LEBRON JAMES TO MOTHER: 'SIT YO ASS DOWN!'; PAUL PIERCE: 'MY MOM WOULD'VE DONE THE SAME THING.'

There's nothing like the unconditional love of a mother who makes it her business to defend her child in any way, shape or form...even on a basketball court in a nationally-televised NBA game in front of thousands of b-ball fans, millions of at-home viewers and her son. LeBron James, the star of the Cleveland Cavaliers, told his mother, Gloria, to sit her "ass down" during Monday's playoff game. Gloria James got in the middle of a slight scuffle between her son LeBron and Boston Celtics forward Paul Pierce. During the second quarter of the playoff game, LeBron attempted to go up for a lay-up, but was grabbed by Pierce. The two ended up behind the basket as James tried to release himself from Pierce's grapple. A few fans stood up during the very slight altercation, including Gloria, who wagged her finger in Pierce's face before trying to break up the fight. Standing amongst men over a foot taller than her, LeBron looked over and told his mom, "Sit your ass down". The TNT cameras caught James mouthing the words to his mother. LeBron then walked on the court and gave Pierce a handshake to say he understood the hard foul and there were no hard feelings.

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."He knew it was a good foul, a hard foul, and I didn't want to give a layup," Pierce said. "I wasn't trying to hurt anybody. She was just coming to her son; that's how moms are when they see something happening to their kids. My mom probably would've done the same thing. LeBron had her under control, though," Pierce said.There's a lot of outside distractions you're going to get at this point, and everybody's going to ask me what happened, so I figured I'd get all those questions out of the way right here." After James' team's 88-77 victory, James was asked to explain his harsh language, which made its way onto the Internet and cable news outlets. "I told her to sit down, in some language I shouldn't have used," James said after the game. "Thank God today wasn't Mother's Day. All I could think about is her. ... I know my mother. It's fine, we're good. Even though that is my mother, you can’t have fans going after players like that. The Commissioner doesn’t care if it is your mother or your kids or anybody, you can't allow fans and players to get involved like that. I can’t afford for my mom not to be at every last one of my games.

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NEW PICS: JENNIFER LOPEZ & MARC ANTHONY AT THE CHRISTIAN DIOR CRUISE 2009 COLLECTION FASHION SHOW.

It's official. Marc Anthony has taken whatever what was left of Jennifer's preserved sexy, uncanned (if there is such a word...but you get the gist of what I'm trying to say I'm sure) it and commenced to totally spoiling it for good and forevermore. My God, she's even starting to take on his facial features. And we all know that is not the business.

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ELLEN CALLS MARIAH OUT ABOUT HER SMALL TATTOO COMPARED TO NICK'S BIG ONE; MARIAH SAYS THEY'LL HAVE A BIGGER WEDDING IN 2009; NICK WANTS ONE EVERY YEAR

Mariah Carey appeared on Ellen Tuesday (May 13) to talk about her recent wedding to Nick Cannon. She said the pair used a "video shoot" as camouflage for bringing friends out to the Bahamas for the beachside ceremony, and noted that very few people were invited. "[It was] mostly people to do my hair and help me with my dress ... and three of my friends and he had three people with him," she said. "We wanted to be at the beach, we didn't want other people taking pictures, because we both experienced the hoopla of trying to make something into, like, a publicity stunt, which is what everybody thinks and will think anyway," she said. "We don't really care about that mentality. Instead of trying to be like, 'You're invited, but shhh, don't tell anybody,' we're just going to have another [wedding] next year. [Nick's] plan is to have one every year."

BELOW ARE PICS OF THE NEWLYWED COUPLE AS THEY ARRIVED AT FRED SEGAL'S IN HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA.

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Host Ellen DeGeneres then held up photos of the pair's tattoos: Cannon's is a large "Mariah" across his back, while hers is a small butterfly on her lower back that incorporates the letters "MC" — which she said stood for "Mrs. Cannon," but DeGeneres quickly pointed out could also simply stand for the singer's initials, if the marriage doesn't work out. "That's so mean, Ellen!" Carey said. She continued, "I never had a tattoo before, and it's his first tattoo also — that's why it was a big deal. I fell asleep during my tattoo. People were like, 'What?' I was gangsta for that, a little bit." Carey also said Cannon is the man she wants to raise a family with. "My parents divorced when I was 3 and I didn't have many examples of what was the 'norm,' " she said. But "I found the right person."

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