The Root

shesavibrantthing:

Sanaa Lathan & her father Stan Lathan <3 she’s looks so adorable!!

(Source: indigonasheamccoy)

1984: New Jersey native Whitney Houston sings at a New York City nightclub. RIP, Whitney. 

Dear Lamar Odom, if you want to stay on the Lakers, you have to put the Lakers first. 

gotemcoach:

GOT ‘EM COACH PRO-TIP:  If you want to stay on a team, put the team first

Lamar Odom played his best season last Fall and Winter.  He won the 6th Man of the Year award, and the Lakers would have been ever more lost than they were had Lamar not been a stabling force with the team (what I’m saying is, if it weren’t for Lamar, the Lakers would have been swept out of the Playoffs by Dallas in 3 games.).

I love Lamar Odom.  He’s one of my favorite Los Angeles Lakers of all-time, but if you want to stay on the Lakers, you have to put the Lakers first.  Don’t ever choose to film a reality show (with the Kardashians, no less) and give that show access to your locker room, and your real professional life.

NBA basketball is a business.  The Lakers tried to trade Lamar Odom because they’re following the tried and true business maxim: buy low, sell high.  He was part of a package that would have landed the Lakers the best point guard in basketball since John Stockton. 

But if you think him choosing to film a Ryan Seacrest/Kardashian/E! Entertainment Television reality show during the season, at the Staples Center, didn’t rub people in the Lakers organization the wrong way, you’re wrong. 

*Put basketball, and your team first, and you’ll always get the benefit of the doubt. 

Now, they’re doubting you’ll benefit the team.

This has been another installment of GOT ‘EM COACH PRO-TIP

Seattle = a real life Atlantis?

latimes:

Seattle’s underground history of bad plumbing and prostitutes: Going to Seattle? A predisposition for flooding prompted city officials and engineers to raise the street level in the 1890s. The work left behind subterranean passages that once were main roadways and first-floor storefronts of old downtown.

Photo: Bill Speidel’s Underground Tour is a leisurely, guided walking tour beneath Seattle’s sidewalks and streets. Credit: Rajaram Sethursman

(Source: Los Angeles Times)

thedailyfeed:

A New Jersey lawyer who defended Lil’ Kim and deadly drug kingpins has a new client: himself. Paul Bergrin is charged with orchestrating the murder of a government witness against a client; if convicted, he faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison.

With slicked-back hair and a brash attitude born of decades of work in north Jersey’s gritty legal system, Bergrin promised a packed Newark courtroom in his opening statements that the trial would reveal “the dark side of justice.” So far, it’s delivered.

 Bergrin has been on the offensive against charges that he ran his law firm as a criminal enterprise and had volatile confrontations with witnesses. He declared himself the victim of prosecutorial misconduct and drug dealers who are looking to lighten their own sentences.