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Danilo Gallinari is quite literally seeking out greener pastures. Gallinari, the sharpshooting veteran big man, was traded by the Atlanta Hawks to the San Antonio Spurs in the blockbuster pre-free agency deal that sent Dejounte Murray to the Eastern Conference. From the jump, rumors circulated that Gallinari was not going to spend all that much time in San Antonio, which looks like it is going to spend the next year with one eye on the 2023 NBA Draft.

As such, it was reported that the Spurs would waive Gallinari, after the trade became official. Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN reported that once that happened, the Italian forward’s preference was to end up in Boston as a member of the Celtics.

Sure enough, a week later, the deal officially got done, with Gallinari working out a two-year deal worth just under $14 million with a fully guaranteed player option in the second year.

Gallinari joined the Hawks as a big-name free agent back in 2020. Last season, he appeared in 68 games with 18 starts, and averaged 11.7 points, 4.7 rebounds, and 1.5 assists in 25.3 minutes per game while hitting 43.4 percent of his shot attempts from the field and 38.1 percent of his threes. The Celtics are now almost assuredly done making significant moves after signing Gallinari and trading for Malcolm Brogdon, but will feel like they improved on roster weaknesses by adding another ball-handler in Brogdon and an additional scoring option on the wing in Gallinari.

The past couple of weekends have been filled with incidents between artists and fans at music festivals. First, Lil Uzi Vert was accused of hitting a fan in the face with a cell phone at London’s Wireless Festival after he threw one into the crowd. After that, Cardi B seemingly got into a scuffle with someone at that same Wireless Festival after they grabbed her hair. Lastly, Roddy Ricch quite literally kicked a fan offstage after they rushed toward him at Switzerland’s Openair Frauenfeld Festival. Now, an incident involving Lil Baby at that same Swiss festival joins that list.

Lil Baby was performing his 2020 record “On Me” at the Openair Frauenfeld Festival when a fan rushed the stage. it seemed like they got onstage with the hope of interacting with Lil Baby, but that attempt was quickly put to an end after a security guard pushed the individual off the stage and into the front row barricade. The security guard’s reaction seemingly took Lil Baby by surprise as he paused the show to make sure the individual was okay.

You can watch the fan get tossed off the stage in the video above.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Democrats rarely go on Fox News, even now that it appears they’re de-Trumping the joint. But when they do, they’re usually met with a lot of resistance. On Sunday, Pete Buttigieg showed how it’s done. When the presidential candidate-turned-secretary of transportation was asked about the people who recently protested outside a Morton’s steakhouse while Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh was dining, he was no wet blanket.

Host Mike Emmanuel brought up a tweet from his husband, Chasten, who joked, “Sounds like he just wanted some privacy to make his own dining decisions.” That outraged the host, who asked Buttigieg if it was “appropriate” for protests to crop up while lawmakers seek some privacy. But Buttigieg didn’t hold back.

“Look, when public officials go into public life, we should expect two things. One, that you should always be free from violence, harassment, and intimidation. And two, you’re never going to be free from criticism or peaceful protests — people exercising their First Amendment rights. And that’s what happened in this case,” Buttigieg said. He also pointed out that Kavanaugh “never came into contact” with the protesters, and slipped out the back door.

Emmanuel repeatedly tried to interrupt him, but he soldiered on. “These protesters are upset because a right — a very important right, that the majority of Americans support — was taken away,” he continued:

“Not only the right to choose by the way, but this justice was part of the process of stripping away the right to privacy. Since I’ve been alive, settled case law in the United States has been that the Constitution protected the right to privacy and that has now been thrown out the window by justices, including Justice Kavanaugh, who as I recall, swore up and down in front of God and everyone including the United States Congress that they were going to leave settled case law alone. So yes, people are upset. They’re going to exercise their First Amendment rights.”

Buttigieg then moved on to an example of non-peaceful protest. “Compare that, for example, to the reality that as a country right now we are reckoning with the fact that a mob summoned by the former president to the United States Capitol for the purpose of overthrowing the election and very nearly succeeded in preventing the peaceful transfer of power,” he said. “I think common sense can tell the difference.”

Kavanaugh is one of four judges who, during their confirmation hearings and elsewhere, vowed to not touch “settled laws” such as Roe v. Wade. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is among the Democrats who have called on impeachment trials for perjury for doing the opposite. Conservatives have since been trying, badly, to soften the ruling, perhaps realizing how unpopular it is.

Meanwhile, kudos for Buttigieg for going on the network that has falsely smeared him and giving them what-fer.

(Via Raw Story)

Roddy Ricch has been a busy man over the last month. Over the last 30 days, he’s released a new EP, titled The Big 3, and shared a video for “Real Talk” with Mustard. He also delivered a strong performance at Something In The Water where he used his time on stage to salute Lil Keed, Nipsey Hussle, and more. Speaking of performances, Roddy Ricch recently brought his talents to Switzerland for the Openair Frauenfeld Festival. It was here that Roddy quite literally had to kick a fan off the stage during his set.

It went down as the Compton rapper was performing “The Box,” his Diamond-selling record from his debut album, Please Don’t Excuse Me For Being Antisocial. As he performed the song, a fan ran onto the stage, but they were quickly taken down by security. It was at that moment that Roddy approached the scuffle, but in an attempt to get into contact with him, the fan tried to grab the rapper’s leg. Roddy reacted by seemingly kicking the fan repeatedly before they were removed from the show. Roddy cooly returned to performing at the festival once the fan was offstage.

You can watch the incident with the fan in the video above.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The best of the WNBA took center stage on Sunday afternoon in Chicago for the annual All-Star Game, and while there were plenty of storylines coming in. None were bigger than it being the final time we’d see a pair of legends, Sylvia Fowles and Sue Bird, in an All-Star Game.

Both Fowles and Bird have announced this will be their final season, and both earned starting nods and co-captain spots in Chicago. Fowles got to work early for Team Wilson, knocking down a three on the first possession of the game to set the tone, as she made clear she was ready to show out in Chicago.

The three was just an appetizer, though, as midway through the second quarter Fowles got a steal and had nothing but open court in front of her, throwing down a dunk that had the entire arena rocking and all of her teammates (and some of her opponents) bouncing up and down.

It’s pretty incredible for Fowles to be able to get up like that in Year 14, and she definitely gave the fans what they wanted in her final All-Star Game. Her fellow WNBA stars were also super hyped on the dunk, with Candace Parker demanding Fowled retract her plans to retire and stick around longer cause she’s clearly still got some juice in those legs.

On Friday, the world lost another Sopranos legend: Tony Sirico, who played Paulie “Walnuts” Gualtieri, the soldier-turned-capo with the best hair in the DiMeo crime family. He was 79 years old. Sirico led a colorful life. He started out in crime himself, and even served a relatively short sentence in Sing Sing, which is where he caught the acting bug. The Sopranos made him a star, and it led to all manner of gigs. Some paid tribute to his most famous role.

For instance, one time he — along with Steve Schirripa, aka Bobby Baccalieri — invaded Sesame Street. In 2013, the two reunited for Christmas Special sketch, in which they played no less than Bert and Ernie. Sirico even wore a unibrow. Hey, kids have to learn about The Sopranos at some point.

The sketch is a meta one, with Bert and Ernie directing the two small screen mobsters to do a version of their banana-in-the-ear bit, with a holiday twist. Alas, Sirico and Schirripa’s performances are not to their liking. First they screw up the main joke. Then neither can duplicate their distinctive laughs. Eventually chaos reigns, and the two actors try to find a way to split.

It’s one of the many Sirico clips, stories, and tributes that have been made their way through social media in the wake of Sirico’s passing. And it happens as the show has repeatedly come under fire by, of all people, super fun guy Ted Cruz, who’s mad that they’re trying to keep kids safe during an ongoing pandemic.

The Philadelphia 76ers have spent this offseason trying to bolster their depth in order to make a deeper playoff run next season. The biggest additions have been PJ Tucker and De’Anthony Melton, but they also brought in the reigning G League MVP, guard Trevelin Queen.

When free agency opened on July 1, word broke that Queen had agreed to a two-year, $3.3 million deal with the Sixers. Queen, who averaged 22 points per game in the G League last season, figures to bring some more guard depth to a team that needs it, and whether he can crack the playoff rotation or not, he’ll be a helpful regular season player, providing some scoring punch off the bench. It seemed like a good deal for all parties involved, but Queen himself didn’t know about the deal being put in place in the moment.

During Summer League, Chris Haynes detailed how Queen was actually on a cruise when free agency started and as such had no cell reception, so he tasked his agent with finding the best deal and trusted him to make an agreement for him that he’d find out about when he got back.

It obviously was a plan that worked, as Queen’s agent got him a deal on a playoff team, but that is an incredible level of trust between a player and his agent. In the future I’d probably suggest picking an earlier week for a cruise than the week of July 1 if you’re going to be a free agent, but I guess if you have a good enough agent you can hit the seas and find out where your career will take you next when you get back.

In a normal world, Rage Against The Machine would’ve held their reunion tour by now as they originally announced it back in February 2020. The string of shows was set to feature Run The Jewels as an accompanying act, but the coronavirus pandemic caused the tour to be pushed back. Finally, after more than a two-year wait, Rage Against The Machine began their reunion which stood as their first show together in eleven years. The concert took place in East Troy, Wisconsin at the Alpine Valley Music Theater and they kicked off the night with a performance of “Bombtrack,” the opening track from their 1992 self-titled debut album.

Throughout the night, Rage Against The Machine also flashed political messages on the screen like one that read, “ABORT THE SUPREME COURT” and a visual of a cop car on fire. That of course comes after the band donated $475,000 from the sales of charity tickets at the East Troy show, as well as one in Chicago, to reproductive rights organizations in Wisconsin and Illinois. “We are disgusted by the repeal of Roe V. Wade and the devastating impact it will have on tens of millions of people,” the group wrote in part through a message about the donation.

Rage Against The Machine’s first show in over a decade ended with a performance of “Killing In The Name,” which is also housed on their self-titled debut album. The band’s next show will be on Monday night in Chicago.

You can watch clips from the band’s first performance in 11 years in the videos below.

The romance between Elon Musk and Twitter seems to be over, with the Tesla honcho formally withdrawing from a deal that would have cost him a fortune. The two will likely now duke it out in court, which is bad news for them, but also bad news for a certain disgraced former president. Musk had floated the idea of reinstating the permanently banned account belonging to Donald Trump. But now that Musk is (probably) out, that frees Trump up to trash him at his rallies.

On Saturday, the legally perilous ex-leader was in Alaska, where he yet again teased his 2024 run, let Sarah Palin inarticulately ramble, and even literally took the (very weird) shirts off the back of at least one supporter. During his usual airing of grievances, he singled out Musk for degradation.

“Elon is not going to buy Twitter. Where did you hear that before? From me,” Trump said, which is actually true. “You know, he said the other day, Oh, I’ ve never voted for a Republican. I said: ‘I didn’t know that.’ He told me he voted for me. So he’s another bulls*it artist.”

Trump also called Musk’s scotched deal “rotten” and made a pitch for his own rinky-dink Twitter clone.

Anyway, not only does it take one to know one, but it’s a very rare case of Trump telling the truth, which he usually does by accident.

The Strokes are currently touring the world in support of their 2020 album The New Abnormal. Right now, the band is in Europe where they’ve performed at a few festivals including Denmark’s Rokslide Festival and Lancashire’s Lytham Festival. The Strokes’ latest stop was in Scotland for the 2022 TRNSMT Festival, and it’s here that fans were once again left worried about The Strokes’ lead vocalist, Julian Casablancas, after the performance. Some labeled his onstage behavior as “worrying” while others believed he was heavily intoxicated and in need of an “intervention.”

This isn’t the first time in the past week that fans have expressed their concerns about Casablancas. Following The Strokes’ set at Denmark’s Rokslide Festival, similar concerns were shared about Casablancas. After that performance, Casablancas took to Instagram to respond to fans’ worries in a now-deleted Instagram post. “I’m not tuned into twitter things enough to know what some confused fan thinks or pretends they know, but i’m fine… far as i know,” Casablancas wrote. “People been asking me weiiird questionnns – ahh the dumb side of social media… Lame-Os running around so hard and free.”

He added, “PS the concerns and questions are kind and fine! it’s the strangers announcing /acting like they know some sh*t that’s dumb. (weird questions not the dumb side haha).”

You can read the comments from those who watched The Strokes at the TRNSMT Festival below.