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You know those kids’ movies where a referee says something like “There’s nothing in the rule book that says a dog can’t play basketball!”?
Well, former Boston Celtic Enes Kanter Freedom is now using that mentality to troll the world of women’s sports.
Yes, the first round pick-turned-professional edgelord has officially declared his eligibility for the 2027 WNBA draft.
Kanter has submitted a letter to the league declaring following through on a promise he made last week amid the ongoing debate over transgender athletes and women’s sports.
“Please accept this formal document as my official written notification to the Women’s National Basketball Association of my voluntary decision to enter the player pool for the 2027 WNBA Draft,” reads a letter Kanter made public today.
Freedom shared a copy of the letter on social media, adding a simple message alongside it: “rules are rules!”
Yes, he’s certainly committed to the bit.
In the letter, Freedom cited the league’s collective bargaining agreement, stating that he meets the age requirement and has no remaining collegiate eligibility.
He also asked the league office to confirm receipt of his paperwork and process his registration for the draft.
So, yes, this is officially a thing.
The move comes just days after Freedom and former NBA player Royce White announced their intentions to enter the 2027 WNBA Draft.
Both men have framed their decisions as a response to the WNBA’s handling of the increasingly heated debate surrounding transgender participation in women’s sports.
The controversy intensified after Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham spoke publicly about her belief that biological differences should be considered when it comes to women’s sports.
“I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I’m like, ‘I never once said that,’” Cunningham said last month.
She added that she wanted to “protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men.”
Cunningham’s comments sparked considerable backlash, as well as support, and the issue quickly became much bigger than one player’s remarks.
Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve subsequently wore a “Trans kids belong” shirt during a game against Cunningham’s Indiana Fever.
The WNBA Players Association has also addressed the controversy, emphasizing its commitment to inclusion while saying it represents players with different backgrounds, experiences and opinions.
“Hate, abuse, and demonization of any person or group of people, including transgender people, only fuel fear, division, and harm,” the WNBPA said in a statement.
Freedom has now inserted himself directly into that conversation.
He hasn’t played in the NBA since 2022, but he’s certainly found a new way to remain part of the basketball conversation.
And now the WNBA has an official piece of paperwork to deal with.
It remains to be seen whether Freedom’s name will actually appear among the selections at the 2027 WNBA Draft. But he’s certainly found a new way to cling to relevance.
Enes Kanter Freedom: Former NBA Star Announces Plan to Enter WNBA Draft was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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The Courtney Clenney case isn’t ending on a happy note for anyone.
Not for late boyfriend Christian Obumseli and his family. Not for Clenney or her family.
Attorneys reached an agreement. Clenney has now pleaded guilty to Obumseli’s 2022 death.
Clenney’s plea includes prison time — but she may be out sooner than you expect.
Guilty
On Monday, August 10, Clenney pleaded guilty after her attorneys secured a deal with the prosecution.
In 2022, her boyfriend, Christian Obumseli, died.
Clenney’s guilty plea came with the agreement that she will serve a 6-year prison sentence.
That is already a relatively short time for a homicide, though there may be extenuating circumstances.
(There are some who believe that she deserves prison for life, and others who believe that she deserves no time behind bars at all.)
A slight twist is that the agreement includes time served.
Clenney has been behind bars for exactly 4 years, which means that she could be out and free in just two years.
The prospect of spending two years behind bars is daunting — and likely sounds like a long wait, even after spending four locked away already.
But Clenney was facing a potential life sentence before this manslaughter plea.
As part of her deal, she must undergo treatment for mental health and substance abuse after her realse.
This case was sensationalized for several reasons
In April of 2022, Clenney stabbed Obumseli to death their their shared Miami apartment.
Seemingly in shock, she told detectives that she had only stabbed him in self-defense.
Clenney told investigators that she was a victim of domestic violence, and had picked up the knife as a warning to keep him away.
“I grabbed a knife, and I said, ‘Don’t come anywhere close to me. I have absolutely no intention of using it,’” she told detectives.
In the immediate aftermath, a seemingly bewildered Clenney repeatedly asked first responders if she’d killed her then-boyfriend.
This case has been full of controversy, with various parties claiming that either Clenney or Obumseli were victims of domestic violence.
It was further sensationalized by some people’s reactions to Clenney’s work on OnlyFans.
Additionally, the prosecution was at one point found to have improperly accessed privileged communications between attorney and client. Yikes!
As we said, this plea deal is likely to make folks on both sides unhappy. Obumseli’s family believes that he is innocent and they want justice. Clenney’s loved ones believe that she should spend no time behind bars for defending herself.
Our justice system is imperfect, and grows only more visibly flawed with each passing day.
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Laci Kaye Booth is opening up about the uncomfortable reality of having an increased online presence while promoting her upcoming album, admitting that she has been fighting the urge to retreat from the spotlight completely.
Fans may have noted that Booth has been more intentional about being active on social media in recent months. She has been sharing more snippets of her life along with previewing her third studio album, Love Ain’t For The Faint Of Heart, which is scheduled to arrive on September 18.
The songstress took to her Instagram story over the weekend to explain that while she knows having a strong presence on her platforms is important in generating interest surrounding her next project, she has found herself struggling to fight her natural instinct to “disappear on socials and within the industry.”
“I’ve been posting so much in the last few months and it makes me nauseous & insanely uncomfortable. Every time I post, my brain tells me I’m desperate for attention and approval and that I’m coming off vain and shallow,” she wrote in the honest statement.
Booth says she has learned to stop fighting those feelings and instead has accepted that stepping outside her comfort zone is simply part of giving her album the best chance at success.
“I promised myself I’d show up for this one. I’d give this album campaign and this tour a better chance than I gave The Loneliest Girl in the World. I’ve done the whole ‘make the music, stay out of the public eye and hope people find it’ thing. Turns out that is not a particularly strong marketing strategy and it doesn’t make a whole lotta people happy,” she admitted.
Throughout her career, Booth has discovered what it feels like to be the artist who is costing a label more money than she is making them in return and what comes od that as a result.
“I know how that story ends, and though sometimes for the best, I’d rather know I did everything I could for this art this time ’round.”
With that in mind, Booth lets fans know they will probably see a lot more of her in the coming months as she continues to push herself to be more present throughout the album cycle and upcoming tour.
“I’m trying this freaky little thing called ‘participating in my own career.’ When it’s over, I will happily return to my regularly scheduled programming of tending to my tiny, quiet, private life. Until then.. please bear with a shy, timid bitch❤️,” she added in conclusion.
Laci Kaye Booth recently announced that she is set to embark on her first-ever headlining tour in support of her next album. The seven-date Love Ain’t For The Faint Of Heart Tour will include stops at dive bars and honky-tonks that inspired the album’s tracks, kicking off September 27 in Chicago and wrapping in Los Angeles on October 15.
Plus she has also been tapped to support Ella Langley on select tour dates beginning July 23. The trek includes a two-night stand at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles (October 13 & 14).
A full list of upcoming tour dates can be found on Booth’s official website.
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By: James Brooks, Alaska Beacon
Editor’s note: This article, initially published Friday, was updated Sunday morning with a statement from Zuckerberg.
A small cruise ship operating in Southeast Alaska made an unexpected detour on Monday night to help a 21-foot skiff that ran out of fuel between Petersburg and Juneau.
Michael Love, a software developer from New York City, was a passenger aboard the cruise ship and described the event on social media.
What got his attention the most wasn’t the rescue itself — it was when the captain announced that the yacht of billionaire Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg was closer and hadn’t answered the radio call for help.
“There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this,” he said in a post on the social media network Bluesky.
Vessel tracking services in the area back up that account — they show the $300 million, 387-foot yacht Launchpad slowing to a halt outside Farragut Bay as the UnCruise Adventures ship Wilderness Legacy steams around and past the Launchpad, stops at the apparent site of the skiff, then tows it into sheltered Farragut Bay.
Through a Bluesky message, Love said it was nice to be on a boat that was engaging with its surroundings in a positive way.
“Frankly, if I was Mark Zuckerberg I would be absolutely ecstatic at a chance to do something helpful for someone in need and maybe get some good PR out of it,” he said.
Social media accounts responding to Love’s account accused the yacht’s crew of violating international agreements that mandate aid from the nearest ship to one in distress.
According to the U.S. Coast Guard and the Marine Exchange of Alaska, which monitors ship traffic in Alaska, there was no distress call — just a general request for assistance.
Coast Guard Public Affairs Specialist Shannon Shepard said by email that the Coast Guard heard the call for help just after 9:30 p.m. Monday night.
“At approximately 9:56 p.m., the Coast Guard determined they were not in distress and issued a marine assistance request broadcast on their behalf,” she said.
John Hollingsworth is the chief operations officer of the Marine Exchange, which is based in Juneau and repeated the broadcast.
“We did assist the Coast Guard with callouts on our radio and (were) able to hail the Wilderness Legacy who ended up rendering assistance,” he said.
“From my experience, I know that situations like this contain myriad details for the vessels involved, so the AIS (tracking) snippet you obtained only reveals one of those details,” he said by email. “I do know that Wilderness Legacy is an UnCruise vessel and is very familiar with Alaska waters, so that may have contributed to them rendering assistance quickly.”
No information was available Friday about who may have been aboard the Launchpad on Monday evening. The Launchpad has been in Southeast Alaska for much of the summer.
After the initial publication of this article, a spokesperson for Mark Zuckerberg emailed a statement: “Mark and his family were not on board at the time of the incident. As the Coast Guard noted, the boat was not in distress, and by the time the crew reviewed the Coast Guard contact on a different radio channel from the one they were operating on, the assist was already underway. We’re grateful all parties are safe.”
The Wilderness Legacy’s detour is the second incidence of aid rendered by a small cruise ship in Southeast Alaska within two weeks. On July 30, the National Geographic Quest assisted a family who had to swim to shore in Glacier Bay National Park after a humpback whale sank their sailboat.
Dan Blanchard, who owns UnCruise, said he wasn’t initially aware of the Wilderness Legacy’s detour because “this kind of aid is such a common thing that it does not always rise to my attention.”
Sarah Scoltock, a spokeswoman for UnCruise, said the Wilderness Legacy was able to refuel the skiff after towing it into a sheltered area.
“The next day the (Wilderness Legacy’s) captain, Sean Manske, contacted them and received word they made it safely to Petersburg,” she said by email.
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In retrospect, the explosive clash between Vicki Gunvalson and Teresa Giudice was inevitable.
And it’s also arguably the point of Ultimate Girls Trip.
Teresa was opening up about one of the darkest times in her life — her stint behind bars.
Vicki’s explosive reactions shocked even their fellow Housewives.
‘I never want to know any of this!’
During the August 9 episode of The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Roaring 20th, Teresa told the confessional cameras that there have been real downsides.
“The past 15 years, I know everybody thinks ‘I’m on TV and it’s so fun,’” she said during the Season 6 premiere. “It’s not fun.”
She is of course referring to her 11 months of incarceration.
She spoke with Porsha Williams, Kyle Richards, Luann de Lesseps, and more, explaining what cost her her freedom — and, in a sense, her whole family — from her point of view.
“I’ve gone away,” Teresa recalled. “I signed a refinance that my ex-husband told me to sign, he used my credit. Never in a million years did I think I was going to go to jail for that.”
Teresa Giudice opens up about going “away” and says that her ex-husband, Joe Giudice, didn’t pay taxes for 10 years. Vicki’s reaction is a little much, as she says Teresa might get a financial lesson later on. In response to Vicki, Porsha says in her confessional, “Teresa is… pic.twitter.com/9nlAtuMcHP
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Teresa continued, continuing to express her belief that her ex-husband, Joe, dragged her into trouble.
“He didn’t pay taxes for 10 years. So the government came knocking on our door,” she expressed.
Sometimes, people in dire financial straights have to put off payments that then balloon. But the Giudice family in this time was not only making money, but flaunting their wealth on reality television.
Vicki’s odd and childish response sounded almost like boredom, as she snapped: “I never want to know any of this!” Oh boy.
“I pay my taxes on time, all the time, no penalties, no interest, no nothing,” Vicki bragged for some reason. “You might have a financial lesson later sometime this week.”
‘I might be flipping her off this boat’
Numerous Housewives jumped to Teresa’s defense. Vicki was being super weird.
After all, Teresa was opening up about a vulnerable moment.
She was also pointing out that her ex-husband, Joe Guidice, dragged her name and money into alleged mortgage fraud.
(Joe served 41 months behind bars and then was deported to Italy, a country that he had never known.)
With that in mind, it’s a little odd for Vicki, of all people, to blame a woman whose man led her astray. (Anyone else remember Brooks Ayers?)
“I get what she’s saying,” Vicki eventually conceded. “You were the product of what happened.”
She argued: “But it gets complicated when there’s a business involved, and you always have to file your taxes.”
That’s not bad advice. But most people are not unreasonable for trusting a spouse to handle these matters.
“If Vicki keeps poking the bear,” Teresa told the camera, “who knows I might be flipping her off this boat. We don’t know.”
Careful, Vicki Gunvalson — Teresa Giudice might blow a casket.
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