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USA Today
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Story emerges of Sixers' Allen Iverson losing game of HORSE to rapper
Every basketball fan knows how prolific Allen Iverson was during his prime for the Philadelphia 76ers. The 6-foot guard from Georgetown was phenomenal with the ball in his hands, took home an MVP award, and lifted the Sixers to the finals in 2001. Overall, Iverson averaged 26.7 points, 6.2 assists, and 3.7 rebounds while being the smallest guy on the court more times than not. The man they called "The Answer" backed down from nobody and more often than not came out on top on the basketball court. However, even the greats take their losses. On the latest episode of The Wave's "7pm in Brooklyn", rapper Jermaine Dupri revealed that Iverson lost a game of HORSE against longtime rapper, Nelly: To his (Iverson's) defense, y'all be shooting the ball so high, and my ceiling ain't as high as the stadium. So unfortunately, a couple of times he shot the ball up it hit the Nelly was shooting like my gym was his gym. Iverson will never be able to live that down, but at the same time, losses do happen. One has to give credit to Nelly for coming out on top against one of the game's all-time greats.
NBC Sports
03-05-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Carmelo Anthony
Carmelo Anthony joined NBC Sports in May 2025 as a studio analyst for its NBA coverage that begins with the 2025-26 season. Anthony is expected to be in-studio one or more games per week during the regular season and playoffs when coverage begins in October 2025. A first-ballot inductee of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame come September 2025, Anthony was a 10-time NBA All-Star and six-time All-NBA selection over the course of an illustrious 19-year career that he spent mostly with the Denver Nuggets and New York Knicks. A member of the NBA's 75th Anniversary Team and one of the game's most prolific scorers, he is currently 10th on the NBA's all-time scoring list and holds the Knicks' and Madison Square Garden's single-game scoring record (62 points on January 24, 2014). Anthony enjoyed a prolific international career with Team USA, winning three consecutive Olympic gold medals in Beijing, London, and Rio. Anthony also won the bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics, making him the first man to participate in four Olympic basketball tournaments. Upon the conclusion of his USA Basketball career after the 2016 Rio Olympics, Anthony was the all-time Olympic leader in games, points, and rebounds, and still holds the U.S. record for most points scored in an Olympic basketball game (37 on Aug. 2, 2012). The third overall pick in the 2003 NBA Draft, Anthony starred in college at Syracuse, where in his lone collegiate season led the Orange to the school's first NCAA championship while being named the NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player. Amthony's No. 15 jersey was retired by Syracuse in 2013. Since retiring, Anthony has spearheaded numerous entrepreneurial and philanthropic pursuits. He launched and hosts and executive produces a weekly podcast, 7pm in Brooklyn with Carmelo Anthony and alongside business partner Asani Swann, started his own wine brand, VII(N) The Seventh Estate, which prioritizes the expansion of diverse voices in the wine industry, as well as Creative 7, a global, multi-platform content company producing purpose-driven media projects. Additionally, he is a New York Times bestselling author with his memoir, Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised, which details the stories of his upbringing and the immeasurable odds he overcame to make it to where he is today. Social justice and equality have informed and continue to serve as the throughline for all of Anthony's endeavors, including his work as co-founder of The Social Change Fund, which was created in response to the continued racial injustice across our country and aims to support critical and timely issues impacting the Black community.
Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Browns' Sanders Earns Support From Elite Receiver
The Cleveland Browns were the protagonists of the 2025 NFL Draft. The fun started early, when the Browns shocked the world and traded out of the second pick (and the rights to draft Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter). Instead, they dropped to No. 5, picked up an incredible haul in the process, and then played spectator as Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders fell. Advertisement Cleveland didn't trade back into Round 1 for a quarterback. It didn't take Sanders in Round 2, either. In Round 3, the Browns took a different quarterback, Dillon Gabriel, a notably lesser prospect. It wasn't until the fifth round that the Browns took Sanders and ended the most famous slide in recent memory. Sanders was met with droves of criticism as fans looked to explain the various reasons why he went from a prospective franchise quarterback to Cleveland's fourth-string passer. Not everybody has soured on Sanders. New York Giants star receiver Malik Nabers backed the Browns quarterback on a recent podcast episode. 'You don't do something like that to somebody like that," Nabers said on '7pm in Brooklyn With Carmelo Anthony.' 'You can't knock his talent. I heard a lot of things about he takes unnecessary sacks. He had a bad o-line. He threw 70 percent (completion) with a bad o-line. Talk about his escaping the pocket. You can pull up plenty of clips of him escaping 3-4 tackles and throwing it down the field. Most of his receivers had 7-8 touchdowns. He played with Travis Hunter, he won the Biletnikoff [Award.] Some things you just can't knock.' Advertisement Sanders ended up in Cleveland after all, but being the second quarterback taken by the team that drafted him doesn't inspire confidence. Instead, it suggests that his leash is short, and that he'll have to earn everything, rather than having a path paved by his draft capital. To some, that looks like hedging a bet on Sanders' character. His personality came into question throughout the process. Sanders is awfully confident, perhaps cocky at times. He's thrown teammates under the bus and may have fumbled the pre-draft process. But he also helped turn Colorado football around, seems to have the support of his Cleveland teammates, and has enough talent to win the starting job. Nabers, too, stood by Sanders. Advertisement "We gotta stop making feelings with how people play linger," he said. "Yeah he might have some things that he might say on camera off the field, that don't have to do with how he plays football. ... Everybody got different personalities. You never gonna meet somebody that's got the same personality anywhere. We all made differently. For them to judge on just the things that he says or how he carries himself. 'How he carries himself is all about how his dad raised him. We all know Deion. They was just doing that to show how they bigger than what he wanted to stand for." Sanders, very publicly, has been humbled. How he reacts to it may define who gets to tell his story. Cleveland's quarterback room should grant him that opportunity. Related: Travis Kelce Sends Strong Message on Browns Drafting Shedeur Sanders Related: Eagles Legend Jason Kelce Offers Brutal Shedeur Sanders Opinion
AsiaOne
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- AsiaOne
Spike Lee cast A$AP Rocky in his new movie after seeing meme comparing him to Denzel Washington, Entertainment News
Spike Lee cast A$AP Rocky in his new movie after seeing a meme on Instagram which compared him to Denzel Washington. The director hired the rapper to star in his new film Highest 2 Lowest alongside the Oscar-winning actor and he revealed he initially thought about the music star for the role after seeing social media posts which joked he could be Washington's son. Lee told the 7pm in Brooklyn podcast: "What's funny is that I was looking at Instagram four or five years ago and people were saying that A$AP looked like he's Denzel's son. I seen those memes and then in the film we used that. "A$AP, man, he's fire, I mean, there's some scenes where him and D [Denzel} head-to-head — he ain't backing up. Like: 'I'm here too.' So very, very happy with the way the film turned out and looking forward to sharing it with the world." A$AP Rocky made his screen debut in 2015 film Dope and was recently seen in If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, which hit cinemas in January. Highest 2 Lowest is a new interpretation of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 Japanese film High and Low and it's due to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in France in May. The original told the story of the wealthy head of a show company who is drawn into a terrifying crime when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom. In Lee's movie, Washington plays a music mogul who is targeted in a ransom plot. The director previously insisted his film is not a remake of the 1963 movie, telling "This is not a remake, this is a reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa's great film. "In Kurosawa's film, Toshiro Mifune is a shoemaker. In our film Denzel Washington is a music mogul with his own label and his reputation as the best ears in the business. So, this is the fifth film with the dynamic duo [himself and Washington]." Highest 2 Lowest is Lee's fifth film with Washington. They previously worked together on Mo' Better Blues, Malcolm X, He Got Game and Inside Man. [[nid:716951]]
NBC Sports
09-03-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Keon Coleman: Teams at Scouting Combine got mad at me for eating fruit snacks
It became obvious last year that Bills receiver Keon Coleman is hilariously authentic and self-aware. He recently provided another concrete example of that reality. Appearing on the 7pm in Brooklyn podcast, Coleman reflected on his experience at last year's Scouting Combine. It happened in the speed-dating interview sessions that unfold nightly in Indianapolis hotels. The teams bring players into the rooms. The rooms have bowls of snacks. Coleman helped himself to some. And some of the teams apparently didn't appreciate that. 'Teams mad I'm eating fruit snacks,' Coleman said, via Eva Geithheim of 'I'm like, 'I'm hungry.' I'm listening. Can I grab a little fruit snacks every now and then? Y'all got all the snacks in here. That's just for show? . . . If you ain't gonna draft me over some fruit snacks. . . .' It should be viewed as a positive. Coleman is comfortable in his own skin. Comfortable enough to see a bowl of fruit snacks and to help himself to a pack of them. (Besides, it's not like he stole a box of raisins from an audition. And that guy definitely stole the raisins.) The Combine experience definitely didn't stop Coleman from seeing a cookie and taking a cookie after his introductory press conference. Coleman had a more substantive criticism of the Combine workouts. 'We got linemen out here running the 40 and vertical jumping, when they ever doing that?' Coleman said. He's right. Football players only ever run 40 yards in a straight line when something very good or something very bad is happening during a game. A lineman's unimpeded, open-field speed only matters in very rare situations. But teams keep putting them through the same paces. Because they always have. To keep making apples-to-apples comparisons, they need to keep plucking the same apples from the same trees. Even if the world has moved past apples and is now eating fruit snacks.
