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Zion Williamson was immense in the New Orleans Pelicans’ Play-In Tournament loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night. While the Lakers were able to pick up a 110-106 win in New Orleans, Williamson had one of the best games of his career, as the former No. 1 overall pick went for 40 points on 17-for-27 shooting with 11 rebounds, five assists, a block, and a steal in 36 minutes of work before exiting the final moments of the game with an injury.

It’s a far cry from the last time Williamson played a high-profile game against the Lakers, as the Pelicans were run out of the gym by L.A. in the In-Season Tournament semifinals and Williamson’s performance, in particular, came under a ton of scrutiny. Both Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal tore into him for his performance on that night back in December, but on Tuesday, the pair made it a point to give Williamson his flowers.

“I think tonight, this is my first time I said, ‘Yo, man, this dude might be a star, this dude might be a superstar,’” Barkley said on Inside the NBA. “Because he was dominant, he was explosive, it was fun to watch. He got zero help from the guys who’s supposed to have been giving him help. But you know, Shaq challenged you before the game, saying, ‘Yo man, it’s about time you do your thing.’”

Ernie Johnson pointed out that Shaq wanted to see Williamson score 40 points, which he hit on the nose. As such, Shaq made it a point to say he was “very impressed” by the effort.

Next up for Williamson is getting imaging on the leg injury that sent him to the locker room in the fourth quarter. If he gets the all clear, he’ll suit up for the Pelicans in their game against the Sacramento Kings on Friday night to determine the 8-seed in the Western Conference.

Actors love talking about their process and craft and blah blah blah. But it’s not such a tough job: somedays you just show up on set and get to kiss Christina Hendricks.

During a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, Hacks star Hannah Einbinder was asked about her reaction to a “make-out scene” with the Mad Men actress in the show’s upcoming season. “God is real,” she replied. Einbinder’s co-star, chainsaw-wielding icon Jean Smart, burst into laughter at her answer. You can see that moment here:

In season three, Hacks (which is very good) catches up with Deborah Vance (Smart) and Ava Daniels (Einbinder) a year after they departed in the season two finale. “Deborah is riding high off the success of her standup special while Ava pursues new opportunities back in Los Angeles,” the official logline reads.

Returning cast members include Paul W. Downs, Megan Stalter, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Kaitlin Olson, Christopher McDonald, Mark Indelicato, Rose Abdoo, and Lorenza Izzo, while the list of guest stars includes J. Smith-Cameron, Helen Hunt, Christopher Lloyd, and Hendricks, who appears in one of the most “me and who” photos of all-time.

Hacks returns to Max on Thursday, May 2, with two new episodes. The nine-episode season will continue with two episodes each week, until the season finale on May 30. You can (and should!) watch seasons one and two now.

(Via Entertainment Tonight)

In recent days, a new meme has started to surface, and it turns out that Lil Yachty is at the root of it.

As Know Your Meme notes, Yachty performed at the Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash concert in 2021, and a clip of his energetic walk out to the stage has racked up over 4.5 million views on YouTube since it was uploaded on June 2022. Here’s that video:

The unmodified video started to be used as a reaction meme here and there, but it has found new life this April, after a post from X (formerly Twitter) account @AIWarper generated some attention. The tweet includes the video, but modified, using a tool called Viggle AI, to replace Yachty with Joaquin Phoenix’s portrayal of the Joker.

From there, other examples have been shared online, including some featuring disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, NBA star Nikola Jokic, and King Of The Hill character Hank Hill.

A version featuring New York Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau has gone viral in the sports world, so much so that Thibodeau was asked about it in a recent press conference. He revealed that he was originally showed the clip by one of his players, Mitchell Robinson, and that he thought Robinson himself made the video.

Well, it happened again: Donald Trump appeared to fall asleep in court for the second day in a row. “Trump’s head slowly dropped, his eyes closed. It jerked back upward. He adjusts himself. Then, his head droops again. He straightens up, leaning back. His head [droops] for a third time, he shakes his shoulders. Eyes closed still. His head drops. Finally, he pops his eyes open,” Law360 court reporter Frank G. Runyeon wrote on X on Tuesday, a day after Trump got called “Dozo the Clown” for doing the same thing.

Stephen Colbert has an idea for why Trump can’t stay awake.

“Yesterday Trump fell asleep. During the proceedings. He took a little white power nap. But today he was sharp, focused and he fell asleep again,” he joked during Tuesday’s episode of The Late Show. “And in a totally unrelated story, there’s a national Adderall shortage. No relation.”

Colbert also commented on the less-than-flattering courtroom sketch of the former president. “Trump must have snoozed for a while because the court sketch artist had time to draw him. Well, I think we found the new mascot for Celestial Seasonings: Sleepy Crime Tea,” he said.

You can watch Colbert’s The Late Show monologue above.

To be clear: As far as we can gather from publicly available information, Kanye West does not wear diapers. That hasn’t stopped Jack Antonoff from jokingly making that assertion about Ye, though. He did so in a Los Angeles Times interview from February, and he did so again yesterday (April 16) on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.

The discourse started when Kimmel rattled off a list of some of Antonoff’s collaborators, all of whom were women. He jokingly asked what Antonoff has against men, and then more seriously wondered if there’s something that makes him more inclined to work with female artists over male ones.

Antonoff attested that he works with a lot of men, too. He then went on to try to explain his perspective to Kimmel, and after a couple of unsuccessful attempts at getting Kimmel to understand, he eventually said:

“I think men… There’s two people that I think are are almost too over-sensitive to even function, and it’s men and members of the music industry. The amount of sensitivity… it’s sort of like watching Kanye. By the way — and Jimmy, you might like this because I know that you have your own relationship with the right and how you interact with them, and you’re much closer to how I see these things than other people. I don’t like going to people and, ‘You do this, you do this, blah blah blah,’ because that’s what they want, you know, this sort of type of over-sensitive man. So I just do more of this, like… like if I saw Kanye, I would run up to him and be like, ‘The diaper… your diaper is so full, we have to change your diaper. Your diaper needs to be changed, there’s a huge problem.’”

He then compared that mindset to Kimmel’s famously antagonistic approach to Donald Trump and his supporters, assessing that, like Kimmel, he prefers to “up the trolling” instead of being “overly offended.”

Antonoff’s band Bleachers also performed “Tiny Moves” on the show, by the way, so check that out below.

Last season, the Sacramento Kings could not defend their home court in Game 7 of the first round of the playoffs, as the Golden State Warriors walked into Golden 1 Center and picked up a win. Fast forward to Tuesday night and the Kings got their revenge in the 9-10 game of the Play-In Tournament, as Sacramento was able to run Golden State out of their gym and into an offseason of uncertainty with a 118-94 win.

Keegan Murray was the star of the show for the Kings. The Warriors just had no answer for the No. 4 overall pick in the 2022 NBA Draft, as Murray went for 32 points with nine rebounds, six assists, and two steals. He was particularly hot from deep, as Murray went 8-for-13 from behind the three-point line.

Every other member of the Sacramento starting five managed to hit double-digit scoring. Domantas Sabonis had yet another double-double with 16 points and 12 rebounds, De’Aaron Fox had 24 points, Harrison Barnes had 17, and former undrafted free agent Keon Ellis had 15.

Unfortunately for the Warriors, the team just had nothing on the offensive end of the floor. The Sacramento defense was hellacious, as Golden State shot 41.3 percent from the field and 31.3 percent from three. Steph Curry had 22 points on 8-for-16 shooting, but the story of the night might have been the struggles of Klay Thompson, as the usually reliable wing went scoreless in his final game before he hits unrestricted free agency — Thompson shot 0-for-10 from the field and 0-for-6 from three.

The win means that Sacramento will move on to face the New Orleans Pelicans, which fell to the Los Angeles Lakers earlier in the evening. The winner of the game between the Kings and the Pelicans will earn the 8-seed in the Western Conference and a matchup with the Oklahoma City Thunder in the first round of the postseason.

Festivalgoers at Weekend 2 of Coachella 2024 will soon be on the pursuit of happiness. The iconic music festival is keeping the surprises coming, with a special performer announced today (April 16). Joining the line-up is the illustrious Kid Cudi.

Cudi revealed the news via social media, along with Coachella’s official social handles, that he will be performing at Coachella once again.

And with 11 albums in his discography, fans can look forward to over a decade worth of hits.

Cudi last performed Coachella in 2019, and during his set, Kanye West made a surprise appearance. Cudi also dedicated a special song to the late Mac Miller.

As Cudi’s performance comes as a last-minute addition, fans are rushing to plan their schedules in order to see Mr. Rager himself.

When does Kid Cudi perform at Coachella 2024, Weekend 2?

Cudi will perform Coachella this Sunday (April 21). He will perform on the Sahara stage from 5:10 to 5:50 p.m.

Over the course of the past three months, Cudi has dropped two albums — Insano and Insano (Nitro Mega). Though he has quite a big catalog to fill a 40-minute slot with, fans can expect performances of the newer material, as well as some of the long time fan favorites.

You can see the full Coachella 2024, Weekend 2 schedule here and find links to the livestreams here.

Coachella 2024 returns for the second weekend, beginning this Friday. Last week’s festivities — which consisted of a stellar performance by Doja Cat, Olivia Rodrigo making a surprise appearance during No Doubt’s set, and an artsy performance by Tyler The Creator — have garnered much buzz. And you can bet that this coming weekend’s festivities will build upon that excitement.

Now, we know you won’t want to miss a minute of your faves’ performances, so we’ve put together a nifty little list of set times. Whether you’ll be at the park in person, or tuning in live, you can start planning your weekend now.

You can see the full list of set times below.

Friday, April 19

Coachella Stage

3:40-4:40 — Jacqk Glam
4:45-5:30 — Young Miko
6:00-7:00 — Sabrina Carpenter
7:35-8:20 — Lil Uzi Vert
9:05-10:10 — Peso Pluma
11:20 — Lana Del Rey

Outdoor Theatre

4:15-5:15 — Spiñorita
5:25-6:10 — L’Impératrice
6:45-7:35 — Deftones
8:10-9:25 — Everything Always
10:15 — Justice

Saturday, April 20

Coachella Stage

3:45-4:35 — Record Safari
4:45-5:30 — Santa Fe Clan
6:05-6:55 — Sublime
7:40-8:40 — Blur
9:25-10:40 — No Doubt
11:40 — Tyler The Creator

Outdoor Theatre

5:00-6:00 — Juicewon
6:10-6:55 — Blxst
7:25-8:10 — Jon Batiste
8:40-9:30 — Jungle
10:40 — Gessafelstein

Sunday, April 21

Coachella Stage

2:55-3:35 — Ludmilla
4:05-4:55 — YG Marley
5:25-6:15 — Carin León
6:50-7:35 — Bebe Rexha
8:15-9:15 — J Balvin
10:25 — Doja Cat

Outdoor Theatre

3:55-4:55 — Jeremiah Red
5:05-5:55 — Reneé Rapp
6:25-7:10 — The Rose
7:50-8:50 — Khruangbin
9:30 — Jhené Aiko

Some of the artists mentioned here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The NBA postseason officially got underway on Tuesday as the Western Conference Play-In began with the Lakers pulling out a 110-106 win over the Pelicans despite a 40-point game from Zion Williamson (who got injured late in the fourth quarter).

With that result, the Lakers locked up the 7-seed and a rematch of last year’s Western Conference Finals against the Denver Nuggets. With that series set, ESPN and ABC made their decisions on the order for Saturday’s Game 1s. The opening game will be Magic-Cavs, followed by Suns-WolvesUnsurprisingly, they will put Nuggets-Lakers in primetime on ABC at 8:30 p.m. ET, with the Knicks in the 6 p.m. ET slot on ESPN against whoever wins the East 7-seed on Wednesday night.

The Sunday schedule of what games are in what time slots is still to be determined, but will see East 8-Celtics, Pacers-Bucks, West 8-Thunder, and Mavs-Clippers in some order. Pacers-Bucks would be the most likely for the early game, with West 8-Thunder in the midday, and either the Celtics or Mavs-Clippers in primetime, depending on who ends up with the 8-seed in the East.

Saturday TV Schedule

Orlando Magic at Cleveland Cavaliers – 1 p.m. ET, ESPN
Phoenix Suns at Minnesota Timberwolves – 3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN
Miami Heat/Philadelphia 76ers at New York Knicks – 6 p.m. ET, ESPN
Los Angeles Lakers at Denver Nuggets – 8:30 p.m ET, ABC

Cassandra Jenkins finds herself stuck in her ways. Tonight (April 16), the New York native has shared her new single, “Only One,” on which, she finds herself returning to a love that feels safe.

Though this love feels familiar and comfortable to her, there may be more out there for Jenkins. But as the age-old adage holds, old habits die hard.

“It’s about a Groundhog Day effect, finding yourself in the same situation over and over again, not knowing how to get out of that loop—and in some sense, an unwillingness to break a cycle because you’re blinded by your circumstances,” said Jenkins of the song in a statement.

In the video, Jenkins is seen in New York City, going about the neighborhoods alone, as she reflects on love. In addition to the single, Jenkins has announced her new album, My Light, My Destroyer, which is due for release this summer.

You can see the video for “Only One” above and the My Light, My Destroyer cover art and tracklist below.

1. “Devotion”
2. “Clams Casino”
3. “Delphinium Blue”
4. “Shatner’s Theme”
5. “Aurora, IL”
6. “Betelgeuse”
7. “Omakase”
8. “Music??”
9. “Petco”
10. “Attente Téléphonique”
11. “Tape And Tissue”
12. “Only One”
13. “Hayley”

My Light, My Destroyer is out 7/12 via Dead Oceans. Find more information here.