Steve Kerr‘s only coaching job in the NBA has been as the head coach of the Golden State Warriors. It’s been hard to call his tenure anything other than an unmitigated success — he’s won a whole lot of games and three NBA championships, along with a gold medal as an assistant coach that he was able to parlay into a job coaching Team USA.

It can get lost to history that Kerr taking over the Warriors as they searched for a coach was not a given thing. At the time, Kerr had the option to head to the Bay Area or coach the New York Knicks, which were run by his old coach with the Chicago Bulls, Phil Jackson. During an appearance on The Problem with Jon Stewart, Kerr explained some of his rationale for turning down Jackson’s offer to head to Golden State.

“I talked to coaching friends of mine, and they all said the same thing, they said, ‘Your talent is everything in coaching,’” Kerr said. “And it’s true. I remember saying Phil Jackson is my guy, and one of my good friends said, ‘Which job do you think Phil would take?’ I was like, ooh, man, and that kinda got me. Because think about it: Phil Jackson takes the Bulls job when he’s got Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and his career takes off. Pat Reilly takes the Laker job when he’s got Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. We’re all dependent on our talent as coaches, and the Warriors were already good — they were a 50-win team, they’ve got all this young talent.”

Kerr went on to say that if he did, indeed, decide to join the Knicks, he believes he “would have been spun through that cycle and been gone in two years, guaranteed.” He might be onto something, because since 2014, New York has had four full-time head coaches.

This article originally appeared on 02.13.18

You wear extra chunky sweaters. You’ve never met a mitten you didn’t like. You may even keep a lap blanket at work.

You’re one of those people who is always cold. And you are not alone.

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Inside or outside, you just can’t seem to get warm. This characteristic of yours manifests itself in extra blankets, wild heating bills, and enough complaints that you start going hoarse.

But surely there’s a scientific reason as to why some people are always cold, right?

It can’t just be random chance that has doomed you to a life of perpetual shivers. I reached out to an expert to learn more.

Dr. Christopher Minson is a professor in the department of human physiology at the University of Oregon. One of his primary research interests is thermoregulation, that’s how the brain and body interact and adapt as we heat and cool. Plainly put, he is the perfect guy to answer a few questions from #TeamCold.

(This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.)

Upworthy (UP): So what is actually happening in the body when a person gets chilly?

Dr. Chris Minson (CM): In the simplest of terms, feeling either cold or warm means that the temperature “set point” of the body is being challenged by thermal inputs throughout the body, including in the brain, the blood, the spinal cord, our organs, our muscles, and our skin. Part of our brain collects all of those thermal inputs and essentially compares them to what body temperature it wants to hold. So if your skin temperature is lowered, even though the rest of your body is still at a comfortable set-point, you will feel cold — in some cases, cold enough to make behavioral changes like putting on a sweater.

UP: Is there a reason this seems to largely impact women?

CM: The people who feel “always cold” will typically have lower muscle mass relative to body surface area (typically, women and older people). Their actual body core temperature may not really be below normal, but they feel cold because their body is telling them to conserve heat.

There have also been limited reports that women have a higher density of blood vessels at the skin surface, which would make them more sensitive to cold. However, there hasn’t been enough good data collected on this theory to confirm or disprove it.

This also explains a frequent frustrations about women and men in relationships…

CM: A common complaint by women and men in relationships is that women’s feet are often very cold, especially in bed. That goes along with the lower body mass to surface area relationship in women. As their body works to conserve heat, it vasoconstricts blood vessels in the extremities (hands and feet) to keep the core warm. This reduced blood flow results in cold hands and feet in women more than men.

So there you have it: Your brain is simply an overworked project manager trying to keep you alive. But there are a few things you can do about it.

UP: If you are a person who is always cold, is there anything you can do to “retrain” your body, so to speak?

CM: One of the best things someone can do is to increase their fat-free mass (muscle). This will increase overall metabolic rate (although it’s not easy to do.)

Another thing a person could do is undergo cold-stresses, such as allowing themselves to be exposed to very cold temperatures for short periods of time. It sounds counter-intuitive, but it’s been suggested that this could decrease the sensation of feeling cold. An example is putting the shower on ‘cold’ for a short period of time in the shower. Not easy to do, and you would want to build up to a full minute each day, but in some people it can help them to decrease the feeling of being cold.

UP: There are a lot of jokes at the expense of people who are always cold, but at what point does it go from “I’m always cold, and it’s a quirky thing about me” to “I’m always cold and I should probably see my doctor”?

CM: There is the possibility that someone’s perpetual coldness could be caused by abnormally low thyroid hormone levels, and that can be verified with a blood test. That is by far the rarer condition, but taking hormone supplements if medically needed can help. If a person is quite lethargic, has low motivation, and is always cold, it might be worth having thyroid hormones evaluated.

So if you are a lap-blanket wearing member of #TeamCold, don’t fret.

You are strong. You are capable. And unless you have pain or some of the symptoms Minson mentioned, there is likely nothing wrong with you. Our bodies just require different things of us, and yours requires that you have to deal with an overly-air conditioned-society. My sincerest apologies. On behalf of #TeamHot, your next cocoa is on me.

After 46 years on the air and countless iconic skits (several of which even turned into full-fledged spinoff films), the United Kingdom is finally taking a closer look at the United State’s number-one comedy-skit show — and it seems they like what they’re seeing. According to an exclusive Deadline report, a British version of the hit NBC series Saturday Night Live is currently in the works over in the UK. While the project is still in extremely early stages of development, it’s rumored that NBC sister-station Sky UK is already working on finalizing the deal with SNL, as well as scouting potential comedic talent.

If the show is greenlit, it would mark the most high-profile remake of Saturday Night Live to date. While the show has already been remade in several other countries and territories around the world — such as Germany, Italy, China, and South Korea — none have quite reached the level of success as the American version of the series, something that, given the right cast, the UK version seems well-equipped to do.

However, far more surprising than Saturday Night Live U.K.‘s big reveal seems to be the fact that it took this long to happen. Turns out, there are a couple good reasons for that. First and foremost, prior to Sky beginning to air full episodes of Saturday Night Live last year, SNL had only been available to watch in short clips via YouTube, making it less accessible (and noteworthy) to the vast majority of British television fans. While the series’ did air for a brief period in 2006 on ITV4, it wasn’t until 2020 that it became a more regular part of British programming.

In addition, the UK did attempt to make their own version of the show, simply titled Saturday Night, back in 1985. While the program did help launch the careers of Harry Enfield, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, and Ben Elton, it never reached the same levels of success and ultimately only lasted three years. Here’s hoping a new iteration of the series proves to be a bit more of a hit than it was back then — and perhaps even comes on a wee bit earlier than it does here in the states.

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My Big Fat Mob Wedding

We’re back from a short break and Tony’s back to work. Matt and Vince are joined by comedian, podcaster, generous lover, and big muscle haver [citation needed], Brent Flyberg to discuss The Sopranos season 6A episode 5, “Mr & Mrs. Sacrimoni Request…” on the latest Pod Yourself A Gun.

In this episode, directed by Tony Uncle Al himself, Johnny Sack’s daughter is getting married, and Tony’s worried that all the jackals he hangs out with are noticing how weak he is after his coma. He also can’t help but notice how hot all these jackals are. Bobby Bacala is Bobby boom shakalaka shaking the rim with monster dunks, Paulie’s got big hairy biceps, and this spicy new driver looks like Dominic Toretto if he liked working out more than he liked drinking Coronas and working on cars.

Tony can’t keep his eyes off Muscles Marinara, and Vito can’t maintain his double life after getting spotted at a leather daddy bar. He’s wearing some kind of long-sleeve mock turtleneck under his leather vest, which Vince points out is the leather daddy equivalent of a t-shirt in the pool. A lot of body related insecurity in this episode. These characters should get on Brent’s workout plan. That dude is ripped, and he volunteers? What a guy.

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Myles Garrett is having an incredible season for the Cleveland Browns. The team’s star defensive end has 14 sacks through 12 games, is terrifying quarterbacks, and has lived in backfields. He’s drawn plenty of praise and attention for his performance on the field, which is leading to

One reward that Garrett might receive is becoming the best player in Browns’ history … at least as far as Madden is concerned. Over the last few years, the team over at Madden has embraced the conversation that exists around player ratings and making a particularly big deal out of anyone who manages to reach 99 overall. On Friday, EA Sports teased that Garrett is on the verge of becoming the first player in franchise history to achieve that rating.

Garrett’s rise as one of the best defensive ends in football has been consistent. He started off as an 88 overall in Madden NFL 19 and has seen his rating only increase from there. As long as he doesn’t see his production drop off suddenly to end this season — and there’s no reason to think that’s going to happen, because he is very good — it seems pretty likely that he will be joining the 99 Club at some point before the end of the year. Should Garrett achieve a 99 overall rating, he will pass longtime Browns offensive lineman Joe Thomas, who peaked at a 98 overall.

On top of The Matrix Resurrections bringing the sci-fi series back to life later this month, Epic Games, the makers of Fortnite, released The Matrix Awakens video game experience, which uses the new Unreal 5 Engine to blur the lines of reality and digital simulation, just like the movies. While promoting The Matrix Awakens, Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss sat down with The Verge and, during that sitdown, Reeves proceeded to reveal that he’s put a lot of thought into the idea of virtual reality sex. Like… a lot.

The topic came up after Reeves was informed that gamers were modding Cyberpunk 2077 so that they could have sex with Reeves’ character, which The Matrix star was very into. Unfortunately, he was also informed that CD ProjektRed banned the sex mod, which bummed Keanu out. But not too much, because he soon launched into his thoughts on how virtual reality and the metaverse could allow people to have sex with celebrities. Via Kotaku:

“So you could not even have to be there and people could have digital sex with your digital avatar…what’s it called right now, ‘For Members Only’? You could do a whole thing,” explained Reeves, gushing in a way that makes it seem like he’s been thinking about this for some time. “Oh my god then you get the suit that’s probably made in Sweden or some German thing, oh my god then you’ve got the VR thing. Then they’ve got the data on you with your like, arousal metrics…”

For the record, that was Keanu Reeves revealing he’s spent a lot of time pondering “arousal metrics.” However, at the end of the day, Reeves says VR will never match actual sex. “You hold that real thing and you’re like, oh man I’m so glad we have reality,” Reeves said, concluding his seminar on virtual boning.

(Via The Verge, Kotaku)

J Balvin’s Jose is already a favorite to take home the Grammy for the inaugural Best Música Urbana award. At next February’s awards show, he’ll be up against Bad Bunny, Rauw Alejandro, Karol G, and Kali Uchis. But ahead of then, he’s just given fans something else to think about with a deluxe version of Jose.

Packed with 31 total tracks, the deluxe version adds new songs at the top of the album like “Ego,” “Tu Veneno,” and “Ma G,” as well as a new version of “F40” with Arcangel, plus multiple new remixes of the global hit “In Da Getto.” He has also dropped a new bombastic video for “F40,” which you can watch above.

Check out J. Balvin’s North American tour dates below, as well as the new album cover and tracklist.

1. “F40” with Arcangel*
2. “Ego”*
3. “Tu veneno”
4. “Ma G”
5. “Una Nota” Feat. Sech
6. “Te Acuerdas De Mi” Feat. Yandel
7. “In Da Getto” Feat. Skrillex
8. “Billetes de 100” Feat. Myke Towers
9. “La Venganza” Feat. Jhay Cortez
10. “Vestido”
11. “Que Locura”
12. “Bebé Que Bien Te Ves” Feat. Feid
13. “Lo Que Dios Quiera”
14. “Si Te Atreves” Feat. Zion Y Lennox
15. “Fantasías”
16. “Pa’ Guayarte” Feat. Ozuna
17. “Ganas De Verte”
18. “Perra” Feat. Tokischa
19. “7 De Mayo”
20. “Suerte”
21. “Querido Rio”
22. “La Familia”
23. “Que Más Pues?” Feat. Maria Becerra
24. “OTRO FILI” Feat. Jay Wheeler
25. “Otra Noche Sin Ti” Feat. Khalid
26. “Poblado – Remix” Feat. Karol G, Nicky Jam, Crissin, Totoy El Frio, Natan & Shander
27. “UN DÍA (ONE DAY)” Feat. Dua Lipa, Bad Bunny, Tainy
28. “F40”
29. “In Da Getto” (Chris Lorenzo Remix)*
30. “In Da Getto” (Martinez Brothers Remix)*
31. “In Da Getto” (Henry Fong Remix)*

01/16/2022 — Los Angeles, CA @ CALIBASH
04/19/2022 — San Antonio, TX @ AT&T Center
04/20/2022 — Austin, TX @ H-E-B Center at Cedar Park
04/22/2022 — Tucson, AZ @ Tucson Arena
04/23/2022 — Las Vegas, NV @ Michelob Ultra Arena
04/24/2022 — San Diego, CA @ Pechanga Arena
04/26/2022 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena
04/27/2022 — Portland, OR @ Moda Center
04/30/2022 — San Jose, CA @ Sap Center
05/01/2022 — Oakland, CA @ Oakland Arena
05/04/2022 — El Paso, TX @ Don Haskins Center
05/05/2022 — Laredo, TX @ Sames Auto Arena
05/06/2022 — Houston, TX @ Toyota Center
05/07/2022 — Hidalgo, TX @ Payne Arena
05/08/2022 — Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center
05/11/2022 — Fort Meyers, FL @ Hertz Arena
05/13/2022 — Miami, FL @ FTX Arena
05/14/2022 — Orlando, FL @ Amway Center
05/15/2022 — Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena
05/18/2022 — Charlotte, NC @ Spectrum Center
05/20/2022 — Washington, DC @ Capital One Arena
05/21/2022 — Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center
05/22/2022 — New York, NY @ Barclays Center
05/25/2022 — Bridgeport, CT @ Webster Bank Arena
05/26/2022 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden
05/27/2022 — Montreal, CA @ Centre Bell
05/28/2022 — Toronto, CA @ Scotiabank Arena
06/04/2022 — San Juan, PR @ Choliseo

Jose is out now via Sueños Globales. Get it here.

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Garfield, everyone’s favorite cat who hates Mondays and loves lasagna, has been all over video games as of late. He was recently announced as the first DLC character in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, but his virtual takeover didn’t stop there.

Garfield will also receive a special Xbox Series S to coincide with his inclusion in Nickeloden All-Star Brawl. Xbox is hosting a sweepstake on Twitter for anyone that wants the special Garfield console. This actually isn’t the first time Xbox has done this — when All-Star Brawl initially came out, Xbox hosted a sweepstake for anyone that wanted to win a SpongeBob or Ninja Turtles-themed Xbox Series X.

Initially, the reactions to the Xbox were about what anyone would expect: jokes and memes. After all, it’s an Xbox with Garfield’s face staring back at them why would that not feel silly?

Then there were a lot of jokes about whether or not the console would work on Mondays or not.

There were also plenty of people who genuinely really wanted this Xbox. Garfield has a whole lot of fans out there and those folks really want to see their favorite lasagna loving cat on an Xbox.

May the person who hates Mondays the most win.

The members of Why Don’t We came together from many parts of the world, and their Christmas traditions reflect their respective upbringings. “My mom grew up in the Netherlands, so growing up we always participated in Dutch traditions, Corbyn Besson tells us over email. “My favorite is when we celebrate Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas) on Dec. 5th every year. We leave little wooden shoes called klompen by the back door with a plate of Oreos, milk, and carrots for his horse to eat, and we exchange small gifts.” Jonah Marais’ family, on the other hand, gets together and exchanges gifts. “My mom always makes this amazing egg bake and it is my favorite day,” he explains.

Regardless of their traditions and backgrounds, though, the holidays bring together the entire band for a time of generosity. “One of my favorite memories was surprising my brother,” Zach Herron recalls. “I decided to upgrade his whole gaming set up with everything he’d been wanting. The rest of my family helped to distract him from going in his room and he never suspected anything. He absolutely loved it and to this day it’s one of my favorite memories!”

To get in the holiday spirit this year, all five members of the band gave us their favorite music for the latest Uproxx Holiday playlist. “I love Christmas music,” Besson explains. “It’s so feel-good and a constant reminder of great memories and family.” Herron adds: “Holiday music is the one thing that really gets me into the holiday spirit. It really wouldn’t feel like the holidays without the music.”

Check out each member’s picks, as well as the full playlist, down below. Their new cover of Justin Bieber’s “Mistletoe” is above.

Daniel’s Picks:

Mariah Carey — “All I Want For Christmas Is You”

This song is undeniably the best Christmas song to ever exist.

Bobby Helms — “Jingle Bell Rock”

“Jingle Bell Rock” just has a different swing to it than any other Christmas song. It’s absolutely drenched in swag. That song grabs me different. I could jam to this song in January.

Jonah’s Picks:

Justin Bieber — “Misteltoe”

I was a huge Belieber growing up and when this song came out I played it on repeat for days on end!

Frank Sinatra — “Silent Night”

My dad would sing this song at his annual holiday show with his brother every year, and I’ve always thought the melodies are so beautiful. It makes me feel at peace.

Jack’s Picks:

Matthew Hall & Meagan Moore — “When Christmas Comes To Town”

I chose this song because I recently had my daughter Lavender in LA with me and I started playing [The Polar Express] and she was absolutely in love with it. I soon realized that it was her favorite movie and we started watching it 3-4 times a day and now I can’t stop singing all of these songs.

Corbyn’s Picsk:

Andy Williams — “It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year”

This is one of my favorite Christmas songs ever. It’s so smooth and it’s just a classic. Gives me really strong “winter in New York” vibes which I LOVE.

Michael Bublé — “It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas”

This is a Michael Bublé Christmas classic. How can you not love this song?

Zach’s Picks:

Why Don’t We — “With You This Christmas”

Ever since we came out with this song it’s been one of my favorites on Christmas. I remember the joy we had making this one on tour, and I’ll always jam to this one.

Ariana Grande — “Santa Tell Me”

I just love Ariana Grande and this Christmas song really never gets old.

Why Don’t We is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The U.S. men’s basketball team has reportedly found its successor to head coach Gregg Popovich. According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, Team USA “is finalizing a decision to name” Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr as its new head coach.

Joining Kerr on the bench includes Phoenix Suns head coach Monty Williams, Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra, and Gonzaga men’s basketball head coach Mark Few. Kerr, who was on the staff for this summer’s Olympics gold medal squad, will take over for Popovich in the World Cup and 2024 Paris Olympics. Wojnarowski said “a formal announcement is expected in the near future.”

Joe Vardon of The Athletic confirmed Wojnarowski’s report, and added that a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers has a shot at making the roster for a national team that has struggled with the center position in recent years.

Kerr inherits a program that has won gold at each of the past four Olympic games. However, the gap between America and other national programs is clearly dwindling. Team USA lost to France in the quarterfinals at the 2019 World Cup and finished seventh in that tournament. This summer, France defeated Team USA in the group stages, but the Americans were able to get their revenge in the gold medal game.