Curbstone Coaches idle Monday

In observance of the Thanks giving holiday, the Curbstone Coaches will be off this coming Monday.

They will reconvene Dec. 8, where Mineral Ridge High School head football coach Andy Hake will be the speaker.

Lakers’ Doncic calls court ‘dangerous’

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Lakers will use their normal home court for their NBA Cup game against Dallas on Friday night after Luka Doncic complained about the slipperiness of their league-issued special tournament court.

Doncic said the new court was “slippery” and “dangerous” on Tuesday night after the Lakers clinched their tournament group with a victory over the Los Angeles Clippers. The league provides exotic, unorthodox hardwood courts to every team in the league to distinguish its NBA Cup games.

While LeBron James said he didn’t find the court especially perilous, Rui Hachimura echoed Doncic’s concerns during the Lakers’ morning shootaround Friday, saying the yellow court was “bad” and “oily, slippery.”

After Doncic’s complaints, the court was examined by the league’s technicians and deemed unsafe for play, the team said. After adjustments, the court could be available if the Lakers host a Cup quarterfinal later this month.

The Lakers have won five consecutive games as they welcome the Mavericks and Anthony Davis, who will return from a 14-game injury absence to face the Lakers in their downtown arena for the first time since the seismic trade sending him to Dallas for Doncic 10 months ago.

Jets’ corner Boyd back in hospital

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — A post on New York Jets cornerback Kris Boyd’s Instagram account late Wednesday night said he was back in the hospital after recovering from being shot in midtown Manhattan on Nov. 16.

Boyd wrote on his Instagram Stories — which has since disappeared from his profile because it is more than 24 hours old — that his “health issues” landed him back in the hospital and asked people to bear with him for not providing more updates.

“I was released but had to return to the hospital due to my health issues,” Boyd wrote. “I love and appreciate everyone of yall dearly who has prayed/reached out even if I can’t get back to you.”

Boyd also wrote: “Head HIGH, God is not through with me yet!”

It wasn’t immediately certain when Boyd had been released, but Jets coach Aaron Glenn confirmed Friday that the special teams standout returned to the hospital.

The shooting happened just after 2 a.m. on Nov. 16 about halfway between Madison Square Garden and Times Square. Boyd, 29, was taken to Bellevue Hospital after being shot in the abdomen, police said. The shooter fled the scene.

New York police released surveillance images last week of a man sought in the shooting of Boyd.

On Nov. 19, a picture of Boyd lying down and smiling in what appeared to be his hospital bed was posted on his Instagram Stories.