Victor Wembanyama Wins The 2025-26 Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award! YouTube video by NBA

Among the most deserving Defensive Player Of The Year winners in recent memory and walking highlight reel.
#nba #spurs #wemby
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Lol Spike Lee is courtside wearing a Knicks jersey with “Pope Leo” on the back

#NBAsky

Scottie Barnes and the Raptors down 0-2 in Round 1 against the Cleveland Cavaliers

Averaging 20+ in points is not as meaningful as we make it out it to be. That disparity explains what you're seeing right now from the Toronto Raptors.
I'm worried about Scottie Barnes, man.

The troubling state of Premier League club finances as record losses hit £1.6bn Premier League clubs generated record operating losses last season as underlying deficits hit a combined £1.65bn, The Athletic has found

"the split between the ‘Big Six’ and the other 14 clubs is pronounced. On average, those six clubs spent 55 per cent of turnover on wages; in the rest of the division, the proportion was far higher, at 76 per cent"
-Chris Weatherspoon reports for The Athletic
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I vividly remember the 2016 TV deal feeling like it could be groundbreaking for the league's competitive balance.

I've been saying Neuer should retire since he gave up a similar goal against Aston Villa

This misses an important point: It's NOT about infidelity. It's about a profession (journalism) where there are real coverage boundaries. Coaches don't have that—fair or not.

We do.

If he doesn't start shooting it, the Magic are in serious issues

LOCK IN. 🔐

Haraam ball remains undefeatead

how it feels watching NBA postseason basketball

Be honest, the Play-In is far from the worst idea the league ever had. Give the league their flowers. It's a nice way to start the play-off season and always new stars get introduced on a bigger stage.
#NBA

I've watched every World Cup since 2002 and I cannot remember a time when the tournament was so politicized.
2010? Maybe but that was in my home country.
This World Cup has such a different energy in the build up.

Damon Lindelof Reveals Why He Signed Anti-Paramount-WBD Merger Letter "Hollywood, believe it or not, is a blue-collar town," Damon Lindelof said Monday on why he signed an anti-Paramount-WBD merger letter.

American screenwriter David Lindelof has joined a group of producers and show creators in opposing David and Larry Ellison's acquisition of Warner Bros
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I find De Laurentis' comments funny because as recently as 2006 Napoli were in Serie B and policies like this would have prevented Napoli from becoming a competetive force in the Serie A

you're the clippers?

Arsenal need to get it together dropping 3 of their last 4 is scary times and not winning a trophy would be the biggest waste of a season

🏆 PLAYOFF PICTURE 🏆

▪️ TOR rises to #5 in East

The NBA Playoffs presented by Google begin April 18th.

This is looking like a collapse

A lot of the Jaden Ivey articles I've read focused on his religious beliefs but I also find it strange that people neglected to understand what the Chicago Bulls and the NBA were telling us by waiving him. https://sabelomasemola.substack.com/p/the-social-economy-of-talent-in-sports

A lot of the Jaden Ivey articles I've read focused on his religious beliefs but I also find it strange that people neglected to understand what the Chicago Bulls and the NBA were telling us by waiving him. https://sabelomasemola.substack.com/p/the-social-economy-of-talent-in-sports

A lot of the Jaden Ivey articles I've read focused on his religious beliefs but I also find it strange that people neglected to understand what the Chicago Bulls and the NBA were telling us by waiving him. https://sabelomasemola.substack.com/p/the-social-economy-of-talent-in-sports

A lot of the Jaden Ivey articles I've read focused on his religious beliefs but I also find it strange that people neglected to understand what the Chicago Bulls and the NBA were telling us by waiving him. https://sabelomasemola.substack.com/p/the-social-economy-of-talent-in-sports

"Consider how every sport has their mad geniuses........
For Jaden Ivey, I think the situation may be one born out of desperation more than anything else.
Less genius, more vulnerability"
-Sabelo Masemola on Jaden Ivey via Substack
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Albert Breer Admits Vrabel-Russini Optics Are ‘A Problem’ YouTube video by 98.5 The Sports Hub

Albert Breer adding some much-needed journalistic balance to this story
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“What's responsible?” Talking through the Dianna Russini, Mike Vrabel sports media discourse YouTube video by LeBatardShow

Dan Le Betard pretending not to understand "conflict of interest" is the problem with this story
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What Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini show about the nature of relationships in sports media https://sabelomasemola.substack.com/p/when-access-becomes-influence-the

What Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini show about the nature of relationships in sports media https://sabelomasemola.substack.com/p/when-access-becomes-influence-the

What Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini show about the nature of relationships in sports media https://sabelomasemola.substack.com/p/when-access-becomes-influence-the

What Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini show about the nature of relationships in sports media https://sabelomasemola.substack.com/p/when-access-becomes-influence-the

Examining how close is too close in my latest Substack and how personal relationships renegotiate the terms of objective reporting in my latest Substack
-Sabelo Masemola
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The Social Economy of Talent in Sports Jaden Ivey Wasn’t Waived for What He Said

Whether it’s Jaden Ivey being loudly religious, Jalen Hurts not embracing new ideas with relation to plays or Kobe not embracing Smush Parker, the pattern is that the virtues that are praised today are weaponized in the narratives of tomorrow"
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The Social Economy of Talent in Sports Jaden Ivey Wasn’t Waived for What He Said

A lot of the Jaden Ivey articles I've read focused on his religious beliefs but I also find it strange that people neglected to understand what the Chicago Bulls and the NBA were telling us by waiving him.
This is my latest article via Substack
sabelomasemola.substack.com/p/the-social...

My experience in pro Italian youth football (and everything that's wrong with it) And it has everything to do with Italy's third consecutive elimination from the World Cup Qualifications

Serie A In Depth relays the problems with Italian football from the lens of a former youth prospect and why the collapse of Italian football isn't just happening at the highest levels of club and international football.
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He was once a very capable player but you gotta be more efficient, you can't be 6'10 plus and bricking from close, that type of stat can end your career

When Neutrality Is Tested Journalistic integrity and the pressures reshaping CBS

Among the most interesting stories happening in the media space is what is currently happening at CBS News and the reel time test that a long-standing pillar of journalism is facing as the network’s owners becomes more partisan.
This in my latest Substack
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Inside Eagles' 2025 friction as Jalen Hurts stands at crossroads ESPN pulls back the curtain on what's ailing a star-studded Eagles offense, one in which its QB must evolve.

I am not buying into these reports of Jalen Hurts being un-coachable. If you want Hurts to trust the scheme get him competent play calling.
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Not surprised that Mike Tomlin's exit from the league saw people trying to rid the league of the Rooney Rule,
And an interesting case study in how a policy designed to facilitate inclusion was so closely attached to one individual