Rumors

Jimmy Butler: "I want to do music. I can tell you this country album right now has about 62 songs. I think we're still looking for some women to hop on these tracks with me. I definitely need that, but it's in the mix, and it's a banger. I really want to be the DJ Khaled. I love DJ Khaled. I think he's a genius. He stays right down the road from me, so I get to see his house all the time, even though that has nothing to do with what you just asked. He's just brilliant."

YouTube

The list of “promoter defendants” is extensive. In addition to Curry, Madonna, Paris Hilton, Serena Williams, Justin Bieber, Snoop Dogg, DJ Khaled, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jimmy Fallon (among others) are named. They’re described as company promoters who solicited sales of Yuga securities to the public. The core problem, the complaint maintains, is that Yuga Labs allegedly conspired with MoonPay, a company that facilitates the sale of digital assets, and another defendant to “discreetly pay their celebrity cohorts … without disclosing it to unsuspecting investors.”

Sportico

A boxing event pitting YouTube creators against TikTok stars on June 12 called the Battle of the Platforms was supposed to usher in a new era of post-pandemic live entertainment, combining high-energy performances from DJ Khaled, Migos and Lil Baby with a headline fight between YouTuber Austin McBroom and TikToker Bryce Hall. Broadcast on livestream platform LiveXLive, organizers hoped to create a model for a new entertainment franchise, but instead the event lost at least $10 million, with investors, producers and 15 boxers still fighting to get paid. Basketball superstar James Harden is one of those investors, Billboard has learned. The nine-time NBA all star, who now plays for the Brooklyn Nets, is one of the main investors in the Battle of the Platforms, which cost $20 million to produce, and sources say at least one other NBA player made an investment as well. Harden’s business manager declined to comment.

Billboard

Alysha Tsuji: Hassan Whiteside hung out with DJ Khaled and Asahd tonight

Twitter

DJ Khaled thanks Dwyane Wade for '13 years of blood, sweat and tears'

For The Win

While Eric Bledsoe, Tristan Thompson and other Klutch Sports athletes only received marginal interest from other brands over the years, Simmons' shoe deal was different. Both Nike and adidas had great interest in signing him. “I see you, Ben Simmons. I see you talkin' that mogul talk with adidas. That cloth talk!” The voice of DJ Khaled, the DJ/Snapchat phenomenon, played in a pre-recorded video during adidas' pitch to Simmons last month at Universal Studios, sources told The Vertical, and the message was clear: Come to adidas and build your own personal brand. Deliver on court and possibly even get your own signature shoe. Make as much as three times more cash with adidas than with Nike. The message directed at the 19-year-old was mogul talk.

Yahoo! Sports

Seems straight forward enough, but what does it actually mean, and where did it come from? According to Lillard, the origins of #THEY trace back to a power user on another social network, SnapChat. “On SnapChat it’s pretty popular right now,” said Lillard of the #THEY hashtag. “DJ Khaled — a lot of people follow DJ Khaled — he’s got a lot of stuff that he always say. ‘Another one. Major key. They. They don’t want you to be successful. They don’t want you to eat healthy.’ Like he always say that and it’s like him being inspirational. A lot of people look at it as comedy but there’s a lot of truth to it even though it’s funny.”

Forward Center

Sometime last October, Hassan Whiteside was relaxing at the record producer’s Miami home when he reached for his smartphone to document the occasion. The Miami Heat center launched Snapchat, an app that had become a favorite of his in the month and a half since he downloaded it. “He asked me what I thought about Snapchat,” Whiteside recalls. “I said, ‘I think you should get a Snapchat.’ And DJ Khaled just got a Snapchat and took it to another level.”

Sports Illustrated

LeBron James: Happy to have the homie @Kevin Durant stayin with the @Nike @Nike Basketball family! Congrats my brother! Like Dj Khalid would say "We The Best"!!

Twitter

Miami Heat point guard Mario Chalmers has listed a Miami condominium formerly owned by the hip-hop artist Drake for sale at $4 million. The residence, which featured prominently in the music video for the DJ Khaled song “I’m on One,” consists of two merged units within the Marquis Residences with vaulted interiors, floor-to-ceiling glass and a marble staircase. Combined, the two-story floor plan contains a chef’s kitchen, a den, a game room, a wet bar, five bedrooms and five baths in 5,475 square feet of living space.

Los Angeles Times

“The guys” at FedExForum are Nathan Black, the Forum’s official in-house DJ, and Justin Baker, the Click Effects Operator. Black, who has been with the Grizzlies since they came to Memphis in 2001, handles the music for the timeouts and halftime and pre-and-post-game, basically any time except for when the ball is in play. He’s the guy who has made songs like Tag Team’s “Whoomp! There It Is” and The Gap Band’s “You Dropped a Bomb on Me” FedEx fixtures, and who cemented DJ Khaled’s “All I Do is Win” (with a special Grizzlies-specific verse from Memphis rapper Freesol) as the Grizzlies’ signature victory song.

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