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When Kyrie Irving issued a trade request on Friday, not many expected the Nets to find a trade for him by the end of the weekend. Irving’s market figured to be complicated, to say the least, but on Sunday the Dallas Mavericks made an offer Brooklyn couldn’t pass up, sending Spencer Dinwiddie, Dorian Finney-Smith, and picks to the Nets for the All-Star guard.

While the Mavs were one of the teams on the list of suitors from the beginning, they were not considered the team most motivated to land Irving, as most expected the Lakers to reunite Irving with LeBron James in their pursuit of a roster overhaul. The problem the Lakers ran into was they just did not have a good enough package to offer Brooklyn, and the Mavs’ offer was simply more enticing. Russell Westbrook and picks wasn’t exactly a great option for the Nets, who are trying to thread the needle between getting some future assets while also giving themselves a chance to remain competitive with Kevin Durant, for now, still on the roster and coming back soon.

As such, the Lakers now enter deadline week facing even more pressure to upgrade the roster than already existed, because their top target just went to a fellow West playoff contender. That seems to have not sat very well with LeBron James, who didn’t shy away from noting he thinks Kyrie would help the Lakers this weekend after Irving issued his trade request, with a tweet that is either some commentary on Kyrie to Dallas or he’s listening to some Taylor Swift on a Sunday evening.

No one knows how to play their role in the NBA’s soap opera better than LeBron, and with just a few days until the trade deadline, he will continue to exert whatever pressure he can on the Lakers to make another move — without outright saying that, of course. With Kyrie now in Dallas, it’ll be interesting to see who Rob Pelinka and company target and/or circle back on, but for now the player James has been trying to get since this summer is headed to Dallas.

Yes, the Grammy Awards are about what artists walk about with the coveted gramophone trophy. However, the red carpet looks are also something to watch. So far tonight, there have been a ton of great looks, including from nominee Lizzo’s romantic sunset orange custom Dolce Gabbana look. But just as with music, when there are hits, there are some flops.

Country music icon Shania Twain’s red carpet look has fans divided. Twain has had several memorable fashion looks throughout the year, in her public appearances at award shows and in her music videos. The songwriter shocked fans when she debuted a pastel pink hair look at the 2022 People’s Choice Awards. Now, fans at home tuned into the Grammy Awards red carpet live stream are sounding off on her latest bold look.

She took to the carpet wearing a black and white sequin polka dot suit with a matching oversized top hat, a look designed by British-American fashion designer Harris Reed. The entertainer has quickly become a meme online. Fans are comparing the look to despised Disney villain Cruella DeVille. Others have called the look a chic cow.

Regardless of others’ thoughts on it, Twain is in love with the look, telling Variety, “I’m having a lot of fun. Fashion is all about experimenting and enjoying being out of your own skin sometimes. It’s kind of liberating.”

Chris Brown isn’t too happy with Record Academy. After losing the Grammy for Best R&B album to Robert Glasper, the R&B crooner took to Instagram to share his thoughts, putting the annual award show on blast for not crowning him as the winner. The singer was nominated for his Breezy (Deluxe) album, which was released last June.

Brown found himself with stiff competition this year for the R&B category. Along with Glasper and Brown, three other artists were nominated for the award, including Hip Hop Soul legend Mary J. Blige‘s album Good Morning Gorgeous, Lucky Daye’s Candydrip, and PJ Morton’s album, Watch The Sun. But Glasper’s Black Radio III album won the coveted award on Sunday night.

The “Go Crazy” hitmaker was not having any of it and decided to take his feelings to social media.

“WHO THE F*CK IS ROBERT GLASPER,” the singer posted on Instagram.

The singer continued by taking a few jabs at the renowned pianist, writing, “I gotta get my skills up… I’m a start playing the harmonica.”

Glasper is one of Jazz music’s premiere artists, with a career spanning over two decades. The pianist is also a record producer, songwriter, and musical arranger. Glapser’s work bridges several different musical and artistic genres. The 44-year-old Houston musician has won several awards throughout his career, including four Grammy Awards, and received nearly nine nominations across eight categories. He’s even played some keyboards on Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly album.

That said, you would think that Brown might have some idea about Glasper, but alas, no.

Glasper must have seen this moment coming, posting this last week (which Brown took for his own IG):

It seems winning is just inevitable for Drake. Despite not submitting any music for the 2023 Grammys, the Toronto rap star still walked away with an award Sunday night. The “Rich Flex” rapper won best melodic rap performance for his guest appearance on Future’s No.1 hit, “Wait for U,” which also features vocals from Nigerian singer Tems. The track appears on Future’s album, I Never Liked You.

Even without entering any new music, Drake earned himself four nominations this year. Along with his work on “Wait for U,” the rapper also co-wrote and earned nominations for Jack Harlow‘s “Churchill Downs” and “Heated” from Beyoncé‘s album, Renaissance.

Unlike in years past, Drake opted out of submitting any work from his latest solo album, Honestly, Nevermind, or any of its singles like “Jimmy Crooks,” “Sticky,” and “Massive,” for awards. The now five-time Grammy winner has been critical of the awards show in the past. He even withdrew his two nominations for the 2022 awards.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, while attending the 2023 Recording Academy Honors, Drake honored Lil Wayne with a video message — one of the award’s honorees, along with Missy Elliot and Dr. Dre — and even took some jabs at Grammys while doing it.

“Good evening, Grammys. Well, I haven’t gotten to say that since 2016,” the rapper said in the video.

He continued, “Lil Wayne… I love you so much. I know I probably get annoying with saying how much you mean to me and my family, but I think I speak on behalf of everybody when I say that our careers, our cadences, our melodies, maybe our face tats or our outfits or our decisions, in general, would not have been the same without your natural gift to just be yourself.”

The Grammy Awards are the Super Bowl of music. Every year the biggest recording stars and musicians gathered to celebrate that year’s releases, and what would this year’s celebration be without Lizzo?

Before the “Special” singer had even stepped foot into the Crypto.com arena, she had already been declared a winner for “About Damn Time (Purple Disco Machine Remix)” for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical. Although the flutist wasn’t in the building to deliver a speech, her collaborator Purple Disco Machine stepped in. However, she was blown away after finding out the news via Twitter as she made her way to the event.

Well, Lizzo’s tardiness was not in vain. Wearing a custom salamander orange Dolce and Gabbana floral semi-hooded overcoat, Lizzo quickly walked the event’s red carpet, stopping in front of the photographers’ station to capture the radiant look. Underneath the jacket, Lizzo sported a pumpkin orange rhinestoned accented corset with matching support straps and a simple floor-length skirt of the same material.

The look is a metaphor for the singer’s latest album, Special. Surrounding herself with flowers, she’s prepared for whatever happens during the ceremony, even if it doesn’t go in her favor.

Lizzo has shared before during an interview on the Howard Stern Show that she initially felt the album would be overlooked because of the steep competition. Still, she managed to pull in nominations for Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year, Best Pop Solo Performance, Best Pop Vocal Album, and indirectly Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical.

Covered in flowers and with her partner Myke by her side, we’re sure she already feels like a winner.

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Viola Davis has joined an exclusive club. Tonight during the 65th GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony, the access was awarded the Grammy for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording for her Finding Me memoir, earning her EGOT status. Only 17 other entertainers have earned the coveted designation, and Davis makes history by being the 18th.

The acronym, which stands for the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards, is a significant designation given to people who have won all four major entertainment awards. Past EGOT winners include Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, Whoopi Goldberg, and more.

This year, Davis found herself going up against four other previous Grammy winners, including Jamie Foxx (“Act Like You Got Some Sense”), Lin-Manuel Miranda (“Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World”), Questlove (“Music is History”) and fellow EGOT recipient Mel Brooks (“All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business”).

Davis will be able to add her new title alongside her two Tony Awards (“King Hedley II,” “Fences”), her Oscar (the film adaptation of “Fences”), and her Emmy (“How to Get Away with Murder”), for which she became the first black actress to win.

Despite Davis being snubbed by the Academy Awards this year, the Woman King actress still made history. With a career spanning over three decades, the actress has undoubtedly earned her flowers.

Watch Davis’ acceptance speech below.

Ted Cruz has been in the Senate for a long, long time — a decade as of last month. If you were to go by the legislation he introduced last month, which would cap Senate term limits at two, you would think he’d be planning for his next gig. Thing is, he’s not. He’s running a third time, which would keep him in office through 2031. Does Cruz not see how these two ideas conflict with each other? Judging by a recent media appearance apparently not.

On Face the Nation Sunday, host Margaret Brennan asked Cruz straight-up why, by running for a term he doesn’t think others should have, he wasn’t “holding yourself to that standard.”

Cruz vacillated, calling himself a “passionate defender of of term limits,” adding, “I think that Congress would work much better if every senator were limited to two terms, if every house member were limited to three terms.”

Brennan replied, “But you’re still running.”

“If and when it passes,” Cruz claimed, “I will happily, happily comply. I’ve never said I’m going to unilaterally comply.”

Until then, Cruz sees no issue with doing the very thing his proposed legislation seeks to outlaw. “I will be more than happy to comply by the same rules that apply for everyone,” he explained. “But until then, I’m going to keep fighting for 30 million Texans because they’ve asked me to do.”

In short, Cruz will advocate one thing while doing another, as well as maybe abandoning those 30 million constituents to go on family vacation — then blame his own kids when called out.

(Via Mediaite)

Beyoncé isn’t nicknamed Queen Bey for nothing. Music’s biggest night, the Grammy Awards, is starting off strong for the “Cuff It” singer.

The Houston representative is just four wins away from setting the all-time record for most decorated solo artists. A record currently being held by Hungarian-British conductor Georg Solti.

However, with her latest win for Best Dance/Electronic Recording for the single “Break My Soul,” she is well on her way. The win not only pushes her one victory ahead of legendary composer and producer Quincy Jones, but according to Chara Data, Beyoncé now has at least one Grammy for each of her solo albums.

Here is a full list of Beyoncé’s Grammy Award wins.

Beyoncé — Dangerously in Love

• Best Contemporary R&B Album
• Best R&B Song for “Crazy In Love”
• Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for “Crazy In Love”
• Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for “Dangerously In Love 2”
• Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for “The Closer I Get To You”

Beyoncé — B’Day

• Best Contemporary R&B Album

Beyoncé — I Am… Sasha Fierce

• Song of the Year for “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”
• Best R&B Song for “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”
• Best R&B Female Vocal for “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”
• Best Pop Vocal Performance for “Halo”
• Best Contemporary R&B Album
• Best Traditional R&B Performance for “At Last”

Beyoncé — 4

• Best Traditional R&B Performance Award for “Love On Top”

Beyoncé — Beyoncé

• Best Surround Sound Album
• Best R&B Song for “Drunk in Love”
• Best R&B Performance for “Drunk in Love”

Beyoncé — Lemonade

• Best Urban Contemporary Album
• Best Music Video for “Formation”

Beyoncé — Renaissance

• Best Dance/Electronic Recording for “Break My Soul”
• Best Traditional R&B Performance for “Plastic Off The Sofa”

For the first time in nearly three years, Jay-Z And Beyoncé’s Roc Nation Brunch made its post-pandemic return this weekend with the help of some of the star-studded guests. The power couple called on some of music’s biggest stars to help them celebrate the upcoming 2023 Grammys. Clips surfaced online showing that attendees were brought into Jay and Bey’s world of luxury — complete with expensive gowns, a small orchestra, and a roofless foyer decorated with photos, including a portrait of Lauren London and Nipsey Hussle.

It’s been reported that the invite-only event took place at a private residence in Los Angeles.

Like in its past iterations, a bevy of celebrities, musicians, and other tastemakers attended the swanky affair. Of course, members from Roc Nation were in attendance to show love to Jay and Bey, including DJ Khaled, Rapsody, and Joey Bada$$.

One noticeable difference this year is that the power duo arrived separately. Jay-Z was spotted attending the fancy event with renowned stylist June Ambrose. Bey was spotted alongside her longtime bodyguard Julius de Boer and stopped to chat with Lil Kim before meeting up with her husband to schmooze around with their guests like Nigerian singer Tems.

Other attendees included Swiss Beatz, Lil Uzi Vert, Chloe and Halle Bailey, G Herbo, Jacquees, Janelle Monae, J.I.D., Kelly Rowland, Lil Baby, Mustard, Miguel Pusha T, SAINt JHN, Teyana Taylor, Vic Mensa, and more. Diddy, who’s usually a fixture at the popular event, was noticeably absent this year.

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The Dallas Mavericks made a stunning move on Sunday when they made the first big trade of the deadline, sending Spencer Dinwiddie, Dorian Finney-Smith, and picks to the Brooklyn Nets for Kyrie Irving, who issued a trade request on Friday.

Irving’s acquisition will make the Mavs fascinating to watch, as they go all-in on building around a two-headed backcourt monster in Irving and Luka Doncic, with plenty of questions about how they’ll make things work defensively — although, there may be more moves made by Dallas this week to balance out their roster a bit more. While the majority of the focus will be on Dallas and what this does for a Mavs team that has been treading water despite Doncic posting outrageous stats, this is also an intriguing deal for Brooklyn.

Considering Irving’s value varied wildly depending on who you asked, no one could quite figure out what he may end up being traded for. To get a pair of useful players along with a future first in return for him is no small feat, and the Nets at least give themselves a chance to remain competitive once Kevin Durant returns to the lineup — provided he doesn’t re-up his own trade request in the next few days.

The headliner of the Nets return is Spencer Dinwiddie, who returns to where his career took off in Brooklyn, but the way he learned about the deal is the same way all of us did: Shams Charania’s tweet.

With how quickly things move and how teams can’t make things official for some time, this happens a decent bit, but it’s still wild that players at the trade deadline are blindsided by Shams and Woj tweets just like the rest of us — the big difference being one of those tweets might tell them it’s time to start packing your closet. At least Spencer is moving back to an area he’s familiar with, but this certainly changes the stress level of a Sunday afternoon.