Do you remember what transpired during the Detroit Pistons’ 1989-’90 NBA Championship run? After a few seasons of brewing tensions between Isiah Thomas and Adrian Dantley, the Pistons had had enough. Despite being their top scorer, Dantley was traded to the Dallas Mavericks—midway through the season—and he felt it was all because of team leader Isiah Thomas. Fast forward 33 years, and the Golden State Warriors traded a young Jordan Poole—not to mention one of the heroes of the 2022 NBA Finals—for an aging Chris Paul.
Dr. Arnold Klein, the dermatologist to the stars who was best friends with Michael Jackson and injected him with powerful drugs, has a warrant out for his arrest.
As you know, Klein has plummeted from grace after MJ's death. TMZ broke a number of stories, revealing that the Doc injected MJ with Demerol scores of times in the months leading to his death. He also used multiple aliases for MJ in prescribing meds.
"It was the Jackson 5 after all who put Ray Carney back in the game following four years on the straight and narrow." So writes Colson Whitehead at the start of Crook Manifesto, the sequel to his 2021 novel Harlem Shuffle and the second installment of his Harlem Trilogy. Anyone who has already read Harlem Shuffle will immediately feel the playful smack of humor in this seemingly innocuous sentence: As established in that first book, Ray is a hustler of stolen goods who threads his way through New York's yesteryear in a sometimes heroic, sometimes tragicomic attempt to figure out life, fatherhood, and identity.
Extreme Sisters is about to get wilder in season 2.
ET exclusively premieres a first look at the cold open for the new season of the TLC reality series, which features the returns of twin sister duos Anna and Lucy, and Christina and Jessica. Viewers will also be introduced to Ashley and Vee; 25-year-old sisters Hannah, Katherine and Nadia; and twins Jordan and Randi, who are one step closer to their dream of marrying identical brothers.
Exclusive to npr.org, hear more from Thomas Kroenke discussing his appointment as "hastus primus." Audio will be available later today. The quiet Wyoming town of Riverton -- population 10,000 -- got a shock recently: their town was about to become the headquarters of the World Church of the Creator, a group associated with white supremacy and racial violence.
There was swift condemnation of the Church and its beliefs. But as NPR's Howard Berkes reports, the citizens of Riverton continue to struggle over the best way to respond.