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Time of India
2 hours ago
- Sport
- Time of India
NBA Legend expresses skepticism about Memphis Grizzlies centre Zach Edey's hype post the regular season
Gilbert Arenas. Photo by Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images Memphis Grizzlies centre player Zach Edey ended his performance in the 2025 regular season of the NBA with an average of 9 points, 8 rebounds and 1 assist. The 23-year-old player has been making the headlines recently, owing to his performance that has turned heads and led to predictions of a glorious prospect for his future within the league. However, former Grizzlies player and NBA legend Gilbert Arenas is of a different opinion, which reflects his skepticism about the predictions made by the sports analysts. Gilbert Arenas explains his metrics to judge a rookie's achievement and capabilities, negates the player's possible development in the NBA In a recent episode of Gil's Arena, former basketball player Gilbert Arenas opened up on his opinions about Zach Edey's ongoing speculations and future predictions by the sports analysts of the game. While experts have commented on the ability of the player despite his young age and affirmed that there is enough time for the rookie player to develop his skills, Gilbert is of a different opinion. 'A rookie is a rookie. Either you are going to be a rookie at 26 and you are going to learn in the NBA or you are gonna learn it at 19. Either way it's your first day at the job.' Gilbert has a different set of definitions that defines the capabilities of the players within the court. While the average stat of Edey in the recent season, which stands at 9 points and 8 rebounds, is fine for a rookie player, it is not the same for someone of the young prospect's age. '9 and 8 for a 23-year-old isn't impressive. For a rookie, yeah it is. But for a 23-year-old, that not what they are looking at.' Gilbert continued, 'You are not on the same value. Like if you look the 19-year-old, the 18-year-old, that was a second round pick, that's in front of him, had more votes than him.' Gilbert Arenas STILL Isn't SOLD On The Zach Edey Hype The name of Memphis Grizzlies' power forward Jaylen Wells came up, who is younger to Edey and had an average of 10 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists. Wells was placed on a higher position than Edey on the KIA NBA All-Rookie Team voting results, even though Edey had better stats. Gilbert defended the listicle's purpose of listing out probable star players rather than observing who put on a more solid performance throughout the season. His comparison metrics are based on the age of the player. Gilbert analyses the fact that if Edey scored an average of 9 throughout the season at the age of 23, what would be the other young athlete's score when they are at the age of 23. Also read: LeBron James is not a fan of Bronny and Bryce James' basketball upbringing as he recalled his own journey to become an NBA legend Gilbert seems to be focusing more on the data and past records of rookies in the NBA. He doesn't leave much space for argument within his statements, which completely negates the fact that even though a player starts late, he always has the time to hone skills and emerge as a capable one, improving the average of oneself.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Police say man buys beer for DeLand bar patron, shoots at him after demanding payback
A shooting over beer money occurred early Saturday outside a DeLand bar where three weeks ago a man was shot and killed, police said. In the latest incident, police said the suspected shooter, Calvin Roosevelt Gilbert, 55, shot at a man outside McCabe's Bar at 225 N. Amelia Ave. at 2:05 a.m. after he was not reimbursed $5 for a beer. Police said Gilbert did not know the victim and met him at the bar. Witnesses reported Gilbert bought a beer for the victim. At closing time, he confronted the victim outside the bar and demanded reimbursement for the drink, police said. An argument ensued in the parking lot, and during the exchange, Gilbert pulled a gun from his satchel and fired at the victim while he stood three feet away, investigators said. The victim ducked to avoid getting shot and the bullet struck an exterior cooler and entered a wall, police said. A single 9mm shell casing was recovered at the scene. On May 3, DeLand police said Keshod Harris, 32, of DeLand, was struck multiple times in the chest when Avantae Williams, 24, a graduate of DeLand High School and a former college football player with the Miami Hurricanes and Maryland Terrapins, allegedly shot Harris because of jealousy over a woman. Harris was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. On Saturday, DeLand police said they were looking for Gilbert, who was identified by the victim and staff at the bar. He was seen in a video surveillance recording leaving in a tan 1999 Nissan Quest van, police said. Anyone with information on Gilbert's whereabouts is asked not to approach him, and contact the DeLand Police Department or submit an anonymous tip through Crime Stoppers at 800-222- TIPS (8477). This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Argument over beer money ends in gunfire in DeLand
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Mike Duggan, Dan Gilbert chat about downtown Detroit and what Bill Clinton saw in 1991
'You can't be just book smart being a mayor, you've got to be street smart — which you've proven," Dan Gilbert, the billionaire businessman, told Detroit mayor and 2026 gubernatorial candidate Mike Duggan on Thursday, May 29, as they shared a stage at the Mackinac Policy Conference. For about 40 minutes, the two leaders had a formal one-on-one, focusing mostly on Detroit and the improvements in the city since Duggan took office as mayor in January 2014. Their chat touched on an array of Detroit subjects, including the controversial Renaissance Center redevelopment plan, the expected future downtown Apple Store and the surprise discovery about the city that future U.S. President Bill Clinton made during an early 1990s visit. The mayor gave Gilbert credit for his firm's numerous investments that helped to dramatically revive downtown, attracting many new visitors and new residents. Duggan recalled how on weekdays in downtown Detroit in the 1980s, people would arrive at 8:30 a.m. to start work, and by 5:30 p.m., nearly everyone was heading back out for home. 'If you were still on the streets at 6 o'clock, it was empty ― I am not exaggerating," Duggan said. Duggan said he was part of a group in fall 1991 that welcomed Bill Clinton to the city for a presidential campaign visit. The event ended around 5:30 p.m., and the gregarious Clinton, who was then still just an Arkansas governor, was adamant on going out to walk around downtown and shake hands and introduce himself to people. 'I said, Governor, that's not really going to work," Duggan recalled. "He said, 'Oh no, you haven't seen me work. I can do this anywhere.' I said 'Oh no, you really don't understand.' "He said, 'What's your Main Street. I said Woodward. He says, 'We're going.' ' Clinton ended up outside near the vacant yet then-still-standing J.H. Hudson department store. It didn't take long for the future president to realize that his Detroit hosts weren't exaggerating about downtown's desolation. "And he's on the street — 'I'm Bill Clinton. I'm running for president,' " Duggan said. "And people walked around him like he's a homeless guy. He looks up and down the street and says, 'Nobody is here.' And I said 'I was trying to explain this to you.' " More: Duggan's $4.5B education plan includes firing unsuccessful principals, superintendents In 2025, downtown Detroit is a different story. 'You come downtown today, there are more people on the street and weekends than there are at noon at lunchtime. It is a completely transformed city," said Duggan, a Democratic mayor who is running for governor as an independent. Duggan marveled to Gilbert about the influx of new retailers to downtown in recent years, many of them tenants in Gilbert's Bedrock-owned buildings, including Nike, Gucci and the athleisure brand Alo, which is set to open this summer in the new Hudson's Detroit development. 'What's amazing now is we get calls from retailers all over the country," Gilbert said. 'It used to be us calling them and begging them.' Duggan asked Gilbert whether there has been a formal announcement yet for one of the worst-kept secrets in Detroit: the expected opening of an Apple Store on Woodward Avenue, just north of the Shinola Hotel. (Also in a Bedrock-owned building.) Gilbert stopped short of offering any confirmation for an Apple Store coming to 1426-1434 Woodward. He did say, however, "it's not us, they want to announce it themselves." The conversation soon turned to the city's riverfront, and how it, too, once had few visitors, but thanks to years of investments and improvements, the RiverWalk is now an incredibly popular destination for Detroiters and city visitors from all walks of life. Then Duggan added: "And if we could just get somebody to take down two towers of the Renaissance Center and build Navy Pier sitting in that hole in the middle, it would be perfect.' Bedrock and General Motors are collaborating on that $1.6 billion redevelopment proposal for the RenCen that calls for demolishing the complex's massive concrete podium and two of the five original 1977 towers, and then using the vacated space to create a park and entertainment district around the site that would be comparable to Chicago's Millennium Park and Navy Pier. The proposal was first unveiled late last year, but hinges on some $250 million to $350 million of potential public incentives, most of which would require state-level approvals that haven't yet been forthcoming. Responding to Duggan's reference to the RenCen redevelopment, Gilbert said, "If we get a governor that can support us in that, that would be great, too." Dugan: 'The good news is I think you already have a governor who supports you." Gilbert: 'She does." Duggan: "We just got to get a few legislators on your side.' Near the end of their chat, Gilbert said people from all over the country have been calling up Bedrock to tour downtown Detroit and get pointers on urban planning and "placemaking." That includes members of the family behind the retail giant Walmart, he said, who recently visited for possible ideas for the corporation's hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas. 'You've done so many amazing things," Duggan told Gilbert. "I will say this. I think, at the end of the day, what you are doing on the riverfront with the Renaissance Center, if you pull that off, it will be the biggest accomplishment for the city." Contact JC Reindl: 313-378-5460 or jcreindl@ Follow him on X @jcreindl This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Duggan, Gilbert chat about Detroit and what Bill Clinton saw in '91
Associated Press
5 days ago
- Business
- Associated Press
A little bit of farm, a little bit of suburbia: That's the recipe for Agritopia
GILBERT, Ariz. (AP) — Just steps from the porticos, patios, clay-tiled roofs and manicured lawns of suburbia, Kelly Saxer has gotten used to questions. As she weaves through tomato vines, snaps asparagus and generally gets her hands dirty, visitors and even some nearby residents want to know what she's doing — and how the farm where she works wound up here. 'Sometimes it feels like we're animals in a zoo a little bit because people will walk by and they'll just stare, you know, like gawk at us,' Saxer said. This is Agritopia, an 11-acre (4.5-hectare) organic farm that's all that remains after miles of alfalfa, corn, cotton, durum wheat and sugar beets were swallowed up by Phoenix's roaring development. In this 'agrihood' — a residential community that includes a working farm — kids play outside at a school that borders vegetable fields or in communal green spaces nestled between homes. Well-dressed couples and boisterous teenagers flock for selfies and picturesque photos. Lines form at the diner featured on Guy Fieri's Food Network show. On the farm itself, people can walk the dirt roads, rent out plots to grow their own foods or buy its produce. Some developers have turned to the agrihood concept in the past couple of decades to lure buyers with a different kind of amenity. At least 27 U.S. states and Canadian provinces had agrihoods as of a 2018 report from the Urban Land Institute, and more have cropped up since then. Experts say agrihoods cater to buyers interested in sustainability, access to healthy food and a mix of urban and rural life. The core aim of many projects is to 'create a feeling for people,' said Matt Norris, one of the lead authors of that report. Agritopia's founders saw change coming, and made a planIt was the late 1990s when the family behind Agritopia saw 'the writing on the wall,' said Joe Johnston. The family farm was some 5 miles (8 kilometers) from Gilbert then but it was clear the Phoenix area's rapid growth was going to bring development to their doorstep. With his parents mostly retired and a pair of brothers interested in doing other things, Johnston got their blessing to develop the land himself rather than simply selling it. Johnston, with a background in design engineering, was intent on 'creating place,' as he puts it. The neighborhood features narrow streets and homes within walking distance of restaurants, bars, shops, small parks and fitness businesses. The farm is at the center of it. Melissa Checker, a professor of anthropology at City University of New York and author of a book on environmental gentrification, said agrihoods can appeal to people in different ways — their desire to feel environmentally conscious, nostalgia for an imagined idea of the past, increased interest in food 'self-sufficiency' and even a heightened desire to be safe and connected to neighbors after the COVID-19 pandemic. 'You have a kind of convergence of some commercial interests, you know, something that you can sell to people, and then also this real desire to change the way we do things,' she said. Agritopia, but not utopia In an ideal world, using green community space to grow food could especially benefit people who are food-insecure, Checker said. But because agrihoods are often tied to real estate prices and developers want a return on their investment, 'it's much more likely that these kinds of projects go into gentrifying neighborhoods or more affluent neighborhoods,' she said. It's not clear just how big a role the farm plays in attracting buyers. At Agritopia, for example, few of the 500 homes participate in the farm box program that offers them first pick of seasonal fruits and vegetables. (The farm also sells at a market in downtown Gilbert and donates to a local food pantry.) Johnston said he knew 'not everyone's going to be passionate about agriculture.' That's why he was intent on creating a village where people have spaces to come together; it's up to them how much, if at all, they want to be involved in farming. Still, farms are a selling point for developers especially across the Sun Belt who compete to offer pools, gyms, parks and other perks to would-be residents who have a wide range of planned communities to choose from, said Scott Snodgrass. He's founding partner of a developer that created Indigo, an agrihood outside Houston, and also of a company called Agmenity that runs farms for agrihood developers. How the farm and the neighborhood intersectAs the sun rises, the farm's workers snip the roots off scallions and pull up thick bunches of lettuce and green garlic. Before he started working at Agritopia, Ernesto Penalba didn't know all the steps involved in growing garlic — harvesting, cleaning, plus packing and transporting. 'But we only perceive it as one process. So it was really interesting to understand that,' he said, speaking in Spanish. CC Garrett, who goes by 'Miss Hickory' when she's leading educational tours for kids on the farm, said she loves watching young people connect with their food in new ways — eating and maybe even enjoying salad for the first time or learning why you can't grow tomatoes year-round. 'It's amazing for me just because this community, it just really speaks to me, being built around an urban farm, which I think is such an important American concept,' she said. For some who live here, this place is more than a typical neighborhood. In Agritopia's 'kid pod,' a cluster of families with 23 kids between them, parents let the young ones roam freely, knowing at least one guardian will always be looking out for them. The rest of the parents make dinner or plan a date night. Just across the street, a peach and citrus orchard sways in the breeze, occasionally wafting the smells of fruit into front yards. Maria Padron lives in the 'kid pod' with her husband and two children. She loves living in Agritopia for the sense of camaraderie with her neighbors. Her own family in Virginia had to give up their farm when her grandfather couldn't take care of it anymore. She wishes it had stayed in the family, but it's a vineyard now. Asked whether she would have wanted her grandfather's land to become an agrihood, she says maybe — if it was done right. 'There's something obviously beautiful here that's going on, but there is some grief there too, if you've watched this land be a certain thing and then it changes within an instant,' Padron said. ___ Follow Melina Walling on X @MelinaWalling and Bluesky @ Follow Joshua A. Bickel on Instagram, Bluesky and X @joshuabickel. Follow Annika Hammerschlag on Instagram @ahammergram. ___ The Associated Press' climate and environmental coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP's standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at
Sydney Morning Herald
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
What has the ‘pornification' of pop culture done to women?
Author and journalist Sophie Gilbert. Credit: Urszula Soltys For me, there is a little too much about reality television, but it's a big part of the culture so there's no way of avoiding it, from Big Brother and An American Family . And Gilbert introduces me to one I'd never heard of before: Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire , which she describes as 'the beginning of reality TV's determination to view twenty-first century women through a nineteenth century frame: Jane Austen heroines who, deprived of agency or power of their own, could only compete to claim status and self-betterment through their looks, their alliances and their rivalries'. Pretty much. Or, as Jerry Hall said in 1985, 'My mother said it was simple to keep a man, you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom.' Hall updated it: 'I said I'd hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit.' But by far the most striking, most frightening, aspect of the book is the way in which Gilbert has both drawn on, and expanded, the work of philosopher Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex and Gail Dines' Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality. Porn trains us. Porn trains us in how to be women. And worse, it trains men in how to treat women. 'It has trained a good amount of our popular culture ... to see women as objects, as things to silence, restrain, fetishise, or brutalise,' says Gilbert. The fleshed-out concept of pornography as a textbook for how women must be in their lives is terrifying. Now I've read Gilbert's persuasive arguments, I'm embarrassed I've ever been persuaded otherwise. I've never felt so wrong in my life. There is now, she argues, a 'pornification' of everything, including music. We saw, in the 90s, a distinct shift from angry, abrasive and 'thrillingly powerful women' (Madonna, for example) who were suddenly replaced by, ah, girls. Soft, sweet, compliant. But what about when the anger, directed at women, appears in the lyrics of male artists? After the 90s, there was a shift away from 'thrilling powerful women' such as Madonna. Credit: Associated Press Gilbert cites a 2006 German study that revealed that those who listened to sexually violent and aggressive songs, including Eminem's Superman and The Offspring's Self Esteem , were more likely to have negative thoughts about women. Sure, it's fine to think what you want, but the men in these studies were also far more likely to have 'thoughts of vengeance' directed at women. Pamela Anderson's sex tape was 'revenge porn before we even had a name for it'. Credit: Getty Images What about when men go further than just thinking about vengeance? In 1995, an electrician fired from the home of Pamela Anderson and her first husband Tommy Lee broke into their home, stole a video of the couple having sex and spread it everywhere. It became the 'Pamela Anderson' sex tape, the first of its kind, revenge porn before we even had a name for it, says Gilbert. Yes, appalling when Anderson's sex tapes were broadcast and sold for all to see. But now that kind of thing happens frequently. The victims aren't always famous, but they are just as stripped of agency as Anderson was all those years ago, but they don't have the same back-up. They wear their shame in private and maybe their parents aren't even convinced it wasn't the fault of the victim. Gilbert explains how we got to the stage where exploitation is the fault of those who suffer it. And as she points out, 'The logical extension of objectification is dehumanisation.' Why would anyone care about the non-human? Loading Gilbert's book is bleak, well-argued and compelling. And unlike many in this genre, there are no real recipes for hope beyond small sites of forward lash. She writes: 'I have no idea what happens next. But history suggests that women will be much harder to sideline than the Trump‐Vance administration may anticipate.' I hope she's right. But will we ever really get to post-feminism? Sure, when we get to post-patriarchy. As Gilbert makes clear, we've got a long way to go, baby.
