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FRIDAY’S BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS:MLB: Boston at Houston, 8:10 p.m. (NESN, WEEI-FM 93.7)MLB: LA Dodgers at Colorado, 8:30 p.m. (MLB Network)AROUND THE WEB:
-- JR Smith might have cost his Cavaliers a win in Game 1 of the NBA Finals on Thursday night with he made a huge mental error in the final minute of the fourth quarter.
"No, I knew we were tied," Smith said. "It's just I thought we were going to take a timeout because I got the rebound. I'm pretty sure everybody didn't think I was going to shoot it over KD (Kevin Durant) right there. ... I mean, I saw KD standing right next to me. He already had, what, four blocks? So I wasn't trying to be the fifth."
"It was a tie ballgame and we had a timeout," Smith also said. "I tried to get enough space because, obviously, KD was standing right there. I tried to get enough space to bring it out to maybe get a shot off. And then I looked over at Bron (LeBron James, who scored 51 points in the game) and he looked like he was trying to call a timeout. So I stopped. And then the game was over."
The Warriors went on to win Game 1 124-114 in overtime.
-- The 76ers are reportedly considering firing team president Bryan Colangelo after an investigation into anonymous Twitter accounts allegedly connected to him.
At least one of the five accounts is reportedly connected to Colangelo’s wife, as it was found to be associated with her cell phone number.
The team is reportedly worried Colangelo’s credibility has been too damaged by the tweets from these accounts to continue serving as the president. Many of the tweets criticized players on the team, as well as other teams and coaches.
One of the players ripped in the tweets was Joel Embiid, who said earlier this week he talked to Colangelo and he vehemently denies being the one behind the tweets.
"I talked to him, and he said that he didn't say that," Embiid told ESPN on Tuesday. "He called me just to deny the story. Gotta believe him until proven otherwise. If true though, that would be really bad."
NBA commissioner Adam Silver also responded to the matter on Thursday.
"The notion here was let's find out what's going on," Silver said. "You have to separate sort of the chatter and sort of what either fans or, frankly, the media are saying from the facts. And the first thing we have to do here is determine what the actual facts are in this circumstance."
The 76ers hired an outside firm to investigate the tweets and the probe has included Colangelo surrendering his cell phones.