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Josh Giddey on NBA fame: Everything you do is magnified and you always have a spotlight on you
Josh Giddey, who plays for the Chicago Bulls, and Dyson Daniels (of the Atlanta Hawks) have courted attention on the world’s biggest basketball stage. Speaking to Stellar from Beverly Hills, Melbourne-born Giddey – who is expected to earn a new mega contract this off-season – admits: “I would love to be unknown sometimes”. “I am not complaining; there are definitely good things to come with it,” Giddey tells Stellar in an exclusive interview. “But everything you do is magnified and you always have a spotlight on you following you around. I guess it comes with being an NBA player – there are definitely times where I’d like to be a regular guy and blend in.”
Professional basketball star LeBron James has his sights set on a real estate slam dunk in Beverly Hills, CA—where the NBA legend is currently in the process of constructing his dream megamansion on the site of his demolished $39 million former home. The 40-year-old Los Angeles Lakers star—whose team was eliminated from the first round of the 2025 NBA Playoffs by the Minnesota Timberwolves—appears to be using his free time during the offseason to make major headway on the construction of his future home. Images obtained exclusively by Realtor.com® reveal the evolution of the sporting star's opulent abode, which he began building late in 2023—three years after he purchased the property for $36.75 million during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A 1990 trading card of Erik and Lyle Menendez skyrocketed in value following the infamous brothers’ 1996 conviction in their parents’ Beverly Hills, California, double murder. The trading card featuring New York Knicks guard Mark Jackson, obtained by Fox News Digital, gained notoriety after eagle-eyed collectors noticed that the Menendez brothers were sitting in a pair of floor seats at the game. The discovery of their presence on the card sparked significant interest among collectors and true crime aficionados. Previously valued at mere cents, the card’s price surged, with some listings reaching hundreds of dollars.
Through a joint venture with California-based companies Cultivate Entertainment and Glass Slipper Pictures, as well as Dallas-based media production company Team Nilo, former NBA player Jarnell Stokes is launching Beverly Hills-based talent agency Stoked Sports & Entertainment. Stokes will serve as co-founder along with his brother Isaiah Stokes and Emmy-nominated executive producer Aisha Wynn. The agency will represent current and former athletes with the focus on opening doors for clients to enter other areas such as entertainment, cinema and tech, and assist with general portfolio growth. The firm launches with 13 employees and 13 strategic partners.
That’s why Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak held regular meetings about the post-Kobe Bryant Lakers. Especially: Kupchak met secretly and regularly at the Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills with Dwight Howard’s agent Dan Fegan, who died in 2018. Fegan told me several times about those meetings. One topic: which coach might make Kobe more of a team player. Fegan advocated Phil Jackson. Failing that, he recommended ways the Lakers use the amnesty clause to jettison the biggest contract in the NBA. If the Lakers amnestied Kobe, Fegan believed, there were many paths to pairing Howard with another star and returning quickly to contention. For a time, it seemed to Fegan that Kupchak and Jim Buss, who made the big Laker decisions at the time, were leaning that way.
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The Lakers had an important team meeting on Monday night, just a few hours after media day, in Beverly Hills. They had a dinner together and a presentation from the coaching staff, where JJ Redick and his staff laid out the Lakers' vision for the season, their identity on offense and defense, their team values, and some ground rules for the season regarding what the coaching staff expects from the players. If we go back to last season, one of the biggest complaints was a lack of organization, structure, and planning. JJ arranged this team meeting to go over everything before camp started, so they wouldn’t need to discuss it on the first day of camp. Typically, on the first day, you go through a lot of walkthroughs, sets, and talk through what you want and what you’re looking for. Usually, the second day is when you really start ramping up and getting into scrimmages.
Jovan Buha: JJ Redick, LeBron James and Max Christie shared that the Lakers all met last night in Beverly Hills to lay out their identity on both sides of the ball and the ground rules for the season. Redick said he didn’t want to waste the group’s time doing so in their first practice.
Examples of the alleged fraudulent medical procedures included Davis and another player receiving crowns on the same six teeth on the same day, and Davis receiving crowns on eight teeth in Beverly Hills though he was in Nevada. Bynum, meanwhile, was accused of receiving about $182,000 on a fraudulent claim related to a chiropractic office in Encino, California, and paying Williams a $30,000 kickback.
A homeowner who sued James Harden over a contractual dispute related to a Beverly Hills mansion the NBA star leased in 2019 lost a round in court Thursday when a judge ruled that the Philadelphia 76ers guard was not properly served with the summons.
Dorsey, an actor and businessman in Beverly Hills who met Long on the set of her NBC crime drama Third Watch, remains close to his ex. The two are co-parenting their 21-year-old son, Massai Dorsey II, with whom he speaks regularly. 'All I could say is good things about Ime,' Dorsey, 51, told DailyMail.com. 'He's a good man. All these years. I'm happy he's in my son's life.' 'Ime made a mistake,' Dorsey said of the coach's affair with a female staffer, which led to an investigation and a decision by the team to suspend him for the season. 'Every man needs another chance,' Dorsey continued. 'Like the Bible says, the flesh is weak. He's not a bad guy. Hopefully, he's learned from this.'
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Vanessa Bryant will be recognized as one of the leading women in sports at an event during Super Bowl week. Bryant -- the widow of Kobe Bryant -- will be honored at the third annual Sports Power Brunch: Celebrating the Most Powerful Women in Sports on Feb. 8 in Beverly Hills, California. She will receive the "Be Your Own Champion Award" for her leadership through the Mamba & Mambacita Sports Foundation, the Sports Power Brunch organization said in a statement Tuesday.
Glen Davis, who played for the Celtics, allegedly schemed to claim that he received crowns on eight teeth at a dental office in Beverly Hills for $27,000. The government claims he wasn’t in California on that date and says flight records show that Davis took a flight from Las Vegas to Paris. The indictment references geolocation data taken from Davis’s cellphone. According to Basketball Reference, Davis earned $34.4 million in his eight-year NBA career from 2007 to 2015.
Scott Agness: Pacers center Myles Turner is scheduled to appear on @JimmyKimmelLive Saturday night before Game 5 of the #NBAFinals. Guest hosted by Anthony Anderson. Turner has been in Beverly Hills all week.
It’s busy days in Beverly Hills right now, especially for those Westside-ish folks who really, really need to spend their money at places run (or at least financed) by celebrities. Move over, Salt Bae, Tatel is here. When it comes to pure star power it’s hard to outshine Spanish import Tatel, which is backed by Laker champion Pau Gasol, tennis star Rafael Nadal, and soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo, among others.
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