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Anthony Davis & LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers.

There are few superstar duos in the NBA that have worked as well as the Anthony Davis-LeBron James pairing. The two Los Angeles Lakers star just seem to get along. Not only that, they fit together perfectly on the court. LeBron and Davis like to poke fun at each other from time to time. Davis has gotten some good jabs in but LeBron got him with his latest troll job.

In a recent game against the San Antonio Spurs, Davis went up to shoot a free throw and while LeBron was on the bench, he couldn’t help but mock his teammate’s jab step move. Kyle Kuzma seemed to enjoy the performance.

It’s good to see that the Lakers’ chemistry still hasn’t been affected by the fact that they won a championship. They’ve put together a group of guys who get along very well. That level of chemistry is really important right now as fans still aren’t allowed at most games.

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Davis Finally Has Breakout Game

This season got off to a rough start for Davis. He missed a game early with an injury and put up a 13 point dud against the Portland Trail Blazers. Considering the Lakers’ short offseason, it’s okay that Davis got off to a slow start but it looks like he’s heating back up.

On Friday against the Spurs, Davis had his best game of the season as he scored 34 points and grabbed 11 rebounds. It’s not a surprise that he had a big game but it’s definitely a good sight. Big men, a lot of times, have to rely on others to get them involved. Davis has fallen victim to that from time to time. However, he’s good enough to where he can get himself involved if he has to.

Frank Vogel Believes Davis Can Reach Another Level

Davis is already one of the five best players in the NBA but it’s possible he can be even better. There aren’t a lot of 6-foot-10 people who can handle the ball and shoot as well as Davis can. While he had an excellent season last year, head coach Frank Vogel believes the big man can be even better this season.

“I think so. Obviously, he played at a pretty damn high-level last year, but he’s a guy that is never satisfied,” Vogel said, via Silver Screen & Roll. “[He] continues to work on getting better and growing his game.”

Davis is only 27-years-old so there’s no reason to believe that he’s hit his ceiling quite yet. There’s a lot of confidence that comes with winning a championship. Now that he’s gotten over that hump, he could reach MVP status in the near future. Plus, people forget that last season was Davis’ first year with the Lakers. Another year under his belt in the same system will only make things easier for him.

“I think a second year in the system with the core and what we established last year should benefit him, but he’s always going to want to continue to improve his game,” Vogel said.

A group of high schoolers in Montana just pulled a hay-larious senior prank on their principal. 

On Monday, Raymond DeBruycker of Conrad High School, was sitting at his desk, wondering why so many members of the graduating class were late. Then his phone rang. 

“They said, ‘We need you to come outside,’” DeBruycker, 32, told TODAY Parents. 

The reason they were tardy? A dozen seniors decided to ride their horses to school. And they were under the responsibility of DeBruycker.

“Montana has this old transportation law that states if a student rides their horse to school, the principal needs to tend to the horse,” DeBruycker explained. “But it’s been voided in the last couple of years.”

Still, DeBruycker, who grew up on a nearby working ranch, was happy to play along. That morning he took pictures with students and watched them race each other around the football field. He also helped tie the horses up along a fence.

“I was joking to my transportation director, that between fuel prices and the shortage of bus drivers, maybe we should start encouraging them to come to school on horseback,” DeBruycker said

The town of Conrad, Montana, has a population of 2,624 according to the United States Census Bureau. There are 28 students in the high school’s senior class.

“We’re a tiny rural Montana town so it’s pretty cool that that this story is getting so much attention,” DeBruycker said.

Aside from the horse manure, Monday’s prank was easier to clean up than the last year’s. 

“They put 1000 cups of water through the hallways, and moved lunch tables to random places throughout the building. They covered up security cameras,” DeBruycker said. “It was a bit of a headache.”

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A prankster has caused a fair bit of confusion after erecting a ‘Welcome to Luton’ sign on the approach to Gatwick Airport.

The 60m (197ft) sign is currently clearly visible to air passengers preparing to land at the UK’s second-largest airport, located just under 30 miles south of central London.

Luton airport, on the other hand, is situated approximately 35 miles north of central London and is therefore a fair old stretch away from Gatwick.

You can imagine the amount of head-scratching among passengers checking out of the window while gathering their hand luggage together.

As previously reported by BBC News, Abbey Desmond, from Great Dunmow, Essex, says she was left in a ‘state of panic’ after clocking the sign while landing.

Now YouTube prankster Max Fosh has claimed responsibility for the stunt, apologising if “anyone has been seriously thrown” by his joke sign.

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Fosh, whose previous pranks have included breaking into the International Security Convention and serving roadkill to unsuspecting food critics, fessed up to the prank during an appearance on the Justin Dealey show on BBC Three Counties Radio.

The jokester admitted: “I am the pesky prankster that has written Welcome To Luton.”

He went on to reveal that some passengers had indeed been left in a muddle, with one woman even messaging him to say she’d been worried about her location as she’d left her car at Gatwick.

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Fosh, who says he was inspired by similar pranks played in the US and Australia, continued: “It’s my job to make videos and my videos are all about doing silly things, to put a smile on people’s faces but just to be silly, I’m glad this stunt has gone down well.”

Revealing how he pulled the prank off, Fosh added: “I went door-knocking on fields next to Heathrow and Gatwick and a lovely couple said, ‘yeah we’ve got an 80m (262ft) long patch of land we don’t have any use for’, so I said ‘great can I get my tarpaulin out and start hammering pegs into the ground?’.”

The 14 letters, which are 8m (26ft) by 3m (10ft), set Fosh back £4,000, with the sign ‘made to last.’

Fosh currently has permission for the sign to stay put for six weeks, and has advised anyone flying into Gatwick during that time to ‘have a look out your left window you should see it about 90 seconds before landing.’

Meanwhile, the previously confused Abbey has since tweeted a pic of the daft sign, so as to ‘give everyone else a laugh’, remarking that ‘it has blown up with everyone blaming RAF Luton.’

The photo has sparked widespread amusement, with one person commenting: “My colleague saw this on a flight we both did on Friday – completely scared her as she thought we were landing in Luton… luckily it was Gatwick.”

Another recalled: “Oddly, I was once on a plane where the pilot announced, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, we have just landed at London Gatwick. Or at least I think we have. Oh, there’s the sign. Thank God for that.’ Must be a Gatwick thing…”

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