The Portland Trail Blazers will have to wait a little bit longer to see what they have in seventh overall pick Shaedon Sharpe. The team announced Saturday that an MRI revealed Sharpe suffered a small labral tear in his left shoulder during Portland’s Summer League game against the Detroit Pistons on July 7. He’ll miss the rest of the Trail Blazers’ Summer League games and will be reevaluated in 10-14 days, according to the team. Sharpe was considered one of the biggest mysteries of the 2022… Source link

LAS VEGAS — The Oklahoma City Thunder entered the Las Vegas Summer League showcase with two wins under their belt, after going 2-1 in Salt Lake City earlier in the week. The No. 2 pick in the draft, Chet Holmgren, put on a show in his NBA debut, posting 23 points, seven rebounds, six blocks and four assists in a win over the Utah Jazz. The following game, it was rookie (and No. 12 overall pick) Jalen Williams who shined with 16 points, three rebounds and two steals in 22 minutes. In the… Source link

Last we heard from Lamar Jackson, he was keeping his contract negotiations with the Baltimore Ravens “private” and drama-free. He told reporters he expected to finish his career in Baltimore and wouldn’t take into consideration the ridiculous $230 million contract the Cleveland Browns handed Deshaun Watson despite numerous sexual assault allegations. That was over a month ago, though, and no new information has surfaced since. But some clues on social media could signal frustrations from… Source link

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the latest year-end reports. App Annie says global spending across iOS and Google Play is up to $135 billion in 2021, and that figure will likely be higher when its… Source link

Elon Musk on Friday announced he was backing out of his $44 billion Twitter acquisition bid, blaming the social media platform’s alleged lack of transparency regarding bots on the site. As both sides prepare for a lengthy court battle, some Twitter influencers are floating an alternate theory for the change of heart: The bots were never the problem, merely a vehicle through which to covertly sell Tesla options that were about to expire. “Entire thing was a clever ruse to SELL + LIQUIDATE $8.5… Source link

If you ever wondered what former Arizona Cardinals and Denver Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer is doing now, wonder no longer: Plummer is a co-founder of Mycolove Farm, which has been selling locally grown medicinal and culinary mushrooms and mushroom extracts 30 miles outside Denver, Colorado, since 2021. “It’s not like we discovered this new mushroom,” Plummer told USA Today’s Parker Gabriel. “These have been around forever, so we’re just figuring out ways to grow them efficiently,… Source link

Matthew Lei is at it again. For the third time, Lei is the Oregon winner of the annual Doodle for Google contest, where students compete to redesign the Google logo for a day. Lei, who attends Lincoln High School in Portland, has entered the competition every year since he was in third grade at Forest Park Elementary School, when his private art teacher Wanda Ng encouraged the budding doodler to give it a shot. He won Oregon’s state competition that year–and again as a sixth-grader at West… Source link

Google has confirmed a bizarre new bug affecting all Gmail users, where the service issues a sender warning for every email received. Here’s everything you need to know. The bug first struck on Thursday, with Gmail attaching a security notice reserved for suspect emails to everything that arrives in a recipient’s inbox. On Friday, Google subsequently confirmed that the problem had spread more widely than first believed and “affects both Gmail consumers and Enterprise customers.” … Source link

Homeownership just got 5% cheaper as mortgage rates fall off a cliff U.S. mortgage rates fell sharply and for the second straight week as monetary policies meant to slow the economy take hold of the housing market. The rate on the popular 30-year fixed mortgage hasn’t fallen this much since December 2008, a new report shows. Though rates have been rising for most of this year, the recent dips provide a sliver of hope for buyers. Purchasing a home is now about 5% more affordable than it was a… Source link

LAS VEGAS – MMA Junkie is on scene and reporting live from Saturday’s UFC on ESPN 39 event, and you can join us for live play-by-play and official results beginning at 6 p.m. ET (3 p.m. PT). UFC on ESPN 39 takes place Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The card airs on ESPN and streams on ESPN+. In the main event, former lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos (31-13 MMA, 20-11 UFC) takes on rising standout Rafael Fiziev (11-1 MMA, 5-1 UFC). In the co-feature, Caio Borralho (11-1 MMA,… Source link