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Victor Oladipo has dealt with numerous injury issues over the years and they were certainly prominent last season with the Indiana Pacers. This year, Oladipo got to play with the Houston Rockets before going to the Miami Heat, who were his dream team for a few years now. Unfortunately, Oladipo got injured again and then had to get surgery on his right quad tendon which has been bothering him over the last few years. Since the surgery, Oladipo has yet to return.

Now, according to Brian Windhorst of ESPN, it seems like Oladipo’s prospects aren’t optimistic heading into next season. He was supposed to be a free agent this summer which meant he could go wherever he wanted. However, as Windhorst reports, it seems like Oladipo could miss the entire season which puts his free agency into question. 

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“They haven’t announced it, but there’s a good chance Oladipo is going to miss all of next season,” Windhorst proclaimed. The ESPN analyst has been known to break news like this before although considering Oladipo’s status, it’s surprising that this has yet to become a bigger story. If Windhorst proves to be correct, then it will be interesting to see if a team offers Oladipo a contract, even with his injury status in mind.

Stay tuned to HNHH as we will be sure to bring you all of the latest updates from the NBA world.

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It’s impossible to please everyone, and perhaps no one knows that better than the beloved social media platform Twitter. With every major update, Twitter users are often split about the application’s continued development, with some users longing for “the old Twitter” and others thoroughly enjoying the app’s latest features.

As seen with its newly incorporated features like Fleets and Spaces, the veteran social media platform typically stands its grounds, but after catching flack from users who called out the app’s seemingly biased image cropping algorithm, Twitter acknowledged the situation and went back to the drawing board.

Last fall, Twitter user @bascule exposed the potentially faulty algorithm by showing that the app favored Mitch McConnell over Barack Obama in two separate images, which soon prompted a response from Twitter, who said, “We tested for bias before shipping the model & didn’t find evidence of racial or gender bias in our testing. But it’s clear that we’ve got more analysis to do.”

Eight months later, Twitter has confirmed via an official post on its website that their in-depth analysis concluded that Twitter users were right. According to Complex, Twitter’s study tested for racial bias, gender bias, and the “male gaze,” and it eventually concluded that there’s around an 8 percent demographic parity favoring women, and 4 percent favoring white people. In order to rectify the situation, the social media platform has decided to remove machine learning from the image cropping function on Twitter and put power into users’ hands.

“One of our conclusions is that not everything on Twitter is a good candidate for an algorithm, and in this case, how to crop an image is a decision best made by people,” Twitter reveals in its statement. “In March, we began testing a new way to display standard aspect ratio photos in full on iOS and Android — meaning without the saliency algorithm crop.”

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“The goal of this was to give people more control over how their images appear while also improving the experience of people seeing the images in their timeline,” the statement continues. “This update also includes a true preview of the image in the Tweet composer field, so Tweet authors know how their Tweets will look before they publish.”

Stay tuned for more updates as Twitter rolls out its new manual image cropping feature.

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J. Cole is on pace to have a monstrous first week with his latest studio album The Off-Season. The album, which features 21 Savage, Morray, Lil Baby, and others, has been hailed as one of the rapper’s best bodies of work to date with fans applauding Cole’s lyricism, delivery, flows, and overall presence. This week, the album’s pre-release single “i n t e r l u d e” debuted at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100. As the album nears a #1 debut next week, it has been reported that it ended up breaking Spotify’s single-day streaming record for this year, clocking an astounding 62 million streams.

Dropping the most hyped project of the week, J. Cole attracted a lot of attention when he finally released his latest studio album, which he had been teasing for over a year. The Off-Season was the first listen for a lot of hip-hop fans last Friday and people obviously rushed to enjoy the project because it’s being reported that Cole broke records on Spotify when it dropped.

The Off-Season is reportedly the most-streamed album in a single day so far this year. The rapper is currently aiming for over 300,000 sales in the album’s first week out, which would make for the biggest first-week debut this year.

What’s your favorite song from the project? Let us know in the comments.

There are a few things that Soulja Boy will go down for in the history books but his screeching “DRAAAAKE?!” call-out on the Breakfast Club has been cemented in the pantheon of great viral internet antics. The two have collaborated in the past but it seems like whenever Soulja is back in the headlines, there’s a concerted effort to drag Drake into his shenanigans.

HNHH recently chopped it up with Big Draco who explained that Bow Wow has forever had his back, even after calling out  Drake, again. 

“My peers give me my credit, man,” he said. “That’s my boy in real life, you know what I’m sayin’? I’m gonna say it like this — I just have fun. People know — look, shout out to all them folks but they know what’s up. I’m the one, you know what I’m sayin’? I’m the one. C’mon man. I’m the one. It need be to Soulja. Soulja this, Soulja that.”

When it came down to calling out Drake specifically, Soulja explained that it was all in good fun, adding that there wasn’t “any pressure.”

“I was just poking a little fun. Having a little fun, like, ‘C’mon, man. You know what’s going on Drake. Stop playing with me, boy.’ But it’s all love. Shout out to Drake and to Bow Wow.”

Peep our full interview with Draco here, or watch the video below.

MC Kevin, a 23-year-old rapper from Brazil, has passed away after falling from a hotel’s fifth-floor balcony. According to testimonials, the artist was reportedly attempting to avoid his wife so she wouldn’t catch him having a threesome with another woman and his friend.

The news was reported by Brazilian newspaper Extra Globo, which was later translated by the Daily Mail. MC Kevin fell from a Rio de Janeiro hotel’s balcony as he reportedly tried to jump onto a lower balcony. He was found near the hotel’s swimming pool. Police have reportedly taken the phones of model Bianca Domingues and Kevin’s friend Victor Elias Fontenelle, who were both reportedly inside the hotel room at the time of the incident. The three are said to have “maintained sexual relations” before Kevin jumped from the balcony in fear of his wife finding them. He was rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead when he arrived.

The rapper married his wife, Deolane Bezerra, just a few weeks ago. She mourned in a post on Monday, saying, “You left and took a piece of me with you. You were always so incredible… It’s not fair for you to leave like this. It’s not. It’s not.”

We will keep you updated with all the latest information in this story. Rest in peace, MC Kevin. We’re sending our love and condolences to his family and loved ones.

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