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Demaryius Thomas started a tradition of kindness that lives on long after the passing of the Broncos legend.
Produced by Ajay Atayee, managed by Luis Aldea.
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Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter were doing a segment on live TV and David Ortiz purposely interrupted them by running the bases and yelling “third deck” as if he just hit another homerun at Yankee stadium.
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This is absolutely amazing
NEW: Georgia has partnered with Progressive to place on-field advertisements inside of Sanford Stadium, the school announced.
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Jersey retirements are honestly stupid Michael Irvin broke it down the best
Jayden Daniels informs LSU it can no longer use his name, image and likeness, per @espn.
The Daniels family is "deeply disappointed and feels profoundly disrespected" that LSU gave Daniels' number to another player. He feels he's being treated differently than Joe Burrow.
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Incredible
Russell Westbrook retired today with the most triple-doubles in NBA history. The name written on his wrist for all 18 seasons belongs to the kid UCLA actually wanted. That kid died at 16, and Westbrook spent two decades playing for both of them.
Westbrook was a 5'8", 140-pound freshman that no college recruited. The call UCLA's head coach made to his high school in 2004 was about Khelcey Barrs III, Westbrook's best friend from across the street in Hawthorne. A 6'6" phenom pulling scholarship offers as a sophomore. The two had a pact to play at UCLA together, then the NBA.
In May 2004, during a pickup game at LA Southwest College, Barrs collapsed on the court. An undiagnosed enlarged heart.
Westbrook walked across the street every morning after that to do his friend's chores at his grandmother's house. Then he grew 7 inches, averaged 25 a game as a junior, and took the UCLA offer they were supposed to accept together. From that point on he played like a man carrying two careers.
The numbers he put up look like typos.
209 triple-doubles is the most in NBA history, and it took breaking Oscar Robertson's record that stood for 47 years. In 2017 he averaged a triple-double across an entire season, something no human had done since 1962, then did it three more times. 27,176 points, 14th all time. 10,351 assists, 5th all time, behind only Stockton, CP3, Kidd, and LeBron. He did all of it at 6'3" in a league of giants, and outlasted the franchise that drafted him. Seattle picked him 4th in 2008 and stopped existing before he played a game.
And in every one of his 1,301 games, he wore two wristbands. One said KB3. The other said "Why not?"
People spent 18 years asking why he played every possession like the building was on fire. He was playing for two.
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I remember asking assistant coach Mo Cheeks, what’s harder to do? Workout after practice or before?? I only asked cuz by time I would get to the gym, Russ was already done in the morning and I usually got mine in after practice. Mo like, “coming in before practice is probably harder”…since then, it’s been my routine….a lot of people looked at the emotions on the court and thought Russ was loud, nah to me, he was quiet and methodical. He lead by example and once the lights were bright, he let everything out and experienced pure freedom. It was inspiring as his teammate and everywhere I went, I seen it inspire people from all walks of life, crazy thing is, he didn’t say much, he just showed up. For 18 years. This basketball life is sacred to us as professionals, what we put into that court means everything. Some of us wish we could go back and do things with a little more intent and some can just wipe their hands and be satisfied with the time spent. Who u gonna be? We know what zero was on…keep inspiring in the next phase of life champ. I don’t care what happens, can’t erase what it was…The first YNs, finals run in our early 20s, all star games, seeing each other get injured and bounce back, the bus rides, plane rides, card games, jokes and arguments, the whole thing, memorable!! …to the whole Westbrook family, Nina, the kids, mama Westbrook, big Russ, Ray, Donnell, everybody from luezinger high and ucla and many more that I’m forgettin, much love and Congratulations on a iconic career.
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My (not so) hot take is that this was the best day ever to be a Steph Curry fan.
You can point to when he won his MVPs or rings or whatever else, but this is when it became “if you don’t appreciate Steph Curry, you don’t like basketball”
The way he had his signature flurry moment but even more extreme with the entirety of NBA fans rooting for him and USA as well as the whole world watching. We have never and probably will never see a moment in time where Steph is so universally loved again. I was euphoric for 2 weeks after this.
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cameron boozer was in sixth grade during yaxel lendeborg’s first year in college.
Warriors' Yaxel Lendeborg on getting revenge against Grizzlies' Cameron Boozer in Las Vegas Summer League championship game after Duke beat Michigan in February: "I think about [revenge] every time I play him. Every game we play, them refs be saving him. ... It is a competitive nature [with] everybody that gets drafted ahead of me."
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The last time Ilinois played Duke, the Blue Devils never trailed and won by 43 points
The last time Illinois played @ Duke, the #illini led for all but 48 seconds of the game & became the only non-ACC team to win two games at Cameron Indoor during Coach K's 42 seasons
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An appropriate conclusion to a storied career, @haydendiekhans receives another All-American honor.
In Montana Tech Basketball history:
➡️Points = 7th
➡️ FGs = 4th
➡️Assists = 10th
➡️Rebounds = 2nd
➡️Blocks = 2nd
➡️Steals = 7th
➡️FG% = 10th
➡️FTs = 11th
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North Carolina AD Bubba Cunningham tells me that he and the Tar Heels' administration including the Chancellor are evaluating all aspects of the school's basketball program and will continue to have discussions over the coming days.
