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 J im Cleamons was a first-round draft pick by the Los Angeles Lakers in 1971. He played in the NBA until 1980 and has spent the past 40 years coaching the game at just about every level. On Wednesday night, the former NBA swingman is heading to Lompoc High.  Cleamons is hosting an instructional and motivational session at 6:30 p.m. in the Lompoc High library. The event is sponsored by J-SMOOV and hosted by the Lompoc High girls basketball program.  Cleamons, a 6-foot-3 guard, was drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers with the 13th overall pick and spent the 1971-72 season with LA. He then played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, New York Knicks and Washington Bullets.  After retiring in 1980, Cleamons was an assistant at Furman and Ohio State before taking over the Youngstown State program from 1987-89. He was then an assistant coach with the Chicago Bulls from 1989-96, winning four NBA titles. He was named head coach with the Dallas Mavericks for the 1996-97 season before s...

 T hat was the word from AmateurGolf.com San Diego co-leader Dylan VanderVeer, who posted 2-under 70 at Carlsbad’s Aviara Golf Club to tie Ben Soicher of Mill Valley for the early lead. “I haven’t played golf in over a month,” said VanderVeer, a St. Mary’s College golfer from Corona Del Mar. “That was my secret.” It might seem ridiculous to prepare for a tournament by not playing, but should VanderVeer bring home the title on Tuesday, he might start a trend. Today, any rust in VanderVeer’s game got shaken off quickly with a bogey on his first hole, the par-5 10th. From there, it was back to his normal aggressive style of play, with four birdies on the rest of the back nine for a 2-under 34. An even-par front nine gave VanderVeer his 2-under 70 and share of the lead with Ben Soicher. The easy-going Soicher birdied No. 10 — like VanderVeer he started on the back — but made a couple of bogeys before a birdie on the toughest 18th hole in San Diego righted the ship. Soicher’s second nin...

  On Sunday night, the Dallas Mavericks survived without Luka Doncic in the lineup and Kristaps Porzingis having a quiet night to get a big win. They look for more of the same on Monday night against the Charlotte Hornets, who have lost five of their last seven. Several role players stepped up to finish with their best games of the season in the Mavericks’ last outing, but Charlotte has been the highest-scoring team in the NBA this year. Dallas is favored by 2.5 points in the latest Mavericks vs. Hornets odds from Caesars Sportsbook, and the over-under is set at 216.5. Before entering any Hornets vs. Mavericks picks, you’ll want to see the NBA predictions from the model at SportsLine. The SportsLine Projection Model simulates every NBA game 10,000 times and has returned well over $10,000 in profit on its top-rated NBA picks over the past three-plus seasons. The model enters Week 9 of the 2021-22 NBA season on a stunning 44-20 roll on all top-rated NBA picks, returning over $2,...

  DENVER — For the 155 acres of land formerly known as Park Hill Golf Course, there are plenty of ideas for what could be. “All year long, we’ve been meeting with residents and we’ve been collecting their feedback,” said Laura Swartz, spokesperson for Community Planning and Development for the City of Denver. “Today, we’ve released a kind of a summary of that feedback.” Creating a park was at the top of the list. “The chief priority is really having a large park with community gathering spaces. We heard a lot from people about the desire to have community,” Swartz said. Residents expressed the most support for these priorities: Create a new, large park and community gathering places. Stand up an oversight committee to guide future planning and development. Preserve and expand the tree canopy to combat urban heat island effects in this area. Add youth and recreational sports opportunities. Include a variety of affordable, or income-restricted, housing options, including for-sale uni...

  WFT staffer tests positive for 1st known Omnicron case in NFL originally appeared on NBC Sports Washington   A Tier 3 Washington Football Team staffer has tested positive for the first-known case of the Omicron coronavirus variant in the NFL on Monday, NBC Sports Washington’s Pete Hailey confirmed. NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero was the first to report the news. A Tier 3 employee is described in the following by ESPN. Tier 3 will consist of certain operational personnel, in-house media and broadcast personnel, field manager, transportation providers and individuals who perform essential facility, stadium or event services but do not require close contact with Tier 1 individuals. Team and other personnel who work exclusively in areas of team facilities that are or will be completely cordoned off from the rest of the facility do not need to be credentialed in one of the three access tiers. The Omicron variant first emerged in the area when three Baltimore cases were detected earl...

  Felix Auger-Aliassime is thrilled to be working with Toni Nadal as he admits Uncle Toni has made wonders for him. Auger-Aliassime started working with Nadal in April and since then he has made some notable results. Auger-Aliassime failed to win his maiden ATP title in 2021 but he made his maiden Grand Slam semifinal at the US Open and broke into the top-10 for the first time in his career. “Yeah, it was good I mean. Through conversations, through work on court, I think I’ve been able to just learn and just kind of take a lot of information from Toni and then cross it and see what I can take from that, learn from that. So just him being there, being present is a huge source of motivation and more than anything, a source of confidence and trust,” Auger-Aliassime said on The Match Point Canada podcast, per Sportskeeda. Nadal brought confidence to Auger-Aliassime Auger-Aliassime played good tennis at the last two Grand Slams of the season as he also made the Wimbledon quarterfinal. “...

  Blake Wheeler   will be out several weeks for the Winnipeg Jets because of a knee injury. “We’ll just say this is weeks, not days,” coach Paul Maurice said Monday. “Probably another three or four days, all the swelling will come down, we’ll have a better idea of how long it’s going to be, but it’s going to be weeks.” The forward was injured in the third period of a 4-3 loss to the Vancouver Canucks on Friday when his right knee buckled in a collision with teammate  Nathan Beaulieu  in a penalty-kill scramble at the Jets crease. Wheeler, who had a goal and two assists in the game, has scored 10 points during a five-game point streak (one goal, nine assists). The Jets captain has scored 17 points (one goal, 16 assists) in 22 games this season. “It’s a big loss, on the ice and off the ice,” forward  Pierre-Luc Dubois  said. “We have a lot of talent in this locker room. It’s not going to be just one guy stepping up, it’s going to be everybody having to step u...