Russell Westbrook Does ‘Juju on That Beat’ Pregame Dance w/ Cameron Payne Before 17th Triple-Double
Its over. Done. Kaput. Finished. Cameron Payne has been traded to the Bulls during the NBA trade deadline, putting an end to one of the best things in the league: russ and payne dance duets.
its sad for all of us as fans, but spare a thought for Russell Westbrook. The poor dude is only now getting over the loss of Kevin Durant, now hes going to have to keep playing without his buddy. Its just so sad.
We only had two years to appreciate this and it was snatched away by a trades cruel grasp. We will never forget you.
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NEW ORLEANS -- The Houston Rockets traded forward K.J. McDaniels to the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday just before the 3 p.m. ET trade deadline in a move, according to a source, to add salary-cap space.
The Rockets also traded Tyler Ennis to the Lakers in exchange for fellow guard Marcelo Huertas. Houston is expected to waive Huertas.
The trades will give the Rockets $3.5 million in cap space, which a source said they will use in an attempt to sign players who have been bought out.
What are the Nets getting in K.J. McDaniels? Can Houston get another player with its new cap space? kevin pelton grades the trade.
how does tyler Ennis fit in L.A.? Are the Rockets set up for more moves after the deadline? Kevin Pelton grades the trade.
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The Nets also waived guard Marcus Thornton, acquired Wednesday in their trade with Washington.
McDaniels, who"s 6-foot-6, 205 pounds, just couldn"t get into coach Mike D"Antoni"s rotation and played 212 minutes in 29 games. At the start of the season, D"Antoni wanted McDaniels to become a wing defender, but he struggled and fell behind Corey Brewer and Sam Dekker at small forward off the bench.
Last month, McDaniels was almost traded to Cleveland for Mike Dunleavy Jr., but the Rockets pulled out of the deal. Instead, Dunleavy was eventually traded to the Atlanta Hawks for Kyle Korver.
McDaniels said at the time he understood the business of the NBA, and despite limited playing time, his goal is "to remain ready."
In the summer of 2015, McDaniels signed a three-year, $10 million contract as a restricted free agent with the Rockets. The objective was for McDaniels to get significant playing time, but that never occurred.
Sage Elsesser isn"t famous, but he"s popular among the right kinds of people, a group that includes the likes of James Jebbia (founder of Supreme), Jason Dill (skateboarding legend/style icon), and even Frank Ocean (no explanation required). Elsesser is known to this ahead-of-the-curve set as a gifted professional skateboarder, Supreme"s go-to lookbook model (a position secured thanks to his skateboarding skills), Earl Sweatshirt"s roommate, and "Frank Ocean"s collaborator," even if it"s a mischaracterization (Elsesser"s voice appears on the last song of Ocean"s 2016 album, Blonde). He"s also just a 20-year-old college student who, on the day of our shoot, was skipping class at the Pratt Institute, where he"s studying fine art.
Elsesser checks all the requisite boxes of a cool kid who would have the inside track on the freshest streetwear, sneakers, and, fittingly, all things Supreme. But he"s also refreshingly unaware of the industry he"s increasingly considered to be part of. If anything, he"s just an influential outsider; the kind of guy who rocks a tucked-in T-shirt and Dickies pants for years before the same styles start popping up in lookbooks and on big-name designer runways. There"s a reason the fashion world has turned its attention to skateboarding for inspiration of late, and it"s hard to ignore a guy like Elsesser and his ilk as a crucial part of that attraction.
You could dismiss that fact if Elsesser"s personal style weren"t in lockstep with how a lot of guys want to dress today. It"s evident in the photos you see herein his artfully baggy sweats, his logo-heavy Gucci scarf, and those minimally stylish new Converse One Star Court Classic Pro sneakers that feature a premium leather upper (washed suede on the navy blue pair) and hardly any Converse branding. We spoke with the soon-to-be-everywhere Sage Elsesser about the new kicks he helped design, how he got so stylish, and what he thinks about his employer"s high-profile collaboration with Louis Vuitton.
Are you sick of people saying you contributed to Frank Ocean"s album? Yeah, like, guys asking me, "So explain what having credits on Frank Ocean"s album is like?" Like, I didn"t do anything. Like, sure, I"m down, I"m a Frank Ocean collaborator. One time I told someone I wrote "Solo." I told them I wrote that for him, and they were like, "Wow! No way!"
What do you think of the Supreme x Louis Vuitton collaboration? It"s cool, f**k yeah, Louis Vuitton. It"s another cool collaboration for Supreme, but I just don"t really care. There"s gonna be another one next year kids are gonna flip on.
How does it feel to replace [legendary skateboarder and style icon] jason dill as supreme"s official lookbook model? It"s really cool. It happened really quickly. I remember Dill telling me, "Man, I"m gonna be too old soon, and they"re gonna ask you to be the model." I didn"t believe him. Now I"ve done, like, four of them, so it"s kind of like, "When is it gonna stop?"
In a recent interview with Earl Sweatshirt, you reference how your style changed when you moved to New York. How would you describe your style now? Yeah, he said something like, "expensive roadman." I guess that just came from traveling and seeing different places like Paris, London. It"s cool, but I"m all about comfort. I skate for Converse, but I"m not wearing Chuck Taylors all the time. I was able to differentiate my on-board style from my regular style.
How do you dress differently when you"re skating? I don"t like to wear shorts if I"m skating. I have kind of expensive taste. I wouldn"t wear
The Gucci scarf you have on, for instance. I actually got this on sale. [laughs]
If you know you"re being filmed that day while skating, will you step your style up a little bit for the cameras? I"m always conscious of what I"m wearing. It"s just like how a basketball player doesn"t wear a jersey and basketball sneakers all the time. You sweat, you bleed, so you kind of always need to change your clothes.
How do you feel about how skate style has recently become so popular in fashion? I just think it"s corny. It just looks dumb, but it"s also cool that, like, Forever 21 is making Trasher, Paradis, and f*****g Awesome tees. Like, they want to be on our s**t. But I also just see so many kids dressed like Sean Pablo now.
Like Dickies and Chuck Taylors, tucked in... Yeah, like that"s my friend. I know him so well. That"s a normal look now. And Sean looks good. If that helps kids dress better, so be it. I just thought it was funny, because it"s something so simple as, like, tucking in your T-shirt. I see rappers trying it out, like A$AP Rocky, Ty Dolla $ign, and thinking, "Wow, they"re looking at us." But as far as fashion, it"s just their inspiration. Every designer uses inspiration, whether it"s Supreme, FA [f*****g Awesome], it all comes from inspiration.
Is it okay to wear skate style if you don"t skate? I don"t give it too much attention. Let Selena Gomez wear a Thrasher shirt, it"s popular. Bieber wears FA. People shop at Supreme, like, it"s just popular.
Jonah Hill? Jonah Hill is cool. I"ve met him before, too. I think he"s a little mixed-up, though, wearing like a Palace hoodie with a Supreme hat and Yeezy Boosts. Get it together, Jonah.
Let"s talk about your Converse collaboration. How did you end up with this design? I didn"t really design it, I just thought it was a shoe that was really important to the aesthetic of Converse. It"s a classic shoe. I"ve thought recently the direction of Converse has been really Nike-influenced, with the newest technology and breathable fabric and all that bullshit. I just wanted to make a shoe you f*****g put on your feet, tie the laces, and do what you do. I wanted just a basic shoe. It"s just an old tennis shoe. And I know that"s really popular with things like the Stan Smith.
Where did you first see the style? I was in Japan. And I found the leather we used on a different Converse shoe.
Do you go through shoes really quickly because you skate so much? But that"s just skating. I saw this pair of shoes at Barneys that had, like, duct tape and were like $600.
Following a CNN debate between the candidates running to lead the Democratic National Committee, the Draft Bernie for a People"s Party said the forum underscored how Mr. Ellison is wasting his time trying remake the Democratic Party.
We invite Keith Ellison to join Bernie Sanders in founding a new peoples party, where we can genuinely express our progressivism without the constraints of the Democratic Partys billionaire donors, the group said.
Due to the way the Democratic Party is organized, whomever is elected chair will have to report to the superdelegates and billionaires, they said.
Mr. Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Senate Democrats, is backing Mr. Ellisons quest for the top post at the DNC, which many progressives believe rigged the 2016 primary process in favor of Hillary Clinton.
Mr. Ellison and former Labor Secretary Tom Perez are viewed as the top contenders in the race though South Carolina Democratic Chair Jaime Harrison and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Peter Buttigieg maintain they have paths to victory in the multi-ballot vote, which is set for Saturday in Atlanta.
In a statement, the Draft Bernie folks said the field of contenders in the debate missed the chance to connect with working class voters and failed to make a clean break from the political and economic establishment that has impoverished our country.
Its not about finding an honest enough person to make party chair, its about an institutional structure that forces even well-intentioned people to capitulate to the ruling orthodoxy, they said.
They pointed out that most of the contenders have refused to rally behind bans against large contributions from deep-pocketed donors, super PACs, and lobbyists.
The retreats with billionaires and backroom deals that have characterized the DNC chairs race harken back to the days of Tammany Hall and are a far cry from the proud political revolution that Sen. Sanders ignited last year, the group said.
Mr. Sanders, meanwhile, has said that right now he is working to steer the Democratic Party in a more progressive direction.
He has refused to rule out running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 and has yet to shoot down those calling on him to launch a new party.
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UPDATED 2/21/2017, 11 p.m. ET: This Is Us" Tuesday, February 21, episode delivered big answers on this topic. Click here for our full recap but beware of spoilers!
Original story:This Is Us is singlehandedly ending droughts all over the world with the quantity of tears that it elicits. As any fan of the Pearson family knows, the NBC drama has revolved around two major deaths this season: Jacks (Milo Ventimiglia) inevitable demise when his kids a.k.a. the "Big Three" were teens, and Williams (Ron Cephas Jones) present-day, soon-to-occur passing following his stage IV cancer diagnosis. Fans everywhere, Us included, are on the edge of their seats waiting to see what happens to the two patriarchs of the show and some viewers are convinced they"ve already unlocked the mystery.
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While the show has previously made it clear that Jack dies, it has also been hinting since the start that Williams death is close at hand. William himself has even waxed poetic on the topic of his own fatal ending in countless brilliantly delivered monologues.
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Viewers have seen that Jack"s death has been particularly tough on daughter kate (chrissy metz), and it seems safe to assume that William"s will be similarly difficult for biological son Randall (Sterling K. Brown) to handle. On the Tuesday, February 14, episode, Randall suffered a devastating anxiety attack while feeling overwhelmed with work, family obligations and caring for his ailing father.
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As the March 14 season finale inches closer, fans have offered a litany of guesses about what happens to both popular characters. Recently, a number of viewers have begun to tweet that the consistently heartbreaking show will reveal both deaths in the same episode and if thats the case, countless hearts will clearly shatter, while tissue companies will be reaping serious financial benefits.
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Season two of Too Close to Home is filled to the brim with drama, but if you"re looking for answers before the season"s final two episodes, good luck.
ET hopped on the phone with the TLC drama"s breakout star, Danielle Savre, who teased (as much as she could) what"s in store for her character, Anna, as the season comes to a close. She also opened up about the show"s difficult production schedule (the series shoots the whole season in just eight days) and her first time meeting Heather Locklear.
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"It"s essentially how they shoot soap operas, but the difference is most soap operas are shot on a soundstage, whereas we shoot on location on Tyler Perry"s lot, so he"s built our trailer park and Dr. Allen"s home," Savre explained of the show"s production, adding that "nothing can prepare you" for shooting at such a quick pace.
"It"s pretty intense, but at the same time, what"s great about it is it is kind of done like a theater play. The other actors and I get together and rehearse for basically a week, just in our private time. So when we come to set, you"re basically getting that one take, two if you"re lucky to nail it, and he usually tries to do everything in one take, in the sense that there"s three cameras running too," she said. "It"s definitely not something I could have prepared for, because it"s so different, but it"s exciting. It"s like bootcamp."
Photo: Aaron Smith Photography
The "he" Savre is referring to is of course showrunner Tyler Perry, who is involved in every aspect of production -- from casting, to writing, to directing.
"He"s very hands-on," the 28-year-old actress confessed. "[During my audition], Tyler was the one sitting there, giving me the notes and direction during the scene. Ever since I booked [the role], I was like, "OK, I don"t want to disappoint him," but it turned out great, and I think he"s happy with me," she laughed. "He says he is."
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Perry may ruleToo Close to Home, but Savre says the cast is like family.
"Right before the second season, we all flew out, we stayed at an Airbnb together and just rehearsed day and night up until the day of shooting," she said, revealing that she"s bonded with her on-screen sister, Kelly Sullivan (Bonnie), in particular. "Kelly is like my soul sister. We"re kind of like the team leaders, and coordinate everybody getting together for those rehearsals and dinners."
"It"s fun because most sets don"t have that. Usually, it"s women feuding, so the fact that Kelly and I are both women and leaders of the show, it"s nice," she added. "It gives me hope."
But don"t count the rest of the cast out -- the California native says she"s learned things from all of her co-stars, including fitness model/man bun expert Brock O"Hurn (Brody).
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"He has taught me to do an easier bun. Like me, my bun maybe takes 30 seconds, but his takes about five, so it"s an efficient bun," she confessed, laughing. "Study Brock"s man-bunning, whatever it"s called, bun-making, and you"ll be more efficient at making your own bun."
Savre, who has a singing background, has also learned who can carry a tune -- and was more than excited when we brought up the possibility of a musical episode.
"Oh my gosh, that definitely needs to happen! I"m going to tell Tyler," she exclaimed. "A lot of people can actually sing! Robert [Craighead], Brad [Benedict] and Kelly, those are the top three ones, that can absolutely sing and are great at it... season three, here we come, musical!"
Photo: Aaron Smith Photography
And while Savre hasn"t heard Locklear"s singing in person, she says the iconic actress couldn"t be nicer.
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"At first [working with Locklear] was absolutely nerve-wracking. I was sitting in the chair across from her in the hair and makeup room, and I couldn"t even say hi to her. I had to wait for her to come up to me because I was so nervous," Savre recalled. "But she actually came up to me and said hi, and after that, we just rehearsed scenes and she was great. She gave me so many nice compliments and she"s such a sweetheart. It"s so funny because she plays the mean girl so well, but she is so sweet in real life."
Fans of the show have seen Locklear and Savre at odds onscreen as the first lady tries to put a stop to the president"s feelings for former White House staffer Anna (she caught the two in an affair in the show"s pilot), and Savre says the two will continue to battle it out through the rest of the season.
"You"ll get to see how far heather locklear is willing to go to keep the president away from Anna, and how far the president is willing to go to be with Anna," she dished, also teasing the big pregnancy reveal. "The audience will finally get to find out who is really pregnant, because I think even though people think they know who it is, they may be wrong."
Too Close to Home airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on TLC.
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Former coupleNick Cannon andBrittany Bell celebrated their baby on-the-way.
I love the both of them beyond words. So many reasons to be joyful!! But last night was one of my favorite. Our little light was showered with love.. and lots of dancing. #thislittlelightofmine #babyontheway #happymommy #sweetdaddy, Bell, 29, Instagrammed the image Friday night.
Last week, the mom-to-be posted a photo of her 35-week baby bump.
