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These pictures are ~wheel~ and they don’t lie.

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Nothing will stop the famous people from getting their pictures taken.

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“Is black supposed to be her nude.”

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We want to know if the coronavirus stimulus check, and a letter about it from the president, changed how you think about Trump and the government.

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After this past weekend’s epic Verzuz showdown between 2000s-era rap radio fixtures Ludacris and Nelly, fans have once again resumed speculation on which matchups are coming down the pike. Today, NY hip-hop stalwart NORE gave them another possible matchup to chew on, claiming on Instagram that none other than Eminem called him to issue a challenge to an unexpected competitor: DMX, who previously said that he wants to battle Jay-Z head-to-head on the popular live stream hits battle.

Posting a photo of himself and DMX playing with giant-sized Jenga blocks, NORE captioned the photo, “This moment is so Legend! 3 minutes before this @therealswizzz CALLS X and says Eminem is down for that smoke.” Swizz Beats is, of course, the curator for Verzuz, which he started with co-founder Timbaland as a way to beat back quarantine boredom. DMX seems amenable to the challenge, as noted by NORE, “X SAY HE CAN GET BUT I STILL WANT JAY.”

NORE admits that the entire deal was supposed to be hush-hush, but that his excitement got the better of him. A biased New Yorker to the end, he offers his pick for the winner of the hypothetical battle: “I’m riding wit the DOG!!!”

We’ll see if NORE’s excitement blew it for the rest of us or if the added buzz only propels this battle into the annals of Instagram history — while the total number of viewers has shot up for each battle, there’s no doubt that adding Eminem to the mix is guaranteed to the show to a whole new level.

See NORE’s post claiming that Eminem wants to battle DMX above.

Over the past two months, John Oliver has dedicated seven episodes of HBO’s Last Week Tonight to the coronavirus, because, I mean, what else is there to talk about? Not sports, the disappearance of which due to COVID-19 was the topic of Sunday’s taping (just because Oliver looks like a guy who would rather bet on cricket than throw a baseball doesn’t mean you shouldn’t watch). Another recurring Last Week Tonight topic in the at-home-era: Adam Driver. “Step on my throat, Adam Driver, you rudely large man. Break my fingers, you brooding mountain,” Oliver said in one episode; in another, “Sneeze in my McFlurry, you pensive bison.” And most recently, “Chokeslam me to hell, you nasty shed. Jam your mandible claw down my throat, you irredeemable steer.”

But why Adam Driver and not, say, Jason Momoa?

“A lot of you might well be wondering where I’m going with this bit,” Oliver said. “If you’re anything like my staff, you’re asking questions like, ‘Is this sexual or is it violent?’ And then you’re unsatisfied when the answer comes back, ‘Yes.’ If you’re like my wife, you might be asking, ‘Should I be worried about this?’ with your concern only growing when the answer is, ‘Only if you want to be.’” Oliver then wondered if Driver, a “f*ckable redwood” who is also a “big unwashed buffalo,” is aware of his (satirical?) obsession:

“Is he bothered by this continued sexualization? He seems like a fairly private guy who’s generally uncomfortable with attention, making what I’m doing possibly some form of harassment. He might actually have pretty good grounds to have me reprimanded legally. To which I say, do it. Slap a restraining order on me your forlorn block. Beg me to stop, you menacing obstacle.”

Driver should repay the favor to Oliver. “Keep going, you skinny Richard Scarry character come to life.” (Everything Adam Driver says sounds like a flirt. He can’t help it.)

The Utah Jazz were (and, I guess, currently are) the fourth seed in the Western Conference before the NBA shutdown and went on an indefinite hiatus that is still ongoing due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

While the plans for a potential NBA restart are still fuzzy, there’s a chance that if able the league will resume play with a brief run of games before starting the playoffs with seeding as is. That means the Jazz would be a top-4 team in the West with homecourt for the first round, but if the season does start back up, they’ll be without a key contributor.

Bojan Bogdanovic will apparently have wrist surgery that will end his 2019-20 season and cause him to miss the playoffs, should they happen, per a report from ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.

It’s a major blow to the Jazz, as Bogdanovic was their second leading scorer on the season, averaging 20.2 points per game and shooting a robust 41.4 percent from three-point range. The injury had apparently lingered since January and with the uncertainty facing this season, Bogdanovic made the choice to do what’s best for the longterm and have surgery. The hope is that he can return to full form by next season, whenever that may start, and the Jazz can build on what was a solid, even if at times frustrating, 2019-20 campaign.

TMZ reports that two people drowned at the home of former MLB star and 1501 Certified Entertainment label owner Carl Crawford over the weekend. During a get-together of six people — Houston’s stay-at-home orders allow for gatherings of under ten people –, a boy wandered into the pool in the backyard. When a woman who was taking care of him followed him in, both drowned. Crawford was inside but came out and tried to revive them unsuccessfully.

Crawford retired from Major League Baseball in 2016 after his contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers expired and started 1501 Certified Entertainment to highlight hometown talent from his native Houston. In 2018, he signed Megan Thee Stallion, who was just beginning to receive major exposure after a series of viral freestyle videos. Since then, 1501 has been in the news after reportedly trying to block Megan from releasing new music due to a contract dispute which snowballed into a lawsuit and a very public feud between the two parties and Houston rap impresario and rumored strongman, J. Prince.

While Crawford maintained that the terms of 1501’s contract with Megan were fair, Megan and her new management at Roc Nation believe that not only are the royalty splits unfairly weighted in favor of the label but that Megan deserves to be released from the contract.

Read the full story on TMZ here.

The final episodes of The Last Dance brought the Bulls rivalry with the Utah Jazz to the forefront as the documentary wrapped up with the 1997 and 1998 NBA Finals. As such, it became time to discuss Jordan’s “Flu Game” performance in Game 5 of the 1997 Finals, which was really (at least as it’s told by Jordan and his friends) an issue of a bad pizza.

As Tim Grover, George Koehler, and Jordan recalled, he was very hungry at 10 p.m. and they could not get room service from the hotel, so they called the only place open in the area which was a pizza joint. Grover recalled five guys delivering the pizza to the room, raising some suspicion as to whether something had been done to the pizza, but Jordan apparently shrugged off those questions and ate the entire pizza by himself.

There have long been theories about the Flu Game that Jordan was actually hungover, but given that Jordan was not shy about going out and enjoying himself prior to games and never had issues, that doesn’t totally track. Food poisoning makes sense, but the way this story was told just seems a bit fishy and there are some holes in the story that are hard to get by. Jalen & Jacoby had Jason Hehir, the director of The Last Dance on after the finale and Jacoby pressed him on this story, which led to Hehir offering up further details about the context of that night and the act of Jordan spitting on the pizza when it arrived to ensure only he ate it.

I wish this had been included in the documentary because that part of the story absolutely tracks with Michael Jordan’s behavior and I would fully believe he would spitefully eat an entire pizza because his friends ate dinner without him. This should have made it into doc because this explains this part even better and makes it more believable. I have the same question as Jalen, which is why it was ordered and made fairly clear it was for Michael when they’re in Utah, and I’m not fully buying Hehir’s theory that they found out from the desk it was Jordan’s room (because why would five folks have showed up to the lobby to deliver it before knowing that).

Whatever the case, whether the pizza was spiked or something else took place we aren’t hearing about, it only builds the legend of that night and the following game in which Jordan put on a performance for the ages.