CHICAGO –

The Atlanta Hawks received the NBA draft lottery on Sunday, touchdown the No. 1 decide and a possible cornerstone participant in a yr the place there’s no clear-cut alternative.

The Hawks hit the jackpot regardless of simply three per cent odds after ending tenth within the Jap Convention at 36-46. They dropped their remaining six regular-season video games and misplaced to the Chicago Bulls within the first spherical of the play-in match.

The Hawks have not received a postseason sequence since a stunning run to the Jap Convention finals in 2021. They acquired knocked out within the first spherical in 2022 and 2023.

Atlanta has some large selections to make this offseason, together with whether or not to interrupt up its backcourt of Trae Younger and Dejounte Murray. Basic supervisor Landry Fields can construct with the No. 1 decide, although it is not clear who can be taken first after Victor Wembanyama was the plain alternative for San Antonio final yr.

Washington, Houston, San Antonio and Detroit rounded out the highest 5. The draft is June 26-27 in Brooklyn.

Washington and Detroit had one of the best probabilities to land the highest decide at 14 per cent. Solely 4 groups have received the lottery with slimmer odds than Atlanta, with the largest longshot being Orlando at 1.52 per cent in 1993. The Magic orchestrated a blockbuster draft night time commerce with Golden State, sending the rights to Chris Webber to the Warriors for the rights to Penny Hardaway together with three future first-round picks.

San Antonio landed a generational participant final yr in Wembanyama. The franchise that beforehand took David Robinson and Tim Duncan with the No. 1 general decide acquired its subsequent nice large man, and all of the Frenchman did was flip in among the best rookie seasons in NBA historical past.

The No. 1 decide might as soon as once more come from France, whether or not it’s centre Alex Sarr or sharp-shooting ahead Zaccharie Risacher, however that’s removed from a certainty. UConn guard Stephon Fort and Kentucky’s Reed Sheppard and Rob Dillingham are each anticipated to be off the board throughout the first few alternatives.

The 7-foot-1, 224-pound Sarr has the dimensions and mobility that groups crave and may defend the perimeter when he’s not blocking photographs down low. The 19-year-old from Toulouse is understood for his explosiveness across the rim, although he might use some extra muscle. It could assist, too, if he developed right into a extra dependable 3-point shooter.

Sarr, whose brother Olivier performs for the Oklahoma Metropolis, spent this previous season in Australia’s Nationwide Basketball League.

Risacher, who was born in Spain and grew up in France, is called a dynamic, albeit streaky shooter for JL Bourg, whether or not he’s popping off screens or pulling up for 3-pointers. He typically guards the opposite staff’s finest participant.

Fort joined Andre Drummond in 2012 as UConn’s solely one-and-done gamers when he declared for the draft in April after the Huskies’ newest NCAA championship run. The 6-foot-6 guard averaged 11.1 factors, 4.7 rebounds and a couple of.9 assists whereas typically drawing the defensive task to close down the opposition’s prime perimeter participant. He scored 21 in UConn’s Last 4 win over Alabama and had 15 factors within the championship recreation towards Purdue.

Sheppard and Dillingham each got here off the bench of their lone school seasons.

Sheppard, who was voted the Southeastern Convention’s prime freshman by coaches after main the league in steals, was one of many league’s finest playmakers and perimeter shooters. He was Kentucky’s No. 3 scorer at 12.5 factors per contest and averaged an SEC-best 2.5 steals that ranked eighth nationally, regardless of beginning simply 5 of 33 video games. He additionally averaged 4.5 assists, 4.1 rebounds and made 52 per cent of his 3-point makes an attempt.

Dillingham was voted the SEC’s prime sixth man after averaging 15.2 and three.9 assists. Kentucky tied for second within the convention and earned a No. 3 seed within the NCAA Event, solely to get knocked out by Oakland within the spherical of 64. Coach John Calipari then left after 15 years for Arkansas. 

On Friday, Might 10, Vampire Weekend took their Solely God Was Above Us tour to Utah State Fairpark in Salt Lake Metropolis for a pageant slot on the Kilby Block Occasion. In the course of the single-set efficiency, the ensemble pulled from every album entry, particularly emphasizing their 2008 self-titled debut, Fashionable Vampires within the Metropolis, and their 2024 assortment, for which the run is called. Persevering with their custom of mixing cornhole and movie star into their body, the band introduced out Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis star Heather Homosexual on the invitation of bassist Chris Baio. 

The potential for an on-stage union between the band and actuality persona was sparked by way of Vampire Campfire Episode 2, the group’s March 25, 2024, YouTube video, entitled “The Waldorf Astoria Lavatory (with Josh Goldsmith).” Within the clip, Ezra Koenig asks, “What’s so particular about Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis?” The query elicited a sigh from Baio, who avoided answering and as an alternative flipped his response into an invite: “If you’re a member of the solid of The Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis, Heather, Whitney, Lisa, Meredith, Angie Ok., and sure, Monica. In case you have any curiosity in going to an indie rock pageant in your city of Salt Lake Metropolis, we’re enjoying Kilby Block Occasion within the second week of Might.” 

Positive sufficient, Homosexual confirmed up throughout Vampire Weekend’s aforementioned cease, showing in entrance of the viewers and confirming her rank, “Hello Salt Lake Metropolis! I’m right here as your official Housewives consultant if you’ll have me.” In the identical vein because the band’s Coachella look, when chief actuality star Paris Hilton hit the stage with an Abe Lincoln impersonator for a spherical of the favored garden recreation, Homosexual’s playtime noticed musical accompaniment with a run by up-tempo slayer, “Campus.” 

Earlier than their visitor’s arrival, Vampire Weekend introduced up one other fan, sans actuality star standing. permitting them to hitch on piano throughout Solely God Was Above Us minimize, “Join.” Including to the weekend, final night time, Might 11, the ensemble made their extremely anticipated return to Stage 8H for his or her Saturday Night time Reside look. Between skits from former solid member and host Maya Rudolph, VW delivered two songs, pulling from their 2024 set, on “Gen-X Cops” and “Capricorn.” Watch under.

The reactions from Arsenal followers on our dialogue web page have ranged from unimpressed to amounting to “a win’s a win”…

Luco O: The win is all that mattered.

Nicolas R: That was not fairly however sod it. Let’s see if West Ham can do us a favour on the ultimate day.

Joseph S: Not fairly however that’s an enormous end result for this aspect. Saliba was monumental on the again. We’ve taken it to the final day and if Metropolis need it, they’ll need to earn it.

Pires C: On this show, we don’t need to be champions. second is about proper for the extent we’re at. It is a Man Utd that received thrashed by mid-table groups, however we sit off and defend really feel like an precise mid-table staff. And after we get the ball we lose it poorly. Nonetheless love my Gooners, the gamers, and Arteta, however be goal and reasonable about the place we’re.

BOSTON — The primary recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died practically two months after he underwent the process, his household and the hospital that carried out the surgical procedure stated Saturday.

Richard “Rick” Slayman had the transplant at Massachusetts Basic Hospital in March on the age of 62. Surgeons stated they believed the pig kidney would final for not less than two years.

The transplant workforce at Massachusetts Basic Hospital stated in a press release it was deeply saddened by Slayman’s passing and provided condolences to his household. They stated they did not have any indication that he died on account of the transplant.

The Weymouth, Massachusetts, man was the primary residing individual to have the process. Beforehand, pig kidneys had been quickly transplanted into brain-dead donors. Two males acquired coronary heart transplants from pigs, though each died inside months.

Slayman had a kidney transplant on the hospital in 2018, however he had to return on dialysis final 12 months when it confirmed indicators of failure. When dialysis issues arose requiring frequent procedures, his medical doctors urged a pig kidney transplant.

In a press release, Slayman’s household thanked his medical doctors.

“Their huge efforts main the xenotransplant gave our household seven extra weeks with Rick, and our recollections made throughout that point will stay in our minds and hearts,” the assertion stated.

They stated Slayman underwent the surgical procedure partly to offer hope for the 1000’s of people that want a transplant to outlive.

“Rick achieved that purpose and his hope and optimism will endure perpetually,” the assertion stated.

Xenotransplantation refers to therapeutic human sufferers with cells, tissues or organs from animals. Such efforts lengthy failed as a result of the human immune system instantly destroyed international animal tissue. Current makes an attempt have concerned pigs which have been modified so their organs are extra humanlike.

Greater than 100,000 individuals are on the nationwide ready record for a transplant, most of them kidney sufferers, and 1000’s die yearly earlier than their flip comes.

Les familles nombreuses sont de plus en plus rares au Québec. Un mum or dad entouré de quatre, cinq, voire six enfants, ça pique la curiosité des gens. À l’event de la fête des Mères, La Presse a réuni trois femmes plusieurs fois maman qui ont accepté de parler de leur intrigante réalité. Dialogue animée autour d’un café.

La shock. C’est souvent ce que Nerlande Gaëtan voit dans les yeux de ses interlocuteurs lorsqu’elle parle de sa famille, qui compte six enfants âgés de 18 mois à 23 ans.

Assises à ses côtés au Théo Café, à Longueuil, Sandryne Pellerin et Carryanne Pépin opinent de la tête. Difficile de passer inaperçu lorsqu’on se promène avec l’équivalent d’une petite équipe sportive autour de soi.

« Je pourrais compter sur ma primary les réactions négatives », précise toutefois Sandryne Pellerin, mère de quatre garçons et d’une fillette, âgés de 3 à 14 ans. La maraîchère de 35 ans reçoit couramment des félicitations de la half de ses purchasers. « Pour eux, c’est que de la beauté. Ils trouvent ça le enjoyable de voir nos enfants avec nous, de voir une famille heureuse. »

La ribambelle d’enfants de Carryanne Pépin, 31 ans, lui vaut aussi son lot de compliments. Mais la mère, enceinte de son septième bébé, est également parfois la cible de jugements. « Tu es trop jeune pour en avoir autant. Quand est-ce que tu arrêtes ? », font partie des remarques plus désagréables avec lesquelles doit composer la propriétaire de la boutique Fillettes et Fiston, située à Saint-Lazare, en Montérégie.

« Remark faites-vous ? »

« Ce que j’entends beaucoup de la half de mother and father, c’est qu’ils ont arrêté à deux enfants à trigger du coût de la vie. Les gens demandent : remark faites-vous ? […] Il y a toujours moyen de s’arranger. Si chaque fois qu’on a une enfant, ça changeait l’équilibre financier familial, on ne le ferait pas », indique Carryanne Pépin.

Dans une famille nombreuse, tous les membres sont appelés à faire des compromis. Un exemple ? Les activités parascolaires. Les trois mères ont décidé de limiter les inscriptions, non seulement pour des raisons financières, mais aussi pour une query d’horaire. « Et puis, c’est bon pour eux de se rendre compte que dans la vie, on ne peut pas tout avoir », croit Nerlande Gaëtan, 38 ans, mère et belle-mère six fois. « Je pense qu’en étant dans une famille nombreuse, ils comprennent que tu n’as pas tout ce que tu veux en claquant des doigts. […] Ils apprennent à s’adapter. Je pense que ça fait qu’ils deviennent plus conciliants en grandissant », abonde dans le même sens Sandryne Pellerin.

Place à l’entraide…

Un autre apprentissage que les trois mères observent beaucoup chez leurs enfants, c’est l’entraide.

« Mes plus grands sont tremendous autonomes. Ils font leur lavage. Ils nous aident beaucoup dans les tâches. Ils vont aussi aider les petits. Par exemple, si on finit de manger et que les petits n’ont pas ramassé leur assiette, ils vont passer derrière eux pour le faire », illustre la propriétaire de la ferme écologique Nos racines, située à Saint-Hugues, près de Saint-Hyacinthe.

Si l’entraide est essentielle dans une famille nombreuse, les mères rencontrées font consideration pour que leur aîné n’ait pas l’impression d’être un mum or dad substitut.

« J’ai été la grande sœur, celle qui doit gérer, remplacer maman… et j’ai détesté ça, révèle Nerlande Gaëtan, qui a passé son enfance en Haïti. C’est pour ça que je suis très à l’écoute de mes grandes filles quand elles veulent une pause. […] Ma mère tenait trop pour acquis que j’allais m’occuper de mes petites sœurs. »

Pour Sandryne Pellerin et Carryanne Pépin, l’entraide vient également de leur entourage. Certains grands-parents sont très présents, mais aussi des mother and father des amis de leurs enfants. « Je ne sais pas touch upon a fait pour vivre sans eux », affirme Carryanne Pépin en riant. Son quartier compte quelques familles nombreuses qui n’hésitent pas à s’échanger la tâche de reconduire les jeunes à leurs activités.

Mais selon elle, l’un des éléments les plus importants lorsqu’on a plusieurs enfants, c’est d’être succesful de lâcher prise. « Il n’y a aucune place pour la rigidité, croit Carryanne Pépin. Descendre tes attentes, c’est primordial sur certaines choses [comme le ménage]. Ta vaisselle, c’est promis, elle va t’attendre. »

… et à l’motion

Des compromis, de l’entraide, une bonne dose de lâcher-prise : on écoute les trois mères discuter et on se rend compte que leur réalité n’est pas si éloignée de celle de tous les mother and father. Est-ce très différent, être à la tête d’une famille nombreuse ? « J’ai trouvé la marche tellement plus haute de passer d’un enfant à deux. Quand on a eu notre deuxième, on dirait que là, mon cerveau apprenait pour la première fois à concilier deux enfants, deux prises de rendez-vous… Faire toute la gestion en double. […] On s’est trouvé une routine et quand le troisième est arrivé, c’est comme si ça n’a rien changé. Troisième, quatrième, cinquième, on dirait que tout était rodé », répond Sandryne Pellerin.

Elle admet cependant qu’avec cinq enfants, les moments calmes sont rares. Bébé, sa plus jeune avait d’ailleurs besoin d’être entourée de bruits pour s’endormir.

Nerlande Gaëtan est d’accord. Ancienne candidate à la mairie de Saint-Léonard, elle est très impliquée dans différents organismes, et ce, même si elle travaille aussi à temps plein. Elle aime quand ça bouge et entraîne ses filles avec elle dans ce mouvement perpétuel.

« Mes enfants sont partout. Elles sont tout le temps impliquées avec moi », affirme celle qui avoue avoir de la difficulté à s’arrêter.

Un peu à l’picture de notre dialogue entre mères, qui s’est finalement étirée sur plusieurs heures.

Étonnée que la matinée ait passé si vite, Sandryne Pellerin fait remarquer aux autres qu’il est uncommon de rencontrer des femmes de leur âge avec autant d’enfants. Elle a aimé échanger avec elles. Un plaisir partagé par Carryanne Pépin et Nerlande Gaëtan.

Lisez « L’enfant qu’on ne voit pas »

À Montréal, le journaliste Louis-Philippe Messier se déplace surtout à la course, son bureau dans son sac à dos, à l’affût de sujets et de gens fascinants. Il parle à tout le monde et s’intéresse à tous les milieux dans cette chronique urbaine.

Pour les femmes qui choisissent d’avoir des enfants par insémination et sans autre mother or father, la fête des Mères prend souvent une tournure très communautaire.

C’est le grand paradoxe de la maternité solo: comme il n’y a pas de second mother or father, l’entourage devient souvent d’autant plus vital.

Il faut un village pour élever un enfant, selon le proverbe.

«Quand je préparais la chambre de bébé, tout le monde arrivait avec des meubles dénichés sur Market et des objets et des idées de décoration, c’était une œuvre collective!» se souvient Geneviève Breton, 34 ans, dont la fille Raphaëlle est née il y a un peu moins de deux ans.

«Si j’avais été en couple, ça se serait fait surtout à deux, et nous aurions eu un peu d’aide. Mais là, parce que j’étais enceinte et seule, les gens s’impliquaient vraiment. Mon projet devenait leur projet.»

Ce n’est peut-être pas l’expérience de toutes, mais la soloparentalité de Geneviève Breton n’a jamais rimé avec solitude.

Celle qui vient de publier son premier livre, Solo: faire le choix de la coparentalité, a demandé à ses consœurs du groupe «Mamans solos par choix de Montréal» ce qu’elles feront ce dimanche 12 mai… et les activités prévues sont souvent très rassembleuses.

Des proches très présents

«Avec mes mother and father et ma sœur, on se loue un chalet à Magog où on ira en famille. Comme je suis seule à élever ma fille, mes proches sont très présents et la fête des Mères est une event de se rapprocher encore plus», raconte Julie Brien, 42 ans, mère solo de Maxim, bientôt deux ans.

Les groupes privés Fb de mères soloparentales permettent à plusieurs de développer des amitiés avec des femmes dans la même state of affairs.

«Je vais passer la fête des Mères à Orlando avec une autre maman solo qui est devenue une amie et que j’ai connue dans un groupe… on passera une journée à Disney World!», dit Geneviève Breton, qui est déjà allée en Italie, au Mexique et en République dominicaine avec sa fille.

Presque toutes les mères solos à qui j’ai parlées m’ont confié aussi que, non seulement elles soulignent la fête des Mères, mais également celle des pères.

«En tant que mother or father solo, je suis célébré deux fois… une vraie mampa!», m’écrit Catherine Picard, 30 ans, mère d’une fille de 3 ans.

Signe que l’expérience soloparentale peut être satisfaisante même si elle n’est pas reposante: plusieurs mamans solos envisagent un deuxième ou troisième enfant.

«J’ai l’impression d’être l’exception à me contenter d’un seul enfant», avoue Geneviève Breton. 

An Idaho emergency room physician who related adventure-seeking to acts of altruism died on Friday in an avalanche that he apparently triggered whereas snowboarding.

The Sawtooth Avalanche Heart reported {that a} skier was killed on Friday whereas backcountry snowboarding on Donaldson Peak in Idaho’s Misplaced River Vary. The Custer County coroner recognized the skier as emergency division doctor Dr. Terrence “Terry” O’Connor, based on Idaho Mountain Categorical.

O’Connor was on a down climb with one other skilled backcountry skier Friday when he “triggered and was caught in a small wind slab avalanche,” the avalanche heart reported. The slide then triggered a second, bigger avalanche.

His snowboarding companion, who was not recognized, referred to as for assist utilizing a satellite tv for pc communication system earlier than following his path and finding him. They dug O’Connor out of the snow and commenced CPR.

A search-and-rescue workforce responded however O’Connor didn’t survive the accident, the avalanche heart stated.

The Idaho EMS Doctor Fee confirmed his dying within the accident in a press release posted to Fb, saying O’Connor’s loss could be felt all through the state and area.

“Terry was an impressive doctor and performed a pivotal function within the early days of the COVID pandemic actually demonstrating the general public well being function of the EMS medical director inside a group,” the assertion stated.

O’Connor labored on the St. Luke’s Wooden River Medical Heart in Ketchum, Idaho, based on the hospital’s web site. It featured a weblog written on O’Connor in 2021 describing his service to the group in the course of the pandemic.

“I work in a small group, however I really feel like I can nonetheless assist with a worldwide well being drawback,” O’Connor stated on the time.

O’Connor additionally tied his inclination towards acts of selflessness and altruism to his love of journey. In accordance with the weblog, O’Connor had gone to Mount Everest thrice, the final of which he was in a position to summit.

He hosted a podcast referred to as “The Journey Activist,” which is described as a spot for “significant dialog” with friends on how they add worth to the world and “do some good with their ardour for journey.”

In a 2017 Tedx Speak referred to as “A Lifetime of Journey: Egocentric or Selfless?” O’Connor stated his pricey buddy and climbing companion had died in an avalanche within the Canadian Rockies two weeks earlier than his personal journey on Mount Everest. He questioned why he was searching for such a harmful summit the complete time he climbed to the highest of the mountain, O’Connor stated.

Lastly making it to the highest, O’Connor stated he was awestruck however that for some cause he thought out of the blue on the dying of a lady he met throughout work he did in Tibet earlier that 12 months. She died of a preventable coronary heart illness that O’Connor stated may have simply been managed in a extra developed nation with sources.

His discuss targeted on the impact of that awe, noting that analysis indicated a connection to altruism.

“We’re discovering that awe, like a group or spiritual expertise, helps us to bind to others, motivating us to behave in collaborative methods,” O’Connor stated. “And people who expertise awe extra ceaselessly of their day by day lives are additionally extra prepared to sacrifice and provides extra sources to others.”

O’Connor stated he seemed ahead to studying extra and hoped others would go on their adventures.

“Whether or not you discover your awe wanting up on the bushes within the evening sky or within the mountains, these moments will all the time be oxygen for our souls,” O’Connor stated. “I simply ask you to recollect why you may really feel that manner.”

Hundreds of individuals marked the importance of Mom’s Day in Ottawa on Sunday.

Whether or not it was reflecting on the assist and sacrifices that mother’s make, or taking a second to get pleasure from high quality time, town was busy with occasions to mark the event.

For 2 sisters, the weekend included a shock journey to Ottawa.

“Our husbands organized this for the kids and for them,” stated Amruta Bamanikar, who’s visiting from New Jersey along with her household.

“It’s a shock for us for Mom’s Day and it is our first time right here, so we’re actually having fun with the competition and the time with them.”

The group took within the radiant color of the Canadian Tulip Pageant and loved high quality time with people who they love essentially the most.

“For the children, it is a reminder to be grateful for your mother,” stated Priyanka Bamanikar, who was stunned by her husband with a visit to Ottawa.

For Cassandra Baglin, it’s an opportunity to get able to run her first 5 kilometre race along with her child throughout her first Mom’s Day as a mother.

It is an opportunity to mirror on a brand new chapter.

“It’s onerous to explain what it’s like being a mother since you get all of the aggravating nights and all the pieces, but additionally it is so value it to lift somewhat somewhat child and be known as mother,” she stated.

Because the race kicks off, households loved the gorgeous climate and ambiance of the spring day.

On the Luxe Bloom Flowers Café in downtown Ottawa, the orders for flowers have been piling up.

“It is simply very nice to see how a lot folks love their momma,” stated Michelle Louis-Jean, the shop proprietor. “Once I’m making all of the orders, I get to take a look at the entire messages being despatched within the playing cards and all the pieces is all the time so significant and so cute.”

Mom’s Day brunch was additionally an enormous hit for all generations at Ratatouille Bistro within the ByWard Market.

“Ensuring that my mother has a tremendous day as a result of she deserves it. That is the primary cease, brunch, after which we’ll go have some cupcakes from the Cupcake Lounge,” stated Taylor Sachs, who was celebrating along with her household.

“They’re very useful. You realize, it is nice to be a mother and it’s with the grandchildren too,” stated Donna Cadieux, who was celebrating along with her household. “Daughters are all the time right here they usually all the time take me the place I’ve to go.”

Mikko Rantanen scored, and Alexandar Georgiev made 19 saves for the Avalanche, who’re the No. 3 seed from the Central.

“I felt like we carried some lengthy stretches of the sport for the primary 40 minutes. My one take could be we’ve acquired to make it just a little bit harder on Oettinger, getting visitors there,” Colorado coach Jared Bednar mentioned. “We had a few actually beauty within the first and did not do it. We had a few actually beauty within the second and subsequent factor you realize, we’re down by one.

“Simply form of looks like we push, push, push after which we make one mistake and it ended up at the back of the web within the second, which is unlucky. However you may’t make these errors towards Dallas as a result of they’ve the power to [capitalize].”

Stankoven gave Dallas a 1-0 lead at 18:39 of the primary interval on a wrist shot from the left face-off circle that went previous the arm of Georgiev. It was the rookie’s first profession playoff purpose.

“I believe it’s at all times good to contribute. I really feel like I’ve been doing the best issues however simply couldn’t discover the again of the web,” Stankoven mentioned. “There’s at all times bumps within the highway being a younger man within the League, so I’m simply looking for my method and earn the coaches’ belief.”

Rantanen tied it 1-1 at 10:24 of the second interval on a rebound of Nathan MacKinnon’s shot within the crease. MacKinnon deked round Stars defenseman Chris Tanev and put his shot off the leg of Evgenii Dadonov.

“I assumed we did numerous nice issues. We actually had numerous probabilities, numerous beauty,” MacKinnon mentioned. “Simply Oettinger was nice, and we made a few massive errors that value us.”

Seguin put the Stars again forward 2-1 at 15:13 when he deflected a cross-ice move from Dadonov on the far aspect of the web.

“We knew coming into this rink how these guys play. We additionally understand how we play on the highway,” mentioned Seguin. “We knew it’d be a giant problem. I believe subsequent sport’s going to be a fair larger problem, however playoffs are about these moments and getting the best bounces at instances as effectively, and we had that tonight.”