Friend included details on what each network will get, but the most interesting nugget was on why the league is headed to NBC and not coming back to TNT and Warner Bros. Discovery — pending potential litigation. According to Friend, ESPN locked down the “A” rights by doubling their offer in the exclusive negotiation window, but WBD wasn’t willing to do the same for their “B” rights package.
It is also becoming clearer how WBD reached this perilous point in negotiations. During Disney’s and WBD’s exclusive negotiating window from mid-March to April 22, industry sources said Disney was firm about not letting the “A” package go on the open market. So it doubled its old rights fee of $1.4B annually to $2.8B.
But those same sources said Zaslav — whose company paid $1.2B for NBA media rights a decade ago — believed he would only have to pay between $1.8B and $2.1B to retain the “B” package this time around and refused to double to $2.4B. That is why the bidding ventured into the marketplace and why NBC leaped in. If WBD does, in fact, lose the NBA, 2024-25 will be its final season under the current deal.
Now, NBC is reportedly paying $2.6 billion for those rights and the NBA is asking $2.8 billion from WBD to match for a variety of reasons (and could end up leading to a court battle). Given what the deal ended up being, it certainly sounds from this reporting that WBD undervalued the rights deal they had and the NBA called their bluff and were able to take it to NBC and get even more. There is still a chance WBD ends up with a piece of the pie, but to do so they’ll have to pay more than they would’ve a few months ago. If not, playing hardball will cost them the NBA and cost us Inside the NBA.
For months, 50 Cent has been needling his beleaguered rival mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, who has come under both public and federal scrutiny after several lawsuits were filed against him alleging sexual misconduct. Today, 50 reported another win in his one-sided battle with Diddy, as the documentary he has been touting since the beginning of the drama has reportedly been bought by Netflix after a bidding war among streamers for its broadcast rights.
According to TMZ, 50 produced the doc through his G-Unit Film and Television Studios, and is expected to begin streaming “sooner rather than later.”
Meanwhile, Combs, still reeling from the leak of a hotel security video that captured an assault on his ex Cassie Ventura, was hit with a sixth lawsuit today. Filed by former model Crystal McKinney, the latest suit alleges that Diddy forced McKinney to give him oral sex after drugging her at a New York Fashion Week party when she was 22.
The latest suit came after federal authorities raided several of Diddy’s properties while investigating claims of sex trafficking leveled against the Bad Boy founder in one of the lawsuits against him. However, Diddy can’t be charged for the 2016 hotel assault on Cassie, due to an expired statute of limitations.
Dirty Hit usually brings to mind English pop artists like Pale Waves, Beabadoobee, and The 1975, but, now, the label is also cashing in on post-punk. Been Stellar, a quintet based in New York City, blends incendiary riffs, biting songwriting, and caustic delivery, all with a melodic bent that also appeals to the pop-minded listener.
Their debut album, Scream From New York, NY, plays like a highlight reel of Been Stellar’s many strengths. Consisting of vocalist Sam Slocum, guitarists Skyler Knapp and Nando Dale, drummer Laila Wayans, and bassist Nico Brunstein, this band is an American counterpart to the massive wave of great British post-punk, such as Shame, Dry Cleaning, and Black Midi, that has been a predominant subgenre of the 2020s thus far.
Ahead of the record’s release on June 21, Been Stellar sat down with Uproxx to talk about Blink-182, ping-pong, and their love of South America in our latest Q&A.
What are four words you would use to describe your music?
Skyler: We’re here, we exist.
It’s 2050 and the world hasn’t ended and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?
Skyler: I’d like it not to be “remembered” but listened to. When you hear good music, the time period and context doesn’t matter. If something real is made, I like to think it burns itself outside of linear time.
Who’s the person who has most inspired your work, and why?
Skyler: Basquiat is always my creative North Star. Even though my favorite things he’s done aren’t musical (although his recordings with Gray are very cool) his relationship with language and imagery always pushes me to make something that matters. As of late, Elliot Smith has also started to reach those ranks as well.
Where did you eat the best meal of your life, and what was it?
Sam: We had fish and chips on the coast, driving into Glasgow a couple summers ago. Life-changing.
Tell us about the best concert you’ve ever attended.
Sam: When Sky and I were in high school, we went to go see a band named PUP play in Grand Rapids, MI. It was the first ‘punk’ show I had been to, and I just remember how sweaty we got. Great live band.
Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever crashed while on tour?
Nando: I’d say probably when we slept in this person’s house in Denver during the Catcher tour. The host was this sort of Burning Man-esque techno DJ, and we arrived after driving overnight from Chicago for 16 hours, and he was mixing trance music, and there were just a bunch of dudes hanging out there. I remember he had a massive jug of water that apparently had bleach in it, and it was just standing on the kitchen counter, so some of us got close to drinking it, could’ve been bad. But nonetheless, we were happy to have a place to stay for free for the night.
What’s your favorite city in the world to perform, and what’s the city you hope to perform in for the first time?
Nico: Personally, my favorite city that we’ve performed in is Madrid, but the best shows we play tend to be in London or other cities in the UK. We all really loved our show in Hull a couple of years back. I think we all really want to perform in Tokyo or anywhere in Japan soon, and I would love for us to make it to Buenos Aires as well.
What’s one piece of advice you’d go back in time to give to your 18-year-old self?
Nando: things take time, don’t try to rush or force anything. Just do your thing, be yourself, and eventually things will make more sense and fall into place.
What’s one of your hidden talents?
Nando: I am really good at ping-pong, like insanely good.
If you had a million dollars to donate to charity, what cause would you support and why?
Nico: Probably to help send food where it’s needed.
What are your thoughts about AI and the future of music?
Nico: I think it could be a great tool to enhance and inspire different creative avenues that maybe someone would not have gone down, but I think the overall fear of using it as a crutch is obviously there. Chord packs and other tools out there especially for solo producers and songwriters are already out there and my hope is the same with them, is that people will learn how music works through using them rather than relying too heavily on them.
You are throwing a music festival. Give us the dream lineup of 5 artists that will perform with you and the location it would be held.
Laila: I would throw a music festival at a skate park and the lineup would be:
System of a Down
Lazer Dim 700
Black Eyed Peas
Ice Spice
Mexican Slum Rats
Who’s your favorite person to follow on social media?
Sam: Evan Dando’s YouTube is pretty interesting.
What’s the story behind your first or favorite tattoo?
Laila: I have a couple tattoos, but my favorite is this one that says “I love life” in the palm of my hand. I got it from this really cool artist named Sandy (@iluvvvlife) in LA. It was the most painful 10 minutes of my life but it was worth it.
What is your pre-show ritual?
Laila: We huddle in a circle and take deep 3 breaths all together.
Who was your first celebrity crush?
Nico: Natalie Portman from the Star Wars prequels.
You have a month off and the resources to take a dream vacation. Where are you going and who is coming with you?
Nando: I’m renting a camper van of some sorts and driving through South America. Even though I was born in Brazil, I’ve never gotten to see much of the other countries there. It would be nice to see Patagonia, the Andes, Machu Picchu and much more. Of course, it would be great to go to the Amazon too, and explore the northeast of Brazil that has so much great food and music too. El Salvador has been on my bucket list for quite some time now, and it would be great to go during Carnaval. The music and culture of South America is incredibly rich, and I love how the different cultures of immigrants and Native Americans have shaped art-making over there. I would bring my brother, my cousin, the band and a bunch of my closest friends.
What is your biggest fear?
Skyler: My biggest fear is not having something to make music about. It is a fear that I encounter all the time, and even though I know it will eventually pass, it is never not a massive threat to my well-being.
Scream From New York, NY is out June 21 via Dirty Hit. Find more information here.
Hot off the release of her third studio album, Hit Me Hard And Soft, Billie Eilish paid a visit to The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Her latest is some of her most raw work to date, with some of her most vulnerable songwriting and lyricism. Eilish’s artistry has inspired a new generation of musicians.
But as an artist, one will inevitably face comparisons, and Eilish is well aware of that. However, during the interview portion of The Late Show, she said that she doesn’t mind when people think newer artists are replicating her sound or style.
“You’ve got to make time to get to know yourself,” said Eilish. “I think at first, I was seeing the way I knew how to sing in the way I felt like it sounded good, with inspiration from my favorite singers, songs, and artists. I think over time, I learned who I was and how I actually wanted to sound and what was genuine.”
She continued, saying, “That’s why I think it’s really important that people are more forgiving of inspiration, because I think we live in a world where everyone wants to have everything be perfectly original and no one has ever done it ever in their lives. You don’t want to copy anyone but you have to let yourself be inspired…When I hear a song or see some younger artist come out with a song that sounds like mine or their voice sounds like mine, and people are like [mocking voice], I’m like, ‘Dude, it’s okay, let them figure it out.”
And even now that Eilish is more established as an artist, she still holds her inspirations close. Elsewhere in the interview, she shared she would like to record an album featuring covers of standards.
You can see a clip from the interview above and Billie’s performance of “Lunch” below.
Hit Me Hard And Soft is out now via Darkroom/Interscope. Find more information here.
The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Powell turned down a starring role in the Jurassic World reboot. “Jurassic is one of my favorite movies. It’s one of the things I’ve wanted to do my whole life. I’m not doing that movie because I read the script and I immediately was like, my presence in this movie doesn’t help it,” the actor explained. “And the script’s great. The movie’s going to fucking kill. It’s not about that. It’s about choosing where you’re going to make an audience happy and where you’re going to make yourself happy.”
Chris Pratt agreeing to star in Jurassic World led him down the road to voicing Garfield in The Garfield Movie. Powell: you just lost your chance at playing Heathcliff.
Hit Man comes out in select theaters on May 24 before making its streaming debut on Netflix on June 7. Meanwhile, the Jurassic World reboot, which is written by Jurassic Park scribe David Koepp and stars Scarlett Johansson and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, has a July 2, 2025 release date.
Apple Music has been making noise in recent days as they’ve rolled out their list of the 100 best albums of all time. Heading into today (May 22), only the top 10 entries had yet to be revealed, but now the full list is here.
Lauryn Hill’sThe Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill has the honor of claiming the No. 1 spot, while behind it at No. 2 is Michael Jackson’sThriller and The Beatles’ Abbey Road is at No. 3.
Frank Ocean’sBlonde comes in at No. 5, making it the highest-ranking album released since 1999. The other projects in the top 10 that were released this current millennium are Kendrick Lamar’sGood Kid, m.A.A.d City (Deluxe Version) at No. 7, Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black at No. 8, and Beyoncé’s Lemonade at No. 10.
Check out the full, raw list below, or get a more interactive look at it via Apple Music’s website.
Apple Music’s 100 Best Albums Complete List
100. Robyn — Body Talk
99. Eagles — Hotel California
98. Travis Scott — Astroworld
97. Rage Against the Machine — Rage Against the Machine
96. Lorde — Pure Heroine
95. Usher — Confessions
94. Burial — Untrue
93. Solange — A Seat at the Table
92. Tyler, The Creator — Flower Boy
91. George Michael — Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1
90. AC/DC — Back in Black
89. Lady Gaga — The Fame Monster (Deluxe Edition)
88. Nina Simone — I Put a Spell on You
87. Massive Attack — Blue Lines
86. Mary J. Blige — My Life
85. Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour
84. Snoop Dogg — Doggystyle
83. Patti Smith — Horses
82. 50 Cent — Get Rich or Die Tryin’
81. Neil Young — After the Gold Rush
80. Eminem — The Marshall Mathers LP
79. Lana Del Rey — Norman Fucking Rockwell
78. Elton John — Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
77. Madonna — Like a Prayer
76. Bad Bunny — Un Verano Sin Ti
75. Missy Elliott — Supa Dupa Fly
74. Nine Inch Nails — The Downward Spiral
73. Steely Dan — Aja
72. SZA — SOS
71. Kraftwerk — Trans-Europe Express
70. N.W.A — Straight Outta Compton
69. Metallica — Master of Puppets
68. The Strokes — Is This It
67. Portishead — Dummy
66. The Smiths — The Queen Is Dead
65. De La Soul — 3 Feet High and Rising
64. Erykah Badu — Baduizm
63. The Jimi Hendrix Experience — Are You Experienced
62. 2Pac — All Eyez on Me
61. Sade — Love Deluxe
60. The Velvet Underground & Nico — The Velvet Underground & Nico
59. Arctic Monkeys — AM
58. Oasis — (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
57. D’Angelo — Voodoo
56. The Cure — Disintegration
55. Rihanna — ANTI
54. John Coltrane — A Love Supreme
53. The Rolling Stones — Exile on Main St.
52. Guns N’ Roses — Appetite for Destruction
51. Prince — Sign O’ the Times
50. Kate Bush — Hounds of Love
49. U2 — The Joshua Tree
48. Beastie Boys — Paul’s Boutique
47. Drake — Take Care
46. Bob Marley & The Wailers — Exodus
45. Björk — Homogenic
44. Stevie Wonder — Innervisions
43. Talking Heads — Remain in Light
42. Janet Jackson — Control
41. Outkast — Aquemini
40. Aretha Franklin — I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
39. Nas — Illmatic
38. Carole King — Tapestry
37. Wu-Tang Clan — Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
36. Beyoncé — Beyoncé
35. The Clash — London Calling
34. Public Enemy — It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
33. Radiohead — Kid A
32. The Notorious B.I.G. — Ready to Die
31. Alanis Morissette — Jagged Little Pill
30. Billie Eilish — When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
29. A Tribe Called Quest — The Low End Theory
28. Pink Floyd — The Dark Side of the Moon
27. Led Zeppelin — Led Zeppelin II
26. Kanye West — My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
25. Miles Davis — Kind of Blue
24. David Bowie — The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
23. Daft Punk — Discovery
22. Bruce Springsteen — Born to Run
21. The Beatles — Revolver
20. The Beach Boys — Pet Sounds
19. Dr. Dre — The Chronic
18. Taylor Swift — 1989 (Taylor’s Version)
17. Marvin Gaye — What’s Going On
16. Joni Mitchell — Blue
15. Adele — 21
14. Bob Dylan — Highway 61 Revisited
13. Jay-Z — The Blueprint
12. Radiohead — OK Computer
11. Fleetwood Mac — Rumours
10. Beyoncé — Lemonade
9. Nirvana — Nevermind
8. Amy Winehouse — Back to Black
7. Kendrick Lamar — good kid, m.A.A.d city (Deluxe Version)
6. Stevie Wonder — Songs in the Key of Life
5. Frank Ocean — Blonde
4. Prince & The Revolution — Purple Rain
3. The Beatles — Abbey Road
2. Michael Jackson — Thriller
1. Lauryn Hill — The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
Those Apple TV+ subscribers who tuned into watch Chris Evans as a stressed-out prosecutor in Defending Jacob now have another show to add to their queues. A twist here is that, instead of the prosecutor (portrayed by Jake Gyllenhaal in a suit, which cannot completely hide his Road House bod) being the father of an accused murderer, the prosecutor is the person who will be on the stand.
Presumed Innocent also continues in the fine tradition of streaming series that arrive with a built-in audience of devoted book readers. In this case, the eight-part limited series adapts Scott Turow’s bestseller to paint a portrait of a married man who has an affair with a colleague that ends up dead. His fingerprints show up in her bedroom, and this does not look fantastic for him or the survival of his marriage to a wife (Ruth Negga) who was unaware of his extracurriculars — until now. This, of course, is the type of story that David E. Kelley can deliver like nobody else on TV, and J.J. Abrams also sits in the executive producing seat. From the synopsis:
Based on The New York Times bestselling novel of the same name by Scott Turow, the gripping series takes viewers on a journey through the horrific murder that upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney’s office when one of its own is suspected of a crime. The series explores obsession, sex, politics, and the power and limits of love, as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.
Apple TV+ has been mastering the art of series that are chock full of terrible secrets. Speaking of which, have you watched Silo yet? There’s plenty of time to do so while you wait for this Gyllenhall series.
Presumed Innocent will stream two episodes on June 12 and run weekly until July 24.
There are plenty of guys who come into the NBA and make clear from the jump that they want to achieve superstardom. Recently, Bronny James went in a slightly different direction, as he pointed out a trio of players with two combined All-Star appearances as the kinds of guys he wants to model his game after in the league.
Bronny says current players like Derrick White, Jrue Holiday and Davion Mitchell as NBA players he thinks affect winning in the ways he wants to as a pro.
They’re three exceptional players to model your game after — particularly for a guy like Bronny, a promising but undersized guard whose game will keep developing in the league — but they’re also pretty unconventional answers. And on the most recent episode of the “Mind the Game” podcast, J.J. Redick couldn’t help but ask Bronny’s dad, LeBron James, about it, saying it was “neat” that someone as young as Bronny had this perspective.
.@KingJames talks about watching Bronny go through the NBA Draft process.
“Do you talk to him about that?” Redick asked. “Do you talk to him about who he can be in the NBA, or is he figuring this out on his own.”
“I think he’s figuring it out,” James responded. “I wanted him to kind of figure it out on his own, of where he sees himself fit in the NBA, or where he sees what his comp looks like. To see him mention guys like Derrick White, Jrue Holiday, a few other guys, Marcus Smart, Davion Mitchell, these are guys who come in and, for a team that’s trying to win championship, a team that wants to win every night, these are the players that you have to have on your team. It doesn’t always show up in the box scores, but it always shows up in the winning plays. And for Bronny to have that perspective on where he stands today, that’s great, and I think that’s great for any team, to be able to have a 19-year-old kid, like you said, I know that wasn’t my goal.”
James then laid out how he wanted to achieve all the individual success as he entered the league, but went on to again praise his son’s perspective and mindset, particularly due to the fact that “we’ve never actually even talked about it.”
A new season of the Netflix hit Bridgerton dropped last week. Given that it’s a popular show, folks are talking about it, but there’s one scene in particular that has turned heads. In it, Colin and Penelope get intimate in an NSFW sort of way, and the sex scene is scored by, of all songs, Pitbull, Afrojack, Ne-Yo, and Nayer’s 2011 classic “Give Me Everything.”
No, the original modern pop recording didn’t just play during the 1800s-set show and obliterate the bounds of space and time: As viewers know, the program regularly features period-appropriate instrumental covers of contemporary songs, so “Give Me Everything” actually ended up working pretty well for the scene.
Pitbull is pretty happy about this development, as he shared the scene on X (formerly Twitter) and wrote, “This again shows the world how music is the international language that transcends over boundaries more so how a hit song can remain timeless. Thank you @bridgerton and @netflix for the opportunity, Dale!”
Meanwhile, Pitbull and T-Pain recently announced that they will embark on the Party After Dark Tour together. The tour, which will feature Lil Jon at a couple of dates, runs from late August to early October and includes stops in New York, Virginia, California, and beyond.
On Monday, Donald “Hitler Did A Lot of Good Things” Trump shared a video on Truth Social referring to a “unified Reich” if he’s re-elected president. Reuters reports that the 30-second clip put on a positive spin on what the country would look like if he defeats Joe Biden in the November election, “featuring hypothetical newspaper headlines about a booming economy and a crackdown on immigration at the southern border. At two points in the video, text below a larger headline reads: ‘INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED… DRIVEN BY THE CREATION OF A UNIFIED REICH.’ The text is somewhat blurred, making it difficult to make out at first glance.”
The video has since been deleted, but the fallout continues. President Biden said this is “not the first time Trump has gone down this road,” and that the “threat Trump poses is greater the second time around than it was the first.”
Meanwhile, Stephen Colbert went so far as to give a brand new meaning to MAGA. During Tuesday’s episode of The Late Show, the host joked, “That’s not a dog whistle. It’s a whistle made of dog. Evidently, MAGA now stands for Make America Germany Around 1938.”
You can watch The Late Show monologue above.
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