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Teams have made their big splashes in free agency and made their draft picks, it’s time for you to do the same. It’s fantasy football mock draft time. Some call this time of year best ball season, others know it’s an opportunity to get a leg up on your competition for when you have to draft in August. The staff at Yahoo Fantasy did their first mock draft of the 2024 season to help you with the latter. Matt Harmon and Andy Behrens are here to break it all down by each round and crush some staff members in the process.

Josh Hart delivered a special message to Reggie Miller from Knicks fans into a hot mic during the NBA Playoffs.
The New York Knicks are running out of healthy bodies, but they still have their fighting spirit. Without Julius Randle, Mitchell Robinson, and Bojan Bogdanovic, the Knicks lost two more key players in Game 2 of their first round series against the Indiana Pacers. Jalen Brunson didn’t play in the second quarter after suffering a foot injury, and OG Anunoby left the game in the third quarter with a hamstring injury.

The WNBA is seemingly all in on making Caitlin Clark the face of the league, hoping to bank on her marketability as a generational talent.
A league frequently in headlines over fake claims of wage disparity, the WNBA is commonly tied to how much revenue it drives due to a lack of consistent popularity.
As Clark enters the league, the WNBA looks to find other ways to expand its appeal to audiences — prompting basketball commentators to discuss different ways to make the WNBA more relevant.

In 2023, the Jacksonville Jaguars unveiled plans to completely redevelop EverBank Stadium and turn it into the “stadium of the future.”
READ: Jacksonville Jaguars Unveil Designs For ‘Stadium Of The Future’
And on Wednesday, they moved one step closer to making those plans a reality.
Ron Salem, Jacksonville City Council president announced on Wednesday in a report in the Florida Times-Union, that the team had agreed to a deal on the stadium renovations with Mayor Donna Deegan. That deal will then be unveiled to the full city council next Tuesday at a scheduled meeting.

The NBA MVP news dropped late Wednesday, and to no surprise, Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets won the crown. 
And his reaction was incredible.
Yes, his team is still reeling from an 0-2 hole against the Minnesota Timberwolves in the Western Conference seminals, but for now, Jokic is rightly named the best player in the league — an honor that should’ve run for four straight years until last year’s MVP Joel Embiid broke that streak.
The Nuggets star averaged 26.4 points, 12.4 rebounds, and 9.0 assists. Jokic received 79 first-place votes.