The 2021 NBA Draft Lottery takes place on Tuesday evening. One of the most important days on the NBA calendar, a whole bunch of ping pong balls will fly around and determine which team gets the top pick on July 22, with the prize of this year’s Draft being Oklahoma State standout Cade Cunningham.
This year’s Lottery marks the third year of the much-ballyhooed weighted odds that are designed — in the league’s eyes, at least — to prevent teams from going all-in on tanking. As a result, the Houston Rockets, Detroit Pistons, and Orlando Magic all are tied for the best chance of winning the Cunningham sweepstakes at 14 percent. There are also a handful of protections on picks, which go thusly:
Oklahoma City has the right to swap picks — either its own or Miami’s — with the Houston Rockets if Houston’s pick falls to No. 5
Minnesota’s pick is top-3 protected, and if it falls to No. 4 or lower, it goes to Golden State
Chicago’s pick is top-4 protected, and if it falls below that, it goes to Orlando
Ahead of the festivities beginning on ESPN at 8:30 p.m. EST, we wanted to look at the 14 biggest questions we’re keeping an eye out for during the Lottery. These questions — and, more importantly, their answers — will define how things play out at the Draft next month.
Question No. 1: Who gets the No. 1 pick?
Houston Rockets: 14%
Detroit Pistons: 14%
Orlando Magic: 14%
Oklahoma City Thunder: 11.5%
Cleveland Cavaliers: 11.5%
Minnesota Timberwolves: 9%
Toronto Raptors: 7.5%
Chicago Bulls: 4.5%
Sacramento Kings: 4.5%
New Orleans Pelicans: 4.5%
Charlotte Hornets: 1.7%
San Antonio Spurs: 1.6%
Indiana Pacers: 1.2%
Golden State Warriors: 0.5%
The craft beer world has no shortage of styles. And while a casual drinker might not recognize the nuances between them, the hardcore heads definitely know the subtle differences. The West Coast IPA is a crisp, dry, citrusy, pucker-inducing, and unabashedly dank hoppy beer with a touch of caramel malts. It was the style that, in many ways, launched the craft beer industry in the 1980s — the Americanized take on the classic English IPA that launched way back in the late 1700s.
The style became so popular that most east coast brewers simply cloned that west coast beer style in the early days (hence, the style’s technical name, “American IPA”). But as time passed east coast brewers branched off into their own method of making IPAs in New England. The NEIPA — or New England IPA — was born. This version holds onto the hops but favors juicy fruits, tropical flavor notes, citrus, and more floral hops over the oily, dank monsters out west. To confuse passive beer drinkers even further, you’re starting to see some brewers call any IPA brewed on the east coast or one brewed mimicking the IPA styles brewed in that region “East Coast IPAs.” But that doesn’t really mean anything style-wise … yet.
Regardless of whether you’re a fan of hazy and juicy NEIPAs or simply well-balanced and dank American IPAs, east coast brewers have something perfect for every palate. To help you quench your summer thirst, we put together a mix of classic American, New England, and English IPAs that represent some of the best east-coast-brewed IPAs available now.
Check them all out below and click on the prices to give them a try yourself.
One of the most beloved beers from the home of Ben and Jerry is The Alchemist Heady Topper. It’s so well-regarded that it has even garnered a perfect 100 ranking from BeerAdvocate. This double IPA is known for its fresh, unfiltered, hop-centric flavor. Its fame derives from its heightened hops that manage to (almost miraculously) maintain a low bitterness factor.
Tasting Notes:
You’ll be greeted with fresh-cut grass, mango, pineapple, orange peels, and a good deal of caramel malts. The flavor mirrors the aroma, with notes of tangerine, grapefruit, pineapple, sweet malts, and a nice kick of resinous pine at the end. There’s very little bitterness for the massive hop flavor.
Bottom Line:
People have taken pilgrimages to Vermont just to get it. We can safely say that it’s absolutely worth the trip. Though, this beer, in particular, is becoming a bit easier to find in specialty shops nationwide these days.
When it comes to New England craft beer, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Maine are leading the charge with multiple famous breweries in each state. Rhodes Island doesn’t have the same name recognition but it probably should. Whalers Brewing Company’s flagship beer is its caramel-colored, well-balanced throwback American IPA filled with caramel malts and floral hops.
Tasting Notes:
This is a highly drinkable summer beer. On the nose, you’ll find candied orange peels, lemon zest, and a nice hit of sweet malts. Taking a sip reveals pine resin, fresh-cut grass, tangerines, citrus peels, and a caramel malt backbone. The finish is a great combination of citrus and malts with very little bitterness.
Bottom Line:
If you’re tired of bitter, one-dimensional IPAs (or you simply want to take a break), grab a sixer of Whalers East Coast IPA and enjoy the balance of floral/citrus hops and caramel malts.
Boston is well-known for its beer prowess. After all, it is the home of The Boston Beer Company (makers of Samuel Adams). Many drinkers believe the best brewery in the city is Trillium. Congress Street is the brewery’s flagship beer that’s double dry-hopped with Australian Galaxy hops.
Tasting Notes:
This is a bold, fragrant beer with scents of guava, ripe peach, pineapple, sweet malts, and a field of pine trees on the nose. The palate is swirling with mango, tangerine, pineapple, grapefruit, resin, and just a hint of bitter hops at the very end. All in all, this is a juicy, sweet beer that’s perfect for a hot summer’s day.
Bottom Line:
Instead of tasting like a bitter hop bomb, drinking this beer is like sipping on a cocktail of fresh tropical and citrus juices with just a hint of hops added for extra flavor.
Well before the craft beer world exploded, Brooklyn was making high-quality, award-winning beers. One of its best is its East IPA. This beer was created to make a beer that would appeal to both British and American beer drinkers. Instead of being filled with bitter hops, it’s well-balanced with floral hops and sweet caramel/vanilla malts.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a good deal of earthiness, lemon zest, and subtle piney hops next to a strong biscuit-like aroma along with sweet caramel maltiness. The flavor is mellow, sweet, and filled with notes of tangerines, grapefruit, subtle herbs, caramel malts, and just a hint of bitter, floral hops presence.
Bottom Line:
This is a flavorful, crushable summery beer that you’ll go back to again and again all season long. It’s well-balanced and well-suited for an afternoon of yard games.
Named for a whale that’s been seen off the coast of Maine since 1982, this hazy, juicy beer is brewed with 2-Row, Carapils, Caramel, 40L, and Munich 10L malts and red wheat that’s then hopped with Amarillo, Centennial, and Simcoe hops. The result is a complex beer that balances hops and malts perfectly.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is swirling with aromas of grapefruit, peaches, tangerines, mint, and pine resin. On the palate, you’ll find notes of mango, pineapple, lemon zest, spruce tips, and a lot of biscuity, caramel malt sweetness to even everything out. It all ends with a nice combination of slight bitterness and fresh, juicy fruit.
Bottom Line:
All those flavors really feel like lunch in a pint glass. But at seven percent ABV, you probably should pair this gem with some food, too.
Another Maine staple, Bissell Brothers does nothing but make outstanding beer. Its flagship brew is The Substance, an IPA brewed with Maine-grown 2-row malt, oats, and wheat as well as Falconer’s Flight, Centennial, Apollo, Chinook, and Simcoe hops. The result is a hazy, dank, juicy, well-balanced IPA.
Tasting Notes:
Breathe in the scents of fresh-cut grass, earthy notes, pine needles, mango, pineapple, and a nice hint of caramel malts. The flavor is filled with fresh fruit flavors like guava, grapefruit, orange peels, juicy watermelon, and more resinous pine. It’s all tempered with sweet, biscuity malts.
Bottom Line:
This a great example of New England IPA. It’s juicy, hazy, but has a great complimentary hit of sweet malts.
One of the most beloved New England IPAs on the market is Tree House Julius. It’s juicy, hazy, and filled with citrusy and floral hops. But, like many of the IPAs on this list, it’s not just a bitter hop bomb. It’s well-rounded, balanced, and filled with aromatic and flavorful hops, but none of the bitterness you’d expect.
Tasting Notes:
There’s a good deal of fruit on the nose with this one. Guava, mango, passion fruit, and pineapple take center stage. Pine needles find their way in at the end. The palate is filled with hints of guava, fresh pineapple, ripe peaches, slightly bitter hops, and pleasing malt sweetness to round it all out.
Bottom Line:
There’s a reason Tree House Julius is one of the most popular New England-style IPAs ever made. It’s fresh bright and filled with juicy, fruity flavors.
Other Half is so popular that the Brooklyn-based brewery now has off-shoots in the Finger Lakes region of New York and Washington D.C., as well as various pop-ups. It’s well-known for its innovative, hoppy beers. One of its best is Green City, a hazy American IPA brewed with oats and Simcoe, Citra, and Centennial hops.
Tasting Notes:
Orange peels, citrus zest, mangos, cantaloupe, and a nice, piney hops presence all make an appearance on the nose. Take a sip and you’ll be greeted with caramel malts, wet grass, tangerines, ripe pineapples, and just a hint of resinous pine at the very end. All in all, one of the best examples of any IPA you’ll ever find.
Bottom Line:
This beer has everything an IPA fan could want. It’s easy to drink, hazy, juicy, and filled with citrus and piney hops flavors. Truly, it’s hard to top this beer.
This beer from Dogfish Head is revelatory. The process behind the boil is that hops are added continuously for 60 minutes. The brewers out in Delaware bring in an abundance of hops from the Pacific Northwest to give this east coast brew a distinctly West Coast, classic craft brew vibe that really amps up those dank hops.
Tasting Notes:
The beer invites you in with a mix of orange oils, pine resin, and roasted caramel maltiness. The taste of this one delivers on those promises while folding in summer wildflower hoppiness next to canned brown bread maltiness and a thick layer of pine sap. All of that sounds heavy yet the beer remains dry, effervescent, and very crushable on a hot day.
Bottom Line:
Some would argue (including me) that this is where Dogfish Head hit the motherlode. This beer is perfectly balanced, innovative, familiar, and just really drinkable. Even if you’re not into the dank and overly bittered classic craft IPAs, you might still dig this thanks to all that maltiness and balance in every sip.
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Joy Behar may be a comedian, but she made a joke that fell awkwardly flat on a recent taping of The View.
Earlier this week, Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib shared a video on Instagram announcing he was gay before donating $100,000 to The Trevor Project, a group that provides crisis counseling and other services to the at-risk LGBTQ+ community. In his post, Nassib explained he wanted to “cultivate a culture that’s accepting” in his sport adding that “representation and visibility are so important.” Naturally, the social media confession was a major conversation starter on The View where Behar and her fellow hosts, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, and Meghan McCain talked about what Nassib’s coming out moment might mean for the NFL.
Initially, Behar questioned whether Nassib’s coming out was “such a big deal” in 2021 to which Haines and Navarro both affirmed that, as the first openly gay, active athlete in the NFL, Nassib had a chance to help change the culture of toxic masculinity embedded in the league. But, what could’ve been an interesting conversation around the expectations placed on men’s sports devolved into a cringe-worthy on-air gaffe after Navarro couldn’t remember which team Nassib played for, leading to this comment from Behar.
“Don’t ask me, you’re asking the wrong person,” she responded to her co-host. “Ana, after they said penetration in the end zone, they lost me!”
Yikes! This joke from Joy Behar during a discussion of the first active gay player in the NFL.
None of the women seemed comfortable with Behar’s fairly crass “joke.” Navarro plugged her ears, Haines just hanged her head, Hostin threw her hands up, and McCain responded with a clearly unimpressed raised eyebrow. Later, before the segment ended, Behar tried to make amends, saying, “I just long for the day when you can just be gay in the world, and it doesn’t become a big deal,” before adding, “By the way, that inappropriate joke I made for daytime television? Scratch it. Make-believe I never said it.”
Joy Behar tries to walk it back at the end of the segment.
By the way, that inappropriate joke I made for daytime television, scratch it. Make believe I never said it.” pic.twitter.com/z4klo7CXBc
We’d like to, of course, but it’s pretty disappointing coming from Behar. Not just the homophobic undertones of her punch-line, but the fact that, when it comes to sex jokes, this just felt lazy. “Penetration in the end zone”? Come on, Joy.
Tyler The Creator’s Call Me If You Get Lost rollout continues with the retro-styled, flirtatious video for its latest single “Wusyaname.” As with previous videos, the narrative revolves around Tyler’s pursuit (in character as Tyler Baudelaire) of actress Helena Howard, who appears to be in a relationship with Odd Future’s Taco. Tyler teased the storyline with his “Side Street” album trailer, while the opening monologue in “Wusyaname” mirrors a similar speech in the video for “Lumberjack.” Also as in “Lumberjack,” “Wusyaname” features shouted ad-libs from DJ Drama.
The lyrics to the new track find Tyler making a play on an unknown woman over a sample of ’90s R&B group H-Town’s “Back Seat (Wit No Sheets).” “You pick a spot, I’ll pick a tail number, we can be tourists,” he beckons. “Let’s go to Cannes and watch a couple indie movies that you never heard of.” The video ends once again with a title card featuring the new aesthetic for the Call Me If You Get Lost era, as well as its unofficial, sitcom-esque theme song.
In addition to putting out the album in just three days, on June 25, Tyler is set to perform at the 2021 BET Awards this weekend.
Watch the video for “Wusyaname” above.
Call Me If You Get Lost is out 6/25 via Columbia Records. Get it here.
Fans haven’t heard from Montreal’s Ada Lea (in terms of new music) since her 2020 EP Woman, Here. Now, though, the artist (real name Alexandra Levy) is back with a soul-baring new song, “Hurt.”
Press materials describe the track as “[living] in a snowy Montreal winter, a city that Levy calls home and lives and breathes through her music.” Levy also says of the song, “I wanted to find a way to communicate complicated feelings using the simplest language possible. I came with a narrative and removed almost every detail, so as not to obfuscate the feeling — but left it open in terms of a resolution: was this hurt necessarily a bad thing?”
She also explained the song’s background on Instagram and noted that she worked on it with Phoebe Bridgers collaborator Marshall Vore, writing, “so much to say… so many ways to say it… so much writers block… stream of consciousness is that this song was recorded in pasadena w the 1 and only [Vore] in early 2020- we were joined by my ride or die; [Mara Wild] on the drums, [Harrison Whitford] on guitar wizard and bass & angel vocals by [Johanna Samuels]. several months later [M̸onse Muro, Peter Hostak, Alice Cloutier-Lachance] and I drove 7 hours north of the 514 and shot this video and thus, hurt was birthed.”
Peter and Lisa Marshall’s romance began 20 years ago, after the former neighbors had each gotten divorced. They lived in different states and maintained a long-distance relationship for eight years, as neither wanted to uproot her kids. After Lisa’s youngest went off to college in 2009, the couple decided to get married.
A dream Turks and Caicos beach wedding followed. Lisa moved to Peter’s home in Connecticut, where they enjoyed seven years of marital bliss. Then the warning signs hit.
Peter started giving Lisa directions to their home. He began having trouble finishing sentences, struggling for the words
“Instead of the word ‘airplane,’ he’d say, ‘that thing that goes up in the sky,’ ” Lisa told The Washington Post. “He also became pretty forgetful, but the word deficiency was really hard to ignore.”
Peter went to a neurologist in 2018 and was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. He was 52.
“Before his diagnosis, I always thought that Alzheimer’s was an old person’s disease,” Lisa told the Post. “Now I know better.”
Peter’s cognitive impairment accelerated quickly. By January of 2019, he had to quit his job. The following year, Lisa quit hers to become his full-time caretaker.
Needless to say, it’s been an incredibly difficult journey for Lisa, and well as the couple’s five children, as Peter’s memory of his life and loved ones fades—including his memory of being married to Lisa.
But late last year, a beautiful moment of hope broke through the darkness. Lisa and Peter were watching a show that featured a wedding when Peter suddenly looked over at Lisa and said, “Let’s do it!”
“Do what?” Lisa asked.
Peter pointed to the wedding scene on the TV.
“Do you want to get married?” Lisa asked.
With a big smile, Peter said yes.
“Well, okay,” Lisa responded. “We should get married then.”
He wouldn’t remember the proposal the next day, but the idea of renewing their wedding vows resonated with Lisa. “For better or for worse” had taken on a whole new meaning after Peter’s diagnosis, and his condition has worsened since January of this year. For the past six months, he has seen Lisa as his favorite caretaker, not his wife.
Lisa’s daughter, Sarah Brehant, runs a wedding planning business and offered to organize the ceremony. She networked with vendors, who all offered to provide their services for free.
“I knew that my stepdad, who I am very close with, was there through some of the toughest times of my life,” Brehant told the Post. “He means so much to me, and my mom is my best friend, so I was proud to be able to take on such an important role.”
Sarah wrote in a touching Father’s Day post that Peter had started telling her he loved her every chance he got after his diagnosis.
“I knew he wanted to make sure I knew before he couldn’t tell me anymore,” she wrote. “He’d say it every chance he could get while he still could, every time we saw each other.”
Peter and Lisa renewed their wedding vows on April 26 in a ceremony attended by friends and family and officiated by a dementia specialist who helped Lisa set up a care plan for Peter.
“It was just magical — straight out of a fairy tale,” Lisa said.
When Lisa got to the altar, Peter leaned in and gave her a kiss.
“There wasn’t a dry eye, and I was over the moon,” she said. “I hadn’t seen Peter that happy in a long time.”
“It was absolutely magical,” Sarah told The Knot, “and Peter was bright and present the entire day. The sweetest moment of the day was when he had a very lucid moment and he leaned in and whispered in my ear, ‘Thank you for staying.'”
Watch this beautiful video of highlights from the big day:
Emotional Vow Renewal // Mill 1 at Open Square // Lisa + Peter
As lovely as the vow renewal was, it would be disingenuous to leave the story there. Lisa has been documenting the couple’s Alzheimer’s journey—the inspiring and the challenging—via her Facebook page Oh Hello Alzheimer’s. In her posts, it’s clear what an up and down experience it is to love someone who is losing themselves.
On June 14, Lisa shared a bittersweet post about the difficulty of watching Peter disappear, only to be reassured by him when she cried into his chest, “We still have time.”
Then, just five days later, Lisa shared a post about how Peter’s condition has reached a point where the daycare that gave Lisa a respite from full-time care was no longer viable as he’s grown more anxious and agitated. Alzheimer’s patients can become increasingly paranoid and hallucinate as the disease progresses, which can lead to anger and aggressive behavior.
“I knew the call would come,” Lisa wrote, “I was well aware that it would happen. I just thought I’d have more time.”
The decisions about care for a loved one with advancing Alzheimer’s are never easy, and time is never guaranteed. Although Lisa and Peter’s story is hard to witness, her openness is also providing solidarity and support for countless families who are going through similar experiences with their loved ones.
Lisa has also used her Facebook page to raise money for Alzheimer’s research, and after seeing Peter’s story, it’s obvious why it’s so needed. As Lisa reminds us, Alzheimer’s is a terminal disease, and as of now, there is no cure. You can donate to the Alzheimer’s Association via Lisa’s team link here.
As for advice for other couples, “The only thing that matters is love and respect,” Lisa told The Knot. “You treat each other with gentle kindness every day and you reach deep into your heart for more patience and understanding than you think you have. You love deeply and immensely and you make memories intentionally. Be present.”
Despite Peter forgetting her, Lisa added, “I’m the luckiest woman in the world. The man of my dreams fell in love with me and asked me to marry him twice. He chose me again.”
All our best to Lisa and Peter as they navigate their remaining time together.
Brooklyn-based five-piece group Geese are breaking out on the post-punk scene as the newest signees of Partisan Records. Joining the likes of Idles, Fontaines DC, and Laura Marling on the label’s roaster, Geese showcase their DIY sensibilities with the rowdy debut single “Disco.”
The band, comprised of a group of 18-year-old longtime friends, first began as a basement project. They started recording their music on mic stands held up by sneakers and old blankets draped over their amps. Their debut track “Disco” reflects their home made style, combining disorienting riffs and droning chords to capture a cutting edge post-punk sound.
About the track, Geese note that “Disco” was born out of organized chaos:
“‘Disco’ was our first big step forward as a band. It’s a very urgent and restless song, which was indicative of all our headspaces at the time. ‘Disco’ has a lot of organized chaos at its core; the music, the lyrics, and even the way we recorded it all speak to a sort of manic energy we were all working through. It’s a song that sounds like it’s perpetually on the verge of collapse–and yet it always manages to keep itself together. There’s a bit of chaos in all of our songs, or a sense that they could explode at any moment. ‘Disco’ represents that the most for us: the little bit of chaos each of us carry and bring to our music.”
Diana Taurasi has been sidelined since May 21 due to a fracture in her sternum, and the Mercury guard is eyeing a return on Sunday against the Sparks, according to ESPN. Taurasi suffered the injury on May 16, but continued to play in two more games before resting. She scored 30 points on 11-of-21 shooting with five assists in the pair of games combined.
This is great news for both her Mercury and Team USA teammates. Taurasi was named to her fifth Olympic roster on Monday, and could use the time to work herself back into game-shape before the July 26 tip-off date. Phoenix should be eager to have her back, too, as the team has gone just 4-5 in her absence. Skylar Diggins-Smith and Brittney Griner — who will join her in Tokyo — have stepped up without her, but it’s clear the Mercury need the league’s all-time leading scorer to compete at their best.
Taurasi is expected to have a CT scan on Tuesday, which could clear her to practice five-on-five. Sunday will be the team’s first game in nine days, and they’ll play five more before the Olympic break, with games against the Lynx (twice), Aces, and reigning champion Storm (twice).
In four total games this season, Taurasi is averaging 15.8 points per game on 41.3 percent shooting from the field with 3.8 assists and 3.5 rebounds.
In recent months, Britney Spears has reportedly spoken out against her current conservatorship, or at least her father’s role in it. It turns out that while the #FreeBritney movement has picked up steam in just the past couple years, Spears has apparently tried to end her conservatorship for nearly a decade now.
This is according to a new report from The New York Times, which is based on “confidential court records obtained” by the publication. The records indicated that Spears “expressed serious opposition to the conservatorship earlier and more often than had previously been known,” and that the arrangement “restricted everything from whom she dated to the color of her kitchen cabinets.”
As early as 2014, Spears apparently questioned her father’s fitness for the role, with her court-appointed lawyer, Samuel D. Ingham III, saying Spears wanted to remove her father as her conservator due to his drinking and other points on a “shopping list” of complaints.
In a 2016 report, an investigator wrote, “She articulated she feels the conservatorship has become an oppressive and controlling tool against her. […] She is ‘sick of being taken advantage of’ and she said she is the one working and earning her money but everyone around her is on her payroll.”
As live music returns in 2021, the growing list of festivals and tours being announced has a new entry from a dark horse: A new festival called Once Upon A Time In LA is gaining attention for its impressive, diverse lineup, which includes headliners 50 Cent, Al Green, The Game, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, and YG. The festival is billed for December 18 at Banc Of California Stadium in Los Angeles, as well as the surrounding Exposition Park area.
Further down the list, the lineup appears to be a similar mix of (mostly) LA rap favorites spanning the last three decades of hip-hop and the funk and soul bands that inspired the original G-Funk sound that put the West Coast on the rap map in the early ’90s. While names like Cypress Hill, DJ Quik, Mack 10, Warren G, and WC should satisfy old-school hip-hop fans, their soulful counterparts include The Delfonics, George Clinton, The Isley Brothers, Lisa Lisa, Morris Day, Rose Royce, War, and Zapp.
Meanwhile, younger fans — and those older fans who are young at heart, I guess — can enjoy newer acts like Blueface, Drakeo The Ruler, OhGeesy, and RJMrLA. Out-of-towners range from Bay Area legends like E-40 and Too Short to Clevelanders Bone Thugs N Harmony and Memphis’ own Three Six Mafia.
Presale begins this Friday, June 25 at 10 AM PT, with payment plans available. You can find more info at onceuponatimeinlafest.com.
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