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Victor Wembanyama has captured the imagination of the entire basketball world—and has plans to dominate the game like never before.
It’s an unusual brand of basketball torture, being pulled away into open space, out onto an island with a 7’3” teenager who is not only dribbling a ball back and forth between his legs, but also sizing you up as he goes. 
Victor Wembanyama has lulled Limoges power forward Wilfried Yeguete out beyond the three-point line on the left wing and entrapped him in a moment. Rocking side to side, Wembanyama stutter-steps to his left.

The Mets are favorites to win the NL East at SI Sportsbook, but the Braves and Phillies aren’t far behind.
The New York Mets (+125) are the favorites to win the NL East at SI Sportsbook.
The New York Mets, after winning 101 games in 2022, look poised to have another successful season after adding the reigning AL Cy Young winner, veteran Justin Verlander. The rotation now boasts two multiple-Cy Young winners (Verlander, Max Scherzer). The Mets lineup that scored the fifth-most runs (772) and had the second-best batting average in the league (.

After Daniel Jones switched agencies in preparation for contract negotiations, many guessed the New York Giants’ quarterback may be asking for a big number when it came to his contract price. Now we reportedly have a number: $45M a year. James Jones joins Craig Carton to discuss why this price is just too high for a quarterback who only threw 15 TDs last season, despite a playoff appearance, and decide what the Giants may do in response to Daniel Jones’ ask.

Yankees are the favorites to repeat as AL East champions at SI Sportsbook.
The New York Yankees are the favorites to repeat as AL East champs at SI Sportsbook.
The Bronx Bombers, listed as +100 to repeat, won 99 games last year on their way to the ALCS, where they ultimately fell to the Houston Astros, a 106-win team. Most of that winning Yankees team will be returning, most importantly Aaron Judge, who signed a nine-year, $360-million deal to stay in pinstripes after launching an AL-record 62 home runs in 2022.

There are only a handful of college football uniforms today that should never be altered, and the Texas Longhorns unis fall into that category. The overwhelming majority of college football fans out there would agree that Texas’ uniforms are near the top of the list of the best in the country, and the university’s athletic director wholeheartedly agrees.
In a world where practically every team in college football is trying to change its uniforms year after year, or in some cases week after week, Texas is going to stick to its traditional look.

Phil Mickelson’s HyFlyers GC will welcome Brendan Steele and James Piot to go with holdover Cameron Tringale as the second season of LIV Golf tees off Friday in Mexico.

The New York Giants have two players that are unsigned for the 2023 season that they desperately want to keep and that’s why, starting Tuesday, the club will be on a two-week deadline with quarterback Daniel Jones and running back Saquon Barkley.
Today is the first day NFL teams can apply the franchise tag to looming unrestricted free agents.
That puts the Giants under a microscope perhaps more than any other team.

The new owner of Phoenix’s NBA and WNBA teams sat down with SI to talk about the Suns’ trade for Kevin Durant, his time playing at Michigan State and the process of joining the ownership circle.
Inside Mat Ishbia’s corner office at Footprint Center there are no mementos memorializing his basketball career. Not yet, anyway. No framed jersey, no autographed ball. It has been 21 years since Ishbia played his last game at Michigan State and longer since he concluded his playing career would end there.

As the franchise window opens Tuesday, we break down which teams have the cap wiggle room to lock up key players.
With 15 teams currently over the NFL’s salary cap, expect another year in which the franchise tag is scarcely applied. No team wants to use the franchise tag because of the costly cap hit for one player, but it’s an option for buying more time to agree on a long-term contract extension that would limit the cap hit in 2023.
Last year, eight players were tagged during the franchise-tag window and only four played under it.

Matt Araiza, the former Buffalo Bills punter who was released in 2022 following gang rape allegations, is still searching for a new football home. The 22-year-old was reportedly set to sign with a professional team in Mexico, but that didn’t come to fruition.
Galgos de Tijuana, the team Araiza was expected to sign with, shared a post to Instagram welcoming him to the team last week. While the post is still public, ESPN’s Adam Schefter has since stated that the punter’s agent said Araiza did not sign with the team and is hoping for another NFL opportunity in the near future.