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Rajon Rondo, who had a big game in the Lakers’ 125-110 victory over the Thunder on Saturday night in Oklahoma City, injured his right ring finger and will have an MRI exam when he returns to Los Angeles.

Rondo, who started in place of James and finished with 21 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists, has been listed as day to day. X-rays taken Saturday did not show a break.

The veteran point guard also appeared to have some beef with Thunder guard Chris Paul, a longtime nemesis.

Rondo, who started the game shooting six for six from the field and finished 10 of 22, said he injured the finger on his shooting hand during the first half.

“I don’t know what really happened,” Rondo said. “I looked it and it was just hurt.”

Rondo wouldn’t share any details about what happened between him and Paul.

Paul fouled Rondo with 8 minutes and 26 seconds left in the third quarter. Rondo doubled over in pain and refused to leave the game when coach Frank Vogel tried to insert Alex Caruso.

Rondo later had a discussion with referee Sean Wright, wanting to know why there wasn’t a review on the play in which Paul committed the foul.

“I just felt like that if that was me, I would have been thrown out or it would have been held up for a review,” Rondo said. “That’s all I told him. They wanted to move on so quickly from the play and didn’t really know what happened.”

What did happen?

“It’s in the past,” Rondo said. “I don’t really want to talk about it. I don’t think it was a clean play. But like I said … I guess it’s reputation, his versus mine.”

Rondo and Paul do have a bad history with each other.

Rondo was suspended for three games last season after the NBA determined that he spit on Paul, who was playing for the Houston Rockets at the time. The two had exchanged blows during that game at Staples Center last season.

Paul and Rondo didn’t say much to each other during the game Saturday.

Instead, Rondo and his teammates took care of business, building a 32-point lead that pushed the Lakers to their eight consecutive win.

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Eight days before Christmas, a day labor center in the Westlake district of Los Angeles received an eviction notice.

According to the landowner, the site has become a “nuisance” and a “blight.” As a result, the organization that runs it has been given until mid-January to vacate.

But the Central American Resource Center, or CARECEN, the 37-year-old nonprofit organization that runs the day labor center, plans to do no such thing.

CARECEN founded the Day Labor Center in 2004, strategically placing it in a strip mall parking lot, just a rock’s throw away from a Home Depot. There, day laborers — the vast majority of them Latin American immigrants — can stop by to use the restroom; get safety and computer literacy training; and receive assistance to address wage theft, among other services.

In a letter issued to CARECEN, the landowner, Wilshire Union Center, alleges that: “Numerous photos, videos, and first-hand accounts have revealed an alarming amount of illegal alcohol and drug use” on the property.

The missive also cites “public urination, vandalism, theft, and, most worryingly, threatening behavior” towards the strip mall’s customers and employees.

The company attributes the conduct to “individuals who appear to be applicants to the Day Labor Center” and demands that the organization vacate the property by Jan. 17.

Instead, CARECEN responded by hosting a rally on Thursday, inviting day laborers who’ve benefited from the resources offered at the center to share their experiences.

CARECEN’s executive director, Martha Arevalo, who took part in the rally, said that the eviction notice came without warning and that it offered no suggestions for improvement.

She said she also believes it’s unfair and counterproductive to blame the activity in the parking lot on the center. With what she described as “the housing crisis in Los Angeles and the anti-immigrant crisis across the United States,” she added, “right now is not the time to be closing our center.”

“We’re actually part of the community’s safety net,” she said. “If anything, the Day Labor Center mitigates some of the landlord’s complaints. We allow the workers to use the restroom. We facilitate the hiring process to ensure fair wages. We’re the reason why there aren’t more people living in those encampments across the street from the parking lot.”

In response to a request for comment, attorney Geoffrey Gold, who is representing Wilshire Union Center, shared a letter with The Times, addressed to Los Angeles City Councilman Gil Cedillo on Dec. 17.

In it, Gold outlines the same concerns noted in the eviction letter. He also adds that the landowner’s “willingness to support charitable organizations benefiting the community remains steadfast” and “invites [Cedillo’s] office to assist in identifying or proposing another charitable organization that may make use of the property without fostering or permitting the criminal and hostile activity that Wilshire Union has been exposed to.”

The landowner, he adds in the letter, “would be happy to consider offering the space previously occupied by CARECEN to such a better, managed and responsible organization.”

Rigo Torres, a 63-year-old immigrant from El Salvador, was among the workers who took part in Thursday’s rally. Clad in a blue and neon green vest, he carried a clipboard and gathered signatures for a petition that will be presented to the landowner and city officials.

Torres has lived in Koreatown for 45 years and has worked in roofing for decades. The center is a reliable source of support in his otherwise unpredictable routine. “I wake up at 5 a.m. every day,” he said. “By 6:30 a.m., I’m out here, not knowing if I’ll find work. There is no guarantee.”

The CARECEN Day Labor Center, Torres underscored, has helped him to resolve several incidents of wage theft. He used that money to put food on his family’s table and to help put his three children through school. One of them graduated from UC Berkeley.

On Thursday afternoon, Arevalo met with Cedillo’s staff. CARECEN, she said, hopes that Cedillo can help facilitate a meeting in which the landowner and the organization can address their concerns.

“Maybe one restroom is not enough,” she said. “All right, then. Let’s talk. Maybe we need two. Let’s look for solutions.”

Conrado TerrazasCross, who serves as the councilman’s communications director, said that his office is “doing everything it can” to keep the day labor center at its current location.

But should the landowner decline to come together to find a solution, Arevalo added, CARECEN is prepared to take action. “Everything is on the table,” she said.

Following the rally on Thursday, day laborers and their supporters marched around the block on which the property is located, making their way up Union Avenue and across Wilshire Boulevard.

Marlon Aguilera, who came to the center after living on the street for six months, helped lead the way.

When he lost his restaurant job, he said, he lost everything, including his apartment in Rancho Cucamonga. Ultimately, he wound up sleeping in MacArthur Park, where he was assaulted three times.

Hoping to earn some money, he made his way over to Home Depot in Westlake. But “no one would hire me,” he said, “because of my appearance.”

Noting his predicament, a fellow worker recommended that he go to the day labor center.

“They gave me coffee. They gave me bread. And they gave me a clean set of clothes,” said Aguilera, a native of Honduras who has lived in the United States for 15 years. The center, he added, also provided him with a workshop on mental health, something that enabled him to pull himself out of his self-destructive state.

“Why don’t I want this center to be shuttered?” Aguilera asked. “Because I don’t want anyone else to go through what I did.”

On Friday morning, attorney Lizbeth Mateo went to immigration court in downtown Los Angeles to represent a client with whom she has something in common.

She’s undocumented, too.

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Mateo wore a navy blue suit, carried a binder stuffed with court records and announced herself to the immigration judge conducting a hearing. She has no more protection from arrest and deportation than any of her clients, but that’s not something she thinks about on the job.

Mateo explained to the judge that her client — a middle-aged man who has lived in the U.S. for three decades — has a daughter who is becoming a naturalized citizen and has agreed to sponsor her father. The man also has a long-pending asylum case. The judge, whose calendar is jammed, set a court date for next January. The case backlog in California was 178,000 as of last November, with more than 1 million cases stacked up nationally.

Mateo says her own status does not come up in court, and she’s never sure whether judges or other lawyers know that the polished, savvy 34-year-old woman advocating on behalf of her clients does not have legal status herself.

“I’m a walking contradiction,” Mateo had told me a day earlier in her Wilmington law office.

I’d heard about Mateo and decided this would be a good time to pay a visit. With Donald Trump in the White House and an election year upon us, immigration is going to remain at the center of national political debate in 2020. And California will continue to be derided by critics as a carnival of soft-headed, pro-immigration liberals run amok.

A place where someone who’s undocumented can be a lawyer, thanks in part to a state Supreme Court ruling in 2014.

And even serve on a state commission.

“While Donald Trump fixates on walls, California will continue to concentrate on opportunities,” Kevin de León said in March of 2018 when, as Senate president pro tem, he appointed Mateo to an unpaid post on a state advisory committee studying ways to help underserved students go to college.

De León said at the time that Mateo “embodies California values and the American dream,” and he called her “a courageous, determined and intelligent young woman who at great personal risk has dedicated herself to fight for those seeking their rightful place in this country.”

Two people took a lot of heat for that appointment.

“I got death threats, the whole bit,” says De León, who is now running for Los Angeles City Council. He said he still stands by Mateo, though, and that she is “living the courage of her convictions” by being open about her status rather than cowering in the shadows.

“There were some really angry people who said really nasty things,” said Mateo, whose critics found her on social media and called her office with tirades and physical threats. “They said ICE is coming, they’re going to report me and they hope Trump sends the Army.”

But Mateo is not the type who’s easily shaken, and her story helps explain her spirit.

She grew up in a time and place, in southern Mexico, in which few women went to college, but she was determined to break through. Some of her aunts tried to steer her toward cooking and tortilla making, but she was more interested in hanging out at the library.

In sixth grade, a teacher handed back a math test and told Mateo she had flubbed it. She was walking away when the teacher asked if she really believed she got the answers wrong.

No, Mateo said. And she was right.

“When someone tells you something is wrong and you know it’s right,” Mateo recalls the teacher saying, “you have to defend your work.”

In her heart, even at such a young age, she knew she wanted to be a lawyer.

She was 14 when her parents decided to risk a border crossing in pursuit of greater opportunity for Mateo and her two brothers. She says they had lots of relatives in California, some of them here legally. She was under the impression the plan was for her parents to make some money and then move everyone back home two years later.

But they stayed. Lizbeth went to Venice High, struggled with English, couldn’t make sense of L.A., and was miserable at first.

“I couldn’t stand being in school, didn’t understand things and felt isolated and very stupid. In Mexico, I was outgoing and always raising my hand and answering questions,” Mateo said. “I remember one day I came home crying and told my mom I wanted to go back to Oaxaca and live with my grandmother. She said OK, we’ll send you back if that’s what you want. But you have to wait because we don’t have any money.”

But she stuck it out, with her father telling her school was all that mattered, and before long she was taking college prep classes. Her heart was broken when she realized her college options might be limited because she was undocumented, and she briefly considered enlisting in the U.S. Navy.

But after Venice High she went to Santa Monica College, then got a degree at Cal State Northridge, only to be discouraged again when she discovered that her job prospects and grad school opportunities were limited by her status.

“For a long time I was angry and there was a lot of resentment,” Mateo said, but she channeled all that energy into a cause. She linked up with other undocumented students to lobby for the doomed Dream Act, which would have provided a pathway to citizenship for undocumented youths who were brought to the U.S. as children.

In 2013, Mateo and eight other activists — they were known as the Dream 9 — made headlines by traveling south of the border and then coming back north to protest immigration policy and 9 million deportations during the Obama administration.

Some immigration reform activists cheered, while others feared the tactic could sabotage the chances of reform. Mateo and the others were arrested and Mateo was locked up for two weeks before being released back into the U.S.

It was just in time for her to begin classes at the Santa Clara University, where she had been accepted into the law school.

The first year of law school can be brutally difficult and the materially dreadfully dry, said professor Michelle Oberman, who taught Mateo’s contract law class. Mateo, the professor recalled, wasn’t sure law school was for her despite a desire “to pursue justice,” as if it were her moral obligation.

“There was a level of determination that is very rare and inspirational and … what was amazing was that she led others,” said Oberman. “She’s a hero of mine and in this day of big egos she’s quite centered. … It’s all in the service of others and it’s not about her. That’s what’s most singularly impressive.”

Mateo got her law degree, she passed the bar, she worked at a nonprofit defending immigrant victims of wage theft, and she opened her own law office in Wilmington two years ago, where about a third of her cases involve immigration.

The Dream Act never made it, but DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) became law under President Obama in 2012. In an ironic twist, Mateo’s application for DACA protection was denied because leaving the country for the Dream 9 protest disqualified her.

Luis Angel Reyes Savalza, the San Francisco attorney who has represented Mateo’s fight for DACA protection, is himself undocumented. But he has DACA protection, and said he knows of only one other attorney in the United States besides Mateo who is undocumented and has no DACA protection.

“Any of us with DACA owe Lizbeth and the movement,” said Reyes Savalza.

I asked if he feared that in this fevered political climate, Mateo could be deported.

“I wouldn’t say I worry about her. I’d say I’m very much inspired by her, and she’s inspired many others in her outspokenness and her activism,” Reyes Savalza said. “I do think she’s taking a very calculated risk, and I think it speaks to the kind of person she is that she puts community first.”

Mateo told me she was not surprised by Trump’s focus, as a candidate, on people living illegally in the U.S., or on his blaming immigrants for some of the country’s woes. She was disappointed, though, by Democratic candidates who didn’t respond more forcefully.

She wants to believe there will be a pathway to citizenship someday for people like her, people who have struggled, contributed, dreamed. She wants to believe there is a future for her here, where she has lived for most of her life.

The United States may not be perfect, Mateo said, “but it provides opportunities. So much so that someone like me, who came from a tiny town in Oaxaca — with parents who only finished sixth grade, nothing more — could make it and become an attorney.”

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Los Angeles police shot and killed a man in Palms on Saturday afternoon while responding to a report of a person with a gun.

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Police received a radio call at 12:40 p.m. saying that an armed person was on Venice Boulevard between Sepulveda Boulevard and the 405 Freeway, said Officer Drake Madison, an LAPD spokesman. The man was taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where he was declared dead.

The man was described as Latino, age unknown, Madison said. He was struck at least once by gunfire.

Venice Boulevard was closed between Sepulveda Boulevard and Globe Avenue while the LAPD’s Force Investigation Division investigated the shooting.

Police have arrested a man suspected of firing a gun outside a Rite Aid in Beverly Hills during a robbery Saturday evening, authorities said.

About 5:35 p.m., an assailant approached another man on the sidewalk near the Rite Aid at 300 N. Canon Drive, showed a gun and demanded the man’s property, the Beverly Hills Police Department said in a statement. After taking the man’s jewelry, the assailant ran from the scene.

He fired at least one round from the gun as he fled, police said.

No one was injured by gunfire or during the robbery, Beverly Hills Police Sgt. Jay Kim said.

Officers found the suspect inside a retail store in the 200 block of North Beverly Drive, but he ran out the back of the business. Police established a large perimeter, closing portions of Beverly Drive and Dayton Way, during a three-hour search for the suspect.

Police found him hiding in a nearby alley about 8:30 p.m. and took him into custody, said Beverly Hills Police Lt. Todd Withers. The suspect’s name and other identifying factors were not immediately released.

The man had discarded a handgun in a store on Beverly Drive, Withers said.

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Seth MacFarlane, one of television’s most successful producers, is singing a new tune.

The creator of “Family Guy,” “American Dad!,” “Ted” and “The Orville” is leaving his longtime home at 20th Century Fox Television, which bet on MacFarlane when he was just a recent college graduate trying his hand at animation.

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On Friday, NBCUniversal said it was going into business with MacFarlane with a multiyear production deal for new TV shows. MacFarlane, however, will be free to shop film projects to other studios while his signature TV show “Family Guy” will continue to run on Fox.

Financial terms were not disclosed. However, the NBCUniversal deal is valued at slightly less than $200 million, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to speak publicly. Incentives were built into the contract that could boost that amount.

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The deal comes less than a year after Walt Disney Co. took control of the Fox movie and television studios, and as NBCUniversal tries to bolster its programming for the NBC broadcast network, its cable channels and an ad-supported streaming service called Peacock that debuts in April.

MacFarlane, 46, who has branched out by recording music and as the star of his productions, becomes the latest top TV show producer to sign a lucrative deal. Television and film studios have been offering generous long-term deals to secure the services of A-listers in an effort to build programming arsenals for the industry’s streaming wars.

Last fall, WarnerMedia wooed J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot production company with a five-year, $500-million deal. In 2018, prominent producer Greg Berlanti (“Supergirl” and “Arrow”) signed a $400-million TV pact with Warner Bros. That same year, Netflix lured Ryan Murphy (“Glee,” “American Horror Story” and “Feud”) with a deal valued at $300 million. Murphy had been 20th Century Fox Television’s most prolific producer, dealing that studio a blow as it prepared for a sale to Disney.

In addition, Jordan Peele (“Get Out” and “Us”) signed a TV deal with Amazon Studios, and Shonda Rhimes (“Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal”) in 2017 made headlines when she moved to Netflix from her longtime home at ABC.

“One of my oldest memories from Fox is of a young Seth MacFarlane hanging out in the halls of the studio,” said Dana Walden, chair of Disney Television Studios and ABC Entertainment. “He entertained all of us with his incredible wit and hilarious observations. He is a brilliant artist and a great friend; and, there is no one we root for more than him…. I feel lucky to be continuing an extraordinary partnership.”

In recent years, MacFarlane has been less involved in the production of his mega-hit, “Family Guy,” although he still voices several of the characters. His latest pet project is the science fiction series “The Orville,” which moved last year from Fox to Hulu.

In the film business, he achieved success in collaboration with Universal Pictures with his break-out animated bear comedy, “Ted,” which was released in 2012.

MacFarlane also is one of Hollywood’s major political donors and a big contributor to the Democratic Party.

Time’s Up has officially launched Critical, a database of underrepresented film and television critics and reporters, in an effort to push for greater diversity and inclusion in entertainment media.

The organization celebrated the database’s debut Friday morning with a group of nearly 80 journalists, publicists and executives at the Griffin Club Los Angeles in Cheviot Hills.

Ngoc Nguyen, interim head of Time’s Up Entertainment, said, “Time’s Up was a moment that has become a movement, and it is because of moments like this, where people are gathered with purpose.”

The idea for Critical roots back to a conversation in 2018 between Annenberg Inclusion Initiative founder Stacy Smith and actresses Brie Larson and Tessa Thompson. The chat inspired Smith’s first study about the gender, race and ethnicity of film critics, which revealed that reviewers are overwhelmingly white and male — an inaccurate reflection of the world at large, or the audience that consumes Hollywood’s content.

Larson highlighted the issue in a headline-making speech later that year, and numerous film festivals have pledged to grant accreditation to journalists with underrepresented backgrounds. Additionally, review-aggregation sites like Rotten Tomatoes have made efforts to diversify their group of certified contributors.

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Created with a grant from the Nathan Cummings Foundation, Time’s Up Critical aims to make it all easier.

The new database hosts profiles of underrepresented critics and journalists and invites media outlets, studios, networks, talent and film and television critics associations to find and contact them for screenings, interview junkets and publishing opportunities.

By expanding the pool of voices to critics and journalists of underserved communities, Time’s Up predicts that more films and TV shows will have a chance to find their audiences, and the collective dialogue around visual storytelling will become more robust and nuanced.

It’s an overdue change that’s necessary to parallel the increasingly diverse stories being told on screen, Smith said.

“The hundred top-grossing films, based on my research, have changed. A new day is being ushered in, and a lot more needs to happen, and if we don’t have critics connecting those stories … [with] those audiences, they’re left out to participate in ways that are very important,” explained Smith, also one of the founders of the inclusion rider.

“We need to do a lot more, and quickly, particularly with the state that the world is in right now.”

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The Wallace Neff-designed house in the flats of Beverly Hills sits on more than a third of an acre surrounded by lush landscaping. 

(Mike Helfrich)

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In the living room, arched French doors bookend a dramatic wall fireplace, while hand-stenciled beams top the space. 

(Mike Helfrich)

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Listed for $15.75 million, the Spanish Colonial Revival-style house showcases spectacular original woodwork and bright tile risers.  

(Mike Helfrich)

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In the living room, arched French doors bookend a dramatic wall fireplace, while hand-stenciled beams top the space. 

(Mike Helfrich)

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Listed for $15.75 million, the Spanish Colonial Revival-style house showcases spectacular original woodwork and bright tile risers.  

(Mike Helfrich)

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The Wallace Neff-designed house in the flats of Beverly Hills sits on more than a third of an acre surrounded by lush landscaping. 

(Mike Helfrich)

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The Wallace Neff-designed house in the flats of Beverly Hills sits on more than a third of an acre surrounded by lush landscaping. 

(Mike Helfrich)

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Two kitchens and a screening room are among updates made to the house, which has six bedrooms and nine bathrooms.  

(Mike Helfrich)

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Two kitchens and a screening room are among updates made to the house, which has six bedrooms and nine bathrooms.  

(Mike Helfrich)

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The Wallace Neff-designed house in the flats of Beverly Hills sits on more than a third of an acre surrounded by lush landscaping. 

(Mike Helfrich)

Modern comforts have been woven into the grand design of this Wallace Neff estate in the flats of Beverly Hills. Dating to 1929, the Spanish Colonial Revival-style residence displays the noted architect’s attention to detail with spectacular hand-stenciled ceilings and ornate woodwork. Two chef’s kitchens, including one with a service entrance, and a screening room are among updates to the floor plan.

The details

Location: 704 N. Arden Drive, Beverly Hills, 90210

Asking price: $15.75 million

Year built: 1929

Living area: 9,790 square feet, six bedrooms, nine bathrooms

Lot size: 0.4 of an acre

Features: Handmade details; period tile work; stenciled ceilings; screening room; two kitchens; two family rooms; wine cellar; guesthouse; swimming pool and spa

About the area: In the 90210 ZIP Code, based on 18 sales, the median price for single-family home sales in November was $3.672 million, a 29.6% decrease year over year, according to CoreLogic.

Agents: Madison Hildebrand, (310) 818-5788, and Ginger Glass, (310) 927-9307, Compass

To submit a candidate for Home of the Week, send high-resolution color photos via Dropbox.com, permission from the photographer to publish the images and a description of the house to [email protected].

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A Beverly Crest home owned by Dr. Phil’s family trust features eccentric decor, a gun-themed art installation and neon lights, all of which can be negotiated in the deal. 

(Hilton & Hyland)

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The Beverly Crest property, currently home to musician Jordan McGraw, has a great room with custom bar. 

(Hilton & Hyland)

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A neon sign catches the eye in a living area filled with vibrant colors. 

(Hilton & Hyland)

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Beverages are close at hand in the billiards room, which has splashes of white paint on the floor.  

(Hilton & Hyland)

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NFL free agent Antonio Gates has sold his modern Encino home for $6.5 million.  

(Wayne Ford)

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An indoor-outdoor space leads onto the grounds, which measure two-thirds of an acre. 

(Wayne Ford)

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The modern Encino home of Gates and wife Sasha features an open-concept floor plan with 15-foot ceilings. 

(Wayne Ford)

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One of the six bedrooms in the Gates home, which includes eight bathrooms and a home theater in the 8,500-square-foot interior. 

(Wayne Ford)

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The multilevel home was built in 2016 and updated while Gates owned the home. 

(Wayne Ford)

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NBA player Chandler Parsons has bought a home in the Hollywood Hills for $6.775 million. 

(Aaron Hoffman)

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Parsons’ contemporary-style home, designed by Fu Wilmers Design, is 5,500 square feet. 

(Aaron Hoffman)

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NBA player Parsons has room to stretch out in the house, which has clean lines and a lot of glass. 

(Aaron Hoffman)

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A cantilevered wing creates a cover for the patio beneath it. There’s also extensive decking and a zero-edge swimming pool. 

(Aaron Hoffman)

Social media users were scratching their heads after an unusual home tied to television’s Dr. Phil came up for sale at $5.75 million.

Outlandish by even L.A.’s standards, the Spanish-style two-story home boasts details such as black fabric wallpaper, neon lights and what’s described as an anti-gun art installation. Odd animal figurines with fixed eyes dot the living spaces.

But even more confusing than the decor was the Beverly Crest property’s ownership.

Records show the estate was purchased in 2007 by a family trust tied to the TV host whose full name is Phillip McGraw. But Dr. Phil has never lived there. Instead, it’s being used by his musician son, Jordan McGraw, who is currently on tour with the Jonas Brothers.

The exterior seems normal enough, with yellow walls and a clay tile roof, but the 6,170-square-foot interior walks the line between eclectic and downright bizarre. A great room with chandelier under a black-and-white checkered rotunda anchors the five-bedroom floor plan and draws the eye with a sweeping staircase draped in curving wood branches. A custom bar has stools with antler-like backrests.

The family room has neon-lighted cabinetry, and the entry boasts a hanging chair. In the living room, custom art and animal figurines surround a fireplace. The one-of-a-kind finishes can be negotiated in the deal, according to the listing.

A more dramatic space comes in the dining room, which is cloaked in bold shades of black and gray and features a wall of non-operational guns, which a Dr. Phil representative described as an anti-gun art installation. The billiards room lightens things up with blue floors that appear intentionally splattered with white paint.

Outside, things are a tad more traditional. There’s a dining gazebo, a lounge with a fireplace and a flagstone patio surrounding a swimming pool and spa.

McGraw is best known for his advice-centered talk show, “Dr. Phil,” which debuted in 2002 after he starred in segments on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” His show is currently renewed until 2023 and has been nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award every year since 2004. The 69-year-old owns other real estate in Beverly Hills.

Jordan McGraw, in his early 30s, last year released the song “Flexible” as well as a self-titled extended play album.

Billy Dolan of Hilton & Hyland holds the listing.

Writers find wonder-ful setting

Actor Fred Savage of “The Wonder Years” fame eked out more than he asked for his Hancock Park home, selling the 1920s Mediterranean for $5 million.

It appears the charming abode will stay in Hollywood hands. The buyers are Emmy-nominated comedy writer Jennifer Crittenden (“The Simpsons,” “Seinfeld”) and writer-producer Bill Wrubel, who served as an executive producer for “Will & Grace” and “Modern Family.”

Gated and hedged, the property holds a two-story home, a 400-square-foot ivy-covered guesthouse and a grassy backyard with a swimming pool and spa.

Inside, original details include beamed ceilings and arched doorways. A sunken living room with a stone fireplace ties the home to its roots, but the adjacent remodeled kitchen adds a modern vibe with tile backsplashes and marble countertops. There’s also a media room, formal dining room and lounge lined with French doors.

The main house has five bedrooms and five bathrooms in 4,344 square feet. In the guesthouse, a gym overlooks the pool through a picture window.

Sharona Alperin of Sotheby’s International Realty held the listing. Edward Fitz of the Agency represented the buyer.

Savage, 43, starred as a child actor in the 1987 film “The Princess Bride” and “The Wonder Years,” a Golden Globe-winning sitcom that aired from 1988 to 1993. More recently, he appeared in “The Grinder” and began hosting the Fox parody show “What Just Happened??! With Fred Savage.”

The actor bought the home through a trust in 2007 for $3.05 million. Last year, he used the same trust to buy another house in Bel-Air for $9.5 million.

Charged to make a deal

Former Chargers tight end Antonio Gates and his wife, reality television personality Sasha Gates, have sold their modern mansion in Encino for $6.5 million.

The multilevel house, built in 2016, was updated during the Gateses’ ownership and features an open-concept floor plan with 15-foot ceilings and skylights. A two-way fireplace divides the family room and gleaming chef’s kitchen. In the family room, a glass-enclosed wine cellar and tasting room fill the far wall.

A home theater, six bedrooms and eight bathrooms fill out the 8,500-square-foot interior. There’s also a converted office in one of the garages.

Outside, grounds measuring two-thirds of an acre center on an infinity-edge swimming pool with a spa, a fireplace and a built-in barbecue. Elsewhere on the property is a sports court.

Antonio Gates, 39, sat out the 2019 NFL campaign despite expressing an interest in returning for a 17th season with the Chargers. The talented pass-catcher is the Chargers’ all-time leader in receptions (960), receiving touchdowns (117) and receiving yards (11,882).

Sasha Gates was a main cast member on “Wags,” a reality TV show that documented the lives of spouses of professional athletes, from 2015-2017. Last year, she appeared in the romance-drama film “Kinky.”

Chris Lucibello and Natasha Noreiga of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties were the listing agents. Alma Schwartz of Real Estate Masters Group represented the buyer.

Doubling down above Sunset

Professional basketball player Chandler Parsons has doubled down in L.A.’s high-end housing market, buying a home in the Hollywood Hills for $6.775 million.

The sale, which closed in December, came roughly a week after the Atlanta Hawks forward cut a $9.25-million deal for “CSI” creator Anthony Zuiker’s Malibu compound.

His new pad, designed by New York-based Fu Wilmers Design, sits above the Sunset Strip, with views extending from the downtown cityscape to the ocean. The contemporary-style house features floor-to-ceiling glass, clean lines and a cantilevered wing that creates cover for a patio below.

Within more than 5,500 square feet of muted interior are a center-island kitchen, open-plan living areas, five bedrooms and seven bathrooms. A lower-level bar is outfitted with a gym, a wine room and a 12-seat Dolby Atmos home theater.

Outside, steps lead from the patio to a zero-edge swimming pool. Extensive decking and patio areas create additional living space.

Josh Altman, Matt Altman and Jacob Greene of Douglas Elliman Real Estate were the listing agents. Jamison Malone of the Agency represented the buyer.

Parsons, 31, earned SEC Player of the Year honors at Florida before being selected in the second round of the 2011 NBA draft by the Houston Rockets. A seven-year veteran, he is averaging 2.8 points in five games this season for the Hawks.

Last year, he sold a property in Bel-Air for $12.35 million.

TV doctor cuts a deal

Actress Ellen Pompeo, best known for her starring role in “Grey’s Anatomy,” wrapped up an East Coast home sale just in time for the new year. Her modern farmhouse in the Hamptons sold in late December for $2.995 million.

She’s been busy in the real estate realm over the last few years, selling a Hollywood Hills Midcentury for $2.075 million in 2017 and a Spanish villa in the same neighborhood for $2.765 million a year later.

Pompeo designed the Hamptons estate herself. Built in 2013, the 2,400-square-foot home sits on eight acres in Sag Harbor, N.Y., a waterfront community in East Hampton.

Past a rustic gray-blue exterior, the three-story floor plan boasts busy living spaces with hardwood floors, white-painted beams, paneled walls and marble accents. There’s a two-story living room, as well as a chef’s kitchen, breakfast nook and expansive dining porch.

Five bedrooms and four bathrooms complete the floor plan, including a master suite with a private lounge and office. Outside, a wood deck descends to a gunite pool surrounded by lawns.

The Corcoran Group held the listing. Martha Gundersen of Douglas Elliman represented the buyer.

Pompeo’s role as Dr. Meredith Grey in “Grey’s Anatomy” landed her a Golden Globe nomination in 2007. On the big screen, she has appeared in “Old School,” “Daredevil” and “Life of the Party.” She paid $925,000 for the home in 2011, records show.

CNN has agreed to pay $76 million in back pay as part of a record settlement with the federal labor board after the cable television network terminated the contracts of unionized camera operators in 2003.

The settlement is the “largest monetary remedy” in the National Labor Relations Board’s 85-year history, the agency said in a statement Friday. The settlement will benefit more than 300 people, officials said.

“The settlement demonstrates the board’s continued commitment to enforcing the law and ensuring employees who were treated unfairly obtain the monetary relief ordered by the board,” general counsel Peter B. Robb said in the statement.

The NLRB said CNN ended its contract with a unionized subcontractor, Team Video Services, and then replaced the workers with new employees “without recognizing or bargaining with the two unions that had represented the TVS employees.”

“After more than a decade of litigation, negotiation and appeals we are pleased to have resolved a longstanding legal matter,” a CNN representative said.