Sad to hear about the passing of Stacey King.
A champion, a great teammate, and a true ambassador for the game. His impact on the Bulls organization and the city of Chicago will be remembered for generations. Rest in peace, King.
🚨CROATIA SENDS A BOLD MESSAGE TO EUROPE: EUROVISION BAND LELEK PERFORMS POWERFUL PRO-CHRISTIAN SONG ABOUT OTTOMAN PERSECUTION OF BALKAN CHRISTIANS! 🇭🇷✝️🔥
Simple background for global readers:
At this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, the Croatian band LELEK performed a song called “Andromeda”. It is not a typical pop song — it is a strong, unapologetic pro-Christian hymn that openly recalls the dramatic history of Balkan Christians under Ottoman (Turkish) occupation.
The song tells the story of Christian mothers who tattooed crosses and religious symbols on their daughters’ skin (a traditional practice called sicanje). This was done to protect the girls from being kidnapped and taken to Turkish harems — the tattoos made them “unclean” in the eyes of the kidnappers.
The band proudly wears these traditional tattoos on stage and sings the story loudly and without fear.
Dillon Brooks refers to Shai Gilgeous-Alexander as “a little frail” while criticizing officials after Game 2:
“This is the playoffs, a man's game. I used to watch this back when Michael Jordan was playing…when LeBron was younger, just physical basketball. I don't get why all the dropping, the falling and the flopping and flailing…and all this stuff is allowed when we get to the playoffs.”
CBA headquarters after lending $1.8m to a homebuyer to buy the $2m home of another one of their borrowers who was about to default on their $1.2m mortgage