Justin Bieber crosses up Steve Nash, lockout hits home for Jared Dudley

It’s generally not national news when a point guard blows by Steve Nash on the way to the hoop.
But when that point guard is teen pop sensation Justin Bieber, that story gets more than it’s fair share of play.

A nine-second clip of Bieber crossing over Nash off a pick on his way to the hoop with girlfriend Selena Gomez squealing for him in the background has been making the rounds on the Internet after Bieber tweeted a link to it on Friday and wrote “hold up though…is that the REAL @SteveNash - yes…yes it is…#crossover.” The blow by occurred during a pickup game in advance of a charity game in Atlanta.

See the video below:


The video has since received over 568,000 views on YouTube as of this writing and 236,000 on TwitVid. It even spent time on the Yahoo! front page, which would be pretty astounding aside from the fact Yahoo! often leads with stories like this that are sure to draw clicks.
Nash took things in stride and tweeted: “Thanks to @justinbieber I’m trending in Buenos Aires, Australia and Canada. Hola, G’Day, eh?”
In the clip Nash tries to go over the pick but Bieber instead crosses over to get to the tin and thus a highlight is born.
Dudley missing unofficial start of season
Labor Day weekend is usually about the time that Phoenix Suns players return to the Valley for voluntary workouts in advance of training camp.
With the lockout far from over, that of course is not the case this season.
“Today feels like the 1st day of the lockout!! This time last yr I flew back to phx to start preparing for the upcoming season,” Jared Dudley tweeted. “In July an August is usually travel, family, and training time.. September the time u get back to Ur team to start bonding and chemistry.”
The players and owners met on Wednesday, but we’re still weeks if not months away from the conclusion of the lockout.
With players continuing to work out on their own (we hope) rather than returning for team workouts, the lockout officially starts to affect players’ normal routine this week.
For Dudley that means getting some run in the Impact Basketball Competitive Training Series in Vegas that will features eight teams with seven or eight NBA players each, according to Howard Beck of The New York Times. JD is the only Sun currently expected to play, but The Arizona Republic’s Paul Coro reported that Dudley is trying to get Channing Frye, Josh Childress and Aaron Brooks to join him as well.
The league is scheduled to start on Sept. 12 with the games streamed live online. Beck’s story said the league is expected to feature “some expectation of defense,” so along with rosters containing only NBA players the so-called Lockout League will be much different than the pro-am games staged throughout the country the last couple months.


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Justin Bieber Tweets on Being Normal...is He? Or is He Special?

Justin Bieber had a twitter moment where he missed being "a normal kid." He can't go back, but as he ages he seems to get better.

For those Justin Bieber fans who don't follow him on twitter, or follow him but don't always get to viewing his latest tweets, here's some news: on September 4, 2011, in the midst of tweets about his charity basketball game in Atlanta, he tweeted about being normal. Or about wanting to be normal.

The thoughts came up after a question from gabbygrutt14, one of Bieber's 12,435,918 followers on Twitter. She asked Bieber if he would like to spend time again simply being "normal," whatever that might be. "@justinbieber if you could..would you for one day go back to being a normal kid?" gabbygrutt14 asked Bieber. "just for a day, #randomquestion."

That question got from Justin Bieber a seemingly honest reply, and a telling one. "yeah...for more than 1 day. i love my life but yeah. this question stuck out to me. i wanted to answer it. thanks," he wrote. He then followed that response with this: "but i feel really blessed to do what i do. very grateful. i am normal though."

Justin Bieber: Praise from Celebrities
Justin Bieber has often spoken of keeping himself grounded, normal, in the midst of all of the things he has and things he gets to do, the tours, recordings, TV shows, money and all the adulation. He seems to have achieved being normal and celebrities from Usher to David Letterman to Barbara Walters have said as much, impressed by who he is.

"I could be accused of being a dirty old woman because I thought he was adorable," Walters said after he was on her show in December of 2010. "His mother was at the interview, who looks about 12-years-old, and his grandparents.

"He's very talented. He taught himself to play drums, guitar and piano and he played them all for us. I asked him about dating and he said 'I like older women.' He is a very smooth kid."

Bieber Seeks Being a Normal Kid
Arguably, just because he owns homes and has staff and legions of fans it does not mean he isn't normal, and he realizes that or would not have tweeted that he is normal. He's a normal kid who is not leading a normal life.

After that exchange with gabbygrutt14 he went on to exchanges with rapper Ludacris and NBA star Carmelo Anthony, not exchanges a 'normal' 17-year-old would, well, normally have. But through it all, and the following day when he tweeted about shooting a commercial on the dangers of texting and driving, he was generous, kind, humble and grateful. For a 17-year-old with all that he has, mabye that's not normal after all.

Maybe it's special.



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