Oladipo is set to stay in South Beach after joining the Heat midway through the 2020-21 season. However, he tore his left patellar tendon during Miami’s first-round series against the Milwaukee Bucks in late April and will presumably miss a notable chunk of 2023-24 as a result. Injuries have unfortunately spoiled much of Oladipo’s tenure with the Heat. He played just four regular season games with Miami in 2020-21, eight in 2021-22 and 42 in 2022-23. When healthy, the veteran guard has provided Miami with some welcomed, feisty point-of-attack defense and ball-handling.
His defense fits well with the Heat’s ethos and his shot creation, though up and down, helps complement their defense-first identity. He averaged 10.7 points, 3.5 assists, 3.0 rebounds and 1.4 steals last year. Whenever he returns, he’ll look to contribute to a Miami squad aiming for its third consecutive Eastern Conference Finals appearance and third Finals trip in five years. With key role players Gabe Vincent and Max Strus set to enter free agency, Oladipo’s status could prove instrumental. It’s comforting to see a guy who’s struggled so much to stay available because of injury secure some guaranteed money as well.
Although the Golden State Warriors’ depth was not as impactful last season as during their 2021-22 title run, certain players still emerged and helped them to the second round of the playoffs. Among those players was 6’4 wing Donte DiVincenzo, who played 72 regular season games, started 36 of them and shot 39.7 percent beyond the arc. He also appeared in all 13 of Golden State’s playoff games.
DiVincenzo will seek to parlay his fine season into a payday. According to ESPN’s Kendra Andrews, he will decline his $4.7 million player option and enter free agency.
“This wasn’t a big surprise for the Warriors and other front-office executives around the league,” Andrews wrote. “There was a sentiment that DiVincenzo had outplayed his contract in Golden State after arriving in San Francisco last summer.”
Because DiVincenzo accrued non-bird rights, the most Golden St. offer in a new contract is $5.4M.
Golden St. enters free agency $14.7M over the luxury tax.
Roster resources:
– Draymond Green – Vet minimum exception – 2nd rd exception (T. Jackson-Davis) https://t.co/PNXo2OQPWa
DiVincenzo bounced back from a slow 2021-22 this past year. He provided the Warriors with physical point-of-attack defense, slippery screen navigation on and off the ball, connective passing and valuable floor-spacing. Despite some clear limitations, notably as a finisher and driver, he’s quite the useful role player and should help whichever team signs him later this summer. Golden State was 1.4 points better per 100 possessions with him on the floor, according to Cleaning The Glass. He averaged 9.4 points, 4.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.3 steals per game in 2022-23.
The Bond team may still be unsure who will replace Daniel Craig, who wrapped his last day in the role nearly four years ago. But for years and years, a large number of people know who they want: They want Idris Elba. Alas, Elba has long said he doesn’t want the gig, though he’s never really given an answer explaining why. Now he’s finally supplied one reason, and it’s a good one.
As per Variety, Elba recently appeared on the podcast SmartLess, where he started by saying he was at least initially into being 007.
“The truth is, I was super complimented for a long time about this,” Elba admitted. “I was like, ‘This is crazy!’ James Bond…We’re all actors and we understand that role. It’s one of those coveted [roles]. Being asked to be James Bond was like, ‘Ok, you’ve sort of reached the pinnacle’. That’s one of those things the whole world has a vote in.”
Sadly, not everyone was into it, and by “not everyone” we mean the usual suspects. “Essentially, it was a huge compliment that every corner of the world except from some corners, which we will not talk about, were really happy about the idea that I could be considered,” Elba explained. “Those that weren’t happy about the idea made the whole thing disgusting and off-putting, because it became about race. It became about nonsense and I got the brunt of it.”
It’s not uncommon for non-white performers to be trashed by bigots when they land key roles in big IP. Just ask John Boyega, Kelly Marie Tran, and Moses Ingram, all of whom were plagued with abuse when they joined the Star Wars-verse.
Elba has spoken in the past about not wanting to be thought of as a “Black actor.” He told Esquire U.K. in February that as humans, we are obsessed with race and that obsession can really hinder people’s aspirations, hinder people’s growth. Racism should be a topic for discussion, sure. Racism is very real. But from my perspective, it’s only as powerful as you allow it to be.”
As such, he “stopped describing myself as a Black actor when I realized it put me in a box,” adding, “We’ve got to grow. We’ve got to. Our skin is no more than that: it’s just skin. Rant over.”
So if you were one of many who wanted Idris Elba drinking shaken martinis and driving an Aston Martin, you know who to blame.
In May of 2022, New York rapper Casanova — responsible for viral hits like “So Drippy,” featuring Young Thug and Gunna, as well as “Woah” with Jeremih — pleaded guilty to the charges against him, which included firearm possession, conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, racketeering, and attempted murder. It was a rough trip, including being wanted by the FBI and denied $2.5 million bond.
As of Tuesday, June 27, Casanova has received his prison sentence, and it includes 188 months — translating to over 15 years — behind bars, according to a press release from Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
“Caswell Senior is not just a notorious recording artist, but he is also a high-profile leader of a vicious street gang and a magnet for gang violence,” Williams said. “At a crowded Miami house party, Senior personally fired a gun that seriously injured and could have killed a victim, inciting a shootout. Further, Senior’s stature in the community was central to Gorilla Stone’s successful recruitment and nationwide expansion. Today’s sentencing — along with the other significant sentences that have been imposed in this case — shows once again that gang life is not worth it and will lead to many years in prison.”
Talen Horton-Tucker will hit unrestricted free agency at the conclusion of the 2023-24 NBA season. But before that, Horton-Tucker will play out the final year of his contract with the Utah Jazz, as Brian Windhorst of ESPN brought word via Rich Paul that Horton-Tucker will opt into the last year of his deal, which will pay him a hair over $11 million this year.
Talen Horton-Tucker is opting into his $11 million deal with the Utah Jazz for next season, agent Rich Paul says
Horton-Tucker originally agreed to this deal — a 3-year contract worth just under $31 million — back when he was a member of the Los Angeles Lakers. He played out the first two years of the contract in L.A., but prior to the start of last season, the former Iowa State Cyclone was sent to Utah as part of the deal that sent Patrick Beverley to the Lakers.
Horton-Tucker appeared in 65 games as a member of the Jazz, with 20 of them coming as a member of the starting lineup. He posted some of the best numbers of his young career, as he averaged 10.7 points, 3.8 assists, and 3.2 rebounds in 20.2 minutes per game, and set his career-high in scoring by dropping 41 points in a win over the San Antonio Spurs in March. While this is going to be his fifth year in the NBA, Horton-Tucker won’t turn 23 years old until November.
In May, Lizzo shared a TikTok about struggling to overcome hate. “Today was one of those days where I was very angry, very angry at the world. Saw a lot of mean sh*t about me on the internet, and I wanted to give up,” she explained. However, after expressing her gloomy feelings more, she ended the rant on a high note, saying, “Then, I reminded myself to get up, get out, and get some sun, and I put on Renaissance.”
Beyoncé’s music is an oasis for many people. That album in particular is an excuse for celebration. So, when Lizzo went to The Renaissance Tour on Tuesday, June 27, in Warsaw, it makes sense that she totally let loose and have fun. A clip is circulating of the “Truth Lies” singer in attendance at the event and she quite possibly might be the most enthusiastic person there. She’s caught dancing her heart out to “Church Girls” and raising a beer.
On social media, she once divulged how many times she’s seen the Lemonade legend. “I have seen Beyoncé perform live 10 times in my lifetime,” she wrote on Twitter. “and today the 11th time was on a IG live across a body of water of a hotel and I’m not ashamed.”
So it’s only natural that the countdown until the next Coachella begins. It wasn’t until January 10 that this year’s lineup was revealed, and it then took place during the weekends of April 14 to 16 and 21 to 23.
To be fair, The Indio, California-based festival has already started teasing next year’s jamboree. “Wherever you are, the desert isn’t far,” they tweeted earlier this month. “Coachella returns April 12-14 and April 19-21.” A playful accompanying graphic in the post announced that registration is open for access to the 2024 Advance Sale, which began on June 16.
An array of hotel package options are shown on the festival’s website: La Quinta Hotel Packages, Indio Hotel Packages, Indian Wells Hotel Packages, Palm Desert Hotel Packages, and Palm Springs/Rancho Mirage Hotel Packages. Prices range from $3,099 (plus fees) to $10,999 (plus fees). Shuttle services and safari camping are also currently available to book on the website.
Trump World has not really known how to handle the classified documents case, especially because Trump keeps basically confessing to the crime. When tape surfaced of him outright bragging about hoarding said papers — and admitting that he knows he can no longer declassify them — pals like Sean Hannity twisted themselves into pretzels trying to spin it. Eventually they settled on a not very flattering defense: Trump’s a liar, not a thief. Now, after trying a few other tactics (like all-caps social media posts), he’s adopting that line, too.
In an interview with Semafor aboard his private plane, Trump claimed that the so-called classified documents he kept directly referring to weren’t actually classified documents. They were just papers and he wanted to impress people…about something that’s very, very illegal.
“I would say it was bravado, if you want to know the truth, it was bravado,” Trump claimed. “I was talking and just holding up papers and talking about them, but I had no documents. I didn’t have any documents.”
Instead, he claims, he was trying to show off in front of staffers and the biographers working on a book about his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows.
“I just held up a whole pile of — my desk is loaded up with papers,” he asserted. “I have papers from 25 different things.”
But does Trump have any regrets about how he handled the boxes of classified documents, which he refused to return, thus possibly committing the very same crime that he claimed Hillary Clinton did, leading to the beloved chant “Lock her up!”? (That chant, incidentally, may come back to bite him in the butt.) Of course not.
“No, I have no regrets,” Trump replied. “I didn’t have a classified document. There was no classified document on my desk.”
Trump ended the Semafore interview quickly after they asked if the audio now made public would affect him accepting a possible plea deal — but not before saying the government would fail to prosecute him and making “unverified accusations” about Joe Biden.
“Frankly, that you even ask a question like that’s a disgrace,” he told Semafore. “So let’s end it.”
To recap: The current frontrunner for the Republican presidential ticket is now claiming that he’s a liar — which may itself be a lie. Good job, the Republican Party and its voters, you’re all doing swell.
Just because you enjoy IPAs, this doesn’t mean you always want to crack open a beer with 7.5-10% ABV every time. Sure, there’s a time and place for those epic West Coast bangers and double dry-hopped hazies. There’s also a place for IPAs with slightly lower alcohol by volume, but just as much flavor as many of its higher ABV counterparts.
For the uninitiated, the beer term “session” is used to reference a beer at our below 5% ABV. These beers are also usually lighter in body, not as filling, and oftentimes very crushable. It makes for a great summer beer style. Wouldn’t you rather grab a low-ABV hoppy thirst quencher on a hot summer day than something higher in ABV and generally heavier anyway? We know we would.
To help you out, we’ve listed and ranked eight of the best, reasonably easy-to-find session IPAs available today. They’re all under 5% ABV, but each is still high in flavor and has the hoppy flavor and aroma IPA fans crave. Keep scrolling to see them all.
There are few session IPAs more well-known than Founders All Day IPA. This beer is so popular that it’s opened the door for a slew of different “All Day” beers. In fact, we enjoy its All Day West Coast with its malt backbone and aromatic, flavorful hops.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is classic West Coast IPA, albeit a little muted. Grapefruit and pine are prevalent and not much else. The palate has a little more substance with a sweet malty backbone propped up by more citrus peels and pine. The finish is hoppy, piney, and lightly bitter. Overall, a decent, mildly watery beer.
Bottom Line:
As expected, this session West Coast IPA has all of the flavors IPA fans crave. It’s just a little more muted than some drinkers might be expecting.
With a name like “Slightly Mighty,” you wouldn’t be wrong expecting a big flavor out of this session IPA. But not only is this a session IPA, but it’s also a light beer. It still manages to be hoppy and flavorful with a little extra sweetness from the addition of monk fruit.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is surprisingly fragrant and tropical for a session IPA. There’s a ton of lemongrass, orange peel, and ripe pineapple. Drinking it continues this trend with more tropical fruits, citrus peels, grass, and floral, lightly piney hops. The finish is lightly bitter. Overall, it’s a flavorful beer for the low ABV but more of a crusher than something to take your time with.
Bottom Line:
This is a decently flavorful light beer. It’s highly sessionable, but more of a summer crusher after an afternoon of lawn mowing than anything of substance.
Cigar City Jai Alai is one of the most respected IPAs on the market, but at 7.5% ABV, it’s anything but sessionable. That’s where Cigar City Jai Low comes in. It’s only 4% ABV but is still known for its bready malts, citrus flavors, and bitter hops.
Tasting Notes:
Before your first sip, you’re met with aromas of grassy, herbal, floral hops, sweet, bready malts, and bright pine. Drinking it reveals notes of wet grass, citrus peels, grapefruit zest, herbal, earthy, hops, and bitter pine. For a low-ABV IPA, it’s surprisingly balanced.
Bottom Line:
Sure, it’s low on alcohol. But this session IPA still carries much of the flavor you have grown to love when you crack open a classic Cigar City Jai Alai. It’s just all slightly tempered.
This 4.7% ABV session IPA was crafted to be crushed. Brewed with Chico yeast, Silo malt, Best ale malt, White wheat, and Cara malt as well as Citra, Amarillo, and Hull Melon hops, it does just that. It’s balanced, flavorful, and highly drinkable on a hot day.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is surprisingly light with sweet, bready malts, bright pine, and honeydew melon. There’s a ton of citrus on the palate with tangerine, lemon, and grapefruit making big appearances. There’s also a good deal of sweet malt in the background and lightly bitter, floral, resinous hops at the finish.
Bottom Line:
This beer might be touted as a crusher and it definitely is. It’s also surprisingly well-balanced. It’s the kind of beer you’ll want to keep stocked in your fridge all summer long.
This beer might only be 4% ABV, but don’t let that fool you. It’s juicy, hazy, and loaded with tropical fruit, citrus peel, and fresh hop aroma and flavor. This comes from the liberal use of HBC 586, Citra, and Amarillo hops. On top of that, it’s only 110 calories per 12-ounce can.
Tasting Notes:
Grass, bready malts, lemon zest, orange peel, and dank pine on the nose starts everything off on the right foot. The palate continues this trend with more bready, sweet malts in the background that move into caramelized pineapple, tangerine, grapefruit, and floral, earthy, herbal pine. The finish is a nice mix of sweetness and bitterness.
Bottom Line:
As sessionable hazy IPAs go, this one is well-balanced and filled with tropical fruit and citrus flavors. All with a pleasant finish.
We all know about staycations, but what about a daycation? The folks at Highland Brewing are inviting you to take one when you crack open a can of This flavorful, 4.9% ABV session IPA. Loaded with hop aromas and flavors, it’s brewed with 2-row malt, white wheat, rye, Vienna malt, caramel 20 malt, and flaked oats. It’s hopped with Azacca, Mosaic, and El Dorado hops.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find aromas of candied orange peels, clover honey, ripe grapefruit, mango, sweet malts, and grassy, floral hops. Drinking it brings forth notes of bready malts, lemongrass, honey, tangerine, grapefruit, more tropical fruits, and a nice kick of gently bitter, earthy, pine at the finish.
Bottom Line:
All in all, this is a pretty well-rounded IPA even for a session IPA. It ticks all the IPA boxes without leaning too heavily in any direction.
This award-winning session IPA is known for its tropical and citrus fruits as well as bright pine and nice, sweet malt backbone. This is thanks to the use of California ale yeast, pale malts, Munich malts, Victory malts, C-15 malts, and Carapils malts. It’s brimming with hops including Citra, Mosaic, Chinook, and Sultana.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is herbal, earthy, and lightly spicy with a ton of piney, herbal hop aromas as well as citrus peels, and sweet, caramel malts. The palate has a ton of citrus with grapefruit, lemon peel, and orange zest making up most of the flavor profile. This is followed by sweet, bready malts and a ton of herbal, earthy, resinous pine. The finish is a nice mix of bitter pine and citrus peels.
Bottom Line:
This session IPA manages not only to be overall balanced but is also well balanced between citrus sweetness and hop bitterness.
San Diego is the center of the IPA universe so it should come as no surprise that the best session IPA comes from there. This highly-rated, Great American Beerfest Gold Medal-winning IPA is known for its drinkability, but bold citrus and tropical fruit-forward flavor profile.
Tasting Notes:
Complex aromas of juicy melon, ripe berries, caramelized pineapple, mango, and tangerine make way for bright pine. The palate continues this trend with more tangerine, lemongrass, ripe pineapple, caramel malts, and floral, dank hops. Even with all of this, it manages to be gently bitter and effortlessly easy to drink.
Bottom Line:
If you only drink one session IPA this summer, make it this one. It’s as close to perfection as a low-ABV IPA can get.
Obviously, not all aged spirits are the same. While the use of charred barrels can impart flavors like vanilla, caramel, and oak to any spirit, it’s just a simple fact that whisk(e)y, rum, and tequila taste different from one another. This is because of the ingredients used to distill the spirit before it enters the barrel and various distilling and aging techniques. But just because you’re a fan of one aged spirit, this doesn’t mean you won’t enjoy another.
Specifically, we’re talking about whiskey and tequila.
Granted, there are major differences between whiskey and tequila. Take bourbon for example. This corn-based spirit is matured in charred American oak. It’s most typically know known for its sweet, vanilla, dried fruit, spiced flavors. Tequila on the other hand is known for its earthy, vegetal, agave-sweet, fruity flavor notes. That being said, there are enough similar flavors that there are many tequilas that would still appeal to whiskey drinkers.
The key is knowing how to find them.
“I recommend a reposado or Añejo Tequila,” says Oscar Aranda, restaurant director at Acre Resort in San Jose del Cabo in Mexico. “The notes, aromas, and flavors are smokier, caramelized, woody, and spicy. Don Julio 1942 is a good expression of tequila with characteristics similar to whiskey.”
To find more examples, we went to the professionals who spend their days pouring drinks behind the bar for help. We asked a few well-known bartenders to tell us the best tequilas for whiskey fans. Keep scrolling to see all of their picks.
Tequila Ocho Añejo is my pick. A few words on the tequila: Tequila Ocho’s añejo is one of my favorite recommendations for whiskey drinkers who want to cross over to agave spirits. The añejo is aged for one year in barrels.
Tasting Notes:
It starts pulling subtle notes of butter and caramel that a bourbon drinker might be looking for, while still retaining some peppery spice of the agave, offering the best of both worlds.
The Patrón Extra Añejo tequila is an amazing choice for any whiskey drinkers as it is barreled for an extensive amount of time, and much longer than regular añejos. The longer barreling period gives this bright, dark gold tequila a taste and smell similar to whiskey.
Tasting Notes:
Patrón Extra Añejo includes a light agave, fruit, and honey taste, and also enhances the aromas of vanilla, oak, and woodiness making it akin to whiskey. When smelling it out of the bottle, our resort guests and diners have often assumed it was whiskey, proving the similarity between the two.
Teremana Añejo
Teremana
Resa Mueller, bartender at R&D Philly in Philadelphia
Añejo tequila is a great choice for classic cocktails that typically call for another aged spirit, like whiskey, and works well as a substitute for classically stirred drinks such as an old fashioned. Specifically, I like Teremana Añejo because of its complementary flavors.
Tasting Notes:
I enjoy using Teremana’s Añejo for its rich vanilla, caramel, and oak notes. The attention that Teremana gives to producing their añejo, preserving the integrity of the agave plant by roasting in small batches as well as the time spent aging in whiskey barrels, creates a complex flavor profile that also makes it a great option to sip on the rocks or neat.
I’d pour a whiskey drinker Don Fulano Imperial. Aged five to twelve years, this extra-anejo tequila offers notes of cardamom, cinnamon, Mexican chocolate, and earthiness from the toasted agave.
Tasting Notes:
For a highland tequila, it’s not overpowered by vanilla but has a long, smooth finish rich with caramel. Sweet but not overly so, it’s easy to sip.
Whiskey drinkers are usually on the opposite side of the liquor spectrum than your tequila enthusiasts would be. While that gap might have some difficulty being bridged, a good handful out there build that crossover, and my favorite has to be Tapatio Excelencia Extra Añejo.
Tasting Notes:
With notes of malt, oak, and vanilla on the nose, it follows with undertones of butterscotch, chocolate, and nuttiness on the pull. With those notes and a nicely bodied mouthfeel, this is definitely one to bring you, whiskey friends, over to the agave side.
El Tesoro Extra Añejo
El Tesoro
Tom Muscolino, director of beverage innovation at Landmark Hospitality in Plainfield, New Jersey
El Tesoro Extra Añejo. Aged for five years in ex-bourbon barrels, it is beautifully balanced. It’s a great choice for whiskey fans hoping to get into tequila.
Tasting Notes:
It’s filled with notes of butterscotch, spice, vanilla, caramel, cooked agave, ripe tropical fruit, and oak that isn’t overpowering.
Siete Leguas Añejo is a great Tequila for whiskey fans because it’s aged for eighteen months in charred American oak barrels. This imparts some of the same flavors whiskey fans enjoy.
Tasting Notes:
This is a complex, highly flavorful tequila. It still has the bright agave flavors but with a softness often found in well-crafted bourbons.
Fortaleza Añejo tequila is my pick. Fortaleza is a fantastic tequila maker that keeps to long-used distilling tradition in their recipe. The result is a spirit that still holds notes of earth and molasses.
Tasting Notes:
The añejo will have sat in cedar barrels long enough to impart notes of charred wood and vanilla; flavors that any whiskey fan will be seeking, while also taming the ceiling of this noisy complex agave distillate. My message to the whisky drinkers is to start with the añejo and work your way to the reposado and then the blanco (the wildest in flavor), keeping each of the gorgeous, hand-blown bottles on the way.
El Tesoro Añejo
El Tesoro
Michael Carlisi, beverage director at Barrio in San Francisco
Aged anywhere from one to three years in oak barrels, Añejo offers characteristics similar to whiskey. El Tesoro Añejo is my favorite.
Tasting Notes:
The aging process produces a warm amber color and smooth notes of vanilla, raisins, and honey. The finish is smokey and with a caramel flavor similar to bourbon.
In my opinion, the best tequila for whiskey fans is the Patrón Añejo Sherry Cask Aged. Served on the rocks, neat, or in a classic drink (like an old fashioned or Manhattan), it will change your life.
Tasting Notes:
This is a bold, oaky tequila with two years of Oloroso Sherry cask aging, giving it a well-balanced taste of toasted pecans, caramel, and dry fruit. It almost tastes like a young whiskey or bourbon.
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