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LaVar Ball watched the Los Angeles Lakers' 108-94 Friday night loss to the Charlotte Hornets from Lithuania, but that didn't stop him from criticizing the team's coach.
"You can see they're not playing for Luke [Walton] no more," Ball said, per Jeff Goodman of ESPN.com. "Luke doesn't have control of the team no more. They don't want to play for him.
Nike Basketball's first pack of themed signature sneakers for 2018 will be its Black History Month collection for Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, and LeBron James. While the shoes have not been officially unveiled by Nike, these leaked images give a detailed look at each.
Image via Nike
Image via Nike
Famed music mogul and Beats Electronics co-founder Jimmy Iovine plans to leave Apple this August, according to multiple reports. Bloomberg, Billboard, and Hits Daily Double all cite sources close to Iovine, who say he is unlikely to change his mind. Some or all of those sources believe that Iovine’s departure is timed with the concluding payout to Iovine related to Apple’s acquisition of Beats in 2014.
Miracles happen when you believe: A Scandal–How to Get Away With Murdercrossover episode is in the works at ABC, proving that with Shonda Rhimes in 2018 things might be looking up. Deadline reports that the special episode will air later this season, with Scandal in its seventh and final season, and How to Get Away With Murder in its fourth season. Kerry Washington posted a mysterious photo from the set of HTGAWM Wednesday afternoon, so it looks like the stars have aligned:
Mars Ill’s release Raw Material is one of the best albums ever made, and it is easily a classic, especially featuring tracks such as “Sphere Of Hip Hop pt 2”, “Black Market”, “Loves Not”, “Rap Fans”, “Touch And Go”, and “Sphere Of Hip Hop (original)”, and more. All material from beginning to end contribute to this albums elite status. Mars Ill has put together a great album for fans, giving fans what they want. The intro track entitled “Mars Ill” is fashioned in such a creative fashion, that the dialog, and music combine to forge the perfect introduction for an album… “We looped the intro track alone, for a whole day, before we even broke into the albums sack of goodies.””
By Diane Forster |
Oftentimes, we believe we need to "add something" into our lives in to be truly happy... more money, better job, a spouse, a new car, a baby. The truth is, by removing things, we create the space to find more happiness in the simple things. It's in the simplicity that happiness finds its way into the cracks of ordinary moments that we tend to take for granted.
Here are three things you need to eliminate from your life to feel more happiness each day.
1. The need to please others
It's not possible to please everyone all the time. It's not even possible to please any one person most of the time. The level that someone may or may not feel pleased by someone or something is entirely up to that individual. You have nothing to do with it... sorry, it's the truth. Therefore, doing things because we think it will please another is the wrong reason to be doing it. The only reason to do it is because YOU want to do it JUST FOR YOU! If you're doing it to elicit a response, you can expect to be disappointed often, which won't leave you feeling happy.
For you, you need to do things that make YOU happy and let go of how others feel about it. If it makes you happy, then the people in your life who truly love and care about you will be supportive of you. If they are not, well, there is a good chance you shouldn't be spending time with them any longer anyway. Doing for others, whether it be something for them or you do because of what they may think, will leave you feeling sad and disappointed far too often.
Cavaliers 127 (25-12), Trail Blazers 110 (19-18)
Isaiah Thomas‘s long-awaited Cavs debut finally came on Tuesday and it was worth the wait. The point guard who came over in the Kyrie Irving trade scored 17 points off the bench, playing 19 minutes and hitting three threes. LeBron James led the Cavs with 24 points and Damian Lillard had 25 for the Blazers. The win snapped a three-game skid for Cleveland.
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SpaceX’s latest rocket may have launched successfully – but the mission didn’t end as a win. The Zuma payload it was carrying, a mysterious classified piece of cargo for the U.S. government believed to be a spy satellite, was lost after it failed to separate from the second stage of the rocket after the first stage of the Falcon 9 separated as planned and returned to Earth.… Read More
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