Source: Courtesy of Scotch Porter / Courtesy of Scotch Porter J.R. Smith might be an NBA player, but he’s adding author to his resume. CBS Sports reports that during the offseason some players go to the gym, travel, relax and work on business ventures. J.R. has decided to use his writing talent and publish a book with his brother, Chris Smith. Sign Up For Our Newsletter! Close Thank you for subscribing! Please be sure to open and click your first newsletter so we can confirm your subscription. Email Submit Chris played in the NBA for a little while and the two released the children’s book, HoopSmiths. This children’s book is based upon them growing up together and falling in love with the game of basketball. The book has a wholesome message and speaks on teamwork. JR Smith and his brother, Chris, released a children’s book on Tuesday about growing up together and helping each other succeed in basketball. A portion of the book's proceeds will go to the JR Smith Youth Foundation. pic.twitter.com/CtRH9lW4Pi — Dave McMenamin (@mcten) September 18, 2018 RELATED: Knicks Legend J.R. Smith Surrenders To NYPD, Charged With Misdemeanor Some of the book’s proceeds will go towards Smith’s charity, the JR Smith Youth Foundation. The website mentioned that it’s, “dedicated to assisting underserved children in their health, personal development, education and enjoyment of life.” The cover is a cartoon character of J.R. and his brother playing basketball as kids. RELATED: How J.R. Smith Proved Sports Is 90% Mental [EXCLUSIVE] Even though the book talks about teamwork people on Twitter have been joking about how J.R. played during the NBA Finals. He became a meme after not realizing his team were down, which caused them to lose that game. Despite it all congratulations fellas on the book! RELATED: J.R. Smith’s Basketball Blooper Kicks Off Hilarious Memes [PHOTOS] [ione_media_gallery src=”https://rickeysmileymorningshow.com” id=”1937323″ overlay=”true”]
Source: Sony / PlayStation Nintendo’s success with their mini consoles is definitely having an effect on the video game world. First Sega announced its Mega Drive (Genesis) mini , and now Sony is throwing its name in the hat with the PlayStation Classic Mini Console. Its been almost 25 years since the groundbreaking home console, the PlayStation was first introduced to the world. The console was an instant hit with gamers eventually becoming the first console to ship over 100 million units offering for the first time the chance to play 32-bit games with real-time 3D rendered graphics in the comfort of their homes. If you are one of those gamers who wanted to get that feeling again of pressing that power button and seeing the iconic load up screen Sony has good news for you. Today the company announced its new retro console, the PlayStation Classic and it’s gorgeous. The console perfectly emulates the original and is approximately 45% smaller than the original PlayStation console. It also comes with two classic controllers, an HDMI cable to connect with today’s televisions, USB cable. Don’t worry no physical memory cards will be necessary, the system will have a virtual memory card to save your game data. Source: Sony / PlayStation As far as what games will come with the system, it will come pre-loaded with 20 classic PlayStation games, fan-favorites such as Final Fantasy VII , Jumping Flash , Ridge Racer Type 4 , Tekken 3 , and Wild Arms is among classic titles that will return with the retro console. The PlayStation Classic will launch on December 3rd, 2018, the same day the original console hit shelves in Japan back in 1994. As far as cost, it will only run you $99.99 and is now available for pre-order at select retailers such as GameStop and Best Buy . So you better move fast cause you know this bad boy is going to sell out quickly. We just hope Sony handles this release a bit better unlike Nintendo when they first introduced the NES Classic. — Photo: Sony/PlayStation
(Photo credit should read ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images) Nicki Minaj And Diesel Get Dragged Well, someone in marketing is going to be looking for a job soon. The folks at Diesel have decided to put together an anti-bullying campaign using celebrities like Gucci Mane and…Nicki Minaj? Word? Either this is a big prank or one of the biggest mishaps in marketing history. Nicki Minaj has been accused of bullying during her entire career. She allegedly hopped in a woman’s DMs this summer, demeaning her. She’s been accused of sic’ing her army of maniacal fans on people who disagree with her and criticize her actions. She’s been called one of the biggest bullies in the game so this decision is…weird. Nicki is on an entire cyber bully campaign as if she not only got someone fired from their internship & but her fans have been harassing that woman even to this day with death threats, mean comments about her child, & trying to find out her address — diet stud (@dankbonn3t) September 19, 2018 Okay, it’s worse than weird. Take a look at Twitter’s reactions and they aren’t pretty.
Big Little Lies co-stars Zoe Kravitz and Reese Witherspoon faced off in a game of ‘Lip Sync Charades’ on the Tonight Show. While Reese teamed up with show host Jimmy Fallon, while Zoe brought her father along for the game. So who won? Check it out… Getty/YouTube
He *Mistakingly* Spills His Thoughts On The Internet A Texas superintendent for the Onalaska Independent School District let the world know how he really feels about Black quarterbacks and now he’s trying to backpedal. According to Chron.com, Lynn Redden — who oversees the Onalaska school district almost 100 miles north of Houston — commented on a Facebook post promoting a Chron.com article about the Houston Texans’ recent game loss. He blamed the Texans’ quarterback Deshaun Watson for the loss. In the last play of the game, Watson held onto the ball as the final seconds counted down on the clock. He completed a pass to receiver DeAndre Hopkins, hoping he could make a last-second, game-tying field goal, but time had run out by then. In response, Redden commented on the Chron.com post saying, “That may have been the most inept quarterback decision I’ve seen in the NFL. When you need precision decision making you can’t count on a black quarterback.” Oh really? Redden thought he was responding to a private message from a friend when he posted his comment, but nope. It was right in the comment section of the Chron.com post. Redden said he deleted his comment when he realized it wasn’t a direct message. “I totally regret it,” he told Chron.com. But it was too late. A Spring resident, Matt Ericksen, sent Chron.com screenshots of the post on Monday morning. Ericksen said he didn’t have kids in the district, but he wanted to bring attention to what he thought was a blatantly racist comment. “It’s important to make sure horrible words are met with consequences, especially for those in powerful positions with influence,” Ericksen said. Despite all this, Redden still seemed to get away with his anti-Black comments. He told Chron.com that he hasn’t faced any consequences so far, as of Monday afternoon. He said he understands how folks might’ve interpreted his post as racist, but he didn’t intend for it to come off that way. Mhm. Redden said he was referring to statistics when he made the comment about Black quarterbacks. “Over the history of the NFL, they have had limited success,” he said. According to The Washington Post , a 2017 study by University of Colorado researchers show that unconscious racial biases influence views on quarterbacks. There have been two Black quarterbacks who’ve led their team to the Super Bowl, with Russell Wilson being the last one in 2013. According to the University of Colorado study, Black quarterbacks are seen as “talented and strong and their white counterparts as smart and hard-working.” So yea, your regular old racist thinking. Redden says he hopes none of the students in his school district saw his post. “I wish it had never been posted,” he said.
I like to think that Peyton List took these photos because I said that Dove Cameron is the top cutie in the game. I know that pisses off chicks and makes them work harder. And Peyton did. She provided us with these sexy pics. I still think she needs to work a little harder to reign supreme. Not a bad effort though.
Source: Spencer Platt / Getty Nike spotted the jig when it came to a former executive who was using his job with the company to supply two sportswear retail stores he owned with ridiculously discounted merchandise. Nike initially hired 51-year-old, David Reicher of St. Louis, Missouri as a salesman and wholesale account executive to sell its products and accessories to retail chains located throughout the Midwest according to court documents. His job allowed him to give discounts to his customers on top the of the wholesale prices they purchased the merchandise at for their stores. As revealed in the court documents the price-cuts rarely were over twenty-percent, and that included his most prominent customers. Those rules didn’t apply to the two St.Louis companies he bought with his business partner, Fan-a-Mania and JJL Sport. Reichart managed to finesse the game by not disclosing to the sportswear giant that he owned the retail stores. He sold himself merchandise that was discounted nearly three times the rate of the discount he extended to the other customer accounts he managed. When it was all said and done, Reichart embezzled close to $770,000 worth of licensed Nike-brand products . Reichart is now probably wishing he just didn’t do it and has pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud. He was sentenced in a Portland, Oregon court to 13-months in jail on Tuesday. We are sure that the discount wasn’t worth it after all. — Photo: Spencer Platt / Getty
Source: Scott Legato / Getty There’s beef brewing in the world of white rappers in hip hop and before you ask, no, Macklemore is not involved. It appears that Cleveland rapper, Machine Gun Kelly, has ruffled the feathers of some of his blue-eyed counterparts and it’s getting quite disrespectful in the world of mayo raps. Both G-Eazy and Eminem are now at MGK’s neck. What could have possibly happened, you ask? Well, here’s a recap. Machine Gun Kelly is in his feelings over Oakland rapper, G-Eazy, saying that G-Eazy is nothing but a soft frat rapping clone of him. Let’s go back to where it might have started. A year and a half ago, Machine Gun Kelly and singer Halsey were very very close to one another. It was rumored that the two were even dating. The two were spotted vacationing, partying and on red carpets together. When asked by Rolling Stone if MGK was dating Halsey, he said, “I won’t comment exactly on titles or labels or anything. But what I will say is I feel 16 again.” Things with MGK and Halsey eventually came to a halt, with her being tied to G-Eazy a few months later. Around August 2017, G-Eazy and Halsey dropped a duet together titled “Him & I”, then shortly after, they made their relationship official on Instagram. However, in the summer of 2018, the two called it quits and Halsey announced they were taking time apart. That didn’t last long though, a few weeks later, the former couple was spotted together again. Just a few short weeks after that, Machine Gun Kelly stopped by Hot 97 and dropped a freestyle on Funk Flex’s radio show that was so grimy, so ruthless, that it warranted a response. Here’s what MGK said: “Only Eazy I fuck with is E/I seen he’s about his hearing got a hanging earring/I fucked his girl now he look like this shit is overbearing/How dare him/I dare him/Don’t think about comparing/Now turn that frat rap off, I get sick of hearing .” And he sticks by his thoughts that G-Eazy is his clone. He even posted photos of G-Eazy rocking his signature blonde hair. G-Eazy obviously caught wind of the slug that was sent his way, so he didn’t take it to social media like most would, he just dropped a diss track. In the song titled, “Bad Boy”, G-Eazy says. “‘Him & I’s’ on, bet you’re listening to Halsey sing to me/ Can’t fuck with nobody with so much negative energy/ A pillar in this game, bro, I’ll be here until infinity/ Ask myself why am I entertaining a mini-me/ You’re so below my class, you’re reaching, you’re not offending me.” He also comes to the defense of Halsey: “I’m headlining, heard you opening up for Fall Out Boy. Don’t play with my name, you fucker/ I said it’s not a toy/ Disrespect her again, I’ll smack you/ I’m not a boy.” G-Eazy wasn’t the only one to send shots towards Machine Gun Kelly, though. Veteran rapper unexpectedly came for MGK on his new album, Kamikaze . In the track “Not Alike” he says: “But next time you don’t gotta use Tech N9ne if you wanna come at me with a sub-machine gun/And I’m talking to you but you already know who the fuck you are,Kelly/I don’t use sublims and sure as fuck don’t sneak-diss/But keep commenting on my daughter Hailie.” As you can obviously see, Eminem’s issue with MGK is over his daughter Hailie. Back in 2012, MGK (who was 21 at the time) saw a photo of Hailie, 16, and tweeted: “Ok, so I just saw a picture of Eminem’s daughter… and I have to say, she is hot as fuck, in the most respectful way possible cuz Em is king.” Eminem did not take kindly to MGK’s comments and apparently unleashed the wrath on MGK’s career. If you wonder why you haven’t heard Machine Gun Kelly on Sirius/XM’s Shade 45, MGK says it’s because Eminem banned him. It seems like MGK is actually pretty happy about Eminem’s response to him. He posted a video of himself listening to Eminem’s diss while popping champagne. It’s safe to say, he’s quite impressed.
Source: Scott Legato / Getty There’s beef brewing in the world of white rappers in hip hop and before you ask, no, Macklemore is not involved. It appears that Cleveland rapper, Machine Gun Kelly, has ruffled the feathers of some of his blue-eyed counterparts and it’s getting quite disrespectful in the world of mayo raps. Both G-Eazy and Eminem are now at MGK’s neck. What could have possibly happened, you ask? Well, here’s a recap. Machine Gun Kelly is in his feelings over Oakland rapper, G-Eazy, saying that G-Eazy is nothing but a soft frat rapping clone of him. Let’s go back to where it might have started. A year and a half ago, Machine Gun Kelly and singer Halsey were very very close to one another. It was rumored that the two were even dating. The two were spotted vacationing, partying and on red carpets together. When asked by Rolling Stone if MGK was dating Halsey, he said, “I won’t comment exactly on titles or labels or anything. But what I will say is I feel 16 again.” Things with MGK and Halsey eventually came to a halt, with her being tied to G-Eazy a few months later. Around August 2017, G-Eazy and Halsey dropped a duet together titled “Him & I”, then shortly after, they made their relationship official on Instagram. However, in the summer of 2018, the two called it quits and Halsey announced they were taking time apart. That didn’t last long though, a few weeks later, the former couple was spotted together again. Just a few short weeks after that, Machine Gun Kelly stopped by Hot 97 and dropped a freestyle on Funk Flex’s radio show that was so grimy, so ruthless, that it warranted a response. Here’s what MGK said: “Only Eazy I fuck with is E/I seen he’s about his hearing got a hanging earring/I fucked his girl now he look like this shit is overbearing/How dare him/I dare him/Don’t think about comparing/Now turn that frat rap off, I get sick of hearing .” And he sticks by his thoughts that G-Eazy is his clone. He even posted photos of G-Eazy rocking his signature blonde hair. G-Eazy obviously caught wind of the slug that was sent his way, so he didn’t take it to social media like most would, he just dropped a diss track. In the song titled, “Bad Boy”, G-Eazy says. “‘Him & I’s’ on, bet you’re listening to Halsey sing to me/ Can’t fuck with nobody with so much negative energy/ A pillar in this game, bro, I’ll be here until infinity/ Ask myself why am I entertaining a mini-me/ You’re so below my class, you’re reaching, you’re not offending me.” He also comes to the defense of Halsey: “I’m headlining, heard you opening up for Fall Out Boy. Don’t play with my name, you fucker/ I said it’s not a toy/ Disrespect her again, I’ll smack you/ I’m not a boy.” G-Eazy wasn’t the only one to send shots towards Machine Gun Kelly, though. Veteran rapper unexpectedly came for MGK on his new album, Kamikaze . In the track “Not Alike” he says: “But next time you don’t gotta use Tech N9ne if you wanna come at me with a sub-machine gun/And I’m talking to you but you already know who the fuck you are,Kelly/I don’t use sublims and sure as fuck don’t sneak-diss/But keep commenting on my daughter Hailie.” As you can obviously see, Eminem’s issue with MGK is over his daughter Hailie. Back in 2012, MGK (who was 21 at the time) saw a photo of Hailie, 16, and tweeted: “Ok, so I just saw a picture of Eminem’s daughter… and I have to say, she is hot as fuck, in the most respectful way possible cuz Em is king.” Eminem did not take kindly to MGK’s comments and apparently unleashed the wrath on MGK’s career. If you wonder why you haven’t heard Machine Gun Kelly on Sirius/XM’s Shade 45, MGK says it’s because Eminem banned him. It seems like MGK is actually pretty happy about Eminem’s response to him. He posted a video of himself listening to Eminem’s diss while popping champagne. It’s safe to say, he’s quite impressed.
Notting Hill Carnival Is Full Of Baes Notting Hill Carnival is one of the most lit carnival events in the game and it’s definitely home to tons of baddies. This year was no different as beautiful women flocked to the event and we are here for all of it. You know we love sharing the most incredible baes to show up at all these events and this is no different. Take a look and enjoy the wonderful festivities…don’t forget to book that flight for next time!
