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People do some truly silly things to prove their dislike of celebrities and brands that do things they disagree with. And while burning jerseys and other apparel (that were already purchased) to protest Nike’s pro-Black Lives Matter stance is one thing, one man is going viral for showing his disagreement with Taylor Swift with an epic self-own. The video, shared by PopCrave on Twitter, depicts the older-looking gent moments after winning a signed Swift guitar at an auction, destroying his brand-new purchase with a hammer. It appears he’s trying to “own the libs” or something, after Taylor Swift’s Kamala Harris endorsement prompted a massive tantrum from Harris’ presumed opponent, Donald Trump.

It’s kind of hard to believe that anyone would be all that shocked about Swift’s endorsement. After all, Swift was pretty anti-Trump about the 2020 election after expressing regret about remaining silent during the 2016 election. Ever since, Trump’s been hell-bent on proving that he’s more popular than Swift — which… hasn’t been going great for him, honestly. Swift just released her biggest album yet, just months after completing a globe-spanning tour that fueled a year-long, unrelenting campaign of Taylormania that made her one of the most ubiquitous celebrities alive. Even her boyfriend Travis Kelce is more famous than he’s ever been — does anyone know what Omorosa is up to these days?

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is currently facing federal charges of bribery, fraud, and soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations — and, apparently, we can thank “Espresso” singer Sabrina Carpenter for her service.

Or, at least, in part. While her Short N’ Sweet Tour stopped in New York’s Madison Square Garden last night (September 29), Carpenter joked about her supposed involvement with the investigation that brought the charges against Adams, saying, “Should we talk about how I got the mayor indicted, or…?”

However, her role in the indictment actually turns out to be quite minimal and stems from the minor controversy that spun out of her video for “Feather.” Last November, after the video debuted, a scene filmed at Our Lady Of Mount Carmel-Annunciation Parish in Williamsburg, Brooklyn got the priest who okayed the shoot relieved of his administrative duties.

Apparently, Msgr. Jamie J. Gigantiello reviewed the script, but did not know how the final scene would play out, and his superiors in the Catholic Church were less than pleased with the results. While Carpenter had a typically sarcastic response, apparently, Gigantiello had other business dealings that drew investigators’ attentions. According to the New York Post, Gigantiello’s associations with Adams and his former chief of staff, Frank Carone, led to a federal subpoena looking into whether Adams’ alleged corruption extended to the church.

The Post even suggests that it was the “Feather” shoot specifically that drew federal attention to the parish, but according to Brooklyn diocese officials, “It would be inappropriate to comment further on that review, which is still ongoing.” The church says it’s “fully committed to cooperating with law enforcement in all investigations, including conduct at individual parishes or involving any priest.”

It’s Monday babe (yes, I babe’d you), which means it’s time for the Crumbl Cookie report. Every week we break down all six cookies dropping at Crumbl and rank them from least essential to most delicious. We love the Crumbl model, it keeps things fresh and exciting, and it’s something we wish could hit fast food.

Just imagine it — a fast food restaurant that one week has the best chicken sandwich you’ll ever eat, the next week the most decadent and delicious bacon cheeseburger, and the week after the most epic burrito. Are we crazy? Would that work? It’s worth trying, so if you’re a high-powered investor who is waiting for a golden idea, go ahead and take it, just let us eat there for free.

This week’s cookie lineup is a bit tame compared to last week’s. Last week we got cookies and big snack collaborations, this week we’ve got a whole lot of cookie staples, like an oatmeal cookie, a peanut butter cookie, and of course, the return of the Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chunk. No elaborate cakes or weird combination of flavors… but just because Crumbl is keeping things simple this time around, doesn’t mean these cookies won’t be delicious.

So here they are, all the cookies dropping at Crumbl this week (Sept. 30—Oct. 5) ranked from least to most delicious.

6. Ultimate Peanut Butter

Thoughts & Tasting Notes:

After eating Crumbl consistently for over a month, I’ve come to realize that this brand f*cking loves peanut butter. Unfortunately, only one cookie (last week’s Snicker’s cookie) has managed to impress me and this week’s Ultimate Peanut Butter is a bit too one note to really wow me.

The Ultimate Peanut Butter features a peanut butter cookie base loaded with peanut butter and drizzled with more peanut butter on top. That’s three different sources of peanut butter and altogether they make a cookie that tastes like, well, peanut butter. There is nothing else going on here, no jelly to add dimension, no chocolate to add a rich component, it’s just peanut butter.

That’s great if you love peanut butter, but if you’re neutral on the ingredient, this isn’t going to win you over.

The Bottom Line:

A peanut butter cookie that triples down on its star ingredient. For hardcore peanut butter heads only.

5. Pumpkin Cake Cookie

Thoughts & Tasting Notes:

Here is what I love about the Pumpkin Cake Cookie: it tastes like a slice of pumpkin pie. The cake cookie has all the right spices including cinnamon, clove, ginger, allspice, and nutmeg, and it’s topped with a thick layer of sweet cream cheese frosting and the tiniest semi-sweet chocolate chips you’ve ever seen. Altogether, it’s delicious, but it’s not a slice of pumpkin pie.

A real slice of pie gives you so much more, you get that wonderful flakey buttery crust and that soft pumpkin filling. Compared to the real thing this cookie just comes across as a bit dry.

Don’t get me wrong, I like this cookie, but I couldn’t eat it without wanting the real thing.

The Bottom Line:

A good cookie, but it pales in comparison to a real slice of pumpkin pie. For a couple of dollars more you could pick one up from your local market and have enough pie for a whole week.

4. Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chunk

Thoughts & Tasting Notes:

Look, the Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chunk cookie is easily the most boring choice you could make at Crumbl, but it’s consistently delicious, so you can’t really go wrong with this cookie.

It’s buttery, loaded up with semi-sweet chocolate chips, and dusted with just a touch of salt. It’s a perfect chocolate chip cookie, but at the end of the day, it’s still a chocolate chip cookie. If you really like this thing, download the Crumbl app and use your rewards to pick one up in addition to whatever else you get.

The Bottom Line:

A great chocolate chip cookie, but ultimately a pretty boring choice compared to the rest of the lineup.

3. Brownie Sundae

Thoughts & Tasting Notes:

The only thing better than a brownie is a brownie with extra ingredients. Walnuts, chocolate chips, whatever, anytime you stack ingredients on a brownie it greatly elevates the dessert. Crumbl chose to add a sweet vanilla mouse, fudge, rainbow sprinkles, and a maraschino cherry to their baked brownie, and the result is wonderful.

The texture of the brownie is a bit dry but has nice crispy edges while the vanilla mouse adds a sense of moisture and an intense sweetness that helps balance the richness of the chocolate.

The fudge, which is supposed to go on top of the mouse but in my case was placed under the mouse (I doubt this changes much aside from being more visually appealing) keeps the vanilla from being too overwhelmingly sweet, I just wish it was more evenly distributed throughout the brownie to help with the dryness issue.

A perfect bite includes all the ingredients, including the maraschino cherry, but that only works for one bite, so make sure you save that cherry for last.

The Bottom Line:

A wonderfully balanced sweet, rich, and decadent chocolate brownie. It’s just a bit too dry to snag our top spot.

2. Oatmeal Chocolate Chip

Thoughts & Tasting Notes:

Crumbl’s Oatmeal Chocolate Chip takes my two favorite cookies — oatmeal and chocolate chip — and combines them into one super cookie, so I can’t help but fall in love with this cookie. The cookie base is wonderfully spicy with a mix of cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, and star anise overpowering the earthy oat flavor in the best way.

The inclusion of semi-sweet chocolate chips adds a touch of richness to the cookie that elevates the spicy blend. I have no notes for this cookie — it’s perfect.

The Bottom Line:

One of the best oatmeal cookies I’ve ever eaten. If you’re a fan of oatmeal cookies but hate raisins, you’ll love this cookie.

1. Cookies & Cream Milkshake ft. MINI OREO

Thoughts & Tasting Notes:

Last week I gave Crumbl a lot of sh*t for relying on Oreos like a crutch. And I stand by that, I think Crumbl has too many OREO-based cookies, but this week’s Cookies & Cream Milkshake Ft. Mini Oreo justifies that because this cookie is f*cking amazing.

The cookie base is sweet, delicate, and loaded with bits of real OREO cookies, which add that rich, slightly bitter, super sweet chocolate that is characteristic of the iconic cookie. Topping the base is a sweet vanilla buttercream peppered with Oreo dust and topped with a single Mini Oreo that serves as a visual bow, wrapping the flavors together.

The Bottom Line:

Crumbl’s best Oreo cookie and our pick for the week’s most essential cookie.

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A recent phone call has Todd White’s head spinning.

“I just had a call today and learned that I need to put together a mood board for a music video that, potentially, has 16–20 looks,” he says, shocked, over the call. “I’ve never done anything like that before.” As if that’s not wild enough, the tight timeline to which he potentially has to adhere makes it even scarier. “You get these calls sometimes where you have 48 hours to pull something like this together.”

Easy-peasy — at least for a stylist and costume designer of White’s caliber. He’s an industry heavyweight, a creative director who’s been tapped by rap’s leading women like Megan Thee Stallion, Latto, and Coi Leray to curate the iconic looks you see get tens and thousands of likes on social media. No matter whether they’re shutting down the red carpet, gracing the cover of a magazine, or filming a leading commercial, White’s fingerprints can be found all over their fittings —- and he’s just getting started.

It all came from sending one direct message in 2017 that changed his life forever. “I always say yikes because I feel like without that moment I wouldn’t be here,” he says. “I’m so grateful that I just took that chance.”

White didn’t just wake up a few years ago and say, “I want to be a stylist.” Since he was a kid in Cincinnati, he had a serious love for all things fashion. “I’ve always been attracted to art in general, but specifically fashion just because of the glam of it all, luxury designers, and the celebrity aspect.” When he turned 16, he decided to pursue it after graduating from high school.

That’d lead him to Kent State to study fashion merchandising. While he was there, he became even more immersed in fashion, with a job at Forever 21 inspiring him to focus on women’s fashion design. White collaborated with a friend around this time, who studied photography, to create Fashion Haus — a showcase for their creative direction skills. “I kind of came up with this idea with my photographer friend at the time for how we can practice for the future,” says White. “The idea was, I’d style, he’ll shoot, and we’ll come up with concepts for people who want to build a portfolio for modeling or if someone has a brand, and they need some sort of creative concept for an upcoming release.”

At the same time that White was waist deep in preparation for his fashion career, Megan Thee Stallion was exploding onto the rap scene after making “The Houston Cypher” her bitch and dropping her debut EP Make It Hot in 2017. Her aura and lyricism were unmatched. Anybody who was anybody knew that she was next up. White discovered her music around this time and instantly became a fan. Wanting to become a part of her story, he decided to shoot his shot and hop into her Instagram DMs with a proposition.

“I got hip to her music and was really inspired by her,” he says. “One late night, I just randomly decided that I would DM her and see about the possibility of styling her for upcoming shows and projects.” Not anticipating a response, he was shocked when she got back to him pretty quickly. “I can’t remember if it was the next morning or a few hours later, but I know it didn’t take that long,” he recalls. “This was a time when she only had about a hundred thousand followers.”

After that message, he linked up with her a few weeks later. “We met in New York while I was there for fashion week,” he explains. “She had a show, so we connected and vibed. We really hit it off. After that, I would meet her in other cities to dress her or at least help with whatever she would wear.”

As Megan grew in popularity and people started to see her as a fashion icon, White’s styling work got its share of the spotlight. “Our work during that era was huge because of the mega star that she’s turned into,” he says. “That opened up doors for me to get other people’s attention.”

Those “other people” are some of the biggest stars you see on social media and hear on top playlists, like Latto, who he’s draped in custom threads from Onrushw23fh and Michael Schmidt, and Uproxx Cover Star Coi Leray, who he’s laced in Karl Kani. He continuously finds creative ways to capture his clients’ personalities in clothing. To do this, White has an ideal process that helps him come up with these iconic looks.

“Most of the time, I’m turning on some music, and I’m deep diving into whatever creative may have been shared with me by the artist,” he says. “Depending on who you’re working with, you have to dissect what era they’re in at that time so it all makes sense. Then, I’m doing a deep dive. I’m on Pinterest, I’m on Instagram, I’m on TikTok. I want every platform that has anything to do with fashion, and I’m pulling references, I’m taking notes on up-and-coming designers, [and] I’m looking at seeing what is current from a runway show.”

“This process takes me a few days,” he continues. “Once I get that mood board or creative of what I see, I like to hop on the phone with the client to go through everything. Because more times than not, you’ll come up with a really nice mood board and not get any notes or have any notes. And then the day of the shoot comes and the artist, the client can hate everything — which usually only happens if there’s not been any communication.”

White is very open and honest about not just his process, but also how clients can react. There are times when people will love his creative direction. Other times, they can find issues with it — which is par the course when you’re a stylist working with so many different clients. “You want people to like everything that you do, but you’re not going to always get that reaction,” he admits. “Sometimes they hate it, and you have to come up with something completely different, or they love it, but things could be better.”

Tight turnaround times for creativity can also put a damper on the process — but even those can work out too. “I’ve had clients where we’ve had 24 to 48 hours to put everything together, including fitting on the day of the shoot, and things go bad,” he says. “But then somehow, at the end of the day, the shoot ends up turning out great and the client is thrilled. Those are the moments, the stressful days, that I live for.

“Something as simple as an assistant not showing up on time or a UPS delivery arriving late can really throw off a shoot — but when the final shot is wrapped, you’re able to reflect and be excited that you pulled off something nicely together,” he adds.

White has no plans to stop styling anytime soon, even though he’s achieved practically everything he’s ever wanted — but there are even bigger aspirations that he’s been thinking about pursuing. “I would love to get into film -— specifically, horror films,” he says. “In a perfect world, I’d love to do a slasher film and be a part of the costume design and wardrobe.”

The Los Angeles Clippers have a new look for the 2024-25 season in a number of ways. They are opening their new arena, the Intuit Dome, finally moving out of their shared home with the Lakers at Crypto.com Arena. They have a new logo set, uniforms, and color scheme, embracing a new identity in their new home building. And most importantly, they have a very different looking roster from the past few years.

Paul George is gone (as is Russell Westbrook) after not being able to fully deliver on the promise of being a title contender after coming to L.A. alongside Kawhi Leonard in 2019. With George in Philly and Westbrook in Denver, the Clippers moved to fill out their roster with depth and try to move ahead with a team built around Leonard and James Harden. That leaves some real opportunity for players to take on bigger roles, and that is something Norman Powell, at the least, is excited about.

Powell said he’s looking at George’s exit from L.A. as “addition by subtraction,” noting it means more opportunities for guys, including himself, to step up. Powell felt the Clippers depth had kept a number of players from showing their full potential, and now that will shine.

To be clear, this is how Powell should be looking at this situation. He also noted he’s long seen himself as a starting caliber player and is excited to try and take on that role this year. That said, the “addition by subtraction” line is pretty strong when talking about a former All-NBA player leaving, and you can be sure folks will keep this bookmarked if the Clippers stumble this season. Powell isn’t alone in seeing George’s departure as an opportunity to take on a bigger role, as James Harden also expects to shift back to a more comfortable role as the offensive engine this year — citing the Mavs success with Luka Doncic as an example of how it can lead to winning.

Harden was very good for the Clippers a year ago, but it’s hard to imagine him being able to just turn back the clock to his Houston days in full, where he regularly posted league-high usage rates each year. In theory, he shouldn’t have to do that with Leonard alongside (but that, of course, requires Kawhi to remain healthy), but at the very least there is no shortage in confidence in the Clippers locker room about their ability to keep moving forward without PG.

The WNBA will be having an expansion draft in each of the next two years, as the Golden State Valkyries are set to join the league in 2025, while new franchises in Portland and Toronto will bring the league to 15 teams in 2026.

For months, the WNBA had not offered any details on what the expansion drafts will look like, but on Monday we finally got the details on how the league will handle the 2025 version that the Valkyries will use to build out their inaugural roster. It’s possible that there will be different parameters used in 2026, as there will be two teams picking players, but we can at least know how the Valkyries roster will be built and what avenues they’ll have to add players and make moves. Here, we’ll go through everything we know from the WNBA’s release on the upcoming expansion draft.

When is the Valkyries expansion draft?

Friday, December 6, and it will be broadcast on ESPN.

How many players can each team protect?

The 12 current teams can protect six players on their roster, meaning half of each team’s roster will be available for the Valkryies to choose from. Teams will have to decide who to protect from their full list of players they have rights to as of the final day of the regular season. The teams will have to submit their list of protected players approximately 10 days before the draft starts.

How many players from each team can the Valkyries draft?

The Valkyries will only be able to select one player from each team, meaning they cannot pick all six players eligible from the Aces to fill out their roster.

Can the Valkyries draft free agents?

Yes, but they would only get the rights to that player that their current team has. The Valkyries can also only select one unrestricted free agent in the expansion draft, provided they have not been on a Core contract for two or more seasons. If they do select an unrestricted free agent, they can use the Core Player provision on them in January, which gives them exclusive negotiating rights with that player — while guaranteeing an offer of a 1-year, max contract for the player.

Can the Valkyries make trades before the expansion draft?

Yes. Once the roster lists are submitted, the Valkyries will be able to negotiate trades with other teams up until a designated time on expansion draft day. They will be allowed to make trade agreements to select a certain player in the expansion draft and trade them to another team, or to make deals to select (or not select) certain players from a team they’re making a trade with.

Do the Valkyries have to build their full roster from the expansion draft?

No. They can pick a player from each team if they wanted to fill out a 12-player roster, but they’ll also have draft picks (still TBD on where they’ll be picking) and can sign players in free agency. The most likely scenario is the Valkyries leave the expansion draft with just a portion of their roster filled out.

Sydney Sweeney’s “female Rocky” movie is coming together.

Black Bear Pictures announced that Ben Foster, Merritt Wever, Ethan Embry, Jess Gabor, and Chad L. Coleman have joined the biopic about Christy Martin, the most successful female boxer in the 1990s. Another new addition to the cast is Katy O’Brian, who was so good (and so ripped) in Love Lies Bleeding. It’s unclear who she — or anyone else, other than a jacked Sweeney as Martin — is playing, but it’s probably safe to say that it’ll be someone intimidating.

Here’s more on the movie, which is directed by director David Michôd, who also co-wrote the script with Mirrah Foulkes:

A naturally gifted fighter, Christy’s life transformed in 1989 when she met her manager, and later husband, Jim Martin. Breaking boundaries, she became the first woman to sign with iconic promoter Don King, and the only female boxer to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Christy’s charisma, good looks and unwavering resilience in the ring won her a wide fan base and propelled her to become welterweight champion. Behind this well-honed public persona, Christy tackled personal demons, toxic relationships, and an attempt on her life, proving that a fighter’s hardest won victories aren’t always in the ring.

The film doesn’t have a release date, but luckily, Sweeney is plenty busy.

Anybody who thought the vinyl resurgence was just a fad was mistaken: The industry has experienced a legitimate revival. As a result, music fans are interested in physical media in ways they may not have if the decades-old medium hasn’t made a comeback. That doesn’t mean everybody is listening to just their parents’ old music, though. That’s part of it, sure, thanks to rereleases that present classic albums in new ways. A vital part of the renewed vinyl wave, though, is new projects being released as records, of which there are plenty.

Whatever you might be into, each month brings a new slew of vinyl releases that has something for everybody. Some stand out above the rest, naturally, so check out some of our favorite vinyl releases of September below.

Black Star — No Fear Of Time (Reissue)

For the first time ever, Black Star’s 2022 sophomore album No Fear Of Time is available on vinyl. The Yasiin Bey and Talib Kweli project has come a long way from its initial podcast-only release.

Get it here.

Perfume Genius — Too Bright (Reissue)

Perfume Genius just wrapped up a brief tour, and the occasion was the anniversary of his beloved album Too Bright. He just dropped a vinyl reissue, pressed on a special edition crystal-clear LP, while the project’s streaming edition got three new bonus tracks.

Get it here.

Built To Spill — There’s Nothing Wrong With Love (Reissue)

There’s Nothing Wrong With Love is now 30 years old. Built To Spill is celebrating their classic second album with a new vinyl pressing, on “Up Records Blue” vinyl. Like Perfume Genius, Built To Spill also just wrapped up an anniversary tour in celebration of the album.

Get it here.

Schoolboy Q — Oxymoron (10th Anniversary Edition)

Schoolboy made his major-label debut with 2014’s Oxymoron, so it’s a major release in his discography. He’s marking the occasion with a new 10th anniversary edition, which comes in exclusive clear and silver vinyl versions that are only at Target. But we particularly love the picture disc double-vinyl offerings, which feature Q’s face both masked up and clean shaven. This is a landmark album and essential to any collection.

Get it here.

Bob Dylan And The Band — The 1974 Live Recordings

Uproxx’s Steven Hyden wrote of the expansive new Bob Dylan box set, “A sprawling data dump of music, The 1974 Live Recordings collects every known professionally recorded show from the tour, amounting to 431 tracks (all but 14 never before released) spread across 27 discs. This mountain of material attempts to make a small but nevertheless crucial point: The ’74 Tour represented a fascinating crossroads for the musicians in the spotlight. For Dylan, it marked a return to live performance after an extended hiatus, and the beginning of perhaps the most rigorous year-in and year-out tour schedule for any rock star in the past 50 years.”

Get it here.

Madonna — Like A Prayer (The Silver Collection)

Like A Prayer is iconic, even still as the crucial release celebrates its 35th anniversary. As part of Madonna’s “Silver Collection” of reissues, Like A Prayer is now available in a limited-edition edition opaque-silver vinyl release. If you order through Rhino.com or Madonna.com, it even comes with an exclusive poster of the black-and-white photo from the album’s back cover.

Get it here.

10,000 Maniacs — MTV Unplugged (Expanded Edition)

MTV Unplugged was an institution in its time, and 10,000 Maniacs had one of the more memorable appearances back in the ’90s. Now, that performance, including three tracks that didn’t make the original release, have been pressed on vinyl for the first time ever. For many, it was their introduction the the Bruce Springsteen/Patti Smith classic “Because The Night,” while also help solidify Natalie Merchant as a star before she launched her solo career.

Get it here.

Cass McCombs — Not The Way EP (Reissue), A (Reissue), and Prefection (Reissue)

For McCombs, it all started with three releases: Not The Way EP, A, and Prefection. Now that the projects are all hovering around 20 years old, they’ve gotten a fresh reissue. This marks the first time these projects are back in print since their original release in the early 2000s.

Get it here.

Marvin Gaye — In The Groove (Reissue)

Motown has been crushing it with the monthly series of reissues that has been underway over the past few months. Among September’s offerings is Marvin Gaye’s In The Groove, featuring the iconic single “I Heard It Through The Grapevine.” Other highlights for the month include a Mono edition of Meet the Temptations and The Supremes’ Love Child.

Get it here.

The Get Up Kids — Something To Write Home About (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

Something To Write Home About is among the more iconic emo albums, and now it has gotten the reissue it deserves on its 25th anniversary. This edition is remastered and expanded, as it comes with a bunch of demos, including original four-track acoustic recordings by Matt Pryor.

Get it here.

Gus Cannon — Walk Right In (Vinyl Me, Please Reissue)

Cannon is an icon of American roots music, and Vinyl Me, Please is honoring that with a reissue of 1963’s Walk Right In. The album’s original release was just a run of 500 copies, but now it’s been lovingly remastered for a new generation to enjoy.

Get it here.

Michael Hutchence — “One-Way” and “Save My Life”

Found in the vault were a pair of unreleased songs from late INXS singer Michael Hutchence, which have now been pressed on a 10-inch vinyl. The picture disc is particularly striking with its stark black imagery.

Get it here.

Damian Lillard is going into his second season in Milwaukee as a member of the Bucks, after he was traded there in a stunning deal two summers ago. The pairing of Lillard and Giannis Antetokounmpo was supposed to create one of the most formidable tandems in the East, but the 2023-24 season didn’t go according to plan, as the Bucks got bounced in the first round by the Pacers, with both Giannis and Dame finishing that series watching from the sidelines with injuries.

This summer, the Bucks stayed pretty quiet, making a couple additions on the margins with Gary Trent Jr. and Delon Wright, but will mostly hope that they can stay healthy and challenge the Celtics, Knicks, and Sixers for a Finals berth. On Monday, Lillard and the rest of the Bucks met with the media, and the toughest question he faced wasn’t about what the Bucks need to do to take down the defending champs or make strides in a full offseason with Doc Rivers at the helm.

No, the toughest question came when someone asked Lillard about GloRilla shooting her shot at him at All-Star Weekend last year and whether anything was going on between the two stars.

Lillard has previously shot down questions about GloRilla, but this time was willing to divulge a bit more and have some fun with the question. “We know each other. She’s an artist, I’m an artist, but as far as anything else, it ain’t nothin’ goin’ on. That’s what I can tell you,” Lillard said.

That’s a professional answer from Dame, but it also provides the closest thing to clarity on whether there’s any relationship between he and the Memphis rapper.

Is Prison Break the new Suits? Not quite.

It’s true that 2023 gave us the Summer of Suits, which led to NBC putting the Suits: LA spin off into rapid development with a first season coming soon. Will Prison Break receive the same treatment or another season, even? One of those will come true.

First, it’s worth remembering that Prison Break debuted in 2005 and ended with a fifth season in 2017. The series returned to Netflix earlier this month, and the first three seasons are now occupying three separate slots on Netflix’s current Top 10 English-Speaking TV Shows list. Let’s just say that interest in the Fox series has been reignited, and it’s fair to assume that — out of the around 120 million hours viewed during the week of Sept. 16-22 — plenty of eyeballs are on this show for the first time.

Those are more than respectable numbers, although not full-on Suits numbers, for a concluded series.

However, there’s no chance for a sixth season starring Wentworth Miller, who declared in 2020 in a now-deleted Instagram post (via Entertainment Weekly) that he would not portray Michael Scofield again, or any straight character for that matter: “I’m out. Of PB. Officially. Not [because] of static on social media (although that has centered the issue). I just don’t want to play straight characters. Their stories have been told (and told).”

To hammer that point home, he followed up with this definitive statement: “No more Michael. If you were a fan of the show, hoping for additional seasons… I understand this is disappointing. I’m sorry.”

However, some good news does exist. In November 2023, Deadline revealed that Hulu has a reboot in the works. The show will be written by Mayans M.C. co-creator and showrunner Elgin James. Here’s a tiny bit more from Deadline:

Described as a new chapter, the new installment is set in the world of Prison Break, sources tell Deadline. Details are being kept under wraps but it is not expected to involve the characters who were at the center of the original series and its followups on Fox, Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) and Lincoln Burrows’ (Dominic Purcell), we hear.

This reboot will arrive as part of James’ overall 20th Television deal following the conclusion of Kurt Sutter’s biker-drama saga. Meanwhile, Sutter is hard at work on Netflix’s The Abandons, and between the two of them, there will be plenty of violently soapy TV coming soon.