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Snoop Dogg Explained How Kobe Bryant’s Journey Was ‘A Perfect Mirror Of My Career’

Carmelo Anthony and the Portland Trail Blazers are currently in a battle for the ninth seed in the Western Conference in the Disney Bubble in Orlando, but the former All-Star forward is still finding time to enjoy his wine with friends on his “What’s In Your Glass?” show on YouTube.

On Monday night, Anthony was joined by Snoop Dogg for a conversation about just about everything, from marijuana to wine to Snoop’s tips for reinventing yourself and much more. About midway through the conversation, Melo brought up their mutual friend Kobe Bryant’s passing earlier this year, and asked Snoop to explain to people his relationship with Kobe.

Snoop saw Kobe not just as a friend but someone who had followed a very similar path to him, explaining to Carmelo that he saw “a perfect mirror of what my career was” in Kobe’s journey in the NBA — at the 20:19 mark of the video.

“You know what, it was crazy, because you can look at our careers as being parallel,” Snoop says. “When he came in the league he was young, and when I came into the league I was young. And we came to great franchises, and at the same time we had to earn our position, wasn’t nothin’ given, and once we got it we didn’t look back. Whoever’s spot we took wasn’t ever getting back on the court again, and then from there we had to learn how to be a team player. From learning how to be a team player, we had to learn how to be a family man, then from being a family man, we had to learn how to adjust later in our careers to not being as good as we were — or as best as we could be. And then we had to adjust to life after, life after being the best basketball player in the world to being a businessman, a father, an advocate for women and basketball for girls.

“So that for me, that’s the perfect mirror of what my career was as far as the things that I’ve done with my football league and becoming a family man. Being a team player, going to No Limit Records, coming back home and building my things with the community where I’m from. And just watching me and him grow as friends, just being able to call him and say, ‘Man, that was beautiful what you did that movie you did about your basketball thing,’ and him to call me and tell me, ‘Man, when you did that thing, that performance.’ Like, hen we’d see each other it’d be more congratulations about me seeing his highlights and him telling me about my highlights. So those were moments that I could celebrate my highlights, because one of my friends and one of the guys I looked up to on the basketball court appreciated what I’d done as much as I appreciated him, and we had no problem saying that.”

They then laughed about how Kobe would always go out of his way to show Snoop love at games, only to return to the court “smelling like that stuff.” The entire conversation was really interesting, particularly when Snoop would talk about his career and his longevity, noting that he learned to tap into the youth and become “Uncle Snoop” without ever sacrificing who he was or his style to try and fit the moment. It was something you could clearly see hit Carmelo, who has had his own journey of reinventing himself while trying to figure out how to stay true to his playing style in the NBA, finding a snug fit in Portland currently.

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Report: Pessimism Is Growing About A Bubble For Non-Orlando Teams

Eight NBA teams don’t have all that much to do right now. While 22 squads are posted up in Orlando for the league’s Disney bubble, the remaining eight franchises are sitting at home, with players working out at facilities but otherwise sitting and waiting for things to ramp up ahead of the 2020-21 season.

A proposal that went around several months back was for a bubble league-type situation for those eight squads, which would give them a chance to compete and prevent too much rust to build up before next season tips off. However, a new report by Shams Charania of The Athletic indicates that we may not get to see this come to fruition.

As Charania reports, there is a sense of pessimism about both a second bubble and in-market minicamps where group workouts would occur. It would be a massive undertaking for the league, one that would occur as COVID-19 cases are spiking nationwide.

At its core, with most of the eight teams having shared concerns about the impact of players going all these months without doing development work and five-on-five action, this is a question of risk vs. reward. Yet while there had been extensive discussion about the idea of scrimmages in a possible second bubble being televised, the possible upside of that business element is paltry compared to the revenue generated by the forthcoming playoff action in Orlando (as The Athletic reported previously, approximately $900 million in national television money alone). The dangers, meanwhile, are more concerning than ever as the coronavirus continues to spread across America.

The eight teams are Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Golden State, Minnesota, and New York. If nothing is worked out that would give these players a chance to do anything beyond small workouts, and the league is able to tip off its next season sometime in December as it hopes, then those squads will go nine months between the end of their 2019-20 campaigns and their next games.

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Billie Eilish Reveals Which Childish Gambino Song Made Him One Of Her ‘All Time’ Favorite Artists

Billie Eilish has always been vocal about her love of other artists’ music. The Grammy Award-winning singer even revealed that she used to have a Justin Bieber obsession so pervasive that her parents once considered putting her in therapy. The singer dissects music from today’s popular artists on her podcast Me & Dad Radio, where she discussed only recently finding out her favorite childhood song was by Taylor Swift. On the podcast’s most recent episode, Eilish revealed one of the musicians she looks up to most.

Eilish invited her brother Finneas to be a part of Friday’s Me & Dad Radio episode where the two took a look back on the albums that influenced their music taste. “This is our Finneas episode – full of childhood bops, some inspirational songs me and Finneas have loved over the years, some songs we’ve shown each other, songs that we’ve been inspired by,” Eilish told listeners at the podcast’s introduction.

After playing Childish Gambino’s 2011 track “Bonfire,” Eilish praised Donald Glover as an artistic inspiration. “This is from the album I think both me and Finneas found Donald Glover through. Incredible album,” Eilish said. “The first song I heard ever from him, and was actually I think the first song I heard that was like rap, was ‘Heartbeat’ from this album.” Eilish added: “From then on, everybody knows that Donald Glover is like… one of my all-time favorite creators. He’s exactly everything that I idolize about a creator. He’s every single element of what I think is amazing.”

Finneas chimed in that his favorite lyric on “Bonfire” is the track’s first verse: “Okay, it’s Childish Gambino, homegirl drop it like the NASDAQ.”

Listen to the full episode of Me & Dad Radio here.

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$400k And Years Of Harassment: Tyler Shultz Tells Us What He Went Through To Expose Elizabeth Holmes

After John Carreyrou’s book, an Alex Gibney documentary, an episode of 20/20, and multiple podcasts and articles, it wouldn’t be crazy to think that the story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos has been pretty well covered. That would be true for most stories, but Theranos, seemingly the perfect nexus of unchecked crony-capitalism and Silicon Valley’s techno-utopianist cult of buzzword libertarians, isn’t most stories. A personal angle always adds perspective, especially when that person is Tyler Shultz, one of Theranos’s first and arguably its most prominent whistleblower.

Shultz, the grandson of Theranos board member and former secretary of state under Reagan, George Shultz, had little to gain, and almost everything to lose in 2014, when he brought his concerns about the company he worked for first to a regulatory body and later to Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou. Carreyrou broke the story in a bombshell investigative series that he turned into book (I interviewed him here). This week, Shultz, now 30, Carreyrou’s most important on-the-record source, tells his own story firsthand in Audible’s new podcast, Thicker Than Water: The Untold Story Of The Theranos Whistleblower.

Revelations from Shultz and others, that Theranos was a $10 billion company whose central product (blood testing machines that were hyped as being able to perform a battery of tests using only a drop of blood) didn’t work, ended up taking down the company. Theranos’s eccentric CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, with her canned anecdotes and thousand-yard stare, a Frankenstein’s monster seemingly fabricated from inspirational quote books and pop biographies of Steve Jobs to bilk money from starry-eyed old men like Shultz’s grandfather, is currently awaiting trial.

Yet for all that to happen, a number of people, and Shultz especially, had to act almost perfectly against their own interests. It would’ve been so much easier to just shut up and go along, or quietly get a new job, than try to expose a deep-pocketed company that had effectively turned his aged grandfather against him. Not only did Tyler’s parents have to spend $400,000 to $500,000 of their own money on lawyers, Theranos’s own lawyers, led by the (in)famous David Boies, seemed to be using some of the same hardball tactics Boies had used in defending Harvey Weinstein, which in that case included hiring Black Cube, a “secretive investigative agency that used undercover operatives” (per the New York Times).

Shultz believes he had private investigators tailing him for more than a year. In one instance, one of Shultz’s lawyers had their car broken into and notes from their private meeting were stolen. Throughout the story, two huge hypotheticals echo through your brain: What would’ve happened if Tyler Shultz hadn’t been in the almost cosmically unique position of being able to defend himself? And, if I were Shultz, would I have put myself through all this grief just to expose the truth?

I talked to Shultz this week about his motives, Elizabeth’s voice, what his grandfather saw in Theranos, and what it was like being on an island.

So I take it your parents didn’t actually end up selling the house. How much do you think they ended up having to spend on lawyers?

We ended up spending, I think it was between $400,000 and $500,000 in lawyers. Thank God, they did not have to sell their house. That was really a situation specific to me actually going to court. We were told that if I was sued and I did have to go into a courtroom to fight this thing out, a good case scenario would be we spend $2 million and win. A bad case scenario would be obviously worse than that. Luckily, it didn’t come to that. So no, they still have their house that they’ve had for 30 years now, the house that I grew up in.

And that was in Los Gatos?

Yeah. Down in Los Gatos.

Talk about some of the harassment that Theranos was doing to you.

They bullied me around in a variety of different ways. One of the big ones was I felt I was entrapped in my grandfather’s home. They had lawyers hiding upstairs that I did not know were there when I went to go have an open, honest conversation with my grandfather, and then those lawyers were kind of sprung on me as a bit of a surprise. Then they had private investigators following me. I received a tip that, whether I was aware of it or not, that I was being watched about 80 to 90% of the time that I was in public places. Then probably about a year after that, I met up with John Carreyrou, for the first time in a very long time, on the Stanford campus. The Theranos lawyers let me know, I think just a few days afterwards, that they were aware that I was in contact with the reporter again. So I reached out to John, I said, “Hey, did you tell Theranos that we’re talking again?” And of course he said no. I don’t know how else they would have known that I had a lunch with the reporter unless they had someone watching either him or I. So we’re talking for a fairly long period of time someone was being followed.

It seems like it’s a pattern for Boies and his law firm. Is there any legal recourse for that? Are law firms just allowed to send private investigators to harass private citizens if they want?

Unfortunately, I think it is not. My understanding is that whatever you do in public, anyone can watch you. So it’s not illegal to hire private investigators to follow somebody around and watch where they go. Yeah, it’s kind of crazy, but I don’t think that it’s actually illegal.

I guess the big question is, if you hadn’t been in this incredibly unique position of having a board member in your family and being able to pay for all these legal fees, does Theranos ever get caught? If they don’t, what are the consequences?

They definitely would have gotten caught sooner or later. I probably expedited things, but they were in the process of really expanding their testing services and patients were already getting incorrect results, so I think the medical community was kind of on their trail already. When I left Theranos and I went and got a new job, I remember the COO telling me that they had a stack of resumes from people trying to leave Theranos this high. Then at one of my first lunches at that company, I sat down, and there was an employee there who was like, “Oh, where’d you come from?” I said, “Theranos.” And he just goes, “I could bullshit forever too if I had a board like that.”

[At one point, Theranos’s “all-star board” included William Perry (former U.S. Secretary of Defense), Henry Kissinger (former U.S. Secretary of State), Sam Nunn (former U.S. Senator), Bill Frist (former U.S. Senator and heart-transplant surgeon), Gary Roughead (Admiral, USN, retired), James Mattis (General, USMC), Richard Kovacevich (former Wells Fargo Chairman and CEO) and Riley Bechtel (chairman of the board and former CEO at Bechtel Group)]

When the Edison machine was like finally revealed to you, I got the sense that it was like when Scientologists finally get to that level when the whole story gets revealed, and they’re like, “…Wait, this is it?” What were the most absurd examples of what you guys were having to do to make these things work?

Oh my God. So, I mean, the list is fairly long. Tight off the bat, you could tell that this thing does not do hundreds of tests from a single drop of blood. This device can only run one test at a time. So if you came in and ordered 300 tests, even if those tests could be run on the Theranos platform, you’d have to run them on 300 different devices. And then on top of that, you can tell that there’s nothing revolutionary about it. There’s no microfluidics. There was no revolutionary signal transduction method. It was just a pipette inside of a box. And even though it was that simple, it didn’t work that well. When you’re pipetting in really small amounts, you need to be very accurate or you’ll end up with a lot of variation. And my understanding was that the Theranos device wasn’t accurate enough to do those small pipetting steps. So we had to run the samples through a third-party piece of equipment that we bought from a company called Tecan. It’s basically this fancy pipetting robot that would do that first pipetting dilution step, and then we would put it into the Theranos device. So it wasn’t even a standalone platform.

So, we would have problems where the door wouldn’t close. You’d stick the cartridge in and the door wouldn’t shut, so we would literally tape the door shut. I don’t think we ever tested to see whether or not the taped devices worked as well as the ones that were not taped. Then there was a barcode scanner in there that would scan a barcode on the cartridge, and it would know what tests to run, but oftentimes that barcode scanner wouldn’t work. So I would peel the barcodes off of the cartridges and put them on a pair of scissors and stick it into the device and kind of wiggle it around until it would finally scan.

They were also very temperature sensitive. They would complain that they were too hot. You’re on a schedule and you’re trying to get these experiments done, and I would actually just open the door and wave with my hand to try to cool it off. But it seemed like there was a delay between the thermometer and actual temperature, so it would immediately go from too hot to too cold. So then you’d have to shut the door and wait for it to heat up. If it took too long to heat up, we had these little kind of like blanket things in the lab that you would put over the machine to warm it back up.

The tips on the pipettes were constantly falling off. And they could get stuck in the gears and then it would jam. So we had, I think it was either literally a clothes-hanger or something very similar to a clothes-hanger that we had around, where you could kind of reach into the bottom of the Edisons and fish out the pipette tips that had fallen off.

It was such a disaster that I always thought that if we ever had to go to court, like if they sued me for violating trade secrets or whatever, I was going to demand that if this thing worked in a medevac helicopter it should work in that courtroom. The judge should prick his finger, and in four hours he should get 300 test results downloaded to his phone. And if it didn’t work, I should be able to leave. If Theranos was real, they could have proven it. In my mind, it was so easy to see if it worked or not. It’s amazing that here we are in 2020, and the story is seemingly still ongoing, you know? Elizabeth is still walking around a free woman.

How much of her success do you think came from being an old person’s vision of a young person?

What do you mean?

I mean, you had that scene in the podcast where it’s her birthday or something. And everyone there is over 50. It kind of seems like she was what an old person wanted to think a young person was like.

Yes. Well, I think Elizabeth represented a lot of good things. She represented the future, one that was… the future is female, you know? She embodied that. She was super sharp. She was a Stanford dropout. She fit all the criteria of being a Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg. She was very charismatic. She was, quote-unquote “doing well by doing good.” So in some ways, she would be even above a Mark Zuckerberg. How much good does a Facebook really do versus how much good could Theranos do? So, she just had an amazing story that I think hooked a lot of people, and that included older men, who were probably also a little bit extra enchanted by the blonde hair, the blue eyes and kind of the attention they were getting from this young up-and-coming entrepreneur.

What about the voice? I know John Carreyrou hinted that the deep voice might be a put on.

I don’t know. I never heard her really slip out of that voice. Occasionally, if she were laughing at something and trying to talk at the same time, her voice did seem to maybe revert to a higher pitch, but, really, I don’t know for sure if the voice is fake or not. Her younger brother has maybe the deepest voice I’ve ever heard in my life, so it wouldn’t surprise me if Elizabeth’s voice also skewed that direction. But I wouldn’t be surprised either way. I am starting to wonder if she really speaks Mandarin though. I’m questioning that one.

The big sticking point between you and your grandfather was him wanting you to sign the affidavit that said that you had never talked to the Wall Street Journal after you already had. They were trying to catch you in perjury, essentially. Do you think that there was a real threat of them actually using that to charge you? Or was that just something that they were using to discredit John Carreyrou? I other words, were they just trying to get you to sign that so they could say like, “Oh, John Carreyrou invented this source and so all of his reporting is in dispute?”

Probably both. I think that if I had signed that document and lied under penalty of perjury, that would have been fantastic ammunition for them on many different fronts. Either they could come after me personally, or they could have used that to discredit me as a source and discredit the Wall Street Journal’s reporting. Looking back, that’s one of the best decisions I made, not signing that despite being under immense pressure to.

It seems like all the incentives were in place for you to just go along. Do you think that contributes to the cultishness of tech? Because everyone’s incentive was just to either believe in this or pretend to. And to go against it seemed like it would just get you nothing but trouble.

I mean, they were bullies. To go against them, they would just cause trouble for you. Right after that first Wall Street Journal came out, Elizabeth went on Mad Money, and I think we have a clip of this in the Audible Original. But she says that all of the sources have said that the Journal misquoted them or they demanded payment from Theranos just to have a conversation. She sounds very convincing, but what she doesn’t say is the circumstances under which those people retracted their statements. It was people like me, who all of a sudden were fighting David Boies and had no legal counsel, who were thrown into a situation they never anticipated being in, who were put under extreme pressure and felt like their livelihoods were endangered. And then they may have retracted their statements. I don’t know all the sources, and I don’t know who retracted or who didn’t, but knowing the circumstances I was under, I can only imagine that the circumstances were similar for other sources. Yeah. They were bullies, and they got away with being bullies for a really long time.

What were your grandfather’s incentives? You kind of went against your incentives because you felt it was right. But his incentive seems to be to just keep pretending everything was great. What were all the forces there that were pushing him in that direction?

One, I think was just pride. And I remember in one instance, him telling me that he was 90-years-old and he had seen a lot of stuff and he knew what he was looking at. Basically, he was saying, he’s been right so many times that it’s impossible for him to be wrong at this point in his life. Another part of it was that he was infatuated by Elizabeth. He really treated her like she was part of the family. She was coming to Christmas celebrations, birthday celebrations. He would invite her to Family Day at his fancy country club. They were very, very close, but I think that was also part of it. And then the other piece of it was financial incentive. I know that at one time he told his family that he had created a trust fund for his great-grandchildren, who would be my children, who do not exist by the way, that consisted 100% of Theranos stock. So there’s a trust fund for my future children somewhere with 500,000 shares of Theranos stock in it. I was definitely financially incentivized to make Theranos a success. My grandfather was definitely financially incentivized to make Theranos a success. But I think he had much more invested than just that trust fund.

How’s your grandpa doing now?

He’s doing great. He definitely sees that he was lied to by Elizabeth. He definitely is proud of me for doing what I did. He’s in good health for someone who is about to turn 100-years-old in a few months. I think just like everyone, he and his wife are getting antsy sheltering in place in California. But overall, he’s still working, he recently published a book. He does Zoom calls. He used to go into work at the Hoover Institute every day. Now he has someone come in and set up his computer so he can do Zoom calls all day long. So in a lot of ways, he’s just like you and me, chugging along, doing Zoom calls every day.

My grandpa’s going to be 103 in December, and he’s definitely not doing any Zoom calls.

Oh my God. That’s wild. Hopefully, you got those genes.

Tyler Shultz’s Audible Original, ‘Thicker Than Water,’ premieres August 4th. Vince Mancini is on Twitter.

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Dad shares his ‘What I wish I knew before fatherhood’ wisdom to help future parents

Kier is a therapist and a family and relationship vlogger who makes videos with his wife Noémie and 2-year-old daughter Emmy. Some of their content is comedic, some of it is serious, but their goal is for all of it to be “100% authentic.”

Recently, Kier got real about fatherhood in a video he made while carrying Emmy around the neighborhood on his hip. The video resonated across a wide spectrum of people. I saw it shared by various friends in my own feed, and even by celebrities like Viola Davis.

As anyone who is a parent already knows, raising kids is hard work. It’s rewarding and wonderful in many ways, but it’s not easy. And if you don’t prepare yourself emotionally for the task by working through your own childhood traumas, it’s going to be even harder.


Kier has a way of breaking it down clearly and compassionately:

As he says, “This ain’t oatmeal.” Family life is complex and requires a lot from us. And commenters shared their appreciation for Kier’s wise words on Instagram.

“I watched this yesterday… my wife is 6 months pregnant… I am in the most fearfully joyous time in my life! Thank you for this food for thought and masterful words.”

“Wow so much wisdom from a young man. It is a lot of work forever. I have 6 children now 5 are adults and it is still a lot of effort all worth it but I look back at my screw ups with regrets and I am so blessed to have 33 years with my husband also so much work.”

“Absolutely loooove this message. Please keep providing this content! Even if it changes the mind of one man you’ve changed his family for generations to come.”

“Thanks for sharing and letting everyone know the real of life. Relationships and parenting takes a lot of work. Healing from trauma takes work and so does learning that warm love. Thanks again.”

“Wow this was beautiful and so powerful and so true! 👏🏾 This not only goes for the men but also women alike who suffer trauma and want to start a family. This is right here what you said is pure gold. 🙏🏽 I’ve always believed in getting counseling before marriage and starting a family. It can be a great way to expose and take out all negative things and work through them. Husband or wives and children alike don’t need to suffer because of our past pain or struggles that we have not yet worked through. Such amazing wisdom from you. Thank you for bringing this forward and into the light of those who might not have realized this before.”

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Aminé Is A Laid-Back Tennis Star In His Lighthearted ‘Compensating’ Video

The impeccable rollout for Aminé’s upcoming album Limbo continues with the video for the Young Thug-featuring “Compensating.” After shaking fans up with the hard-hitting “Shimmy,” then showing some love to the ladies with “Riri,” Aminé gets back to playing around in “Compensating,” where he plays a tennis star and his own opponent, pals around with his buddies in a massive mansion, and pampers himself with bubble baths and French bread in the pastel-washed clip.

Aminé’s billing Limbo as his second album after debuting with Good For You and declaring OnePointFive an “LP/EP/Mixtape/Album.” He’s spent well over two years on Limbo, which sports features from JID, Injury Reserve, Slowthai, Vince Staples, Summer Walker, and Charlie Wilson. Fans will find out this Friday if the wait was worth it but judging from the singles that have been released so far, it does indeed appear he’s crafted a solid followup to his sunny debut. Aminé kicked off the with the contemplative “Places + Faces Freestyle” and was tapped by Disclosure along with Slowthai for the rowdy “My High” video but by this time next week, he may just be celebrating one of the best albums of the year.

Watch’s Aminé’s “Compensating” video above.

Limbo is due 8/7 on Republic Records. Pre-save it here.

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Sad13 Is A Bloodthirsty Vampire Queen In Her Ghastly ‘Oops!’ Video

Speedy Ortiz vocalist Sadie Dupuis released her debut solo record in 2016 under the moniker Sad13 and now she’s coming back with its follow-up. Back in June, Dupuis announced her sophomore effort Haunted Painting with “Ghost (Of A Good Time),” and now the singer offers another glimpse to the project with “Oops!”

Directed by Kimber-Lee Alston, the “Oops!” video depicts Dupuis as a vampire-turned-homemaker who bakes her victims into delicious-looking cakes. In a statement alongside the video, Dupuis explained her inspiration behind the track, saying it was born out of an unpleasant experience while touring with Speedy Ortiz:

“We recorded ‘Oops…!’ at New Monkey, which was Elliott Smith’s studio. This one has a magic drum sound – thanks entirely to engineer Sarah Tudzin (of Illuminati Hotties notoriety), and Zoë Brecher’s impeccable playing. Just before writing it, on tour with CHVRCHES, a venue employee became physically and verbally violent with one of my Speedy Ortiz bandmates. He directed his fake apology at me instead of the person he harmed, presumably because I am smaller and present feminine. My vengeance complex kicked in and I got a scary adrenaline high making sure this unsafe person was removed from the show. While I’m glad I have protective instincts, I wrote the song to process ways in which I’ve used people’s assumptions about me and my body to wield my own version of toxic masculinity. Kimber-Lee Alston, who directed remotely via Zoom, turned this story and song into an allegory about a 1950s prom queen vampire who lures in her bad boy victims with delicious, blood-filled treats.”

Watch Sad13’s “Oops!” video above.

Haunted Painting is out 9/25 via Wax Nine. Pre-order it here.

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Giannis Antetokounmpo After Donta Hall Threw Him To The Ground: ‘I’m Going To F*ck Him Up’

The Nets were the NBA’s biggest underdog of the season on Tuesday afternoon as they took on the top-seeded Milwaukee Bucks without the services of Caris LeVert, Jarrett Allen, and Joe Harris, leaving them with a rag-tag group of role players and recent signees to go up against the East’s best.

However, despite being 19-point underdogs, the Nets took it to the Bucks in the first half, leading for much of the contest against a team that clearly was struggling to get up for an afternoon game against a squad it was expected to roll through. The Nets had the Bucks running around, looking all kinds of confused on defense, and were even being the more physical group.

That escalated into a near fight when Donta Hall threw Giannis Antetokounmpo to the ground on a boxout under the rim, leading to the reigning MVP to pop up, warning the young man to “watch out,” and promising to “f*ck him up” — with a hilarious moment when he turns to the referee holding him back by insisting he really will f*ck him up.

The two players both received double fouls, with no technicals or flagrants for either, as no actual fight broke out as players and refs jumped in pretty quickly.

While many felt that might be a turning point in the game for the Bucks to light a fire under them, the Nets managed to continue leading Milwaukee, taking an almost unfathomable eight-point lead into halftime. It’ll be interesting to see how Milwaukee, which can lock up the 1-seed in the East with a win, responds next half, but there’s no doubt the Nets are bringing the fight to them, literally and figuratively.

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Jamal Crawford Hurt His Hamstring In His Nets Debut And Won’t Return Against The Bucks

Jamal Crawford made his debut as a member of the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday afternoon, and it could not have come at a less opportune time. The already-hobbled Nets did not have the services of Jarrett Allen, Joe Harris, or Caris LeVert, and to make matters worse, Brooklyn had to face off against the mighty Milwaukee Bucks in their third seeding game in the bubble.

Still, Crawford came from off the bench during the first quarter and looked pretty good. His playmaking was a welcome addition for the Nets, scoring five points and doling out three assists in six minutes of work. The 40-year-old stayed on the floor to start the second quarter, and unfortunately, suffered an injury that will keep him out for the remainder of the game.

Crawford took a handoff from Donta Hall. While that happened, it looked like he stepped awkwardly and came up hobbled, calling for a substitution immediately.

Shortly after this happened, the Nets diagnosed him with a hamstring injury that will, at the very least, keep him out for the remainder of the game.

There’s no word on whether Crawford will be able to return at some point during the team’s stay in the bubble.

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Neil Young Finally Sues Donald Trump After Years Of Denying Him Permission To Play His Music At Events

For years now, Neil Young has hated that Donald Trump plays his music at rallies and other events. Now, he is taking the situation to a legal level: Today, the Canadian musician shared an unsigned copy of a lawsuit he will file against Trump in the Southern District of New York.

The suit begins, “This complaint is not intended to disrespect the rights and opinions of American citizens, who are free to support the candidate of their choosing. However, Plaintiff in good conscience cannot allow his music to be used as a ‘theme song’ for a divisive, un-American campaign of ignorance and hate.”

Specifically citing a June 20 rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma where “Keep On Rockin’ In The Free World” and “Devil’s Sidewalk” were played, the suit says Trump’s campaign does not have a license nor permission to play Young’s music “at any public events.” Furthermore, the suit alleges Trump’s campaign has “willfully ignored” Young’s discontent with Trump using his music and has “willfully proceeded to play [his music] despite its lack of a license and despite its knowledge that a license is required to do so.”

Trump played “Rockin’ In The Free World” at a 2015 event announcing his presidential run, to which Young responded with a letter that explicitly denies Trump permission to use his music. The letter also said, “I do not endorse hate, bigotry, childish name calling, the superficiality of celebrity, or ignorance.”

Neil Young is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.