight, making her a micro preemie—and was rushed to the Nicu. She was released from the hospital Tuesday, weighing a healthy 7 pounds and 5 ounces. "We Walked In Together We Walked Out Together!!" Smith wrote on Instagram, alongside a heartwarming photo collage of him and his wife leaving with their baby in a stroller. "Thank you so much to our extended family at the...

J.R. Smith had a helluva day Tuesday ... taking his baby, Dakota, home and winning a playoff game ... and now we have the first photo of daddy and daughter at home. As we previously reported, Smith and his wife, Shirley, took Kota home yesterday after a miracle 4 month stay in the hospital. Kota was born in January at only 21 gestational weeks ... and many "experts" thought survival was virtually impossible. They were wrong. Kota's home, and J.

Best homecoming ever! J.R. Smith took to Instagram on Tuesday to announce some exciting news. The NBA star’s daughter, Dakota, who was born five months prematurely, finally went home with her ecstatic parents.

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“We Walked In Together We Walked Out Together!!” Smith captioned a series of Instagram posts, holding his wife Jewel Harris’ hand as they pushed their infant daughter in a stroller out of the hospital.

The 31-year-old basketball pro went on to praise the staff for their support over the past few months, writing, “Thank you so much to our extended family at the #Nicu You all are truly the Worlds Greatest! @jewey808 back to #TeamNoSleep #KotasHome.”

Baby Kota was born back in January as her concerned parents reached out asking for prayers on social media. The couple posted an emotional video together explaining what happened.

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Proud parents J.R. Smith and wife Jewel Harris finally took home their daughter Dakota after she spent months in the Nicu after being born five months premature.

The 31-year-old NBA star posted a beautiful collage on his Instagram account Tuesday, sharing the news that he and Harris were finally able to leave the hospital with their baby girl.

“We Walked In Together We Walked Out Together!!” Smith wrote in the caption. “Thank you so much to our extended family at the #Nicu You all are truly the Worlds Greatest! @jewey808 back to #TeamNoSleep #KotasHome.”

Smith and Harris, who have been married since last August,...

Huge day for J.R. Smith -- and it has nothing to do with the NBA Playoffs -- his preemie daughter has finally been discharged from the hospital after a miraculous 4 month battle. As we previously reported, J.R.'s wife Shirley gave birth to their daughter Dakota (aka Kota) back in January -- nearly 5 months before her due date. Shirley says the baby was born at just 21 gestational weeks -- and many medical experts believed...

J.R. Smith and his wife, Shirley, spread a little Mother's Day cheer at the Cleveland hospital where their preemie daughter is being treated ... buying flowers for all the moms in the Nicu ward. The Cavs star's daughter, Kota, is still battling like a champ at the Cleveland Clinic Children's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (Nicu) ... where she was born roughly 5 months premature.  In an effort to brighten up the day for the other moms with babies in the Nicu,...

Cleveland Cavaliers star J.R. Smith has shared a joyful update on his baby girl, Dakota, who was born five months before her due date.

Tiny Dakota weighed just one pound when Smith and his wife, Jewel Harris, welcomed Dakota at 17 weeks back in January. But the preemie has since made tremendous progress, and her proud papa posted on social media to share the good news.

“Our baby has made it to 6lbs today!!! #mykotabear #kotastrong #daddysgirl,” he wrote on Instagram.

Smith and Harris, who have been married since last August, shared news of Dakota’s early birth in a video posted to Uninterrupted on Jan.

Big win for J.R. Smith this weekend -- and it happened Before the Cavs' playoff game! J.R.'s micro-preemie daughter -- born at only 1 pound -- made another huge stride on Friday and had her very first bottle! As we previously reported, Smith's wife, Jewel, gave birth to Dakota "Kota Bear" Smith in early January almost 5 months before her due date. Though the odds were stacked against her, Kota is continuing to fight --...

Phoenix -- Authorities say former NFL player Todd Heap was moving a truck that ran over and killed his 3-year-old daughter in the driveway of their suburban Phoenix home.

The Arizona Republic reported that police say Heap was behind the wheel of the truck when he accidentally struck the girl while moving the vehicle forward outside their home in Mesa on Friday afternoon.

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Officials said the girl was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.

Mesa police said impairment was not a factor.

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Heap played in the NFL for the Baltimore Ravens and Arizona Cardinals. He played at Arizona State University, where he was a two-time All-Pac-10 selection.

Heap and his wife Ashley have four other children. In 2010, Heap had a pediatric center in Baltimore named after...

How do you rebound from blowing a 26 point lead in the 4th quarter? If you're LeBron James ... you hit the club!!  Bron -- along with J.R. Smith and Tristan Thompson -- hit up Liv nightclub in Miami hours after the Cavs lost to the Atlanta Hawks in Atl. It was a shocking loss since the Cavs were up 26 points going into the 4th quarter. The game went into overtime where the Hawks put 'em away.

It's been a good week for the Smiths!

NBA star J.R. Smith's baby daughter, Dakota, had her breathing tube removed on Tuesday night, his wife, Jewel Harris, revealed on their blog.

Related: NBA Star J.R. Smith Reveals His Wife Gave Birth to Daughter 5 Months Early: 'Please Keep Us In Your Prayers'

"We arrived outside of Kota Bear's room and proceed to walk in, after I sanitized my hands my next step is always straight to peek into her bed and see if she is sheepin (sleeping) or awake pulling at her Cpap continuously attempting to snatch it off. Baaby Bye!!! When I bent over and looked at my daughters face and seen that she had a Ram Cannula on I almost passed the hell out," Harris wrote on Wednesday. "I started jumping up and down laughing and screaming in disbelief."

"A few minutes later, Dakota's primary nurse joined us in her room, she walked...

J.R. Smith and his wife Jewel Harris' miracle baby Dakota reached an enormous milestone: her breathing tube has been removed. Jewel gave birth to Dakota, also known as "Kota Bear," in January, almost five months before her due date. Baby Dakota weighed only one pound at birth, but after months of hard work, the Cleveland Cavaliers' guard's baby reached a point where she could breathe without a tube. Jewel took to her and her husband's website to emotionally detail the exciting moment the nurse told her Kota Bear was "not intubated" anymore. "I mean I was beyond excited to hold our 2lb 13oz miracle in the palm of my hands for the very first time," she wrote.  ...

[[tmz:video id="0_4m5zsepp"]] They beat the Bucks Monday night, but LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and J.R. Smith still had energy to put on a show After the final buzzer ... with another round of dope handshakes.  The handshake game has been a thing for the Cavs for years ... and it keeps getting better. Read more...

Ex-ny Knicks player Chris Smith -- the younger brother of J.R. Smith -- has taken Charles Oakley's side in the NBA legend's war with the team ... releasing an "I'm With Oakley" shirt. Chris is a co-owner of New Generation Management (along with Daniel Hazan) -- the same company that did the famous J.R. Smith tattoo shirt. By the way, we also spoke with Fresh Brewed Tees -- the website selling the shirt -- and...

Cleveland Cavaliers star J.R. Smith says holding his preemie baby for the first time was one of “the greatest days” of his life.

One month after Smith and his wife Jewel Harris announced that she’d given birth to their daughter, Dakota, very prematurely — the NBA star shared a photo on social media of the tender moment he held their baby for the first time.

“Today is one of the greatest days of my life. Today I get to hold my youngest for the first time! God is Great! #DakotaStrong,” Smith, 31, captioned the Instagram snap, posted on Monday.

Smith and Harris,...

J.R. Smith is experiencing one of "the greatest days" of his life, thanks to his 1-month old daughter, Dakota.

The Cleveland Cavaliers star got to hold Dakota for the first time on Monday after his wife, Jewel Harris, gave birth to her in January five months premature. Dakota weighed one pound at birth.

"Today is one of the greatest days of my life," Smith, 31, Instagrammed alongside a picture of him holding his baby girl to his chest. "Today I get to hold my youngest for the first time! God is Great! #DakotaStrong."

News: NBA Star Jr Smith Reveals His Wife Gave Birth to Daughter 5 Months Early -- 'Please Keep Us In Your Prayers'

Last month, Smith and Harris emotionally told fans that their newborn daughter was born five months early in a video posted by Uninterrupted. They share two other daughters, Demi and Peyton.

"She's five days old today, her name is Dakota, and she weighs...

J.R. Smith's miracle continues ... the NBA star finally got to hold his preemie daughter (born after only 21 weeks) ... and says it's one of the greatest days of his life.  As we previously reported, Smith's wife gave birth to baby Dakota in early January almost 5 months before her due date. Dakota only weighed 1 pound at birth.  Now, more than a month later ... Dakota is still fighting and doctors determined she's strong enough to allow her...

Khloé Kardashian is all about helping others in any way she can.

In a new post on her website/app, Kardashian, 32, opens up about the importance of giving back — which she is adamant is something “we should all be doing.”

“Big or small, it All counts!” she said. “It bothers me when people say, ‘Oh, you have so much money that you can give back.’ Offering a helping hand to someone in need — or offering emotional support to someone who needs it — is doing something good.”

“I’m so big on kindness,” she added. “I seriously believe that being kind...

J.R. Smith's newborn daughter is continuing to fight hard after her premature birth and we're told she's doing well ... TMZ Sports has learned. The Cleveland Cavs star and his wife, Jewel, announced their daughter, Dakota, was born 5 months premature earlier this month. Now, we're told specifically Dakota was born between 21 and 22 gestational weeks. She weighed roughly 1 pound at birth. A typical healthy pregnancy is 40 weeks. Obviously, Dakota -- who's now 8 days into her battle...

J.R. Smith and his wife, Jewel Harris, are sharing their family's difficult time with fans.

The NBA star revealed on Saturday that Harris had given birth to their third child together five months prematurely.

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"We have very important news," Smith said in the video, posted by Uninterrupted.

"Hi everybody, we decided to share with the world what's been going on with our family the past five days," Harris shared, on the verge of tears. "We know a lot of you guys congratulated us on the expectancy of our little baby girl, but we had her five months early."

"She's five days old today, her name is Dakota, and she weighs one pound," she added.

"We know we're not the only family going through this, who has been through this, and who will ever go through it, and that's...

J.R. Smith and his wife, Jewel Harris, are opening up about a family matter. The Cleveland Cavaliers athlete revealed in a video shared via Interrupted that Harris recently gave birth to their third child together, a daughter named Dakota, five months prematurely.  "We've got very important news," Smith starts by addressing the camera in the emotional video. Harris, on the verge of tears, then explains, "We decided to share with the world what's been going on with our family the past five days. We know a lot of you guys congratulated us on the expectancy of our little baby girl, but we had her five months early." "She's 5-days-old today...

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Cleveland Cavalier J.R. Smith and his wife Jewel have had a difficult start to 2017.

In a video posted to Uninterrupted, the couple — who have been married since last August — shared that Jewel gave birth to the couple’s third daughter five months before her due date.

“We’ve got very important news,” J.R. said in the beginning of the video.

“Hi, everybody,” Jewel continued. “We decided to share with the world what’s been going on with our family the past five days.

It might not be the popular thing to do ... but forgiving Joe Mixon is the Christian thing to do ... so says Justin Bieber's pastor Carl Lentz.  Lentz -- who's also a spiritual advisor to a Ton of NBA stars including Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony and J.R. Smith -- says he understands the outrage over newly released video of Mixon brutalizing a female Oklahoma student during a 2014 incident, but says God's will is clear.  "As Christians,...

Khloé Kardashian is giving thanks, specifically for her supportive family.

Just days after brother-in-law Kanye West was hospitalized for exhaustion and sleep deprivation, the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star is counting her blessings on the holiday dedicated to gratitude: Thanksgiving!

On Thursday, Kardashian, 32, shared a heartfelt post on her app about what she’s most thankful for — and the tradition she and her family members participate in annually around the Thanksgiving dinner table.

“On Thanksgiving, my family and I always go around the dinner table and say what we’re thankful for as I’m sure most families in America do.

Khloé Kardashian and her boyfriend Tristan Thompson are giving back for their first Thanksgiving together.

On Tuesday, the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star took to Snapchat to document their afternoon handing out food to underprivileged families at a turkey drive hosted by her beau and his Cleveland Cavaliers teammate J.R. Smith at the Greater Friendship Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio.

Sources previously told People that Khloé, 32, was up in the air about going forward with her plans to spend Thanksgiving in Cleveland with Thompson, 25, considering her brother-in-law Kanye West‘s recent hospitalization.

West, 39, was hospitalized for exhaustion Monday in Los Angeles.

[[tmz:video id="0_3a8tl1j0"]] So much for those breakup rumors ... because Khloe Kardashian and Tristan Thompson still look thicker than your average Thanksgiving gravy.   The couple hit up the Greater Friendship Baptist Church in Cleveland to hand out turkey dinners to underprivileged people ... along with Tristan's teammate, J.R. Smith.  Gobble gobble. Read more...

[[tmz:video id="0_ug7srzoi"]] President Obama just got to flex his comedy skills one last time ... welcoming the NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers to the White House. LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and the rest of the squad were honored by Potus on the lawn of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave ... and the prez was funny!! Topics Obama didn't touch? Donald Trump. Khloe Kardashian. Everything else was fair game ... including busting on J.R. Smith for not wearing a shirt after the Cavs won the title.

[[tmz:video id="0_5xlkdev5"]] LeBron James was Fired Up when the Cleveland Indians won the Alcs -- and so was the rest of the local bar he was watching the game at ... and the whole celebration was captured on video.  Bron hit up Townhall in Cleveland with J.R. Smith and Tristan Thompson to watch game 5 of the Alcs -- and sat right in the mix with a bunch of the locals.  When the Indians sealed the deal, the place...

[[tmz:video id="0_0xbno1ri"]] J.R. Smith went the Toby Keith route at Ovo Fest in Canada this weekend -- proceeding to party his face off with a red solo cup ... and he looked super turnt.  Smith was with former Cavs teammate Dahntay Jones and French Montana at the festival in Toronto -- sippin' something while sitting at a private VIP area in the middle of the Air Canada Centre.  Fun Fact -- the Ovo Fest is same place where...

Tons of people want a body like J.R. Smith -- and now they can have it ... 'cause the NBA star is selling t-shirts of his tatted physique ... and making a Ton of cash in the process.  Smith's inked up physique dominated the Internet when he refused to put a shirt on following the NBA Finals -- and a Cleveland-based clothing company saw a huge chance to cash in on the topless attention. We spoke with...

The Cavaliers made a pit stop on their way back to Cleveland -- landing the team jet in Vegas for a wild Sin City championship celebration ... complete with insane champagne showers!  LeBron, J.R. Smith, Kyrie Irving and the rest of the squad rolled into Xs nightclub at the Wynn -- and were greeted like they just won the Larry O'Brien trophy ... 'cause they did!  J.R. Smith even took his shirt off at one point ... because ... well,...

LeBron James is taking his talents to outer space.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lbj is set to star in the long-rumored sequel to Space Jam, the 1996 animated hit that pitted Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny against a team of intergalactic basketball baddies, with Fast & Furious 6 director Justin Lin tapped to helm the project (as well as co-write the script). James' involvement in the film has been the subject of much discussion ever since his production company signed a content-creation deal with Warner Bros. last year, and now, it...

Miley Cyrus and her sister Brandi were quite the adorable pair at Madison Square Garden in NYC on Saturday. The duo, who were accompanied by their mother, Tish, looked as happy as can be while watching the Cleveland Cavaliers take on the New York Knicks. On top of casually showing off her gorgeous engagement ring from Liam Hemsworth, Miley seemed to be having a whole lot of fun, grinning from ear to ear, sharing a few drinks with her sister, and snapping a few fun selfies with New York Giants football star Victor Cruz and Cleveland Cavalier J.R. Smith. While there were no signs of Liam, E! News reported that Miley and Liam had officially resumed their engagement back in January. Keep reading to see more of Miley and Brandi's sisterly date, then check out even more celebrity sisters.

[[tmz:video id="0_tuxgjwmf"]] If Matt Barnes and Derek Fisher decide to settle their beef with one final Ufc-style fight -- J.R. Smith wants a ticket ... telling TMZ Sports, "I would love to see that." Smith even did some fight analysis ... breaking down the strengths of both guys.  "It would be a good one," said Smith ... who actually played for Fisher on the Knicks last season. Of course, Fisher brought the feud back in the headlines Thursday -- saying...

Cleveland Cavs star J.R. Smith is officially off the hook in an alleged pizza joint attack -- with prosecutors saying he will Not be charged with a crime for allegedly attacking a heckler. J.R. was named in a police report filed by a 19-year-old man back in Nov. -- in which he claimed Smith choked him outside of a NYC pizza joint after he heckled the guy about being traded from the Knicks. Smith...

[[tmz:video id="0_i3tfm2ip"]] LeBron James has joined Odell Beckham Jr. and James Harden in the seemingly never ending pro-athlete dance recital ... and he brought his whole team with him. Lbj hit up Intl nightclub in Scottsdale, Az Sunday night with Kyrie Irving, J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert and the guys showed off the latest dance craze "Hit Them Folks" for the partygoers. We're told the festivities lasted until about 1 Am ... and get this ... our spies say not one...