Source: Chris Covatta / Getty Nine-year-old Gia Perez was just another Spurs fan going to a game for the first time on Sunday. However, when she left the venue, she was known as the life of the party. Before the match against the Indiana Pacers started, the Spurs’ Team Energy hyped the crowd with their usual freestyle sessions. Gia hopped into the mix and the results were ecstatic. Check out her moves below! So my little sister is at the spurs game and my dad sends me this pic.twitter.com/Mwuf7KbbRi — G (@gianna102208) January 22, 2018 Gia’s sister G’Anna Perez posted the video on Twitter and it’s since been viewed more than 45,000 times. It also collected over 1,000 retweets and 3,400 likes. When speaking of her sister, G’Anna told KSAT.com , “she is shy free and dances away wherever there is music (and) dances everything from hip-hop to bachata.” The young talent definitely left her mark on the stadium. It’s safe to say Team Energy will keep her in mind whenever they need their next crowd boost!
President Obama To Set Nonviolent Drug Offenders Free From Federal Prison Obama flexin’ on the feds… Via NYTimes Sometime in the next few weeks, aides expect President Obama to issue orders freeing dozens of federal prisoners locked up on nonviolent drug offenses. With the stroke of his pen, he will probably commute more sentences at one time than any president has in nearly half a century. The expansive use of his clemency power is part of a broader effort by Mr. Obama to correct what he sees as the excesses of the past, when politicians eager to be tough on crime threw away the key even for minor criminals. With many Republicans and Democrats now agreeing that the nation went too far, Mr. Obama holds the power to unlock that prison door, especially for young African-American and Hispanic men disproportionately affected. But even as he exercises authority more assertively than any of his modern predecessors, Mr. Obama has only begun to tackle the problem he has identified. In the next weeks, the total number of commutations for Mr. Obama’s presidency may surpass 80, but more than 30,000 federal inmates have come forward in response to his administration’s call for clemency applications. A cumbersome review process has advanced only a small fraction of them. And just a small fraction of those have reached the president’s desk for a signature. “I think they honestly want to address some of the people who have been oversentenced in the last 30 years,” said Julie Stewart, the founder and president of Families Against Mandatory Minimums, a group advocating changes in sentencing. “I’m not sure they envisioned that it would be as complicated as it is, but it has become more complicated, whether it needs to be or not, and that’s what has bogged down the process.” Overhauling the criminal justice system has become a bipartisan venture. Like Mr. Obama, Republicans running for his job are calling for systemic changes. Lawmakers from both parties are collaborating on legislation. And the United States Sentencing Commission has revised guidelines for drug offenders, so far retroactively reducing sentences for more than 9,500 inmates, nearly three-quarters of them black or Hispanic. POTUS is really lettin’ it all hang out in his last days in office. Gay marriage. Soul-reviving eulogies. Prison reform. Barack is BALLIN’ on these hoes! Image via AP
Spur’s Becky Hammon To Become Head Coach Of Summer League Squad Time for a woman to take the reigns… Via BleacherReport San Antonio Spurs assistant Becky Hammon is getting a shot in the big chair, as she will be head coach for the franchise’s summer league team in Las Vegas. Jeff McDonald of the San Antonio Express-News reported the news of Hammon’s summer gig on Friday. Hammon continues to break barriers for women in the professional coaching ranks. She became the first full-time paid female coach in NBA history when Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich hired her as an assistant last August. In March, Hammon told George Willis of the New York Post that she wasn’t necessarily trying to use this gig as a stepping stone. “I’m in a space where I want to keep learning,” Hammon said. “I’m learning from a really intelligent human being, not just in basketball, but in life. I want to continue to learn. I’ll make those decisions as they come. But I’m really happy where I am.” Even though Hammon sounds content with what she’s doing for the Spurs, it would be hard not to look at this opportunity over the summer as a chance for teams around the league to see what she can do leading a group. Things they are a-changin’. It’ll be very interesting to see how Becky’s performance affects her career going forward. Image via AP
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