Author: Michael

After playing 11 seasons with the Golden State Warriors, Klay Thompson is leaving The Bay and taking his talents to Dallas after electing to sign with the Mavericks as a free agent. Mychal Thompson, Klay’s father, isn’t exactly happy about his son’s decision.
Mychal, the first-overall pick in the 1978 NBA Draft, spent the final handful of years of his NBA career as a Los Angeles Laker and is currently a radio analyst for the team, so his desire for Klay to end up in LA makes sense.

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The Lakers may be DeMar DeRozan’s last (and best) option in NBA free agency.
DeMar DeRozan is still performing at a near NBA All-Star level even after 15 seasons in the league. The veteran wing is coming off three fantastic seasons with the Chicago Bulls where he scored tons of points, produced so many brilliant moments in crunch-time, and rarely turned the ball over. DeRozan is now an unrestricted free agent on the brink of his 35th birthday, and with the Bulls seemingly pivoting to a long overdue rebuild, he’s in search of a new team.

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The skateboarding competition at the upcoming Paris Olympics may have the wildest age spread of any event. I mean, just on team Great Britain you’ve got a bonafide legend of the sport Andy Macdonald, who is 50 years old.
The other British skaters competing? According to the BBC, that would be Lola Tambling and 2020 bronze medalist Sky Brown who are 16 and 15-years-old respectively.
Andy Macdonald is the living embodiment of this Steve Buscemi skateboard meme:
I don’t know if you realized this, because I completely forgot, but skateboarding is an Olympic sport these days.

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Kevin James — star of The King of Queens, one of history’s most criminally underrated sitcoms — knows a thing or two about a thing or two when it comes to food, and as a big sports guy, his takes on stadium grub carry a lot of weight.
The man who played — no, became — Paul Blart in Paul Blart: Mall Cop (which is basically Die Hard in a mall with Segways) took in a New York Yankees game and while he was there he shared a photo of some of the concessions stand innovations that the Yankees are working with these days.

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Like many LIV Golf players, Sergio Garcia has to qualify his way into the Open Championship this year, which takes place at Royal Troon starting July 18. 
West Lancashire held a Final Qualifying tournament Tuesday with four spots in the Open up for grabs. Garcia competed with 68 others, battling for those four spots, playing 36 holes in one day. 
But there was a bit of an issue with Garcia’s play Tuesday. It wasn’t so much that he played badly, because he didn’t. But during the first 18 holes of his day, officials gave Garcia a warning for playing too slowly.

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The Golden State Warriors star took to social media to say goodbye to Klay Thompson
The “Splash Brothers” Era has come to a close.
With the news that Klay Thompson is headed to the Dallas Mavericks for the upcoming NBA season, a run of over a decade for Steph Curry and Klay Thompson has ended. During that stretch Curry and Thompson combined for six appearances in the NBA Finals, winning four titles.
With their ability to shoot the three, the duo racked up triple after triple, earning the “Splash Brothers” moniker.

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Is this hockey player toughness?
There’s dedication to the craft, and then there’s having something stuck in your ear for eight days because you jammed an earpiece so far into your head that it made contact with your eardrum. Guess which P.K. Subban did?

That’s what you call dedicated to the job#espn #nhl #stanleycup pic.twitter.com/hqmkUNKKTR
— P.K.

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