After not playing basketball since June 2019 with a torn ACL, Warriors wing Klay Thompson reportedly suffered a lower-leg injury on Wednesday and is being evaluated to determine the severity of the injury. The news broke just before the NBA Draft on Wednesday through reporting from Shams Charania of The Athletic and later confirmed by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Klay Thompson was unable to place weight on his lower leg injury leaving the gym today, sources said. Everyone is hoping for the best. https://t.co/kcxYJczNmX
The Warriors played things cautiously with Thompson as he recovered from the torn ACL, which he suffered in Game 6 of the 2019 NBA Finals, and did not rush him back from the injury last season as they slumped to the lottery without he or Steph Curry. As Woj notes, it’s his right leg, so not the same leg as the one he’s been rehabbing from the torn ACL.
Golden State holds the No. 2 overall pick in Wednesday night’s draft and was expected to be in the running for a top playoff seed once again with Curry and Thompson healthy. The success of the Warriors is probably secondary to Thompson’s health at this point, but it would also change the calculations in Golden State and for Western Conference playoff contenders if Thompson’s latest injury forced him even to miss training camp or the start of the season, let alone another several months.
LeBron James posted to Twitter offering prayers and hoping for the best for his fellow All-Star.
Praying a lot @KlayThompson is cool!! Like it’s super minor.
It was the second big trade of the night for the Bucks, who acquired Jrue Holiday earlier on Monday in a blockbuster trade with the Pelicans, and positioned them to have a star-studded starting five surrounding Giannis Antetokounmpo. The Bogdanovic deal raised some eyebrows for a number of reasons, but one of those was that it couldn’t legally be done until Friday when free agency was opened and appeared to be some of the most blatant tampering — a thing that always happens, just quietly, and, honestly, the NBA should just stop trying to enforce — we’ve seen in some time.
However, two days later things appear to have hit a snag per The Athletic’s Sam Amick — who is among the most plugged in reporters with the Kings. According to Amick, it seems no one every got Bogdanovic’s full sign-off on this deal and it is now “in peril.”
Now, there are a number of things that could be at play here, so we’ll run through them all.
One is that they realized they’d tampered very clearly and are making it known that the deal may be off and will revisit and complete on Friday when they’re actually able to do so and hope the NBA just looks the other way. That’s a genuine possibility and it’ll be interesting to see if the league bites on it.
The other, and honestly, the more fun option, is Bogdanovic is pulling a fast one. It doesn’t happen often, but, it should be noted that Bogdan is represented by the same agent as Nemanja Bjelica, who is the most recent player to back out of an agreement with a team (the Sixers) citing wanting to go overseas and then signing with…none other than the Kings.
We likely won’t get complete resolution on this until Friday when deals can start actually being agreed to in the free agency moratorium period, but for now speculation runs rampant on what happened that could allow such a miscommunication to happen that let this deal get reported so widely but now be potentially in jeopardy.
The world has come a long way in the past few decades when it comes to acceptance of people in the LGBTQ+ community. Those of us who grew up in pre-millennial generations remember a very different time, when hiding one’s sexual orientation or identity was the norm, homophobic jokes barely batted an eye, and seeing someone living an “out and proud” life was far less common than it is today.
That was the world Dan Levy grew up in. The Schitt’s Creek actor and co-creator was born in 1983, and on the day of the series finale of Schitt’s Creek, his mom Deborah Divine shared a tweet that perfectly encapsulates not only the changes we’ve seen in society since then, but the impact Levy himself has had on that world.
She wrote:
“Today I regret every single second of worry back in the uninformed 80’s-wondering how the world was going to treat my brilliant little boy who loved to twirl. Little did I know that he was going to kick that old world’s ass to the curb and create a brand new one.”
It’s difficult to measure the mark Dan Levy (and family) made with the hit TV show Schitt’s Creek, but it’s significant. It’s not like we hadn’t seen LGBTQ+ representation on television before—we just hadn’t seen it quite like this. In most shows with LGBTQ+ characters, their identity was either a conflict or a punchline, as were people’s reactions to them. Generally speaking, homophobia has dominated the storyline of such characters, whether it played out in comedy or drama.
In Schitt’s Creek, Levy created a world where there was no homophobia. It just didn’t exist amongst the characters in the show. The closest we came to seeing it was when Patrick was worried about how his parents would react to finding out he had a boyfriend, but that turned out to be a momentary fear that was immediately squelched by his parents’ unreserved acceptance.
The rest of the time, all we saw in the town of Schitt’s Creek was an embracing of the characters for who they were, quirky outfits notwithstanding. What we experienced in that world was an example of what the world could be.
Watching David and Patrick’s wedding finally and basically my face is an ocean right now. 🥺😭
And it was done with simple storytelling. The romcom sweetness David and Patrick’s relationship from “meet cute” to marriage was something we’ve rarely seen with a same-sex couple on screen. Honestly, the joyful normalness of it all probably did more to help people understand and accept gay relationships than most overt activism ever could. Activism is important for advocating for rights and justice, but those battles are a lot easier to fight when people’s hearts are on your side. And people’s hearts are what Dan Levy has played a role in changing most.
He comes by it honestly. In a speech for GLAAD last year, Levy said that his family’s unconditional love and support—as exemplified by his mom’s tweet—were what made him feel safe to come out at 18.
Dan Levy reflects on creating Schitt’s Creek, “A place where everybody fits in.”
“Had I not had the love to give me a sense of security, I don’t know if I would have found my way out of the closet, let alone create the opportunity for myself to tell stories on television that have effected some kind of positive change in the world,” he said. “Support, encouragement and love: three relatively simple acts of kindness that can change the course of a person’s life.”
For six seasons, Levy showed us a world where everyone embraces those three simple acts of kindness, so everyone is safe. What a wonderful world that turned out to be for all of us.
If you take a look at the shelves of your local grocery store and see that they’re overflowing with Christmas sweets, you’re sure to recognize that even though fall feels like it’s still ramping up, the holidays and winter are upon us. Soon, you’ll have to start thinking about what beers to stock up on for those nights when snow makes going outside impossible.
We’ve had so much fun with fall spirits and beers that we’re not ready to give up on the season just yet. That’s why we went looking for some beers that could help us transition between chilly and cold. You know, those in-between times. To help, we tapped ten of our favorite bartenders — who kicked us their picks for the best beers to bridge fall and winter.
Rowdy from Atlas Brewery is my pick. It perfectly complemented with bitterness and peppery, floral notes. It’s super easy to drink with a very clean finish.
Houblon Chouffe
Chris Johnson, beverage director at Oaxaca Taqueria in New York City
It may just be nostalgia from fall trips to Europe, but this time of year I always lean into Belgians. The Brasserie d’Achouffe Dublin Chouffe Dobbelen IPA Tripel is amazing. Halfway between a classic tripel and an American-style IPA.
Sierra Nevada Celebration. It’s a fresh and hoppy IPA, if you like to drink good hoppy IPAs or IPAs with notes of citrus and mild hops. Celebration IPA will give good winter notes of spice and sweetness. The hops will give you mountain fresh green notes, like fresh pine, crisp, floral aromas, malt notes, and a nice ale color.
Concrete Beach is still keeping it real with their Vienna-style Havana Lager. The malt is present without being overbearing, making it almost drink like an Oktoberfest. Perfect for those days when it might be too warm for a stout but calls for a change of season.
Side Project Inevit
Andy Printy, beverage director at Chao Baan in St. Louis
When you’ve had enough Marzens, but not quite ready to go full stout/ porter season yet, dark-fruited sours are the jam. Side Project Brewery in St. Louis has collaborated with Jester King in Austin for Inevit. A fruited sour with raspberry, cherry, and blackberry. It’s dark and dank, with enough dark berry and tartness to treat your palate in this time of seasonal transition.
Oskar Blues Death by Coconut
Seth Falvo, bartender at The Hotel Zamora in St. Pete Beach, Florida
There are subtle beers, there are not-so-subtle beers, and then there is Death by Coconut by Oskar Blues. This insanely coconut-forward porter is one of my favorite seasonal beers. It’s light-bodied enough to be a great fall porter, but the flavors are rich and decadent enough for the holiday season.
As an added bonus, this beer ages exceptionally well, with the milk chocolate and coffee notes really coming forward as this beer gets older.
Goose Island Bourbon County Stout – This is a Chicago favorite. An Imperial Stout, this beer is brewed and released once a year with small tweaks each year. This beer also ages very well, I have several bottles cellaring at my house to enjoy after they age for a few years. You get chocolate, malty, vanilla notes in this beer, with some sweetness from the bourbon barrel aging process. After you age this beer, it becomes smoother and the sharpness of the hops dies down and becomes even silkier with almost a dessert-like finish.
I’m excited just thinking about it.
Tröegs Master of Pumpkins
Alex Clark, bartender at Square 1682 in Philadelphia
Master of Pumpkins by Tröegs Brewing Company. For me, it’s not quite cold enough yet to pick up a heavy stout, so I go for this one earlier in the autumn for a slightly lighter brew. I find that many pumpkin beers taste way too sweet or artificial, but this beer has the pumpkin sit in the background with cloves and other spices on the front.
Yellowhammer Midnight Special is the perfect beer to bridge those seasons. It’s rich enough to warm you in the cold without being overpowering. It’s filled with notes of deep, dark roasted malts with a slight bitterness on the back palate.
When I switch to Guinness, I know that it’s wintertime. I’ll have any beer, whenever, but in winter — Guinness is every other beer. It’s rich, dark, malty, and perfect as the seasons change.
Three years ago, the city of Houston declared November 18 Astroworld Day as a way to honor Travis Scott, the hometown hero who grew up in the nearby Missouri City suburb. Today, on the third annual Travis Scott Day, Scott announced the launch of his Cactus Jack Foundation to give back to Houston. The foundation is named — as much of his branding is — for Travis’ grandfather, although there is a WWE wrestler who formerly went by that name.
According to a press release, the foundation’s first major initiative is the formation of The Waymon Webster Scholarship — also named for Travis’ grandfather, who attended Prairie View A&M University in Texas, an HBCU. The fund will pay for students struggling with tuition due to the pandemic. Travis hand-picked the recipients from the HBCUs Grambling State University (his mom’s alma mater), Howard University, Morehouse College, Prairie View A&M, and Texas Southern University.
The press release also provides the Cactus Jack Foundation’s mission statement:
The mission of the Cactus Jack Foundation is to empower and enrich the lives of youth by providing access to education and creative resources to ensure long term success. The foundation believes the youth should not be prevented from attaining their lifetime goal and is committed to extending educational opportunities to all, regardless of their circumstances to achieve their dreams.
Travis explained his reasoning for the foundation’s educational focus as well. “Waymon Webster was a Dean of the Prairie View A&M graduate school,” he elaborated. “My grandfather wanted me to take it all the way through college. I feel there is a power in education so to be able to give someone the opportunity to fulfill that dream as my papa thought for me is amazing.” He previously stated he wanted to be more involved in political activism.
The Oklahoma City Thunder will never stop going in when it comes to acquiring first round draft picks. After getting first-round picks for Dennis Schröder and Chris Paul — along with a quality young player in Kelly Oubre Jr. — the Thunder weren’t done flipping veterans for picks and using their ability to absorb some longterm money to their advantage.
On Wednesday, word broke from ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski that the Philadelphia 76ers were trading Al Horford, a first-round pick, and a second-round pick to Oklahoma City in exchange for Danny Green — who the Thunder just landed in the Schröder trade.
The Sixers are sending a lightly-protected 2025 first-round pick and the 34th overall pick in tonight’s draft, sources tell ESPN. The Thunder are also sending Terrance Ferguson to the Sixers with Green. https://t.co/sDCfPo4T4L
The Horford signing in Philadelphia failed to pan out, as he struggled to find anything close to the form he had in Boston while trying to fit in alongside Joel Embiid and company. With three years and just north of $81 million left on his deal, they had to use a first-round pick to unload him, but managed to do so while also bringing in a perimeter shooter and quality defender in Green. A player of Green’s profile feels like a snug fit for the Sixers, as Daryl Morey is moving swiftly to undo some of the roster mess that was created last offseason by some big swings and misses. Terrance Ferguson is also an interesting wing player to give the Sixers a bit more regular season depth.
For the Thunder, they continue to bring in some quality players that will allow them to remain fairly competitive, even if maybe not a playoff team in the West, while stockpiling picks and assets that they can potentially move down the road for a star or to move up in a draft. The No. 34 overall pick tonight is, effectively, a late first rounder that they could package together with 25 and 28 to move up, and the lightly protected 2025 pick could end up being valuable depending on the trajectory of the Sixers.
Zendaya already has some new Euphoria on the way, with two special episodes bridging the gap between the show’s first and second seasons. But that’s apparently not all the work she’s doing with show creator Sam Levinson.
Netflix announced on Wednesday that Zendaya will star in a new movie from Levinson, Malcolm And Marie, a black and white-shot romantic drama about a filmmaker, played by John David Washington and his girlfriend (Zendaya). The streamer’s film Instagram page delivered the news, sharing a black and white image of Zendaya sitting on a bed with her legs around John David Washington, who is sitting in a shirt and tie on the floor.
According to the caption, the image is a still from the 35mm shot project from cinematographer Marcell Rév, which will hit the streaming service on February 5 of 2021. Few details about the movie are known, though a separate Twitter announcement described Malcolm And Marie as “a cinematic ode to the great Hollywood romances,” while the Instagram caption notes that it will take place “over the course of a night” and see the relationship of the two characters tested.
Zendaya later tweeted the announcement as well, saying her heart was “racing” due to the excitement she had for the news going public.
There’s a lot of uncertainty about what the theater industry will look like in the early winter months of 2021, but at least we know Netflix aims to fill the art-house absence.
While the NBA Draft is the focal point of Wednesday night, this year’s condensed offseason means that teams must have an eye on the opening of free agency on Friday as well.
There aren’t a number of teams with cap space this offseason, which, coupled with a lack of stars at the top of this free agent class, means there’s not been as much anticipation for free agency as in years past around the league. That said, there are still players looking to get paid and for the few teams with ample cap room, that means opportunity to really retool a roster.
No team is in better position to do that than the Atlanta Hawks, a team with $43.6 million in space and needs pretty much all over the floor as they look to upgrade to playoff contender in Trae Young’s third season. At the same time, given their massive amounts of space, the Hawks are also ripe for being used as leverage in rumors, because every free agent is going to want other teams they have the option of going somewhere that will pay them handsomely.
With that in mind, Marc Stein of the New York Times reported on Wednesday that Atlanta is considered to be in “pole position” for the services of two of the most prominent free agents this offseason: Danilo Gallinari and Rajon Rondo.
There is a growing belief among rival teams that Atlanta will be in pole position for Danilo Gallinari and Rajon Rondo when free agency begins later this week, league sources say
As @NYTSports reported on Oct. 28, Rondo is also poised to receive strong interest from the Clippers
Gallinari would be a snug fit in Atlanta, which could desperately use more quality offensive players around young and the veteran power forward would certainly fit the bill. However, he said earlier this offseason he would potentially take a pay cut to play for a winner, and while the Hawks are a young team many believe to be on a rise, they will not be a title contender with or without Gallinari. That said, with so many contenders only able to offer the mid-level exception in the $9 million annually range, the Hawks could very well make an offer the sharpshooting forward simply can’t refuse.
The Hawks also need a secondary ball-handler and/or a major upgrade at the backup point guard spot behind Young, and it seems they believe Rondo could be the fit there. While the Hawks certainly believe this upcoming season is playoffs or bust, the Rondo signing in particular is a bit more of a head-scratcher compared to Gallinari. The veteran point guard showed in the playoffs the level he can take his game to and help a team win come the postseason, but his performance in the regular season for the Lakers was less than stellar and the Hawks are a team in need of help winning regular season games at the moment, not playoff games just yet.
In any case, expect the Hawks to be very active from now through the weekend, and we’ll learn in a few days exactly how seriously the top free agents are taking Atlanta as an organization ready to go to the next level.
On the surface of Justus Proffit’s music, there’s a looseness that almost suggests apathy — a kinship to that ‘90s indie attitude whose goal was aloofness and whose enemy was the appearance of effort. “Oh, I made a song,” it sometimes seems to suggest. “I wonder how that happened.”
But dig a little deeper and it’s obvious that Proffit, at 26, is a seeker whose laconic style betrays his hustle: He’s been playing music half his life, culminating in a gorgeous collab with fellow singer-songwriter Jay Som in 2018 (the Nothing’s Changed EP) and last year’s fuzzy, fantastic full-length, L.A.’s Got Me Down. Their common thread: pretty pop songs hiding under sound and melancholy.
Like a lot of unrelenting talents before him, though, Proffit found himself frozen by world events in early 2020. He and his band were set to start a three-week tour at South By Southwest just before the pandemic hit; instead of spending the year next to and in front of the bandmates and fans that sustain him, he was in the warehouse/art space/erstwhile DIY club he’s called home for the last four years.
“It was a venue for years, called Top Space,” he tells me over the phone, “but we eventually stopped doing shows because it was just getting crazy. It’s hard to run a venue in the same place you live. Sometimes we’d get like 400 people up there. It’s a very warehouse-y kind of space.”
But after a brief COVID time in that big space, Proffit got antsy and inspired enough to reignite an old passion that scratched the dual itches of creativity and cashflow. In the past he had made some money and supported the scene by screenprinting flyers and shirts for other artists, so he had the equipment and the knowledge right in front of him to spawn a low-key fashion label he dubbed Magic Club House.
“The beginning of the pandemic was chaotic for me — I didn’t do much, and there wasn’t much to do. But through the months, just to keep my own sanity, I had to get back on to being creative. That’s literally exactly how it happened. I was frozen for a while and then it was like, I’m still alive and I’m gonna keep doing shit. We’re all still kicking, we may as well keep it going. It’s been a nice change of pace for the last few months, compared to the beginning of the quarantine.”
Proffit’s new venture exists on the same continuum as his past projects, with an unmistakably DIY vibe and low-fashion aesthetic: The first two T-shirts he printed — whose limited runs sold out immediately— look like flyers from a bygone era, specifically Britain in the mid-90s. They use imagery from bands he loves, specifically The Stone Roses and St. Etienne. But there’s a bootleg quality about them that screams Los Angeles of the past decade, a sort of warehouse-space chic.
“It’s just like what we used to do with the artwork on our flyers. We just replicated that on a T-shirt,” he tells me. “I grew up in punk rock, you know? So it’s replicating that, like an old ‘80s flyer. I also grew up listening to all Creation Records stuff, things like that. I don’t want to spoil the other bands that we’re going to drop soon, but we’re focusing on that era. That’s music that I’ve always wanted to wear a cool shirt for and I couldn’t find one. I had to start my own company to get the shirt I want. We made ‘em at first just so we could wear ‘em, so I figured we might as well sell them.”
The Magic Club House name wasn’t necessarily inspired by the workspace, but rather a musical endeavor that Proffit developed during this year’s forced downtime, also inspired by a ‘90s musical style: “Club House was this trip-hop project I was making but I just ended up using the page for the apparel, because I liked the name. I gave that side project up for the shirt company instead. We only had like two singles, so I wasn’t really worried about it. I can do something else with that music down the line.”
That’s not the only sonic output he’s been working on, either. Despite Magic Club House eating up a lot of his time — Proffit does almost everything, “except I don’t stitch the T-shirts” — he’s already got a second album pretty much ready to go, though it won’t see the light of day until next year.
“This new one’s different because I got a lot better at playing music,” he laughs. “The songs are better. I got to record some of them up in Washington at this place called The Unknown in Anacortes, where Mt. Eerie and the Microphones and all those people record, in this old church. It was a really magical vibe, so hopefully that vibe will be on the record and people can hear it. Doing this apparel stuff is definitely somewhat the same as doing music. I was just talking to my friend about how that creative force is always the same, it all comes from the same creative spot. It’s just that feeling of growth. And growth for me is a really great feeling. I have a shit-ton of material now.”
Proffit doesn’t have plans for Paris runways or Gucci collabs, though; in fact, he’s pretty content to keep Magic Club House as low-key as his music. Which isn’t to say he’s not excited about it, but rather that most of the validation he gets comes from the work itself. And while there’s no master plan for Club House, Proffit says, “I have a pretty clear vision of how it’s going to go. My goals have already been exceeded, so I’m not really worried about it. I just try to let it flow, and I think it’s going to be completely killer.”
In a welcomed bit of news during these trying times, Will Smith has announced that the The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reunion special will start streaming tonight on HBO Max. The special wasn’t set to drop until Thursday, but Smith says (jokes?) that he pulled some strings and got the streaming service to bump up the date.
“Because I know y’all have waited long enough, I told @hbomax to give the people what they want and drop the #FreshPrinceReunion early!” Smith wrote on Instagram. “See you tonite at 5pm PT/8pm ET!!”
Along with his announcement, Smith included a promo video for the reunion special, which you can see below:
Last week, HBO Max released the official trailer, and the whole crew was back: Tatyana Ali (Ashley), Karyn Parsons (Hilary), Joseph Marcell (Geoffrey), Daphne Maxwell Reid (the second Aunt Viv), Alfonso Ribeiro (Carlton), and DJ Jazzy Jeff (Jazz). In a surprising move for anyone who’s familiar with their Fresh Prince history, the original Aunt Viv, Janet Hubert, also appears in the special by having a heart-to-heart conversation with Smith. It was the first time the two have spoken in over 27 years after Hubert left the show, but it’s an end to the bad blood between her and Smith. So it’ll be interesting to see how that resolves.
Unfortunately, James Avery, the larger than life Uncle Phil, will not be in the special after passing away in 2013. But his presence is felt throughout the special and the trailer that features Smith reminiscing about filming the classic “How come he don’t want me, man?” scene with Avery. “I’d fall into his arms at the end of the scene and he’s holding me and the shot pans off, and he whispered in my ear, ‘Now that’s acting,’” Smith said.
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