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With both conference finals currently sitting at 2–0, it can be easy to look ahead towards the NBA Finals. Still, there is a lot of basketball left to be played, and the leverage of each series can switch instantly.
That doesn’t stop Charles Barkley from believing one team is ready to win it all. The NBA on TNT analyst said the Nuggets are in prime position to win their first title.
“They’re gonna win a championship in my opinion,” he said. “I can’t wait to get to the finals because I know they have some good golf courses in Denver.

Transgender activists in Pakistan said they plan to appeal to the highest court in the land an Islamic court’s ruling that guts a law aimed at protecting their rights. The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act was passed by Parliament in 2018 to secure the fundamental rights of transgender Pakistanis. It ensures their access to legal gender recognition, among other rights.

In remote mountain villages, urban neighborhoods, along the Caribbean coast — despite Honduras’ national abortion ban and amid suffocating social and religious opposition, women are terminating pregnancies with the help of clandestine networks seeking to make the procedure as safe as possible. The networks use code words, aliases, encrypted messages, burner phones and other tactics to disguise their activity.

The musician played with the rock veterans for more than 30 years until he departed in 1993.

Inside a little wooden house among the pine and oak forests of western Honduras’ coffee-growing mountains, a woman opened a tiny package of pills, delivered to a nearby town. The woman, 27, was confident in her decision to have an abortion, but in the moment, she panicked.

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The current Red Bull reserve opened up about his future plans
Red Bull Racing shared a video this week highlighting Daniel Ricciardo’s return to the team. Ricciardo, after losing his seat at McLaren, joined his former team as Red Bull’s third driver for the 2023 season.
The video highlights Ricciardo’s return to the team’s factory at Milton Keynes, as well as Ricciardo’s thoughts on his role with the organization and how he can help Red Bull in their quest for a second-straight Constructors’ Championship.

The strippers Ja Morant made famous earlier this year are speaking out after the NBA star’s latest gun incident.
And by speaking out, I mean they’re little boying him for being an immature human who refuses to not get caught on camera waving a gun.
“I don’t foresee an apology [anytime] soon,” one of the dancers at the famous Shotgun Willie’s nightclub told the NY Post. “He’s a boy.”

Shotgun Willie’s dancers want Ja Morant punished
Never easy to start your weekend by getting insulted by a stripper, but Ja Morant did it to himself.

Late Friday, with his postgame interview finished and a 2–0 series lead secured, Jimmy Butler was still talking. Miami’s 111–105 victory featured what has become typical brilliance from Butler: 27 points, eight rebounds, six assists and a string of clutch shots that helped the Heat erase a 12-point deficit in the fourth quarter. As he made his way toward the Heat locker room, Butler delivered a message to the stunned fans within ear shot.
“There’s no way,” Butler said. “There’s no way they thought that was the answer.

Jimmy Butler did it again on Friday night, leading the Heat from down double-digits to another come-from-behind win in the playoffs. This time, Boston threw a different primary defender at him, but that decision ultimately backfired in many ways.
Grant Williams, who did not play in the first game of the series, was tasked with trying to limit Butler in Game 2. However, Williams’s decision to trash talk Butler after a made three backfired immediately, as Butler relentlessly attacked him down the stretch as Miami took, and extended, the lead.

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Greg Maffei, the CEO of Liberty Media, shot down rumors that F1 would be sold
Putting an end to recent speculation Greg Maffei, the CEO of Liberty Media — the owners of Formula 1 — declared recently that the racing series was not going to be sold.
Speaking during the MoffettNathanson Inaugural Technology, Media and Telecom conference, Maffei discussed not only the rumors that Liberty Media would be selling F1, but also their excitement over the growth of the sport in recent years.