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Trump Not Expected To Send Lawyer To Judiciary Committee Impeachment Hearings
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-judiciary-impeachment-lawyer

Just One Week After Trump Rolled Back Safety Measures, Chemical Plant Explosion Rocks Texas Town
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/27/just-one-week-after-trump-rolled-back-safety-measures-chemical-plant-explosion-rocks

The Trump administration has moved to substantially cut its contribution to NATO's collective budget according to several US and NATO officials
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/27/politics/trump-nato-contribution-nato/index.html

The US has lost its crown as the world's biggest geopolitical power as China overtakes it in global diplomatic reach
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-vs-china-diplomatic-postings-lowy-institute-2019-11

'A cruel and unnecessary scam': US immigration set up fake university to lure foreign students. Ninety students were recently arrested after the school was announced as fake
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ice-fake-university-scame-detroit-immigrants-students-india-a9220861.html

Devin Nunes Subpoena Aimed at ‘Cow’ and ‘Mom’ Twitter Accounts Was Improperly Filed
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/devin-nunes-subpoena-aimed-at-cow-and-mom-twitter-accounts-was-improperly-filed

The DOJ's watchdog found no evidence to support Trump's claim that the FBI spied on him during the 2016 election
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/us/politics/fbi-trump-campaign-inspector-general.html

Fort Worth Teacher Georgia Clark, Fired For Tweeting Trump To Exterminate Dark-Skinned Students At Her School, Wins Appeal, School May Be Forced To Rehire Her.
https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2019/11/25/fort-worth-teacher-georgia-clark-fired-anti-immigration-tweets-president-trump-wins-appeal/

Once again, Attorney General Bill Barr's name emerges in connection with Giuliani's dealings in Ukraine. This time, it's Giuliani telling Ukraine's former top prosecutor he would need to pay a lobbyist to get a meeting with Barr: Then-Ukraine prosecutor Lutsenko said Giuliani told him he needed to spend $$$ to arrange a meeting Attorney General Bill Barr, but he refused to pay. Barr's name also came up when Trump urged Zelensky to work with the AG on investigating the Bidens.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/giuliani-was-in-talks-to-be-paid-by-ukraines-top-prosecutor-as-they-together-sought-damaging-information-on-democrats/2019/11/27/636c3e86-112d-11ea-b0fc-62cc38411ebb_story.html

Reminder Summary: Trump told zelensky to work with Rudy in his call summary. Trump claims he never asked Giuliani to go to the Ukraine or probe Biden or DNC hacks, Giuliani claims both that he never went to the Ukraine but if he did it was not to investigate anything for Trump. I want nothing. I want you to work with Rudy.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/under-the-bus-you-go-rudy-trump-claims-he-didnt-tell-giuliani-to-go-to-ukraine

After learning of the whistleblower, Trump did 2 things:
    He stopped withholding aid to Ukraine
    He told sondland “I want no quid pro quo”

This is important because 2 of republicans arguments have been:
    The aid went through, so how could he have committed quid pro quo?
    Trump told sondland that he wanted no quid pro quo, therefore, he couldn’t have committed it.

But of course, both these arguments are terrible when you consider he only did both actions after he was caught.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/us/politics/trump-whistle-blower-complaint-ukraine.html

Deutsche Bank Executive Who Signed Off On Trump Loans Kills Self At Age 55: Thomas Bowers, a former Deutsche Bank executive and head of the American wealth-management division, killed himself in Malibu, California, on Tuesday, November 19th, according to the coronor’s initial report. First reports of his death were reported by the New York Times David Enrich.
https://forensicnews.net/2019/11/27/deutsche-bank-executive-who-signed-off-on-trump-loans-kills-self-at-age-55/
https://twitter.com/davidenrich/status/1199436965151756291
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKWMZ8uWkAErcOD.jpg:large
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/business/trump-deutsche-bank.html

As Giuliani waged his public campaign to unearth damaging info in Ukraine about Trump's political rivals, he privately pursued hundreds of thousands of dollars in business from Ukrainian government officials, docs reviewed by NYT show. | The documents reviewed by The Times portray an evolving effort over the course of several months by Mr. Giuliani and lawyers close to him to consider taking on various Ukrainian officials or their agencies as clients. One of the documents, a proposal signed in February by Mr. Giuliani, called for the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice to pay his firm $300,000. In return, Mr. Giuliani would help the government recover money it believed had been stolen and stashed overseas. In another unsigned draft proposal that was not on letterhead, Mr. Giuliani looked to enter into a similar deal with Yuriy Lutsenko, who was then Ukraine’s top prosecutor. At the time, Mr. Giuliani had been working with Mr. Lutsenko to encourage investigations into the Bidens and the 2016 election.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1199746056982089735
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/nyregion/giuliani-ukraine-business-trump.html

Giuliani was in talks to be paid by Ukraine’s top prosecutor as they together sought damaging information on Democrats | ....Rudolph W. Giuliani, negotiated earlier this year to represent Ukraine’s top prosecutor for at least $200,000 during the same months that Giuliani was working with the prosecutor to dig up dirt on vice president Joe Biden, according to people familiar with the discussions. | The people said that Giuliani began negotiations with Ukraine’s top prosecutor, Yuri Lutsenko, about a possible agreement in February. In the agreement, Giuliani’s company would receive payment to represent Lutsenko as the Ukrainian sought to recover assets he believed had been stolen from the government in Kyiv, those familiar with the discussions said. | For Lutsenko, the agreement would have provided a pipeline to Trump’s lawyer and, through him, potentially to other top U.S. officials. For Giuliani, the agreements would have been a way to accrue financial benefit from a person who was also providing him politically damaging information that could help another client, the president of the United States.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/giuliani-was-in-talks-to-be-paid-by-ukraines-top-prosecutor-as-they-together-sought-damaging-information-on-democrats/2019/11/27/636c3e86-112d-11ea-b0fc-62cc38411ebb_story.html

Apple has complied with Russian demands to show the annexed Crimean peninsula as part of Russian territory on its apps.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50573069

In a denied Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, 60 Minutes asked the FBI and DOJ to unmask a 2016 candidate who asked for and received hacked information on their opponent | For journalists, filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) can be a roll of the dice. Bureaucratic delays are standard for even the most benign FOIA requests. Sometimes, persistence results in flat-out rejection. That was the outcome of a FOIA request I filed on behalf of 60 Minutes as we reported "The Russian Hack," our look this week at Russian interference in 2016 presidential and congressional races. Prosecutors working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller laid out their case in an extraordinarily detailed indictment of Russian intelligence agents. Buried deep within the indictment is a reference to an unnamed  candidate for Congress who prosecutors say requested stolen materials from a hacker who was reported at the time to be connected to the Kremlin's intelligence services.  We wanted to identify this mystery Congressional candidate.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-russian-hack-60-minutes-freedom-of-information-request-to-reveal-candidate-denied-by-doj-2019-11-26/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-hackers-2016-election-democratic-congressional-campaign-committee-60-minutes-2019-11-24/

Democrats Launch Ad Campaign Hitting Congressman Devin Nunes For Abusing His Office To Do Trump’s Political Dirty Work | Rep. Devin Nunes’ International Conspiracy Quest Costs the American Public Nearly $57,000 In Taxpayer Dollars
https://dccc.org/democrats-launch-ad-campaign-hitting-congressman-devin-nunes-abusing-office-trumps-political-dirty-work/

A Top US Immigration Official's Threat To Fire Workers Who Leak Info Was Meant To Intimidate Whistleblowers, Union Says: “USCIS’ messages to employees in the form of illegal gags and threats seek to, and likely will impede, the exercise of their whistleblower rights,” a union letter stated.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/us-immigration-union-letter-leaks-threat

I want to know where the very real money attached to this scam uni ended up: Our government made a fake university, promoted it to young immigrants who needed to be attending a university, gave it a fake accreditation in a government program, took all the student's money, and then had the students arrested for fraud and deported: The students had arrived legally in the U.S. on student visas, but since the University of Farmington was later revealed to be a creation of federal agents, they lost their immigration status after it was shut down in January. The school was located on Northwestern Highway near 13 Mile Road in Farmington Hills and staffed with undercover agents posing as university officials: About 90 additional foreign students of a fake university in metro Detroit created by the Department of Homeland Security have been arrested in recent months. A total of about 250 students have now been arrested since January on immigration violations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as part of a sting operation by federal agents who enticed foreign-born students, mostly from India, to attend the school that marketed itself as offering graduate programs in technology and computer studies, according to ICE officials.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/11/27/ice-arrested-250-foreign-students-fake-university-metro-detroit/4277686002/

Facebook’s only Dutch factchecker has quit over the social network’s refusal to allow them to highlight political lies as being false. “What is the point of fighting fake news if you are not allowed to tackle politicians?” Hoekman asked.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/27/facebook-only-dutch-factchecker-quits-over-political-ad-exemption

Utah to become 19th state to ban conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2019/11/27/utah-to-become-19th-state-to-ban-conversion-therapy/

Rep. Stefanik went to just 8 out of 14 closed-door depositions. She asked a total of 5 questions, mostly polite, factual inquiries for Lt. Col. Vindman. Then at public hearings she acted...differently. Trumpism is a reality show, but with real-world impact
https://news.yahoo.com/the-birth-of-a-trumpist-how-elise-stefanik-became-one-of-the-presidents-most-ferocious-supporters-100046537.html

Last night, U.S. prosecutors denounced Halkbank's "gamesmanship." "Halkbank can seek recusal or challenge the indictment on any ground permitted by law, but it cannot remain a fugitive," feds wrote, requesting a hearing to hold it in contempt.
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1199740244641366017
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6561924-AUSA-Halkbank-11-26-19.html

Taxpayers Have Now Paid for Trump to Visit Mar-a-Lago 100 Times
https://www.citizensforethics.org/trump-mar-a-lago-100-visits/

Perhaps an unpopular take but this seems like a mistake. Lawyers represent clients. It doesn’t mean they are their clients. Yes, they volunteered to take Kavanaugh's case. But they did so out of fidelity to the idea that everyone deserves representation, which is a good principle
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-buttigieg-kavanaugh-lawyers_n_5dde969fe4b00149f727e197?jiv

Visitors are kept at arm’s length by guards in gray camouflage. The village’s founder, Rabbi Moshe Azman, declined repeated requests for comment. Azman has known Giuliani for about 15 years, according to people familiar with the situation. The former New York mayor made his first trip to Kyiv in 2003 to give a speech hosted by Ukrainian oligarch Vadim Rabinovich. Azman is also close to Parnas and Fruman, who say they’ve raised $500,000 for the village through a U.S. nonprofit called American Friends of Anatevka. The group’s website says they will match every dollar donated up to $1 million. Plaques highlighting contributions by Fruman hang at Anatevka’s boys’ school. But American Friends of Anatevka hasn’t filed a financial report in two years, so it’s not possible to verify the matching offer. The group’s accountant, Michael Koloden, declined to speak when contacted at his office in Brooklyn next to a shuttered Italian social club. A lawyer for Parnas declined to comment. Fruman’s lawyer didn’t respond to requests for comment. Giuliani declined to answer questions about Anatevka, saying he believed Bloomberg News would misinterpret or bury whatever he said. Over the past four years, Azman, with help from Parnas and Fruman, has raised millions of dollars for Anatevka from Jewish oligarchs across the former Soviet Union. Alexander Mashkevich, the billionaire founder of a Kazakh mining company under investigation in the U.K, donated $200,000 to the U.S. nonprofit set up by Parnas and Fruman, according to its website. He didn’t respond to requests for comment. The donation of Yitzchak Mirilashvili, a co-founder of the Russian social-media network VK.com, is highlighted on a plaque outside the boys’ school. His father Mikhail has given as well. This past summer, Giuliani attended a lunch in London for “British Friends of Anatevka.” He was photographed alongside Anthony Fisher, who had served as director of a foundation set up by Dmitry Firtash, a Ukrainian oligarch fighting extradition to the U.S. on bribery charges. Around the same time, Parnas and Fruman met in Vienna with Firtash, who began digging up dirt on the Bidens in an effort to get Giuliani’s help to fight his extradition. Fisher didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Other well-known donors to Anatevka in Ukraine include Vadim Rabinovich, the oligarch who sponsored Giuliani’s trip in 2005 after he donated a memorial in Kyiv to victims of 9/11. Rabinovich founded a pro-Russian political party called For Life. That party includes Viktor Medvedchuk, who named Russian President Vladimir Putin g.dfather to his daughter.
http://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-27/rudy-giuliani-has-curious-links-to-a-jewish-village-in-ukraine

New documents show Trump kept 2 sets of books for his biggest property in Manhattan, pointing to financial fraud
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tower-financial-fraud-lenders-propublica-2019-11

Trump already admitted to financial fraud in these two tweets, he said “everyone did it” and called it “sport”:  Real estate developers in the 1980’s & 1990’s, more than 30 years ago, were entitled to massive write offs and depreciation which would, if one was actively building, show losses and tax losses in almost all cases. Much was non monetary. Sometimes considered “tax shelter,” ...... ....you would get it by building, or even buying. You always wanted to show losses for tax purposes....almost all real estate developers did - and often re-negotiate with banks, it was sport. Additionally, the very old information put out is a highly inaccurate Fake News hit job!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1126078422797602816
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1126078423816921092

Are Lindsey Graham's stupid stunts just meant to keep Daddy Trump quiet? Yes. | None of Graham's Trump-friendly investigations actually seem to happen. Is it all theater for his father figure? Yes.
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/27/are-lindsey-grahams-stupid-stunts-just-meant-to-keep-daddy-trump-quiet/

Jamie Lee Curtis Voting for women is more than gender politics. It's opting to create real change. If gender parity in politics doesn't make a difference in the policies that got enacted, then why do things change when more women are in office?
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/voting-women-more-gender-politics-it-s-opting-create-real-ncna1089691

The consequences of climate change are painful now, but they get much worse the longer we wait. Same is true of the policy choices. They become more expensive, more drastic, more unlikely. So, we act now or forever lose our chance.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/11/26/bleak-report-un-says-drastic-action-is-only-way-avoid-worst-impacts-climate-change/

Military same-sex spouse denied Alaska oil check sues. She alleges the state is wrongly enforcing laws barring recognition of gay marriages, five years after a federal judge found such a ban unconstitutional.
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/military-same-sex-spouse-denied-alaska-oil-check-sues-n1089591

Arctic to be ‘functionally ice-free’ in the next 50 years, study says | If the Earth continues at its current rate of greenhouse gas emissions, Arctic sea ice would regress to levels not high enough to perform its function of reflecting heat — levels that can be reached as early as September 2044
https://globalnews.ca/news/6220789/arctic-functionally-ice-free-study/

Trump official who suggested dropping nuclear bombs on Afghanistan now responsible for arms control issues |  A former conservative talk radio host and naval intelligence officer who suggested dropping nuclear bombs on Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks now works on arms control issues at the State Department, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
Frank Wuco, a senior adviser at the State Department’s Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, came under scrutiny last year when his past comments involving the promotion of far-right conspiracy theories surfaced. Some of those included debunked claims that former president Barack Obama was not born in the United States, former CIA director John Brennan converted to Islam, former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. had been a member of the Black Panthers and former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. When a CNN investigation unearthed the remarks last year, Wuco was working at the Department of Homeland Security. A spokesman for the agency defended him at the time, saying the comments had “no bearing on his ability to perform his job for the American people.” Now Wuco works at the State Department, though some arms control advocates have questioned his suitability for the area of arms control given his past remarks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-official-who-suggested-dropping-nuclear-bombs-on-afghanistan-now-responsible-for-arms-control-issues/2019/11/27/235f2976-10af-11ea-a533-90a7becf7713_story.html
https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/20/politics/kfile-frank-wuco-conspiracy-theories/index.html

'The Bloodshed Must Stop': Sanders, Khanna, and Schumer Demand Passage of Measure to End US Complicity in Yemen Slaughter
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/27/bloodshed-must-stop-sanders-khanna-and-schumer-demand-passage-measure-end-us

Jake Burton Carpenter (April 29, 1954 – November 20, 2019), also known as Jake Burton, was an American snowboarder and founder of Burton Snowboards and one of the inventors of the modern day snowboard. He grew up in Cedarhurst, New York.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Burton_Carpenter

State Department statement reaffirming US commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity....:  It's amazing to juxtapose State Department statements like these with Trump's comments about foreign policy. I highlighted four key phrases from today's State Dept. statement on the Ukraine crisis. Let's see where Trump stands on these points.
https://twitter.com/MarshallCohen/status/1199811935354667014
https://www.state.gov/u-s-support-for-ukrainian-sovereignty-and-territorial-integrity/

State Dept. says US reaffirms "unwavering support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity." But Trump has praised Putin's takeover of Crimea and suggested that Russia should keep Crimea, because that's what the people there really want.
https://twitter.com/MarshallCohen/status/1199811936818475008
https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/31/politics/donald-trump-russia-ukraine-crimea-putin/

State Dept. says the US is "committed... to keep pressure on Russia" to keep its commitments. This is mainly done through sanctions. Trump imposed new sanctions on Russia while also suggesting that sanctions should be lifted, and easing sanctions on Deripaska. (Mixed bag here.)
https://twitter.com/MarshallCohen/status/1199811937686708225

State Dept. praises Zelensky for "strengthening the rule of law." As we now know, Trump himself pressured Zelensky to abuse the Ukrainian legal system and launch politically motivated investigations into the Bidens and 2016 meddling. (Extreme irony here.)
https://twitter.com/MarshallCohen/status/1199811938823348224
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/26/politics/trump-zelensky-ukraine-rule-of-law/index.html

State Dept. says the US "stands with Ukraine" during multi-party talks to end the war. But Trump previously said Zelensky should negotiate with Putin directly. (At Sept. meeting, Trump told Zelensky he hopes “you and President Putin get together and can solve your problem.")
https://twitter.com/MarshallCohen/status/1199817723020218368

PAY FOR PLAY: Aug. 7, 2018, approval from the Department of State for a lease at Trump World Tower, addressed to the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Iraq to the United Nations, Mohammad Hussein Ali Bahr Aluloom
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6427066-State-Correspondence-Regarding-Foreign.html#document/p25/a526113

Trident Review Board called off for 3 SEALs in Gallagher case: "As Acting Secretary of the Navy I have directed the Chief of Naval Operations to terminate the Trident Reviews for three Naval Special Warfare officers. Given the unique circumstances of these three remaining cases,
https://twitter.com/JenGriffinFNC/status/1199811977721401344

Trump signs legislation designed to support pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-signs-legislation-designed-to-support-pro-democracy-protesters-in-hong-kong/2019/11/27/f7090e02-1070-11ea-9cd7-a1becbc82f5e_story.html

Giuliani’s Lawyer Forced Him To Call Trump To Tell Him He Was Just Kidding About ‘Insurance’
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/giulianis-lawyer-forced-him-to-call-trump-to-tell-him-he-was-just-kidding-about-insurance

Reminder: America is really starting to look like Russia. Random people closely tied to investigations just happen to end up dead spontaneously: Former Deutsche Bank Executive Who Oversaw Trump’s Loans Dies by Suicide
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/former-deutsche-bank-executive-who-oversaw-trumps-loans-dies-by-suicide

Trump again omits LGBTQ people in World AIDS Day proclamation
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2019/11/27/trump-again-omits-lgbtq-people-in-world-aids-day-proclamation/

Trump Has Spent $115 Million On Golf Trips ― Or 287 Years Of Presidential Salary
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-golf-trips-millions-thanksgiving_n_5ddedbefe4b0913e6f7865cf

New DHS Report Says Trump Administration Knew It Could Not Reunite Thousands of Children With Parents
https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-dhs-report-says-trump-administration-knew-it-could-not-reunite-thousands-of-children-with-parents

William D. Ruckelshaus, who famously quit his job in the U.S. Justice Dept. rather than carry out fmr. President Nixon’s order to fire the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate scandal, has died. He was 87.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/william-ruckelshaus-who-defied-nixon-height-watergate-dies-87-n1092941?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_np

It's hard to read about what Corbyn's done to British Labour and not see a parallel with American universities. My latest for @FDRLST on @Columbia, whose undergrads are now set to vote on divesting from the world's only #Jewish nation http://bit.ly/2KXaQoX  #Israel
https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/27/columbia-university-to-vote-on-divesting-from-israel/

China reacts furiously to Trump signing US law on Hong Kong human rights, threatens unspecified consequences.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-signs-bill-supporting-hong-kong-11574898084

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Ramona Shelbourne insinuated the Pelicans’ fan base is racist. No one outside of NOLA is talking about it.

The Los Angeles Clippers (13-5) defeat the Dallas Mavericks (11-6), 114-99.

Luca Doncic tonight: 22 points (4/14 FG, 14/16 FT, 0/8 3PT), 7 turnovers

Luka Doncic left the arena without talking to the media. Clearly a frustrating night for the Mavs’ 20-year-old face of the franchise.

LA Clippers just gave the blueprint on how to slow down Luka Doncic, who finishes 0-for-8 from 3-point land and 4-of-14 overall with seven TOs. But most other teams don't have Patrick Beverley, Kawhi Leonard and Paul George to throw at Doncic.

Paul George takes flight for 17 points of the quarter
https://streamable.com/s9dxz

Rapist Kristaps Porzingis, drills the three from the logo
https://streamable.com/ka0ly

Kawhi hits the 3 and Porzingis answers from the logo at the buzzerHighlights
https://streamable.com/44udp

Kawhi overpowers Finney-Smith in the post
https://streamable.com/g34pn

Doncic and KP combine for 8-27 from the field, 3-16 from three in their loss vs the Clippers

Victor Oladipo is dunking again for the first time in his near year-long rehab
https://streamable.com/2w3lz

The Denver Nuggets (13-3) defeat the Washington Wizards (5-10) 117-104

Dallas Mavericks, the number 1 ranked offensive team were held to under 100 points by the Clippers, Mavericks scored 142, 137 and 143 in their previous 3 games

Joel Embiid has never scored above 15 points or shot above 40% from the field in a regular season game in which Marc Gasol has played

NBA admits it blew crucial call in Kings' loss
https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/kings/nba-admits-it-blew-crucial-call-kings-single-possession-loss-again

Kawhi Leonard & Paul George Highlights - 54PTS, 12REB, 6AST & 7STL (Dallas Mavericks vs Los Angeles Clippers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-iLYjAE-Vc

The Milwaukee Bucks have faced the Heat without Jimmy Butler, the Wolves without Karl Anthony Towns, the Clippers without Paul George or Kawhi Leonard, the Jazz without Rudy Gobert, and the Blazers without Damian Lillard.

Western Conference executive: “It sounds crazy, but Toronto actually makes a lot of sense as a landing spot for [DeMar] DeRozan. As far as what Toronto would have to give up, it'd probably have to be a first-round pick plus Serge Ibaka or Marc Gasol.”


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