The NBA's best players will descend on Chicago this weekend as the 69th edition of the All-Star game takes place in the Windy City. 

A string of stirring tributes preceded the game on Sunday in Chicago, where teams captained by LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo will wear jerseys honoring Bryant and his daughter.

Kawhi Leonard made it look effortless, nailing one 3-pointer after another and nearly matching an All-Star Game record. The tough part came afterward when he was asked about the late Kobe Bryant.

The shirt was worn by James in February as the NBA's best players descended on Chicago for the 69th edition of the All-Star game. Giannis Antetokounmpo and James were the captains.

Furious fans are seething after forking out thousands for tickets and travel to an Australia versus United States all-star basketball game only to have the biggest drawcards pull out. 

More than $5million will be refunded to thousands of fans who bought tickets to a basketball that used false advertising to claim LeBron James would be playing.

On Saturday, the app was sitting at 57th place on the US charts, well below rival streaming services Netflix, Hulu and Disney Plus.

'I'm absolutely devastated and horrified by the senseless, cold blooded, racially motivated killing of Ahmaud Arbery,' the pop superstar, 30, tweeted, adding the hashtag  #JusticeForAhmaud.'

Russell Crowe has joined in with basketball fans who are furious over the seating fiasco as Australia took on the USA in Melbourne on Thursday night. 

Jameela, 33, was one of 15 women to be hand-picked by the Duchess of Sussex to appear on the September cover of British Vogue, which Meghan guest edited.

A staffer at the Barack and Michelle Obama Ninth Grade Center in Lancaster, Texas, allegedly told the boy that President Trump was working on a law to have him deported.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama called the impeachment hearings into Donald Trump 'surreal' on the Today show on Monday during a girls education trip in Vietnam.

Michelle Obama's first effort to get out the vote in 2020 has been cancelled due to coronavirus concerns.

Though the 62-year-old talk show host seemed charming-as-ever while on the phone, days prior a viral Twitter thread left people calling Ellen 'one of the meanest people alive.'

Most recently, Sandler starred as Aniston's husband in the Netflix comedy Murder Mystery. Before that, they starred together in the 2011 romantic comedy Just Go With It.

Reese Witherspoon was preparing for the big show with a run around her neighborhood in Brentwood Los Angeles. She kept an incognito look in all black for her run with a friend.

The former couple were both in attendance at Sunday's Golden Globes ceremony - held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel - but proved they are still on good terms as they rooted for one another to win.

The former Friends star was on a night out with pal Jennifer Meyer.

Jennifer Aniston earned a shock win in the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series category at the SAG Awards on Sunday night.

Brad, 56, sent hearts racing when he grasped the hand of his former flame in Los Angeles on Sunday. Photographer Emma McIntyre told People how she caught the moment on camera.

Jennifer Aniston officially welcomed Matthew Perry to Instagram Friday, less than three months after she broke the Internet by joining it herself. He got an account Thursday but has yet to post.

Announcing their prize with a vintage photo of the cast of six, Jennifer Aniston wrote: 'We're so excited to join the ALL IN challenge to help keep people fed and healthy during this time.'

The 31-year-old had held talks Scottish clubs, including Kilmarnock and Hearts, but has opted to join the club sitting at the bottom of the Norwegian top flight, with 11 games left in the season.

The 35-year-old, who has been at Bury since 2017, started his career at Elland Road where he became one of the club's most prolific goalscorers with 85 goals in 152 matches.

The 35-year-old, who recently announced he would be bringing his 19-year career to a close, has revealed he might consider making a comeback if he can maintain his fitness levels.

Jose Mourinho wanted to get rid of Anthony Martial because he thought the Manchester United forward was 'mentally weak'. Martial reportedly fell out with the former Red Devils boss.

Spurs face North London rivals Arsenal at the weekend in dire need of three points having taken just four from their opening three games of the season.

Bury have been thrown out of the Football League in a move that is expected to spell the end for the 134-year-old outfit. Late on Tuesday night the EFL announced that the Shakers had been ejected.

Grimsby Town's Carabao Cup clash against Macclesfield was called off just before half-time due a torrential storm. A replay of the second-round tie will have to be rescheduled.

Stars' careers are being put at risk by the imminent resumption of competition, according to a union representing nearly 100,000 athletes. German football has been cleared to resume next week.

Boris Johnson is concerned a 'Labour mole' is operating within Whitehall, say government sources. Confidential Treasury documents were leaked to Labour during the election campaign.

Jeremy Corbyn last night refused four times to say Qassem Soleimani was a terrorist - and also described the Iranian general's killing by the US as 'illegal' . 

Shadow international trade secretary Barry Gardiner as received £500,000 from a firm with links to Beijing and another £100,000 to finance a string of Parliamentary 'fact-finding trips.

The left-winger, who is trailing sixth and last in the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn, made the suggestion in a campaign speech in London.

Two of Jeremy Corbyn's top allies have urged northern working class voters to join Labour and prevent southern Remainers from deciding the party's leadership contest.

Sir Keir Starmer today refused to say whether he is politically closer to Tony Blair or Jeremy Corbyn as he said Labour must learn lessons from its last four general election defeats and not just 2019.

Allies of Rebecca Long-Bailey have demanded Sir Keir Starmer pull out of the Labour leadership race to make way for a woman to take over from Jeremy Corbyn.

The Wigan MP said the beleaguered party should be focusing on getting rid of Tory MPs rather than their own following Jeremy Corbyn's humiliating defeat to Boris Johnson in December's election.

Mrs Bercow, a Labour supporter, privately urged Mr Corbyn to send her husband to the Lords because the Tories would refuse, Commons sources said.

There has been 'a noticeable pick-up' in the housing market since Boris Johnson defeated Labour's Jeremy Corbyn in December, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said.

Sir Keir Starmer has warned Labour activists the party risks being out of power for a generation unless it unites and fights the Tories.

New Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer has spent his first week on the job culling hard-left members of the Labour Shadow Cabinet, much to the anger of Momentum.

Sir Keir Starmer is facing calls to sack one of his Shadow Ministers, Brighton Kemptown MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle, for openly claiming that Tory governments conspire to 'murder' people.

Ministers should call on the NATO military alliance to use its resources to airlift PPE during the coronavirus outbreak, shadow defence secretary John Healey has said.

In part one of Sky News documentary Bad Blood/New Blood Turnbull ally Craig Laundy claimed Finance Minister Matthias Cormann's signing of the petition sealed the former PM's fate.

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has called on Australia to implement a Green New Deal. This is also the name of a radical proposal in the US for 100 per cent renewables by 2030.

He went on the lead the party to political victory again in 2016, before he was overthrown once more by Scott Morrison in 2018 - a man who Mr Turnbull believes never should have been elected.

Tulsi Gabbard said Monday she wants to confront Hillary Clinton after the failed 2016 presidential candidate perpetuated a conspiracy theory that she's a 'Russian asset.'

A week after a torrent of press reports that Clinton had branded Gabbard a Russian spy, a closer listening to the podcast reveals the former secretary of state never said it.

Hillary Clinton slammed Facebook's political advertisement policy, saying it is 'appalling' that voters are being misinformed by potentially false information ahead of the 2020 election.