Boston Celtics v Orland Magic: It's Game 7 in the NBA play-off semis and, despite the prayers of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, Boston lose their deciding game to Magic, who go on to the Eastern finals against Cleveland
LA Lakers v Houston Rockets: It's the deciding game in Los Angeles that sees more famous faces than a noble cause fundraiser, including pop-country singer LeAnn Rimes
With more millionaires in the stands than on the court, Rimes drags herself away from the action to harmonise vocals with Billy Corgan, frontman of Smashing Pumpkins who, at time of writing at least, are still together
Who knows why actor Denzel Washington sports a New York cap to a game between Californians and Texans? Neutrality? Or the good chance that collaborator, basketball fan and pal Spike Lee is also watching?
The Lakers are playing off the hook, free as papillon, nearly 30 points clear in the second half, all the President's men couldn't save the Rockets now, as LA look to graduate to the Conference Finals
Jack Nicholson seems to have been courtside at the Lakers for as long as the Staples Center has been standing, and the 72-year-old still shows no signs of being the quietest fan in the building
Presumably he can follow the sport but, from the looks of it, Russell Brand finds more entertainment at his beloved Upton Park. Whether the US is ready for his gothic-dandy grandmother dress sense is also unclear
The Lakers win 89-70, and take the series 4-3, but who is the one person in Los Angeles allowed to wear aviator shades indoors? Only Iceman from Top Gun. Catch NBA highlights at www.bbc.co.uk/basketball
LA Lakers v Denver Nuggets: The teams are tied at two games each going in to the play-off semi-finals, Game Five, and Jack is still courtside, intimidating men twice his size and half his age
The Staples Center is again replete with stars of highbrow cinematic masterpieces, and also Tyrese Gibson, of Death Race, Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen fame
When not singing about the twists of contemporary secondary education, teenage heart-throb Zac Efron takes time to cheer the Lakers home 103-94, 3-2 up in the best-of-seven series
Cleveland Cavaliers v Orlando Magic: The men from Ohio head to Game Five already 3-1 down but New York Yankees' Mariano Rivera, the highest-paid reliever in MLB history, sees Cleveland claw back to 3-2
Denver Nuggets v LA Lakers: Game Six and Colorado governor Bill Ritter Jr looks as calm as any election night knowing his team, tonight's hosts, must win to stay in the series
But it is not to be, the Lakers and superstar captain Kobe Bryant take the Nuggets apart 119-92 to reach their second NBA Championship final in two years
Orlando Magic v Cleveland Cavaliers: Another Magic game, another star of another sport, this time golfer Tiger Woods, in attendance to see if Orlando can close out the series with a game to spare
Magic take the series 4-2, 103-90 on the night, to make their first final since 1995 with Dwight Howard's 40-point score eclipsing Cleveland's talisman, LeBron James
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