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The Mavs will restart their series with the Clippers on Sunday, facing a Game 6 to extend the series, and like in Game 4 and Game 5 they will have to proceed without the services of star big man Kristaps Porzingis.

Porzingis has been out with right knee soreness for the last two games, but as that has persisted the Mavs decided to have an MRI done on Porzingis to determine if anything structural is wrong that’s bothering him. As it turns out, Porzingis has a mensicus tear in his right knee that will keep him out for the remainder of the first round series, at minimum, with the team announcing further evaluation is ongoing to determine what the next steps are.

The right knee is not the same knee that he suffered his ACL tear that ultimately ended his tenure with the New York Knicks, but it is still extremely concerning for a young star that has battled injuries for much of his career thus far. Hopefully for Porzingis and the Mavericks this will be something he can fully recover from for next season, as they look to build off of the momentum of this year. In the immediate, the burden will once again fall on the shoulders of Luka Doncic to be spectacular in Game 6 to try and extend the series to a deciding seventh game.

Source: https://uproxx.com/dimemag/kristaps-porzingis-out-mavs-clippers-meniscus-tear-knee/

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With the NBA set to resume play on Saturday, players from around the league continue to speak out on social issues and look to impact change in their communities. It’s why they refused to play Wednesday and Thursday, protesting the police shooting of Jacob Blake, which sparked tons of excellent conversation on race, racism, and police on sports networks, as well as leading to some tangible efforts to effect change.

The Bucks, who started the movement not to play (to the surprise of others), were able to begin a push to get the Wisconsin state legislature called back for a special session to vote on a police reform bill. The league and players union announced a three-part plan of action, creating a social justice coalition, offering PSAs and advertising about voting throughout the playoffs, and turning all team-owned arenas into voting locations.

For Draymond Green, while he’s not in the Bubble, he’s been proud watching his NBA brethren from the outside as they fight for this change, and went on CNN — where he was announced as a new CNN contributor — to talk with Jake Tapper about what’s going on in the NBA. Tapper played a clip of president Donald Trump’s recent comments on the NBA, to which Green had a strong retort, via Sopan Deb of the New York Times.

Green also explained why he was glad to see the players choose to resume the season, citing the platform they have while games are happening as the biggest microphone for them to continue speaking out, and also offered thoughts on what needs to be changed and what the NBA can do to impact that.

It is an, unsurprisingly, well thought out and articulated argument from one of the league’s most vocal players. Green is expanding his commentary from working with TNT as an analyst during the Bubble seeding round and now joining CNN to speak on much more than just basketball.

Source: https://uproxx.com/dimemag/draymond-green-donald-trump-nba-master-manipulator-cnn-video/

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Rumors claim President Donald Trump had a heart attack, which he has reportedly denied.

The President visited Walter Reed National Military Medical Center towards the end of 2019 and in a public address said several media outlets reported he had “a massive, unbelievable heart attack,” before following up with doctors telling him he had a “gorgeous chest.”

He maintained that his visit to the hospital was just a “very routine physical” and said, “I was out of there very quickly and got back home,” before a cabinet meeting.

The Guardian reported Trump as saying, “My wife Melania said, ‘Darling, are you OK? … They are reporting you may have had a heart attack.’ I said, ‘Why did I have a heart attack?’ ‘Because you went to Walter Reed Medical Center.’ That’s where we go when we get the physical. I said I was only there for a very short period of time. I was called by our people in public relations: ‘Sir, are you OK?’ I said ‘OK for what?’ ‘The word is you had a heart attack. CNN said you may have had a heart attack. You had massive chest pains. You went to the hospital.’”

He then added that the reporting is yet another example of how “the press really in this country is dangerous.” 

The White House then followed up with a memo that was issued by Trump’s own doctor, Sean Conley, who said that his visit was just an “interim checkup” of the Commander in Chief’s health and was kept a secret due to “scheduling uncertainties.”

The White House press secretary at the time, Stephanie Grisham, said that Trump had decided to get the physical exam during a “free weekend” as he had anticipated “a very busy 2020,” likely due to it being an election year. The fact that he chose to get an exam in November of 2019 was alarming to some, as his yearly exams typically come in January or February.

Concerns about Trump’s health were raised in the lead-up to his presidential bid after he publicly discussed his love for fast food, specifically McDonald’s and KFC as he touted the chains’ cleanliness standards. “One bad hamburger, you can destroy McDonald’s. One bad hamburger and you take Wendy’s and all these other places and they’re out of business,” he said at a 2016 Town Hall meeting.

Plus, he’s also served fast-food lunches and dinners at the White House on several occasions.

Source : https://www.distractify.com/p/did-donald-trump-have-a-heart-attack

JK Rowling’s various beefs have apparently evolved from involving “most of the pro-LGBTQ internet” to one of America’s most notable political families. The Harry Potter author reportedly returned an award to a Kennedy human rights organization as part of the fallout from her recent spate of poor press regarding activity on social media.

Deadline reported on Friday that Rowling — who has penned a number of tweets and long essays about said tweets that have generally been described as transphobic, including by Harry Potter actors and others associated with the movies and books — returned the humanitarian award the Kennedy family gave her less than a year ago. The move came after Kerry Kennedy, president of The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Organization that awarded the humanitarian honor to Rowling last December, criticized Rowling and her anti-trans rights comments in the context of the organization itself.

Kennedy had directly expressed “profound disappointment” over the ongoing saga:

I have spoken with J.K. Rowling to express my profound disappointment that she has chosen to use her remarkable gifts to create a narrative that diminishes the identity of trans and nonbinary people, undermining the validity and integrity of the entire transgender community—one that disproportionately suffers from violence, discrimination, harassment, and exclusion and, as a result, experiences high rates of suicide, suicide attempts, homelessness, and mental and bodily harm. Black trans women and trans youth in particular are targeted.

On Thurdsay, Rowling published a 600-word statement about the award on her website entitled “Statement from J.K. Rowling regarding the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award.” In it, the author denied that her thoughts are transphobic.

It’s the latest instance where Rowling has distanced herself from those who have criticized her, even after initially showing support for them or accepting their praise. Earlier in the summer, for example, she deleted praise for author Stephen King after he criticized her stance on trans rights.

(Via Deadline)

Source: https://uproxx.com/viral/jk-rowling-returned-kennedy-award-explained/

Jessica Sutton talks challenging aspects of filming ‘Rogue.’

Filming an intense movie in South Africa definitely seems like it would come with some challenges. Jessica told us that she was a little “freaked” out because she doesn’t describe herself as an “athletic person.” Adding, “I have zero upper body strength.”

The actress, who also stars in Freeform’s breakout series Motherland: Fort Salem, explained that the film’s director M.J. Bassett made the set feel very safe. 

“She’ll never ask us to do anything that she hasn’t done herself,” she told us. In one particular scene, the actors have to throw themselves down a river rapid and revealed that the director strapped a GoPro on and did the stunt herself. 

“We were all like, ‘Yeah that’s our leader. Hail the queen,'” Jessica laughed. 

While the film definitely had many physically challenging aspects, it also was emotionally exhausting as well. In one scene, Jessica’s character is being chased inside of a house. It’s a continuous shot, which makes it more technically challenging to nail.  

“We did it about eight times. It was so exhausting, but thrilling. I was so thrilled to do it. On the fourth take, the door that I was closing got jammed. I didn’t come out of the scene,” she said.

The South African native continued, “I just tried to close the door as best I could knowing that it was jammed. It kind of fed into the panic of the character anyway and the truth of the moment. I just remember putting my foot through the door in desperation to close the door.” 

At the end of the take, Jessica told Distractify that she felt “dizzy,” adding, “I had definitely hyperventilated to the point of maybe passing out.”

Source : https://www.distractify.com/p/rogue-jessica-sutton-megan-fox

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