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The Mavericks star is considered a potential threat to the all-time scoring record if he plays long enough in the league.
In his fifth year in the NBA, Mavericks star Luka Dončić apparently already has his retirement plan in mind.
The 23-year-old doesn’t plan to end his NBA career anytime soon, but when he was asked recently about whether he thinks he will surpass LeBron James’s scoring position in history, he admitted he has another plan in mind. 
“I don’t know about 20 years,” Dončić said, via ESPN. “That’s a long time to play basketball.

Kyrie Irving can’t stay on the court or on social media without interruption.
On Thursday, the 30-year-old Brooklyn Nets guard announced that his Instagram account had been abruptly suspended, citing no known reason for the platform’s ban.
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Using a spare account (KD, anyone?), Irving posted a message on the platform banning his account, claiming he has no insight into a possible violation that he may have committed.
Kyrie posted, “[Instagram] suspended my @kyrieirving account, idk why, nor do I care to know the reason why.

The former NBA star didn’t complain while chowing down on the dish.
Making a bet on TCU to win the college football national championship didn’t work out in anyone’s favor as the Horned Frogs lost Monday in the biggest blowout in title game history, 65–7, to Georgia.
One person who wagered an interesting bet was Shaquille O’Neal. He bet his fellow NBA on TNT host Ernie Johnson, a Georgia graduate, that he’d eat horned frogs on live television if TCU lost.
So, as one can imagine, the bet had to be fulfilled.

The baseball trend towards robot umpires is accelerating.
Controversy around umpiring mistakes has grown in recent years, thanks in large part to visible strike zones during TV broadcasts.
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has supported the idea, although opinions have been mixed throughout the league.
Some managers have openly encouraged it out of frustration with the current system of balls and strikes.
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But others around the game, including many players, prefer to keep the human element.