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Ja Morant came at Jordan Poole on Twitter after being injured during the Golden State Warriors’ 142-112 win over the Memphis Grizzlies in Game 3 of the Western Conference Semi-finals on Saturday night. In a since-deleted tweet, Morant shared a video of Poole pulling on his knee as he was injured.

“Broke the code,” Morant captioned the video, quoting Warriors coach Steve Kerr, who claimed that Grizzlies guard Dillon Brooks “broke the code” during a play that led to Gary Payton II suffering an elbow injury.

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The head coach of the Grizzlies, Taylor Jenkins, seemed to be in agreement with Morant after the game.

“He was going after a dribble and Jordan Poole grabbed his knee and yanked it,” Jenkins told reporters when asked about the play. “I’m going to be very curious to see what happens after that.”

Poole, on the other hand, claimed his move to be a basketball play and says he hopes for the best for Morant.

“We doubled him, I hit the ball and I was going for the ball and obviously you don’t want to see anybody get hurt,” Poole said. “I’m not even that type of player. I respect everybody. So obviously, hopefully, he gets better. … I don’t even play like that, that’s not my type of game.”

The injury occurred late in the fourth quarter. Morant finished with 34 points, three rebounds, and seven assists.

The Warriors now hold a 2-1 series lead over the Grizzlies. Game 4 is scheduled for Sunday night.

Check out Morant’s since-deleted tweet below.

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Rock Hall CEO Greg Harris says that Eminem’s music “is as hard-hitting and straight ahead as any metal song.” The legendary rapper was announced a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2022 inductees, earlier this week.

“For a lot of years people asked about hip hop. He’s the 10th artist to be sort of categorized that way. But you listen to his music, it is as hard-hitting and straight ahead as any metal song,” Harris declared during an interview with Audacy. “It’s right there. It’s a chest punch with a message and with a power and with a rhythm and with a band. We’re thrilled he’s going in [his] first year of eligibility, it’s a big statement.”

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Eminem is the single best-selling artist of the 2000s, he’s won 15 Grammy Awards, and he’s the first artist to have ten consecutive albums debut at the top of the Billboard 200 chart.

The Rock Hall’s website credits his career as having “solidified hip-hop as the most commercially successful music on the planet.”

Other members of the class include Dolly Parton, Eurythmics, Duran Duran, Pat Benatar, Carly Simon, and Lionel Richie. Other nominees who failed the make the final cut included Beck, A Tribe Called Quest, Rage Against the Machine, Kate Bush, Devo, Fela Kuti, New York Dolls, MC5, and Dionne Warwick.

Check out Harris’s full comments on the Audacy below.

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Drake barged in on an NBC interview with Jack Harlow at the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. During the broadcast, the Toronto rapper admitted to being drunk and tried to stop the camera crew from moving on.

“I just had to show up. I’m so proud of this guy,” Drake said about Harlow, who just released his second studio album, Come Home the Kids Miss You. “And we’re drunk.”

“He’s sober. I’m drunk,” he clarified.

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Drake also spoke about Harlow’s impact on his hometown of Louisville and compared it to his own relationship with Toronto.

When asked if they have a horse in the race, Drake remarked, “We got a lot going on.”

Harlow revealed they were “forced to make a move, on the one and only Happy Jack,” adding, “He’s really giving a good description of how I feel right now. [If there] was a Happy Aubrey, we’d run that too.”

From there, Drake noticed the production crew signaling to wrap things up.

“You can’t give it the wrap it up signal,” he said. “What are you gonna cut to? What are you gonna cut to? A shot of, like, poorly manicured grass, or something?

“You know what I’m gonna tell ’em?” the reporter said. “I’ma tell ’em, ‘Just hold on, we’re going home.”

In addition to hanging with Harlow at the Derby, Drake was featured on his new album for the song, “Churchill Downs.”

Check out the incident below.

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Elizabeth Olsen admitted that she refuses to watch premieres of her Marvel films while speaking with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show on Wednesday. The interview came ahead of the release of her newest project, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

“I just decided I can’t watch these Marvel movies at a premiere anymore,” Olsen shared. “Every time I watch it and I look around me and I’m like ‘Well, it’s our first flop’ — like, every time, I just think, ‘It’s our first flop.’”

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She explained: “I saw ‘Avengers: Endgame’ and I looked around me and said, ‘Is it our first flop?’ I was like, ‘I don’t know. I don’t know about this one.’”

Endgame went on to become one of the most successful movies of all time, grossing an enormous $2.798 billion at the box office.

“It is so not a flop,” Fallon said of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. “And you are getting great reviews, by the way. You just pop; you’re stunning in this thing.”

When asked if she’s read any of the reviews for the new Doctor Strange film, she revealed: “Michael Waldron, who wrote [Multiverse of Madness], sent me a segment of one and it was such an absurd quote that I just told him, ‘You’re mean and you’re lying.'”

Check out Olsen’s appearance on The Tonight Show below.

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Players on both sides of the Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Celtics’ Game 3 matchup for the Eastern Conference Semifinal took issue with the performance of the referees after the game. The Bucks were able to hold off a 14-point comeback from the Celtics in the fourth quarter to win 103-101.

Celtics head coach Ime Udoka called attention to the late-game foul on Celtics guard Marcus Smart which he labeled a “poor call.” Smart was fouled while attempting a 3-pointer but officials decided the foul was on the floor before the attempt was made.

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When Udoka complained, he says refs told him Smart was making a sweeping motion rather than a shooting motion.

“Both feet set. You can’t say that’s a sweep. You’re going into a shot. That’s a poor call. Poor no-call,” Udoka said.

He added: I’ll teach my guys to flop a little more.”

On the other side, Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo hinted at being upset with the refs but admitted he didn’t want to get fined.

“How much does it cost if I say something, a comment about the refs? Is it $20,000? It’s a lot of money. So, I should not do it. I’ll save my money. I’ve got to pay for diapers.”

The Bucks now hold a 2-1 series lead over the Celtics. Game 4 is scheduled for Monday at 7:30 PM, ET.

Check out Antetokounmpo’s comments after the game below.

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