PHILADELPHIA — The Warmth worry guard Jimmy Butler sustained a doable MCL damage to his proper knee throughout Miami’s 105-104 play-in event loss to the 76ers on Wednesday night time, sources confirmed to ESPN.

Butler was damage on the ultimate play of the primary quarter in Philadelphia, when after leaking out for a possible fast-break layup, he tried to faux out Kelly Oubre Jr. to try to make a layup, solely to have his knee buckle after it appeared Oubre landed on it, inflicting Butler to fall to the ground in ache.

“I fell, he landed and my knee simply did not do nicely, I suppose,” mentioned Butler, who mentioned he’ll be getting an MRI on his knee Thursday. “I do not know. It isn’t a great feeling, I can inform you that.”

After spending an prolonged time frame on the bottom, Butler finally received to his ft and cut up the 2 free throws.

Butler remained within the recreation however scored a complete of 12 factors the remainder of the way in which on 3-for-14 taking pictures, as Miami’s offense dried up after taking a 12-point halftime lead, permitting Philadelphia to come back from behind and shut out the win.

Now, the query is whether or not Butler can be obtainable to play when Miami hosts Chicago on Friday night time, with the winner getting the No. 8 seed.

“It felt like I could not do an excessive amount of, which sucks with the timing of the sport and the whole lot,” Butler mentioned. “I hope that I am superb. I hope that I get up tomorrow and may nonetheless stick-and-move. Proper now, I can not say that is the case.”

The Warmth are in precisely the identical scenario they had been in final yr: taking part in at dwelling to make the playoffs as an eighth seed. The winner of Friday’s matchup heads to Boston to play the Celtics on Sunday afternoon.

“We simply must get one after which we’ll fear in regards to the subsequent one,” Butler mentioned.

Butler stayed within the recreation hoping that sooner or later “adrenaline would sit back in,” and he’d be capable of summon the flexibility to take over down the stretch. As an alternative, he went 3-for-10 within the second half and solely took two photographs within the fourth quarter — together with none within the remaining 4 minutes.

“It simply wasn’t the case,” he mentioned. “I wasn’t capable of do something on both facet of the ball. I feel I damage us greater than I helped us truly.”

The Athletic was first to report Butler’s doable MCL damage.

CACHE COUNTY, Utah (WAFB/Grey Information) – Rap star NBA YoungBoy has been arrested in Utah on a number of offenses whereas serving a home arrest sentence.

In accordance with jail data from the Cache County Sheriff’s Workplace, the 24-year-old, whose actual identify is Kentrell Gaulden, was booked on a number of fees together with possession of a managed substance and possession of a harmful weapon on Tuesday.

The rapper is awaiting trial for federal gun fees, which was paused in March pending the U.S. Supreme Courtroom’s ruling on Second Modification rights this spring.

The rapper was indicted in March 2021 after allegedly being discovered with two weapons throughout a September 2020 incident in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Sixteen individuals have been arrested on drug and firearm fees whereas filming a music video in an deserted lot.

In July 2022, a federal jury in Los Angeles discovered NBA YoungBoy not responsible of “knowingly” possessing a firearm throughout an arrest following a short foot chase in California.

He has been serving home arrest in Utah, beneath the surveillance of a safety agency staffed by navy veterans.

Final December, a federal choose lessened the situations of his home arrest to permit him entry to psychological well being remedies, however denied him extra time within the recording studio, regardless of arguments that his document gross sales have suffered on account of his lockdown.

An lawyer representing NBA YoungBoy issued a press release saying partly, “Everyone seems to be presumed harmless, and he has been falsely accused previously.”

No bail has been set.

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CACHE COUNTY, Utah — A rapper with tens of millions of followers who was serving home arrest in Utah was arrested for his alleged involvement in a “massive scale prescription fraud ring” in Cache County.

NBA YoungBoy, whose actual title is Kentrell DeSean Gaulden, was booked Tuesday and faces 63 costs.

The alleged offenses are:

• Possession of a harmful weapon by restricted particular person (2nd-degree felony; 1 depend)
• Sample of illegal exercise (2nd-degree felony; 1 depend)
• Id fraud (Third-degree felony; 20 counts)
• Forgery (Third-degree felony; 20 counts)
• Procuring/making an attempt to obtain drug/prescription (Class-A misdemeanor; 20 counts)
• Possession of managed substance (Class-B misdemeanor; 1 depend)

In line with the arrest report, 24-year-old Gaulden was a part of a scheme to fraudulently acquire promethazine with codeine — which, in response to the Nationwide Library of Drugs, is blended with Sprite and/or alcohol to make “purple drank” or “lean,” and is standard with rappers.

Police say Gaulden and “many different people” (who weren’t named within the paperwork) tried to acquire the prescribed cough suppressant from a number of pharmacies in Cache County.

In line with police, Gaulden referred to as in a prescription supposedly for a 74-year-old girl to a pharmacy in Hyrum in September. They mentioned he claimed to be a doctor within the Provo space, utilizing “an precise, legitimate DEA quantity, NPI quantity and different identification for the actual doctor.” The pharmacist seen that the telephone quantity didn’t match the variety of mentioned physician’s clinic, so that they referred to as the physician instantly. The physician mentioned he didn’t write a prescription for a lady by that title, and added that this form of factor “occurred a number of occasions at present.”

Comparable incidents occurred at different pharmacies in Cache County, and police mentioned two girls picked up the prescription drugs throughout one occasion. They had been then detained as a part of the investigation and later arrested for his or her alleged involvement within the “prescription fraud ring.”

The Cache County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned the car the ladies arrived in to choose up the medicine was registered to Gaulden. Then later, his enterprise supervisor contacted the sheriff’s workplace about getting the car out of impound. The officer requested to talk on to Gaulden. Whereas talking to Gaulden, the arresting officer mentioned he heard somebody — presumably Gaulden — recommend asking about “the prescription that they picked up.”

After investigating and studying of comparable incidents of fraudulent prescriptions allegedly being referred to as in to numerous pharmacies, a search warrant for Gaulden’s residence in Weber County was authorized after which executed on Tuesday. The Cache County Sheriff’s Workplace reported that a number of companies, together with the FBI, the Secret Service and the Layton SWAT staff, carried out the search on his residence.

Police mentioned Gaulden denied any data of the prescription fraud, however they discovered a prescription bottle of Promethazine in his residence, with the title of the “affected person” on it that was allegedly referred to as in fraudulently.

Additionally they mentioned marijuana was discovered within the car that was impounded, which was registered to Gaulden. Additionally they discovered a gun inside his residence, which he claimed belonged to his spouse. Nevertheless, courtroom paperwork state that the gun was “not in a secured location and in a spot simply and regularly accessible” by Gaulden, and he admitted to choosing it up and shifting it at one level.

He was booked within the Cache County Jail and denied bail.

Studies point out the rapper was in Utah below home arrest after he was accused of federal gun and different costs.

Native media in Baton Rouge reported his attorneys argued that shifting Gaulden to Utah would preserve him out of bother.

In December 2023, a federal choose reportedly lessened Gaulden’s home arrest situations to permit him psychological well being therapies.

Additionally in 2023, the rapper made headlines when he introduced his intent to be baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Congratulations are to ensure that Ashanti and Nelly, who’re anticipating their first youngster collectively.

Ashanti introduced the information in a candy Instagram video on Wednesday (April 17), through which the “Rock Wit U” singer is seen on the point of carry out. When her mom asks her how a lot time she wants till she’s prepared, Ashanti cleverly responds, “I’m going to wish about 9 months.”

To drive the message house, the 43-year-old star captioned the publish “Child child child child….” Nelly additionally posted the video to his personal Instagram web page. See the publish right here.

Ashanti additionally revealed that she’s engaged to “Only a Dream” singer to Essence, telling the publication, “This new yr of my life is such a blessing full of affection, hope, and anticipation. Motherhood is one thing that I’ve regarded ahead to, and sharing this with my household, fiancé, and constant followers, who’ve been so supportive of my profession, is a tremendous expertise.”

The upcoming bundle of pleasure is Ashanti’s first youngster and Nelly’s fifth. The “Physique On Me” singers started courting again in 2003 and the main points of their romance have been considerably of a thriller to followers earlier than they finally broke up in 2013. In June, followers started buzzing when Ashanti and Nelly attended the third Annual Birthday Ball for High quality Management CEO Pierre “P” Thomas and have been photographed collectively on the crimson carpet.

In an interview with Love and Hip Hop‘s Rasheeda and Kirk Frost in September, Nelly confirmed the continuing rumors of their rekindled romance. “I feel we each have been just about doing what we do, however generally being separate you perceive each other extra,” he mentioned of the 10-year hole of their relationship. “You be like, ‘Yo, let me see precisely what they see.’ You already know, as a result of all of us could be defensive generally in our personal relationships. We all know we fallacious however we going to face on it. However all of us a sufferer to that.”

The life companions have been as soon as chart rivals. Nelly’s “Scorching in Herre” dislodged Ashanti’s “Silly” from the highest spot on the Billboard Scorching 100 in June 2002. “Silly” had reigned for 10 consecutive weeks, earlier than “Scorching in Herre” took over for a seven-week run.

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Congratulations are to ensure that singer Ashanti and rapper Nelly.

The reunited couple have gone public with each a being pregnant and their engagement. They shared the information solely with Essence journal, which posted an announcement Wednesday on social media.

“This new yr of my life is such a blessing full of affection, hope, and anticipation,” Ashanti, 43, mentioned in a press release to the publication. “Motherhood is one thing that I’ve appeared ahead to, and sharing this with my household, fiancé, and dependable followers, who’ve been so supportive of my profession, is a tremendous expertise.”

Ashanti had some enjoyable with the information on her personal verified Instagram account, with a video wherein she’s seen making ready for a efficiency.

When her mom and supervisor Tina Y. Douglas asks her how a lot time she’s going to wish within the clip, Ashanti quips, “I’m gonna want about 9 months” as he mom gasps and the display screen goes to a emblem for Proov, an at-home fertility and hormone marker take a look at.

In a press release to CNN, the singer mentioned, “As you understand, I’m so shut with my mother and pop, so I’m wanting ahead to being a tremendous mother or father to our clild, like they had been to me and my sister. Nelly and I are so excited to welcome and love on Child Haynes.” (Nelly’s actual identify is Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.)

Ashanti and Nelly, 49, confirmed in September that they had been reunited as a pair, 20 years after they had been first linked collectively in a relationship that ended after a decade.

Ashanti attended the MTV VMA Awards round that point, the place Nelly was a scheduled performer. She carried a clutch with a photograph of her and Nelly from after they attended the awards ceremony collectively again in 2003.

Throughout an interview with E! Information on the occasion, Ashanti mentioned she thought the bag was “cute” and was requested if she and the “Sizzling in Right here” star had been in a relationship once more.

After some laughing, she responded coyly with, “I imply…yeah.”

Nelly additionally got here clear throughout an look with “Love and Hip Hop Atlanta” stars Rasheeda and Kirk Frost on her “Boss Strikes with Rasheeda” present final fall.

“We cool once more,” Nelly mentioned. “I believe it stunned each of us. It wasn’t something that was deliberate.”

CNN has reached out to representatives for Nelly for extra remark.

SEATC, Wash. – The FAA grounded all Alaska Airways flights throughout the nation Wednesday morning for an hour, and delays have been anticipated to proceed all through the day.

The Seattle-based airline mentioned in a press release it requested a floor cease for all Alaska and Horizon air flights out of an abundance of warning after it “skilled a difficulty whereas performing an improve to the system that calculates our weight and steadiness.”

The bottom cease lasted from about 7:30 a.m. to eight:30 a.m. Pacific time, when flights started resuming.

The airline mentioned it anticipated residual delays all through the day and beneficial that vacationers verify their flight standing earlier than heading to the airport.

“This morning we skilled a difficulty whereas performing an improve to the system that calculates our weight and steadiness. Out of an abundance of warning, we requested a floor cease for all Alaska and Horizon flights, which was instituted at roughly 7:30 a.m. PT. The problem was mitigated and the bottom cease for Alaska and Horizon flights expired at 8:30 a.m. PT. Now we have begun releasing flights. Residual delays are anticipated all through the day. We apologize for the inconvenience and encourage visitors to verify the standing of their flights on alaskaair.com or the Alaska App previous to heading to the airport.”

Nearly all of the delays have been at Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport.

As of 10:10 a.m., Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport reported a complete of 136 flight delays and one cancelation. Of these, 99 are Alaska Airways flights and 19 are Horizon Air flights.

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The grounding got here as Senate committees held twin hearings Wednesday inspecting allegations of main security failures at Boeing, which has been pushed into disaster mode since a door-plug panel blew off a 737 Max jetliner throughout an Alaska Airways flight in January.

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A floor cease that earlier paused Alaska Airways’ flights has been lifted.

“This morning we skilled a difficulty whereas performing an improve to the system that calculates our weight and stability. Out of an abundance of warning, we requested a floor cease for all Alaska and Horizon flights, which was instituted at roughly 7:30am PT. The difficulty was mitigated and the bottom cease for Alaska and Horizon flights expired at 8:30am PT,” the airline mentioned in a press release to CNN.

The Federal Aviation Administration had earlier grounded Alaska Airways flights nationwide on the airline’s request.

The airline assertion provides: “We have now begun releasing flights. Residual delays are anticipated all through the day. We apologize for the inconvenience and encourage company to verify the standing of their flights on alaskaair.com or the Alaska App previous to heading to the airport. “

MOUNTLAKE TERRACE — Lily Gladstone takes on a distinct persona in a gripping new Hulu collection that started streaming Wednesday.

The 2004 Mountlake Terrace Excessive Faculty graduate performs a police officer within the true-crime drama “Below the Bridge.”

She seems about quarter-hour into the primary episode, clad in health club shorts and a muscle shirt, pounding a punching bag in a storage health club along with her police captain dad. She is in any other case principally seen in her blue uniform.

Gladstone, 37, was nominated for an Oscar for “Killers of the Flower Moon.” She earned Display screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe awards for her position within the film, along with her efficiency described as “quietly highly effective” and “gorgeous, refined.”

In “Below the Bridge,” Gladstone is highly effective, however not so quiet. She is a daring, decided cop who swears.

The Hulu collection is predicated on writer Rebecca Godfrey’s 2005 e-book concerning the 1997 homicide on Vancouver Island of 14-year-old Reena Virk. The teenager went to a celebration with associates, who have been convicted of killing her beneath a bridge.

Gladstone’s position as officer Cam Bentland is a composite character. Within the eight-episode miniseries, she groups up with Godfrey, who has returned to her hometown of Victoria, British Columbia, to do analysis for a novel, coincidentally across the time of the teenager’s homicide. Godfrey is performed by Riley Keough, whose new film “Sasquatch Sundown” opens this week.

In a latest Forbes interview concerning the Hulu collection, Gladstone stated: “I felt like, type of like ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ did, which I hope is the precedent for this style, that we strip style out of it and make true crime concerning the people which are affected. We get to re-focus it and have empathy for who the sufferer is after which take the chance to have these conversations concerning the systemic inequities that perpetuate from the society that enables issues like this to occur.”

In “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Gladstone is Mollie Burkhart, whose members of the family have been killed within the Osage murders within the early twentieth century in Oklahoma.

The film is 3 hours, 26 minutes lengthy. Every Hulu episode is about 48 minutes. It’s supposed just for mature audiences, based on the Hulu warning.

One other warning: Solely two episodes dropped Wednesday. So you must wait per week for extra.

Andrea Brown: 425-339-3443; abrown@heraldnet.com; Twitter: @reporterbrown.

The children are positively not all proper.

In Hulu’s “Underneath the Bridge,” primarily based on the 2005 true-crime novel by Rebecca Godfrey, the innocence of childhood is misplaced amid violence, lies and tragedy. It is the story of Reena Virk, a 14-year-old Canadian lady who was murdered in 1997 by her friends, and a harrowing narrative of youngsters hurting one another, committing the last word act of cruelty and bloodshed for causes we’ll by no means actually know.

In its closely fictionalized retelling, “Underneath the Bridge” (streaming Thursdays, ★★ out of 4) begins as an emotional, affecting drama that avoids a lot of the clichés of true crime. But it surely slowly falls aside in a second half that raises extra questions than it solutions and opens too many new threads whereas leaving most of them hanging. Whereas its eight episodes are clearly aiming for lofty, very important storytelling, it is solely the primary 4 that handle to maneuver you. And it is a disgrace as a result of a lot of this story calls for to be heard.

Reena (Vritika Gupta) is an angst-ridden, troubled teenager who does not slot in close to her British Columbia city and hates her Jehovah’s Witness mom Suman (Archie Panjabi). Drawn to a bunch of LA avenue gang-obsessed women, Reena ultimately winds up at an unfriendly celebration, the place she is assaulted by a bunch of teenagers beneath a bridge. However whereas she walks away from that beating, her murdered physique is ultimately discovered days later.

Unraveling her case is Cam Bentland (Lily Gladstone), an area cop who instantly suspects Reena’s so-called associates Josephine (Chloe Guidry), Dusty (Aiyana Goodfellow) and Kelly (Izzy G.). Author Rebecca (Riley Keough), can be investigating, making an attempt to befriend the teenagers to study their secrets and techniques, and is ultimately drawn to homeless teen Warren (Javon “Wanna” Walton), whose involvement in Reena’s demise is not initially clear.

Informed out of chronological order (a storytelling gadget in modern TV drama that has crossed the road from pattern to drained trope), “Bridge” tells the story of the homicide on a number of fronts. There’s Cam and Rebecca, previous associates who are sometimes at odds as they’re drawn to prosecute and shield completely different actors within the case; the teenagers after Reena’s demise, closing ranks and dwelling in numerous states of denial and guilt; and Reena in flashbacks, who’s ostracized, due to race or physique sort or each.

Though Gladstone and Keough are competent and interesting, Cam and Rebecca are the least fascinating characters within the story, and when you realize the info of the actual case, it is simple to see why. Cam is a composite character representing all of regulation enforcement, and the actual Godfrey was not actively concerned within the case because it occurred. Each ladies really feel tacked on to the higher, meatier story concerning the capability of violence in children at such a younger age.

Regardless of the tantalizing query of why 15-year-olds would commit such a heinous crime, it is unimaginable to find what the present is making an attempt to say about adolescence or violence or race. The scripts of creator Quinn Shepherd (“Not Okay”) really feel half-formed. Warren is severely underdeveloped initially, whilst he turns into a pivotal character by the tip. Cam and Rebecca have tragic backstories with little connection to their actions within the current.

All of the fault traces begin to seem because the collection strikes into its second half. Whether or not hampered by the balancing act between fictionalization and the actual crime or by the age-old quest to discover a good ending to a narrative, the writers crafted 4 closing episodes which might be distinctly much less engrossing, lack depth and reveal weaker characters and performances.

True crime is a crowded style with so many cookie-cutter tales exploiting tragedies for voyeuristic movies and collection. To its credit score, “Bridge” does its greatest to honor Reena and crafts a compelling story when it focuses extra on her than her killers. However that is not sufficient to make up for the tackier, aimless later episodes.

Because the title playing cards within the closing moments reveal what occurred to all of the folks concerned in Reena’s demise, we’re reminded we do not at all times get an ideal ending to our tales in actual life. However that does not at all times occur in fictional variations of them, both.

CHICAGO — The Chicago Bulls and the Atlanta Hawks will sq. off Wednesday for the NBA Playoffs Play-In Match.

The winner advances within the event to play for the eighth seed within the Japanese Convention Playoffs.

The sport is at 8:30 p.m. on the United Heart in Chicago.

The Bulls have gone 22-29 in opposition to Japanese Convention opponents. Chicago has a 6-8 report in video games determined by 3 factors or fewer.

The Hawks are 22-30 in opposition to convention opponents. Atlanta has a 15-21 report in video games determined by 10 factors or extra.

The Bulls are taking pictures 47.0% from the sector this season, 2.5 share factors decrease than the 49.5% the Hawks enable to opponents. The Hawks are taking pictures 46.5% from the sector, 0.8% decrease than the 47.3% the Bulls’ opponents have shot this season.

TOP PERFORMERS:

DeMar DeRozan is averaging 24 factors and 5.3 assists for the Bulls. Ayo Dosunmu is averaging 18.3 factors and 4.2 assists over the previous 10 video games.

Dejounte Murray is scoring 22.5 factors per recreation and averaging 5.3 rebounds for the Hawks. Garrison Mathews is averaging 2.4 made 3-pointers during the last 10 video games.

LAST 10 GAMES:

Bulls: 5-5, averaging 114.1 factors, 46.7 rebounds, 24.7 assists, 8.9 steals and 4.5 blocks per recreation whereas taking pictures 49.3% from the sector. Their opponents have averaged 113.1 factors per recreation.

Hawks: 3-7, averaging 112.1 factors, 44.8 rebounds, 27.5 assists, 6.8 steals and three.5 blocks per recreation whereas taking pictures 46.1% from the sector. Their opponents have averaged 120.7 factors.

INJURIES:

Bulls: Ayo Dosunmu: each day (quad), Zach LaVine: out for season (ankle), Andre Drummond: each day (quadricep), Patrick Williams: out for season (foot), Julian Phillips: each day (foot), Lonzo Ball: out for season (knee).

Hawks: Seth Lundy: each day (ankle), Clint Capela: each day (relaxation), Wesley Matthews: each day (hamstring), Jalen Johnson: out (ankle), Saddiq Bey: out for season (knee), Onyeka Okongwu: out (toe).