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New York Post
5 hours ago
- New York Post
Stephen A. Smith says he and LeBron James have ‘no relationship' after bitter feud
Things did not end on a good note with Stephen A. Smith and LeBron James. During an appearance on former NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas' 'Gil's Arena' podcast Friday, Smith said that he has zero contact with James and does not have any interest in ever speaking to him again. 'There's no situation and there's no relationship,' Smith said. 'He doesn't like me, and I don't like him.' Advertisement 3 Stephen A. Smith looks on during the game between the Indiana Pacers and the Oklahoma City Thunder during Game 2 of the 2025 NBA Finals on June 8, 2025 at Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. NBAE via Getty Images Smith's comments stem from his feud with the 21-time All-Star earlier this year, when the two threw jabs at each other during various appearances on ESPN, which ultimately led to an in-person confrontation during a game in March. The ESPN sports personality added that other things happened between him and James 'behind the scenes' that the public does not know about. Advertisement 'All I would say is people don't know the things that have happened behind the scenes,' Smith said. 'Things that have been said, who they've been said to. The kind of things that have been engaged in in an effort to hurt me, along with contemporaries and others.' Smith also mentioned how he did not appreciate how James came at him on 'The Pat McAfee Show,' which airs directly after 'First Take' on ESPN. 3 Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James arguing with the ref in the second half of a game against the Knicks. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post 'There's a lot of s–t that I don't say. And there's a reason that I feel the way that I do. And the last straw was him approaching me and turning the Bronny thing into something about me attacking somebody's family, when it was him I was talking about. Not Bronny. Advertisement 'And then to go on 'The Pat McAfee Show,' which comes directly on after my show. On the channel that I work on. To insult me. Now, people can get into all kind of components that go into it and all that other stuff. I have nothing to say.' 3 Stephen A. Smith looks on before the game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Indiana Pacers during Game 3 of the 2025 NBA Finals on June 11, 2025 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. NBAE via Getty Images Smith concluded by saying that he plans to only mention James in the context of NBA analysis going forward. Advertisement 'I'm never going to denigrate any employer, any partner, or myself by getting into anything excessively, unnecessarily, when it comes to him or anybody else,' Smith said. 'I'm going to do my job. I'm going to cover the game of basketball. 'But if I never, ever speak to him again in life, that will be OK. And I'm good with it.'
Yahoo
a day ago
- Yahoo
Today's Quordle Hints (and Answer) for Friday, August 15, 2025
If you're looking for the Quordle answer for Friday, August 15, 2025, read on—I'll share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solution. Beware, there are spoilers below for August 15, Quordle #1299! Keep scrolling if you want some hints (and then the answer) to today's Quordle game. (If you play Wordle, Connections, or Strands, check out our hints for those games, too.) How to play Quordle Quordle lives on the Merriam-Webster website. A new puzzle goes live every day. If you've never played, it's a twist on The New York Times' daily Wordle game, in which you have a limited number of attempts to guess a five-letter mystery word. In Quordle, though, you're simultaneously solving four Wordle-style puzzles, and each of your guesses gets applied to the four puzzles simultaneously. Due to the increased difficulty, Quordle grants you nine guesses (12 if you play on 'Chill' mode, or eight if you play on 'Extreme'), rather than Wordle's six. To start, guess a five-letter word. The letters of the word in each of the four quadrants will turn green if they're correct, yellow if you have the right letter in the wrong place, or gray if the letter isn't in that secret word at all. Ready for the hints? Let's go! Can you give me a hint for today's Quordle? Upper left: Ocean mammal. Upper right: Light refractor. Lower left: Duck. Lower right: Conical home. Does today's Quordle have any double or repeated letters? Upper left: No. Upper right: No. Lower left: No. Lower right: Yes, a repeated vowel. What letters do today's Quordle words start with? Upper left: W Upper right: P Lower left: D Lower right: T What letters do today's Quordle words end with? Upper left: E Upper right: M Lower left: E Lower right: E What is the solution to today's Quordle? Upper left: WHALE Upper right: PRISM Lower left: DRAKE Lower right: TEPEE How I solved today's Quordle I'll start with SLATE and MOUND, as I always do. DRAPE might fit the bottom left. One off. The only thing I can think of is DRAKE. OK! The upper right is probably PRISM. Yep. Maybe there's a second E in the upper left, for a word like LEAVE. Nope. That second E worked for the bottom right, though! OK, so the upper left ends in ALE. WHALE? Yep. This last word has to go T-E-P-blank-E, I think. What the heck? Oh, it's TEPEE. The best starter words for Quordle What should you play for that first guess? We can look to Wordle for some general guidelines. The best starters tend to contain common letters, to increase the chances of getting yellow and green squares to guide your guessing. (And if you get all grays when guessing common letters, that's still excellent information to help you rule out possibilities.) There isn't a single 'best' starting word, but The New York Times's Wordle analysis bot has suggested starting with one of these: CRANE TRACE SLANT CRATE CARTE Meanwhile, an MIT analysis found that you'll eliminate the most possibilities in the first round by starting with one of these: SALET REAST TRACE CRATE SLATE Other good picks might be ARISE or ROUND. Words like ADIEU and AUDIO get more vowels in play, but you could argue that it's better to start with an emphasis on consonants, using a starter like RENTS or CLAMP. Choose your strategy, and see how it plays out. Solve the daily Crossword
New York Post
a day ago
- New York Post
Angry residents of NY town want HBO to cough up money for fire on set of series staring Mark Ruffalo: ‘I lost everything'
They're still hot under the collar. Feelings in an upstate New York town are continuing to smolder after a massive, 2019 fire on the set of an HBO miniseries that starred Mark Ruffalo — which is still wreaking havoc on residents as the deep-pocketed network fails to make things right, according to a new report. The explosive blaze at a car dealership that served a film location for 'I Know This Much Is True' destroyed a village landmark in Ellenville, caused an estimated $15 million in damage, and exposed locals to potentially toxic chemicals, according to the L.A. Times. Advertisement 'It comes down to this: If you hurt people, you take care of them,' said lawyer Wayne Lonstein, who has sued HBO on behalf of two neighboring families. 4 Actor Mark Ruffalo went on to win an Emmy for his role in the miniseries. The devastating blaze put dozens of locals out of jobs and damaged the homes of two next-door neighbors with children, neither of whom had the means to move out, according to the report. Advertisement 'They came to do the movie and destroyed everything,' said Pablo Ferrada Arias, 46, whose mobile home was left warped and water-damaged from the fire and efforts to put it out. 'I lost too much here: I lost money, lost time with my daughter… I lost everything,' he said, adding his 7-year-old girl developed asthma and had to move out after the blaze. 4 The fire broke out at a car dealership on the set of the show in Ellenville. But despite a fire investigation that found equipment used by HBO caused the electrical fire, HBO still hasn't compensated some victims who lost property, according to the report. Advertisement In early 2019, HBO spiffed up the Midcentury Modern-style building that housed 613 Automotive Group to depict a 1990s-era car dealership with gleaming props, including Chevrolet Camaros and Corvettes, on loan from motorheads throughout the state. Just before 1 a.m. on May 9, 2019, after a long day of filming, a small fire broke out inside the dealership after the last of HBO's crew had left for the night. It quickly spread to a mechanics' shop in the back of the business, where 55-gallon drums of oil likely caused a giant explosion, officials said. 'Every window in the place just blew out. Then it became a hell show,' recalled George Budd, Ellenville's assistant fire chief, who was first on the scene. Advertisement Although nobody was injured, the inferno ripped though the 12,000 -square-foot structure, burned for 12 hours and resulted in an estimated $15 million in property damage. 4 The fire broke out at 613 Automotive Group in Ellenville. Ulster County fire investigators later wrote in a report that the electrical fire was ignited by HBO crew members' sound equipment batteries, which were left charging overnight in the dealership's showroom, according to the paper. The blaze has since sparked finger-pointing, lawsuits and local rage directed largely at HBO, which received a $24 million state tax credit for the 90 million production, according to the report. 'The amount of money made off this film compared to the relative cost of doing the right thing is virtually meaningless to a company the size of HBO,' former state Sen. Jen Metzger told the paper. 'People's lives are at stake and that's really all that matters.' A contaminated pile of burned car parts and other junk such as blown-out oil tanks also put nearby residents at risk, according to a February 2020 New York spill report. Storm runoff from the pile of fire debris, possibly laced with toxic chemicals, drained down a slope and into Rios' backyard, the state report noted, the LA Times reported. 'It's a very hard thing for a small community to have a trauma like that,' said Steven Kelley, Ellenville Regional Hospital chief executive. 'And there was this pile of rubble still sitting there for about a year — reminding us how bad [the fire] was.' Advertisement Others who lost cars and equipment in the fire said they have yet to be compensated. 4 Some residents of the upstate town have blamed HBO for the fire. REUTERS HBO has denied it was at fault for the fire, saying an ion battery used on set malfunctioned and citing 'the negligence…of a third party,' according to the LA Times. 'HBO has been producing shows on location all around the globe for decades, always with the utmost care and respect for the local environment and community,' the company said in a statement. 'It was no different for this series. The fire was an unforeseen accident, and it took time to investigate it thoroughly.' Advertisement The company reportedly also shifted cleanup responsibility of the left-behind pile of fire debris to the owner of the car dealership. Earlier this year, HBO and its insurance companies settled claims with some parties involved, including the owner of 613 Automotive Group. In its statement, HBO also noted that the only remaining lawsuit is the one brought by the two neighboring families. Advertisement Ruffalo, meanwhile, went on to win an Emmy for his portrayal of twin brothers in the drama, which is based on Wally Lamb's 1998. Reps for Ruffalo and HBO didn't immediately return a The Post's request for comment Thursday.
