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☆ Samantha Irby Knows How to Trick You Into Thinking She’s Cool
  + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( Dina Gachman | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
My stepkids are 15 and 17, and you know teenagers, nothing exists outside their body or their phone, so they don’t keep me hip. It’s nice to have my pop culture delivered into my ears by people who are funny and know more than I do. It’s my comfort book, which probably means I’m a sicko, but I don’t care! My wife knows that if I say I’m going to make a phone call in the car, it’s definitely to talk about her. Dina Gachman is the author of “So Sorry for Your Loss,” a book of essays about grief.
☆ Why has India's Manipur state exploded in ethnic violence?
  + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Rhea Mogul | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +9 min
People are evacuated by the Indian army to a temporary shelter as they flee ethnic violence that has hit the northeastern Indian state of Manipur, near Imphal on May 7, 2023. Manipur, a lush, hilly state which borders Myanmar, has long history of civil conflict since modern India’s creation. The divide between the Meiteis and the other ethnic groups is cut sharply across political and geographic lines. People wait at a temporary shelter in a military camp, after being evacuated by the Indian army, as they flee ethnic violence that has hit the northeastern Indian state of Manipur on May 7, 2023. Modi, who is in the southern Indian state of Karnataka to campaign for state elections, is yet to speak publicly about the unrest, sparking widespread anger among Manipur’s residents.
☆ An N.F.L. Star Finds Confidence in Making Music
  + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Emmanuel Morgan | Gabriella Angotti-Jones | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Later in 2017, Darren Waller released his debut album, “Better Call Wall,” 12 songs he rapped with lyrics about his life. reinstated Waller, he signed with the Raiders in November 2018 and was named to the Pro Bowl in the 2020 season after posting 1,196 receiving yards and nine touchdowns. In his downtime, he began dating Plum, a star player for the W.N.B.A’s Las Vegas Aces, shortly after meeting her last April while recording a podcast. He proposed to her in October during a bye week for the Raiders, with Waller later telling McDaniels and Ziegler that the couple was keeping their upcoming marriage confidential. Before Waller and Plum could reveal their March wedding on Instagram, Ziegler and McDaniels told reporters of the upcoming nuptials during an off-the-record session at the N.F.L.
☆ Bronny James Commits to U.S.C. as Father Dreams of N.B.A. Meet-Up
  + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Adam Zagoria | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
LeBron James’s immediate goal is to win another N.B.A. championship with the Los Angeles Lakers. But longer term, he wants to play in the league with his older son, LeBron Jr., who goes by Bronny, beginning in 2024. “I need to be on the floor with my boy,” James told ESPN in January, recalling a situation from his childhood in which Ken Griffey and his son, Ken Griffey Jr., played for the Seattle Mariners. He was seated at courtside Saturday night as the Lakers took a 2-1 lead in their Western Conference semifinal series with the Golden State Warriors.
☆ James Harden Finds His Old Groove and Gets the Sixers Back on Track
  + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Scott Cacciola | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
“Quite frankly,” Harden said, “today was do or die.”The 76ers have been a staple of the N.B.A. playoffs over the past six seasons, making five appearances in the conference semifinals. The last time they made the conference finals was in 2001, when Allen Iverson led them past the Milwaukee Bucks and into the N.B.A. The challenge for the 76ers, of course, is that the Process was never about winning individual honors, though those are nice. The mandate now, on players like Embiid and Harden, but also on Rivers and Daryl Morey, the team’s president of basketball operations, is to vie for a championship.
☆ Nothing Is Bigger Than Stephen Curry vs. LeBron James
  + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Sopan Deb | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
A playoff series headlined by Curry and James is the basketball equivalent of the Rolling Stones and the Beatles touring together. Or Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier, except with a touch more gray and way more mutual respect. Or, in basketball terms, this is Magic Johnson vs. Larry Bird in the 1980s. James, at 38, and Curry, at 35, are nearing the end of careers that have revolutionized basketball, with no clear heirs to continue the progression. “I think the league is very healthy as far as star power, but who takes the lead in that role?”
☆ Florida Legislature Passes Bill Banning Gender-Transition Care for Minors
  + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Patricia Mazzei | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
Background: The Legislature has prioritized bills aimed at L.G.B.T.Q. Last month, the Florida Board of Education expanded through 12th grade a prohibition on classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity. Why It Matters: A growing number of states are passing similar restrictions. At least 13 states have passed laws or policies in recent months to ban or significantly limit the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and gender-transition surgery for people under 18. advocacy organization GLAAD has already sued Florida over the state health board’s prohibition of what experts call gender-affirming care.
☆ ‘The Melt Goes On Forever’ Review: David Hammons Makes, and They Take
  + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Wesley Morris | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
The title of this new documentary about the artist David Hammons is a mouthful: “The Melt Goes On Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons.” It’s playing at Film Forum, and I don’t envy whoever has to make it fit the marquee. But they should figure that out because the title feels crucial to the aim of this movie, a sly, toasty, piquant consideration of Hammons’s conceptual art, the way it mocks and eludes easy ownership. Which is to say: the way his art is aware of — the way it’s often about — the stakes for Black people navigating the straits of the market. That piece is like a lot of Hammons’s work: tragicomic. It would have been enough to behold the assortment of thrilling footage of Hammons at work, in conversation and, in one contentious encounter, under interrogation by a group of students.
☆ 17 Looks That Did the Most at the Met Gala
  + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( The Styles Desk | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The guest list for the first Monday in May, as the Met Gala is also known, serves as a Rorschach test for whom Anna Wintour deems important, circa now. Many guests wore black and white or suits and gowns embellished with pearls or flowers — favorite motifs of Mr. Lagerfeld. Doja Cat and Jared Leto each paid homage to Choupette, Mr. Lagerfeld’s feline friend. There were many wonderful dresses that paid respect to Mr. Lagerfeld’s legacy — in fact, there were too many to name. So here’s a reminder: The looks that follow did the most at the Met Gala — not necessarily the best, not necessarily the worst, just the most.
☆ Biden Praises ‘Absolute Courage’ of U.S. Journalist Detained in Russia
  + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Matthew Mpoke Bigg | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
It is also the first time that a Western journalist in Russia has been charged with espionage since the end of the Cold War. “Evan and Austin should be released immediately along with every other American held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad,” Mr. Biden said. Debra and Marc Tice, the parents of Mr. Tice, wrote an opinion article, published in The Washington Post last August, in which they urged Mr. Biden to step up diplomatic efforts to free him. Mr. Biden also called for the release of Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine serving a 16-year prison sentence in Russia on what the United States says are fabricated charges of espionage, and addressed Brittney Griner, a W.N.B.A. star who was freed in a prisoner swap in December after being detained for nearly 10 months in Russia.
☆ Knicks Absorb First Blow in Throwback Battle With Miami Heat
  + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Tania Ganguli | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The Knicks walked off the court at Madison Square Garden on Sunday afternoon with their shoulders slumped. The energy that gripped the arena at the start of the game against Miami had dissolved into a mélange of people shuffling out, Heat fans boasting and a few Knicks fans shouting insults, mostly at the game officials and the Heat fans. “I was horrific,” said Knicks point guard Jalen Brunson, who scored 25 points but missed all seven of his 3-point attempts. On Sunday, the Knicks lost to the Heat, 108-101, in Game 1 of the N.B.A.’s Eastern Conference semifinals. But despite the dour mood that engulfed the Garden after the game, it would be unwise to bury the Knicks for their performance.
☆ Stephen Curry Scores 50 Points to Knock Off Kings in Game 7
  + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Scott Cacciola | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Coach Steve Kerr likes to stage his film sessions there when the space is available. Otherwise, he said, the team is stuck “in the dungeon down below,” outside its locker room. He was grateful for the open space, especially ahead of Sunday’s Game 7. That can make a difference.”Something else can make a difference, too: Stephen Curry. No one seemed more Zen on Sunday than Curry, who led the Warriors to a series-clinching, 120-100 victory by skewering the Kings in every conceivable way on his way to 50 points — an N.B.A.
☆ Robin Thede Is on a Mission
  + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Leigh-Ann Jackson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
We don’t bring characters or story lines back unless we really feel like we have something good. But even if you don’t, you’re going to get pure laughs. Every season is special in its own way, and the cast always has some sort of change, and the writers are different. Should I?” Having run shows and created shows, I know that all I can do is create a good show. I always feel a certain amount of responsibility to represent us correctly, but I also know that I can’t be the voice of every Black woman, so I don’t try.
☆ An Old Lesson for Young N.B.A. Players: It Takes Heat to Make a Star
  + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Sopan Deb | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
It was a far cry from just two years ago, when Young was the up-and-coming N.B.A. darling who unexpectedly led the Hawks to the Eastern Conference finals after the team had missed the postseason three years in a row. This time, Young gave the Celtics fits — averaging 29.2 points and 10.2 assists over the series — but Boston dumped Young’s Hawks from the playoffs in six games. Now Young, who just finished his fifth season, is facing an existential challenge more daunting than any one playoff round: the Narrative. And how is he continuously taking his game 1 percent better, 2 percent better over time?
☆ And in This Corner, Hailing From Dagestan, Presenting Hasbulla
  + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Joseph Bernstein | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks on March 17, Hasbulla Magomedov got the full celebrity treatment. He chatted pregame with the Mavericks star Luka Doncic, who posed with him for a photo. When Hasbulla’s face appeared on the Jumbotron, the crowd went wild. And, like everyone who’s anyone, he sat courtside at the Staples Center, with one major difference: He was perched on his friend’s lap. Hasbulla, 20, is a little over three feet tall, and it gave him a better view of the action.
☆ Knicks vs. Heat: Brawls, Nail-Biters and a Clinging Coach
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Victor Mather | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Riley, who had led the Knicks for three seasons, had become the coach of the Heat, and there was bad blood over the move. The Heat eventually had to send the Knicks a first-round pick after they were found to have tampered with Riley while he was still under contract. It started when Charles Oakley of the Knicks bumped Alonzo Mourning of the Heat and was ejected. Five Knicks were suspended — Ward, Patrick Ewing, Allan Houston, John Starks and Larry Johnson — and only one Heat player, Brown. Because so many Knicks had been suspended, the penalties were staggered: Three Knicks were to miss Game 6 and two Game 7.
☆ Their Reputations Precede Them. And That’s the Problem.
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Andrew Keh | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Most times in basketball, a foul is just a foul. But sometimes, it can feel like so much more: a Rorschach test unearthing a person’s biases about the game, a window into a player’s thinking, a referendum on his entire career. Can an on-court act be judged on its own or must the actor be considered, too? playoff series — and the subsequent responses to them — has reinforced the extent to which the reputations of players, and the swirling narratives associated with them, seem to color the way the athletes, referees, league officials and fans process the action unfolding on the court. After each instance, the players’ reputations were called into action in some way — as corroborating evidence, as a shield, as a liability.
☆ Brittney Griner Speaks to Reporters for First Time Since Release From Russia
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Kris Rhim | Alan Yuhas | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
PHOENIX — Brittney Griner, the W.N.B.A. star who became the center of a geopolitical showdown between the United States and Russia last year, is expected to speak with reporters on Thursday for the first time since her release in December in a prisoner exchange. Mercury officials said that Ms. Griner would not discuss her time in Russia at the news conference. She has called for the release of Mr. Gershkovich and others classified as wrongful detainees by the U.S. government. She and Mr. Gershkovich have become the latest in a line of American citizens detained by Moscow under what U.S. officials have described as dubious accusations.
☆ Rockets Introduce Coach Ime Udoka, but Say Little About His Misconduct
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Sopan Deb | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta asked fans to be forgiving on Wednesday as he introduced the team’s new head coach, Ime Udoka, who had been suspended and then fired by the Boston Celtics within the past year for violating unspecified team policies. Fertitta said any critic unwilling to give Udoka a second chance was “not a good Christian person.”The Celtics suspended Udoka for the 2022-23 N.B.A. At the introductory news conference in Houston, Udoka made his first public comments since leaving the Celtics, who have declined to specify which policies he violated. Udoka was flanked by Fertitta and Rockets General Manager Rafael Stone, who also declined to provide details on what they know, including whether they had seen the report from the Celtics’ investigation. “But just the same way, I wouldn’t talk about exactly what we did with anybody else, I’m not going to talk about it with Ime.
☆ The Yoga Regimen That Keeps an N.B.A. Forward Centered
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Scott Cacciola | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The sun was beginning to burn through a hazy sky as Looney propped his iPad against a small metal column, unrolled his black yoga mat and greeted one of the more important figures in his professional life. It belonged to Jana Webb, the creator of a self-styled brand of yoga known as Joga, which she originally conceived as yoga for athletes. Moses Moody, one of Looney’s teammates, was also on the call, dialing in from his apartment near the arena. It was 8:30 a.m., about four hours before Game 4 of Golden State’s first-round playoff series against the Sacramento Kings. “Reach, reach, reach,” she said as Looney, who is 6-foot-9, stood on his toes and extended his arms, a small pool of sweat forming on the mat below.
☆ N.B.A. Commissioner Adam Silver Defends Bridges Suspension
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Shauntel Lowe | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Commissioner Adam Silver on Tuesday defended the unusual disciplinary approach for forward Miles Bridges, who was suspended for 30 games for domestic violence but will miss just 10 games in which he is eligible to play. He pleaded no contest to a felony domestic violence charge in November, but it wasn’t until April 14, after a league investigation, that the N.B.A. announced his punishment: a 30-game suspension, with credit for 20 games because he did not play this season. On Tuesday, Silver said the league and Bridges had a “mutual agreement” that he would not play during the 2022-23 season — though Silver was careful to say that Bridges was not suspended. Silver said crediting Bridges for 20 games toward the penalty seemed like the right thing to do because he missed a year of income and N.B.A.
☆ Wells Fargo loves these three regional banks and thinks one will rally 50%
  + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Jesse Pound | In Jesse-Pound | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
The lack of major outflows from many regional banks suggests that there are several stocks in the industry that could be big winners for investors, according to Wells Fargo. They expanded that optimism on Thursday evening by reiterating overweight ratings on Banc of California , East West Bancorp , F.N.B. Banc of California is the name of the three where Wells Fargo is the most bullish. Wells Fargo called Banc of California's deposit mix "impressive" and noted that the firm continued its stock buybacks despite the turmoil for regional banks. is less eye-popping at about 27%, but the bank's cautious approach should be reassuring to investors, Wells Fargo said.
☆ Golden State Wins at Home, Which Is Part of the Problem
  + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Kris Rhim | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
He waved his arms and yelled — then screamed twice more for good measure — and the white-knuckled Warriors crowd responded with a roar, accepting his direction unquestioningly, an orchestra following its conductor. Curry’s Golden State Warriors had entered Thursday night’s game, the third of their first-round playoff series against the Sacramento Kings, in an uncomfortable spot. They were facing their first 2-0 playoff deficit since Steve Kerr began coaching them in 2014. had suspended for stepping on the chest of Kings forward-center Domantas Sabonis in Game 2 on Monday. But it, too, is at Golden State, and for that reason alone the Warriors were feeling the series was far from over.
☆ Dallas Mavericks Fined $750,000 for ‘Desire to Lose’ a Game
  + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Victor Mather | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The Dallas Mavericks were fined $750,000 by the N.B.A. on Friday for playing a weakened lineup in a game in an effort to miss the postseason and hang on to a first-round draft pick. The Mavericks sat out five of their best players for their second-to-last game of the season, against the Chicago Bulls on April 7. The remaining Mavericks lost the game, 115-112, and were eliminated from a chance to qualify for a play-in game. “It’s not so much waving the white flag,” Coach Jason Kidd told reporters after the game.
☆ When Every Win Means Water, Water Everywhere
  + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Andrew Keh | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +8 min
When Every Win Means Water EverywherePicture yourself at work. Teleport this scene into a sports locker room, though, and suddenly the dousing is perfectly in bounds. But like many coaches, he eventually accepted his fate, removing his shoes before entering the locker room. The athletes were unwinding in the locker room when Coach Mark Few and his assistants charged in and began sousing them with ice-cold water. Isaiah Wong, the team’s star shooting guard, said they would only consider spraying water now if they won the championship.
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