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Call for NBA All-Star Game announced with new format and prizes

January 24, 2025 by usatoday24

The 2025 NBA All-Star Game will be different, with a new format designed to increase competitiveness and entertainment. For the first time, the All-Star will be transformed into a four-team mini-tournament. There will be three games: two semifinals and a final, with the first team to reach 40 points in each duel proclaimed as the winner. The 24 most voted players will be divided into three teams of eight members, while a fourth team, made up of the emerging stars of the ‘Rising Stars’ program, will complete the competition. The NBA will distribute 1.8 million dollars in prizes, with $125,000 dollars for each player on the champion team. For their part, the finalists will win $50,000 dollars and those in third and fourth place will get $25,000 dollars. LeBron James of record 40-year-old star LeBron James was announced as a starter for the next NBA All-Star Game, which will take place on February 16 in San Francisco. It will be his twenty-first consecutive appearance, further cementing his legacy as one of the greatest players in league history. At 40 years old, LeBron continues to demonstrate his validity with impressive averages this season: 23.78 points, 7.5 rebounds and 9 assists. He will join Steph Curry (Golden State Warriors), Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Oklahoma City Thunder), Nikola Jokic (Denver Nuggets) and Kevin Durant (Phoenix Suns) in the Western Conference starting quintet. For their part, the Eastern starters will be led by Giannis Antetokounmpo (Milwaukee Bucks) and will have Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns (New York Knicks), Donovan Mitchell (Cleveland Cavaliers) and Jayson Tatum (Boston Celtics). The NBA seeks this renewed format to inject greater excitement into the All-Star Game, an event that has been criticized in recent years for its lack of intensity. In addition to the attractive financial prizes, the change promises to offer a more dynamic show adapted to the demands of the fans. LeBron, who has been a constant in the All-Star since his first selection in 2005, will be one of the main attractions of the event. Keep reading: – LeBron James has a great day as the Lakers beat the Celtics – Four subjects arrested in Ohio for alleged robberies in athletes’ homes – Los Angeles Lakers suffer to defeat Brooklyn on Austin Reaves’ big night

Mike Johnson announced that the previous January 6 investigation will be investigated

January 23, 2025 by usatoday24

The president of the House of Representatives, Michael Johnson (R-Louisiana), announced the creation of a new committee to investigate “false narratives” on the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by supporters of the president donald trump. Hours earlier, Johnson had downplayed a question about Trump’s pardon of the assailants saying that Republicans “were not looking back, but forward.” But the new committee will look back and work to rewrite the history of the assault on the Capitol. Republicans want deflect blame from Trump for telling his supporters to “fight like hell” and march on Congress before they broke into the building to interfere with the certification of Trump’s 2020 election loss. Johnson said in a news release that Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), who led Republicans’ counterinvestigation into the original bipartisan Jan. 6 committee, would lead the new effort. “House Republicans are proud of our work so far to expose the false narratives spread by the politically motivated January 6 Select Committee during the 117th Congress, but there is still much work to do,” Johnson said. In his own statement, Loudermilk listed the causes of the January 6 attack, notably omitting the man whose name was on the flags that the mob carried. “What happened at the Capitol that day was the result of a series of intelligence, security and leadership failures at multiple levels within numerous entities,” Loudermilk said. Loudermilk’s panel will be a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee chaired by Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who noted there are unanswered questions about live pipe bombs that were discovered in buildings near the Capitol on Jan. 6. Keep reading:· Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys of Cuban origin pardoned by Trump after being sentenced to 22 years for the assault on the Capitol· Trump pardons more than 1,500 Capitol attackers; Enrique Tarrio will be free· JD Vance contradicts Trump and refuses to pardon those who carried out violence in the assault on the Capitol

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