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Basketballs miami heat are looking for a three-peat. the reigning nba champs advance to the nba championship finals with a routh of the indiana pacers friday night. miami will face san antonio spurs or the oklahoma city thunder. the heat beat the spurs last year to claim their second consecutive title. also in the world of basketball, it looks like former microsoft ceo steve ballmer will be the next owner of the l.a. clippers. ballmer agreed to a record $2 billion deal friday with shelly sterlin...

Told him to put it back on. clippers and lakers. the end of the first xavier henry has a floater in the paint. all downhill for the lakers after that. blake griffin on the break. ow! >> 20 points. >> i love that. >> oh, my god. oh, my goodness. >> hurt ankle? >> no. impossible. >> not a third angle. three-peat looking down into the basket. the clippers blow out the lakers by 48 points! >> could that be the worst blowout in lakers history? >> it was the worst blowout in lakers history. >> are you...

Nichols live from sochi. rach? >> reporter: well, chris, yeah. for every disappointment, right what we love about the olympics. theres a sweetheart story that comes up in its place. these athletes have just seconds in a lot of cases to distill down decades of training. sometimes it doesnt go well, but then sometimes it goes better than expected. thats what happened to the american men this morning. take a look. it was a sweeping one, two, three victory for team usa this morning. american skiers ...

Our own chris jansing has been there live in sochi all so far. chris, you know, those weather conditions might have affected shaun white, some are saying, who missed the podium in his marquee event, the halfpipe, the finals that were there yesterday. and now folks are wondering, okay, so he didnt make it to the gold platform, but is he going to now, you know, hang up his snowboard? is he going to retire? >> you know, relationship chard, he was going for the three-peat, he has two golds already, ...

Wadsworth replaced the broken ski with one of the spares he had for his team. wadsworth who is a three-time olympian himself said i wanted him to have dignity as he crossed the finish line. awesome stuff. american speed skater shani davis will look to make history when he goes for a three-peat in the 1,000 feets. davis has taken gold in the event if he does it again today hell be the first american man to win an olympic event three times in a row. norway on top with 11. canada, with 9. team us...

This. what happened? >> reporter: yeah, brooke, theres no three-peat here. he wasnt able to make it. he was actually in first place going into the final runs but just had three horrible runs and a lot of this is to be blamed on the weather conditions. there was over 34 crashes, really unheard of amount at the halfpipe today. a lot of the athletes saying that the conditions just werent right for good, stellar performances. we dont know if that is the cause of shaun whites performance. well probab...

Forgive bill clinton over it. were going to meet the people who literally wrote the book on hillary called "hrc." its out. well get their take on that as well as some of the revelations that come out in their book. theyre going to be joining us on set today. >> kate, thank you. a lot of insight in that, im sure. thank you very much. big day in sochi today. we could see more american gold. thats the man, snowboarder shaun white. he is looking to three-peat in the halfpipe. hes won that event in...

Give it 100%, bodey says, you know what, i understand it is month indication. it can go horribly wrong. but he knows the course and they know hes fast on it. there was only one person who was within a second of him. i agree with your implication that you cant say, well, she going to win. if he runs a clean run at his best and most intense, he will definitely be in the top three. >> definitely going to be watching for that one. speaking of that, who are some of the other americans to watch? >> yo...

Its that time of day, ive been hearing about it all morning. the bulls are playing. >> im so excited. >> nba season up and running, lebron james and the heat got things started. andy scholes joins us with the "bleacher report." >> beating my bulls. thats okay, derick looked good. >> its about lebron and the heat. before they begin their quest for a three -peat, they celebrated, the heat raising the banner into the rafters and receiving their rings. 242 diamonds in this years ring. in championshi...

Athletes. miami heat were picked to three-peat, and harden as the stop-shooting guard, and its the first year in 12 years kobe bryant was not picked. and then a parent from the losing team filed a bullingy complaint. the winning team did bench the starters after 12 minutes of play here. and then here we go. the female guests must be 21 or older if they get an a womens clinic. >> there you go. >> and then finally, a