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NBA sees 168 players sit out of games due to illness, injury as playoffs approach

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The NBA regular season is set to finish on Sunday, but dozens of players appear to be wrapped up a bit early.

In fact, 168 total players sat out of action on Friday night due to either a listed injury or illness.

Among those 168 players were Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokic, each of the last two MVPs, whose teams faced off against one another.

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Reigning champion Oklahoma City Thunder head coach Mark Daigneault, whom Gilgeous-Alexander plays for, said his stars “earned the right to sit,” considering they again snagged the top seed in the Western Conference.

“If we didn’t clinch [the No. 1 overall seed] coming into tonight, everybody would be playing,” Daigneault told reporters ahead of their game against Jokic’s Denver Nuggets, via ESPN. “We’ve earned the right through 80 games to manage their bodies and stuff like that.”

Stars to take the floor on Friday include LeBron James amid his Los Angeles Lakers’ injury woes and Victor Wembanyama, who needed to play 20 minutes to be eligible for season awards and admitted he would not have played if he had already met the criteria. Jokic must play Sunday if he wants to be considered for awards.

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With the new wave of load management, another form of today’s basketball was on display, as the Boston Celtics made 29 3-pointers, tying an NBA record, against the New Orleans Pelicans. It was the fourth time in the history of the NBA that this had been accomplished, but the last time it was done, you only have to go back to Monday, when the Memphis Grizzlies did it.

On April 3, the NBA saw just the second time in history that a slate of at least nine games had an average margin of victory of at least 24 points. The first time was five days prior.

All 30 NBA teams played in their 81st games on Friday and will play in their 82nd and final game of the regular season Sunday.

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Dem senator calls out far-left streamer, asks what ‘normal’ person would go on such an antagonistic show

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Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., fired back after far-left streamer Hasan Piker criticized her for going on Bill Maher‘s show while failing to appear on his Twitch livestream.

“I’ve said repeatedly that I’ve got to call balls and strikes, whether it’s antisemitism, Islamophobia… so that’s what I’ve tried to do, as he’s come into Michigan,” Slotkin told POLITICO’s Adam Wren.

“There are a ton of invites that I’ve not taken, and every politician has to make their choice…” she added.

Wren pressed Slotkin about which “strikes” Piker had made with her, prompting her to call out “derogatory” remarks he had made against orthodox jews and his prior suggestion that America “deserved 9/11.”

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“Not to mention, he calls me ‘stupid’ every other week,” she said.

“So, what normal human being would choose to go on a show when someone calls you ‘stupid’ every ten days?

“It’s not going to be something I do.”

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Slotkin also said she had “never been invited” to appear on Piker’s content.

Slotkin additionally came under fire from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for appearing on “Real Time with Bill Maher.”

The organization demanded that she apologize and denounce Maher’s “long history of anti-Muslim bigotry and anti-Arab racism.”

The Michigan Democrat‘s remarks came after Piker’s controversial rally with Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed at Michigan State University on Tuesday, where, while speaking to a POLITICO reporter, he listed her among the senators who “[doesn’t] know who I am.”

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“I mean, this double standard exists in American politics. Islamophobia is often times not considered at all. Bill Maher is not only an Islamophobe, but he has also demonstrated anti-Blackness at every turn, but at the end of the day, he is representative of the same forces of politics in this country that are aligned with the establishment goals, and therefore, there’s never a question about participating in his show,” Piker said.

In 2019, Piker said, “America deserved 9/11.” 

Fox News Digital reached out to Piker for comment, but did not hear back. 

Fox News’ Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.

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Fox News Entertainment Newsletter: Kelly Ripa’s secret signal, ‘Charlie’s Angels’ star on price of fame

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COLD SHOULDER – Kelly Ripa says she has a secret signal that tells Mark Consuelos she’s not in the mood.

PRICE OF STARDOM – ‘Charlie’s Angels’ star Kate Jackson says fame destroyed her privacy and forced her out of Hollywood.

FAMILY EMERGENCY – Tori Spelling, children taken to hospital after Southern California car crash.

FROZEN PERIL – ‘Deadliest Catch’ deckhand cause of death revealed.

BEHIND THE RUNWAY – Paulina Porizkova says modeling taught her to ‘do as you’re told’ including taking off her clothes.

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ROCK BOTTOM – Neal Schon and bandmate Jonathan Cain battle lawsuits and politics as Journey’s farewell tour rolls on.

IN THE SUNSHINE – Kylie Jenner dazzles in daring white string bikini for poolside photos.

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AGELESS BEAUTY – Elizabeth Hurley strips down to bikini bottoms for racy photo while posing in a flower field.

GROUNDED – ‘Euphoria’ star Natasha Lyonne escorted off plane after appearing disoriented following show premiere: report.

CELEB ID CHECKCan you guess which ‘Catwoman’ actress had a ‘battle’ with Taylor Sheridan?

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‘Charlie’s Angels’ star Cheryl Ladd defied producers with ‘tiniest bikini ever’ to make her point

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Cheryl Ladd found herself slipping into so many bikinis on the set of “Charlie’s Angels” that she decided to take matters into her own hands.

In 1977, the actress took on the role of Kris Munroe in the iconic series after producer Aaron Spelling chose her to play Farrah Fawcett’s younger sister. The series, which followed the adventures of a glamorous detective agency, starred Jaclyn Smith, David Doyle, Kate Jackson and Fawcett, who was leaving that year. The show aired until 1981.

“He liked me in a bikini,” Ladd, 74, said about Spelling at the Paley Center’s PaleyFest L.A. panel celebrating the 50th anniversary of “Charlie’s Angels.”

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The star admitted she wore so many two-pieces in scenes that “it was starting to p— me off.”

“I thought, ‘OK, how am I going to get out of this?’” Ladd recalled at the panel. “So, I went out and bought the tiniest little bikini ever seen on television at that point.”

Ladd knew it wouldn’t pass ABC censors. She did it anyway.

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“We filmed, and I heard Aaron’s not happy,” she said.

“At first, somebody came and told me Aaron said, ‘Tell the little troublemaker that she’s never going to do that again,’” she said. “And I didn’t. But I made my point. And when I was wearing a swimming suit, it was something I felt comfortable in.”

“Well, our ratings went up!” Smith, 80, quipped.

Spelling died in 2006 at 83.

Things got serious at the panel. For the first time, Ladd opened up about her breast cancer diagnosis.

“Mine was an aggressive form,” Ladd, who was accompanied by Jackson and Smith, said. “I had wonderful doctors. But I was bald for quite a while. It was a humbling experience.”

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“I have a wonderful husband. All through it, he was there for me at every turn, and that makes a difference,” Ladd said, referring to her husband, Brian Russell. “Eventually, I started to get little sprouts of hair. It was like, ‘Oh, I’m getting hair!’ It was a long, long, hard road. But you just get through. You just get on with it.”

Not only do the three women share an unbreakable bond through their experience on the show, but they are all cancer survivors.

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“It just connects you because you know what they’re going through,” Smith, who was also diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent radiation treatment in 2002, said during an interview on the “Today” show. “And that’s when I talk about the power of girlfriends.”

When Ladd disclosed her diagnosis to her friends, Smith said she immediately empathized.

“The first thing I did was send her my wigs,” Smith shared. “She was so brave. She did have a very aggressive form [of cancer].”

“It’s really important to understand and embrace not being afraid of getting a mammogram,” Jackson, a two-time breast cancer survivor, added. “Early detection is key. Find it early enough, and you’ll probably be all right.”

Ladd, Jackson and Smith also paid tribute to Fawcett, who appeared as one of the main Angels in the first season of the series. The actress died in 2009 at age 62 following a battle with anal cancer.

“Oh, I feel so proud. I feel appreciative. I feel we did something right,” Smith told Fox News Digital ahead of the panel. “And I feel I’m still standing here. And life has been interesting. It’s been a beautiful journey. Truly, I have two beautiful kids, a great husband and three granddaughters. So I’m riding high. And, you know, I think things are — ‘Charlie’s Angels’ was meant to be. I have no regrets.”

In 2021, Ladd opened up to Fox News Digital about her meaningful friendships with her former co-stars.

“It’s really interesting because when you do something so specific, so iconic, and you are in it when it was huge — it is something you can explain to people, but until you’ve done it, it is different,” she continued.

“We think back often about how crazy that time was. We had to go into restaurants through the back door. We weren’t prepared for how much people would love the show. It was wonderful, but it was wild.”

Despite achieving fame in Hollywood, Ladd said her faith in God has always played a significant role in her life.

“It has been all of it,” she said. “I knew who I was as a young girl. I would climb to the top of the tree and talk to God all the time. It has been an interesting path — a lot of good, a lot of bumps, a lot of tough learning moments.

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“He [God] was with me the whole time. He lets us trip ourselves so we remember that He is in charge. I think that is a good thing, especially in our youth, when we aren’t exactly thinking everything through.”

Fox News Digital’s Christina Dugan Ramirez contributed to this report.

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