Two different covers — the Kobe Bryant Edition and the Black Mamba Edition — are being made for this year’s release of NBA 2K.
Author: Michael
Former Bengals running back Corey Dillon took shots at how the team honors its former players in an interview published by The Athletic on Thursday.
Gabriel Jesus said he chose to leave Manchester City when Pep Guardiola made him cry before Champions League game against Paris Saint-Germain.
ESPN laid off NBA color commentator Jeff Van Gundy last week. Of the some 20 names cut, the firing of Van Gundy was most questionable.
Van Gundy called games next to Mike Breen and Mark Jackson during the NBA Finals, one of ESPN’s most significant properties.
So, why cut Van Gundy?
Chris ‘Mad Dog’ Russo said he believes the NBA ordered the decision:
“I can’t fathom the idea that ESPN in these layoffs… would fire Jeff Van Gundy,” Russo said on Sirius XM Tuesday.
The Trail Blazers are matching restricted free agent Matisse Thybulle’s three-year, $33 million offer sheet from the Mavericks, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The deal has an $11.5 player option in the third year.
The move guarantees some stability in the backcourt amid an impending trade surrounding star point guard Damian Lillard. Thybulle was traded in the middle of the 2023 season from the 76ers as a defensive specialist, having been named to the All-Defensive second-team in both 2021 and 2022.
In his 22 starts for the Trail Blazers last season, he averaged 7.
While NBA contracts can start being negotiated at 6 p.m. ET on June 30, they cannot actually be signed until 12 p.m. ET on July 6. So to celebrate the end of the free-agency moratorium—and with several deals now in our rearview mirror—let’s run through some winners and losers from the first week or so of the offseason.
The Lakers are building around superstars like LeBron James.
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Winner: Lakers
Allow me to throw my hat in the ring of pundits who believe the Lakers have done a very solid job this offseason.
PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — Tiger Woods talks to PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan during The Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club on February 15, 2023. | Photo by Cliff Hawkins/Getty Images
Sunday night, Tiger Woods finally broke his silence in some regard to the LIV Golf-PGA Tour ordeal that has since taken over the sport.
A month ago, the PGA Tour shockingly announced it had entered into a commercial partnership with the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF).
The days since have been wild, confusing, and frankly, contradicting.
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Bri Ellis ruffled a lot of feathers when she decided to transfer from Auburn to Arkansas. She doesn’t care.
The 2022 SEC Softball Freshman of the Year is not afraid to embrace the hate and clap right back.
Ellis, who joins the Razorbacks with two years of eligibility remaining, arrives to Fayetteville after two dominant seasons on The Plains. Her .989 career fielding percentage is sixth all-time at Auburn and she slashed .288/.685/.398 with 96 RBIs and 34 home runs in 117 career starts.
The sophomore first baseman played a huge role in the Tigers’ postseason success in 2023.
The trade interest in Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard is widespread throughout the league, but his own push to get to the Heat seems to have led to some teams pressing pause on their pursuit. One team that consistently seems to jump back into the conversation for analysts and insiders is the Celtics, and there’s a new wrinkle in the rumblings around their interest now.
As Brian Robb of Mass Live shared, Andscape‘s Marc Spears stated on NBA Today that star Boston forward Jayson Tatum is attempting to get Lillard to the Celtics.
Rumor has it the White Sox could be sellers at the deadline. Amid a season where they are 13 games below .500, and 7.5 games out of first place, one would suspect the Sox would try to sell and revamp before attempting another playoff run.