Today (February 25), Model/Actriz confirmed they are ready to release their follow-up to 2023’s Dogsbody. This May, Model/Actriz’s long-awaited sophomore album Pirouette will hit streaming services. To get supporters prepared for what is to come, Model/Actriz has shared the project’s lead single, “Cinderella.”
Similar to Model/Actriz’s thrilling sonics, “Cinderella” is an exhilarating spin on a classic fairytale. In the track’s official video, directed by Nathan Castiel, the band reimagines the children’s story about discovering love in a hopeless place.
Lead vocalist Cole Haden discussed the inspiration behind the track and their upcoming album in a statement. “‘Cinderella’ distills within it many of the objectives that would become the lifeblood of ‘Pirouette,’” they said. “We aimed to write something with an inherent brightness that differed anything we had made before, and the light that shines through the song was made not through removing darkness, but through upping the contrast.”
Watch the official video for Model/Actriz’s single “Cinderella” directed by Nathan Castiel above. Continue below to view the tracklist and cover art for Pirouette.
Model/Actriz’s 2025 Tour Dates: 2025 North American Tour
03/01 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
056 – San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop
May 8 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
May 9 – Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl
May 10 – Seattle, WA @ Madame Lou’s
May 12 – Santa Cruz, CA @ Catalyst Atrium
May 13 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Roxy
May 16 – Washington, DC @ The Atlantis
May 17 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
May 19 – Boston, MA @ Deep Cuts
May 20 – Kingston, NY @ Tubby’s
May 22 – Brooklyn, NY @ Good Room
May 31 – Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz *
June 02 – Cleveland, OH @ Globe Iron *
June 03 – Toronto, ON @ HISTORY *
* – supporting Panchiko
Pirouette is out 5/2 via True Panther + Dirty Hit. Find more information here.
Taylor Sheridan’s target audience certainly isn’t in a Sheridrought yet. The second and final 1923 season premiered over this past weekend, and eight episodes will keep that rodeo going for nearly two months.
What will come next? It won’t be the Beth and Rip show but will be The Madison, which will continue the Yellowstone saga, but none of Sheridan’s standalone series (Tulsa King, Lioness, Landman) are expected to return this year. Actually, that’s not entirely true because Mayor Of Kingstown could be back with a fourth season before 2025 ends, but what else? It’s going to be a strange year.
Let’s just say that last fall had at least four Sheridan shows releasing new weekly series, which is a sharp departure from how this year will roll out. Sheridan is as busy as ever, yet it’s simply going to be an odd several months for those who love to binge multiple Sheridan shows at once. So of course there’s a question we need to discuss.
When Will Taylor Sheridan’s The Madison Arrive On Paramount+?
As of now, Paramount+ hasn’t clarified a specific date, but the Michelle Pfeiffer and Matthew Fox-starring show should arrive in late 2025.
Earlier this year, Patrick J. Adams revealed that filming is complete after production stretched from Texas to Montana. The cast further includes Beau Garrett, Amiah Miller, Kevin Zegers, and Elle Chapman.
The show’s sparse description promises a “heartfelt study of grief and human connection following a New York City family in the Madison River valley of central Montana.” We’ll be watching for a release date, but for now, Sheridanland is full of mystery.
That movie will bring Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan’s senseis together to train a new “Karate Kid,” portrayed by Ben Wang, who beat out thousands of others in a global casting call. Will there be more on the TV side, though? Creators Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg haven’t been shy over the years about mentioning possible spin offs like a Miyagi-centered prequel, but has anything changed or been greenlit since that time?
Not yet. While speaking with Entertainment Weekly, however, the trio clarified that no clarity exists yet. Said Schlossberg, “We’ve been working on lots of different ideas and waiting for things to be official.” Heald also offered, “We’re definitely closer, but we can’t say anything yet.”
When quizzed further by EW‘s Kristen Baldwin about whether a “Binary Brothers” spin off could be greenlit and revolve around Jacob Bertrand’s Eli “Hawk” Moskowitz and Gianni DeCenzo’s Demetri as they take on Cal Tech, the response seemed telling. Maybe?
“It’s like she stole our computer!” Hurwitz marvels. Heald agrees, saying, “That may or may not be something we’ve already talked about.” Continues Hurwitz, “There may actually be a document, a very thorough document, that says what you just said.”
That seems feasible, actually. And come to think of it, I posed a (far less eloquent) question on the subject a few years ago about Hawk and Dimitri opening their own dojo, and Jacob Bertrand was down: “Yeah! Hawk could punch all the kids in the face, and Dimitri could run the money.”
Thankfully, Hawk has since become less of a villain and a menace, and Bertrand has also told us, “I love getting to work with Gianni [DeCenzo], and I love the relationship that Demetri and Hawk have, and the whole binary-brothers relationship.” Make it happen, please, Netflix.
One of the greatest basketball players of all-time is officially calling it a career, as Diana Taurasi announced in an interview with TIME that she would not be returning for a 21st season with the Phoenix Mercury. Taurasi opted against the farewell tour, instead letting her body tell her it was time to walk away when January 1 arrived and she just didn’t feel the drive to begin her usual work ramping up for the season.
“I just didn’t have it in me,” Taurasi told TIME. “That was pretty much when I knew it was time to walk away. …Mentally and physically, I’m just full. That’s probably the best way I can describe it. I’m full and I’m happy.”
Taurasi has a strong claim to the GOAT title in women’s basketball. She won three national titles at UConn, three WNBA titles with the Mercury, six EuroLeague titles, and six Olympic gold medals. She’s the all-time leading scorer in WNBA history with 10,646 points, more than 3,000 clear of second place. She made 14 All-WNBA teams (10 first-team), won Rookie of the Year in 2004, the league’s MVP award in 2009, and two Finals MVP awards. There have been better peaks but no player has sustained excellence like Taurasi, who averaged 14.9 points per game at 42 years old this past season.
Finally, after all those years, including 11 seasons overlapping between WNBA seasons and EuroLeague seasons in Russia and Turkey (she sat out the 2015 season after being paid to by her Russian team, UMMC Ekaterinburg), Taurasi is ready for the next chapter of her life. She told TIME she would shift her attention to her family, with her wife and two children, but that she wasn’t fully certain what was next for her.
“That’s the question that I still don’t have an answer for,” said Taurasi. “I really enjoy taking my kids to school, being home when they’re home, not leaving for a week at a time.”
There will undoubtedly be plenty of opportunities for Taurasi to remain part of the game of basketball, whether with a team, the league, or a broadcaster, but for right now she’s planning on taking a “sabbatical” and for the first time in more than 25 years, we won’t be able to watch one of basketball’s greatest competitors play the game.
Sometimes the best new R&B can be hard to find, but there are plenty of great rhythm-and-blues tunes to get into if you have the time to sift through the hundreds of newly released songs every week. So that R&B heads can focus on listening to what they love in its true form, we’ll be offering a digest of the best new R&B songs that fans of the genre should hear every Friday.
Since the last update of this weekly R&B column, we’ve received plenty of music and news from the genre’s artists.
Drake and PartyNextDoor’s Some Sexy Songs 4 U album debuted at No. 1 and Leon Thomas stopped by NPR’s office for a silky smooth Tiny Desk concert. Chloe and her labels, Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records, were named in a lawsuit for copyright infringement, while Kali Uchis said she “turned in” her follow-up to Orquîdeas. The Roots Picnic announced their 2025 festival lineup featuring D’Angelo, Miguel, Tems, Kaytranada, Elmiene, and more.
Here are the new music releases you need to listen to:
Coco Jones — “Taste”
Coco Jones is finally gearing up to release her debut album. The singer announced Why Not More? with its third single, “Taste.” The track samples Britney Spears’ “Toxic” and joins Jones’ previous singles “Here We Go (Uh Oh)” and “Most Beautiful Design” with Future as records to be heard on Why Not More? The album is due for release on April 25.
Fridayy — “February ’23”
Joining Coco Jones with an upcoming album is Fridayy, who announced his second album Some Days I’m Good, Some Days I’m Not. The project will be released on February 28, and ahead of its arrival, Fridayy released “February ’23.” The record documents the hardships and blessings that Fridayy encountered during his rise to fame.
Chxrry22 — “Just Like Me”
Ahead of her gig as an opening act for FLO’s North American tour, XO Records singer Chxrry22 returns with “Just Like Me.” The singer’s charisma and confidence spills all over the song’s bubbly production. The song joins “Poppin Out (Mistakes)” as recent singles that could land on a future EP or full-length project from Chxrry22.
Nao — Jupiter
Nearly three years after she released her third album, Nao is back with her fourth LP Jupiter. The new full-length project delivers 11 songs that Nao says makes up “an album of hope, joy, and trust, of embracing expansion after struggle, of letting go and stepping into something greater.” She adds, “This music is a reflection of that freedom, a soundtrack for the moment when you realize the universe was always working in your favor.”
Leven Kali — “Are U Still”
Los Angeles singer Leven Kali makes his long-awaited return with “Are U Still.” The new single is a funky offering from Kali, who looks for confirmation of a passionate love from his partner.
Terrace Martin — “Full Speed” Feat. DRAM & ASAP Ferg
The great Terrace Martin kicks off his 2025 campaign with another R&B record to soothe the world. “Full Speed” pairs him beside DRAM and ASAP Ferg as the singer and rapper showcase their ability to successfully shoot their shot and score the attention of a woman they desire.
Jastin Martin — “28 Degrees In Houston”
Houston singer Jastin Martin delivers a timestamp record for hometown, with a different spin. “28 Degrees In Houston” focuses on a rare cold day in the Lone Star State and Martin’s burning desire for her partner’s presence.
Durand Bernarr — Bloom
Following last year’s En Route, Cleveland singer Durand Bernarr delivers his third album Bloom. Bernarr’s captivating voice anchors the album, which is a study in transformation. “This album is about growth—discovering love beyond romance, cultivating self-acceptance, and thriving in the spaces that allow us to bloom,” Bernarr said in a press release.
Che Ecru — On My Way!
Boston native Che Ecru is back with another album to continue his streak of yearly projects that dates back to 2017. Ecru delivers On My Way! complete with 13 songs straight from his creative mind as he wrote and produced the entire project.
Zeina — “Denim”
After last year’s Eastend Confessions, Brooklyn-born and Los Angeles-bred singer Zeina kicks off her 2025 year with “Denim.” The new release is both languid and ethereal, just like her previous releases, as Zeina dares a lover to come close and hold on to her for an enticing ride.
Sofia Ly — “Tear Me Down”
Bajan and Cambodian-Canadian singer-songwriter Sofia Ly delivers an emotional and vulnerable single to kick off her 2025 year with “Tear Me Down.” The track reflects on the end of a relationship, one that she believed would last much longer.
On Tuesday (February 25), the “Lucky” singer teased their new single, “Safeword,” with a video where they’re dressed in a tight leather suit while holding a leash attached to a dog-themed gimp suit. “Oh, can you take it, baby?” Halsey sings in the spiky snippet of the song. “Oh, can you handle it?”
Last year, Halsey talked to Paper about the new generation of pop stars like Chappell Roan speaking out against boundary-crossing fan behavior.
“It’s really encouraging,” they said, “because I’ve always said it for a really long time, and it’s never done well for me and some of my other peers who have spoken up about it, because the initial reaction is like, ‘Well, you don’t get to complain.’ The one thing people say a lot is, ‘You signed up for this.’ That’s tough for me, because I did. I wanted to be famous. I pursued fame, I absolutely did, but I also signed up for this when I was 19, and in good health and had no responsibilities and I had a lot of stamina and I didn’t have the same type of things to protect that I do now. I’ve changed so much. That version of me is subject to change, month to month, year to year.”
The “Safeword” video comes out on Friday, Febuary 27, at 12 pm ET.
If you’ve been on social media at all in the past 12 hours or so, you might have seen a name trending that you weren’t expecting, and haven’t seen in a while. If, like me, you clicked it out of morbid curiosity, you’d have seen rapper/part-time OnlyFans star Bhad Bhabie rapping aggressively over the instrumental from Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign’s Vultures 1 track, “Carnival,” apparently dissing fellow child celebrity-turned-rapper Alabama Barker, the daughter of the Blink-182 drummer/rap producer, Travis Barker, and stepdaughter of Kourtney Kardashian.
It’s okay if you are now wondering, “What the hell is going on here?” Here’s an explainer.
Apparently, all of this started over a dude named Le Vaughn. He and Bhad Bhabie have popped up in a plethora of tabloid stories over the past five years, but none of them describe exactly who he is or what he does outside of being her on-off boyfriend, with whom she shares a child. (I’m not gonna say “deadbeat” here, but some of those posts include reports of apparent domestic violence, so conclude what you will).
Now, supposedly, a couple of months ago, Bhad Bhabie supposedly caught him cheating on her with Alabama Barker.
While Barker initially issued an invitation to hash things out like grown-ups, things behind the scenes have clearly gone south since then. Perhaps inspired by the rancorous energy expected of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance (and missing the point entirely), Barker dropped the diss track “Cry Bhabie” on YouTube on February 6, taunting the (slightly) older rapper for her comments and her man’s wandering eye. It’s…. sigh.
Bhabie followed up today with “Ms. Whitman,” in which she accuses her foe of enjoying sloppy seconds. You can listen to it here, if you want. Maybe all this a big publicity stunt. In that case, mission accomplished — people are definitely talking about them, even if what they have to say isn’t very nice.
Sadly enough, further reports found Barker also alleging abuse, so it sounds a lot like they’d both be better off losing this guy’s number and booking a girls’ trip like in that one movie with Cameron Diaz and Kate Upton.
Indie music has grown to include so much. It’s not just music that is released on independent labels, but speaks to an aesthetic that deviates from the norm and follows its own weirdo heart. It can come in the form of rock music, pop, or folk. In a sense, it says as much about the people that are drawn to it as it does about the people that make it.
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Youth Lagoon — Rarely Do I Dream
Trevor Powers revived Youth Lagoon for one of the most disarmingly gorgeous records of 2023, Heaven Is A Junkyard. Just two years later, he’s already back with another disarmingly gorgeous record, Rarely Do I Dream. Whereas most Youth Lagoon albums orbit around Powers’ spectral piano chords, Rarely Do I Dream grounds itself in heavier textures, from the chugging guitars of opener “Neighborhood Scene” to the sawtooth lead in “Speed Freak.” Still, there’s beauty littered throughout, such as the interspersed audio of home video snippets, tying into Youth Lagoon’s legacy as a project fixated on the desolate corners of America and the stories waiting to be told within them.
Set Dressing — “Class Valedictorian”
One of the best albums of 2023 was Mandy, Indiana’s industrial opus I’ve Seen A Way. With its foreboding atmospherics and churning electronic drums, the French-English group cemented themselves as new noise-rock royalty. With Set Dressing, a side project from the band’s Scott Fair, the cacophony of Mandy, Indiana is traded in for tonal ambiance on debut single “Class Valedictorian.” Ethereal synths rise and fall like leaves caught in a gentle wind. It may be a side project, but Set Dressing’s first single hints at so much more.
Anxious — Bambi
2022’s Little Green House was one of the best emo albums of its year, and it placed Anxious at the vanguard of the most promising pop-rock bands to emerge in recent years. Call it a level up; call it an expansion of their sound; call it their growing up. Their second album, Bambi, could understandably be the recipient of any of those titles. More than anything, though, the Connecticut five-piece leans into the hooks harder than ever. Equally drawing from Bleed American, Where You Want To Be, and Blink-182’s untitled record, Bambi boasts nothing but bangers.
Porridge Radio — The Machine Starts To Sing
Every Bad occupies a unique space in the indie-rock fabric of 2020: Porridge Radio broke through to an audience forced to stay at home. While they’ve continued putting out immaculate records, the Brighton post-punk group have ultimately chosen to call it quits. Before officially breaking up, however, they’ve given us one more EP. The Machine Starts To Sing, composed of four outtakes from last year’s Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me, plays like something of an elegy. Although it feels appropriately mournful in tone, slow-paced and melancholic, Porridge Radio refuses to go out like a dud. The Machine Starts To Sing is the epitaph of a band that’ll be painfully missed.
Wishy — “Fly”
The indie-rock landscape is oversaturated with buzzy, fuzzily melodic groups mining ’90s groups like My Bloody Valentine and The Sundays. Many fall short, failing to evince a shred of originality. Then again, many of those bands aren’t Wishy. The Indiana dream-pop outfit, led by songwriting duo Kevin Krauter and Nina Pitchkites, proved their mettle with last year’s Triple Seven, their full-length debut. While on their victory lap, Wishy transports us to Planet Popstar, their forthcoming EP and pink puffball Kirby’s home planet. Lead single “Fly,” fittingly, shows them soaring. Hazy vocal harmonies, loping hand percussion, and feather-light acoustic guitars tie everything together. Even when they’re gliding above it all, Wishy sounds completely at ease.
Big Girl — “DIY God”
The nouveau pop stars are all theater kids. Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, and Olivia Rodrigo employ histrionics to elevate the sense of drama within their music. But what if punk rock also got a little theatrical? Kaitlin Pelkey, the songwriter/bandleader of Big Girl, is known for her live antics, which includes energetic backup dancers and Karen O-style beer showers. After all, she’s a DIY god, as the band’s new single proclaims. Featuring production from indie legend Justin Pizzoferrato and guitarist Crispin Swank, “DIY God” showcases an exciting new artist with pop-minded melodies, a punk ethos, and, of course, a theatrical flair.
Pictoria Vark — “Make Me A Sword”
Victoria Park, otherwise known as Pictoria Vark, began writing her second album in a similar fashion to how she approached her first: on the bass guitar. Although both Nothing Sticks and its predecessor, The Parts I Dread, begin with the same foundation, the end results are wildly different. Her debut began and ended in tracking all the parts on a laptop, but the forthcoming Nothing Sticks gets the proper studio treatment. It lives up to its bigger-better-sequel billing, her songs now expanded to suit a more extensive scope. “Make Me A Sword,” which accompanies the album announcement, starts with a sauntering bass line that slowly morphs into a fuller sound: power chords, wide-open hi-hats, wiry guitar melodies. On “Make Me A Sword,” Park’s clever songwriting takes center stage, not as one of the few cast members, but as the star of the show.
Hurray For The Riff Raff — “Pyramid Scheme”
There are many characters with a cameo in “Pyramid Scheme,” a new, one-off single from Hurray For The Riff Raff. Billy The Kid, Calamity Jane, Darby Crash, and Frida Kahlo all make appearances, but the song, of course, belongs to no one other than Alynda Segarra, the person behind the project. Fresh off the release of their excellent eighth album, The Past Is Still Alive, Segarra imbues their latest tune with that record’s iconoclastic identity, vagabond spirit, and Americana timbre.
Perfume Genius — “No Front Teeth”
For Perfume Genius’ latest single, Mike Hadreas assembles an Avengers-style cast of indie musicians. There’s producer Blake Mills, guitarist Meg Duffy (AKA Hand Habits), and guest vocalist Aldous Harding. Hadreas’ and Harding’s voices make for a pairing so perfect it’s hard to imagine how this collaboration hasn’t happened until now. Shortly after Harding’s gossamer voice enters the fold, the guitars break out into a frenzy, followed by a thwacking drum beat with rim shots and all. Glory, the next Perfume Genius album, is shaping up to be glorious indeed.
Rico Nasty — “Teethsucker (Yea3x)”
Rage rap is all the rage right now. From Playboi Carti to Ken Carson, high-octane trap beats and rumbling 808s dominate the zeitgeist. Although Rico Nasty has been a fixture of the subgenre, she has also incorporated elements of digicore, bubblegum, and alt-rock to leaven the heaviness in her music. The forthcoming Lethal, her third album, is her most moshpit-friendly work yet, but that punkish ethos coexists alongside earnest reflections on motherhood, public perception, and self-consciousness. “Teethsucker (Yea3x),” its lead single, is an early-album summation of Lethal: adrenalized flows partly rapped and partly screamed; downtuned, distorted guitars; seismic, Earth-shattering drums. She may be wrestling with the idea of Rico Nasty the character, but the rapper is not a monolith. “Teethsucker (Yea3x)” marks her reinvention.
Bartees Strange is a few days removed from the release of his latest album, Horror. Soon, he’ll be taking his new batch of songs out on the road: Today (February 25), Bartees announced a run of North American tour dates.
The trek kicks off in Boston on April 23 before wrapping up in Toronto on May 23. It’ll also hit cities like Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Nashville, Atlanta, Houston, Austin, Dallas, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, and Detroit. The tour features support from Ekko Astral, Tré Burt, and Sloppy Jane.
Tickets go on sale on February 28 at 10 a.m. local time via Bartees’ website.
Check out the tour dates below.
Bartees Strange’ 2025 Tour Dates
04/23 — Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
04/25 — Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar
04/26 — Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg
04/27 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry
04/29 — Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall
05/01 — Nashville, TN @ The Basement East
05/02 — Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
05/04 — Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
05/05 — Austin, TX @ The Parish
05/06 — Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
05/09 — Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
05/11 — San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
05/13 — Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
05/14 — Vancouver, BC @ Hollywood Theatre
05/15 — Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
05/17 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Block Party
05/18 — Denver, CO @ Meow Wolf
05/20 — Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line
05/21 — Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
05/22 — Detroit, MI @ The Shelter
05/23 — Toronto, ON @ The Axis Club
The 2025 NBA All-Star Game introduced a new format, as the league got rid of the normal four-quarter basketball game in favor of a four-team mini-tournament that featured three games to 40. The basketball was pretty good, particularly the first two games, and seemed to move things in the right direction in terms of getting guys to be more competitive in the All-Star Game.
The problem was everything in between, as there was far more non-basketball activity happening on the court than actual hoops, which is an issue for a basketball exhibition. For the 2026 edition, the league will have a new broadcast partner in NBC, and according to Sports Business Journal the two sides are already exploring their options for next year’s event in Los Angeles. It sounds like the mini-tournament could get another year to try and prove itself, but with some tweaks.
One idea floated to SBJ was making it two teams of American stars, one international team, and a team of snubs instead of the Rising Stars winners.
Sources said one possibility for 2026 is a four-team tournament consisting of one squad of International All-Stars, which would conceivably be Antetokounmpo, Wembanyama, Nikola Jokic, Luca Doncic, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Joel Embiid, Pascal Siakam and Kyrie Irving (who will have Australian citizenship). Two other teams would be made of U.S.-born all-stars, and a fourth team — instead of a Rising Stars winner — could be a team of All-Star snubs, who’d have everything to prove. This year that might have included Domantas Sabonis, Devin Booker, Tyrese Haliburton, De’Aaron Fox, Jimmy Butler and Tyrese Maxey.
Silver has never been shy about liking a USA vs. World concept, but it doesn’t really work for teams of 12 as there are more American players than international players (even if at the very top the league’s MVP races have been dominated by international players in recent years). However, doing the mini-tournament allows them to make a smaller international team and have two USA squads. There is still the issue of how to create a fourth team. This year they went with the Rising Stars winners, which upset some NBA players that they got to play in the All-Star Game, but it did result in the best game because those young guys were hungry and the vets were determined not to lose.
While one would think the alternative would be to expand the rosters (moving to 14 in each conference would allow them to do four teams of seven players), the NBA is instead considering a team of “snubs”, hoping to replicate the kind of motivation the Rising Stars had. While fascinating, the idea of a snubs team leads to a few questions that the NBA would need to consider before moving forward with this as an actual plan.
Would the Snubs have a chance to steal All-Star status from the first team they face if they win?
The way to get guys to agree to be on the Snubs team would be to let them play for All-Star status. If you made it so that if they won that first round they get to take the All-Star designations from their opponents, you might have something. The All-Stars wouldn’t like it, but also, win the game. That matchup, at the very least, would have some real juice as guys play for those All-Star bonuses.
If not, why would anyone want to be on the Snubs team if they are not considered All-Stars?
Being an All-Star is an honor and one players value, but I have a hard time imagining a bunch of guys that just missed out are going to be really excited to pass on a vacation in order to play in an All-Star Game without being All-Stars themselves. If they are considered All-Stars (which matters for contractual bonuses), you can’t call them Snubs and you lose the motivation factor. If that’s the case, you should just expand the rosters.
How does a Snubs team complicate the injury replacement issue?
Every year there are a couple All-Stars that can’t play due to injury, and that means a couple of snubs end up on All-Star rosters (this year we saw Trae Young and Kyrie Irving get spots). However, if you have a team of snubbed players then you have to dig even deeper for replacements on that team if you’re elevating those guys to the actual rosters. Coming up with eight snubs is already going to get a bit tricky some years, but once you get to 10 or more due to injuries, it could get real murky.
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