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Pelicans G LONZO BALL has "signed with" agent RICH PAUL of Klutch Sports Group. Ball joins Klutch Sports after brief stints with Creative Artists Agency and Roc Nation. Ball originally signed "family friend" HARRISON GAINES as his agent in '17 (ESPN.com, 9/14)....Netflix has given a "10-episode, straight-to-series order to a new animated take on NORMAN LEAR's classic sitcom 'GOOD TIMES,'" which will see Lear and his Act III Prods. shingle partner with Warriors G STEPHEN CURRY and his production company, Unanimous Media (VARIETY.com, 9/14)....Chiefs QB PATRICK MAHOMES and his 15 and the Mahomies Foundation "donated $15,000, matched by another $15,000 from Turn the Page KC," to kick off a fund to "provide hazardous-duty pay for early childhood educators working through the pandemic" in K.C. Last week, Mahomes’ foundation "announced a grant toward building a playground at Martin Luther King, Jr. Square Park" (K.C. STAR, 9/15).