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After a scalding hot stretch that included 18 wins in 21 games, the Brooklyn Nets are in the midst of a rough patch. Kevin Durant is sidelined with injury and, in the first three games without him, the Nets scored less than a point per possession (the worst mark in the NBA) on the way to three straight losses. Brooklyn does have Kyrie Irving to carry a substantial workload but, in short, the Nets’ other star, Ben Simmons, hasn’t quite lived up to the billing on the offensive end, and he had a tough night on Thursday against the Suns.

With the Nets already down 16 points in the third quarter, Simmons was called for his fifth foul in 18 minutes of action, and it came on a moving screen. He didn’t take kindly to the call and, just seconds later, he picked up a pair of technical fouls to earn an ejection and an early trip to the locker room — despite the best efforts of teammate Yuta Watanabe on the bench to keep Simmons from his second.

Simmons did finish with six assists in 18 minutes, and he has 46 assists combined in his last five games. However, Simmons scored just 33 total points in seven games before Thursday, and he generated only seven points before the ejection in this game.

Obviously, Simmons isn’t a dynamic scoring option at this point. Though he does bring value as a defender and playmaker, it is actively wild to see a player of his stature and salary slot carrying a 14.6 percent usage rate, and the bizarre nature of Simmons’ season continued with this strange exit.

John Legend and Chrissy Teigen‘s family has grown by one. Last week, the two welcomed their third child, as Legend revealed during a private concert. Today (January 19), Legend took to Instagram to share the first image of their newborn baby.

In the photo, Legend and Teigen’s children, Luna and Miles are seen holding their baby sister, who Legend revealed is named Esti Maxine.

“On Friday, we welcomed Esti Maxine Stephens to our family, and our house is overflowing with love and joy,” said Legend in the post’s caption. “I’m in awe of Chrissy’s strength and resilience and I’m so thrilled to see how Luna and Miles embrace their baby sister. I’m so, so grateful, but that doesn’t seem like a big enough word…”

Teigen shared the same photo on her Instagram account, expressing the joy she, Legend, and their kids have felt since bringing Esti home.

“the house is bustling and our family could not be happier,” she said in the post’s caption. “Daddy sheds nightly tears of joy seeing Luna and Miles so full of love, and I am learning you still need diapers with a c section!? We are in bliss. Thank you for all the love and well wishes – we feel it all!”

You can see the new family photo above.

If you’re sharing a Netflix password with your friends or a disembodied hand meant to spy on your while you’re away at private school, be prepared to hear from Netflix Headquarters very soon. The streaming giant has been threatening to stop users from mooching for almost a year, and they made their intentions known at the end of 2022 that we’d be seeing a plan put into place to remove out-of-household user access in “early” 2023. Well, guess what? It’s now early 2023, and Netflix chose its fourth quarter earnings report to announce the beginning of the end for letting your barber watch Bo Burnham stand-up shows on your dime.

According to the report (via The Hollywood Reporter), the earnings letter reported a cartoonishly high amount of profile sharing among users.

“Today’s widespread account sharing (100M+ households) undermines our long term ability to invest in and improve Netflix, as well as build our business. While our terms of use limit use of Netflix to a household, we recognize this is a change for members who share their account more broadly,” Netflix said.

100M+? Almost half of all Netflix accounts let someone mooch? That seems difficult to believe, but it would also point to why the company is so steadfast in this totally bummer move.

“Part of it is what we call casual sharing, which is people could pay, but they don’t need to and so they’re borrowing somebody’s account. So our job is to give them a little bit of a nudge and to create features that make transitioning to their own account easy and simple,” co-CEO Greg Peters said.

The strategy makes sense, but the big question is whether that nudge will send people looking for their credit cards or learning to live without the final seasons of Stranger Things.

(via The Hollywood Reporter)

Ava Max is steadily gearing up for her sophomore studio album, Diamonds & Dancefloors, which has kept fans hyped with its plethora of shimmery singles. Plus, Max appeared at CNN’s New Year’s Eve party to play a few tracks — showing that she’s serious about becoming one of the most anticipated pop stars.

“I had to figure out who I was again because I let someone else define me for the past year,” she told Rollacoaster Magazine. “It’s been a journey for sure. I’m stronger than ever now, I look back and realize it was all a good thing.”

Release Date

Diamonds & Dancefloors is out 1/27 via Atlantic.

Tracklist

1. “Million Dollar Baby”
2. “Sleepwalker”
3. “Maybe You’re The Problem”
4. “Ghost”
5. “Hold Up (Wait A Minute)”
6. “Weapons”
7. “Diamonds & Dancefloors”
8. “In The Dark”
9. “Turn Off The Lights”
10. “One Of Us”
11. “Get Outta My Heart”
12. “Cold As Ice”
13. “Last Night On Earth”
14. “Dancing’s Done”

Features

As of now, there are no confirmed features on Ava Max’s new album.

Artwork

The original artwork was changed from an up-close shot of Max with a diamond in her mouth, on the left, to one that is a bird’s eye shot with bluer diamonds. The current cover art of Diamonds & Dancefloors is pictured on the right.

Singles

Ava Max has released a handful of singles from Diamonds & Dancefloors so far. The lead, “Maybe You’re The Problem,” dropped in April of last year. Since then, Max’s other singles include “Million Dollar Baby,” “Weapons,” “Dancing’s Done,” and “One Of Us.” According to her fandom wiki, she also plans to release “Cold As Ice” as a promotional single on January 23.

Ava Max is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Trippie Redd has the internet buzzing. The rapper is set to drop his new album, Mansion Musik tonight, which has been executive produced by Chief Keef. Upon the announcement for the album, fans are aching to hear news about an upcoming tour.

Though Trippie has not yet announced a tour to accompany the album, he is set to perform on several dates this year across the US and the UK.

Mansion Musik marks Trippie’s first album in nearly two years. In addition to Mansion Musik, Trippie has also been teasing A Love Letter To You 5 from his acclaimed mixtape series. In an interview with Montreality, Trippie said this will be the best music he’s ever made.

“This is the last A Love Letter To You so…I done put my all into it,” he said. “I’ve been working on this for like, three to four years. Dropping projects, but still having music tucked to the side for this project.”

You can see dates for Trippie’s upcoming performances below and purchase tickets here.

01/21 — Bangor, ME @ Cross Insurance Center
01/22 — Lowell, MA @ Tsongas Center
01/22 — Washington, DC @ Capitol One Arena
03/02 — Tempe, AZ @ Mullett Arena
03/03-05 — Inglewood, CA @ Hollywood Park Grounds
08/24-27 — Reading, Great Britain @ Reading Festival

After an eventful 2022, which saw Ice Spice go viral with several hits, the New York rapper is gearing up for the release of her debut EP. Today (January 19), she took to Instagram and Twitter to reveal the title of the EP, Like…?.

The EP’s artwork left little to the imagination. In the cover art, she is seen bent over, and on the back of the cover art, the tracklist is written on her backside.

Earlier this week, Spice was spotted in New York City shooting music videos for some of the EP’s songs. She was reportedly set to film the video for a song called “Gangsta Boo,” however, her collaborator, Lil Tjay, was reportedly arrested ahead of the shoot. Fans then shared images of her and her crew dancing to “In Ha Mood,” presumably using the time to shoot the video for that single instead.

It appears Spice is dropping the EP at midnight tonight, as she has been retweeting tweets with the hashtag #LIKEATMIDNIGHT.

Lil Tjay also took to Twitter, saying, “Me nd @icespicee_ dropping some pain tonight!”

In the meantime, you can check out the cover art and tracklist for Like…? below.

1. “In Ha Mood”
2. “Princess Diana”
3. “Gangsta Boo” with Lil Tjay
4. “Actin’ A Smooch”
5. “Bikini Bottom”
6. “Munch (Feelin’ U)”

After dating rumors swirled after Selena Gomez was reportedly spotted on a bowling date with The Chainsmokers’ Drew Taggart, the pop star took to social media to set the record straight.

Her latest Instagram story is a black and white shot of the sky, some mountains, and a mystery man at the bottom. While it’s unclear if Gomez captured this photo or just found one online, it does bear the caption, “I prefer being alone in caps.”

Gomez also added the hashtag “#IAmSingle.”

Needless to say, fans were cheering Gomez on. However, some still have some questions…

“Whats that head,” one asked. Another replied that they thought it was a picture of Taggart.

Page Six was the first to run the photos. “There was also a group of young girls that went up for pictures from her shortly after and a man getting an autograph,” a source told the outlet.

However, The Chainsmokers recently appeared on a podcast where they confirmed that they have threesomes with fans. “I feel like that’s how threesomes happen, though.” It was never ‘die-hard fans’: “No one wearing merch or anything,” Taggart said.

Which, in Selena Gomez’s case, would make you prefer being single too.

Continue scrolling for some additional fan reactions.

Thursday night brought about the final regular season rematch from last year’s NBA Finals, as the Golden State Warriors traveled to Boston to face the Celtics, and the first half of action did not disappoint.

The two teams traded runs in the first two quarters, with Boston often being the one to make the first punch and the Warriors countering to pull back to even or a small lead. The end of the half featured the most entertaining of those back-and-forths, as Stephen Curry put an exclamation point on the half by poking the ball away from Jayson Tatum, gathering it in, and hoisting a 46-footer from beyond halfcourt that, naturally, found nothing but net.

It’s a preposterous play, but the shot itself is one that everyone in the arena and watching at home expected to go in as soon as it left his fingers because, well, that’s what Steph does. It’s also a shot he genuinely practices, ending his pregame warmup by pushing his shot back steadily from the three-point line to midcourt, so when he gathered it and was directly in the center of the floor, it was as comfortable a 46-foot shot as any player will have.

The shot gave Golden State the lead, but also made a little history, as Curry matched Jamal Crawford and Zach Randolph (??!) for the most 45-plus foot shots since the league started tracking that data in the mid-90s with the fifth such make of his career.

Sam Smith‘s new album, Gloria is almost here. This weekend, they will perform on an episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by The White Lotus actress Aubrey Plaza. Then, in the following days, we will receive the album in full.

While we have yet to hear their project, Sam Smith has already made history during the Gloria era. Their Kim Petras collaboration, “Unholy” marked the first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 by a nonbinary and trans artist. Gloria also contains several exciting guest features, one of whom will embark on a tour with them later this year.

Release date

Gloria is out 1/27 via Capitol and EMI. You can pre-save it here.

Tracklist

1. “Love Me More”
2. “No God”
3. “Hurting Interlude”
4. “Lose You”
5. “Perfect” feat. Jessie Reyez
6. “Unholy” feat. Kim Petras
7. “How To Cry”
8. “Six Shots”
9. “Gimme” feat. Koffee and Jessie Reyez
10. “Dorothy’s Interlude”
11. “I’m Not Here To Make Friends.”
12. “Gloria”
13. “Who We Love” feat. Ed Sheeran

Features

Kim Petras appears on their viral collaboration, “Unholy,” and Ed Sheeran is set to feature on the album’s closing track, “Who We Love.” Koffee and Jessie Reyez feature on the , “Gimme,” and the latter will also appear on another track called “Perfect.”

Artwork

Check out the artwork below.

Singles

So far, Smith has released the self-affirming “Love Me More,” the scandalous “Unholy” with Kim Petras, and the steamy “Gimme” with Koffee and Jessie Reyez.

Tour

Tickets for Smith’s upcoming Gloria tour are available for purchase here. Jessie Reyez will be joining them on the upcoming tour, which kicks off this summer.

07/25/2023 — Miami, FL @ FTX Arena
07/26/2023 — Orlando, FL @ Amway Center
07/28/2023 — Duluth, GA @ Gas South Arena
07/29/2023 — Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena
08/01/2023 — Raleigh, NC @ PNC Arena
08/02/2023 — Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center
08/04/2023 — Washington, DC @ Capital One Arena
08/05/2023 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden
08/08/2023 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
08/11/2023 — Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
08/12/2023 — Montréal, QC @ Bell Centre
08/15/2023 — Chicago, IL @ United Center
08/16/2023 — Saint Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center
08/18/2023 — Denver, CO @ Ball Arena
08/19/2023 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Vivint Smart Home Arena
08/22/2023 — Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena
08/23/2023 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena
08/25/2023 — Portland, OR @ Veterans Memorial Coliseum
08/27/2023 — Oakland, CA @ Oakland Arena
08/28/2023 — San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center
08/31/2023 — Inglewood, CA @ Kia Forum
09/03/2023 — Phoenix, AZ @ Footprint Center
09/05/2023 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center
09/07/2023 — Fort Worth, TX @ Dickies Arena
09/08/2023 — Houston, TX @ Toyota Center
09/12/2023 — Monterrey, MX @ Arena Monterrey
09/14/2023 — Cuidad de Mexico, MX @ Palacio de los Deportes

During Young Thug’s court trial, a new thread by reporter Michael Seiden details how his coworker, Mark Winne, obtained footage from when the prosecutors accuse Thug and co-defendant Kahlieff Adams of doing a “hand-to-hand” drug deal.

According to prosecutors, the surveillance shows Adams drop an alleged Percocet in Young Thug’s hands. The rapper was eventually confronted by the deputy and turned the pill over.

While the video cuts off as Young Thug sits back down in the courtoom, the co-defendant Kahlieff Adams allegedly ingested “other items of contraband,” according to Seiden. Because of this, he was taken to Grady Hospital. The prosecutors have since filed to “make a finding of fact that Court was delayed on January 18, 2023 because of the actions of Defendant Williams and Defendant Adams.”

Young Thug’s (born Jeffery Lamar Williams) attorney, Keith Adams, shared more insight into what went down. “Mr. Williams had nothing to do with what went on in the courtroom yesterday,” Keith Adams shared. “One of the co-defendants, on his way to the restroom, attempted to pass something to Mr. Williams, who immediately turned it over to the deputy.”

The reporter in the video then asks if he knew it was allegedly Percocet.

“He did not know,” Adams adds. “We don’t know what it is. He did not know what it was, turned it over to the deputy right away. The deputies took action. The individual who had the contraband, not Mr. Williams, was taken into the back, where I’m told he ingested whatever he had.”

While the court is still in the jury selection process, Young Thug has been charged “with conspiracy to violate Georgia’s RICO Act and participating in a criminal street gang,” according to NPR.

Young Thug is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.