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The Dallas Mavericks fell to 24-22 on the season with a 130-122 loss at home to the Atlanta Hawks on Thursday night, marking their third consecutive loss and third consecutive game allowing 130 or more points.

After the game, head coach Jason Kidd was not shy about his frustrations with the defensive effort of his team, and certainly seemed to indicate that he doesn’t see a whole lot changing unless there are some roster changes to come. When asked about how the Mavs can improve on that end, he led his answer off with “if it’s with this personnel, you have to keep asking or demanding for those guys to play defense,” which isn’t exactly an encouraging answer.

Kidd seems very fed up with the Mavs’ lack of care on defense, sarcastically closing by saying the team will feel it’s ok to give up 150 because they also score a bunch so it won’t look so bad. Defense has always been Kidd’s calling card as a coach, so it’s not a surprise that he’d be upset at what he’s seeing on the floor, but at the same time, it’s also part of his job to find the way to get those guys to care. While the Mavs certainly aren’t a team full of defensive stalwarts (and are missing a key piece in Maxi Kleber), that’s part of why they went out and hired Kidd. A year ago they made it work, but adding more offensive minded players this offseason, like Christian Wood, has further shifted the balance and it seems Kidd’s message and scheme aren’t enough to cover up those problems.

We’ll see how the Mavs proceed over the next couple of weeks with the trade deadline looming, but it seems this mid-January dip could push them towards a shakeup to bring some more roster balance, at least if the coach has his way.

After months of waiting, fans of The Last of Us finally got a glimpse at what the beloved video game looks like when transformed into a live-action series on January 15 — and it appeared to be well worth the wait. In addition to being a ratings hit, the series has received positive reviews from nearly everyone — including our own Josh Kurp, who called it “the best live-action video game adaptation ever.”

Approximately 4.7 million people tuned in to the series premiere of The Last of Us, making the post-apocalyptic thriller the second most watched premiere on HBO (right after — surprise! — House of the Dragon). The series follows the adventures of Joel (The Mandalorian’s Pedro Pascal), a man who has survived the apocalypse and has been tasked with rescuing Ellie (Game of Thrones’ Bella Ramsey), a teenage girl who is caught in a quarantine zone.

Early reports claimed the each episode of the series cost nearly $100 million apiece, so the network was really banking on a hit — literally. With only eight more episodes left to watch, fans are already demanding to see the schedule to mark down its next airtimes in order to bring back appointment television.

Unsurprisingly, The Last of Us is taking up the vaunted 9 p.m. slot on Sunday nights on HBO (the one held by House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones before that). The second episode will premiere on HBO on January 22 and the remaining episodes will run in each of the seven weeks that follow.

When Rian Johnson’s murder-mystery comedy Knives Out premiered in 2019, it became one of the surprise hits of the year. Between its all-star cast and fast-paced story of family betrayal, viewers couldn’t seem to get enough of Daniel Craig’s smooth-as-molasses Southern accent as master detective Benoit Blanc.

Even before the original film was released, Johnson made mention of wanting to continue on with the adventures of Detective Blanc, and that he already had some ideas for where Craig might be able to go with the character next. In February 2020, Deadline reported that a sequel was in the works and hinted that the series could continue from there.

While the sequel, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, has been met with mixed reviews, Johnson, Craig, and what is sure to be a bevy of new A-list names will be pressing on with a third film in the series. In 2021, The Hollywood Reporter noted the distribution rights to the now-series moved from Lionsgate to Netflix, which paid out nearly $500 million for two more Knives Out films — and put a lot of the power in Johnson’s hands directly.

As THR wrote:

The pact gave Johnson immense creative control, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. He doesn’t have to take notes from the streamer. The only contingencies were that Craig must star in the sequels and that each must have at least the budget of the 2019 movie, which was in the $40 million range. Sources say that Johnson, [his producing partner Ram] Bergman and Craig stand to walk away with upwards of $100 million each.

And while there are only three films scheduled to be made under the current contract, there’s the possibility that it could extend even further. While speaking with the press, Craig expressed his desire to keep making Knives Out movies. Johnson would love to see that happen, but knows that there’s no such thing as a done deal.

“The industry is changing so drastically, especially now,” Johnson told Deadline. “It really is a bit like an avalanche that we’re all running on top of, waiting to see where it settles.”

(Via Deadline)

If you were part of the generation that was introduced to Thursday night as TV’s biggest night of the week, and knew that NBC was where to find all the best shows — or if you’ve just binge-watched a lot of 30 Rock — you undoubtedly understand the power of Night Court.

The Emmy-winning comedy, which premiered in 1984, was a bit like Cheers… if Cheers had been set in a late-night New York City courtroom (yes, that’s a real thing) and not in a Boston bar where everybody knows your name. For nine seasons, audiences tuned in to witness the wacky shenanigans as the magic-loving Judge Harry Stone (Harry Anderson) presided over a courtroom full of eccentrics, some of them in handcuffs and some of them legal professionals.

John Larroquette won four consecutive Emmys for his role as randy assistant district attorney Dan Fielding, who regularly directed his lust toward public defender Christine Sullivan (Markie Post). When it was announced in late 2020 that Night Court would be getting a reboot, courtesy of The Big Bang Theory star Melissa Rauch, the big question on everyone’s mind was: Which members of the original cast would be returning?

Original star Anderson passed away in April 2018, and Post died in August 2021 after a years-long battle with cancer. But fans of the original series will recognize at least one familiar face: As TV Insider reports, Larroquette is the only actor from the original series to return in a regular role (and is also one of the show’s producers).

As more than 30 years have passed since we last saw the antics of Night Court play out, a lot has changed. Dan Fielding has switched over to the other side and is now acting as a public defender and his womanizing ways appear to be behind him. According to Screen Rant:

As the Night Court reboot pilot opens, Dan makes reference to having had a wife in the past tense, though it is unclear if he is divorced or a widower. He is also in a deep funk, having given up practicing the law to work as a process server. However, Abby’s appearance on his doorstep brings him back into action, this time as a defense attorney in her court.

The aforementioned Abby is Rauch as Abby Stone — the daughter of Anderson’s Harry Stone — who has recently been tasked with overseeing the same courtroom her father once presided over.

You can watch a preview of the series below:

Night Court is on NBC Tuesdays at 8/7c and airs the next day on Peacock.

There are few players in the NBA that jump higher on their shot than Russell Westbrook, and on Wednesday we saw one of the possible benefits of that extra high jumper when he decided, mid-shot, he didn’t want to shoot anymore and had time to just rifle the ball off of Kevin Huerter’s chest to get the ball back and keep the possession alive.

It’s a hysterical play and something that only Russ would do. Why he decided not to shoot it is anyone’s guess, as Huerter’s not even contesting him on the shot (because, well, why would you contest a Westbrook three late). Even with Huerter just standing on the ground, he’s still not expecting to have the ball chucked at him and it works out to get Russ the ball back and continue the possession to the confusion of everyone — including the camera operator, who pans out for the shot before having to scramble back as the ball bounds off Huerter.

We see this kind of thing happen fairly regularly with a player trying to save the ball from going out of bounds by launching it off a defender, but this may be the first time that’s been used to abort a shot attempt.

Snail Mail unveiled Valentine in 2021 as the follow-up to her beloved debut Lush. “I wanted to take as much time as possible with this record to make sure I was happy with every detail before unleashing it unto y’all,” she said at the time. “Referring to the process as the deepest level of catharsis and therapy I have ever experienced would be a huge understatement. Valentine is my child!”

She’s brought those songs on tours since then, including a killer run with Turnstile and Jpegmafia last year. She’s hitting the road again after announcing a tour today following the announcement of her five-day Valentine Fest. After the fest in Baltimore, it’ll hit Iowa City next and end in Queens, NY at Governor’s Ball.

Check out the full dates below.

02/10 — Baltimore, MD @ Valentine Festival
02/11 — Baltimore, MD @ Valentine Festival
02/12 — Baltimore, MD @ Valentine Festival
02/13 — Baltimore, MD @ Valentine Festival
02/14 — Baltimore, MD @ Valentine Festival
04/07 — Iowa City IA @ Mission Creek Festival
04/08 — Omaha NE @ Slowdown #
04/10 — Fort Collins CO @ Aggie Theatre #
04/11 — Boulder CO @ Fox Theatre #
04/12 — Salt Lake City UT @ Soundwell #
04/13 — Las Vegas NV @ AREA15 #
04/15 — Indio CA @ Coachella
04/16 — San Luis Obispo CA @ Fremont Theatre #
04/18 — Reno NV @ Cargo Concert Hall #
04/19 — Roseville CA @ Goldfield Trading Post %
04/20 — Santa Cruz CA @ Rio Theatre %
04/22 — Indio CA @ Coachella
04/23 — Flagstaff AZ @ Yucca North #
04/24 — El Paso TX @ The Lowbrow Palace #
04/25 — Albuquerque NM @ Sister #
04/27 — Oklahoma City OK @ The Jones Assembly #
04/28 — Fayetteville AR @ George’s Majestic Lounge #
04/29 — Memphis TN @ Black Lodge #
05/01 — Indianapolis IN @ The Vogue #
05/02 — Cincinnati OH @ Woodward Theater #
05/04 — Morgantown WV @ 123 Pleasant Street #
05/06 — Winston-Salem NC @ The Ramkat #
05/07 — Atlanta GA @ Shaky Knees Festival
06/10 — Queens, NY @ Governor’s Ball Festival

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Find ticket information here.

Donald Trump has a lot on plate these days, but there’s one thing that sometimes slips through the cracks: He’s being sued for defamation by E. Jean Carroll, who for years has accused the former president of sexual assault. Trump sat for a predictably testy deposition last October, and excerpts from the transcripts are only being made public now. Among the newest revelations is that he may have screwed the whole thing up by contradicting one of his long-running (and pretty darn heinous) defenses.

As per The Washington Post, during the deposition, Trump was shown a photo of Carroll from the ‘90s. Trump, as you may recall, has had said that he couldn’t have assaulted her because she’s “not my type.”

And yet when shown this photo of Carroll and asked to identify the woman it showed, Trump responded, “That’s Marla, yeah. That’s my wife,” alluding to Marla Maples, his wife from 1993 to 1999 and the mother of his daughter Tiffany.

Trump’s revealing gaffe was quickly corrected by his attorney, Alina Habba.

Carroll has alleged that Trump raped her in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in the mid-’90s. She has two separate lawsuits filed against Trump: one for allegedly defamatory comments he made about in the wake of her allegations back in 2019, and one for the incident itself.

According to transcripts, Trump used the deposition to continue to trash Carroll, calling her “mentally ill” and falsely claiming that she said that she “loved” being raped and found it “sexy” — a gross distortion of an interview she did with Anderson Cooper in 2019, in which she talked about how the term “rape” “has so many sexual connotations” and is a “fantasy” for some.

During the deposition, Trump also vowed to sue Carroll, as well as the lawyers grilling him. He may have screwed up his defense before the interrogation even began, but he also may have made it even worse.

(Via The Washington Post)

Trippie Redd is a man of his word. Earlier this week, he posted a star-studded track list featuring Chief Keef, Future, Lil Baby, Lil Durk, Travis Scott, Nardo Wick, and more still. The Instagram caption promised to reveal the cover art and release date if the post eclipsed 80,000 comments. And over 82,000 comments later — including Drake with six steam-nose emojis — Trippie Redd announced tonight, January 18, that Mansion Musik is dropping this Friday, January 20.

According to press release, the 25-track album is “an ode to Chief Keef’s 2018 Mansion Musick mixtape.” Keef served as the album’s executive producer, and he’s the featured artist on tracks “Atlantis” and “Rock Out.”

The full track list boasts “Fully Loaded” featuring Future and Lil Baby, “Knight Crawler” featuring the late Juice WRLD, “Dark Brotherhood” featuring Lil Baby, “Krzy Train” featuring Travis Scott, “Muscles” featuring Lil Durk, “Swag Like Ohio Pt. 2” featuring Lil B, “Who Else!” featuring Rich The Kid, “Pure” featuring G Herbo, and “Colors” featuring Kodak Black.

Nardo Wick, Big30, Lucki, Summrs, Fijimacintosh, Rylo Rodriguez, Ski Mask The Slump God, Rob 49, and DaBaby are also featured artists.

Future is in the middle of his six-date One Big Party Tour, which kicked off on January 7 at the Toyota Center in Houston, where Trippie Redd performed as a special guest. Chief Keef, meanwhile, might be gearing up to release an album of his own.

Mansion Musik is out 01/20/2023. Pre-save it here.

Iggy Azalea has been teasing OnlyFans content that will be “hotter than hell,” and that’s a big promise. Specifically, she said there will be “photographs, visual artist collabs, videos, merch & all kinds of aesthetically pleasing, hot as hell things,” and the spicy, cinematic trailer that came along with the post was an indication she wasn’t lying.

She’s been sharing snippets here and there on social media to entice fans to sign up for her $25 per month account, and it seems to be working. A polaroid of her nude eating a cherry went viral on Twitter, with the caption, “You better be subscribed & logged on tonight… Something hotter than hell in your inbox at 9pm .” She also shared a fiery bikini picture as well.

It’s truly a surprising twist that Iggy went in this direction, considering her previous tweet that she would never join OnlyFans. “I think onlyfans can be really empowering for people, But I WILL NEVER, EVVVER join,” the rapper wrote in 2021. “I don’t want to make that type of content & it only f*cks up the bag for ppl on there who really bout that life. Shoutout to the baddies tho!!!!” However, she has clarified that she joined because she felt like other platforms had “creatively limiting censorship.”

Lots of famous people have run for Congress. Do you know the guy who wrote the novel Hillbilly Elegy, which was made into a Ron Howard movie with Amy Adams and Glenn Close, is a Senator now? Or that TV quack Dr. Oz got his butt handed to him by a guy who was actually good at social media? Strange but true. This one is a bit on the Mad Libs side: As per Deadline, if you’re a Burbank, California resident, there’s a chance you may one day be represented by the erstwhile (although who knows, maybe future, at some point) Cory Matthews.

On Wednesday, the Federal Elections Commission received files from Ben Savage, who’s angling for a seat occupying California’s 30th district. That’s right: The star of Boy Meets World wants to be representative. That seat is currently occupied by Adam Schiff, one of the most famous and vocal anti-Trumpists in the House. Savage isn’t trying to kick Schiff out; Schiff is expected to run for Dianne Feinstein’s Senate seat, though he has yet to make that official.

The idea of Ben Savage — again, the kid from Boy Meets World, who returned to the role for a mid-teens follow-up — running for elected office isn’t out of nowhere. In 2003, he interned for then-senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, which he did as part of his requirements as a political science major at Stanford. Last year, he also made an unsuccessful bid for a seat in West Hollywood City Council.

So good luck to possible future-representative Ben Savage. It’s not even the most out-there news to emerge from the ‘90s coming-of-age sitcom. No, that would be the time people deduced that Danielle “Topanga” Fishel was married to the guy who found dried shrimp in his Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Still, pity the guy who eventually might have to hang out with some real House kooks.

(Via Deadline)