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Jon Jones has been through a ton of controversies as of late. After his recent arrest for domestic violence, Jones was reportedly banned from the gym belonging to his former coach, Mike Winkeljohn. Jones has never shied away from speaking his mind on various topics, so it should come as no surprise that he decided to go after Winkeljohn on Twitter. Unfortunately, the tweets were deleted, however, ClutchPoints was able to capture them before they were gone.

“Coach Wink gets on national TV and tells the world he wants the best for me, and then behind the scenes harassing the other coaches for continuing to work with me. What a miserable bastard,” Jones said. “This dude somehow has found a way to run away every single one of Gregs original fighters. I can’t think of a Jackson’s veteran that still talks with this ass whole”

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From there, Jones went on to address the whole entire part about being suspended from the gym and even the reasons behind leaving his team. Ultimately, Jones just doesn’t like Winkeljohn, which is why he ended up leaving in the end.

“I didn’t leave the team because I couldn’t handle a punishment, I left the gym because I wasn’t training with Wink anymore anyways. This man hasn’t taught the students a new technique since I met him,” Jones said. “Wink suspending me from the team changed absolutely nothing for me. I’m still working with the same exact coaches on the same exact schedule we have been on over the last two years.”

At this point, the relationship between these two seems permanently fractured, although Jones doesn’t seem to care all that much. As for the deleted tweets, who knows why he decided to get rid of such evidence.

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Sean “Diddy” Combs has reportedly bid $3.3 million to buy the fashion brand Sean John out of bankruptcy. Diddy founded Sean John back in 1998 before later selling the brand to GBG USA Inc. in 2016.

Bloomberg reports that court documents filed on Wednesday reveal Diddy has set the floor for further bids with his sizable offer. The company has been seeking a buyer since May.

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Other potential buyers will have until December 15 to top Diddy’s $3.3 million offer.

Earlier this year, Diddy hit the fashion brand as well as GBG with a $25 million lawsuit for allegedly using the rapper’s image without his consent to “significantly increase sales and profits.” 

“[Sean John/GBG’s] decision to leverage a fabricated quote they created and then falsely attributed to Mr. Combs, and to use Mr. Combs’s name and other monikers to create the false and misleading impression that Mr. Combs is the decision-maker behind the designs and creation of the GBG Collection,” Diddy’s lawyer Jonathan D. Davis said at the time.

TMZ reports that sources close to the hip-hop entrepreneur say he is very excited for the deal to go through and plans to completely reinvigorate the brand after he is able to acquire it.

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Drake is one of the most recognizable people in the world. His music has taken him across the globe, making him one of the most popular artists of all time. It feels like, wherever the Toronto native goes, he will be recognized by everybody that crosses his path. 

On Wednesday night though, he may have found the last two people on this planet who are unfamiliar with him. Sitting courtside at the Houston Rockets/Oklahoma City Thunder game, Drake was spotted next to an older couple and when he was shown on the big screen, they seemingly asked him if he was anybody special.

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The man beside Drake seemingly noticed that the rapper was being introduced to fans at the arena when he turned and said something, which got a laugh out of Drizzy. Amused by whatever the man told him, Drake instructed the camera to focus on his new friends, and he even cemented their bond by posting them on his Instagram page.

“My new parents,” wrote the rapper, sharing a picture with them.

While it’s perceived that the couple didn’t know Drake because of how the interaction went down, it’s possible that they were simply playing it cool with the artist. 

Check out the video below.

Trae Young’s playoff performances last season were beyond impressive. He was able to lead his team to the Eastern Conference Finals, and it was certainly a fantastic outing for a team that had struggled mightily in the seasons prior. In the first round of the playoffs, Young took on the New York Knicks, where he eventually became a villain in the city. 

In the SideTalkNYC video down below, Knicks fans were incredibly cruel to Young, and one of the lasting sentiments in the city is that he is no longer welcomed back. Of course, these are simply empty threats made by fans, although it speaks to just how much of an impression Young ended up making on the city. 

Despite all of this hatred and vitriol towards Young, it was recently revealed that some people voted for Young as a write-in in the Mayoral race in New York City. This should certainly come as a surprise given what was said about Young in the city, previously. 

To show his appreciation for these votes, Young ended up taking to Twitter saying “that’s love NY for real, never got a mayor vote!” Clearly, Young is pretty impressed about how he still has some fans left in the city that he left dejected last April.

Perhaps next time around, Young can get more votes and perhaps even take office.

Sandra Bullock discussed adoption and what she’s learned from parenting two Black children on a new episode of Red Table Talk with Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, and Adrienne Banfield-Norris.

Despite going on to say that she loves them the same as a “woman with brown skin” would, Bullock admits that she wishes her children and her “skins matched.”

“Because then it would be easier on how people approach us. It’s our anxiety. It’s our fear,” the Bird Box star explained. “It’s our cross to bear the minute you become a mom. And I have the same feelings as a woman with brown skin with it being her babies or a White woman with, you know, White babies.”

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Bullock also discussed her relationship with her partner, Randall, whom she met after adopting.

“He’s the example that I would want my children to have. I have a partner who’s very Christian,” Bullock said. “And so there’s two very different ways of looking at things. And I don’t always agree with him”

“He doesn’t always agree with me,” she added. “But he is an example even when I don’t agree with him that I go, ‘If they can take away from that, and if that is where they feel drawn to, then he’s the exact right parent.'”

Check out Bullock’s appearance on Red Table Talk below.

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Joel Embiid is one of the best big men in the entire NBA, although, over the course of the last few weeks, he has dealt with a pretty bad COVID-19 case. The Philadelphia 76ers superstar felt like he was going to die, and in the end, he had to miss quite a bit of time due to conditioning. Now, Embiid is back in the lineup, although he has certainly struggled at times when it comes to playing an entire game.

Last night, Embiid scored 13 points in a loss against the Celtics, and while he did have 18 rebounds, it’s clear that he wasn’t at his best. After the game, Embiid told Tim Bontemps of ESPN that he still isn’t 100 percent right now and that it might take him a few more weeks before his cardio is back to where it used to be.

“I would never use it as an excuse, but obviously I think it’s going to take me a while to get back, especially legs and cardio and all that stuff,” Embiid said. “I can’t be playing the way I’ve played these last two games, especially when it comes to shotmaking. If teams are going to double me and I’m not going to get easy baskets, I have to create for myself and my teammates, and I’ve got to make those shots.”

Various players throughout the league have spoken at length about their experiences with COVID, and Embiid is one of the more prominent ones to do so. Hopefully, the long-lasting effects of the virus go away soon, as Embiid is a treasure to the league.