Month: June 2021

Chris Paul is one of the greatest point guards of all time although if there is one thing missing in his career, it would have to be an NBA title. Paul has never made it to the NBA Finals and this year, he seems to have a phenomenal opportunity to get there. His Phoenix Suns are currently on a seven-game winning streak and last night, they defeated the Denver Nuggets to complete the second-round sweep. Now, the Suns are off to the Western Conference Finals where they will either play the Utah Jazz or the Los Angeles Clippers.

After last night’s performance, Paul was a bit emotional about everything the team had accomplished this season. While speaking to reporters after the game, Paul also noted that he has been doubted quite a bit over the last few years and he truly believes that the narratives will change, moving forward.

“A couple of years ago they were writing me off. This ain’t about me. It’s about us,” Paul said. Over the next few days, the Suns will get a nice little break as they wait for the Jazz and Clippers series to come to an end. Game 4 of that series goes down tonight and there will at least be a Game 5 later this week.

With all of this in mind, it seems as though the Suns are legitimate title contenders right now.

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Following the ejection of Nuggets’ star Nikola Jokic from Denver’s Game 4 matchup with the Phoenix Suns in their Western Conference semifinal series, several athletes took to Twitter to voice their frustration with the referees’ decision. Jokic was tossed for hitting Suns’ Cameron Payne in the face while reaching for the ball.

“Playoffs. elimination game. give him a flagrant 1 and play ball man,” Grizzlies guard Ja Morant wrote on Twitter, Sunday night.

He added: “League soft.”

Hawks’ star Trae Young also said he was surprised by the call.

“A Flagrant 2?? Wow,” he tweeted.

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Jokic explained the play after the game, saying that he was trying to get aggressive to give his team some energy before the fourth quarter.

“I wanted to change the rhythm of the game, I wanted to give us some energy, maybe change the whistle a little bit, so I wanted to make a hard foul,” Jokic said. “Did I hit him, did I not hit him? We don’t know. So I say sorry if I did because I did not want to injure him or hit him in the head on purpose.”

“I thought honestly they would not eject me,” he added.

Check out more reactions to the ejection below.

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Legendary actor Samuel L. Jackson listed his top five films in which is stars, during an interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, earlier this week.

“Some actors lie to you about that. They watch their movies,” Jackson said. “It’s a ‘watch me’ business, that’s why we’re here.”

He continued: “If I’m channel surfing, and I haven’t found anything that I wanna watch or I’m not specifically looking for something… I pass something I’m in I’ll watch it.”

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Jackson has starred in some of Hollywood’s biggest films over his career, including several Quentin Tarantino films, Marvel films, and Star Wars films.

Revealing his top five, he said, “Long Kiss Good Night, A Time to Kill, Jackie Brown, Red Violin, and One Eight Seven.”

Jackson also revealed his all-time favorite films, regardless of his involvement: “The Raid, The Godfather, Hard Boiled, Hoodlums, and The Berlin File,” he said.

For his next project, the 72-year-old actor is set to appear aside Ryan Reynolds and Salma Hayek in The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard. The film will hit theaters on June 16.

Later, Jackson praises Giancarlo Esposito for his excellent acting skills and recent success. Check out the interview down below.

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Nuggets’ star center Nikola Jokic was ejected from Denver’s Game 4 matchup with the Phoenix Suns in their Western Conference semifinal series, Sunday night. Jokic was tossed for hitting Suns guard Cameron Payne in the face.

The ejection was issued late in the third quarter of the game with the Suns leading 83-75. After striking Payne in the face while reaching for the ball, Jokic was issued a flagrant 2 and automatically ejected.

Jokic appeared to apologize to Payne after the play.

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ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith went off on the refs’ decision on Twitter during the game.

“This is the damn problem with the @NBA right now.. you do not make that call vs Jokic a FLAGRANT2. The swipe was a frustration foul. We’ve seen worse. The fans do not attend games for this kind of call. You’ve EJECTED the league-MVP. You don’t do this.#Unreal.”

“I’m turning the channel away from @NBAonTNT. No sense in even watching the rest of this game. You don’t EJECT the league-MVP on a play like that. That’s the league completely ignoring fan’ interest. You just don’t do this. See y’all on @FirstTake and Stephen A’s World tomorrow.”

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French Montana’s driver was assaulted and robbed outside of Manhattan’s Dream Hotel, Sunday morning. During the incident, he was robbed of his $300,000 Richard Mille watch and a $40,000 chain.

The 18-year-old driver was reportedly held up by gunpoint at 4:50 AM by two men who punched him and ripped off his chain. One of the robbers fired their gun into the ground. Both assailants wore black masks.

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Earlier this week, a 25-year-old man from Brooklyn was killed outside of the same hotel after being fatally shot in the torso. The hotel is located in the neighborhood of Chelsea.

Friday, Montana released his newest single, “FWMGAB,” which Diddy has already deemed to be the “song of the summer.“

“We make hits. We been making hits all yall lives,” Diddy said in a video on his Instagram. “Your whole lives, ever since yall been born. Even before you were thought of, we been making hits. And we not gone stop this summer, alright?”

“Song of the summer,” he added.

It appears that Montana is in New York City to film a visual for his new single.

Check out “FWMGAB,” which stands for “Fuck With Me Get a Bag,” here.

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Film and TV actor Ned Beatty died at the age of 83 from natural causes, Sunday morning, his management has confirmed. Beatty was best known for his roles in a streak of films nominated at the Oscars for the Best Picture award including Deliverance (1972), Nashville (1975), All the President’s Men (1976), and Network (1976).

The legendary character actor appeared in a number of other great films such as 1977’s Superman, and 2010’s Toy Story 3. For his role in Network, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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In addition to his work in film, he appeared in a number of classic television shows such as Gunsmoke, M*A*S*H,  Hawaii Five-O, and more. He also had a recurring role on Roseanne as the father of John Goodman’s character. In the 2000s, he appeared in episodes of Law and Order and CSI.

On the stage, he starred in a revival of the musical Showboat in 1996.

Beatty was married four times in his life. First, he married Walta Abbott in 1959, second to actress Belinda Beatty in 1971, and third to Dorothy “Tinker” Lindsey in 1979.

Beatty is survived by his wife, Sandra Johnson, whom he married in 1999, and his eight children and grandchildren.

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Longtime Celtics player Glen “Big Baby” Davis shrugged off Nets’ star Kyrie Irving’s new ankle injury, implying that it is karma for stepping on Boston’s logo at TD Garden during the first round of the NBA playoffs.

“That’s the same ankle stomp on lucky with,” Davis wrote in an Instagram post, Sunday.

Nets’ head coach Steve Nash said Irving suffered a sprained right ankle, after the game, and provided no timetable for his return.

“I have no idea what’s going to happen with Ky in the coming days,” he said. “We’ll cross our fingers and hope that it’s better than – I don’t know, better than what? – better than missing the next game.”

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Davis previously voiced his frustrations with Irving shortly after the logo stomp, writing on Twitter: “Real bullshit. Like I said you step on lucky you step on everybody that played for that team. Keep the shit basketball before somebody get hurt in real life.”

Celtics legend Kevin Garnett also called out Irving on twitter.

“So nobody gonna say anything about Kyrie stomping Lucky,” he tweeted. “We just gonna act like we didn’t see that. Tf going on… You can’t do that. That’s not coo on no level. All of us need to be better frfr…I’m just sayin.”

Irving played with the Celtics from 2017-2019.

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Wu-Tang Clan member RZA has revealed when the upcoming season of Hulu’s Wu-Tang: An American Saga will begin airing. The legendary rapper told fans to expect a second season of the show by September in a new interview with HipHopDX.

“American Saga will start airing in September,” he told the outlet over the phone. “That story will be complete for the season. Then I’m looking to get back in a director’s chair. I feel like that’s important for me to continue to tell our stories through cinema.”

He explained: “That’s going to take some time to develop a new script. But I’m having a great time finishing up the new season of American Saga.” 

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The show is executive produced by RZA, Method Man, Brian Grazer, Francie Calfo, and Alex Tse. The fictional retelling of the Wu-Tang Clan’s career stars Ashton Sanders as The RZA, Shameik Moore as Raekwon, Siddiq Saunderson as Ghostface Killah, and Dave East as Method Man. Joey Bada$$ also has a recurring role in the series.

Wu-Tang Clan is scheduled to perform their first live show since the COVID-19 pandemic at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado on August 13. Tickets for the show are on sale now.

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Coi Leray posted two new vacation pictures on Instagram with her boyfriend, Pressa, that show the couple enjoying each other’s company at the beach. Both Leray and Pressa have loaded up their social media pages with each other in recent weeks.

“I’ve been getting my mind right …. It’s been going great,” Leray wrote in the caption of the post.

Fans in the comments continued to call out Pressa for having a feminine look, something Leray has had to defend on multiple occasions.

“People saying pressa look like a girl till they see that Mf dick print,” Leray recently wrote on Twitter.

She added in another post a few days later: “Haters keep reporting me and Pressa picture off his page. Smh girl byeeeeeeee get a life.”

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Fans thought that her ex, Blueface, was getting in on the action as well, this week, when he tweeted: “Dat n***a look like a bitch.” 

He later clarified that the tweet was not about Pressa: “Y’all reachin smh I’m not talm bout that.”

Leray and Blueface were romantically linked for a while back in 2020. She has also dated Trippie Redd in the past as well.

Check out Leray and Pressa’s new Instagram post below.