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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.

Following Lamar Odom’s Pay Per View bout with Aaron Carter, in which he won by TKO after two rounds, Wendy Williams says the former NBA player let her try on the championship belt. Odom outsized Carter by 80 pounds in weight and 10 inches in height.

“@lamarodom is the MAN!! He spent time with me after his WIN,” she wrote in an Instagram post. “He put this belt on me & commented on my small waist in a good way. He was VERY wanting to take a shower. He left my suite, I got to my car & fell in my fortress bed 4am.”

The nature of the post sparked dating rumors in the comments. Odom recently told Williams that he was single during an appearance on The Wendy Williams Show in May.

“I’m still single, Wendy,” said Odom. “Happily single. I’m in Atlanta.”

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Odom spoke about being paid in Cryptocurrency after the fight, on Twitter.

“Thank you @legacyrecords for being a premier sponsor of my fight Boxing glove I appreciate the #Bitcoin you gave me upon my win and the fact that you are ahead of the game paying your artist in Crypto currency speaks volumes!! Nothing but love to Keisha!!” he wrote in a tweet.

Nets star point guard Kyrie Irving left Game 4 of Brooklyn’s Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Milwaukee Bucks with sprained right ankle and did not return to action. While X-rays came back negative, Iriving will undergo more tests in the coming days.

Following a layup attempt over Jrue Holiday with 6:04 remaining in the second quarter, Irving came down awkwardly on Giannis Antetokounmpo’s foot. After being looked over by team doctors for several minutes, he limped to the locker room without requiring assistance.

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Nets head coach Steve Nash said he’s unsure when to expect Irving back, after the game.

“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.”

Fellow Nets star James Harden is also absent from the team’s lineup, having suffered a hamstring injury during the first game of the Eastern Conference semifinals. Harden missed numerous games during the regular season for a similar injury as well. It’s unclear when he will return to the court.

Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals will tip-off Tuesday, June 15th.

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Chris Hemsworth trolled Chris Evans on Instagram while celebrating the Avengers actor’s 40th birthday with a post showing a photo of himself with Chris Pratt and Evans nowhere to be seen.

“Happy 40th birthday Chris Evans, you’ll always be number 1 in my book @chrisevans,” Hemsworth wrote. Most fans replied with laughing emojis in the comments section.

“Wrong Chris, Chris,” one fan wrote.

Another joked: “Man. Chris has changed over the years.”

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Hemsworth, Evans, and Pratt have all starred in multiple Marvel films together.

The picture is likely from behind the scenes of the upcoming Marvel film Thor: Love and Thunder. For the project, both actors are reprising their Marvel Cinematic Universe roles of Thor and Peter Quill/Star-Lord.

Earlier this year, a report surfaced that claimed Evans was retiring from his role as Captain America, which Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige quickly shot down.

“I rarely answer no to anything anymore because things are always surprising me with what happens, but that rumor, I think, was dispelled rather quickly by the man himself.”

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier star Anthony Mackie also said he was shocked by the report.

Check out Hemsworth’s Instagram post trolling Evans below.

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