Getty Image The 2023 NBA All-Star game is headed to Salt Lake City, and the game will follow the same format as in recent years, with starters being selected by a combination of fan (50 percent), media (25 percent), and player vote (25 percent), with reserved voted on by coaches after. While All-Stars continue to … Read more
TNT Since 2018, the NBA All-Star Game has featured a draft, with a pair of team captains building the rosters weeks before the game on TNT. Though the change has been quite popular since its inception, many have wondered if one particular curveball could make things even more interesting, and the NBA seemingly heard the … Read more
Getty Image Aaron Gordon is perhaps the most high-profile runner-up in the history of the Dunk Contest. Gordon has put forth two of the best efforts in the competition’s history but came up short both times — in 2016, Gordon battled against Zach LaVine, and in 2020, Gordon competed against Derrick Jones Jr. and lost. … Read more
Getty Image NBA players becoming first-time All-Stars during their third full season is nothing new. Ja Morant and Darius Garland did it this past campaign, while Jayson Tatum and Bam Adebayo were both first-time selections back in 2019-20. This year, Tyrese Haliburton appears primed to become the latest up-and-coming star to parlay a huge third … Read more
Getty Image New York Knicks broadcaster Wally Szczerbiak had some choice words for Tyrese Haliburton after a recent Knicks win over the Indiana Pacers. Szczerbiak, a one-time All-Star selection who played for four teams in his career, blasted Haliburton for being a “supposed, wannabe, fake All-Star.” It is unclear why he did this — it … Read more
Getty Image More than three years have passed since Yasiel Puig appeared in a Major League Baseball game, and his path to a potential return to MLB took a considerable hit on Monday. According to a release from the United States Department of Justice, Puig agreed to plead guilty to a charge of lying to … Read more
While J. Cole has always put his pro basketball ambitions at the forefront of his rap career, he’s come way further than perhaps even he could have foreseen. At the start of the month, he was announced as 2K Games’ first-ever non-athlete cover model for the latest iteration of NBA 2K. The rap star-turned-hooper features … Read more
Getty Image It’s been a good long while since Francis Ford Coppola had a new movie, and it seems like he’s making up for lost time. The legendary filmmaker and bestselling vintner is throwing his own wine money behind Megalopolis, an ambitious (and expensive) epic he’s been threatening to make for over two decades. Even … Read more
Getty Image It’s been a while since we got a new film from one of the greatest directors of all time, Francis Ford Coppola. But that’s about to change: The filmmaker and popular vintner is personally bankrolling Megalopolis, a hugely ambitious (and expensive) epic he’s been trying to make for at least two decades. He’s … Read more
warner bros. One of the most hot-button topics on the internet as of late is “what exactly is going on over there on the set of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie?” There are so many perplexing set photos with actors draped in neon pink ensembles, you would think that Gerwig is making a Victoria’s Secret PINK … Read more
Getty Image Democratic voters are understandably frustrated with the party’s leaders, who’ve been accused of lacking the urgency to fight the other side, of favoring “decorum” over getting results. But one Senate candidate seems to have the right idea. For months, John Fetterman, sitting lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, has been waging a brutal and brutally … Read more
Getty Image/Ralph Ordaz Progress isn’t linear. It’s one of those axioms that gets thrown up on a whiteboard at motivational seminars, or parroted by coaches as certifiable. It’s dismissed casually now; pushed to the side of “keeping the main thing the main thing” or “controlling what you can control” and left for athletes to tweet … Read more