again played the spoilsport
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Chris Paul is staying with the Los Angeles Clippers. The All-Star point guard agreed to a new deal on the first day free agency opened, agent Leon Rose confirmed. Paul posted a message on his Twitter account Monday morning, saying "IM IN!!!" .CLIPPERNATION Paul led the Clippers to their first Pacific Division title last season and his decision to stay is the second big victory for the longtime losers in this off-season, following the signing of Doc Rivers as their new coach. The deal is worth $107 million over five years. The deal cant be signed until July 10, after next seasons salary cap is set. The two-time Olympic gold medallist has helped turn around the Clippers franchise in two seasons since coming in a trade from the New Orleans Hornets. They made the playoffs in both seasons, advancing to the second round in 2012, and went 56-26 this season, the best record in their history. Paul averaged 16.9 points, 9.7 assists and an NBA-best 2.4 steals per game. He was the Western Conference player of the month in December, when the Clippers went 16-0. Paul spent his first six seasons with the Hornets before he was dealt to the Clippers, shortly after the NBA, then serving as owners of the Hornets, stopped a trade that would have sent him instead to the Lakers. That decision has paid off big for the Clippers, long the second-class citizens in Los Angeles but the team that played a much more exciting style and had much better results than the Lakers last season. They fired Vinny Del Negro even after their 2012-13 success but landed one of the NBAs marquee coaches in Rivers, who led the Boston Celtics to the 2008 NBA championship. Now they are holding onto perhaps the leagues best point guard. Paul missed 12 games with a bruised right kneecap and played a career-low 33.4 minutes per game, and still was second in the league in assists and first in assist-to-turnover ratio. He was MVP of the All-Star game and finished fourth in voting for the regular-season award. The Wake Forest product is also one of the leagues most popular players, serving as an executive on the NBA players association. Зарегистрируйтесь, чтобы увидеть ссылку! . Hey!" The lower tier of the School End of Queens Park Rangers Loftus Road was packed solid with a very festive-sounding Chelsea choral section in this particular part of South Africa Road London, W12. Зарегистрируйтесь, чтобы увидеть ссылку! . -- Former San Diego Chargers safety Paul Oliver was found dead at his Atlanta-area home Tuesday night, and a medical examiner said Wednesday that the ex-player committed suicide. Зарегистрируйтесь, чтобы увидеть ссылку! . The next step is a better finish. Bae played bogey-free Friday on another gorgeous day at Riviera for a 5-under 66, giving him a one-shot lead over Aaron Baddeley and Robert Garrigus going into the weekend. Зарегистрируйтесь, чтобы увидеть ссылку! . -- Mike Smith never saw his first NHL goal go in. Зарегистрируйтесь, чтобы увидеть ссылку! . -- The St. Johns IceCaps weathered a wild first period with the help of goaltender Jussi Olkinuora, before finding offensive inroads in the second. The decision to host the Davis Cup tie against Spain under floodlights was taken without consulting the players, Indian Davis Cup captain Anand Amritraj has said. India will play Spain in the World Group play-off tie next weekend with singles and doubles rubber scheduled for 5pm and 7pm starts, respectively.Neither the players nor I was asked before such a crucial decision was taken, Amritaj told ESPN. We already dont have a surface of our choice. The least we could have had was at least the heat going in our favour.But the All India Tennis Association (AITA), for its part, was prompt to suggest that the heat could prove to be a double-edged sword. We saw what the heat did to our players in Chandigarh in the previous tie, a senior AITA official said. So lets not remain under the illusion that the heat works to our advantage. The idea behind holding evening matches was to bring in crowds.There appears to be no fixed protocol with regard to consultation in this regard. Its usually the playing surface regarding which we give in our opinion, coach Zeeeshan Ali said.dddddddddddd The timing has never really been discussed since it has largely been a given.But AITAs argument is not devoid of reason. Playing under scorching conditions in the tie against South Korea in Chandigarh in July, Saketh Myneni suffered from a severe bout of cramps on the first day. Luckily, his opponent too was spasming -- which allowed the Indian to win by just hanging in a little longer. Rohan Bopanna was forced to play the reverse singles instead of Myneni since the latter had yet to recover.At the US Open last week, cramps again played the spoilsport for Myneni as he lost his first-round match against Jiri Vesely after a having a match point in the eighth game of the deciding set.The last time a Davis Cup tie was played under floodlights in India was in 2013 against Indonesia in Bangalore. It was, however, an earlier start with the singles rubber being played at 3pm and the doubles at 5pm. ' ' '