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The Los Angeles Clippers have spent years trying to change the perception of their franchise. Once the laughingstock of the NBA, the Clippers have been a consistent playoff contender in the West for the last decade. Seven of those seasons have come under the ownership of Steve Ballmer, who uses his status as the NBA’s richest owner to give the Clippers every advantage possible.

That means going into the tax each year to bring in star players and financing his own new arena in Inglewood, the Intuit Dome, which will open next year and further help the Clippers get out of the shadow of their more famous and successful neighbors, the Lakers. To go along with the move into a new building, Ballmer had the team go through a complete rebrand to try and further elevate their public image, getting rid of their widely loathed current logo set from when he initially bought the team.

The Clippers unveiled their new logo set on Monday, along with three of their uniforms for next season, and the entire look is a considerable upgrade for the franchise.

The Clippers are moving away from black as one of their primary colors and moving to navy, along with red, light blue, and gray, with a new logo that features a Clipper ship (albeit, one that also could maybe double as a mega yacht) in the middle of a C with compass lines. Considering how many teams and brands in general are going towards a completely minimalist approach to logos and branding, I appreciate that the Clippers went with something with a bit more character.

As Zach Lowe of ESPN reported, Ballmer considered a name change but learned from focus groups that fans were vehemently against it, which led to them embracing the nautical theme rather than running from it as they had in the past.

The new uniforms are also an improvement, as they cleaned up the script on their lettering and have a much cleaner trio of uniforms than their current set.

The red uniform is my personal favorite, as I think the navy looks much better as lettering on red than vice versa (I would have just gone white lettering with red trim on the navy uniforms). The white is a classic, clean look, but I like the little touches on the red uniform, like the nautical flags on the piping on the sides of the jersey. All three are at minimum solid options, which is an improvement for a team that’s had some truly awful uniforms, and moving away from the dreadful block logo is a huge win for them.

All told, the Clippers being taken seriously depends on what they do on the court — and this year they look like the most dangerous version of this team we’ve seen. That said, the “look good, play good” mantra exists for a reason and they’ve upgraded in that department considerably with this new rebrand.

Nick Offerman won another award for his performance on HBO’s The Last of Us. During his acceptance speech at the Independent Spirit Awards over the weekend, the Parks and Recreation (and Super Bowl ad) star called out the “homophobic hate” the episode received for depicting a gay couple.

“Thank you so much, Film Independent. I’m astonished to be in this category, which is bananas,” Offerman said. “Thanks to HBO for having the guts to participate in this storytelling tradition that is truly independent. Stories with guts that when homophobic hate comes my way and says, ‘Why did you have to make it a gay story?’ We say, ‘Because you ask questions like that.’”

He added, “It’s not a gay story, it’s a love story, you asshole.”

Offerman won Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series over his The Last of Us co-star Murray Bartlett, as well as Billie Eilish (Swarm), Jack Farthing (Rain Dogs), Adina Porter (The Changeling), Lewis Pullman (Lessons in Chemistry), Benny Safdie (The Curse), Luke Tennie (Shrinking), Olivia Washington (I’m a Virgo), and Jessica Williams (Shrinking). The Last of Us also won Best Breakthrough Performance in a New Scripted Series for Keivonn Montreal Woodard, who played Sam in another season-highlight episode.

You can watch Offerman’s speech below.

(Via Deadline)

Jack Harlow has a major hit on his hands with “Lovin On Me,” as the single has so far spent six weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. A common way to keep a big song’s momentum going is to release a new remix featuring another artist, but is that something Harlow is looking to do?

Will Jack Harlow Release A “Lovin On Me” Remix?

It doesn’t look like it: Over the weekend, a TMZ staffer approached Harlow and asked, “You have the biggest song in the world, obviously. Are you going to do a remix?” He responded, “Uh, probably not, probably not. I gotta go.”

The original song itself is a bit of a remix, in a sense, as it’s built on a sample of Cadillac Dale’s 1995 song “Whatever (Bass Soliloquy).”

Harlow has had a relatively quiet 2024 so far, mostly just enjoying the success of “Lovin On Me,” which was released in November 2023. That year, he also released his latest album, Jackman. The project was well-received and he wrote at the time, “2 weeks have passed and I just wanna say the love & respect I’ve felt from not only my peers… but from YALL…the fans…the folks that have supported me from the beginning…it feels f*ckin amazing… I have never felt so connected to the people listening to my music…thank you.”

Jack Harlow is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Are Sabrina Carpenter and Barry Keoghan dating? Recently, it has appeared so, although neither has come out and declared it. Keoghan, though, fueled the rumors this weekend with his social media activity.

On February 23, at the first The Eras Tour concert at Sydney, Australia’s Accor Stadium, Carpenter (who is opening for that round of shows) joined Taylor Swift on stage, where the two sang duet on “White Horse.” Carpenter later shared some photos and videos from the performance on Instagram and reflected on the full-circle moment, writing, “9 year old Sabrina singing white horse would never see this sh*t coming! i love you so so so dearly taylor. always have always will. thank you Sydney for making me feel so welcome!! See you tonight.”

This is where Keoghan comes in: On the post, he commented simply with a princess emoji.

He wasn’t the only notable commenter, by the way: Gayle wrote, “iconic!!!!”; Gracie Abrams chimed in with a bunch of hearts; and No. 1 Taylor Swift fan Flavor Flav came through with some applause emojis.

Back in August, Carpenter reflected on opening for Swift and what it means to her, saying, “I’ve been growing up with her advice in her songs because it’s very much a how-to book on how to survive as a young woman, which is really special. Watching her in and of itself is how you learn. I admire her work ethic and her talent and she’s just so amazing.”

Toronto-based animator and video wizard Kevin Parry has gone mega-viral for his mind-boggling collection of videos where he turns himself into random objects.

In a series of quick clips he changes into everything from a pumpkin to a bright yellow banana and in most of the videos, he appears to suffer a ridiculous death. The videos combine studio trickery with a magician’s flair.

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Parry is a self-taught stop-motion animation expert who cut his teeth working at Laika, the animation studio best known for films such as “Coraline,” “ParaNorman,” and “The Boxtrolls.” But he’s had so much success on social media he moved back to his hometown of Toronto to “do the YouTube/Instagram thing.”

Parry told Newsweek that the secret to his videos is speed.

“The inspiration for these transformations was to create the shortest possible videos with the most impact,” he said. “I specifically made the balloon one to be 4-5 seconds long but to be as shocking and surprising as possible. That’s why it starts with me falling—I thought what could be more scroll-stopping than someone falling face-first into the floor.”

This article originally appeared on 2.15.22

After being purposefully restrained by what the Spurs and Gregg Popovich were asking him to do early in the season, as the organization wanted to get a full appraisal of where their young star would thrive, Victor Wembanyama has been unleashed since the calendar flipped to 2024.

The rookie big man has lived up to the hype of being a generational prospect and is doing things on a nightly basis now that you just won’t see anywhere else in the NBA. He had a triple double with blocks just prior to the All-Star break, and on Friday, Wembanyama posted the NBA’s first 5×5 game since 2019 (after threatening to do it the game prior) and he’s upped his averages to 20.6 points, 10.1 rebounds, and 3.3 blocks per game on the season.

It is truly an experience watching Wembanyama play basketball, as he simply can do things with his combination of length and movement skills that no one else has ever done. His latest outrageous feat came in the first quarter of the Spurs game in Utah on Sunday night, when he nearly stole the ball from John Collins, who recovered it and thought he had a wide open layup at the rim, only for Wembanyama to recover from being at the free throw line to block him.

It’s upsetting how casual this all looks to Wemby, as he has a foot on the dotted line when Collins goes up from the restricted circle and still reaches his impossibly long arm out and flicks the ball away. Collins can’t believe it, begging for a goaltend because there’s no way in his mind anyone could get to that ball without it being illegal. One of my favorite things going right now is seeing NBA players, who are some of the greatest athletes on the face of the earth, being dumbfounded when Wembanyama breaks the laws of physics as we know them to make a play. Collins is the latest to fall victim to the French wunderkind, but certainly won’t be the last (and probably will be joined by a teammate later on Sunday).

The 2024 Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards featured several notable moments. From Barbra Streisand’s Life Achievement Award speech to Pedro Pascal being swept up in Ciara’s beauty and even Billie Eilish signing superfan Melissa McCarthy’s face, the ceremony had something for all to enjoy.

But the most sincere moment occurred during the event’s preshow when Sterling K. Brown and his wife (fellow actor) Ryan Michelle Bathe paused their interview to praise Halle Bailey. As the couple spoke with Entertainment Tonight, Brown unabashedly fanned out over Bailey, specifically, her performance in 2023’s The Little Mermaid (directed by Rob Marshall). Watch the full clip below.

Brown displayed his inner thespian with an impromptu reenactment of Bailey’s recreating the mermaid’s infamous water hair flip. Although Bailey was there as a cast nominee for The Color Purple, she didn’t mind chatting about her box office smash as the fictional Princess Ariel. As Bailey relived the moment, Brown’s kind words began to sink in; she was nearly moving to tears.

Bailey didn’t leave with a trophy but still enjoyed herself, according to her post on X (formerly Twitter). “I was so honored to be nominated with my beautiful ‘Color Purple’ cast and family,” she wrote. “Such a fun night.”

On Saturday Shane Gillis made his belated SNL debut. Why belated? Because the first time the comic was supposed to appear he got fired, after people dug up a litany of racist and sexist jokes he’d made prior to scoring a cast member gig. Since then he’s become something of a big star — big enough, with his hit Netflix special, that he was asked to come back, this time as host. Sure enough, his opening monologue included some touchy stuff, so much so that one musician behind him appeared to be quietly fuming.

Per Newsweek, some people on social media focused in on a young, red-haired guitarist who spent the majority of Gillis’ seven-minute soliloquy — during which he made gay jokes and jokes about down syndrome relatives — sitting still with a stony expression frozen on her face.

“Man, this woman in the SNL band is staring daggers at Shane Gillis throughout his entire monologue,” one person tweeted/Xed. “Just completely and thoroughly displeased.”

Some thought that was a good sign that Gillis bombed.

Some compared the evidently displeased musician to another person not enjoying a very different show.

Throughout his monologue, Gillis mostly talked about his family, including his parents, who were in the audience. He talked about how as a kid he was like his mom’s “gay best friend.” He also discussed his niece, who was born with down syndrome, joking that he could have had it as well. “I dodged it, but it nicked me,” he told the crowd.

Gillis also teasingly addressed the elephant in the room. “I was fired from this show a while ago,” he said at the start of his monologue. “But, you know, don’t look that up, please. If you don’t know who I am, please don’t Google that. It’s fine. Don’t even worry about it.

“I probably shouldn’t even be up here, honestly,” he joked.

Elsewhere in the episode Gillis starred in a fake trailer that dragged Trump but good for his ridiculous $400 gold sneakers.

You can watch Gillis’ monologue in the video below.

(Via Newsweek)

Since 1999, Ricky Martin has encouraged his fans to live la vida loca using his music as the official soundtrack. This spring, the “Ácido Sabor” singer will keep the party going in his upcoming onscreen work. In March, Martin will show off his acting chops in Apple TV+‘s latest series, Palm Royale.

On February 24, the streamer teased Martin’s upcoming appearance with a snippet of his scene alongside Kristen Wiig. “Ricky Martin is Robert,” wrote the company. “…a man of many talents, a keeper of many secrets, and the mixologist behind the meanest Grasshopper in Palm Beach.”

The show’s synopsis reads: “In 1969, an ambitious woman aspires to cross the line between the haves and have-nots to secure her seat at America’s most exclusive, fashionable, and treacherous table: Palm Beach high society.”

Palm Royale will also star Josh Lucas, Leslie Bibb, Amber Chardae Robinson, Kaia Gerber, Laura Dern, and Allison Janney. On the series’ webpage on Apple TV+, Carol Burnett and Bruce Dern are set to make guest cameos.

If you are a fan of dramedies like The White Lotus, then Palm Royale should be right up your viewing alley.

Apple TV+ will begin airing Palm Royale on March 20. Find more information here.

Land ice: We got a lot of it.

Considering the two largest ice sheets on earth — the one on Antarctica and the one on Greenland — extend more than 6 million square miles combined … yeah, we’re talkin’ a lot of ice.

But what if it was all just … gone? Not like gone gone, but melted?

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If all of earth’s land ice melted, it would be nothing short of disastrous.

And that’s putting it lightly.

This video by Business Insider Science (seen below) depicts exactly what our coastlines would look like if all the land ice melted. And spoiler alert: It isn’t great.

Lots of European cities like, Brussels and Venice, would be basically underwater.

In Africa and the Middle East? Dakar, Accra, Jeddah — gone.

Millions of people in Asia, in cities like Mumbai, Beijing, and Tokyo, would be uprooted and have to move inland.

South America would say goodbye to cities like Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires.

And in the U.S., we’d watch places like Houston, San Francisco, and New York City — not to mention the entire state of Florida — slowly disappear into the sea.

All GIFs via Business Insider Science/YouTube.

Business Insider based these visuals off National Geographic’s estimation that sea levels will rise 216 feet (!) if all of earth’s land ice melted into our oceans.

There’s even a tool where you can take a detailed look at how your community could be affected by rising seas, for better or worse.

Although … looking at these maps, it’s hard to imagine “for better” is a likely outcome for many of us.

Much of America’s most populated regions would be severely affected by rising sea levels, as you’ll notice exploring the map, created by Alex Tingle using data provided by NASA.

Take, for instance, the West Coast. (Goodbye, San Fran!)

Or the East Coast. (See ya, Philly!)

And the Gulf Coast. (RIP, Bourbon Street!)

I bring up the topic not just for funsies, of course, but because the maps above are real possibilities.

How? Climate change.

As we continue to burn fossil fuels for energy and emit carbon into our atmosphere, the planet gets warmer and warmer. And that, ladies and gentlemen, means melted ice.

A study published this past September by researchers in the U.S., U.K., and Germany found that if we don’t change our ways, there’s definitely enough fossil fuel resources available for us to completely melt the Antarctic ice sheet.

Basically, the self-inflicted disaster you see above is certainly within the realm of possibility.

“This would not happen overnight, but the mind-boggling point is that our actions today are changing the face of planet Earth as we know it and will continue to do so for tens of thousands of years to come,” said lead author of the study Ricarda Winkelmann, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

If we want to stop this from happening,” she says, “we need to keep coal, gas, and oil in the ground.”

The good news? Most of our coastlines are still intact! And they can stay that way, too — if we act now.

World leaders are finally starting to treat climate change like the global crisis that it is — and you can help get the point across to them, too.

Check out Business Insider’s video below:

This article originally appeared on 12.08.15