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Connecting Paul George and Quincy Jones
Paul George
George competed for the Eastern Conference in the 2016 NBA All-Star Game in Toronto, where he started and was the game's leading scorer with 41 points, finishing one point shy of the All-Star game record set by Wilt Chamberlain (42) in 1962.
Wilt Chamberlain
American hall of fame basketball player (1936–1999)
When he became a Laker, Chamberlain built a million-dollar mansion in Bel-Air named after the Ursa Major, as a play on his nickname "The Big Dipper", and jazz composer Thad Jones named the music composition '' Big Dipper'' after Chamberlain.
Paul George
Despite George making all 3 free-throws and putting his team up 102–101, the Pacers ultimately lost as LeBron James drove in for a buzzer beater lay-up.
LeBron James
American basketball player (born 1984)
In the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, a 60-minute Vince Carter documentary entitled ''The Carter Effect'' was executive produced by James and Maverick Carter along with rapper Drake and Future the Prince.
Drake (musician)
In an appearance on ''The Shop'', Drake recounted several meetings with West, who voiced his desire to "be Quincy Jones" and work with Drake and replicate the producer-artist relationship between Jones and Michael Jackson.
Paul George
For the 2011 Playoffs, George was one of only two rookies from the 2010 NBA Draft to be in the starting lineup for his team, the other being Landry Fields for the New York Knicks.
Landry Fields
In May 2014, Fields was a contestant on '' Sing Your Face Off'', a show where celebrities impersonated and sing songs of an artist they were assigned. He sang as Lionel Richie, Pitbull, Enrique Iglesias, Nicki Minaj, MC Hammer, and Little Richard.
Little Richard
American musician, singer and songwriter (1932–2020)
Finally ending his contract with the label, Richard agreed to relinquish any royalties for his material. In 1958, Richard formed the Little Richard Evangelistic Team, traveling across the country to preach. A month after his decision to leave secular music, Richard met Ernestine Harvin, a secretary from Washington, D.C., and the couple married on July 11, 1959. Richard ventured into gospel music, first recording for End Records, before signing with Mercury Records in 1961, where he eventually released ''King of the Gospel Singers'', in 1962, produced by Quincy Jones, who later remarked that Richard's vocals impressed him more than any other vocalist he had worked with. His childhood heroine, Mahalia Jackson, wrote in the liner notes of the album that Richard "sang gospel the way it should be sung".{{sfn|White|2003|p=103: "He sang gospel the way it should be sung.
Paul George
George idolized Lakers star Kobe Bryant, and he grew up rooting for the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers.
Kobe Bryant
The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards went ahead as scheduled at the Staples Center on the day of the crash, but included tributes by multiple artists and groups, including host Alicia Keys opening the show with a tribute speech in which she called Staples Center "the house that Kobe Bryant built" and joining Boyz II Men to sing " It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday".
Alicia Keys
Keys performed "If I Ain't Got You" and then joined Jamie Foxx and Quincy Jones in a rendition of "Georgia on My Mind", the Hoagy Carmichael song made famous by Ray Charles in 1960 at the 2005 Grammy Awards.
Keys has cited several artists as her inspirations, including Whitney Houston, John Lennon, Sade, Aretha Franklin, Bob Marley, Carole King, Prince, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Quincy Jones, Donny Hathaway, Curtis Mayfield, Barbra Streisand, and Stevie Wonder.{{refn|}} An accomplished classical pianist, Keys incorporates piano into a majority of her songs. Keys was described by '' New York Daily News'' as "one of the most versatile musicians of her generation".
