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Chris Christie is a fan scorned ... telling TMZ Sports he's still bitter at the Nets for ditching the Garden State for Brooklyn -- and that's why he WON'T be rooting for 'em in Game 7 today.

The Governor was leaving the White House Correspondent's Dinner in D.C. last night when asked if he still had even the tiniest bit of love in his heart for the former N.J. squad.

Donald Sterling is desperately trying to play the "I have black friends" card ... problem is, he can't get a black friend on board ... TMZ Sports has learned.

Sources connected to Sterling tell us ... the disgraced L.A. Clippers owner has reached out to several people he considers friends -- hoping they will vouch for him as a not-racist person.

We're told one of the people he reached out to is an African-American basketball player -- who respectfully declined Sterling's request ... along with everyone else Donald reached out to.

Bernard Hopkins has nothing but respect for George Foreman -- but tells TMZ Sports the legend was DEAD WRONG when he told B-Hop to hang up his gloves and retire.

Hopkins tells us he heard Foreman loud and clear when George called in to TMZ Sports last week and said Bernard's victory over Beibut Shumenov should be his last ... so he doesn't go out a loser or hurt himself.

"I think he was saying it in a caring way," Hopkins says ... "but you watch the fight and say 'What the hell is George talking about?'"

Despite George's warning -- that Bernard needs to accept the fact he's getting old -- Hopkins says, "The average 40-year-old is not in the shape I'm in. I'm beating guys that I could be their father."

Hopkins says he has no plans to retire and will fight into his 50s.

Although they have their differences, Bernard says there's one thing he and George can agree on -- GRILL MONEY!

"If he has a grill opportunity for me ... tell George to call the grill people and we can make a 'B Hop Alien Grill.' I'll give him a percentage."

If you ever thought about getting into the multi-colored visor business, now's a great time -- 'cause V. Stiviano's love for face covers started a boom.

We spoke with a company who sells the colored visors online ... and the guy who runs it says sales are SOARING following the drama surrounding Donald Sterling's racist rant.

The company went from selling around 5 a day, to at least 100 ... with red and blue selling the most -- the same colors V's been sporting around town.

No one has outright said they made the purchase because of her but the owner says he can't single out any other reason for the sudden interest.

She didn't disappoint. V. Stiviano sat for a bizarre interview with Barbara Walters Friday afternoon, in which she proclaimed the Clippers owner is NOT a racist.

The interview -- which aired on 20/20 Friday night -- is hard to swallow. V. says she's wearing her famous visor because it somehow masks her pain. What she doesn't explain is why a person in such pain would seek out every place possible where there were paparazzi, including The Grove, and various restaurants and hot Hollywood clubs.

There's interesting subtext .. she seems to say Donald Sterling's friends were jealous of her and were talking smack about the people she hung with ... thugs and the like. Somehow -- according to her -- that got translated into black people in Sterling's head.

TMZ broke the story ... V. and Sterling showed up at the Four Seasons Hotel in Bev Hills and spent hours together, as Babs and Anderson Cooper lobbied Sterling to sit for an interview. Sterling eventually turned them down, saying he was not prepared.

Poor Anderson.

A Minnesota bartender claims L.A. Dodgers pitcher Josh Beckett hurled the N-word (with an R) at her ... but the Dodgers say they've been investigating the claim and there's NO evidence to support it ... sources connected with the team tell TMZ Sports.

The bartender says Beckett -- along with pitcher Clayton Kershaw, Orel Hershiser and 3 other Dodgers broadcasters -- were at the bar at the Grand Hotel Minneapolis on April 28th when Beckett allegedly dropped the N-bomb.

5/5 -- We finally saw some high quality footage ... and turns out, it ain't Tom Brady ... just a guy who kinda sorta looks like him in grainy video.

Other guy is definitely Wes Welker though ... so, there's that.

Wes Welker and Tom Brady have apparently REUNITED ... all in the name of messin' with a guy who was allegedly peeing in public outside of Churchill Downs ... and TMZ Sports has the super-grainy video.

Welker -- in the white pants -- is in town for the Kentucky Derby ... in fact, he had a horse (named "Undrafted") running in a sprint race on Friday. We know Brady is in KY as well.

But outside the track, Welker -- and a guy we're told is Tom -- were hanging out by an SUV where one of their pals appeared to be peein' like a racehorse on the side of the whip.

So, Welker and guy-who-is-possibly-Brady ... channeling their inner-Gronk -- did what any bro would do to another bro in the same situation ... they pushed him and shook him so he would pee all over himself.

Eventually, they all piled into the SUV and drove away ... and, for the record, the pee'er never washed his hands.

Gross.

Donald Sterling apparently prefers black models to Barbara Walters, because hours after rejecting Babs, he got all handsy with a beautiful black model at a Beverly Hills hotspot.

TMZ Sports got the photo ... Sterling made a beeline Friday afternoon from the Four Seasons Hotel in Bev Hills to the Beverly Hills Hotel, where he dined with 3 women and 2 men at the famed Polo Lounge.

We're told Donald had some wine at the table and was little tipsy, when he got up to leave and a beautiful black model named Jasmine and her boyfriend got up from the bar and followed him to the front of the restaurant.

We're told Jasmine asked Sterling if she could take a photo with him, and he responded, "I'm not that popular right now. Are you sure?' Jasmine said she was game, and her boyfriend -- who is white and Jewish -- snapped away.

Jasmine tells TMZ Sports ... Sterling then told her repeatedly how beautiful she was and put his hands around her several more times. Jasmine tells us, "He was definitely checking me out. He wasn't really looking at my face that much."

As for how Jasmine feels about Sterling, she says, "It's 2014. I feel that everyone is a little bit racist and comedians joke about it all the time. But yeah, I do think he's racist."

Losing a tooth in the NHL is like a right of passage -- and these hockey players aren't ashamed to hit the ice while showing off their gapped grins!

Can you guess the proud owners of these partial smiles are?

6:52 PM PDT. Donald Sterling talked to Walters and Cooper at length and decided NOT to go on camera, telling them he "wasn't prepared" ... sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ.

V. Stiviano did sit for a LONG interview with Walters, telling Babs she does NOT believe Sterling is a racist and saying the 15 minutes of audio were "taken out of context." She also said there was a 3rd person in the room when she recorded Sterling and he KNEW he was being recorded.

We're told poor Anderson walked away with zilch.

V was silent and back in visor mode (above) after talking to Babs -- but yes, she did take it off for the interview.

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Donald Sterling and V. Stiviano have reunited for an interview with Barbara Walters Friday afternoon at the Four Seasons Hotel in Bev Hills ... TMZ Sports has learned.

Our sources tell us Walters is set to do an interview with both ... and CNN will follow with Anderson Cooper asking the questions.

ABC News is setting up outside in a courtyard of the hotel.

Babs flew into LAX Friday afternoon ... and played it coy when paps asked if she was here to interview Sterling.

Stiviano left home today decked out in all white ... much dressier than we've seen her all week, but still in the damn visor.

Floyd Mayweather showed up for his weigh-in on Friday and promptly reminded everyone that despite the Instagram meltdowns, outrageous spending habits and the occasional arrest … he's still JACKED!!!

Donald Sterling has finally broken his silence ... telling an L.A. magazine, "I wish I had just paid her off."

The disgraced L.A. Clippers owner made the comment about V. Stiviano to DuJour Magazine.

The mag claims Sterling is not done talking -- and has already lined up interviews with Barbara Walters and the NBA. Though it's unclear when he plans to talk to them.

Floyd Mayweather says he told the world about his ex-fiancee's abortion because she DESERVED to be publicly shamed as a reaction to something she did to him.

Mayweather sat down with Big Tigger from V103 and essentially ADMITTED to posting a photo of an ultrasound to social media along with a message blasting Shantel Jackson for having an abortion when she was pregnant with his twins.

Nelly says he and Floyd Mayweather were NEVER FRIENDS ... even though they used to hit the clubs together .... but says Floyd once tried to bang his ex-girlfriend behind his back.

We broke the story ... Mayweather feels betrayed by his ex-fiancee Shantel Jackson for moving on and dating Nelly ... who Mayweather was friendly with earlier this year.

FYI -- Nelly and Floyd have been spotted hanging out together at various nightclubs over the past few years ... and we're told the two were cool with each other. In fact, one of our producers once spotted the two of them hanging out together at one of Floyd's post-fight parties in Vegas.

But Nelly says they were far from friends -- saying, "Me and Floyd being such good friends is a total shock to me considering we have never exchanged numbers, never been invited to a fight, never been to his house, never ate lunch, we never have hung out anywhere other than seeing each other in a club!"

In fact, in a statement posted on Instagram, Nelly says "Floyd could be confusing his relationship with me with his relationship with my ex for whom he has exchanged numbers and has flown personally to attend His weekend in Michigan which I wasn't invited (guess I wasn't in the circle of friends then) lol."

"I have great respect for him as far as him being a true champion in his sport but homies ..?? Circle of friends ..? Nahh ... Good luck to him tho keep making history champ."

The HUUUUUGGEEE bodybuilder who directed traffic in that Geico commercial tells TMZ Sports ... the GYM saved him from a life in the streets .... claiming he was a hardcore gangster before he got yoked.

Kali Muscle -- who's also been in commercials for GoDaddy and Taco Bell -- was at LAX yesterday where he showed off his 260-pound dieselness ... and told us he only has 5% body fat.

But more impressive than his 8-pack, Muscle -- a former college football player at Fresno State -- told us how he decided to give up the thug life ... to pursue a career as an actor.

"You can say I went Hollywood ... you damn right."

LaDainian Tomlinson could have a future in the WWE ... 'cause the NFL legend tells TMZ Sports he would absolutely be down to get in the ring ... but there's one catch.

LT was out at Mastro's Steakhouse in Beverly Hills the other day when we asked how he felt about his former San Diego Chargers teammate Shawne Merriman trying to hammer out a deal to join the McMahon family business.

"He reminds me of a young Rock," Tomlinson said.

But when we asked if LT would ever join Shawne in the squared circle -- he told us he WOULD ... but it wouldn't exactly be a tag-team situation.