Today we re-visit the sunny city of Los Angeles and their multi-use Staples Center. (Turn Captions on for in video history.) History: Staples Center (officially stylized as STAPLES Center) is a multi-purpose arena in Downtown Los Angeles. Adjacent to the L.A. Live development, it is located next to the Los Angeles Convention Center complex along Figueroa Street. The arena opened on October 17, 1999. It is owned and operated by the Arturo L.A. Arena Company and Anschutz Entertainment Group. The arena is the home venue to the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL), the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The Los Angeles Avengers of the Arena Football League (AFL) and the Los Angeles D-Fenders of the NBA D-League were also tenants; the Avengers were folded in 2009, and the D-Fenders moved to the Lakers' practice facility at the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo, California for the 2011–12 season. Staples Center also hosts over 250 events and nearly 4 million guests each year. It is the only arena in the NBA shared by two teams, as well as one of only three North American professional sports venues to host two teams from the same league; MetLife Stadium, the home of the National Football League's New York Giants and New York Jets, is one; SoFi Stadium, the home of the National Football League's Los Angeles Chargers and Los Angeles Rams, is the other. Staples Center is the venue of the Grammy Awards ceremony and will host the basketball competition during the 2028 Summer Olympics. On August 24, 2020, a day the city of Los Angeles designated Kobe Bryant Day to honor former Lakers guard Kobe Bryant who died January of that year, the City of Los Angeles announced that Figueroa Street between Olympic and Martin Luther King Jr., which includes the area Staples Center is on, will be renamed Kobe Bryant Boulevard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staples_Center Please Like, Subscribe & Comment on where to head to next! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/StadiumLandings
Mitchell Robinson hesitantly approached the unmarked, but sturdy looking, door. He knew that behind that door waited the owner of the New York Knicks. Every previous trip he had made to this office had ended very strangely, and he had no reason to believe that this occasion would be any different. He had half a mind to turn around, leave, and forget the whole thing. Instead, he knocked. A few seconds later, a weak voice called out "come in." It was so faint that Mitchell wasn't sure he had heard correctly. He entered the office anyway. James Dolan wasn't sitting at his desk like he usually was. Instead, he was lying on the low sofa that was against the wall. At least three, maybe four blankets were swaddling him even though summer had very noticeably arrived in New York. "Mitchell. Come take a seat," he said, pointing at the unoccupied end of the sofa. "You cold? Want me to turn down the air conditioning?" Mitchell asked. "It's no use," James rasped. "The chills won't go away." He paused to shiver uncontrollably before continuing. "I got it, Mitchell. I got the COVID." Mitchell had just sat down, but at this revelation, he jumped back up again. "Man, shouldn't you be quarantined?" "I was quarantined until you came in." Mitchell had backed up against the far wall, hoping to stay out of range of James' viral exhalations. "Why'd you want to see me, then? To get me sick too?" James coughed violently before replying, causing Mitchell to flinch. "It won't matter if you get sick," he said, a notion that Mitchell disagreed with. "Because you're the one who can cure us all." Standing there in the office of the Knicks' owner, Mitchell tried to figure out what the sick man's meaning was. Maybe James was delirious from his illness. Certainly what he had just said made little sense. In Mitchell's understanding, a cure for the coronavirus was still a long ways off, even with thousands of smart scientists working on it. As Mitchell struggled to come up with a response, James pulled out a ratty-looking laptop from underneath his blankets and pushed the power button. "You can use this," he said, holding it out for a second before the weakness of his arms caused him to lower it back onto his lap. He seemed unperturbed as he sneezed directly onto the laptop's open screen. So James wanted him to use the laptop to cure a worldwide pandemic? That was so absurd his brain couldn't even process it. "What, you want me to google COVID cures on your sneezed-on plague laptop?" "No! You don't understand. We're in the matrix right now," James said. "But the matrix is only computers. It's only ones and zeroes, Mitchell. That means we can hack it. The coronavirus - it's just data. Binary data." "I'm not so sure about that," Mitchell said, trying to gently put down James' wacko ideas without provoking a negative response. Like getting cut from the team. Or traded to the Kings. James sneezed some more. Mitchell covered his face, knowing that he was breathing in clouds of viral death-particles. "Viruses are just DNA," the Knicks' owner went on. "And DNA is data. The science is very clear on that. Atoms are data too. And data is computers." He said this emphatically as if had made an irrefutable point. Seeing no way out of this bizarre situation, Mitchell grabbed the laptop with the tips of his fingers and took it to the unused desk. He had to fight the urge to dive out of the way when James began coughing again. A question occurred to him. "If you know how to hack the universe to cure the 'rona, why don't you just do it yourself?" "I'm old and technology has passed me by. I only know the theory. You're young, Mitchell. You have to write the computer code." Mitchell recognized the operating system on the laptop. It was Windows XP. He had used it in elementary school. But he didn't know the first thing about computer programming. Then again, neither did James. So Mitchell opened up a text file, wrote "CURE CORONAVIRUS" surrounded by a bunch of random 1s and 0s, and saved it to the desktop. "Please hurry," James whimpered, withdrawing further into his blankets. "There is so much more I want to accomplish in life. JD and the Straight Shot needs to win a Grammy. The Knicks need to make the playoffs." The next part was harder, but after some Googling, Mitchell figured out how to open one of those black-and-white terminal screens that hackers always used in the movies. There he typed "CORONAVIRUS ERADICATED". "Done," he said with finality, showing James the screen which the fake confirmation message alongside the file of "computer code". "You did it! You hacked the matrix," James said, a blissful smile on his sick face. "I knew I could count on you." "Any time," Mitchell said as he made a quick exit. He was sure to get sick now. He wondered if he had grounds for a lawsuit. No, he decided. No lawyer would believe him. -- If you enjoyed this video, please consider donating to my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/downtobuck
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#2Chainz #AtlantaHawks #HipHop The Atlanta Hawks hosted the Milwaukee Bucks on November 20th for their first "Peachtree Nights" of the 2019-20 NBA season. Not only did the Atlanta Hawks debut their new 2019-20 Nike City Edition jerseys tonight, Grammy nominated rapper/ College Park Skyhawks owner 2 Chainz performed at halftime of the Bucks vs. Hawks matchup. 2 Chainz hit center court at halftime and post game with his DJ, DJ ESudd and amazed the crowd performing his hits I’m Different”, “Watch Out” and more. 2 Chainz was also joined by T.R.U. artist Sleepy Rose to perform their new record "Georgia". These Urban Times' own Terrell Thomas (Eldorado) and Danny Digitall were courtside to capture the entire experience. The performance was shot by Terrell Thomas. Follow @eldorado2452/ @theseurbantimes on Twitter and Instagram for all your Atlanta Hawks, NBA and sports news. Follow Us on Twitter/ Instagram: @ATLHawks @2Chainz @Eldorado2452 @TheseUrbanTimes @DannyDigitall
Kobe Bryant Memorial CEREMONY GIANNA BRYANT, STAPLES CENTER 2/24 FEBUARY 24, 2020 FULL Tom Brady was 'deeply affected' by death of Kobe Bryant How Kobe Bryant's #girldad created a special movement ESPN Staff Writer -- New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady shared a five-paragraph essay Tuesday that he wrote about how he has been "deeply affected" by the death of Kobe Bryant, Bryant's daughter Gianna, and seven others in a January helicopter crash. In the piece posted on social media titled "What's really important?" Brady wrote that after witnessing the "outpouring of love and support for the families that had so much left to give," it has helped him reflect and gain perspective. He shared that the tragedy has kept him up at night and led to many tears. Tom Brady @TomBrady 80.4K 10:43 AM - Feb 25, 2020 Twitter Info 15.6K people are talking about this Brady posted the essay one day after a celebration of Bryant's life in Los Angeles included touching remarks from Bryant's widow, Vanessa, as well as basketball stars Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal and Diana Taurasi, among others. "In Kobe, we were able to witness the man in the arena. For many of us, sports show what we are made of, they define our personalities and emotions. We cannot hide from the good or the bad, from the wins or the losses ... the joy and despair, the happiness and the pain," Brady wrote. "What you see is what it is, we aren't actors. We have found a real life stage where we become vulnerable to the world and are judged based on the outcome of each performance. And we care deeply about what we do. "For some, these days are the pinnacle of their life, and there's nothing wrong with that, but it's clear to me, for Kobe, that was how he lived his life in every way. In his second chapter, you saw even more." Vanessa Bryant leads memorial for Kobe, Gianna Kobe Bryant memorial: The moments that moved us from the celebration of life inside Staples Center The intersection of emotion at Kobe Bryant's memorial Brady noted how Bryant "had the energy to recognize in others what they could not recognize in themselves." "I think that's why I will miss him most," Brady wrote, later calling Bryant a "real superhero our world needs. "That's why we hurt. Because we know that he was always fighting against the norm. He was doing more than his share. Now who is going to do the work that is still here to be done? Who is going to fight and break the norms with love and joy and inspiration? Who is going to discard fear, and doubt, and hate? Who is going to carry the load and be the superhero that he was? "The answer is simple to me, ALL OF US. Decide to make the change in yourself. If there is anything I have learned and been inspired by through this tragic event, it is this, SEIZE THE DAY. That's what Kobe always did, and that's what he wanted for us too."
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Kristine Leahy sits down with 17x Grammy Nominee and R&B Artist, Brian McKnight, to talk about his long standing music career, why he thinks athletes like LeBron James have it better than musicians and what it was really like playing with Michael Jordan during his time filming Space Jam. #fs1 #brianmcknight #kristineleahy #lebronjames #kobebryant SUBSCRIBE to get the latest FAIR GAME content: https://foxs.pt/SubscribeFAIRGAME ►UNDISPUTED’s YouTube channel: http://foxs.pt/SubscribeUNDISPUTED ►The Herd’s YouTube channel: http://foxs.pt/SubscribeTHEHERD ►First Things First's YouTube channel: http://foxs.pt/SubscribeFIRSTTHINGSFIRST ►Speak for Yourself’s YouTube channel: http://foxs.pt/SubscribeSPEAKFORYOURSELF ►Lock It In’s YouTube channel: https://foxs.pt/SubscribeLOCKITIN See more from FAIR GAME: https://foxs.pt/FAIRGAMEFoxSports Like FAIR GAME on Facebook: https://foxs.pt/FAIRGAMEFacebook Follow FAIR GAME on Twitter: https://foxs.pt/FAIRGAMETwitter Follow FAIR GAME on Instagram: https://foxs.pt/FAIRGAMEInstagram Follow Kristine Leahy on Twitter: https://foxs.pt/KristineLeahyTwitter About Fair Game: Join Kristine Leahy as she gives you an exclusive look into the lives of the world’s greatest athletes off the field, behind the headlines and away from the spotlight. Here, nothing is off-limits. Watch FAIR GAME with Kristine Leahy, Weekdays at 5:30pm ET on FS1 and the FOX Sports App. Michael Jordan Treated Teammates like Children According to Brian McKnight | FAIR GAME https://youtu.be/IV8WgJwKgBw FAIR GAME https://www.youtube.com/c/fairgameonfs1
On the day The Migos released The Culture II and on the 1 year anniversary of the day they released The Culture, they stopped by to talk to Mina SayWhat to talk about their new album. They also touch on their Grammy nominations, how Kobe Bryant influenced their album and who they think will take the Superbowl. www.MinaSayWhat.com @MinaSayWhat