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What stands out most in Gordon’s already one-of-a-kind warehouse gym home are the celebrity icons from different genres. Many are no longer with us. Gordon chose each specifically for daily motivation. A young Obama smoking marijuana. Einstein. Athletes including Serena Williams, Muhammad Ali, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Tony Hawk, Julius “Dr. J” Erving, Pele, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan and Jackie Robinson. Dancer Josephine Baker. Actor and martial arts legend Bruce Lee. Musicians Billie Holliday, Prince, Lauryn Hill, Miles Davis, Bob Marley, Jimmy Hendrix, B.B. King, Notorious B.I.G., Nipsey Hussle, Michael Jackson and Mac Miller. Olympic activists John Carlos and Tommie Smith. Comedian Richard Pryor. Actor Heath Ledger. Civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Civil rights activist and Muslim minister Malcolm X. Filmmaker Spike Lee. Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Antiapartheid activist Nelson Mandela. Legendary sports journalist Stuart Scott. Poet Maya Angelou. “I got everybody there from Muhammad Ali to Bruce Lee,” Aaron Gordon said. “You have greatness looking at you. You can’t be [joking around]. It makes you want to not bulls—.”
Kemp’s new dispensary is in a former bank building and offers a wide variety of cannabis products in a Seattle-themed, 3,500-square-foot showroom. A massive mural features Kemp, former Sonic teammate Gary Payton and Bruce Lee next to Jimi Hendrix. “We really went big on this location and I can’t wait for fans to check it out,” says Kemp, who co-owns the dispensary with business partner and General Manager Tran Du. “We’re going to have over 3,000 unique products — best selection in Seattle," Du said.
After the game, Oubre took his time in reassembling his essentially all-black outfit, which included several chains and a Supreme leather jacket. Oubre has an Instagram following of more than 608,000 followers, who are always on alert for his latest fashion statement influenced by late greats Jimi Hendrix, Prince and Michael Jackson. “I don’t do it boastfully,” Oubre said. “I just love looking good and everybody else loves me looking good, too.”
He was a shy man, some would say unusually quiet, but players said he would open up at his home. There was a kid-like eagerness to showcase — and share — his expansive palace, and he would let loose enough to belly laugh at the sight of Shawn Kemp doing belly flops into his pool. He had his own gas station to fill up the more than 40 cars housed in a garage. He had his own movie theater. The walls were lined with ancient art. And he was always sure to point out the statue of Jimi Hendrix.
He pauses there. “I was like, Damn, one of the Texas blues OGs is from Dallas. That’s super cool. Then of course, Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour. I listened to a lot of Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page.” Bosh says his father used to play the old blues legends while he was growing up. “I have very fond memories of [guitarists] like that,” he says.
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Who are some of your favorite musical artists, and any amazing live shows you've seen come to mind? Gregg Popovich: The last live show I’ve seen was Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. And they’re still one of my favorites, you know the old stand-bys. I was a big Motown guy for a long time, being from that part of the country, and that sort of morphed into Jimmy Hendrix, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Led Zepplin, those kind of guys. And being here in Texas you can’t help but hear country music here and there. Everybody takes a different path in life and about three years ago I started listening to a Patsy Cline album and it just blew me away. I just am still amazed by her voice, and the guys and my family say “jeez, are we going to listen to that again?” So that’s the newest one, and another one: Terri Clark. Somebody gave me a CD by her, a country gal, and I love it. It’s really great. So I listen to that, and everything else is sort of foreign. It’s Egyptian, Usef, he’s an Egyptian guy, or Turkish music. That kind of thing. So pretty strange, a lot of different things.
Allen said his cancer is in remission, and his health is good. He wanted to get down his version of events while he still had time and is willing to put himself forward more than he has in the past to do it. For a billionaire with a huge yacht and some high-profile passions (pro sports, Jimi Hendrix, searching for extraterrestrial intelligence), Allen is notoriously publicity-shy. He doesn't like talking about himself and rarely gives interviews, but is breaking out of his luxurious cocoon of silence to promote "Idea Man." "I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile," Allen said. "This is unusual and, like I say, I probably wouldn't have done this except I felt the pressure of events and the reality that if I wanted to do this I needed to do it ... This has been kind of an enlightening experience, but I knew the book had some elements people would view as controversial but that kind of comes if you're a private person that doesn't talk a lot about things and then finally you do write something, that can happen."
Stanley gained a reputation for producing reliably high-quality acid, and in addition to the Grateful Dead, he served as an inspiration for other bands. Jimi Hendrix’s "Purple Haze" is said to be a response -- "Excuse me while I kiss the sky" -- to a batch of Stanley’s "Monterey Purple." "LSD came from nowhere," said Jackson, who sampled Stanley's product but had never met him. "Some psychiatrists and therapists were using it as a psychiatric help drug, as something that could help people in therapy. We had luminaries and stars that were on it, testing it for what it did. It dropped you behind the enlightenment curtain. It became 'Are you experienced?' The big key was ... there were so many ragged LSDs that were out there. Like he said, 'I got jailed for two years [after a marijuana bust] and I really did a service for the community. I should have gotten an award.'"
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