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The Game Has a Hot Basketball team for NBA lockout players

LOS ANGELES – With the NBA lockout shutting down the league’s annual free-agent market, general managers and other team executives must wait to begin tweaking and rebuilding their rosters. So far this summer, that’s meant no recruiting pitches from Pat Riley and the Miami Heat – or anyone else affiliated with an NBA team.

But that hasn’t stopped everyone from working the phones. With Riley, the Golden State Warriors’ Jerry West and the Dallas Mavericks’ Mark Cuban forced to focus on other business, this summer’s biggest powerbroker might be none other than 31-year-old Jayceon Taylor.

Taylor, who is more commonly known as the rapper Game, has taken his talents from the recording studio to the court. In recent weeks, he has worked as the player-coach-GM for Go Ham, a team in South Central L.A.’s famous Drew League, a pro-am circuit that quickly has become a must-stop for any NBA fan depressed by the ongoing lockout.

Pop Star Rihanna’s stage catches fire

Pop star Rihanna’s show at Dallas’ American Airlines Center was cancelled last night, due to a fire that ignited during the first hour of the show.

The show, was scrapped due to safety concerns.

Rihanna’s Loud tour has already received headlines across the country, for low ticket sales forcing her to cancel a lot of the stops.

Rihanna tweeted after the show.

“DALLAS!!! We set the stage on FYAH tonight!!! LITERALLY!!! I’m so pissed, I was havin so much fun wit yall too!!!” Rihanna tweeted shortly after the stage caught on fire. “I gotta come back man!!..Heading into a production meeting to find out exactly what happened!!! Keep u posted.”