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Karl-Anthony Towns raised some eyebrows with a scalding hot take during a recent appearance on Patrick Beverley’s podcast, The Pat Bev Podcast With Rone. 
The Timberwolves center claimed that when he retires, people are going to remember his legacy beyond just the stat book.
“When my time’s up and I retire… there’s gonna be people who are gonna say that I changed the game,” said Towns. 
Warriors star Draymond Green caught wind of Towns’s career prediction, and took to Twitter to troll the former No. 1 pick.

Teams are eager to move up or procure picks this year because the next two NBA Drafts are shaping up as much more underwhelming.

Astros pitcher Lance McCullers Jr. will miss the remainder of the season after undergoing surgery Tuesday on his injured right forearm.

Bills coach Sean McDermott said he feels the situation with Stefon Diggs is “resolved” as the wide receiver returned to practice Wednesday.

Jonathan Taylor is beginning to wonder what current NFL economic attitudes toward running backs mean for his own contract talks.

USC football had one of the best athletes in the country join its roster this summer. Duce Robinson is on-campus in Los Angeles and he’s already doing impressive things.
Robinson, the No. 1-ranked tight end in the Class of 2023, committed to play for the Trojans back at the end of March over Georgia, Alabama, Texas, and literally every other program in the country. He could have gone anywhere.
His commitment video was ice cold.

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As the Jets aim to get the most from Aaron Rodgers, they can look to late-career team switches by Montana, Manning and others for inspiration.

The Cincinnati Reds recently called up one of baseball’s top prospects, Elly De La Cruz.
De La Cruz was expected to deliver power, speed and defense to a surprisingly competitive team in a weak NL Central.
So far, the call up has been an extraordinary success for both the Reds and De La Cruz himself.
Through an admittedly small sample, he’s been a well-above average hitter, with a 129 wRC+.
He unleashed one of the fastest tracked throws by an infielder in MLB, got from first to third in record time, and launched a massive shot for his first big-league homer.

Venus Williams made her return to the tennis court on Tuesday in the Netherlands at the Libéma Open after not playing since January, and it sounds as if she isn’t going anywhere for the foreseeable future.
Even though Williams lost in three sets Tuesday in the first round at Amsterdam, the 42-year-old wrote in an Instagram post Wednesday that she is ready to continue improving her health and performances in her “next events.

Nuggets center Nikola Jokić may have gotten the biggest Q Score boost from the 2023 NBA Finals after a dominant, MVP-caliber performance.
However, Burnie—the Heat‘s martyred mascot, who was sent to the emergency room during Game 4 after taking a ferocious punch from ex-UFC champion Conor McGregor—was presumably not far behind.
After five days of speculation as to what precisely happened between McGregor and the basketball-nosed anthropomorphic fireball, the fighter addressed the incident Tuesday afternoon in New York.
“The mascot is good.