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Humans may not always recognize greatness right away, but sometimes it’s so clear it simply can’t be denied.

You don’t have to be a dancer yourself to see when someone’s got moves, and a viral video from choreographer Phil Wright spotlights a kid who’s got moves. Like, wow.

Mariandrea Villegas may be tiny, but she packs a mighty amount of energy, skill, coordination and x-factor into her dancing. Oh and joy. Did I mention joy?

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Villegas, 13, danced alongside choreographer Phil Wright at The Dance Awards and holy moly. She snatched the stage right out from under him.

“I think I got smoked,” he wrote when he shared the video on his Instagram page. “I need to stop dancing with these kids. 😂 They’re low-key superheroes.”

If Villegas is any evidence, he’s right. Watch:

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Upworthy shared the video on Instagram as well, and people loved it.

“When you find your passion at a young age, it’s a beautiful thing to see,” wrote one commenter.

“And all with a smile on her face,” wrote another.

“This kid is an absolute star 🙌” shared another, echoing the sentiment of the copious fire emojis in the comments.

Keep on dancing with joy and passion, Mariandrea! We can’t wait to see more from you. (You can follow her on Instagram if you want to see what she’s done up to now. It’s impressive.)

This article originally appeared on 2.20.23

“Love” is one of the most powerful words in the English language, yet it’s also one of the most broadly defined. We use the word “love” for so many things that are neither the same nor equal—our families, our friends, our romantic partners, our hobbies—even our favorite foods.

When we think of a “love story,” we almost exclusively imagine a tale of romance, but that’s not the only kind of love story there is. Sometimes the strongest, most meaningful loves of our lives aren’t romantic at all.

David Shane creates videos in which he approaches couples in public and asks them to share three things they love about each other, resulting in some major #couplegoals moments. But one “couple” he approached had a surprising answer to that question, one that moved both them and the people watching the video afterward to tears.

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Blane approached a man and woman sitting on a bench at a mall and asked his signature question—”Excuse me, could you give me three things you love about each other?” The woman responded, “Well, this is my brother,” and proceeded to share that she loved that they were related and that they care about each other—typical family stuff. But as she started elaborating, the beautiful bond they share became more and more apparent.

This is one you just have to watch:

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People were understandably moved seeing this brother and sister express their love for one another through serious life challenges.

“This is what love looks like. 🥹 What a truly beautiful sibling relationship, 😭🫶🏽” wrote one commenter.

“I gotta stop watching these right after I do my makeup,” wrote another.

“Gosh, I love questions like this that remind us to SEE two people sitting in a mall as the true, precious humans they are,” shared another. “We walk past people every day, all day long and never get to know their story. There must be so many stories we miss. This is the beauty of social media. I wish both of these sweet souls the very best. So glad they have each other.”

Many of us have people with whom we share a deep connection but may not always share our feelings freely. This video is a good reminder to let our loved ones know what they mean to us and to treasure all the love stories in our lives, whether romantic, platonic or familial.

This article originally appeared on 9.29.23

Beyoncé is less than ten days away from releasing her new country-inspired album titled Cowboy Carter. After revealing the cover art of it yesterday, she has now released an alternate version. Unlike the original where she rocks a sash reading the album’s name, the one in this new photo says “act ii / Beyincé” on it.

Although it might be a blink-and-you-miss-it detail, internet users have been wondering why she changed it to an “i” instead of the “o” in her name.

Here’s why it says that.

Why Does Beyoncé’s Alternate Cowboy Carter Cover Say ‘Beyincé?’

For those who might not have known, Beyoncé was named after her mother Tina Knowles-Lawson‘s real last name.

“A lot of people don’t know that Beyoncé is my last name. It’s my maiden name,” Tina previously told People Magazine. “My name was Celestine Beyoncé, which at that time was not a cool thing to have that weird name. I wanted my name to be Linda Smith because those were the cool names.”

However, Tina’s mother and siblings spelled their last name with an “i” to make it Beyincé because there was an error with the birth certificates. When Beyoncé’s grandmother (aka Tina’s mom) tried to correct Tina’s, she was told she should just be lucky because Black people didn’t previously receive certificates.

“It’s interesting — and it shows you the times — because we asked my mother when I was grown. I was like, ‘Why is my brother’s name spelled B-E-Y-I-N-C-E? You know, it’s all these different spellings,’” Tina added. “And my mom’s reply to me was like, ‘That’s what they put on your birth certificate.’ ”

Check out Beyoncé’s alternate Cowboy Carter cover referencing this below.

Back in 1992, Sharon Stone hosted Saturday Night Live and starred in an infamous sketch where a group of airline workers repeatedly trick her into removing articles of clothing. Dana Carvey is real sorry about that.

During the latest episode of Carvey and David Spade’s podcast, Fly on the Wall, the former SNL alums invited Stone on as a guest and quickly got to work apologizing for the shady sketch, which also featured Carvey playing an Indian man. So there were layers here.

“I want to apologize publicly for the security check sketch where I played an Indian man and we’re convincing Sharon, her character, or whatever, to take her clothes off to go through the security thing,” Carvey said via The Daily Beast, which prompted Spade to call the whole thing, “So offensive.”

While Stone appreciated the apology, she actually didn’t mind the sketch:

“It’s so 1992, you know, it’s from another era,” Carvey continued. Stone said she actually didn’t mind “being the butt of the joke.”

“I know the difference between a misdemeanor and a felony,” she said, “And I think that we were all committing misdemeanors” back then “because we didn’t think there was something wrong then. We didn’t have this sense. That was funny to me, I didn’t care.”

The actress later admitted that she “blacked out” for half of the episode, but she definitely remembered the airport sketch.

“I usually wake up when people start asking me to take my clothes off,” Stone quipped to the two comedians.

(Via The Daily Beast)

At long last Megan Thee Stallion is hitting the road this summer. The Hot Girl Coach had the internet shook last week when she announced the Hot Girl Summer Tour, and shared that she will be performing in various cities across the world. Today (March 20), Meg revealed the dates and venues where she will be performing this summer. And of course, with a tour this hotly anticipated, we’ve gotta have equally fabulous openers. Joining Meg on select dates of the Hot Girl Summer Tour is another firecracker of a rapper.

Who is opening for Megan Thee Stallion on the Hot Girl Summer Tour?

Meg will be joined by none other than GloRilla. Glo, who hails from Memphis, has already built an impressive catalog of hit, including her breakthrough single, “FNF (Let’s Go),” the Cardi B-assisted “Tomorrow 2,” and of course, her latest hit “Yeah Glo!,” which is poised to be a hit for the summertime.

Glo will be joining Meg on all of the dates, except for the shows in Napa, CA; Boston, MA; Manchester, TN; Washington DC; and Europe.

You can see the list of dates and venues below.

Megan Thee Stallion 2024 Tour Dates: Hot Girl Summer Tour

05/14 — Minneapolis, MN @ Target Center^
05/17 — Chicago, IL @ United Center^
05/18 — Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena^
05/21 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden^
05/22 — Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center^
05/24 — Napa, CA @ BottleRock Napa Valley Festival*
05/26 — Boston, MA @ Boston Calling Festival*
05/28 — Baltimore, MD @ CFG Bank Arena^
05/30 — Memphis, TN @ FedEx Forum^
06/01 — Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena^
06/04 — Raleigh, NC @ PNC Arena^
06/06 — Hollywood, FL @ Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino^
06/08 — Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena^
06/10 — New Orleans, LA @ Smoothie King Center^
06/11 — Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center^
06/13 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center^
06/14 — Houston, TX @ Toyota Center^
06/16 — Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
06/17 — Denver, CO @ Ball Arena^
06/19 — Phoenix, AZ @ Footprint Center^
06/21 — Los Angeles, CA @ Crypto.com Arena^
06/22 — Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Grand Garden Arena^
07/04 — Glasgow, UK @ OVO Hydro
07/05 — Manchester, UK @ Co-op Live
07/07 — Paris, FR @ Zenith
07/10 — Amsterdam, NL @ Ziggo Dome
07/11 — Cologne, DE @ Lanxess Arena
07/14 — Dublin, IE @ 3Arena
07/16 — Birmingham, UK @ Utilita Arena
07/17 — London, UK @ The O2
07/27 — Washington DC @ Broccoli City Festival

^ with GloRilla

Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Donald Trump loves to talk about how much money he has — until it’s time to pay up. The former president is reportedly struggling to cover a $454 million judgment in a New York civil fraud case. According to NPR, “Trump’s lawyers say they’ve approached 30 companies through four brokers and none will accept his real estate holdings as a guarantee on the bond for $454 million and argue the judgment is unconstitutionally high.”

There’s one way he can make some quick cash: sell Mar-a-Lago.

While appearing on CNN, Bess Freedman, CEO of the luxury estate firm Brown Harris Stevens, discussed Trump’s Florida resort with host Erin Burnett, “I think you need at least 30 days to get any of these properties sold. But Mar-a-Lago, potentially that could be something that could be sold quickly,” she said. “I think the valuation is something in the hundreds of millions and I think there could be a buyer for something like that.” Raw Story has more:

Burnett pointed out there wouldn’t be enough time for a buyer to even see the place. “That would be literally if you’re talking about doing that between now and Monday, that’s picking up the phone, calling someone and then literally writing a check,” she said.

“Yeah,” said Freedman. “I mean, there could be plenty of international people who want to buy that property. I mean, there’s properties that are priced at 150, 200 million that are nearby that and Palm Beach … it’s just shot up like a rocket and people do want to live there.”

What an opportunity for someone to buy the historical site where Vanilla Ice performed on New Year’s Eve and Rudy stumbled around in a drunken, depressive stupor. These properties don’t hit the market every day, you know.

(Via Raw Story)

Saquon Barkley changed teams this offseason, but he’s staying in the NFC East. Barkley, who started his NFL career as a member of the New York Giants, became a free agent and decided to sign a three-year deal with $37.75 million with the Philadelphia Eagles. According to reports, the Giants did not offer him a deal to stay in New York.

Barkley’s move did not go over particularly well in his old city — fellow former Giants running back Tiki Barber was especially harsh towards Barkley, who responded in kind — but it was a pretty popular move in his own household. In a video posted by the team, Barkley recalled the conversation he had with his daughter, Jada, after he made up his mind.

“My daughter, funny story with her, she knows there’s a lot of history in my career with the Eagles,” Barkley said. “Remember one time, when I was with the Giants and we lost to Philly in the playoffs, went to a diner to get some breakfast, and there wa sa bird, she was like, ‘Daddy! Oh no! Oh no!’ I’m like, what is it, and she points to the bird and is like, ‘The Eagles! It’s the Eagles!’ Me and Anna, we just started laughing and I put my head down, kinda started shaking.

“So, when I told her that we were gonna be going to Philly, she kinda was just like, ‘Does that mean we’re gonna win now?’” he continued. “And I just started smiling again and I was like, hopefully we’re gonna win some more games.”

Since Barkley came into the league in 2018, the Eagles have accrued a 56-42-1 record, while the Giants have gone 34-64-1.

When Conor McGregor signed on to the Road House remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal, the MMA fighter had one specific goal in mind: Sticking it to acting legend Meryl Streep. Apparently, McGregor has been quietly nursing a wound from a speech Streep gave at the 2017 Golden Globes where she received the Cecil B. DeMille Award.

“Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners,” Streep said. “And if we kick them all out, you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.”

While most people would’ve ignored the remark, McGregor latched on to it and used it for fuel after joining the Doug Liman-directed remake of the Patrick Swayze classic.

Via The Hollywood Reporter:

“Fighting is the most beautiful form of art, and you know, it’s a great thing to come into this game, which is also art,” he said. “I was really taken aback because fighting is an art. It’s brutal also, so I can understand. It’s not for somebody to make a mistake; it’s real artistry for those who do what we do, so I came in [to filming Road House] with maybe a little chip on my shoulder and wanting to represent my sport and my art, give my best in this arena.”

Unlike Streep, McGregor is open to artists switching formats, which is why he had nothing but glowing words to say about Gyllenhaal’s skills as a fighter. The MMA star would love to see the actor get in the ring.

“Jake’s a consummate professional, and he took it well and gave it right back,” McGregor said. “That’s what you gotta do. Gotta get up and fight right back.”

Road House starts streaming March 21 on Prime Video.

Netflix knows how to ration its new offerings, alright. Even though Hollywood largely went on hold last year, the streamer still has plenty of fresh TV shows and movies up for grabs. That includes not only fixings for true crime devotees (like the latest Crime Scene offering) but also popcorn-crunching fuel in the latest Zack Snyder movie. Additionally, Neil Gaiman addicts will want to tuck in for a The Sandman-tangential series, Dead Boy Detectives, and mystery lovers won’t go wrong by adding Ripley into their queues.

New library additions are also stacked. In particular, Keanu Reeves watchers can tuck into the first three The Matrix movies, which arrive on the streamer this month. Also, have you watched his lovely turn in Always Be My Maybe with Ali Wong? If not, then you are really missing out, and that movie is also streaming on Netflix.

Here’s everything coming to Netflix in April:

Ripley (Netflix series streaming 4/4)

Everyone remembers Matt Damon in The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Andrew Scott is fully shaking off his “Hot Priest” days to don Tom Ripley’s grifter duds. This limited series is, of course, based upon Patricia Highsmith’s series of novels, and Scott takes a job in the 1960s that sets him on the deceit-filled path to murder.

Dead Boy Detectives (Netflix series streaming 4/25)

Welcome to another side of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman Universe, in which two young detectives discover each other while dead after being born decades apart. They’re BFF ghosts who also happen to have a knock for solving mysteries, particularly when something paranormal is afoot. That’s precisely what they encounter, including witches and the depths of Hell while aiming to help the mortal realm find closure through their investigations.

Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver (Netflix film streaming 4/19)

Zack Snyder followers will finally be able to see the conclusion of his two-part, Totally Not-Star Wars saga, in which “legends are made,” allegedly. Maybe a little too self-serious? Perhaps, but still ultimately intended as fun.

Avail TBA
Baby Reindeer

Avail. 4/1
THE MAGIC PRANK SHOW WITH JUSTIN WILLMAN
American Graffiti
Baby Driver
Battleship
Born on the Fourth of July
Glass
Happy Gilmore
Hotel Transylvania
Hotel Transylvania 2
How to Be Single
Inside Man
Inside Man: Most Wanted
It’s Kind of a Funny Story
The Land Before Time
The Little Things
The Matrix
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions
Molly’s Game
Mortal Engines
One Piece Film: Red
Role Models
Sex and the City: Seasons 1-6
Smokey and the Bandit
Smokey and the Bandit II
Split
Step Up: Revolution
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
The Theory of Everything
Wild Things
You’ve Got Mail

Avail. 4/2
Demetri Martin: Demetri Deconstructed
Space Jam: A New Legacy

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Crime Scene Berlin: Nightlife Killer
Files of the Unexplained
Rodeio Rock

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100 Days to Indy: Season 1
Blackfish
Crooks
I Woke Up A Vampire: Season 2
Ripley
The Tearsmith

Avail. 4/5
The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem
Parasyte: The Grey
Scoop

Avail. 4/8
Spirit Rangers: Season 3

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Neal Brennan: Crazy Good

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Anthracite: Secrets of the Sect
The Hijacking of Flight 601
Unlocked: A Jail Experiment
What Jennifer Did

Avail. 4/11
As the Crow Flies: Season 3
The Bricklayer
Heartbreak High: Season 2
Meekah: Season 2
Midsummer Night

Avail. 4/12
A Journey
Amar Singh Chamkila
Love, Divided
Stolen
Strange Way of Life
Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp

Avail. 4/15
The Fairly OddParents: Seasons 4-5
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel

Avail. 4/16
Knocked Up
Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer

Avail. 4/17
Black Sails: Seasons 1-4
The Circle: Season 6
Don’t Hate the Player
The Grimm Variations
Our Living World

Avail. 4/18
Bros
The Upshaws: Part 5

Avail. 4/19
Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver

Avail. 4/21
Duran Duran: There’s Something You Should Know

Avail. 4/22
Ahead of the Curve
CoComelon Lane: Season 2
Fern Brady: Autistic Bikini Queen

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Brigands: The Quest for Gold
Fight for Paradise: Who Can You Trust?

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Deliver Me
Don’t Hate the Player
King Richard
TLC Forever

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City Hunter
Dead Boy Detectives

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The Asunta Case
Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut

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Boiling Point: Season 1
Honeymoonish

Avail. 4/30
Fiasco
Fight for Paradise: Who Can You Trust?

And it’s your last chance to stream these titles:

Leaving 4/4
Day of the Dead: Bloodline
Imposters: Seasons 1-2

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Marshall

Leaving 4/8
The Nice Guys

Leaving 4/9
Horrible Bosses 2

Leaving 4/11
Deliver Us from Evil

Leaving 4/15
Rush
Synchronic
The Zookeeper’s Wife

Leaving 4/22
The Meg
Train to Busan

Leaving 4/24
The Hateful Eight
The Hateful Eight: Extended Version: Season 1

Leaving 4/25
Kung Fu Panda 3

Leaving 4/26
Malignant

Leaving 4/30
13 Going on 30
27 Dresses
30 Days of Night
Apollo 13
Barney and Friends: Seasons 13-14
Elvis
Erin Brockovich
The First Purge
Fried Green Tomatoes
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Joker
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park III
Kindergarten Cop
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
The Purge: Election Year
Silver Linings Playbook
Step Brothers
Twins
Whiplash

We all work too much. It’s pretty widely accepted that the 40-hour workweek is outdated — there is actually a piece of recently proposed legislation in Congress to knock that down to a 32-hour workweek, for what it’s worth! — but despite that, plenty of us work much longer than 40 hours a week. A 9-to-5 is now an 8-to-5 with an hour-long lunch break that no one actually takes, leaving the office late or taking work home with you is common, all that stuff.

NBA players get paid a lot more money than, well, most humans, but they’re also overworked. The league packs 82 games into its season, which is a lot of basketball. There have been calls over the years to reduce that number, or to limit the stuff that really wears players out, like back-to-backs or brutal travel schedules. While the league has done some of this, in recent years, it’s actually placed more of an emphasis on having guys play as much as possible before the playoffs roll around — the In-Season Tournament and Play-In Tournaments are here now, while players have to meet games played thresholds to be eligible for awards, which means if you want to maximize your earning potential, you’re gonna have to grit your way through being banged up sometimes.

Reducing the number of games is unlikely any time soon, in part because the NBA and NBPA just agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement. What the league can do, however, is give players more opportunities to rest up and get their bodies right amid the grind of the regular season. As of now, the only chance to do this is during the All-Star break, and even then, if you’re a star who participates in the weekend, you get a truncated break in February. So when it ends, you’ve got to go through two more months of playing ball after spending the prior four months stuck in the slog that can be the NBA in the early part of its season.

So, how about a compromise that also could also benefit basketball fans who don’t really have the ability to follow the NBA over the next few days? I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that the NBA makes its way onto the back-burner in mid-March for most sports fans due to the NCAA Tournament starting up. The men’s tournament tips off on Thursday, while the women’s tournament begins on Friday. There is a ton of single-elimination college basketball on the horizon, all of it kicks ass, and while it’s going on, only the real NBA sickos are able to dedicate the time and energy to tuning in for non-college games.

As such, what if the league used this as a chance to give its players a few days off before the stretch run? Following the slate of games on Wednesday night, the NBA then goes into a break until the following Tuesday. This would mean that every game for the first two rounds of the men’s and women’s tournaments get every ounce of attention from the sports world (well, except from hockey and soccer fans, but at least there’s an international break in the men’s futbol world right now). It’d give players a chance to rest and recover ahead of the final 15 or so regular season games, while the league’s two main television partners — Turner is the home of the men’s tournament, while ESPN broadcasts the women’s tournament — get to go even more wall-to-wall covering the events than they already do.

It’s also the rare portion of the season where fans wouldn’t be too broken up about the lack of NBA games, as there would still be ample hoops action on their TV screens. It’s not like the NBA and its television partners don’t understand where the eyeballs are this weekend, either. From Thursday to Monday, there are nine games on national television, and all of them are on NBA TV. On Tuesday and Wednesday next week — the first two days without either NCAA Tournament — games are back on TNT and ESPN before the league goes back to putting its marquee games on NBA TV during the Sweet 16 and Elite 8.

Obviously the NBA is not going to just plop a two-week break in the middle of its stretch run, particularly when the Tournaments have days off on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. But between the first two rounds of both Tournaments, there are 96 college basketball games in a stretch of five days that most people are going to be watching. Why not use that as an excuse to let players decompress at a time when all the attention is going to be on something else?

As an added bonus, this serves as an opportunity for players to go to these games. While not every guy made it to the NBA via college ball, a whole heck of a lot have, and I’m sure plenty of them would take a trip to go see their alma maters play. The NBA really likes when its players are visible, so why not give them some time to be courtside for the Tournament — how cool would it be if Aaron Gordon or Jamal Murray got Nikola Jokic to throw on an Arizona or Kentucky jersey at their first round games? What about Keegan Murray leading a Kings contingent to cheer on Caitlin Clark and Iowa, or Evan Mobley making his way to a USC game to see JuJu Watkins? What if a gigantic group of NBA and WNBA players who went to the same school made their way into a student section and showed off the school pride that is always endearing? Plus there’s the obvious: NBA players hyping up the next generation of athletes is awesome, and maybe the league can get a moment involving a current star and a guy like Rob Dillingham at Kentucky that it can look back on when they battle over the years.

Seeing NBA players care about their alma mater is usually really cool, and while I’m sure that some would use this as a chance to go sit on a beach somewhere for a few days, this would give them an opportunity to grab some courtside seats and let loose. And the NBA really likes when it gets a chance to be involved in something that people are paying attention to. Getting to have a presence at the multi-day event that takes over the American sports conscience every single year is a chance for them to do that — I’m willing to wager that the very talented social media folks with the league would go all-in on players being in attendance for games, or would dig deep into the archives to show off the college highlights of today’s biggest stars. No one is going to care more about Draymond Green being at Michigan State-Mississippi State than they will the game itself, but I’ll tell you this as a professional contentsman: People tend to really like seeing famous folks acting like, well, fans.

It would, of course, be completely shocking if the NBA took any of this seriously, and decided that punting on a few days during the final push to the postseason would be an idea worth pursuing. But at the same time, NBA players are people, and like everyone, getting more chances to make sure they can do their jobs to the best of their ability — that they are healthy enough, that they are in a good headspace — is a good thing. Letting the players catch their breath for a few days and enjoy (or, if they want, be part of) this incredible celebration of the sport that happens every March would be a way to do just that.