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The Los Angeles Clippers will be without the services of Patrick Beverley for the next few weeks. The team announced on Friday evening that Beverley underwent surgery on his left hand on Friday to correct a fracture that he suffered during the team’s game against the Phoenix Suns the prior evening.

As a result, Beverley is going to miss at least the next 3-4 weeks, although the team made sure to specify that there is no immediate timeline for him to return to action. The Clippers’ final game of the regular season takes place on May 16.

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Beverley went up to poke a rebound away from Chris Paul during Thursday’s 113-103 win over the Phoenix Suns and looked to be in some pain. He did, however, stay in the game until a few moments later, when he was assessed a flagrant 2 for a foul on Paul and sent to the locker room a little early.

Beverley has started all 31 games in which he’s appeared for the Clippers this season, averaging eight points, 3.6 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 0.8 blocks, and 0.8 steals in 23.4 minutes a night. While sidelined, it stands to reason that a hodgepodge of Reggie Jackson, Terance Mann, and the recently-acquired Rajon Rondo will split point guard duties.

J Balvin will hopefully grace the world with his sixth album at some point this year. The Latin star has seemingly been in high gear with its rollout the past few months and it continues with his latest release. Balvin teamed up with Khalid for their new single, “Otra Noche Sin Ti,” which arrives with a chilling new video.

The song itself finds both artists reflecting on the women from their past that unfortunately walked out of their lives. With smoke flowing around their ankles and the eerie atmosphere of a dimly-lit forest surrounding them, the pains of the duo’s losses are highlighted to a high extent.

The track is presumably the third single from Balvin’s upcoming album. He began its rollout with “Ma G” and continued it with “Tu Veneno.” The former was supported by a video that followed his return home to a barrio in Medellin while the latter came attached with a focused visual that saw the singer standing tall beside a group of supporters. In addition to the two singles, he also appeared on Pokemon 25: The Album and contributed to a multilingual remix of Ty Dolla Sign’s “Spicy” with Post Malone, Tyga, and YG.

As for Khalid, fans have also been waiting for his third album, one he gave an update on last year. “I’ll say early next year to be realistic lol,” Khalid said in response to a fan’s question on Twitter. With the first quarter of 2021 already in the books, Khalid’s next body of work should also be on the horizon.

Watch the video for “Otra Noche Sin Ti” above.

Ty Dolla Sign is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

While Gutfield! may be the talk of social media when it comes to late night fodder, the more established shows are having a field day with the growing allegations against Florida congressman Matt Gaetz. The Representative is under federal investigation for what’s been described as sex trafficking and other crimes regarding travel with a 17-year-old women along with other reports about drug use and paying for sex.

And as Venmo transactions and other details continue to emerge, Stephen Colbert simply can’t believe how Florida this story has become. Colbert’s take on the situation starts at around the 7:30 mark above, but he starts by calling the drama the “most wonderful, terrible story in the news.” The crimes Gaetz may have committed are horrible and, quite frankly, QAnon-level from an elected official. But it’s really staggering to see the hubris Gaetz and at least one of his friends seem to have about the whole situation.

The segment, called “Gaetz Gaete,” detailed all the sordid details that we know so far, but even he admitted it was all a bit too much.

“I know Gaetz is from Florida, but Bahama sex trafficking with weed-peddling hand surgeon is almost too Florida, even for him,” Colbert said. “At this point it just feels like we’re generating his crimes at random.”

He then pulled some new crimes for Gaetz out of a hat, and we’ll have to see if that prediction plays out. Meanwhile, the House Ethics Committee is looking into allegations against Gaetz in addition to the Justice Department’s investigation that’s still ongoing, so things continue to get worse for the embattled Trump ally in Florida.

Last fall, Wizkid released his fourth album, Made In Lagos and it quickly grew to be a favorite out of the projects released during the 2020 portion of the pandemic. Unfortunately, the global circumstances may have prevented its enjoyment to the fullest, as a good listen in the summer sun would’ve made the experience even better. However, with the summer just around the corner again, Made In Lagos could finally receive that moment and the Nigerian afro-fusion star reminds fans of the album’s beauty with a vibrant visual for “Essence.”

Backed by an excellent contribution from Nigerian singer Tems, the two head over to the motherland for the new video. The singers flaunt the brightest of colors as they sing about the intimacy and close connection they seek between themselves and their partners. Wizkid rides around the neighborhood with a pair of women beside, both who seem infatuated with the singer, while Tems takes to the comfort of her home to sing her captivating verse.

The visual arrives after Wizkid earned his first-every Grammy Award as a result of he is contribution to Beyonce’s “Brown Skin Girl” track, an effort that also gave Saint John and Blue Ivy their first Grammy wins. The “Essence” video is also the fourth from the Made In Lagos, with “Smile,” “No Stress,” and “Ginger” being the other videos to receive the visual treatment.

Watch the “Essence” in the video above.

Justin Bieber recently found himself at a Los Angeles elementary school where he provided a pretty great experience for the students. In collaboration with Baby2Baby and Amazon’s welcome-back event, which also featured an appearance from Kelly Rowland, Bieber performed tracks from his two most recent albums, Changes and Justice, for the youngsters enrolled at MacArthur Park Visual and Performing Arts Elementary.

The singer’s set included renditions of “Intentions,” “Holy,” and more. Rowland took to Instagram to thank Amazon for helping Baby2Baby, a group she’s an ambassador and board member for, providing backpacks filled with hygiene items, face masks, hand sanitizer and school supplies as well as food, diapers, clothing and more.

The performance comes less than a week after Bieber surprised fans with his Freedom EP on Easter Sunday. The singer’s videographer Rory Kramer revealed that the project came together fairly quickly in a post to Instagram, saying it “was insane to witness the creation of this project in its entirety. created from Thursday to Saturday and put out today.”

Its release came after Bieber became the first solo male artist to debut an album and song at No. 1 during the same week after his Giveon and Daniel Caesar-assisted “Peaches” and his sixth album, Justice topped their respective charts.

You can watch clips of Bieber’s elementary school performance above.

Golfing: It’s frustrating! Anyone who has ever done any golfing of any kind — playing 18, mini golf, Mario Golf, you name it — knows that there is a very specific kind of hell that comes from being unhappy with something that you just did. The latest example of this came on Friday afternoon at The Masters, when Si Woo Kim accidentally broke his putter out of frustration.

Kim three-putted on the 14th hole at Augusta, and as a result, he smashed his putter on the ground. The problems were plentiful, we’ll get to them momentarily.

As you can see in the above tweet, Kim picked an absolutely horrific time to do this for a few reasons: He’s not too far off of the lead and there’s still four more holes to play before he closes out the round. Because you cannot carry any extra clubs in your bag, Kim had to get creative and turn to his trusty 3-wood when he got to the green.

He must have some level of comfort with this, because on each of the next two holes, he two-putted and picked up back-to-back pars.

Here’s to hoping that Kim closes out the day strong, credits his unique situation for that, and decides to putt with his 3-wood for the remainder of the tournament en route to winning The Masters.

As the world reacts to the passing of DMX, who died at the age of 50 on Friday after reportedly being hospitalized for a drug overdose a week earlier, social media has been celebrating the rapper’s life. This has included tributes to his impact on the music world, of course, but also the personality quirks that always made for a memorable interaction. One of those moments resurfaced on Twitter thanks to a 2017 clip from First We Feast where Gabrielle Union reminisces about shooting Cradle 2 the Grave in the early 2000s. In the film, she plays a diamond thief who works for DMX’s character, who finds himself in the crosshairs of martial artist Jet Li.

It was during Union’s time on set that she learned DMX is a huge Golden Girls fan. According to the actress, there was an incident where the rapper’s dog bit a production assistant. After that, the crew was afraid to go to his trailer, so Union, who’s a dog person, volunteered to do the job, and that’s when she found out about DMX’s love of watching the sassy seniors.

Doing her best DMX voice despite eating spicy wings with host Sean Evans, Union tried to capture the first thing DMX said to her when she entered his trailer. “Yo, have a drink! Watch the Golden Girls! This shit is funny.” After that, watching the classic sitcom together became a regular occurrence. “We would have a Heineken and, sometimes, a little Crown, and watch the Golden Girls,” Union said. “And he would laugh hysterically.”

You can watch Gabrielle Union reveal DMX’s love of the Golden Girls below:

(Via First We Feast on Twitter)

If we’re picking a replacement for Alex Trebek as host of Jeopardy! on enthusiasm alone, Aaron Rodgers might have a busy schedule in the next few years. The Green Bay Packers quarterback is serious about pulling double duty as an All-Pro and host of the most popular trivia show in history, and through a few days of his guest hosting duties it’s clear he’s having the time of his life.

Rodgers has been enthusiastic about his time on Jeopardy!, especially on Twitter. He’s tweeted about the show all week, excitedly pumping up each day’s episode in a way few of the other guest hosts — or legendary host Alex Trebek — ever have on social media. Here, for example, is a “pregame” video that showed how Rodgers gets ready for the show that he was excited to share on his account as well.

He’s spoken at length about how he prepared for the job and how seriously he’s taking the opportunity. And on Thursday, he also shared a video that the show made of his interesting connection with one of the show’s contestants. As it turns out, both the Green By Packers quarterback and contestant Pasquale, a financial services consultant, have a connection to Vince Lombardi.

Funny enough, the bigger buzz from the last few days is that the contestant bears a surprisingly striking resemblance to actor and comedian Horatio Sanz. Many people pointed that out online in addition to Rodgers enjoying the football connection he made with a guest.

Many even thought that Pasquale sounded like Sanz, too. And that buzz got to the actor himself by Thursday night. Sanz celebrated Pasquale’s big win on Thursday, retweeting a photo comparison of the former SNL standout and the new Jeopardy! champion.

In other words, the vibes are definitely good on Jeopardy! these days, which is a nice change of pace from the Dr. Oz era of the show and the sorrow that’s come with the battles Trebek had with disease and his death last year. If Rogers can keep this up, maybe he’s the man for the job after all.

Ted Cruz has finally fired back after getting dragged by John Boehner for the better part of the week. The former Speaker of the House has been promoting his upcoming book, On The House: A Washington Memoir, which includes a passage that specifically rips Cruz along with the batch of Tea Party Republicans who flooded Congress in 2010. In a new preview for CBS Sunday Morning, Boehner continues to carpet bomb Cruz after being asked about “political terrorists” in the GOP by anchor John Dickerson. After taking a moment to share his disdain for Jim Jordan, Boehner returned to the never-ending object of his scorn. Via Mediaite:

As for Cruz, Boehner rather bluntly says, “I don’t beat anybody up. It’s not really my style. Except that jerk.”

“Perfect symbol, you know, of getting elected, make a lot of noise, draw a lot of attention to yourself, raise a lot of money, which means you’re gonna go make more noise, raise more money, and it’s really — it’s unfortunate,” he adds.

After seeing the CBS Sunday Morning clip, Cruz attempted to fire back at Boehner with an oddly worded response: “The Swamp is unhappy. I wear with pride his drunken, bloviated scorn. Please don’t cry.” Wow, Ted, way to really… stick it to him?

Unlike Cruz and his weird tweet, Boehner has practically turned dunking on Cruz into an art form. Axios’ Jonathan Swan recently revealed that during the taping of the audiobook for Boehner’s memoir, the former Speaker would randomly fire off expletives at Cruz. At one point, Boehner wrapped up a passage by adding, “P.S. Ted Cruz: Go f*ck yourself.” You never know when he’s going to strike next. Hopefully soon, though. This is all very funny.

(Via Ted Cruz on Twitter)

To the victor go the spoils, and on Friday afternoon, the Los Angeles Dodgers got their rings for winning the 2020 World Series. The Dodgers played host to the Washington Nationals for the first game in front of fans at Dodgers Stadium in 18 months, making it the perfect occasion to celebrate the team’s win last year.

Amid the festivities, someone who never played for the Dodgers got a moment to shine. Bronson Arroyo — who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds, and Arizona Diamondbacks in an extremely respectable 16-year career — grabbed his trusty guitar and offered up a tribute to Dodgers pitcher Walker Buehler. It involved him getting extremely, uncomfortably close to a camera, a background that had the sun shining through some trees, and of course, a cover of “Wonderwall” by Oasis. It rules.

And now, an attempt at trying to figure out exactly what is going on here. Buehler, a native of Kentucky, grew up a Reds fan, and has spoken in the past about how he really loved watching Arroyo pitch.

“Yeah, I was a huge Reds fan growing up. [Aaron] Harang and Bronson Arroyo and [Johnny] Cueto,” Buehler once told the Cincinnati Enquirer about pitchers he emulated growing up. “My grandfather was from Detroit, so we were big Justin Verlander fans as well. Seeing some kind of stuff – the way him and I throw – I think that’s probably the most similar mechanically to me. You know I’ve kind of taken things from all of those guys.”

Folks who remember Arroyo’s pitching days might recall that he was also quite the musician, once releasing an album called Covering the Bases that featured this very respectable cover of “Everlong” by Foo Fighters. He has also done live shows where he has covered “Wonderwall,” and truthfully, he does a very nice job with it.