Garnett posted a farewell video on Friday, four days before the Minnesota Timberwolves are set to open training camp. He narrates the short, black-and-white video that shows him walking alone through Target Center with sunglasses on.
“I’m just thankful. I can’t even put that into words,” Garnett says. “I’m just thankful. I’m just thankful for everybody and the love. I never would have thought that people love me like this. But, for it to be reality is just something else, man. Man.”
Garnett informed the Timberwolves of his decision to retire Friday. The team will waive the franchise icon, which will allow him to collect his entire $8 million salary for the 2016-17 season.
The San Antonio Spurs made the same move with Tim Duncan when he retired this summer.
“It has been a real joy to watch KG come into the league as a young man and watch him develop his skills to become one of the very best in the NBA,” Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor said in a statement. “I have treasured the opportunity to see him grow as a leader. I wish him continued success in the next chapter of his life. His Minnesota fans will always cherish the memories he has provided.”
Team president and coach Tom Thibodeau, who coached Garnett as an assistant with the Celtics during their title-winning season in 2007-08, said in a statement Saturday: “His fierce competitiveness, his unequaled passion for the game, and the many ways in which he cared about this team was truly special. KG is without question the all-time best player to wear a Minnesota Timberwolves jersey, and he is also one of the best ever to play the game.”
Garnett finishes his NBA career as one of three players with 25,000 points, 10,000 rebounds and 5,000 assists. The others are Hall of Famers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Karl Malone.
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Forbes calculates what performers bring in through data collected from agents, managers, lawyers, industry insiders, and such databases as IMDB, Pollster, and Box Office Mojo. Their place on the list is determined by the estimate calculated from records of touring, films, TV specials, DVD sales, paid appearances, and endorsements. Hart’s biggest drawing comes from his stadium tours, as he has traveled the circuit at a remarkable pace, playing over 100 shows that each gross over $1 million. He has also done well in Hollywood, appearing in the blockbusters Ride Along II, Central Intelligence, and Secret Life of Pets. His endorsements include Hyundai, Foot Locker an H&M.
The significance of what Hart has accomplished can be measured by looking at Seinfeld’s reign, which ran for 10 years strong, over which time he accumulated over $900 million. With 2006 having been the year Forbes began awarding highest-paid honors to comedians, until now, Seinfeld has in fact been the only #1 comedian the list has ever had.
Back in May, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge struck down Govan’s attempt to have the suit dismissed on an anti-SLAPP motion, claiming it violated her right to free speech. The judge wasn’t buying her grievance, ruling that “the court has deemed that the defendant has admitted that she wrote and disseminated the offending email, that it contained a false accusation about STDs and that defendant’s intent was to publicly embarrass and humiliate plaintiff.”
Arenas had been seeking a judgement in the seven-figure ballpark, but after evaluating Govan’s finances and the weight of Arenas’ claim in the suit, the judge settled on a judgement that will require her to pay him a sum of $110,110.
FN: How did you come up with your own personal style?
Fabolous: It’s really about comfort for me now, what I feel comfortable in, whatever vibe I wake up feeling like. I constantly change what look I’m wearing, what shoes I’m wearing T.day I’m wearing Filas; at the shoot, I wore Converse and Saucony. I like to be versatile; I like to be diverse [and] try to keep all the styles I’ve seen and liked or became accustom to and mix it up.
Bobby Shmurda will spend the next seven years in prison, followed by five years probation, after accepting a plea deal for his role in a gang conspiracy case.
The New York Daily News reports that the 22-year old Brooklyn, New York rapper, born Acquille Pollard, pleaded guilty Friday, September 9, in Manhattan Supreme Court, just days before his trial was set to begin.
He faced charges of conspiracy, reckless endangerment, criminal possession of a weapon and criminally using drug paraphernalia.
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Posted September 7 2016 — 9:00 AM EDT
IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING!!!! After years of rumors, Mariah Carey is set to guest-star on Empire. Good friend (and Precious director) Lee Daniels has been teasing a Carey cameo since the first season and decided enough was enough. “I said, ‘It’s time to put Mariah on the show because I am going to be a liar to the world and to her,’” says the show’s co-creator and EP with a laugh.
Carey will portray Kitty, a singer brought in by Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) to duet with Jamal (Jussie Smollett). The Lyon matriarch thinks working with a star as big as Kitty will help her son deal with his PTSD and stage fright after being shot near the end of last season. “She’s the one that sees everybody’s always telling Jamal what to do,” says Smollett. “From Lucious to Cookie to the media to his fans. Kitty is a person who’s a much bigger star than Jamal and she’s there to kind of be like, ‘Stop. He’s human.’”
