GoneTrending

With 18 seconds to play in Game 1 against the Lakers, the Golden State Warriors got the ball down three with a chance to tie the game. Stephen Curry darted up the floor, with the Lakers bringing an immediate double to force the ball out of his hands. He passed to Draymond Green who moved it along to Jordan Poole, who proceeded to launch a 30 footer with over 10 seconds left in the game that came up well short.

After the game, Green insisted he was fine with that shot, noting how Poole had been hot from three all night, but it was hard not to wonder if the Warriors could’ve gotten a better look than such a long distance attempt. While much of the debate was about the shot itself, Tim Legler’s biggest issue was with the process that led to the shot, starting all the way back at when Curry started taking off up the floor. On ESPN’s Get Up! Legler offered up a tremendous breakdown of the play (4:20 of the above video) and how a number of factors led to Poole taking the extremely deep three, and how better process from Green and Poole in particular could have yielded a much better opportunity.

As Legler points out, Green and Poole are both late getting up the floor, meaning the Lakers have an easier job trapping Curry higher up the floor. From there, Poole doesn’t space out properly from Green, choosing to stand next to him rather than pushing up further to the wing and closer to the three-point line. Legler also wonders why Green didn’t put the ball on the floor given how much time he had to operate, to try and draw Anthony Davis back further and test Davis to see if he could fight the natural instincts to guard the ball. If Poole had been further out on the wing and Draymond had pulled Davis back, the Warriors could’ve set up Dennis Schröder to have to pick between chasing out on Poole or leaving Klay Thompson in the corner. Finally, he notes that while it was an open shot, shooting the ball from that distance is much more difficult when you are receiving a pass from the side rather than stepping into the shot with momentum, either off the dribble or from a pass being kicked out from inside.

It’s a really good breakdown from Legler and shows the value in what he brings to these discussions. So much of the talk is about the shot itself, without the context of how they got there and also the mechanics of shooting from that deep. By going that extra length, the conversation is less about Poole’s shot selection and more about how the Warriors, given their experience, could and should have done better in that situation to create a better look, either for Poole or Thompson in the corner.

Earlier this Wednesday morning, Missy Elliott made waves by becoming the first female rapper to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

Given the significant achievement, Elliott took to social media to express her gratitude for the tremendous honor.

“I want to say this is HUGE not for just me but all my Sisters in HIPHOP this door is now OPEN to showcase the hard work & what many of us contribute to MUSIC,” she posted. “I have cried all morning because I am GRATEFUL thank you @rockhall & all on the committee & Supafriends.”

“It’s times I have gotten on line & seen your irrelevant your a flop your washed up & it would crush me at times,” Elliott added in a separate tweet. “BUT God you made me STRONG I kept going & you allowed my decades of WORK to SPEAK 4 itself… I am HUMBLED thank you all my Supporters I LOVE YOU.”

For this year’s slate of inductees, the Hall Of Fame’s CEO Joel Peresman also stands by the picks spanning a range of genres. “People always try to pigeonhole what rock and roll is, but our story has always been that it’s a wide tent,” he said. “It includes all different kinds of genres. We think this class really shows the breadth of rock and roll.”

The formal induction ceremony will take place on November 3 in Brooklyn.

Missy Elliott is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

While most people love to gawk and fawn over the celebrities at the Met Gala, the themes are always up for debate. Sometimes it’s about people dressing off-theme, and sometimes it’s about people falling down the stairs. No matter what, the Met Gala always does one thing: make people angry. And that’s why community is all about!

But this year, the theme was based on the controversial designer Karl Lagerfeld, and not everyone was thrilled. Lagerfeld was a German designer who worked with Chanel for many years before his death in 2019. Though he was regarded as an iconic designer, he was also a controversial figure in the fashion world. Some of his well-known controversies include publicly opposing the Me Too movement and critiquing plus-sized models.

While many Hollywood icons happily walked the carpet on Monday, Jameela Jamil slammed her fellow celebrities and the online publications for giving Lagerfeld attention. She posted on Instagram: “Last night Hollywood and fashion said the quiet part out loud when a lot of famous feminists chose to celebrate at the highest level a man who was so publicly cruel to women, to fat people, to immigrants, and to sexual assault survivors. And all the women’s publications, and spectators online, chose to gleefully ignore it,” the She-Hulk actress stated.

The actress continued in the caption: “This isn’t about cancel culture. It’s not even about Karl. It’s about showing how selective cancel culture is within liberal politics, in the most blatant way so far. It’s about showing why people don’t trust liberals. Because of slippery tactics and double standards like this. And it’s not just Hollywood here, the general public online participated and were entirely complicit in the erasure of the truth last night. They replaced their pitchforks with spoons last night, to lap that sh*t right up…”

Jamil isn’t the only person to boycott the event. The Model Alliance also slammed Vogue for choosing the theme when Lagerfeld made many controversial/sexist statements in his life. Still, fashion’s biggest night went on as planned, though there were more cats out there than people had expected. Maybe one of these days they will pick a nice normal theme, like “Pajama Day” or something we can all relate to. At least the cockroach had a good time.

(Via Entertainment Weekly)

The exhilaration of a rock concert. The feeling of deep serenity you experience during a religious ceremony. That sense of connectedness you get while walking through a dense forest. The lightness that flows through your body while dancing and the dissolution of the ego you experience on psychedelics. These are all experiences that give us the feeling of awe.

Most of us love having at least a few of these experiences and believe they help us grow. But now, a team of psychologists has explained why cultivating a sense of awe can benefit our minds and bodies and how we can create these experiences ourselves.

Maria Monroy and Dacher Keltner posit that a sense of awe can help solve the crises of individualism, excessive self-focus, loneliness and a culture of cynicism, and can even improve our physical health. They explain it in a research article titled “Awe as a Pathway to Mental and Physical Health.”

---

Keltner argues that cultivating a sense of awe is an essential addition to modern mindfulness practices because it’s one of the few things that take the focus off the self.

According to the researchers, awe engages five process shifts in the body and mind. Awe alters our neurophysiology by releasing oxytocin, also known as “the love hormone,” and elevates vagal tone, which relieves stress.

It also reduces focus on the self, lowering anxiety and aggressiveness while minimizing body image issues. It makes us more prosocial, so we’re more open to cooperation, sacrifice and sharing. Further, awe engenders a feeling of common humanity while elevating a person’s sense of meaning.

“Meaning, or sense of purpose, is found in making sense of life events, finding connections between current events and the past, and one’s values and social relationships,” Monroy and Keltner write.

Some argue that one of the greatest obstacles to happiness in the modern world is a crisis in meaning. Maybe a bit more awe is the secret ingredient we all use to be happier?

So how do we get out there and experience the life-changing benefits of awe?

The writers say there are five different ways that people commonly experience awe: nature, spiritual engagement, music, dance, and psychedelics. That could be why people who go to raves in the forest and dance through the night often experience a lasting feeling of transcendence.

The benefits of awe have an additive effect that allows us to transcend our everyday consciousness and embrace the greater parts of ourselves, humanity and the world around us.

“Experiences of awe counter the cynicism of our times as well, sharpening our awareness of the moral beauty of others— the ordinary kindness, courage, and selflessness of our fellow humans, and our capacity for overcoming extraordinary challenges,” Keltner writes in The Guardian.

The researchers’ conclusion does a great job of packaging a group of experiences that all solicit similar feelings and then tying them to measurable, practical benefits. They make an excellent case for all of us to have regular experiences of awe—whether singing in church or dancing at 3:00 a.m. at a festival—and to share them with the rest of humanity.

Harry Styles has shared the video for one of the standout tracks from his Harry’s House album. For the “Satellite” video, Styles once again teams up with Aube Perrie, who directed the “Music For A Sushi Restaurant” visual.

In the clip, Styles is seen gearing up for a performance on his Love On Tour. While rehearsing, navigating a packed venue, and later, moving about the city, a tiny robot follows Styles around. Toward the end of the video, Styles is seen laying next to the robot in a field, as they then look up to the night sky, staring at the stars and city lights.

The video itself is symbolic of embracing the emotions and feelings that you can’t escape. In an interview with Rolling Stone last year, Styles revealed that he has spent much time in therapy, learning how to face his emotions in a healthy, conscious manner.

“So many of your emotions are so foreign before you start analyzing them properly. I like to really lean into [an emotion] and look at it in the face. Not like, ‘I don’t want to feel like this,’ but more like, ‘What is it that makes me feel this way?’ ”

You can watch the video for “Satellite” above.

Rage Against The Machine is one of several acts who will be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame as part of the 2023 class. They will join the likes of Missy Elliott, Kate Bush, George Michael, Willie Nelson, and Chaka Khan as this year’s inductees.

Since this year’s inductees were announced this morning, the politically fueled Rage Against The Machine has taken to Instagram to celebrate the remarkable feat.

“It is a surprising trajectory for us to be welcomed into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame,” Rage Against the Machine wrote on social media. “In 1991 four people in Los Angeles formed a musical group to stand where sound and solidarity intersect. We called ourselves Rage Against the Machine.”

The band continued, saying, “A band who is as well known for our albums as we are for our fierce opposition to the US war machine, white supremacy, and exploitation. A band whose songs drove alternative radio to new heights while right-wing media companies tried to purge every song we ever wrote from the airwaves.”

This year’s Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony will take place on Friday, November 3 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

You can read the full statement below.

“It is a surprising trajectory for us to be welcomed into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. In 1991 four people in Los Angeles formed a musical group to stand where sound and solidarity intersect. We called ourselves Rage Against the Machine.

A band who is as well known for our albums as we are for our fierce opposition to the US war machine, white supremacy, and exploitation. A band whose songs drove alternative radio to new heights while right-wing media companies tried to purge every song we ever wrote from the airwaves.

A band who shut down the NY Stock Exchange for the first time in its history. A band who was targeted by police organizations who attempted to ban us from sold-out arenas for raising our voices to free Mumia Abu Jamal, Leonard Peltier, and other political prisoners. A band who sued the US State Department for their fascist practice of using our music to torture innocent men in Guantanamo Bay.

A band who wrote rebel songs in an abandoned, industrial warehouse in the valley that would later dethrone Simon Cowell’s X Factor pop monopoly to occupy the number 1 spot on the UK charts and have the most downloaded song in UK history. A band who funded and organized delegations to stand with Mexican rebel Zapatista communities to expose the Mexican government’s war on indigenous people. A band whose experimentation in fusing punk, rock, and hip-hop became a genre of its own.

Many thanks to the Hall of Fame for recognizing the music and the mission of Rage Against the Machine. We are grateful to all of the passionate fans, the many talented co-conspirators we’ve worked with, and all the activists, organizers, rebels, and revolutionaries past, present, and future who have inspired our art.

-Brad, Tim, Tom, & Zack.”

While the Met Gala is traditionally known for a reported no-selfies policy from Vogue‘s Anna Wintour, celebrities have started breaking the rules over the years, sneaking in some group selfies in the famous bathroom.

Billie Eilish kicked off the trend this year by sharing her own squad in the bathroom. She also captioned it with two no-smoking emojis, poking fun that the spot has routinely been a space for celebrities to have their vices. (However, there are also more signs up, making it clear that smoking and vaping are not allowed in there.)

Joined by Halle Bailey, Elle Fanning, and Maya Hawke, the four stars are all smiles and great energy. Eilish, in standard fashion, is also the only one not wearing white out of the three. Specifically, she wore a dress from Simone Rocha, after choosing other designers for her past two years at the event.

“I’m wearing Simone Rocha. She’s just one of my favorites in the world. She doesn’t custom make anything and I was just like please,” she told Emma Chamberlain during an interview at the event.

As for other past Met bathroom selfies, they have featured Rihanna and Rocky, Timmy Chalamet, Rami Malek, Bella Hadid, Alexa Chung, and many more famous faces.

Back in the seemingly ancient days of 2007, the marketing team for Cloverfield launched a Slusho website that promoted the in-universe drink made with a super addictive ingredient called “Seabed’s Nectar.” Was this a reference to the monster emerging from the sea in Matt Reeves‘ directorial debut? Maybe? The site was more of viral marketing campaign, so who the heck knows?

However, something even more strange has happened: The Slusho website is back online, according to Slashfilm, who first noticed the site’s rebirth:

In 2007, well ahead of the release of “Cloverfield,” a website for the fictional drink appeared and included an interactive game, though nothing directly connected to the movie. (It was all in-universe.) In its present-day form, visitors to the website are greeted with happy animated characters and a tagline boasting, “You can’t drink just six!” You can then mix your own Slusho using six flavors: Blueberry Zoom, Chocolate Rage, Mikan, Nashi, Banana Anime, and Strawberry Tasty.

The most likely explanation for Slusho’s return is forward progress is being made on a Cloverfield sequel. While not much is known about the film, it will be a direct sequel to the original Cloverfield, but it won’t use found footage.

With Reeves tied up building the Robert Battinson-verse, Babak Anvari is currently attached to direct the sequel with a script from Joe Barton that will hopefully explain what the deal with Slusho is. Is it made from monster goo? We bet it’s made from monster goo.

(Via Slashfilm)

Most episodes of Succession are 55 to 65 minutes long. But there are exceptions. The season two finale of the HBO drama, for instance, came in at 74 minutes, while the season three finale wasn’t far behind at 66 minutes. The “very satisfying” series finale will be even longer. “It’s 90 minutes,” composer Nicholas Britell told Variety. “It’s a huge episode — like a movie.”

If 10 minutes of that hour-and-a-half-long runtime was an extended version of Britell’s theme song, it would be the greatest series finale of all-time.

Creator Jesse Armstrong previously discussed why he decided to end the show after four seasons. “We played out various scenarios: We could do a couple of short seasons, or two more seasons. Or we could go on for ages and turn the show into something rather different, and be a more rangy, freewheeling kind of fun show, where there would be good weeks and bad weeks. Or we could do something a bit more muscular and complete, and go out sort of strong. And that was definitely always my preference,” he told the New Yorker. Armstrong added, “I do think that this succession story that we were telling is complete.”

It will officially be complete on Sunday, May 28th (Memorial Day weekend), when the Succession series finale airs on HBO.

(Via Variety)

The Ted Lasso Power Rankings are a weekly analysis of who and/or what had the strongest performance in each episode. Most of the list will feature individual characters, although the committee does reserve the right to honor anything from animals to inanimate objects to laws of nature to general concepts. There are very few rules here.

Season 3, Episode 8 — “We’ll Never Have Paris”

HONORABLE MENTION: Henry Lasso (I have thought about it a lot and I have decided I would like to see him go through a goth phase); Higgins (the Diamond Dog meetings are the best part of his day, no contest); Michelle and Dr. Jake (feels a little early in the relationship for a trip to Paris, no?); Jack (more on this later); the Eiffel Tower (a lamppost with a publicist); Isaac (heart is always in the right place); Will Kitman (Will deleting the photos from his phone raises so many questions about his personal life that I need answers to); Colin (my assumption here is that Isaac knows Colin’s secret now after yoinking his phone, which will be fine but will also probably be a thing soon-ish); Trent Crimm (“woof”); Facebook (for grandparents and racists); Sam (Sam is a sweet man, which is nice, because imagine the scandal if pictures of Rebecca were discovered on his phone); Coach Disco (need to know more about him); lawyers (ruin everything); Jade (still weird to see her smile but it’s kind of nice)

10. Roy (LAST WEEK: 6)

Roy was so close to doing the right thing. He walked up to Keeley and tried to comfort her a little in the wake of the leaked/hacked video fiasco. He said most of the correct things, for a while, which is not nothing for a dude who has, to this point in his life, dealt with feelings by trying to smash his forehead through them. There is and has been progress here. Which is and was lovely.

But…

Then he went and asked who the video was for. Was this curiosity understandable, given the thing where Keeley is his former lover and the video was not for him? I mean, sure. Maybe. The human brain sometimes does this and other self-defeating things to itself, for reasons it does not explain. But you don’t do that out loud, to the person who is going through it, outside, in a public parking lot.

Come on, buddy.

9. Nate (LAST WEEK: 2)

I am happy Nate has a girlfriend and I am happy he appears to be happy and I am mostly happy he dealt with Ted showing up at his game in a healthy way, even if he did backtrack and delete the text to Rupert saying it was okay Ted was there and he found it kind of funny, actually. There is progress here. He’s a very insecure man who needs to take these steps slowly or he might never take them at all.

He does need a better group to solicit advice from, though. His fake little Diamond Dogs — the Love Hounds, which sounds like a rock band from the 1950s — featured a thrice-divorced maniac and a pickup artist. Not ideal.

8. Keeley (LAST WEEK: 5)

Keeley is:

• Dealing with a situation where a private video of hers was leaked to the public, which is embarrassing and violating and humiliating and really just not a lot of fun
• In the process of breaking up with the girlfriend who was extremely not supportive about it all — the first letter was bad, the second was not much better — and who is introducing her as “a friend” all of a sudden after professing her love publicly in the office just the other week
• Reading the comments, which no one should ever do

Still, she’s holding up kind of okay and Jamie showed up to give her a nice hug and I think she will figure this out. Slotting her at eight feels right.

7. Mini golf (LAST WEEK: Unranked)

Three things are true here:

• Mini-golf is a lot of fun
• This GIF is from Holey Moley, the extreme mini-golf show that airs on ABC in the summer and featured the Muppets last season and is just outrageously stupid and something I love as much as some members of my family
• I would like to see Coach Beard and Roy and Dani Rojas compete on this show

Thank you.

6. Ted (LAST WEEK: 8)

ON ONE HAND: The team is on a hot streak. They are piling up wins. This represents progress after a prolonged slump and the surprise midseason retirement of Zava, which feels like it happened 700 years ago somehow.

ON THE OTHER HAND: He is freaking out a little about Michelle and Dr. Jacob — sorry, “Jake” — going to Paris and he’s toying with asking his boss to find him a private investigator to follow them around Europe, which he seems to be backing off of but was maybe not even a super healthy thought to entertain, even for a little. Please picture a tabloid getting ahold of this story and splashing it on the front page with a snappy pun headline.

Get it together, Ted.

5. Rebecca (LAST WEEK: Unranked)

Rebecca is spending a lot of time as a listening board for her flailing friends/employees lately, which is nice, in a way, if only because we all need a person or two in our lives who we can turn to when things go sideways. But it’s also… I don’t know. It’s not easy being the person who everyone dumps their problems on. And Rebecca has her own stuff, too, which is largely being brushed aside right now. I worry about her but I also wouldn’t mind having her as a friend. I could use a rich buddy who gives good advice and has a private investigator or two on call.

4. The Beatles (LAST WEEK: Unranked)

The thing I like about Beard’s little chat with Henry — the one about the history of “Hey Jude” and how it was a song by Paul McCartney written for John Lennon’s kid to help him keep his spirits high — is that, if we follow Beard’s logic a little, it implies he is Paul and Ted is John and, boy, it would be fun to start pushing another dumb theory that this all means Ted gets assassinated before the season ends. The show just goes pitch-black out of nowhere. Full-on Breaking Bad. Imagine how angry people would be. It would almost be worth it for me, just for the chaos. I think it means Roy is George and Higgins is Ringo, too. That’s fun.

Anyway… the Beatles. Pretty good band. I wonder what Paul is gonna do with the six-figure check that I assume the show wrote him to use almost all of one of his most famous songs. I hope he buys a hovercraft.

3. Jamie Tartt (LAST WEEK: 3)

Jamie is:

• Slowly becoming a sweet man
• Handing out body sprays with scents like “leather and cookies,” which… no thanks
• Not entirely sure how to spell the word “password”

He’s getting there.

2. Mae (LAST WEEK: Unranked)

I love Mae. I love that she runs a tight ship and I love that she knows how to hack the games in her pub so little American boys can play them and I love that she might sometimes ban customers for the crime of rooting for the wrong team, even if it was just a little. I also love that she appears to run the only restaurant and bar in town. I like to believe she ran all the competition out with ruthless business practices a few decades back, up to and including tossing firebombs through their windows in the middle of the night.

I would watch this prequel. So would you. Do not lie to me.

1. Coach Beard (LAST WEEK: 1)

He’s a good man.