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Two-time NBA All-Star game Most Valuable Player Stephen Curry will not compete in Sunday's annual showcase due to an ongoing injury to his right knee.

Golden State coach Steve Kerr announced the news prior to the Warriors' game on Monday evening versus the Memphis Grizzlies.

Curry will not play vs. Memphis on Monday or San Antonio on Wednesday, missing his fourth and fifth consecutive games. He is suffering from patellofemoral pain syndrome, also known as runner's knee.

The Warriors are hopeful that Curry will return after the All-Star break when they host the Boston Celtics on Feb. 19.

"It's a matter of learning as I go what works rehab-wise," Curry told ESPN. "Because it's still painful. You have to try to get rid of all the inflammation and pain. It's something we still have to monitor and injury-manage, but it's something where, if I come back too early, it could flare up."

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Curry has missed 14 games to date, but is averaging 27.2 points per game, the fifth-highest per game total of his 17-year career.

He has not played since leaving a Jan. 30 home game vs. Detroit.

Curry joins the Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (abdomen) as All-Stars who will miss Sunday's game in Los Angeles. Gilgeous-Alexander has been replaced on the Team World roster by the Houston Rockets' center Alperen Sengun.

The NBA hasn't announced a replacement for Curry on Team USA.

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) —Philadelphia 76ersstarJoel Embiiddid not play against the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday night to rest his right knee after an off day.

Embiid is averaging 26.6 points, 7.5 rebound and 3.9 assists this season. He has played in 31 games after being limited to 19 games last year and 39 games the previous season. The 7-foot center scored 33 points in a win at Phoenix on Saturday night.

In Portland, the Sixers also ruled out Quentin Grimes and Quentin Dominick because both had an illness.

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Philadelphia was also missing Paul George, who was recentlysuspended 25 gamesfor violating the terms of the NBA's anti-drug program.

The Sixers host the New York Knicks on Wednesday.

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DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Tigers will have their local television broadcasts produced and distributed by Major League Baseball this season.

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The Tigers' partnership with MLB, announced Monday, is unique because it also includes the Detroit Red Wings. Ilitch Sports + Entertainment, which owns both franchises, will handle the broadcast production duties for hockey, while MLB assists with production distribution, beginning next season.

Red Wings games are expected to be carried on FanDuel Sports Detroit through the end of the season. However, the 13 NBA and seven NHL teams that have their games on FanDuel networks have been preparing for a worst-case scenario.

Main Street's 15 owned and operated networks under the FanDuel banner are on the verge of insolvency and going out of business if a new majority owner or investors are not found.

"Given recent uncertainty throughout the regional sports broadcasting industry, we recognize the importance of providing fans with a consistent, year-round outlet to watch Tigers baseball and Red Wings hockey," Ryan Gustafson, president and CEO of Ilitch Sports + Entertainment, said in a statement. "We have two of the top-rated broadcasts in our respective sports and remain focused on listening to fans about what matters most to them. What we've heard includes making sure our games are available throughout the market, providing a reliable streaming product, and producing a broadcast that's informative and entertaining in all the right ways. This is a great path forward in those areas, allowing us to provide a great experience for fans throughout our local market."

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MLB will produce broadcasts for at least 14 teams this season. It also added the Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals, Miami Marlins, Milwaukee Brewers, St. Louis Cardinals, Seattle Mariners, Tampa Bay Rays and Washington Nationals during the offseason.

Nine clubs, including the Tigers,terminated their dealslast month after the Main Street Sports Group, which operates the regional FanDuel Sports Network stations, did not make scheduled rights payments.

The Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles Angels still have not made a decision about local coverage plans.

MLB has touted expanded market reach when it takes over production of teams due to a combination of being on local cable systems, satellite and direct-to-consumer streaming.

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Lawyers for the Venezuelan men who were sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador last year argued in court Monday that due process for their clients would mean giving them the immediate right to return to the U.S. for a court hearing, or have remote hearings about their cases.

The men, who were detained by federal immigration authorities, were held for four months in the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, aSalvadoran megaprisonknown for its harsh conditions. They were sent back to Venezuela in July as part of a prisoner swap between the two nations, andhave said they suffered physical and psychological abuse while imprisoned in CECOT.

In December, a federal judge ruled the Trump administration should not have sent the 137 Venezuelan men to CECOT after invoking the Alien Enemies Act, finding that the men were denied due process.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered the federal government to either facilitate the return of the men to the United States or otherwise follow due process and provide them with hearings. The men are now living in Venezuela or in nearby countries.

Lee Gelernt, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union who is representing the plaintiffs in this case, argued Monday that his clients who have made it out of Venezuela and to a third country should have the immediate right to either return to the U.S. for a hearing, have a remote hearing, or at the very least be able to file habeas claims on paper.

For those still in Venezuela, a paper filing is probably the best place to start given the turmoil in the South American country, the lawyer said.

Boasberg asked Department of Justice attorney Tiberius Davis why the 137 men shouldn't be treated the same asKilmar Abrego Garciaand returned to the U.S., especially because the Supreme Court previously ordered Abrego returned to the same condition he was in before he was mistakenly deported.

"Obviously, if the court ordered that, we could do that," Davis said. He said trying to coordinate remote hearings, for legal, jurisdictional, and practical reasons, would be the "worst" option.

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Davis said the Trump administration would prefer if any of the 137 individuals arrived at a U.S. port of entry or had boarding letters, saying "that is the least problematic" pathway here.

Gelernt and Davis both agreed that these individuals, if they were to present themselves at a port of entry, would not be allowed into the U.S. freely. They would be taken into U.S. custody and their individual immigration proceedings would continue from there, Davis said.

Boasberg said he would rule on how the government is to proceed within the next week or so.

The men were sent to CECOT in March after Trumpinvoked the Alien Enemies Act, a wartime law,declaring the Venezuelan gangTren de Aragua an invading force.Their removal to El Salvador cameeven as Boasberg, in a ruling at the time,blocked the deportations and ordered any flights carrying migrants subject to the presidential invocation to return to the United States.

Trump said heinvoked the Alien Enemies Actto target members of the gang, which the administration deems a foreign terrorist organization and accuses of engaging in "mass illegal migration to the United States to further its objectives of harming United States citizens." By invoking the law, Trump was able to swiftly detain and remove immigrants he claimed were members of the gang at the time.

The men who spoke to NBC News,as well as the families of former detainees and their attorneys,strongly denied any ties to gangs and said they were unfairly targeted because oftattoos that may be popular in Venezuela and are unrelated to Tren de Aragua.

A New York Times investigation, which relied on interviews with prosecutors and law enforcement officials as well as court documents and media reports in multiple countries, found that most of the men sent to CECOT did not have criminal records in the United States or in the region. It found at least 32 of the more than 200 men sent to CECOT, including the 137 under the Alien Enemies Act, faced serious criminal accusations or convictions in the United States or abroad. Very few of them appeared to have any documented evidence connecting them to Tren de Aragua.

Three of the Venezuelan men told NBC Newsafter their release from CECOT and return to Venezuela that they experienced physical and psychological torture, including one man's allegation that he was sexually assaulted at the prison.

Monday isa big dayin the long-running — and still very much not-over — saga ofthe Jeffrey Epstein files.

That's because we could begin to learn more about the Justice Department'scontroversial redactions, when lawmakers have an opportunity to review theunredactedfiles.

One prominent House Democrat, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, said Monday afternoon that he had reviewed the unredacted documents and saw "tons of completely unnecessary redactions."

"I saw the names of lots of people who were redacted for mysterious or baffling or inscrutable reasons," Raskin said.

As millions of documents have trickled out and been sorted through, one of the major subplots is what DOJ chose to redact. Its redaction decisions in many caseswent well beyondwhat the legislation passed by Congress called for.

Perhaps no redactions have garnered more attention than the suspected co-conspirators who are described in internal Justice Department documents and others who exchanged eyebrow-raising emails with Epstein.

The latter instances include emails that read as if people were evaluating and even scouting women or girls for Epstein. In other cases, they reference questionable behavior.

The redactions have raised concerns among Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California, who led the charge on the bill that forced the Trump administration to release the Epstein files. They've also raised concerns among Epstein's survivors. Onetold CNNthat DOJ was "shielding predators." Another said DOJ has "protected the Epstein class with blanket redactions."

But on Monday, lawmakers, including Massie and Khanna, will have the chance to evaluate the redactions and possibly raise any concerns when the Justice Department begins allowing themto review the unredacted files.

CNNwrote about some of these emailslast week. The Justice Department suggested any such redactions were women or girls who might have been victims at one point.

"In many instances, as it has been well documented publicly, those who were originally victims became participants and co-conspirators," a DOJ official told CNN. "We did not redact any names of men, only female victims." FBI and law enforcement names were also redacted, the DOJ official said.

So which documents are at issue? Below are some noteworthy examples.

'Your littlest girl was a little naughty'

In a2014 email, a sender whose name is redacted emails Epstein: "Thank you for a fun night… Your littlest girl was a little naughty."

'I found at least 3 very good young poor …'

In a2018 email, a redacted sender emails Epstein: "I found at least 3 very good young poor but we was so tired."

The sender then suggests the subject of the email was women or girls: "Meet this one, not the beauty queen but we both likes her a lot."

'She is like Lolita from Nabokov , femme miniature :)'

In a2017 email, a redacted sender emails Epstein, "I met [REDACTED] today. She is like Lolita from Nabokov , femme miniature :) So now I should send you her type of candidates only ?"

"Femme miniature" in French literally translates to small woman. "Lolita from Nabokov" refers to Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel about a middle-aged man who falls in love with a 12-year-old girl and sexually abuses her. (Epstein's airplane has often been dubbed the "Lolita Express" because of allegations that it was used to exploit girls.)

The draft indictment

Some of the biggest news to come out of the latest document dump was that we finally laid eyes ona draft indictmentof Epstein from the 2000s, before he escaped with a sweetheart deal.

The draft indictment is particularly notable because it includes three co-conspirators that prosecutors apparently considered charging. The co-conspirators are described as being employed by Epstein, but their names are redacted.

A chart with other suspects redacted

The documents also includea chart, apparently from law enforcement, that shows Epstein, his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and his longtime assistant Lesley Groff (whose first name is misspelled as "Leslie"). Groff's lawyer told CNN his client had no comment.

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But redacted are three employees and a "girlfriend" of Epstein's whom authorities thought might be recruiting for Epstein and in some cases otherwise participating in crimes.

It says of one of them: "Unknown if she was directly responsible for recruiting girls but at least 10 girls state she is the direct point of contact for scheduling his massage appointments."

Other such charts featuresimilar redactions.

Sending Epstein details of women and their appearances

In a2017 email, a redacted person emails Epstein detailed information about women to be considered for an unspecified opportunity.

One is described as wanting "the job badly. But not as pretty as other applicants." Another is labeled "not very young but beautiful and diligent, well educated and simple, not ambitious."

'And this one is (i think) totally your girl.'

In oneextended 2015 email exchangebetween Epstein and a redacted interlocutor, Epstein asks, "any friends for jeffrey while you are recovering?"

The person responds by citing a close friend described as "Sweet girl. 20y. American." (Epstein responds that the person looks like the sender, suggesting the email included a photo.) The person later cites someone else: "She's australian, super cool, 23y, lot of fun ;)) (dark hair girl at picture) ."

The person later adds: "I'm always think about you when I'm meeting new girls." And then: "And this one is (i think) totally your girl. … Just medsaged her to check up."

'I loved the torture video'

In a2009 email, Epstein writes a brief email to a redacted recipient that includes the words, "where are you? are you ok I loved the torture video."

'New Brazilian just arrived, sexy and cute, 19yo'

In a2013 email, a redacted sender from a modeling agency writes to Epstein: "New Brazilian just arrived, sexy and cute, 19yo." The email appears to come with images attached. (CNN has reached out to the modeling agency.)

In other versions of the same email released by DOJ, the sender's affiliation with themodeling agency is redacted. Some versions of the email also included an "=" sign in place of the "1" – the files include many documents with "=" in place of characters – leading some to believe the email described a 9-year old. Butit did not.

'I just saw the most beautiful little girl on Madison with long soft blonde hair'

In a2014 email, a redacted sender emails Epstein: "I can't take it anymore!!!!!!! I just saw the most beautiful little girl on Madison with long soft blonde hair."

'My favorite from Lithuania, [REDACTED], 19.'

In a2018 email, a redacted sender writes an email that includes an image, but which appears as a broken image in the file that was released.

"My favorite from Lithuania, [REDACTED], 19. Will meet when I am there," the sender says.

Epstein responds: "full name instagram?"

A photo of a woman in a SpaceX shirt

In a 2013 email, a redacted person sends Epstein an email with no text but that includes a photo of a female posing while wearing a SpaceX shirt. The person's face is blocked out.

An email about 14- and 15-year-old girls and 'reproductive age'

In a2015 email, a redacted sender emails Epstein about teenage girls.

"the key are the 14 to 15 year old girls—i am a sexual pervert because i say they are now of a reproductive age?" the sender says.

The sender adds: "being called a sexual pervert is no fun. less so if you have served time for the crime. as i have not—they are calling me one merely for not urging your death by beheading."

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