Mac McClung polished off a Dunk Contest three-peat on Saturday night in incredible style, as the reigning G League MVP threw down four perfect dunks — including one where he jumped over a car — to beat Stephon Castle, who had a terrific contest performance of his own.
For two decades, fans and media have been clamoring for bigger names to participate in the Dunk Contest, but for the most part, there has been little in the way of All-Star participation in the main event of All-Star Saturday Night. That has provided a stage for guys like Zach LaVine, Aaron Gordon, Derrick Jones Jr., and McClung to become household names before they reached that status on an NBA court. On the other hand, it’s always left fans wondering what we’ve missed out on seeing as stars have declined invites and the opportunity to enter the contest.
During the first round, after McClung sent the Chase Center into a frenzy with his car dunk, one of those current stars fans have been begging to see in the contest, Ja Morant, tweeted that McClung’s performance was making him want to get in on the action — and later followed that up by asking if LaVine and Gordon might be willing to unretire from the contest to join him.
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This is far from the first time a star player has been enjoying the Dunk Contest from the sidelines or at home and done this — the most famous being LeBron James saying on-air during the 2009 Contest that he’d be doing it in 2010. James, of course, did not followthrough on that proclamation and Nate Robinson beat a field with DeMar DeRozan, Gerald Wallace, and Shannon Brown for the crown in 2010.
It’s particularly funny that Morant, who tried to put a self-imposed dunk ban on himself this season to stay healthy, would float the idea of him entering the fray. I will be shocked if he or any of the other big names enter their names in the 2026 Dunk Contest in Los Angeles, but it’s a good way to create a little buzz a full year away from the actual event.
Drake’s international performance plans are just getting started. Currently, the “Gimme A Hug” rapper is dominating Australia on his Anita Max Win Tour. But Drake has his sights set on London’s Finsbury Park.
Today (February 16), the 2025 Wireless Festival headliners were unveiled–and they are Drake, Drake, and more Drake. To celebrate the multi-day outdoor event’s 20th anniversary, between July 11 through 13, Drake will serve as its sole top billed act.
“IT’S BEEN A WHILE BUT THE BOY IS HOME ,” wrote Wireless organizers on Instagram. “For our 20th anniversary. Drake will headline all THREE nights with three different setlists.”
Although Drake has more than enough music in his discography to hold down the closing slot, he will be joined on stage with several friends. On Wireless Festival 2025’s opening night (Friday, July 11), Drake’s Some Sexy Songs 4 U collaborator PartyNextDoor will co-headline with him. The set’s special guest is Summer Walker.
On day 2 (Saturday, July 12), Drake is teasing multiple native UK acts will hit the stage with him. For now, he is keeping things under wraps with the “the mandem” label. Many believe Skepta and Central Cee are shoo-ins for an appearance.
Burna Boy and Vybz Kartel are listed as Drake’s special guests On the festival’s final night (July 13).
The presale for Wireless Festival 2025 starts on Monday, February 17 at 12 noon GMT. While the general sale will begin on Wednesday, February 19 at 12 noon GMT. Find more information here.
Every single week, our TV and film experts will list the most important ten streaming selections for you to pop into your queues. We’re not strictly operating upon reviews or accrued streaming clicks (although yes, we’ve scoured the streaming site charts) but, instead, upon those selections that are really worth noticing amid the churning sea of content. There’s a lot out there, after all, and your time is valuable.
This ain’t The Night Agent, and that’s just fine. Noah Centineo’s espionage adventure series couldn’t be more different than Gabriel Basso’s adrenaline-fueled show, but Centineo’s Owen Hendricks is all about the personality and less about the seriousness. He is also equally game at placing himself in dangerous (albeit humiliating) situations, so the show’s decision to use a certain Green Day song couldn’t be more fitting as Owen finds himself in the midst of a South Korean scandal. There’s a time and place for an actor who can laugh at himself, and this show has done marvelously at harnessing that vibe.
Perhaps this Netflix fantasy franchise still has some life left after all even with Henry Cavill’s departure. Liam Hemsworth will pick up the leather pants, swords, and wigs later this year, but for now, this animated film takes Geralt of Rivia deep into the ocean as the only person/monster hunter who can bring peace between the realms of land and not-land. Video game voice actor Doug Cockle takes up the Geralt grunt for this movie with Joey Batey (Jasper) and Anya Chalotra (Yennifer) reprising their roles from the TV series.
A “vintage smart home” might sound contradictory, but does logic really matter when a virtual assistant decides to attack a family who has recently taken up residence inside her confines? This German series also involves the AI assistant having an abandonment complex, so get ready for nightmare city in a B-movie way, and if you still need more virtual-person horror after this selection, Megan Fox’s Subservience will keep you frightened until M3GAN 2.0 arrives in theaters.
No rest for Mark Grayson. Steven Yeun’s superhero will enter his Blue Suit era (and possibly lean into darkness for real) this season while Walton Goggins’ Cecil will gain a backstory and completely lose Mark’s patience. This season should also deliver more of JK Simmons’ Nolan, and this series could grow positively cataclysmic ahead of the already renewed fourth season. The slow-burn aspect did drag the series down during the second season, and viewers will not be mad to see less teasing and more development. The same goes for House of the Dragon‘s pulled second season punches, so perhaps there’s a lesson there for the streaming future.
Nordic Noir is no joke, and in this series is here to send chills down your spine while you cuddle under the blankets and wonder why you are watching such a chilly environment on TV in the middle of your city’s own cold snap. In all seriousness, this mystery series follows a Stockholm detective on leave until gruesome happenings drag her back into the grind. What follows is a solid ride that will not disappoint when the ultimate secrets are later revealed.
Sterling K. Brown and Dan Fogelman are having a This Is Us reunion over on Hulu for a thriller series that could alternately scratch your escapism itch or feel too close to home. Without spoiling anything for the first three episodes already streaming, Brown portrays a security agent fronting a team that is tasked with protecting the president (James Marsden), but this show isn’t a meat-and-potatoes conspiracy story. Like This Is Us, expect non-linear storytelling that helps build context behind the overriding mystery of the series. A slower burn than many streaming series of the same nature helps this show stand apart, and the test for future seasons will be whether audiences will be patient enough without tidy explanations at every turn.
Kaitlyn Dever disappears into another role to portray Aussie grifter Belle Gibson, who endangered the lives of her social media followers by peddling “cures” based upon her false claims of having cancer. Alycia Debnam-Carey steps up as competitor influencer Milla Blake, who certainly wasn’t buying what Belle was selling. At present, Belle is paying off an enormous government fine, although that surely will not stop the next Internet snake oil salesman from doing the same, but as far as bingewatches go, this is an enlightening watch.
Virtual travelers are catching up on the first few resort bookings while waiting for the Thailand installment. Also, this bitingly funny series kills somebody every season, but for the third season, creator Mike White really means it. The show will head to Thailand for “a satirical and funny look at death and eastern religion and spirituality,” and of course Jennifer Coolidge’s character cannot return this year. Instead, this season’s connecting thread will be Natasha Rothwell, and characters who might or might not die will be portrayed by Leslie Bibb, Carrie Coon, Michelle Monaghan, Walton Goggins, Jason Isaacs, and Parker Posey. Good luck, y’all.
The “Woe’s Hollow” episode left a massive mess to clean up after Irving’s sudden move against Helly. Of course, that situation is complicated by two Hellys (Hellies?) in the mix, and why are there so many snow-covered shows this winter? Between this and Netflix’s The Åre Murders and American Primeval, it’s time to pile on the blankets while bingewatching. Additionally, this show had better now grow any weirder before answering some questions unless we’re going to receive more goats and Gwendoline Christie. Or some dancing? Work with us, Milchick.
I’m not crying, we’re both crying. This sequel mastered the practice of harnessing several generations and will be followed by Karate Kid: Legends, but first, the dojos must reckon with the unresolved Sekai Taikai tournament. That competition is, of course, merely a framework for lingering beefs, and Daniel LaRusso has been distracted by the tarnishing of Mr. Miyagi’s legacy, but he had better get it together because Terry Silver’s villainy will not quit. In all seriousness, the heightened reality of this karate soap opera will be missed, and if you don’t shed a tear or two after those final lines, then were you really a fan from the beginning? A valid question.
NBA All-Star Saturday Night has lost a bit of luster from what it was at its peak, but the Three-Point Shootout and Dunk Contest can still be really fun when you get the right mix of competitors. The Skills Challenge is what it is, a perfectly fine warmup to the evening — which this year saw Victor Wembanyama and Chris Paul get disqualified after trying to find a loophole in the rules — but it can’t reach the same heights as the other two.
This year’s Three-Point Shootout wasn’t as good as some recent ones, but did feature some late drama as Buddy Hield needed to go 5-for-5 on his moneyball rack to beat Tyler Herro, but missed one to fall a point shy of the Heat All-Star. It was an average Three-Point Shootout, but given the high floor of the event it was still entertaining.
The Dunk Contest, meanwhile, has the highest variance of all the events, and requires at least one great performance to salvage it — while two elite showings makes it an instant classic. For the third straight year, Mac McClung made sure we got at least one great effort as he opened the night with a redux of the legendary Blake Griffin dunk over a car, except took it to a whole other level. McClung didn’t jump over the hood like Griffin, but instead went straight over the middle of the car, taking the ball off the head of someone sticking out of the sunroof and threw down a reverse while leaping over the car.
It was a truly special dunk and one of the best we’ve ever seen, earning 50s across the board while everyone in the Chase Center lost their minds. After a good dunk by Stephon Castle and both Matas Buzelis and Andre Jackson Jr. struggling to get a dunk down, it made sure everyone would go home happy.
From there he threw down another 50 to punch his ticket to the final against Castle — who put down two very solid dunks in the first round to make it to the finals himself.
In the finals, Castle stepped up his game with 49.6 and a 50 as he put on one of the best non-McClung performances we’ve seen in a long time. His first dunk took a few too many attempts to earn a 50, but both it and his second dunk were extremely smooth and powerful, with his 50 coming on a sick behind the back 360 lefty finish.
That forced McClung to be perfect with his two dunks, but as we saw all night aside from one hiccup on the car dunk (that was because his friend didn’t have the ball positioned right), he took care of business with another flawless final round to earn 50s on all four dunks.
McClung’s perfect night earned him a three-peat as he cements his place as one of the (if not the) greatest Dunk Contest performers in history.
The NBA Skills Challenge is not the best event at All-Star Weekend, but it can produce some occasional fun as the opening event at All-Star Saturday Night.
The Skills Challenge has seen some different formats over the years, but this year it was the more standard course with passing and shooting stations both players on each team had to get through and their cumulative time would determine the winner. This year, to keep things moving, the players were limited to three shots from each spot and then allowed to move on to avoid someone shooting threes for 30 seconds trying to make one.
While this was probably the right call, the league did not consider the fact that they put Chris Paul into the competition and when he saw that all you had to do was shoot three times, make or miss, and you got to move on, he would find a way to exploit that. Sure enough, the Spurs came out and Victor Wembanyama and Chris Paul got to the racks for shots and just chucked the balls towards the baseline without even pretending to try and shoot — earning boos from the crowd.
They got through the course in under 50 seconds as a result, but the NBA decided that the mockery of the Skills Challenge was too much and disqualified them for not even trying. Wanting to win the Skills Challenge so badly you flaunt the rules and don’t even try to shoot is the most Chris Paul thing to ever happen. Naturally, Paul tried to argue but was unsuccessful, and that opened the door for the Warriors and Cavs teams to make it through to the final round.
The funniest part of the whole thing was when TNT’s Allie LaForce went over to try and talk with Paul and Wembanyama and got denied by someone from either the Spurs or league’s PR department.
The Cavs team of Evan Mobley and Donovan Mitchell would go on to win in the finals over Draymond Green and Moses Moody, but the Spurs actively flaunting the rules was, without a doubt, the most entertaining part of the contest.
Back in 1994, Nirvana disbanded following the tragic suicide of its lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain. Recently, the band’s surviving members (Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and Pat Smear) have treated supporters to a series of special performances.
Yesterday (February 14), Nirvana came together for a surprise set at SNL 50: The Homecoming Concert during which Post Malone joined as their special guest. Together, the musicians delivered a fiery performance of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (viewable here).
Users across X (formerly Twitter) has praised the performance.
“This literally brought tears to my eyes,” wrote one user.
“Fun to see David Grohl & Pat Schmear in action again,” chimed another.
Other commended Post Malone for stepping into such legendary shoes.
“It was good brought me a lot of joy, of course [Post Malone’s] not Kurt I still miss him,” wrote one user.
“Nirvana should tour. ‘Nirvana and friends’ and just get artists to cover different songs. No one will ever replace Kurt, but I think the fans would enjoy a world tour to see 75% of the original band,” added another.
Yesterday (February 14), most of the lovers were out enjoying Valentine’s Day. For the those with no plans, the SNL 50: The Homecoming Concert offered a night filled with hilarious moments.
Dozens of Saturday Night Live‘s beloved alum took to Radio City Music Hall’s stage to celebrate the late night staple’s historic anniversary. However, one of the most memorial moments turned out to be a crossover between a prior music guest and a comedian favorite. When Andy Samberg took to the joined Lady Gaga on stage no one knew what to expect. So, their performance of “D*ck In A Box” (viewable here), not only earned an electric response from within the venue but viewers at home.
Although Justin Timberlake was the original pop star featured in the SNL bit, Lady Gaga had no problem stepping in to belt out the not safe for work lyrics. Supporters across X (formerly Twitter) are raving about the duet.
As Marty Culp (Ferrell) and Bobbi Mohan-Culp (Gasteyer) the actors made the sold out crowd erupt into laughter. User online were equally tickled by their creative take on the stinging hit track.
“Didn’t know ‘Not Like Us’ had legs like this. At this rate it’ll still be playing next Christmas (2026) ,” wrote one user.
“I didn’t know how much I wanted to see this until it came true before my eyes,” penned another.
From time to time, Taylor Swift lets her comedic chops shine. The “Fortnight” singer loves also loves to let loose (regardless of an event’s formality). However, a new viral rumor suggests Taylor Swift’s sense of humor has limits.
Michaels claimed when the SNL crew was crafting a sketch poking fun at Swift’s “1989-era squad days,” he decided to give her the heads-up. As the two chatted about the sketch, Michael invited Swift to even appear in the comedic bit. But, Swift quickly “decline the offer and ask him to cut the bit entirely.”
Still, Swift’s disapproval didn’t stop Michaels from moving forward. “Taylor, I do not negotiate with terrorists,” he joked.
The “Bad Blood” video spoof starring Amy Schumer was well-received by SNL viewers as well as Swift’s super fans (the Swifties).
Eventually, Swift was able to find the humor in the sketch. Michaels says he even received a bouquet of flowers from the singer. Attached to the flower arrange was a note supposedly from Swift, which read: “I hope there’s no bad blood.”
“Plaintiff Jane Doe, by and through her undersigned counsel, hereby gives notice that the above-captioned Action is voluntarily dismissed with prejudice,” reads the document. “Counsel for Plaintiff have discussed this matter with counsel for each Defendant, who acknowledge and consent to this submission.”
Back in December, attorney Tony Buzbee came forth on behalf of his Jane Doe client claiming the hip-hop titans assaulted her when she was 13-years-old. Shortly after the accusation, Jay-Z released a statement vehemently denying the claims. “These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a criminal complaint, not a civil one,” he wrote. “Whomever would commit such a crime against a minor should be locked away, would you not agree?”
At this time, Jay-Z nor Diddy have not publicly addressed the civil case being voluntarily dropped. In addition, Tony Buzbee has not issued a statement discussing the reason his client no longer wishes to pursue this matter.
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