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After 13 seasons and an NBA-record 13 teams, Ish Smith has a title
13 seasons.
An NBA-record 13 different teams.
762 regular-season games.
And finally, Ish Smith has an NBA title.
“Thirteen long years. Hopefully, my journey inspires people,” Smith said in a video posted by the NBA on Monday night. “It’s been great. It’s been fun. I’m happy for all the guys, the whole team. This is where you come together, a true family, and sacrifice yourself. This is what it’s all about. This is what it’s all about.

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One of Major League Baseball’s coolest and rarest feats happened Tuesday night when Philadelphia Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto hit for the cycle. The only problem is nobody knows about it.
Now what could be the ONE thing that happened in a professional baseball game that would overshadow the cycle? You guessed it … the benches clearing.
The worst part is there weren’t even any punches thrown. And people still are talking more about that today than Realmuto’s accomplishment. Maybe Commissioner Rob Manfred does have himself a problem with the future of the sport.

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One of the most fascinating interviews to go back and watch stems from May 1991, when then NBC analyst Pat Riley got a chance to sit down with Bulls superstar Michael Jordan.
Jordan had won three league MVPs in four years and had led the NBA in essentially every advanced metric—including win shares—for a fifth consecutive season. That prompted Riley, a coach with four NBA titles to his credit at the time, to ask whether it would somehow diminish Jordan’s legacy if he failed to ever earn one.

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UCLA and USC football are still more than a year away from joining the Big Ten, but the hype is already starting to build. To get ahead of the impending change, the conference went ahead and rolled out its new scheduling format for 2024 and 2025 earlier this month.
There will be no divisions, and only specific rivalries will be protected.
Although it was always going to be something of a culture shock, for lack of better term, the new Big Ten schedules have created a grueling travel dynamic for the Bruins and Trojans.

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The Heat’s miracle run finally came to an end Monday night after a 94–89 loss to the Nuggets in Game 5 of the NBA Finals. Immediately after the loss, Miami coach Erik Spoelstra was left second-guessing a crucial personnel decision he made. 
For the first time since breaking his hand in Game 1 of Miami’s opening-round playoff series, Heat guard Tyler Herro was available to play with a team in sore need of some offensive help.

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Skip Bayless claims Ja Morant didn’t respond to an offer for help from rapper Lil Wayne.
The Memphis Grizzlies star is currently waiting to see what his punishment will be after flashing a gun on a live stream. He previously was suspended for multiple games after flashing a gun in a Colorado strip club.
Lil Wayne cautioned people back in May to be careful with how they approach the Ja Morant situation because nobody really knows what’s in his heart.
Well, it turns out he attempted to reach out to Ja Morant through Skip Bayless, but his efforts fell flat, according to the FS1 star.

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