A half hour after limping off the court, Kevin Durant sat in a hospital, crying.The former MVP thought his debut season in Golden State was finished in February, cut short by an errant flying 7-footer. Halfway through the season, Durant was finally settled in the Bay Area. He was leading the team in scoring (25.3 per game) and rebounding (8.2), and even had sort of made peace with Russell Westbrook via the All-Star Game alley-oop heard round the world.

Part of an occasional series on unusual words we wish we had in English. Read others here. The trees are waking up, the sun is out, the birds are singing. Finally, finally, after a long winter, it’s time to do something, everything. You know it’s time. It’s definitely time. Time to pull up the covers, watch every episode of Riverdale and contemplate what’s wrong with you that you can’t be like the trees, the birds, the sun and wake up for spring.

Get your headphones ready and turn the sound way up. While OZY was at SXSW, we caught some of the best newish faces in music, hailing from New Jersey, Chicago, Los Angeles and Birmingham (England, not Alabama). There’s funk, rap and soul here, ready to catch you whatever mood you’re in. Stay with me, people; you’ve clicked to get here — now listen. Someone needs to throw a “Who’s the Next John Legend?” contest. Jacob Banks would win within the first minute.

In this original weeklong series, The Evolution of the Side Hustle: How Gigs Are Killing the Nine-to-Five, OZY charts the past, present and future of the side hustle. Do you have a unique side hustle that OZY should know about? Let us know at [email protected] and we might feature your gig.OZY takes to streets and neighborhoods across the globe to ask a simple question: "How was your day?"Chris, age 32, from Chicago [surname withheld on request]My day is going good.

"What's your name, sir?" The asker is Don Rickles, and he's asking on the only talk show I could watch in the '70s, after school, before I started my homework - The Mike Douglas Show. The audience member who Rickles has waved up on stage now tells the comic his first name. Cue the Rickles eye roll and mug. The one that says, "Of all the gin joints in the world, the stupidest man in the world has to walk into mine.""No, sir," Rickles says. "Your LAST name.

Because while sex is a dish best served with sauce, no need for that sauce to be secret. EUGENE, SIR: I read you but I didn’t need to read you to know that I need to tell potential partners about my kink before inviting them in. I enjoy rough sex, and I go through what this might mean. Not on a first date but email has made it possible to do this and give her time to back out.

Busted at 17 in Detroit with 8 kilos of cocaine, Richard Wershe Jr. - or White Boy Rick - is in the 29th year of a life sentence. The teenager, who caused a media frenzy on account of his skin color, age and immersion into the Black criminal underworld of Motown in the '90s, was sentenced under Michigan's 650 Lifer Law. That law was later condemned as unjust and eventually repealed, yet Rick, an almost 50-year-old grandfather who's never held his grandkids, remains in prison.

EUGENE, SIR: What are some ways to raise the sex drive in women as we get older? What are some ways to be physically intimate without intercourse? Does anal sex have negative side effects? — Mary Dear Ms. Poppins: Raise the sex drive? You know, some days I wake up and wish I could once again run a six-minute mile. And if there were some magical performance-enhancing drug I could take, I might be interested. Or if there were a hooked fish that would grant me three wishes for rescuing it.

In this occasional series, OZY takes to streets and neighborhoods across the globe to ask a simple question: “How was your day?” It’s 3 a.m. Monday. I’m just getting home from a night shift as a bartender at the Archive. I take a power nap before waking up and heading to my second job on a food truck. I work these jobs now to pay my bills so I can pursue my lifelong dream of being an actor.

In this occasional series, OZY takes to streets and neighborhoods across the globe to ask a simple question: "How was your day?" Maryna MarchenkoAvdiivka, UkraineI'm Maryna. I'm 73 years old, and for most of my life I've been a Ukrainian grammar and literature teacher. The life here in Avdiivka is harsh. The war has knocked on our doors once again, hitting our city, our homes, our lives. It escalated, forcing people to flee. We'll see what will happen. We're pretty used to it.