Daily Archives: June 16, 2026

New York Knicks owner James Dolan urged players to abstain from sex during title run

The New York Knicks’ first NBA championship in 53 years may have been built on many things: Jalen Brunson’s brilliance, Mike Brown’s steady hand, a suffocating defense and a healthy roster when it mattered most. According to much-maligned team owner James Dolan, it may also have required a little self-denial. Advertisement A video released Monday by the Roommates Show podcast …

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What’s the latest on Giannis and Jaylen? O’Connor offers insight

What’s the latest on Giannis and Jaylen? O’Connor offers insight originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The Milwaukee Bucks are widely expected to trade Giannis Antetokounmpo sometime in the next week. According to several recent reports, the Boston Celtics are frontrunners to land the two-time NBA MVP. Advertisement By all accounts, Antetokounmpo is intrigued by the idea of playing in …

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NBA Draft Rumors: Darryn Peterson going #1?

According to Ben Anderson, Darryn Peterson’s camp is “very confident they are going #1,” and this is the reason for the change of plans to work out with the Utah Jazz. Does this mean that Darryn Peterson is avoiding Utah because he doesn’t want to play in Utah? It doesn’t look it. It appears that this has everything to do …

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Magic Johnson ULTIMATE Career Mixtape! 🌟

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The Utah Jazz are fumbling Walker Kessler’s contract talks… again.

The Utah Jazz’s offseason checklist listed just two crucial items from the moment the regular season concluded: maximize value through the draft, and re-sign Walker Kessler. Somebody please explain, then, why Kessler and the Jazz are butting heads in contract negotiations for the second straight offseason. Advertisement With restricted free agency soon approaching, reports are sprouting from the fertile soil …

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Knicks Roster, Salaries, Cap Space, Available Draft Picks and More

(Note: For more information on CBA terms and their impact, read this breakdown from June 2024.) The New York Knicks are NBA champions. Every last move over the last several years, every tweak of the salary cap, every bold decision has all led up to this moment, with the Knicks ending a 53-year long nightmare on Saturday night in San …

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Dan Patrick unloads on Victor Wembanyama after Spurs’ Finals defeat: ‘Petty’

The New York Knicks waited 53 years to raise another championship banner. When the moment finally arrived Saturday night, Jalen Brunson delivered the type of performance that cements legacies. Victor Wembanyama, meanwhile, left many talking about something entirely different. Dan Patrick praised Jalen Brunson and blasted Victor Wembanyama after the NBA Finals. Getty Images Following New York’s five-game NBA Finals …

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Kentucky Basketball offers Erick Dampier Jr., the son of an SEC legend, as summer recruiting heats up

Mark Pope has been on a tear this past month, landing his first top-10 high school recruit (Ryan Hampton) and a consensus top-three transfer portal player in Milan Momcilovic. That momentum is carrying over into the summer basketball circuit, and Kentucky Basketball just offered a really familiar name: Erick Dampier Jr. That’s probably going to make some of you feel …

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The Knicks, the Suns, and the Parity Era

The New York Mikals are your NBA Champi- I mean, the New York Knicks are your NBA Champions. This has honestly come as quite a shock to me. The Knicks were not the championship favorites coming into the season, the playoffs, the Conference Finals, or even the NBA Finals. I, like many foolish people, watched the Western Conference Finals thinking …

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Jose Alvarado’s high school coach lauds ‘loyal’ Knicks champion: ‘Proud is an understatement’

The Knicks’ first NBA championship in 53 years had a local flavor. Traded deadline acquisition Jose Alvarado, a Brooklyn native, offered his Christ the King in Middle Village, Queens coach a moment of reflection nearly a decade after the freshly minted champ played for him. Advertisement “I wasn’t thinking in this picture that Alvarado would one day win an NBA …

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Kentucky Basketball practice notes and highlights from opening week

The Kentucky Basketball team officially began summer practice on Monday, but fans got an early preview of the Wildcats’ new-look roster thanks to videos posted by the program over the last two days. On Sunday, Kentucky’s social media team shared footage of players going through various athletic tests, including agility challenges and vertical jump measurements. It served as a nice …

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June P&T mailbag invite – Yahoo Sports

48ish hours later and still feeing . . . altered. In a good way. The best way. Saturday night, millions of Knicks fans finally caught that dragon we been chasing most if not all our lives. I’m still kinda in a daze. You? Advertisement I bring it up because for this mailbag invite, I need you to know I could …

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Virginia Tech Women’s Basketball Lands Italian Prospect Francesca Baldassarre

Virginia Tech women’s basketball garnered a commitment from international product Francesca Baldassarre, who enters the program as a 5-foot-9 freshman. The 5-foot-9 guard from Brindisi, Italy, will presumably have a full four years of eligibility. The 18-year-old spent two seasons with Afora Givova Battipaglia in Italy’s top league Serie A1. In her first season, she logged 2.2 points per game, …

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Despite the painful ending, the Spurs’ season was a success

The Finals are over, and the Spurs lost. If you could describe how you feel about how they went in one word, what would it be and why? Marilyn Dubinski: The first word is “excruciating,” considering how easily the outcome could have been reversed if the Spurs simply could have executed down the stretch of games. But I made the …

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The pre-playoff James Dolan speech delivered to the Knicks — ‘I know you can do it. . .You know you can do it’

Mike Brown sat to the right of James Dolan, Knicks players seated in front of them at the club’s practice facility. It was before the April 3 shootaround when Dolan gave an impassioned 15-minute speech, recorded on video, that implored his Knicks to sacrifice everything with an unyielding commitment across the next 10 weeks of the playoffs to compete a mission …

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How Gonzaga’s lineup could change after adding Juwan Ekanga-Ehawa

Mark Few and the Gonzaga Bulldogs made an international splash on Sunday, securing a commitment from 18-year-old French guard Juwan Ekanga-Ehawa. Ekanga-Ehawa has been a star in France’s youth leagues and has seen his stock rise over the past few months. He joins a Gonzaga roster that had virtually zero depth in the backcourt behind returners Mario Saint-Supery and Davis …

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Jalen Brunson: How I resisted retaliating after Wemby shove

Following the Knicks’ closeout Game 5 on Saturday that gave the franchise its first title since 1973, captain and NBA Finals MVP Jalen Brunson made a special guest appearance on ABC’s “The View.” Host Whoopi Goldberg asked Brunson how he resisted retaliating against Victor Wembanyama after the Spurs star shoved Brunson to the ground in Game 3. Advertisement “I think …

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