As you might recall, things didn’t end well for the Los Angeles Clippers last season. The team that many considered the favorites to take home the 2020 title instead imploded on itself, allowing the Nuggets to come back from a 3-1 series lead in the West semifinals and sending the organization reeling into the offseason.
What followed were rumors about discord within their locker room, which only ramped up as certain key members opted to take their talents elsewhere in free agency. Chief among them was Montrezl Harrell, who had made no secret about his frustration with the team’s dynamics and decided to join forces with their L.A. rivals instead.
It all makes for compelling drama, and in their first preseason matchup on Friday night, it didn’t disappoint. First up was Kawhi Leonard, he could be heard screaming loudly after Harrell missed a jump shot in the first half.
Beverley was particularly taken aback by news of Harrell’s signing with their locker-room rivals, and given his penchant for all manner of trolling, we wouldn’t have expected anything less. Harrell and the Lakers, however, would get the last laugh, as they walked away with the 87-81 win.
This being merely a preseason game, we can’t wait to see what levels of animosity they’ll have in store for us when the regular season starts.
The holidays are the season for giving. And what could be a better gift this year than a nice, tall, pint of seasonally appropriate beer? Sure, a few things come to mind — the recipe for a FDA-approved COVID vaccine, a PS5, etc. — but not many under ten bucks.
As we race towards one of the strangest Christmases on record, you’re probably keen to pair your seasonal chores with a nice beer or two. We’re talking classic Christmas beers so tasty that even Krampus would approve. To find the best options, we reached out to the experts behind the bar for their favorite seasonal brews.
Check their answers below!
Guinness Imperial Gingerbread Stout
Guinness
Samantha Casuga, head bartender of Dead Rabbit in New York City
Guinness is my go-to. I drink Guinness year-round, but it especially hits during the holidays. To me, whatever drink brings me great memories of being around my friends and family is what I want to be having. Even with its rounded nutty notes, and dark chocolate flavors, I find Guinness endlessly refreshing, and it gives me that creamy mouthfeel I crave when indulging in a holiday treat. Total yum.
If you want to get extra seasonal with it, grab one of the brand’s new Gingerbread Spiced Stouts with complex gingerbread, cinnamon, and coffee flavors.
Prairie Seasick Crocodile
Seth Falvo, bartender at The Hotel Zamora in St. Pete Beach, Florida
If you’re tired of the same generic Christmas ales and stouts, then Prairie Artisan Ales has exactly what you need in Seasick Crocodile. A sour ale with plenty of cranberries, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg throughout, Seasick Crocodile has all the familiar vibes and flavors of a Christmas beer while still managing to be unique. It’s surprisingly refreshing, given how tart it is, and the sour notes will cut the more aggressive flavors of your favorite holiday dishes quite nicely.
Bell’s Christmas Ale is a favorite, mainly from it being a staple for me in the Midwest. Honey and spice without too much heaviness make this great for pairing with holiday snacks.
Sam Adams Winter Lager. Infused flavors of orange and spices bring out the best in this Amber Lager. This bock is crisp, refreshing, and perfect for the holidays.
It’s almost a tradition at this point, and maybe this is calling out for a cool, super small production craft beer, but the Anchor Christmas Ale has always delivered. It’s got nice cocoa notes and some baking spices that serve it well. It’s great for a warming sip during the holidays.
Great Lakes Brewing Co’s Christmas Ale. It is a balanced honeyed ale accented with all the tinsel and decorations that the Christmas baking spices can add.
Writer’s Picks:
Troegs Mad Elf
It’s not the holidays without that ale brewed with honey and cherries. It’s 11 percent ABV and filled with hints of chocolate, sweet cherries, and holiday spices designed to warm you up whether you’re naughty or nice.
Avery Brewing Old Jubilation
This English strong ale is filled with nutty sweetness, rich malts, and subtle spices. This winter warmer has been produced since 1997 and remains a holiday must-have to this day.
St. Bernardus Christmas Ale
The holidays aren’t complete without this classic Christmas ale. It’s a creamy, smooth, Belgian quadruple, with flavors of caramel, sugar cookies, and baking spices. The perfect addition to any (socially distant) holiday gathering.
Bad Bunny has had a wildly prolific year. He released El Último Tour Del Mundo last week, his third album of 2020, which boasted features from Rosalía and Jhay Cortez. But for the video alongside his track “Hoy Cobré,” Bad Bunny decided to tap a different musician to make a cameo: Snoop Dogg.
Bad Bunny’s “Hoy Cobré” visual opens with the singer hitchhiking on the back of a semi-truck through a dusty desert. He hops off the ride once he spots a remote clothing store in the middle of a sandbank. Once he opens the door, he takes a long drag from his vape before a security guard stops him to say that the store has a no-smoking policy. Bad Bunny puts up a fight and the security guard calls over the manger, who happens to be Snoop Dogg. Of course, Snoop Dogg has absolutely no problem with the singer lighting up indoors.
The video arrives after Bad Bunny’s El Último Tour Del Mundo earned him an impressive accolade. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, becoming the first-ever Spanish language album to reach the top spot.
Watch Bad Bunny’s “Hoy Cobré” video above.
El Último Tour Del Mundo is out now via Rimas. Get it here.
City Girls welcomed Lakeyah to the Quality Control family by hopping on a track off the rapper’s LP Time’s Up. On order to celebrate Friday’s release of Time’s Up, JT and Young Miami got together with Lakeyah to film a vibrant visual alongside their “Female Goat” remix.
The visual opens with Lakeyah delivering her verse with an actual goat in tow. The camera then moves to JT to allow the rapper to flex her flow in front of a vibrant backdrop before closing out with Young Miami’s confident bars.
In other City Girls news, JT recently found herself in hot water when a series of past problematic tweets resurfaced from her account. Some of the tweets dated all the way back to 2011 and saw the rapper making fun of everything from R. Kelly’s alleged sex abuse to Osama Bin Laden.
Of course, people tried to cancel JT but instead of posting a screenshot from her notes app or going on Instagram Live to make an apology, the rapper took a different approach. JT deleted her account in order to scrub her Twitter history and then the next day, she returned. After simply tweeting “hi,” one fan noticed that JT had made her profile photo a screenshot of 2016 viral video of a man singing an apology in court.
It’s been a bit of a whirlwind for Doc Rivers this offseason. His departure from the Clippers was inevitable after they blew a 3-1 series lead to the Nuggets in Orlando, but he wasn’t unemployed for long, as the Sixers swept in immediately and made him their new head coach.
Naturally, he’s had to answer a lot of questions about the Clippers’ collapse, particularly the persistent rumors about their locker-room dynamics, but with the new season just around the corner, there are more pressing concerns regarding how he plans to turn the Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons pairing into a legitimate championship duo.
One thing’s for certain, it’s not going to be by suddenly transforming Simmons into a shooter. Simmon’s well-documented struggles to make shots anywhere outside the paint with any sort of consistency have long been a talking point when discussing Philly’s title chances, but Doc is apparently not buying into the hype.
“It think it’s overdone,” he said. “I couldn’t care less about Ben’s shooting. And I’m being honest. I want Ben to be a player. Ben’s a great basketball player. Ben makes plays. Ben has vision that only 5-10 guys in the NBA have. And he has it with size. We won a world championship in Boston with Rajon Rondo, who they quote-unquote said you can’t win with a non-shooting guard on the floor. Well, we didn’t have a problem winning at all that year.”
It’s a salient point, although the NBA hadn’t fully embraced the three-point revolution at that point, and the Celtics had other shooters surrounding Rondo, which is a problem area that the Sixers attempted to address this offseason by bringing in Seth Curry and Danny Green.
Still, Doc has plenty of work ahead to turn a very talented team into true title contenders, not to mention overcome the growing perception about his coaching ability after the disastrous way things ended in Los Angeles this fall.
Dave Grohl is celebrating Hanukkah this year the best way he knows how — through music. Earlier this week, Grohl decided that Christmas music gets too much attention around this time of the year. So in order place emphasis on the Jewish holiday, Grohl decided that he was going to team up with producer Greg Kurstin for The Hanukkah Sessions where they plan to cover songs by popular Jewish artists for eight days in a row.
Grohl and Kurstin kicked off The Hanukkah Sessions Thursday with an electric cover of Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” after noting the trio are the “only Rock and Roll Hall Of Famers with a lyric about kugel.” But for the second day of Hanukkah, the two musicians decided to pick a song from a hip-hop contemporary: Drake.
With Grohl on drums and Kurstin manning the keyboard, the two delivered a buoyant cover of Drake’s 2016 Views track “Hotline Bling.” Sharing the cover with a tongue-in-cheek statement, Grohl mentioned that Drake has never hid the fact that he was Jewish so that “a generation of Jewish parents could tell their kids ‘if Drake took the time to study for HIS Bar Mitzvah, you can too.’”
You might be surprised to learn that this superstar is… Canadian. He’s never hidden the fact that he was M.O.T. so a generation of Jewish parents could tell their kids “if @Drake took the time to study for HIS Bar Mitzvah, you can too.” Twitterverse, challah at your boy! pic.twitter.com/eyMyuNs5WP
Republicans in Texas are openly encouraging its members to succeed from the United States and form a new “Union” on Friday after another lawsuit trying to overturn the presidential election results in Donald Trump’s favor was flatly dismissed by the Supreme Court. Despite all that light treason, most people took the opportunity to dunk on Ted Cruz once again.
Cruz had already said he was willing to argue in front of the court on behalf of a lawsuit like this, though that lawsuit was quickly dismissed. On Friday, a second one filed directly to the court was also rejected by the highest court in the land. According to the New York Times, the court refused to get involved in Trump’s “brazen” attempt to steal the election and somehow undo the results of the November contest he lost by millions of votes and by the same margin in the Electoral College he called a “landslide” when he won in 2016.
Texas’ lawsuit, filed directly in the Supreme Court, challenged election procedures in four states: Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It asked the court to bar those states from casting their electoral votes for Mr. Biden and to shift the selection of electors to the states’ legislatures. That would have required the justices to throw out millions of votes.
Mr. Trump has said he expected to prevail in the Supreme Court, after rushing the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett in October in part in the hope that she would vote in Mr. Trump’s favor in election disputes.
In response, the Texas GOP issued a bizarre and troubling statement that suggested people frustrated by Trump’s loss form a new “Union.”
The @TexasGOP is out with a statement in the wake of the Supreme Court decision, all but calling for secession:
“Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the constitution.” pic.twitter.com/4bB3gk88t4
The constant attempt to undermine the constitution while wrapped in the flag and attempting to sound supportive of the foundations of America’s government is an odd quirk of Trump and his surrogates framing his attempt to steal an election as anything but an extraordinary and unprecedented battle against the sanctity of the nation’s elections. And while it’s extremely troubling to say the least, it was also another chance to make fun of Ted Cruz for his continued support of Trump despite, well, everything.
Ted Cruz will now never get to stand before the Supreme Court and prove his loyalty to the man who called his wife ugly and said his dad killed JFK.
Do you think when Ted Cruz looks for a seat in the senate cafeteria, all the other senators put their backpacks on the empty chairs and avoid eye contact. I bet that happens
Your guess is as good as anybody’s about the future of America as we know it amid a truly unheard of attempt to seize power and Trump’s refusal to cede the election to Joe Biden. But at least the decision likely ruined Trump’s Christmas party at the White House.
At the White House Christmas Party, guests were informed about 10 minutes ago that the president won’t be joining them to make remarks.
The Recording Academy officially unveiled their list of 2021 Grammy nominations in late November. The original list was incomplete because the committee deciding the nominations for the Best Immersive Audio Album category was unable to meet due to the pandemic. But that wasn’t the only part of the nominations list that was missing at the time. Beyonce and Jay-Z’s daughter Blue Ivy Carter was just recently added to the list for her work in one of Beyonce’s videos.
As reported by TMZ, the eight-year-old has now been officially Grammy-nominated under the Best Music Video category for Beyonce’s “Brown Skin Girl” after she lent her vocals on the track. The report states that Carter’s initial exclusion must have been a mix-up on the part of the Recording Academy, as her name was added to the list alongside WizKid several weeks late.
Carter’s nomination now puts her in the running against some well-known artists. “Brown Skin Girl” is up against Future and Drake’s “Life Is Good,” Anderson .Paak’s “Lockdown,” Harry Styles’ “Adore You,” and Woodkid’s “Goliath” video.
If Carter wins a Grammy for “Brown Skin Girl,” it won’t be her first time winning an award for her appearance in the video. Carter was nominated for the BET HER Award for the collaboration with her mom, which she ended up winning back in June.
Check out the full list of 2021 Grammy Nominations here.
It’s been a big week for Jack Harlow, whose debut album That’s What They All Say was finally released. And while the new music day got a bit more crowded thanks to a surprise Taylor Swift album, Harlow is getting plenty of attention for both his debut and a video he shot with Big Sean for “Way Out.”
And while there’s been some controversy over the release, he’s also gotten the attention of ESPN’s NFL insider Adam Schefter, who took some time from covering the league’s injuries and complications due to the COVID-19 pandemic to tweet about Harlow on Friday. Specifically, a line from Harlow’s “Keep It Light” where he name-dropped the sports journalist and his involvement behind the scenes of the NFL. Schefter tweeted an image of Harlow and the lyrics that included his own name, saying he appreciates the mention and that he finally managed to impress his kids with some musical clout.
“Thrilled after 53 years to make my hip-hop debut (finally some cred with my children),” Schefter tweeted. “Thank you, @jackharlow.”
Harlow seems to have appreciated that Schefter noticed the mention, as he retweeted his message on Friday night.
Harlow’s gotten plenty of attention this week for not just his new music, but also his preference for certain cartoon characters, and now we know he’s made it on the radar of one of the most influential reporters in sports. We’ll keep you posted on whether Adrian Wojnarowski gets name-dropped in the next Griselda single as well.
Jack Harlow is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
The Miami Heat have to feel pretty good about things heading into next season. They surprised a lot of folks on their way to the Finals in Orlando, and they feel fairly confident that if the injury bug hadn’t gotten to them at the worst possible time, they would’ve been much more competitive against the eventual champs.
The Heat are basically running things back this season, having secured Bam Adebayo and Goran Dragic in free agency, but as Heat president Pat Riley understands all too well, it never pays to be complacent in the NBA. So it’s no coincidence that Miami has suddenly found their name cropping up in the latest James Harden trade rumors as one of his preferred destinations.
And if you were curious as to what Jimmy Butler might think of the prospect of adding one of the league’s all-time lethal scorers to the mix in South Beach, you might look no further than Instagram, where Butler recently liked a post about Harden naming Miami as a trade target.
Asked about it on The Jump this week, Butler naturally demurred, claiming that he was simply appreciating Harden’s new cut.
That is expert-level evasiveness on the part of Butler. These days, one can never be too careful, what with how the NBA has promised to crack down on tampering. It’s a hefty fine, and Butler would have to sell several cups of Big Face coffee to make up for the financial hit.
In any case, the Rockets are apparently standing pat on what appears to be a steep asking price for Harden and appear to be in no rush to make a deal happen, as Harden finally reported to Rockets training camp this week after missing the first couple of days. Still, it’s a situation to keep an eye on, and the Heat are definitely in play here.
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