Do We Gotta Say Goodbye For The Summer?

If you're like me you've been loving this summer thus far and must be wondering, does it ever have to end? With the sports worlds on fire and a summer that has had pleasant weather for the most part, people are content with just staying in these three months for good. Lets jump right into it though with the latest in greatest in NBA news.

NBA

NBA Free Agency has already seen billions of dollars dispersed due to the new collective bargaining agreement and fans of the game, both casual and die hard, have taken notice. Some of the biggest free agency landings included Kevin Durant heading to the Golden State Warriors, Dwayne Wade going to the Chicago Bulls, Derrick Rose going to the New York Knicks, Al Horford heading to the Boston Celtics, and Dwight Howard signing with the Atlanta Hawks. These players all received contracts for roughly 20 million per season despite the fact that guys like Derrick Rose and Al Horford didn't even crack the 20 point per game mark last season. Fans have scrutinized Kevin Durant for his decision to leave a franchise after a great 9 year run and the complexion of the NBA has greatly changed. There are few free agents left unsigned, however with this kind of suspenseful free agency, fans must be drooling to find out who lands where next.

NFL

The NFL season resumes in just 2 weeks with training camp being right around the corner. Arian Foster made headlines by signing a one year deal with the Miami Dolphins much to the delight of die hard fans of the Southern Florida team. Cowboys rookie Ezekiel Elliot now has the highest selling NFL Jersey for the past three months despite not even entering training camp yet. Tom Brady will serve his four game suspension after finally deciding to give up in his fight against the NFL for the now infamous "Deflategate" scandal. Johnny Manziel has continued to tell fans that he's making a comeback despite the fact that he isn't currently signed to any team. With just about a full month before preseason football, the NFL is looking to make for another great season with exciting games and fanfare.

Boxing

The world of boxing has truly blessed us all with premiere fights on primetime television for free. In a fight of the year candidate, Keith Thurman retained his welterweight title by defeating Shawn Porter via unanimous decision of June 25th in Brooklyn's Barclays Center. Thurman and Porter are close friends and although Thurman has a mandatory challenger to face next, he has expressed his desire to give Porter a rematch nonetheless. Manny Pacquiao has decided to make a comeback likely in November and Canelo Alvarez is slated to fight at the Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, TX for his next bout. Boxing fans have surely been given quite a few fights to get excited about across all divisions, specifically heavyweight, with Deontay Wilder scoring yet another knockout just a few weeks ago. While the 6'7" slugger did break his hand in the bout, fans are optimistic that he will make a return to the ring before the end of 2016. With this kind of summer in boxing fans have been spoiled and primetime boxing may be making more frequent trips to primetime television for more fans to indulge in.

Hip-Hop/R&B

In the rap world, many rappers are currently doing all that they feel necessary in support of the Black Lives Matters movement following controversial shootings of black people. Rappers such as Snoop Dogg, The Game, and T.I. have led protests in their old neighborhoods promoting peace and lobbying for change. Schoolboy Q released his sophomore album BlankFace which features Kanye West on the critically acclaimed track "That Part". Fabolous recently announced that Summertime Shootout officially has a sequel when he teased the art work for the tape and spit solid bars over Aboogie's "My ish" (Radio Edit). With the ummer half way over, many rap fans are anxiously awaiting to see what hot projects will drop from artists as we delve into end of the third and beginning of the fourth quarter for the year. Feels like just yesterday people were tweeting "New Year, New Me".


In the R&B universe there has been little to no noise made recently after the big surge of music came with the releases of projects such as Beyoncé's Lemonade and Rihanna's Anti. Fans have cried out for their desire to see both a Frank Ocean album released as well as a Lauryn Hill album. It appears that many R&B singers are releasing music with more of  a " Pop" feel to them which is making people believe that the genre has only a few left of what may be a dying breed going forward.


With all that's been going on this summer and still plenty of sun left, lets just hope the good times continue to roll in and enjoy them before school comes back for the kids, the parties slow down, and people get into this zombielike state of living.


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