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LALA VASQUEZ SAYS FANS GOT RACIAL & SHE WAS ESCORTED OUT OF DALLAS NBA GAME VIDEO

Lala Vasquez gave a new interview with Mom Logic where she explains that things got very racial with Dallas fans when she got escorted out of the playoff game. Binside TV spoke to Lala  at the Hennessy Black Launch party before she went to Dallas to support her fiance Carmelo Anthony during the game. Nobody knew Lala would come off looking like she needed to go to Charm School. A Dallas fan wrote an email claiming that Lala was the one with the problem but her story sounds on point. Who do you believe?  Watch LALA VASQUEZ ESCORTED OUT video for a recap if you missed it.

Lala tells us she usually sits courtside when in Denver -- but courtside seats in Dallas were $6,000 a piece, and she just wasn't going to pay that. Lala says she was in the stands with her son and her babysitter when a group of men and women directly behind her, a group she says was drinking heavily, began to get rowdy. She tells us at first she ignored it, but as the game progressed, the group got even more drunk ("You know how big those beers are at games!" she says) and aggressive -- and began shouting racial slurs. Lala, a seasoned NBA spouse, says, "Mostly I'm used to it. There's always someone yelling something, and mostly I ignore it." This time, she says, it was different.

"They began yelling 'F*** the Nuggets!' right in front of my son." Then she says they started calling the Nuggets players "n*****s." She was shocked. "I've been at a ton of games -- but I have NEVER heard fans say things like that." Then, looking directly at her while taunting Anthony on the court, Lala says the fans called her son a "bastard."

"I know it was directed at me. Yes, my son's dad and I are not married -- but we are engaged!" Lala turned to the fans and said, "This is just a GAME! Do you even know these players?!" She then asked her babysitter to take Kiyan out of the arena. The fans, who by this time, claims Lala, were completely intoxicated, became even "more aggressive," yelling "F*** the Nuggets!" and insulting their families -- namely, Lala says, her and Carmelo. Then they physically pushed her. Pushed to the edge, she turned around and yelled back.

TV cameras captured security guards approaching her. "They said they had seen the whole thing and told me I had done nothing wrong. I was NOT ejected, they just escorted me to a suite [for safety]. I was mad!" Mavericks owner Mark Cuban even apologized the next day for a variety of incidents that happened at the game -- including the insulting of another player's mother -- saying "This has gotten out of hand." [MOM LOGIC]

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CARMELO ANTHONY PLEADS GUILTY TO A REDUCED CHARGE AFTER DUI ARREST GETS COMMUNITY SERVICE

NBA star Carmelo Anthony pleaded guilty to reduced charge of driving while impaired and was sentenced to community service. The Denver Nuggets All Star was arrested for a DUI. Prosecutors dropped the more serious DUI charge in exchange for his plea agreement. Watch a video update on the story. He will have to complete 24 hours of community service and pay $1,000 in fines. Click here for more on this story.

Carmelo Anthony Apologizes For DUI

All-Star Carmelo Anthony may have found reassurance that the Denver Nuggets still want him around in the most unlikely of places: the courtroom where he pleaded guilty Tuesday to a reduced charge of driving while ability-impaired.

With trade rumors swirling around the beleaguered Anthony in recent weeks, coach George Karl and Mark Warkentien, the team's vice president of basketball operations, were in the courtroom to offer their support. Anthony was sentenced to a year probation, 24 hours of community service, and more than $1,000 in fees and court costs while prosecutors dropped a more serious DUI charge.

Anthony also pleaded guilty to failure to stay in a single lane.

The sentencing capped off a bustling two days for the 24-year-old. He was chosen for the U.S. Olympic team on Monday, only to learn he was suspended by his team for two games because of the DUI arrest.

"I'm happy that it's over so I get a chance to take care of my business," Anthony said.

Anthony, who signed a five-year, $80 million extension in 2006, has been the topic of trade rumors, but he said Tuesday he expects to remain with the Nuggets for the foreseeable future.

"I hope so," he said with a grin. "I plan to be."

Anthony's agent, Calvin Andrews, also doesn't see his client going anywhere.

"I've been saying that until I'm blue in the face -- there's no plans to trade Carmelo Anthony," Andrews said Tuesday. source

LALA VAZQUEZ STANDS BY HER MAN CARMELO ANTHONY AFTER HIS DUI ARREST

According to People Magazine Carmelo Anthony's fiancee  LaLa Vazquez is speaking out about internet reports that she refused to pick up Camelo from the police station after his DUI arrest on Monday. Watch the couple on the red carpet at the 2005 VMAS.

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Basketball star Carmelo Anthony and his fiancée LaLa Vazquez are speaking out to PEOPLE about his DUI arrest – denying Internet reports she was unsupportive and wouldn't pick him up from the police station.

"I want to make sure the public understands that I fully support my fiancé, Carmelo Anthony, and stand by him through this ordeal," Vazquez, a former MTV veejay, says in a statement to PEOPLE on Tuesday. "I will always have his back and never refused to pick him up from the police station. In fact, they offered to bring him to me."

The couple have a child together, 1-year-old son Kiyan. Vazquez will soon costar in the movie Let the Church Say Amen and will host and executive produce VH1's upcoming reality show The Sixth Man.

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CARMELO ANTHONY ARRESTED IN DENVER ON DUI CHARGES

Denver Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony was arrested this morning on suspicion of DUI. Carmelo's lawyer issued an apology on his behalf. Click here to watch video on this story.

NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony was arrested early Monday morning on suspicion of driving under the influence, hours after his worst game of the season.

Police said the Denver Nuggets forward was arrested on Interstate 25. He was pulled over for weaving and failing to dim his lights.

Detective Sharon Hahn said Anthony, who was alone in the car, failed a series of sobriety tests. He was ticketed and released at the scene, but Hahn did not know how he got home. Denver police don't jail DUI suspects and Anthony was no exception, Hahn said.

Anthony is due in court May 14.

Mark Warkentien, the Nuggets' vice president of basketball operations, said the team was aware of the situation but declined comment.

Anthony apologized through his attorney, Dan Recht.

"Carmelo apologizes to his fans, the Denver community, his teammates and the Nuggets organization for the distraction this is causing them," Recht said.

He said Anthony consented to a blood test, but results won't be available for about two weeks.

In the meantime, "Carmelo will try to stay focused on his family and his team," Recht said. source

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