ESPN First Take - Rumore continue to swirl about Celtics acquiring Jimmy butler
Jimmy Butler hopes the Bulls dont trade him away.
There have been rumors that Chicago may get rid of its All-Star shooting guard, but hes not losing sleep over it.
Butler, 27, is averaging 24.5 points, 6.3 rebounds, 5.0 assists and 1.8 steals through 51 games.
Per CSN Chicago:
Whats Thursday? Oh, trade deadline, Butler said. I dont know. I dont know. Am I anxious? Come on, man. I dont worry about it. It dont bother or scare me none.
Hopefully Im not going to get traded but I dont know. I dont control that. Control what I can control, like going on vacation.
Not for me, said butler of the potential stress. Not saying Im untradeable but I dont think about that. If Im not in a Bulls uniform, Ill give you a hug and say goodbye to you.
Even their teammates knew this was a seminal moment. This was terrific.
This Stephen Curry scream almost made the last six months of drama worth it.
This wont stop us from reading the tea leaves every time they walk past each other, but maybe it should. Even Oklahoma City seems ready to move on. Now, so do they.
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Yesterday, Feb. 20, marked what would have been the 50th birthday of Nirvana icon Kurt Cobain. The lasting impact of his music speaks for the legacy he left, but on this special day kurts daughter found time to remark how grateful she was for something other than the the music: life.
Posting a handwritten notefrom the heart on her Instagram page (seen below), Frances Bean Cobain wrote, Today would have been your 50th birthday. You are loved and you are missed. Thank you for giving me the GIFT of life. Forever your daughter, Frances Bean Cobain.
Frances also corresponded with her grandmother yesterday, delighting in being raised by someone so strong and compassionate. Posting a screenshot of the text conversation on Instagram (seen below), Grams responded, Ohhhh, what beautiful words, from his beloved daughter. You were such a caring, loving little girl and haveturned into such a beautiful young woman, he would be so smugly proud of you, saying, Yeah thats MY daughter. I love you with all my heart. Thank G*d you were here for me to love and care for.
Earlier this year, we reported that Frances was stillengaged in a legal battle with her estranged husband, Isaiah Silva, over one of Kurts most coveted guitars. The1959 Martin D-18E acoustic was used for NirvanasMTV Unplugged performance and Silva is claiming it was given to him by Frances, though she disputes that she never would have gifted away such an item.
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Arsenal vs Sutton 2-0 - Goals & Extended Highlights 20/02/2017 HD Joe Hart is available for 20million this summer (Picture: Getty)
Arsenal and Liverpool could be boosted in their transfer pursuit of Joe Hart, with reports that Manchester City will sell to one of their top six rivals if they receive a bid of 20million.
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The England goalkeeper is currently on loan at Torino after falling out of favour with City manager Pep Guardiola at the start of the season, and he looks unlikely to return to the Etihad Stadium.
Despite years of great service at City, it looks like Hart will be allowed to move on for the right price this summer, and a number of the clubs main rivals are thought to be interested.
Arsenal and Liverpool are among those most strongly linked with a raid for the 29-year-old, and theyve been given a big boost in the chase for his signature.
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According to The Times, City are not against losing a player of Harts calibre to one of their rivals, as long as their 20million valuation is met.
Liverpool look in need of a major upgrade on both Simon Mignolet and Loris Karius, while Arsenal number one Petr Cech has looked past his best at points this season and could do with replacing in the near future.
Hart has 379 Premier League appearances to his name, and has won two titles, one FA Cup and two League Cups during his time with City.
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Donald Trumps outburst about that thing that happened in Sweden last night which turned out to be a Fox News report he had seen on the difficulties of integrating refugees is only the latest illustration of the role that Sweden plays in the fantasies of the outside world.
The wonderful thing about Sweden is that you can believe what you like about it. For much of the 20th century it was a place where foreign progressives could only believe that everything ran perfectly smoothly and everyone got laid, thanks in part to the exploits of Ingrid Bergman and the Swedish arthouse film I am Curious (Yellow). In the 21st century it has become the country where foreign rightwingers can believe that nothing works and that rape is widespread.
Trump is not the first american president to use sweden to prove a domestic point. In 1960, the president, Dwight Eisenhower, gave a speech to a Republican breakfast meeting at which he said that Sweden has a tremendous record for socialistic philosophy, and the record shows that their rate of suicide has gone up almost unbelievably and I think they were almost the lowest nation in the world for that. Now, they have more than twice our rate. Drunkenness has gone up. Lack of ambition is discernible on all sides.
This was complete nonsense, except, perhaps, for the point about drunkenness: Sweden had only abandoned prohibition-era alcohol rationing in 1955, five years before he spoke. But even though Eisenhowers comments drew on no known Swedish sources, they were entirely harmless nonsense compared to the current presidents.
Trump cites non-existent Sweden terror attack
Trump, on the other hand, was drawing on a persistent set of myths among Swedens nationalist right, which claims that Muslim immigration has turned some urban areas into ghettoes where sharia law is practised, gang rape is commonplace, and the police and fire engines hardly dare to go. This is a grotesque distortion of a worrying reality. There has been a huge rise in recorded violent crime in Sweden in the last 40 years, but it is still a very much safer place than the US, UK and indeed most of Europe. There has been a huge increase in humanitarian immigration. But its not clear how the two are related.
I used to live in one of these supposed ghettoes in the early 1980s, when it was still largely white and the nearest we got to criminality was when my friend the bootlegger made vodka in his kitchen. When I went back 20 years later, there was a Somali family living in my old flat, and almost all the children playing in the open spaces around it were supervised by women in headscarves. I was with a radio producer who talked at length in Arabic to an Iraqi refugee who had been resettled there after a hellish journey.
But there was absolutely no feeling of danger or hostility. Similarly, Rosengrd, the suburb of Malm which is portrayed in the rightwing press as Swedens answer to Mogadishu, is far more open and peaceful than, say, the rougher parts of north London.
That said, there are pockets of serious criminality in the most segregated parts of Sweden. These are fuelled most by the easy availability of guns after the Balkan wars, and by disputes in the drug trade. Kossovar, Bosniak and Turkish gangs, along with Scandinavian bikers, have engaged in b****y street wars. Three young people were shot dead in their car about 500m from where I used to live in Uddevalla two years ago: the killers were a couple of Lebanese brothers. There is one suburb of Gothenburg divided between two rival Somali groups.
Almost all of this criminality arises from second generation immigrants, when they are immigrants at all. When I was last in the country, I spoke at length to a very senior policeman in Gothenburg, and his view was that this was a problem caused by adolescent males, unemployment, exclusion from the communities around them, and easy access to guns. Religion had nothing to do with it.
We were talking in the shadow of a hideous murder in one of the most segregated communities in Sweden, where two schoolchildren and a teacher had been killed with a sword by a young man dressed up as a stormtrooper. He was white, and his victims were not and were chosen for exactly that reason. To the extent that there is serious ethnically motivated crime in Sweden, it appears that the immigrants are the victims as much as the perpetrators, whatever Trump may think.
