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The Los Angeles Clippers shook up their backcourt at the trade deadline. The team parted ways with both Reggie Jackson and John Wall and brought in Eric Gordon and Bones Hyland, and while it’s easy to argue Los Angeles got better because of these moves, the Clippers’ point guard situation is now, essentially, Terance Mann and whatever playmaking Paul George and Kawhi Leonard can do.

If they turn to the buyout market to bolster their point guard rotation, the most prominent name — and one the team has been linked to — is going to be Russell Westbrook, assuming he gets bought out after his trade to the Utah Jazz. We’ll see if that ends up happening, but one thing was made clear on Friday night: Paul George would love a reunion with his former Oklahoma City Thunder teammate.

“I mean if there’s, you know, somebody out there: Russell,” George said when asked about potentially filling a roster spot with a point guard, per Ohm Youngmisuk of ESPN. “If it makes sense and obviously it goes with our team, we’re all for it. You know, we need a point guard. But you know, [at] the same [time], I think we’re good as well. If nothing happened, we got enough in this locker room to be able to make it work.

“But it would definitely improve our team if we had that traditional point guard to kind of get us in things and make the game easy. So hopefully Russell sees this and we figure something out.”

George isn’t concerned about Westbrook struggling to fit in, as he believes the team’s spacing would give him more than enough room to operate. Marcus Morris took a similar approach to adding Westbrook, saying that he doesn’t believe he got a fair shake during his time with the Lakers and that “we need the personality.”

“He hasn’t had an opportunity to play on a team where, like, he could be himself and be able to play freely,” Morris said. “Playing with the Lakers, it’s like media, media, media. And from the outside looking in, like every time something bad went wrong — Russell Westbrook. Nobody else was really getting no blame. And it just kept spiraling down.”

Earlier in the day on Friday, Jazz general manager Justin Zanik expressed that a Westbrook buyout is not a foregone conclusion.

What hasn’t George Santos lied about? The freshman GOP representative has been caught red-handed making up nonsense about his job history, his education, his heritage, even his mother’s death. Looks like he’s still at it.

As per Newsweek, Santos went on Newsmax, where host Greg Kelly gently pressed him on his super sketchy campaign finances, asking how he acquired the cash to make big loans, which Santos had claimed were “obtained through legitimate reasons and channels.” His response was bizarre, even for him.

“Devolder Organization was founded in 2001 when I stepped away from my previous employment,” he replied, “and I decided to go on my own to do exactly what I did for other companies for years which is capital introduction relationship management of high-net-worth individuals.”

One problem: Santos was (allegedly!) born on July 22, 1988. If he founded a company (which shares a name with his one of his aliases) in 2001, he would have been 12 or 13 years old. The claim inspired Newsweek to publish the surreal sentence, “Newsweek has contacted Rep. Santos asking for proof he founded the Devolder Organization while in middle school.”

As for the Devolder Organization, it wasn’t incorporated until 2021. Maybe he was just two decades off. It happens.

It’s yet another creative whopper from a guy whose fibs go big and go small. But this one probably isn’t going to help that investigation into where his campaign finances came from.

(Via Newsweek)

Natasha Lyonne is bigger now than she’s ever been, and she’s been around a long time. In her youth, she was your sort-of-typical young actress, going up for the kind of roles every aspiring young actress goes up for. She was a semi-average teen in American Pie, even though she recently admitted she couldn’t relate to that scene. She even could have wound up on some of the ‘90s more wholesome teen shows, had she actually gotten the roles.

While appearing on a recent episode of Watch What Happens Live, host Andy Cohen asked her to name one role she lost to a fellow actress that she thought should have been hers.

“Gosh, there’s a lot,” she replied. “I mean, how far back do you want to go?” She then started listing roles. “Well, I didn’t get Six or Blossom [on Blossom]. I didn’t get Sabrina the Teenage Witch.” These prompted gasps from both Cohen as well as fellow guest Alison Brie. So she added another: Curly Sue, the 1991 John Hughes movie in which she would have played a street smart, homeless con artist. (That role went to future singer Alisan Porter.)

So Lyonne didn’t get Blossom or Sabrina. But she did get 1993’s Dennis the Menace and later one of her finer roles, Slums of Beverly Hills. And now she’s making her own popular shows and busting murderers on Poker Face.

You can watch Lyonne’s Watch What Happens Live appearance in the video below.

(Via Entertainment Weekly)

The Memphis Grizzlies took a measured approach at the trade deadline. The team eschewed a gigantic move in an effort to go all-in in the Western Conference and instead got in on a multi-team deal that landed them Luke Kennard from the Los Angeles Clippers.

As it turns out, the team attempted to take a huge swing but could not pull it off. According to Michael Scotto of HoopsHype, the Grizzlies reached out to the Brooklyn Nets in an effort to acquire Mikal Bridges and offered four first-round picks, although Scotto notes that “it’s unclear if the picks included protections or not.”

Brooklyn acquired Bridges earlier in the week in the deal that sent Kevin Durant and TJ Warren to the Phoenix Suns. Bridges was part of a package that included Cam Johnson, Jae Crowder, and five first-round picks. Four of those are unprotected in 2023, 2025, 2027, and 2029, while the fifth is a 2028 pick swap. Brooklyn was willing to move one member of that trio of players in an effort to continue to rebuild their war chest of draft picks — Crowder was moved to the Milwaukee Bucks in a three-team deal that landed the Nets two second-round selections.

It’s not hard to see why Memphis would covet a player like Bridges, who is in the midst of his best season as a professional. Bridges appeared in 56 games with the Suns this year and averaged 17.2 points, 4.3 rebounds, 3.6 assists, and 1.2 steals in 36.4 minutes per game while connecting on 38.7 percent of his attempts from three.

Britney Spears isn’t here for rumors or false narratives. Earlier this week, she took to Instagram to express her sadness about rumors that she almost died due to substance abuse and mental health issues.

Yesterday (February 10), Spears addressed these rumors once again in a new video shared to Instagram. Although this time, she appeared to be in good spirits. In the video, she seen looking fabulous in a pink blouse and white mini skirt, with a matching boa.

“I didn’t die, people,” she said in the clip. “I didn’t die. I’m here. I’m alive. I’m very much alive and well. I’ve got my fur here. You see I’m feeling myself? Feeling myself!”

In the post’s caption, she revealed she doesn’t currently have a management team, nor does she plan to ever have one again. She also revealed she’s having fun showing off her fashions.

You can see the full post below.

This week in the news it said that I almost died and that I have a manager and “doctors” !!! I don’t have a management team nor will I ever again in my life !!! I don’t have “medical doctors” !!! I take Prozac for depression and that’s about it !!! I’m an extremely boring person !!! It frustrates me to know that any news outlet would say any of this !!! It’s worse than a cruel joke because people actually believe this stuff and all of my efforts in getting better with my little routine of prayer and therapy seems to not count for anything when people can say things that are incredibly wrong !!! Anyways change of the subject … enough drama … I’m into diamond gowns and funky fashion at the moment !!! Good Morning !!!!!

New Karol G music is on the way. Just a week after releasing her steamy single “X Si Volvemos” with Romeo Santos, the Colombian superstar has revealed the cover art and release date for her hotly-anticipated fourth album, Mañana Sera Bonito.

The singer shared the news via Instagram, where she shared the album artwork, a colorful featuring vibrant animations of the sun, the moon, smiling animals, and flowers.

“La verdad, no puedo creer que me aguante tanto para revelar esta fecha y que hoy por fin les puedo contar,” she said in the Instagram post’s caption, which means, “The truth is, I can’t believe it took so long to reveal this date, and that today, I can finally tell you.”

While it’s been a long wait, as she released the album’s lead single “Provenza” last April, it looks like we won’t have to wait much longer, as Mañana Sera Bonito is set to arrive before the end of the month.

You can check out the cover art and tracklist below.

1. “Mientras Me Curo Del Cora”
2. “X Si Volvemos” feat. Romeo Santos
3. “Pero Tú” feat. Quevedo
4. “Besties”
5. “Gucci Los Paños”
6. “TQG”
7. “Tus Gafitas”
8. “Ojos Ferrari” feat. Justin Quiles & Angel Dior
9. “Mercurio”
10. “Gatúbela” feat. Maldy
11. “Karmika” feat. Bad Gyal & Sean Paul
12. “Provenza”
13. “Carolina”
14. “Dañamos La Amistad” feat. Sech
15. “Amargura”
16. “Cairo” feat. Ovy On The Drums
17. “Mañana Sera Bonito” feat. Carla Morrison

Mañana Sera Bonito is out 2/24 via Universal Music Latino. You can pre-save it here.

Before she was called in to play the latest victim love interest of Joe Goldberg on Netflix’s buzzed-about drama, You, Tati Gabrielle just wanted to take a vacation. A long one.

She’d spent the past couple of years living through Armageddons and temporal anomalies on the CW’s sci-fi series The 100, and honing her magic as one of the dark, Satan-worshipping Weird Sisters on Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. She was due for a break. But then, when the opportunity to play one of the few women who survive Penn Badgley’s murder-happy, love-struck-stalking sociopath comes knocking, you can’t just say no.

As Marienne, a Black single mother and recovering addict living in an affluent California suburb that’s so “coastal elite” you’re dying to reach out and burst its bubble, Gabrielle joined the show when it was in what fans suspected might be its final act. After all, how many times can we watch a good-looking white man kill women and still justify swooning over him? Marienne was different from Joe’s past obsessions – broken yet confident, driven by a purpose (to reunite with her daughter), and dreaming of an escape from Madre Linda. They had nothing and everything in common but when Marienne escaped to Paris with her daughter in tow while Joe literally set fire to his old life, fans thought maybe, just maybe, this is the one who got away.

Season four – which is split into two parts – is here to correct us on both accounts. Not only is this show not done with reinventing itself, but Joe is certainly not finished with Marienne. We chatted with Gabrielle about returning to You, her relationship red flags, and why Penn Badgley is so damn good at playing a psychopath.

Were you surprised to get the call back this season?

I actually knew when I signed on in season three that I’d be coming back for season four. But they didn’t give me anything about what season four was going to be. So I spent the year thereafter just trying to see if I could get inside of [showrunner] Sera Gamble’s mind. She told me two months before we started filming season four and I was like, “Of all the ideas that I tried to put together, I would’ve never [thought of] this.”

What’s Marienne been doing since season three ended?

So we start season four about a year later and I think that for that year, Marienne was just trying to get away from Madre Linda and get away from that life. I’m sure that she probably read that Joe and Love both died — that murder-suicide situation. [She’s] just trying to be in Paris and start a new life and just push all of that into the past and forget about it. Which is why I think seeing Joe brought up a lot of emotions. If she wasn’t already over it by the time she actually sees Joe, I think that it definitely took a profound amount of time for her to process and reconcile from any of that. She never got the closure of knowing if any of the things that Love said were true, never got to say goodbye. I do think that she did, of course, really think that he was dead. Because despite what Love told her, there was no evidence yet for her that Joe would’ve faked his death. The relationship they had was the first time I think that she felt seen, and probably the purest love that she had had up until that point. So it’s more heartbreak and mourning.

Did you and Penn have to change how you acted against one another now that Marienne knows the truth about Joe?

Penn and I definitely built a lot of chemistry and solidarity through season three. I think there was this unspoken trust between us in that way, and there wasn’t a lot of discussion over what we were going to do. Mostly it was just me and Penn trusting each other to bring what we felt our characters [would feel] and go from there. I think it particularly helped when we got later in the season that we didn’t have conversations about it because it made for some very real-time moments.

Penn’s very likable on-screen. Do you have to remind yourself when watching him work that the character he’s playing is actually a psychopath?

I never have to. Penn, he’s such an incredible actor and this amazing thing happens when he is Joe, where his eyes go … his eyes change completely. I’ve always been a very sensitive person to just spirits, energies, and things of that nature. So when I’m looking into the eyes of this person … the face never matters. It’s the eyes. There is something there that is chilling.

Like when a shark’s eyes glaze over?

Exactly.

This season especially, you have to catch yourself because it’s easy to root for him to get away with everything.

I know that audiences are definitely affected by that. I’m like, “Penn Badgley is hot, Joe Goldberg is not.” It is a hard thing to get by. I think that Penn does so well at creating such a layered character and he makes it so that Joe wears his wounds, which gives you empathy all the time — like, “Well, he’s just broken. We can help him. He can be fixed.”

What are your personal relationship red flags?

I mean if I’m seeing somebody, particularly like Joe, and they’re checking out a lot, I very much like to ask the question, “Oh, what are you thinking about?” And if that question can never be answered, that’s my red flag. I don’t mind that you’re spacey. Okay, because I get spacey sometimes. Fine. But if you are either hiding or can’t tell me where you’re going when that happens?

I always look for signs of maturity. All women realize at some point in their life that men mature slower than women do. If you’re almost 30 years old and still talking about small bean stuff, about the drama your bros are having with girls, or why you can’t make more money because you have been sitting on the couch playing video games. Things like that. I’m like, “What are you doing?”

Joe’s internal monologue this season would like fans to believe he’s an empathetic character but do you think he’s really capable of empathy?

The only real version of empathy that we see from Joe is his empathy with children. I believe that’s a staple in the knowledge around psychopaths — that psychopaths can care for anyone or anything that they deem weaker than them. And we’ve seen that with Joe every season, from Paco to Ellie to Henry, and even for Juliet. So I think that there’s a version of empathy in there, but most of it is fantasy, it’s learned. Because a psychopath can learn empathy, they can learn what that’s supposed to be or what that looks like. That’s why they’re able to reflect it back at whoever, whether for manipulation or just to move through the world. But no, I don’t think that he actually has a grasp on it.

You’re also in Netflix’s “choose-which-way-you-watch” heist thriller, Kaleidoscope so let’s set the record straight: What’s your preferred color order?

I almost hate telling people my favorite order because I don’t want them to then go and think that there is a ‘best’ order. I like the conversation around everybody getting their different story. But my favorite order is the rainbow order, which is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, pink, and white. I think the best starting point is red, no matter what way you go.

‘You’ Season 4 Part 1 is currently streaming on Netflix.

Macklemore is set to drop his new album, Ben, next month. Ahead of the album’s impending release, the rapper stopped by The Kelly Clarkson Show, where he opened up about the creation of the deeply personal record.

During his interview, Macklemore revealed that much of Ben is inspired by his relapse, which took place in the summer of 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It was an intense time. The life that I knew, just like all of our lives, was stripped away. I’m used to a certain schedule of touring, of being gone, of being home, of recovery and being able to go to a physical 12-step meeting,” he said. “That stopped during COVID. Eventually, I’m on Instagram while being on Zoom and I’m just not really paying attention to the meetings. Eventually — and this is what happens when I don’t prioritize my recovery — if I don’t put that first, then I will lose everything that I’m putting in front of it. That’s what happens.”

Macklemore has long been open about his struggles with alcoholism and substance abuse. He first checked into rehab in August 2008. He has previously revealed he relapsed once in 2011 and again in 2014.

Today, he has been sober for nearly three years, and while he said that his relapse, which only lasted a few weeks, played a role in the making of this album, he does not want to have to rely on painful or traumatic moments to create his art.

“I think that pain is a catalyst for great art,” he said. “I don’t want to inflict the pain on myself anymore to make art. It’s not like I need to self-sabotage in order to create, but I think that it created some darker, more honest, and vulnerable moments on the album.”

You can check out the interview above.

Ben is out 3/3 via Bendo LLC. You can pre-save it here.

Louis Tomlinson has officially announced that he’s releasing his new All Of Those Voices documentary next month. Directed by Charlie Lightening and produced with 78 Productions and Trafalgar Releasing, fans will get the opportunity to catch it in select theaters on March 22.

“This has been something I’ve been working on for years, I’m really excited to finally put it out into the world,” Tomlinson shared on Instagram. “I’ve said it a million times but I’m lucky enough to have the greatest fans an artist could wish for, and as they always go above and beyond for me, I wanted to share my story ‘in my own words’.”

“From the highs of superstardom to the lows of personal tragedy, Louis’ story is one of resilience and determination. The film explores his journey from a member of One Direction to a solo artist, capturing the challenges and triumphs that defined his path,” the announcement on the official website reads. “The film shows a side of Louis that fans have never seen before, as he grapples with the pressures of fame and the weight of his own voice.”

Tickets for the All Of Those Voices screening go on sale starting February 22 at 9 a.m. ET, along with a list of the included theaters.

More information on Louis Tomlinson’s documentary is available here.

Paramore appeared for a cover story in NME in honor of their brand new album, This Is Why, dropping today. After several years, the band members opened up about everything from their inspirations and struggles during recent shows to serving as a guiding light to a new class of musicians.

Throughout the piece, Hayley Williams also opened up about how different things were in the early-aughts emo scene, despite people’s tendency to look back on it nostalgically.

“It’s revisionist history on a less heavy topic,” Williams said. “People look back with these rose-tinted glasses. They talk about the good and forget the rest. It was an alternative scene for a reason – it was weird.”

As a younger band fronted by a woman, Paramore and Williams also had a completely different experience, compared to the other bands surrounding them.

“Oh, my God. I hope no young female experiences the sh*t that I experienced,” she added. “When we were teenagers, the way forward was to be tough all the time. Our entire scene was contributing to sh*tty treatment of women and anything that wasn’t masculine. We were out on Warped Tour, this little Fueled By Ramen band acting like a hardcore band on stage. It was like if I didn’t spit further, I felt like someone was going to throw me out.”

Because of this, Williams continues to shine a light on other young stars, including Billie Eilish, PinkPantheress, and more inspired by Paramore’s decades-long discography.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.