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ESPN is not holding back after news came down today that longtime NBA analysts Jeff Van Gundy and Jalen Rose have been let go.
The moves, first reported by the New York Post’s Andrew Marchand, are part of the company’s cost-cutting initiatives. They are the first high-profile names of what is expected to be upwards of 20 on-air personalities let go as the network tries to figure out their future direction.

ESPN’s business is tanking and they are going to be firing many of their highest paid talents today. Jeff Van Gundy was really good on games in my opinion. https://t.

ESPN is not holding back after news came down today that longtime NBA analysts Jeff Van Gundy and Jalen Rose have been let go.
The moves, first reported by the New York Post’s Andrew Marchand, are part of the company’s cost-cutting initiatives. They are the first high-profile names of what is expected to be upwards of 20 on-air personalities let go as the network tries to figure out their future direction.

ESPN’s business is tanking and they are going to be firing many of their highest paid talents today. Jeff Van Gundy was really good on games in my opinion. https://t.

SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. — Michelle Wie West of The United States plays her third shot on the first hole during the second round of the 2022 U.S.Women’s Open at Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club on June 03, 2022. | Photo by David Cannon/Getty Images
Wie, the 2014 U.S. Women’s Champion, will bid farewell to professional golf next month at the U.S. Women’s Open at Pebble Beach.
Michelle Wie West has signed an endorsement deal with Casa Azul and its tequila soda, per Sports Business Journal.
This partnership comes less than two weeks before Wie West calls it a career at Pebble Beach.

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We’re keeping track of every NBA free agency signing here.
The age of the NBA super team appears to be over for now. After the Denver Nuggets captured the 2023 title, the league has seen five different teams win the championship in the last five years, the longest stretch of new blood at the top of the NBA since six different teams won it all between 1980-1975. In a league that feels totally wide open, championships can really be won or lost in free agency. These are the stakes as players hit the open market starting June 30.

The latest wave of talent layoffs at ESPN have claimed a surprising name: beloved NBA analyst Jeff Van Gundy.
Andrew Marchand of the New York Post reported Friday that Van Gundy, who has been with ESPN since 2007, was among those the company is laying off as part of cost-saving measures. Van Gundy later confirmed he was part of the layoffs to The Athletic. Marchand reported the total number of on-air layoffs expected Friday is around 20 total employees. The move breaks up the longtime NBA Finals broadcast team that also features Mike Breen and Mark Jackson.

ESPN is letting go of NBA analyst Jeff Van Gundy after the former head coach spent 16 years with the network, Andrew Marchand of The New York Post reports. The move is part of ESPN’s next round of layoffs, as the network is expected to let go of around 20 on-air personalities, according to Marchand.
Van Gundy declined comment to The Athletic’s Richard Deitsch, who confirmed the report’s accuracy.
Van Gundy coached basketball to start his professional career, first as an assistant coach at Providence and Rutgers then as an assistant with the Knicks.

PSG coach Christophe Galtier and his son have been detained as part of an investigation into racism allegations at one of his former clubs.

When free agency formally begins at 6 p.m. ET on Friday, the landscape will look decidedly different. That’s because the new collective bargaining agreement, a 676-page document formally ratified this week, has fundamentally changed the way teams operate. The newly negotiated second tax apron—which punishes teams that cross it with both financial penalties and the loss of valuable flexibility critical to roster building—has become the closest thing to a hard cap the NBA has ever seen.

Brian Windhorst has a thing for chairs, at least the chairs that Stephen A. Smith picks out for the set of ‘First Take.’
GQ Sports recently published a lengthy piece about Windhorst’s very well-known ‘What’s going on in Utah?’ meme from last year. You know it as the clip where Windhorst raises two fingers in the air and dramatically leans back in his chair before talking about conspiracy theories around the NBA for two-plus minutes.
Brian Windhorst credits the chair he was sitting in for his incredible meme.

The Milwaukee Brewers unexpectedly had to take a Manhattan, New York subway to their game last night. Unfortunately for the Mets, The Brew Crew then took out their frustrations on them.
Due to President Biden being in town and causing massive gridlock, some Brewers players had to get creative. There were street closures all over the city.
After the first team bus pulled out of the Brewers Midtown, Manhattan hotel and was at a standstill for over 50 minutes after going just a few blocks, pitcher Corbin Burnes took matters into his own hands.