“We really believe and hope every day we can do a lot better than that, because that’s not assuming 100% of every American,” Dr. Deborah Birx said.
Ben Luderer was part of a high school team that was the stuff of New Jersey baseball legend. He went on to coach his own team before dying Monday of COVID-19.
Religious groups across all creeds are coming to terms with a new normal in which socially distant does not have to mean spiritually apart.
A federal judge had put a temporary hold on the state’s abortion ban, but an appeals court overturned the ruling Tuesday.
Workers fear that even if a store itself is not contaminated, they may have been infected with the virus by a sick colleague.
The NBA and ESPN are teaming up to bring hoops fans a collection of virtual games of basketball. On Monday, it was reported that the league would hold an NBA 2K tournament involving 16 players from 16 different teams, with all of the games broadcasted on the Worldwide Leader in Sports. We learned a little bit earlier today that a few big names, like Kevin Durant and Donovan Mitchell, are slated to participate.
Now, the entire bracket is out, and it’s slated to be an absolutely loaded event with some of the best players in the league, both in real life and within the virtual world created by 2K Sports. The bracket was announced on the social media accounts for The Boardroom, Durant’s show on ESPN+.
.@NBA2K‘s “Players-Only” tournament will air starting this Friday on @ESPN. Here are the brackets – who do you think is gonna take it all? pic.twitter.com/51ltOfjeqR
— The Boardroom (@boardroom) March 31, 2020
Durant and Young as the 1 and 2 seeds makes plenty of sense, as both players were basically put on earth to torch opponents in video games with how they’re able to shoot and handle the ball. In terms of upsets, my eyebrows are raised at the 3-14 game, which has the potential to get hairy if Beverley is able to repeatedly pick Whiteside’s pockets. If that cannot happen and virtual Whiteside is able to essentially virtually manhandle Beverley, it’s hard to point out any major potential upsets.
For the finals, I’m inclined to go with KD making it there, although Booker potentially getting him before the championship game made me raise my eyebrows, because he’s the exact sort of player who can get thermonuclear hot in 2K and hit everything. On the other, Young seems like an easy pick to make it to the end, but getting LaVine in the second round could be treacherous, and if he runs into a big who sticks with him like Ayton, maybe he’ll run into some issues.
I have to go with Durant in the end, though, because picking against a healthy Kevin Durant in a 1-on-1 competition of any sort — whether it be in real life or a virtual tournament — seems foolish. But maybe I’ll be wrong, and maybe DJJ is able to take him down from the get-go. We’ll just have to see what happens when things get underway on Friday.
This week marked the one-year anniversary of Nipsey Hussle’s tragic death. Fans and celebrities alike celebrated his life and music on Tuesday, ensuring that his legacy would live on forever. Since his passing, fans have had to rely on artists who collaborated with Nipsey before his death to share new music, but they have all longed for a posthumous release from the rapper.
And now we know that release may actually happen. Speaking with Revolt TV for a special episode of their Tour Tales series, DJ VIP, Nipsey’s tour DJ, spoke on Nipsey’s unreleased music, revealing that he left “a ton” of tracks in the vault.
“First of all, if any music ever comes out, it’s going to be with the blessing of Sam [Asghedom] (Nipsey’s brother) and the family,” he said. “So, at this point, that’s something they would have to answer. Right now, there’s a ton of Nipsey music that hasn’t been released that is original Nipsey music. But, that’s up to them. At this point, there are no plans for anything to come out in the immediate future.”
In response to a question that asked if there was an unreleased record that he hopes will be released, DJ VIP spoke on the quality of the music that sits in the vault.
“There are a couple that is sickly chilling. To hear them in the context of now, it sounds like he knew his future,” he said. “He wasn’t saying a bunch of stuff in every song just to say every situation is applicable to him. He was painting very clear pictures. There’s a couple of songs that are really eerie to hear because of the context of the situation now.”
DJ VIP also spoke on plans for a tribute show in honor of Nipsey, but the concerns with the coronavirus pandemic prevented the idea from moving past the discussion stage.
“I would’ve loved to have us come together to put on a show,” he said. “But before we could even start discussing it, everything with the corona[virus] stuff started happening.”
Nipsey Hussle is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.