Jeph Duarte

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Saturday night with @TexasFootball 🤘🏈

Reunited. @tonyparker @LDLCASVEL

Promise, I’m not a hoarder, but while going through files I came across this story that 35 years later is even more stunning in retrospect: 3rd-year center David Robinson and Spurs teammates pretty much declaring mutiny on owner Red McCombs’ refusal to charter road trips. 1/2

The Miami Heat accidentally posted, then deleted, a scheduled YouTube livestream titled “LeBron James Introductory Press Conference” for July 27. A team spokesperson told @ShamsCharania the link was mistakenly published while preparing for a possible James signing. spr.ly/6016BEWDtQ

The investigation by Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, & Katz law firm is just the FIRST step in the Kawhi Leonard Aspiration investigation and it certainly seems possible that there is no resolution by training camp, per @johnhollinger “The NBA’s collective bargaining agreement specifies that a cap-circumvention case must be tried before a system arbitrator and then potentially go through an appeals process before any penalty can be handed down by the commissioner.” (nytimes.com/athletic/7453720…)

Oklahoma City has now acquired seven second-round picks this offseason, shed $224 million in payroll and tax and positioned themselves comfortably under the second apron via the trades of Dort, Isaiah Joe and Aaron Wiggins. Rather than simply declining Dort's $17.7 million team option to save the money, the Thunder picked it up, acquired three future assets, created a $17M trade exception and place their 2025 championship stalwart in position for a new long-term deal in Atlanta which was not viable in OKC.

The NBA's $76 billion TV deal is currently on hold because one 41-year-old won't say where he wants to work. Adam Silver, the commissioner, admitted it today: the league cannot finish the 2026-27 schedule until LeBron James picks a team. Teams are calling. Networks are calling. The answer to all of them is "we're waiting on LeBron." The story gets wilder when you know the context. LeBron is the oldest player in the NBA, entering season 24. He's also still one of its best: he just dragged the Lakers to the playoffs, then announced he was leaving. Three franchises are reportedly in the running. Here's why one player freezes a $76 billion machine. The NBA is one season into an 11-year deal with Disney, NBC, and Amazon. Those partners split a fixed pool of premium inventory: opening night, Christmas Day, the big national windows. LeBron has played on Christmas a record 20 times, the last 19 seasons straight. Wherever he signs instantly becomes a Christmas team, an opening week team, and a 25-game national TV team. Until he signs, none of those slots can be assigned. The whole calendar is downstream of one man's group chat. Run the math on what's waiting. $76 billion over 11 years is roughly $7 billion a year in media money, and the schedule that deal was priced on can't be built. So the commissioner of a $7-billion-a-year league is doing interviews politely asking an employee of one of his 30 teams to please make up his mind. No other league works this way. The NFL schedules around teams. The NBA schedules around a person.

The San Antonio Spurs have withdrawn the qualifying offer for Harrison Ingram, a league source told @spotrac. Ingram is now an unrestricted free agent.

The Wemby doll 🥹🥹🥹 #GoSpursGo #PorVida

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I was looking for a certain Tim Duncan assistant coach pic and then I just got distracted by how many people are in this lol

If LeBron and Anthony Davis join the Warriors is that a superteam?

Carter gonna ball out!!