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I wish I could pet all of dems.

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Small things that might just make a difference in your life.

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*Takes notes.*

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Ahmad Rashad has popped up a whole lot in The Last Dance. The former Pro Bowl wide receiver-turned-sports broadcaster was a confidant of Michael Jordan’s throughout the Hall of Fame guard’s career, and on multiple occasions, we’ve seen that Rashad is more than just a member of the media in Jordan’s eyes, even riding in his car from his home to the arena and being someone that Jordan could rely on at his father’s funeral.

Rashad’s time covering the NBA occurred, most notably, as the host of NBA Inside Stuff, which gave fans a look into the lives of players. The show still exists on NBA TV, but during Rashad’s tenure, the program aired on NBC and, eventually, ABC.

Ahead of the final episodes of The Last Dance, which air on Sunday evening on ESPN, Rashad will host an Inside Stuff reunion. Details are a bit sparse about what exactly will happen on the reunion, but as Rashad explained, it’ll air at 7 p.m. on the NBA’s Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitch accounts.

Rashad had a handful of old hosts on the show, which is now hosted by Grant Hill and Kristen Ledlow, and there’s no word on whether it’ll just be Rashad or if any of Julie Moran, Willow Bay, and Summer Sanders will hop on, too. Hopefully the whole gang shows up, and because it’s Ahmad Rashad, here’s to hoping he’s able to score an MJ cameo, too.

Back in February, Summer Walker experienced her last straw in the music world as she revealed that 2020 would be her last year making music.

“I’m deadass never making another song after 2020,” she said. Since that announcement, most of the music from the ATL singer came in the form of guest appearances including a remix of Khalid’s “Eleven” and “Secret” with 21 Savage, as well as a soulful acoustic take of Drake’s “Summer’s Over.” Looking to put out some music of her own, however, Summer took to Instagram to announce a new EP.

Posting a picture to Instagram with a caption that read, “EP coming soon babies,” it looks like fans won’t have to wait too long to hear new music from Summer Walker. Currently untitled and without a release date, the EP would serve as the follow up to her 2019 album Over It, which broke Beyonce’s record as the most-streamed R&B album by a female artist. The upcoming EP would also be the second of her career as her first arrived in early 2019 with Clear, which stood as a warm-up effort for her eventually debut album, Over It.

Take a trip back to Over It before the EP arrives and read our review here.

Fred Willard, the comic actor best known for being a staple and scene-stealer in Christopher Guest mockumentaries, has died, reports Rolling Stone. The cause of death is reportedly natural causes. The news was first reported by Guest’s wife, Jamie Lee Curtis, over Twitter.

Born in 1933 in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Willard relocated to New York City at a young age, and he broke into the comedy scene with appearances, in the ’60s, on The Dean Martin Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Get Smart, The Carol Burnett Show, and more. By the ’70s he received wider acclaim on Norman Lear’s Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman spinoffs Fernwood 2 Night and America 2-Night, which parodied late night talk shows.

But it was Christopher Guest films that took him next level. Willard appeared, briefly, and very amusingly, in This is Spinal Tap, playing a cheerfully square Lieutenant who invites the faded metal band to play an army show. When Guest returned to the mockumentary form, starting with 1996’s Waiting for Guffman, he brought him back, enlisting him to team with Catherine O’Hara as a couple who moonlight as local musical theater hounds.

Willard would return for every subsequent Guest mockumentary, from Best in Show to A Mighty Wind to Mascots, as well as the non-mockumentary (but still ad-lib-heavy) For Your Consideration. On top of his Guest work, Willard also filed memorable turns in films like Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Anchorman, and WALL-E (as the lone non-CGI character). He was also a prolific TV staple, and some of his final work will be seen in the forthcoming Steve Carell comedy Space Force.

This is sad news, so please drown your sorrows by taking in some of his finest work, including this one, from Best in Show.

And here’s him in A Mighty Wind.

And, more recently, he nailed this sketch from I Think You Should Leave.

(Via Rolling Stone)

One thing that is evident throughout The Last Dance is that excellence takes a toll on people. On multiple occasions during the Chicago Bulls’ first three-peat, it’s mentioned that the pressure everyone in the organization was under got to be overwhelming, with Michael Jordan being so mentally exhausted that he left basketball altogether. Their second three-peat didn’t appear to be quite as draining, but everyone operated with the understanding that the 1997-98 campaign would be their last.

This isn’t something that is unique to those Bulls squads. In the years since, we’ve seen teams like the Shaq and Kobe Lakers and the Big Three in Miami show cracks in the foundation due to lofty expectations that led to their groups being broken up. More recently, the NBA’s dominant organization has been the Golden State Warriors, and for the member of the franchise who was also on that second Bulls squad, the doc has served as confirmation of what he’s tried to hammer home to his team over the last few years.

“To be honest, [the documentary] is just confirmation of what I was saying to our team all of last year and 2018,” Steve Kerr said, according to Nick Friedell of ESPN. “The whole messaging for the year was based on my experience with Chicago and feeling that level of fatigue [and] emotional toll that had been over the previous four years. …

“And so watching this now is just a reminder of how difficult it is to sustain that kind of run.”

General manager Bob Myers also spoke to how mentally taxing winning can be, saying that after the team won in 2018 — their third ring in four years and second in a row — there “wasn’t joy” because the team was merely doing what it was supposed to do.

“I’m sure a lot of people felt differently,” Myers said. “It wasn’t anybody’s fault. I think there’s just a weight to everything. And so I’m sure [the Bulls] felt that weight of everything, weight of relationships.”

Kerr is especially interesting to hear from on all things Last Dance, as he is the only person who can approach this from the perspective of someone who has played for and been the head coach of two separate dynasties. He’s already made it clear that we’ll never get this sort of all-access look into his Warriors teams, but it’s still fascinating to hear him draw the parallels between both of his squads.