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Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel are set to return

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Michael Phelps, who has been training at Arizona State in advance of the upcoming Olympics, participated in the ASU student section’s Curtain of Distraction during tonight’s game against Oregon State. And wouldn’t you know it, OSU guard Stephen Thompson Jr. missed both of his free throws.

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Never mind the fact that his name is “D’Angelo” and not “DeAngelo” and Mr. HoopsCritic is mostly known around these parts as being a salty Hinkie-hater: According to Brian Geltzeiler, the Lakers are open to trade talks involving this year’s second-overall draft pick, D’Angelo Russell. So here is where I ask, would you do this:

Here’s what that does for the Sixers: It clarifies their structure in the frontcourt with the semi-logjam of Noel, Embiid, and Okafor. To do this, you gotta have some REAL confidence in Embiid’s health, but if you do, pulling that trigger is easier to digest. It also gives you a great shot at pulling in this year’s golden goose, Ben Simmons. By removing the top-3 pick protection on the Lakers’ pick, you essentially end up with a 44.9% chance – in the likely event that the Sixers and Lakers end up with the two worst records in the NBA – of getting that top overall pick. The Sixers would also then get another pick – either their own or the Lakers’ – which would be, at worst, fourth overall, while sacrificing two picks likely to be from 15-25 in the process. Additionally, if you believe the pre-draft talk, Russell is who the Sixers really wanted anyway, since they need a guard.

That would mean the Sixers’ 2017 lineup could look like this: D’Angelo Russell, Brandon Ingram (with your second draft pick), Ben Simmons (with your first draft pick), Nerlens Noel, Robert Covington, Dario Saric, Joel Embiid, and whomever else they grab. The real key in the deal is drastically improving your shot at the number one pick– Simmons.

But this is just a fun little exercise, mainly. The Lakers were previously asked to remove that pick protection for Goran Dragic and those talks went nowhere. However, they’re sitting Russell because he’s literally trying to win games, while Kobe is happily flailing about in the name of HONOR. I’m driven by the fear that not only do the Lakers keep their pick this year, but it’s #1 and they get Simmons, leaving the Sixers one step short again. This fixes that.

Would you do it?

The Flyers are off for the next six days for the All-Star break, so this should keep you warm for a little while. Just violent, that snipe. Violent.

The Flyers are frustratingly adequate this year– good enough to watch, bad enough to disappoint us sometime in April.

We’ve previously reported that Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford have both signed on to star in a sequel to Blade Runner, but since projects like that have a tendency to not happen, one might be a little hesitant to believe that those casting reports are anything but an excuse to get fans worked up. Now, though, the Blade Runner sequel is actually moving forward, albeit very slowly. According to Hitfix, Sony has picked up the worldwide distribution rights to the movie, which—combined with Warner Bros.’ commitment to handle U.S. distribution—basically means that the project will actually happen. Not only that, but in Sony’s announcement about picking up the rights, it once again confirmed that Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford will star in the sequel, with Ford inexplicably reprising his role as Rick Deckard, a guy who was totally a robot and therefore should’ve died ...

At Serious Eats, the Food Lab's Kenji Lopez-Alt reverse engineers (and improves) the Egg McMuffin for the home cook. Clever use of a Mason jar lid for cooking the egg.

Despite the visual beauty and life-giving nature of plants, there’s always been one main problem with our vegetative friends: plants can’t fly. A small company called Hoshinchu based out of Kyushu, Japan, recently set out to fix the problem that evolution forgot by inventing the Air Bonsai, a system for magnetically levitating small bonsai trees several inches above a small electrified pedestal. The system allows you to create your own miniature Avatar-like worlds with tiny trees or shrubs planted in balls of moss, but is also powerful enough to suspend special ceramic dishes of fragments of lava rock.

Air Bonsai is currently funding like crazy on Kickstarter and is availble in a number of configurations starting with a base DIY kit for $200 that requires you to use your own plants up to more elaborate designs that may only ship in Japan. (via Spoon & Tamago)

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This Facebook Quiz post made me ALOL (Actually Laugh Out Loud).

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Casey Neistat takes to the streets of New York on his snowboard

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Draw your own conclusions about how and why Alex Ovechkin happened to run into D.C. CBS station WUSA at a gas station. All we know is that the Capitals star had three words in response to a query about whether he’s prepared for the blizzard assaulting our nation’s capital: “We’re from Russia.”

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Early Access favorite leaves Steam

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You remember the Berenstein Bears, right? They're the perfect nuclear family of anthropomorphic animals who starred in many children's books like "The Berenstein Bears and the Messy Room," "The Berenstein Bears and Too Much Junk Food" and "The Berenstein Bears and The Sweet Siren Song of Black Tar Heroin." There was even a cartoon based on the books out for a couple of years.

Problem is, you're remembering them wrong. It's spelled BerenstAin, not BerenstEin. I know. I know. After you've mopped up the brain splatter from the wall behind you, look at this:

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This will make you want to revisit them all

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The next big JRPG-style indie looks great in new preview

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The Los Angeles Times conducted one of those fun anonymous polls to find out what those in the NBA really think about their opponents. They asked 24 coaches and assistants who the dirtiest player in the NBA is, and unsurprisingly 13 of them voted for Cavaliers point guard Matthew Dellavedova. They cited him injuring Kyle Korver’s ankle, falling onto Al Horford and causing Horford to drop the People’s Elbow, and pissing off Taj Gibson.

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