Marina Mabrey's historic shooting night lifts Sun over Fever in playoff game

Marina Mabrey’s historic shooting night lifted the Connecticut Sun to a Game 1 win over the Indiana Fever on Sunday night, 93-69.

Mabrey had the most points for a player off the bench in a playoff game. Mabrey came into the game for Tyasha Harris, who left the game with an injury after only playing four minutes.

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The New Jersey native finished with 27 points. She made five 3-pointers, all of which came in the second half. She added three rebounds and three assists to her stat line as well.

The Sun acquired Mabrey from the Chicago Sky on July 17. She played 16 regular-season games for Connecticut and averaged 14.9 points per game and shot 42.4% from 3-point range.

Alyssa Thomas had a triple-double with 12 points, 13 assists and 10 rebounds. She became the third player in WNBA history to have a triple-double in a playoff game. DeWanna Bonner had 22 points.

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Connecticut took advantage of a poor shooting night by the Fever.

Indiana shot 40% from the field and 21% from 3-point range. The Fever were 6 of 28 from beyond the arc.

Kelsey Mitchell led Indiana with 21 points. Caitlin Clark had 11 points. She was 2 of 13 from 3-point range. Aliyah Boston had 17 points and 11 rebounds.

The Sun own a 1-0 series lead in the best-of-three. Game 2 is set for Wednesday night at the Mohegan Sun Arena.

Earlier in the day, the New York Liberty defeated the Atlanta Dream in Game 1 of their playoff matchup. The Phoenix Mercury vs. Minnesota Lynx and Las Vegas Aces vs. Seattle Storm were the other playoff matchups to be played on Sunday night.

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George Clooney pranked Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep posing as Brad Pitt: ‘Everyone’s so terrified’

If you’re one of George Clooney’s famous friends, you might want to double-check your mail.

The "Ocean’s 11" star appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" last week and revealed that he often writes letters to friends pretending to be people like Bill Clinton, telling them he watched their "worst" movie on a plane.

But his great trick came courtesy of a gift from Jimmy Kimmel, who said he gave Clooney stationery with Brad Pitt’s name on it.

"The Brad Pitt one was brutal," Clooney joked, revealing he pretended to be his "Wolfs" co-star to several big names.

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"I sent [a letter] to Don Cheadle, I sent it to Tom Cruise saying they want to do ‘Interview [with the Vampire] 2’ but this time Brad wants to play Lestat," Clooney said.

He continued, "I sent it to Meryl Streep with a box of CDs for dialect [coaching]. And I said ‘This guy helped me with my accent in "Troy," I think he could really help you.’" Streep is, of course, a multiple Oscar-winner, known for her skill in dialects and accents, making the prank pretty clever, as Clooney cracked up explaining it.

Kimmel said Pitt told him that Cruise had actually called him after receiving the letter, telling him playing Lestat, Cruise's character in the 1994 film, was OK.

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It’s not the perfect crime, as Clooney admitted, "There’s usually some guess involved with me, yeah, usually somehow they figure it out."

Clooney has been famous for his pranks in Hollywood for years, and knows it keeps everybody on their toes.

"Once you’ve done really dastardly, long-running things, then it’s like having the nuclear weapons. Everyone’s so terrified," he told Kimmel.

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He added that "Only Murders in the Building" star Richard Kind had told Clooney that a prank show wanted to try to get him and asked Kind and all his friends, and they emphatically said no to participating, knowing Clooney’s reputation.

"They called all my friends and they were like ‘No! He could put a dead body in my apartment,’" the Oscar-winner joked.

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