Every year at the end of the NBA trade deadline, websites (ourselves included!) publish a list of winners and losers. The idea is that some teams/players did better than others, and as a result, we try to determine who played the game the best with the All-Star break, the second half of the season, and the playoff push all looming.
But every year, there are two people who usually find themselves at the center of the deadline: ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and The Athletic’s Shams Charania. We’re at the apex of slop season (as my college friend @TrillBroDude calls it), and while there are tons of journalists who work their asses off ahead of the deadline, Wojnarowski and Charania are the two whose Twitter accounts tend to be the most active ones in announcing deals that have gotten done.
We decided to have a little fun with this for the 2024 deadline by introducing the Woj vs. Shams scoreboard, a completely arbitrary way of assigning points to the two of them for the trades that they break. (If we do this for the 2025 trade deadline and beyond, we’ll expand it out a bit to include other national newsbreakers.) Here is how the scoring breaks down, with the caveat that only posts made to their Twitter accounts are considered for scoring:
Breaking a trade involving a star: 10 points
Breaking a trade involving anyone else: 5 points
Follow-up tweets first breaking details about a trade (specific picks/other players/the word “sources” must be in the tweet): 2 points
This is, once again, a totally arbitrary scoring system based on absolutely nothing other than us trying to continue to churn out trade deadline-related content, because that is our job. Every trade during the week of the deadline is considered here, so let’s dive in.
Our final score gives Wojnarowski an 84-56 win. Congrats to Woj, who doesn’t really win anything other than professional pride for this, but maybe next year we’ll make a trophy for this or something.
Vanity Fair revealed today that cult favorite supernatural Western series Wyonna Earp is coming back for a 90-minute special on Tubi, tentatively titled Wynonna Earp: Vengeance. The entire main cast will be back, including Melanie Scrofano (Wynonna Earp), Tim Rozon (Doc Holliday), Dom Provost-Chalkley (Waverly Earp), and Katherine Barrell (Nicole Haught).
Creator Emily Andras teased some plot details. “Doc and Wynonna have been on an adventure, and Waverly and Nicole have been at home in [the Earp hometown of] Purgatory, doing their thing,” she said. “I think it’s going to be really interesting to see, hopefully, what gets everybody home — maybe facing a challenge they’ve never faced before, something pretty intense. It’s all your favorite — hopefull — character moments, but also a little bit about growing up and sort of, like, being who you are now and earning all your choices.”
Importantly, the special will be friendly to “Earpers” and anyone who hasn’t seen Wyonna Earp alike (all four seasons and 49 episodes, which originally aired in the United States on Syfy, are available on Netflix). “I hope it’s a gateway drug,” Andras said.
Wynonna Earp: Vengeance will premiere later this year on Tubi.
By now, you’re likely aware of breakout singer/songwriter Noah Kahan — whether intentionally or against your will — which means you’re probably also aware that he has a new album coming out called Stick Season (Forever), an extended version of the 27-year-old Vermont native’s latest album, originally released in 2022.
What Time Will Noah Kahan’s Stick Season (Forever) Be On Spotify?
The new version includes a slew of remixes including such guest stars as Brandi Carlile, Gracie Abrams, Hozier, Kacey Musgraves, and Post Malone, and is out on February 9 via Mercury. This means it’ll most likely hit streamers such as Apple Music, Spotify, and Tidal at midnight ET or 9 pm PT. For more information and to pre-save the album, you can click here.
Tracklist
1. “Northern Attitude”
2. “Stick Season”
3. “All My Love”
4. “She Calls Me Back”
5. “Come Over”
6. “New Perspective”
7. “Everywhere, Everything”
8. “Orange Juice”
9. “Strawberry Wine”
10. “Growing Sideways”
11. “Halloween”
12. “Homesick”
13. “Still”
14. “The View Between Villages”
15. “Your Needs, My Needs”
16. “Dial Drunk”
17. “Paul Revere”
18. “No Complaints”
19. “Call Your Mom”
20. “You’re Gonna Go Far”
21. “The View Between Villages (Extended)”
22. “Forever”
23. “Dial Drunk (Remix)” Feat. Post Malone
24. “Call Your Mom (Remix)” Feat. Lizzy McAlpine
25. “She Calls Me Back (Remix)” Feat. Kacey Musgraves
26. “Northern Attitude (Remix)” Feat. Hozier
27. “Everywhere, Everything (Remix)” Feat. Gracie Abrams
28. “Homesick (Remix)” Feat. Sam Fender
29. “You’re Gonna Go Far (Remix)” Feat. Brandi Carlile
30. “Paul Revere (Remix)” Feat. Gregory Alan Isakov
Stick Season (Forever) is out 2/9 via Mercury. Find more information here.
From the moment Bruce Brown joined the Toronto Raptors, the widespread assumption was that the team would turn around and trade him to a contender that could use his services. As the weeks dragged on, the more it looked like Brown would be a potential option for teams at the trade deadline, but ultimately, nothing came to fruition.
According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, Toronto is making the decision to hold onto Brown as 3 p.m. comes and goes on Thursday afternoon.
The Toronto Raptors are keeping Bruce Brown Jr., sources tell ESPN.
Brown came to the Raptors as part of the trade that sent Pascal Siakam to the Indiana Pacers. Between that and OG Anunoby’s trade to the New York Knicks, it seemed clear that Toronto would eventually send Brown elsewhere, as his defensive versatility, ability to hit threes, and willingness to be a connecting piece on the offensive end of the floor makes him a snug fit just about anywhere. But instead, the Raptors are going to move forward with Brown on the roster this year, and they’ll need to make a decision on the 2024-25 campaign, as Brown has a team option for next year worth $23 million.
Brown is averaging 11.5 points, 4.8 rebounds, and 2.8 assists per game for the Pacers and Raptors this season on 46.9/33.1/83.7 shooting splits.
Each week our staff of film and TV experts surveys the entertainment landscape to select the ten best new/newish shows available for you to stream at home. We put a lot of thought into our selections, and our debates on what to include and what not to include can sometimes get a little heated and feelings may get hurt, but so be it, this is an important service for you, our readers. With that said, here are our selections for this week.
Want to know what happens if you take Little Giants, Mighty Ducks, and Snoop Dogg and whir them up into a cute little paste? Well, you get The Underdoggs, which stars Snoop as a former football star who gets roped into coaching a group of little football misfits to avoid a stretch in prison. You know what you’re getting here. There won’t be any big surprises. But it has a chance to be a sweet little movie, which would all really be a heck of a thing to explain to anyone who was frozen back in the mid-90s and was just thawed out this year. Maybe not the first thing we should explain to them, but still. It’s on the list.
Irish national treasures Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan partner for this thought-provoking sci-fi experiment that’s filled with big themes, unanswered questions, and a strangely large amount of bug shots. Mescal and Ronan play Junior and Hen, a couple stranded in their mundane life, living in a future ravaged by climate change. When one of them is offered a chance to escape with the caveat that their robotic replica will stay behind to keep the other company, hard questions about their marriage, their identities, and their purpose threaten to tear them apart. It’s a lo-fi love story with a twist ending you won’t see coming.
The fourth season of this NatGeo series focuses on Civil Rights leaders Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X and will, as per the promotional materials “explore the formative years, where they were molded by strong fathers and traumatic injustices, and their rich, parallel stories as they shaped their identities and became the change they wished to see in the world.” Which sounds cool and informative and like everything television can be. The trick is making it work. Worth diving in to check it out.
What do you get if you cross Knives Out with Only Murders in the Building and add Mandy Patinkin and set it all on a boat? Well, this show, apparently, which is described thusly by Hulu: “Imogene Scott finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time and becomes the prime suspect in a locked-room murder mystery; to prove her innocence, she must partner with a man she despises, Rufus Cotesworth, the world’s greatest detective.”
It still feels like maybe we should just do a Knives Out/Only Murders crossover event series on a boat, but this works too.
— A new Prime Video series described as folllows: “A young married couple’s life turns upside down after secrets are revealed about each other’s past.”
— Stars Kaley Cuoco, who rules, and David Oyelowo, who also rules and has seen his star rise big time in the last year
— Maybe don’t watch this with the spouse you just married?
A movie that launched a thousand Etsy candles dedicated to nailing the scent of Jacob Elordi’s bathwater, this Emerald Fennel-directed monstrosity masterpiece is a twisted commentary on class, wealth, and obsession. Barry Keoghan is disturbingly good at playing a suburban psycho hoping to f*ck, slurp, and murder his way into the aristocratic ranks while Elordi plays the good-natured rich-boy naïve enough to think he can save him. Rosamund Pike is also here, chewing every bit of scenery as a vapid housewife, and all the stomach-churning twists culminate in a plot reveal that’s as sick as it is satisfying.
Tom Hollander (not Tom Holland) stars in Ryan Murphy’s latest FX creation that’s already dubbed itself the tale of the “Original Housewives of New York.” Hollander plays Truman Capote (yes, that Truman Capote) a writer with a standing invitation to the brunch table of New York’s wealthiest women. He trades on his status as their confidante, writing a book about the scandals and secrets harbored within their Upper East Side brownstones which leads to an all-out society war that no one escapes unscathed. Come for the clothes, stay for the drama and the veteran actresses like Demi Moore, Calista Flockhart, and Naomi Watts who make this thing so deliciously messy.
Okay, Apple is getting into the adult animation game, making cartoons for grown-ups. And if you’re going to do that, you can sure do a lot worse than Beavis & Butthead creator Mike Judge, who teams up for a show with his Silicon Valley breakout Zach Woods that the service describes thusly:
The stop-motion comedy follows the staff of the public radio show, In the Know, hosted by Lauren Caspian (Zach Woods), a well-meaning but hypocritical nimrod. Each episode follows the making of an episode of the radio show, in which Lauren conducts in-depth interviews with real human guests and collaborates with a diverse crew of public radio staff (who are puppets).
Yes. Sure. This can work. All the pieces are right there.
No one plays a grieving mother on the fringes of a mental breakdown quite like Nicole Kidman and this latest prestige drama from Amazon Prime Video she more than stakes her claim on the character archetype. As a wealthy American housewife living in Hong Kong and desperately searching for her missing child, Kidman anchors this Lulu Wang-created series about womanhood, identity, and loss. The subject matter is a bit heavy – best consumed in small portions instead of a full binge – but the visuals are stunning, as is the immersion into a culture we rarely see on screen. Will Nicole Kidman ever be happy on a TV show? We hope not.
Paul Giamatti is picking up awards left and right for his performance in Alexander Payne’s latest film, which is great. For Paul Giamatti. But also for us. Like, as a society. Look at this: “A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school remains on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school’s head cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.”
Our official position here is twofold: one, we support anything where Paul Giamatti gets to be curmudgeonly; two, we love to see Paul Giamatti thrive. This checks both boxes.
Greta Gerwig’s massive summer blockbuster hits streaming. There’s not much to say that hasn’t been said. It’s wickedly smart and funny and sly. It’s much weirder than people expected, in the best ways possible. Margot Robbie is incredible as Barbie, providing layers of depth to a character who has rarely before had more than one. Ryan Gosling is a delight as the deeply confused Ken who is watching his simple little world crumble around him. There are cameos galore and touching moments and belly laughs. If you haven’t seen it yet, now’s the time. If you have, well, now’s the time to watch it again. This one is worth a rewatch. Or two. Or five. How you spend your time is your business.
Disney+’s first street-level entry into the MCU is as kickass as its Netflix predecessors with a magnetic anti-hero in Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox) and the kind of gritty, neck-breaking fights that more than earn its TV-MA rating. Picking up after the events of Hawkeye, Maya has cut ties with the Tracksuit Mafia and her adoptive dad, Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio), fleeing to Oklahoma to connect with her roots. The show plays up its connection to Netflix’s Daredevil – Fisk is in every episode and Charlie Cox returns as Hell’s Kitchen’s most pious vigilante for a vicious fight sequence that sets the tone for the rest of the season. But the draw here is Cox, and the character-driven storytelling Marvel is committing itself to with these more grounded entries into its universe.
Here’s a stellar Band Of Brothers followup from Steven Spielberg (Amblin Television) in conjunction with Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman (Playtone). This new series is based upon Donald L. Miller’s book of the same name about the “Bloody Hundredth,” i.e. the 100th Bomb Group, who risked everything they had to conduct bombing raids upon Nazi Germany. Austin Butler dropped his Elvis voice to portray a U.S. major alongside Callum Turner. There’s a “Buck” and a “Bucky” in the character list, and there’s also the ever-present Barry Keoghan joining in the camaraderie while the U.S. carries out perilous missions to take down Hitler’s Third Reich. It’s an adventure-filled yet harrowing viewing experience but fully worth the ride.
Pablo Schreiber is back as Master Chief, and if he has any say in the matter, there won’t be Sexy Master Chief on display this season. Officially, he will be fretting about the changing tide of his war and how to prepare for what he believes is an imminent attack by the Covenant on the most valuable stronghold known to mankind. Can he finally find the Halo, which will either help humanity survive or kill it off forever? So much pressure! Yeah, please don’t have him wasting time getting down and dirty this season.
Charlie Kaufman, the brilliant writer of Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Synecdoche, New York, is back with his first movie in four years. Orion and the Dark is an animated fantasy film about a nervous young boy (voiced by Jacob Tremblay) who’s scared of the dark, but things begin to change when he meets the manifestation of darkness (Paul Walter Hauser). It’s the kind of weird premise that Kaufman excels at.
24 years, 12 seasons, and countless social assassinations; Curb Your Enthusiasm is set to begin its end, promising a season filled with familiar faces (Ted Danson, Richard Lewis, Cheryl Hines, Vince Vaughn, JB Smoove) and misanthropic delights as Larry David readies to walk off into the sunset so he can strangle more muppets or do whatever else he does when he isn’t kvetching about required niceties and other peccadilloes. Whether this season will be funny is not in question. Whether Larry’s “character” makes it out alive is.
Can Season 4 recapture the magic of Season 1? At the very least, this new story seems to be hitting some of the same atmospheric and tonal notes as the original story starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, who shall not be seen but are executive producing. There will be plenty of literal and figurative chills while Jodie Foster’s detective teams up with an old colleague portrayed by Evangeline Navarro. Together, they will attempt to unearth frozen truths involving horrors that took place during a Polar Night when an entire research died under mysterious circumstances. Are your teeth chattering already? Same.
Here comes “the Godmother” of cocaine. Original Narcos co-creator Doug Miro and Narcos: Mexico executive producer Eric Newman team up to tell the story of Colombian drug cartel leader Griselda Blanco, a prolific cocaine trafficker as portrayed by Sofia Vergara. We haven’t seen the Modern Family star get dramatic on TV yet, so this series should attract eyeballs for more reasons than one. Griselda reigned in Miami in the 1970-’80s, and her tour of terror included operating under 20 aliases, moving hundreds of kilos per month, and ordering dozens of murders.
School’s back in session at Abbott Elementary and the show has made some big changes after the romantic cliffhanger that ended season two. Janine has a new job (and a new love interest), Gregory’s struggling to move on, Josh Segarra from The Other Two is auditing classrooms, and Ava Coleman is a Harvard (adjacent) graduate. Lord help Mrs. Howard. After a longer-than-expected hiatus it’s nice to see the Emmy-winning comedy reinventing itself instead of resting on its laurels, but don’t worry, there are plenty of Janelle James one-liners and Tyler James Williams pans to camera to keep things comfortably familiar.
Did we really need a reimagining of the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie movie? Watch the first few episodes, and you might agree that this effort was not wasted. Donald Glover and Maya Erskine pick up as assassins who happen to be paired together (and “married”), and you aren’t ready for the rollicking, madcap, action-packed set of missions that they must complete (or else?). Even better: John and Jane Smith’s onscreen relationship is as much of daredevil stunt as the action scenes.
Kanye West has dropped an eerie video for his “Vultures” song, which features Bump J and Lil Durk on the title track of his forthcoming collab album with Ty Dolla Sign.
Titled “Vultures (Havoc Version),” the visuals were created by Jon Rafman. Much like the title suggests, there are quite a bit of creepy scenes, including a clown staring out of a car window, a hand on fire, strange figures moving in the night, a Scream-inspired Ghostface holding a gun, and lots of other nightmare-inducing vibes.
As some of the comments pointed out, aspects of it also appear to be AI-generated. And if not, it has some very eerie movements from the characters who appear in the blurred video.
This release comes just after West also shared a video of his daughter, North, starring in a music video for her song, “Talking/Once Again.” He also took to Instagram to announce a listening event for Vultures that will take place in New York tomorrow, February 9 at UBS Arena. It will happen after the Chicago one, which is slated for tonight, just before Vultures Vol. 1 is released.
Check out Kanye West’s “Vultures (Havoc Version)” video above.
Ty Dolla Sign is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
If you’ve never heard of the Cat Distribution System, then you probably don’t own a cat, or you do, but you acquired your cat in a normal, non-weird way. You know, like at an animal shelter or from some nice lady on social media who had a box of kittens. Some people do get cats that way, and it’s one thousand percent a valid way to attain cat parent status.
But some lucky folks get cats through the Cat Distribution System (or CDS for short). Is this system real? The only people who know this are cats. They’re also the ones that run the system, so the rules and the way in which you attain your purr machine may be a bit wonky. You may wake up with an unknown cat in your bed even though all of your windows are closed, or you just may be like this delivery driver.
The driver was out picking up orders when a cat came out of the CDS and jumped on the man’s leg as he attempted to get back to his car. Thanks to his dash cam, you get to see CDS at work, and so did his mom. The video currently has over 2.8 million views on TikTok.
When the driver asked his mom if he could keep the cat, at first she said no. Then she saw the footage of the cat aggressively and desperately choosing her son to be its new cat dad—and that’s how you get a cat through the CDS. Once the cat realized she made the right choice, she snuggled up on her dad’s lap as he drove her home.
“We are not cat people,” reads the text overlay. “My youngest son was out making deliveries last night. A cat kept following him. Then jumped on his leg and would not let go.”
I have news for you, Mom, you’re cat people now. It’s how the Cat Distribution System works. They train their recruits to turn non-cat people into cat people, one unsuspecting human at a time. If you don’t make it to the end of the video, yes, they kept the cat and her name is Venus. That’s how the system is designed.
#catrescue #catrescueroftiktok I am not a #catperson but maybe now I will be after today. I #Love my #son has a #huge #compassionate #heart #momsoftiktok #rescate #gato
Dejounte Murray‘s name has popped up frequently in trade rumors during the 2023-24 season. The Atlanta Hawks are underperforming, Murray’s fit alongside Trae Young is a clunky one, and he’s about to start a 4-year deal that is rather palatable for teams that could use help in the backcourt over the next few years.
As such, there have been near-constant rumblings about what the future holds for Murray, but on Thursday with less than 15 minutes before the trade deadline, we learned that Murray isn’t going anywhere. Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN reported that, despite their efforts to put a trade together, Murray will stay in Atlanta going forward.
The Atlanta Hawks are keeping guard Dejounte Murray, sources tell ESPN. No trade for him.
Murray spent the first five years of his career as a member of the San Antonio Spurs, where he earned an All-Star berth in 2022 and established himself as one of the premier guard defenders in the NBA. Atlanta paid a hefty price to acquire him that following offseason, as the team parted ways with a trio of first-round picks and a pick swap, along with veteran forward Danilo Gallinari.
It’s unclear how high Atlanta’s asking price was to move Murray, but no matter what it was, no one was able to meet it. Now, Murray will remain a Hawk, where he is averaging 21.4 points, 5.2 assists, and 5.1 rebounds per game for the Hawks on 46.6/37.0/83.4 shootings splits this season.
Abbott Elementary Season 3 premiered on Wednesday evening, but fans of the hit ABC sitcom were hit with an unusual circumstance: The show picked up five months into the school year, which has not been the cast for previous seasons. Fortunately, creator and star Quinta Brunson stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! that same night to explain why Season 3 had to make some changes to its timeline.
“Abbott is a show where we try to go by the school calendar,” Brunson told Kimmel via The Hollywood Reporter. “We start in September, along with teachers, and we like to stick with that calendar. This year, we had to make some adjustments so we got creative, so to say why we’re starting in February instead of September.”
This season will also have a shorter number of episodes, which Brunson doesn’t mind.
“I’m not mad at it right now,” she quipped to Kimmel. “Twenty two was a lot.. but it’s fun! Everybody has fun, right? But you know, 14 has been great.”
As for the reason behind the time jump and the shortened season, that would be the dual writers and actors strikes that delayed projects all across Hollywood. Brunson supported both efforts, but was happy to get back to work on Season 3 once the strikes were resolved.
Back in October 2013, she told Deadline that it was “inspiring” to “build something that was both grounded, and for this premiere, splashy enough to bring people back at the same time.”
East High School alum Zac Efron recently starred in The Iron Clawas a member of the iconic Von Erich wrestling family, and we all know that he has an impressive history portraying sports legends, so his role was unsurprisingly praised by critics and fans alike. And Adele.
But Efron recently expressed that it’s not easy to act as an athlete due to all of the long and exhausting takes, which is why the experience of making The Iron Claw was “jarring” for the actor. They clearly don’t have those Wildcat uniforms on hand anymore.
“One of the jarring moments that I wasn’t expecting was when the wrestling stops, or there’s a cut, or in between setups or takes – you’ve just got to stand there with a whole crowd around, in your underwear,” he told Metro. “And there’s nothing really going on,” he added. Some would argue that Efron walking around in his underwear isn’t “nothing” but that’s neither here nor there.
Efron was taken aback by the scene, which he admitted was difficult for him (and his hands). “That’s a different kind of feeling. I’ve never experienced that one before,” Efron added. “You just kind of gotta… like, where do you put your hands? On your hips? You can’t help – there are people everywhere, you can’t look up and have somebody not looking back at you! So that was a bit unnatural,” he said.
Even though it might be “unnatural,” Efron’s half-naked body has inspired many other actors, so he’s doing something right.
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