Three players Nets could land in NBA free agency or offseason trade
Three players Nets could land in NBA free agency or offseason trade.

The Lakers declined Nick Smith Jr.’s $2.5 million team option for the 2026-27 season, making the guard an unrestricted free agent. The decision, which was first reported by ESPN, will help give the Lakers over $50 million in cap space entering free agency on Tuesday. The Lakers declined Nick Smith Jr.’s $2.5 million team option...
Three players Nets could land in NBA free agency or offseason trade.
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In Trump’s Washington, a rebel like Bill Maher can be given his due — which can’t be said in precincts that cultural liberals control.
CNN special correspondent Jamie Gangel didn't sugarcoat President Donald Trump's Supreme Court setback, tracing it straight back to his refusal to accept the 2020 election.The court ruled 5-4 Monday in Watson v. Republican National Committee that states may count mail ballots postmarked by Election Day even if they arrive afterward, rejecting an RNC challenge Trump's Justice Department had backed. Trump called it a "tremendous loss."Gangel agreed it was a loss, but said Trump brought it on himself."So, is this a loss for President Trump? Yes," she said. "But big picture, he's obsessed with this. It is sort of a loss of his own making, because the underlying problem here is he doesn't want to admit he lost in 2020, so he's looking for fraud and corruption where there isn't."She noted the practice isn't partisan — Trump himself has voted by mail — and said it's "not about corruption or fraud."Gangel said his fixation is holding up a major bipartisan housing bill aimed at reining in costs, which she said had reached his desk, but that he won't sign it because he's so focused on curbing mail voting and passing his stalled election overhaul, the SAVE Act.In the Oval Office moments earlier, Trump said the housing bill "hasn't been sent to me yet" but was "coming." Next to his voting bill, he said, "just about everything is a big yawn."The decision set off fury among MAGA allies and came as the justices also turned away his E. Jean Carroll appeal.Former Trump aide Hogan Gidley pushed back, calling the housing measure "a political win" the president would "take a victory lap" on.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was spotted at the Capitol on Monday — and no one knows exactly why.This comes after a blockbuster day of Supreme Court opinions that included upholding current state mail ballot counting systems and a massive transformation of the administrative state in President Donald Trump's favor; it also comes as the court is set to deliver its final opinions of the term, including a landmark decision about whether Trump can abolish birthright citizenship.According to at least one reporter on Capitol Hill, Republicans believe the 78-year-old far-right jurist was there for medical reasons."Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was just in the Capitol," wrote Politico's Meredith Lee Hill. "He declined to answer questions about why he was here as he left the House side. He did not meet with House GOP leadership and Rs believe he was here for the House physician office, per sources."MS NOW reporter Mychael Schnell could not ascertain this, but confirmed the secretive nature of Thomas' presence on the Hill."Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas just walked through the House side of the Capitol," she said. "He didn’t say why he was here. But told me he was meeting with 'nobody.' I said tomorrow will be a big day at the court. 'I guess so,' he responded. Would he give a sneak peak of decisions? 'Nope,' he told me with a chuckle."The whole situation raised eyebrows among political observers, with former President Barack Obama spokesperson TJ Adams Falconer posting a GIF of "Veep" protagonist Selina Meyer saying, "Well, that's (expletive) ... not good."Thomas, who has served on the Supreme Court since 1991 and is currently its most senior justice, has thus far rebuffed all calls from Republican legal strategists to step down and allow Trump to replace him with someone younger.
Pop star Katy Perry turned down an invite to perform at President Donald Trump's America250 celebrations in Brussels — and his MAGA ally had a public meltdown over the snub, The Daily Beast reported on Monday.Ambassador Bill White lashed out at Perry after she declined to appear at the MAGA event at Cinquantenaire Park in Belgium, which featured performances from Zac Brown Band and Alexis Wilkins — FBI Director Kash Patel's girlfriend — at the invite-only celebration. The singer was already scheduled to headline Belgium’s Werchter Boutique festival that weekend, which ended up getting canceled due to bad weather."So we were gonna have Katy Perry. Who cares?" White told the crowd. "Karma is a b----. You know the joke? She was gonna perform last night. She got rained out."White said in February that he knew Perry had a contract for the festival that same weekend in Belgium. Despite that, he said organizers would still try to get her to perform."Her contractual obligations prohibit her from talking about other events in Belgium until that concert is sold out," White told The Bulletin, a Belgian news outlet. "So maybe she will come the next evening, maybe not."
President Donald Trump backed down on his plans to try to obstruct the bipartisan housing reform bill after a meeting with House Republican leadership — but on Monday, he was still noncommittal about the issue when asked by reporters, and seemed to suggest he didn't care about it at all."I don’t know," said the president when asked. "I think it's so unimportant compared to the Save America Act. Democrats like it. They are getting things that I wouldn’t necessarily agree to. I made a lot of money with housing."Trump's remarks earned immediate scorn from commenters on social media — many of whom pointed out this was a poisonous message for Republicans with voters headed into the midterms."Congress passed a bipartisan bill to lower housing costs. Trump: I think it’s so unimportant," wrote Rep. Greg Landsman (D-OH)."Trump thinks housing affordability is 'unimportant,'" wrote Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ)."Trump says housing relief is unimportant compared to his desire to make voting harder," wrote the Patriot Takes account."A fake election fraud bill is more important than having somewhere to live. Good to know!" wrote Fox News commentator Jessica Tarlov."He is making the midterms pretty easy for us," wrote Chamber of Progress economics analysis director Tahra Hoops.Oliver Weilein, a city councilor for Iowa City, went more scorched earth. "A petulant, coddled child who’s never had to experience hardship, never known how he’s gonna pay for rent or food, forcing that reality on working families who struggle to make ends meet as leverage to pass an election-rigging bill to stay in power," he wrote.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump's appeal of a $5 million verdict finding he sexually abused and defamed writer E. Jean Carroll, leaving the judgement in place.