It's that time of the year again. You know, when NBA ballers actually start playing up to their potential--and their mega-sized paychecks--in the quest for the blinged-out championship ring.

And when the NBA playoffs kick into high gear, so do the celebrities who score courtside seats to see their favorite hometown boys take the court.

We were lucky (unlucky?) enough to get prime seats at the Staples Center for the first game of the series between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Denver Nuggets. The Lakers always have a celeb crowd and Kobe Bryant is practically a god to deluded Angelenos, but the playoffs really kick the pretty people into high gear.]]> juliana 2008-04-22T17:00:02-05:00 34.043516 -118.26533 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2007/7/9/215054/1307

He wears sunglasses to the Oscars, goes to every Lakers game and parties harder than you do. Jack Nicholson, the iconic star of Chinatown, The Departed and Anger Management, was snapped partying on a yacht off France's Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat with no fewer than FIVE women in swimsuits. Gotta start that chest tan sometime, right?

A lot of stars rent yachts for their relative privacy, according to Yacht Charters magazine, but in this case Nicholson's babelicious boat was irresistible. Actually, now that we look, the guy in the hat looks a little like Stephen Hawking. Maybe he could teach ol' Jack a thing or two.

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