Rumors

NBA champ Payton Pritchard added another ring to his collection when he tied the knot with influencer Emma MacDonald on Cape Cod over the weekend. Almost two months after the Celtics won a historic 18th NBA title, the point guard exchanged vows with MacDonald at the Wychmere Beach Club in her native Massachusetts.

Daily Mail

And after high school, on Cape Cod where he was raised, when the wealthy summer people leave and the days get shorter, what were his prospects? Not just for basketball, but for life? "There's nobody there," Minnerath, now 27, says. "It's cold. There's literally nothing to do — except the wrong thing ... and I was doing the wrong thing." That would be drugs — and lots of them. Cocaine, especially. For two years after high school, Minnerath says, he did coke and bounced around low-wage jobs — construction, driving a cab, ringing up customers at the Cumberland Farms. Those are two crucial years when elite players star in college or head to the NBA. Minnerath lost them.

NPR

Los Angeles Clippers superstar Blake Griffin has scored major style points for his multimillion-dollar purchase in Pacific Palisades, CA. The L.A. Times reports that Griffin recently spent $9 million on a custom-built “Cape Cod-inspired” property in the popular celebrity alcove found between Malibu and Santa Monica. The NBA All-Star’s new home court touts 9,100 square feet of living space spread across three floors, with a range of high-end amenities and luxuries befitting one of basketball’s brightest young stars.

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