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The Brooklyn Nets can sleepwalk through their first-round series with the Boston Celtics, and they basically did in Game 1. The question is whether they will wake up before their championship mettle is really tested. Brooklyn’s 47 first-half points on Saturday night was their lowest total in any game this season but one — a Jan. 8 outing against the Memphis Grizzlies in which Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden were not in uniform. They combined to make 11 of their 32 shots and none… Source link

The Daily Beast This Belarusian Currency Trader Is Buying Up Tiny Vermont Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyA Belarusian currency speculator named Pavel Boguslavovich Belogour is buying up huge swaths of tiny Vermont—thousands of acres of the Green Mountain State, and even patches of land over the border in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.At first, Belogour, who goes by “Paul,” was received as something of a novelty. An idiosyncratic character with long hair and scant online… Source link

The Telegraph Phil Mickelson rolls back the years but has elite company on USPGA leaderboard Full leaderboard Third round tee times Padraig Harrington had seen enough. After watching playing partner Phil Mickelson rolling back the years whilst rolling in the putts in the first two rounds of the 103rd US PGA Championship here, Europe’s Ryder Cup captain was ready to call history. “In the position Phil is, I expect him to contend and I wouldn’t put it past him being there on top at the end… Source link

Perhaps the Los Angeles Clippers should burn sage all across the Staples Center, in their locker room, and extend it to homes and even cars. Because for all the positive vibes, roster depth and apparent health coming into the postseason, the franchise that can never get it right needs a cleanse after it finds itself facing a seemingly win-or-else scenario in Game 2 of its first-round series against the Dallas Mavericks. Dallas predictably stole home-court advantage with a 113-103 win Saturday,… Source link

LeBron James‘ reported breach of NBA health and safety protocols led to no visible consequences for the Los Angeles Lakers star. Charles Barkley isn’t surprised. During an interview with LaJethro Jenkins on Yahoo Sports’ “Dunk Bait,” the NBA Hall of Famer discussed James reportedly attending a promotional event for a tequila before the NBA’s play-in tournament, in which the Lakers defeated the Golden State Warriors to return to the NBA playoffs. ESPN’s Dave McMenamin reported Saturday morning… Source link

Fans look on from a tree as Phil Mickelson plays his shot from the seventh tee during the third round of the 2021 PGA Championship at Kiawah. (Patrick Smith/Getty Images) Does Phil Mickelson have your attention now? Going into Saturday’s third round of the PGA Championship, Mickelson was not the betting favorite … despite holding a share of the lead. He still wasn’t the betting favorite after he birdied the second hole to take sole possession of the lead, nor was he after he birdied the… Source link

The Global Head of Digital Assets at Goldman Sachs said in a Q&A published in the firm’s May 21 Global Macro Research newsletter that the growing cryptocurrency space, particularly related to “hot storage,” was “only one big fraud away from a very negative impact on the market.” Addressing a question about risks to the industry, Mathew McDermott, who was expressing his own views and not those of the research team, also noted that “inconsistent regulatory actions” worldwide could… Source link

Eugene Chung has a decade of coaching experience, a Super Bowl ring and years of experience as an NFL offensive lineman, but he still reportedly found himself dumbfounded by an interview with an NFL team this offseason. The former Philadelphia Eagles assistant offensive line coach told the Boston Globe’s Nicole Yang that a job interview with the unnamed team took a bizarre turn when the interviewer allegedly interrupted Chung’s pitch with a point of contention about his race. From the Globe:

Bloomberg World’s Best Rally Has Morgan Stanley to Newton Eyeing Europe (Bloomberg) — For so long the laggards of global equity markets, European stocks are back in favor and with the likes of Credit Suisse Group AG and Morgan Stanley joining an increasingly bullish chorus, investors are taking note.The Euro Stoxx 50 Index of eurozone blue-chips is up 13% so far in 2021, outperforming the S&P 500 in the opening five months of the year for the first time since 2017 and topping all other… Source link

Welcome to the Yahoo Sports NBA playoff tracker, your daily one-stop shop for all the latest game results from each NBA playoff series. Here’s a look at Saturday’s games. Mavericks hold off Clippers behind Luka Doncic’s triple-double Luka Doncic picked up right where he left off last time he faced the Los Angeles Clippers in the playoffs. The Dallas Mavericks pulled out a 113-103 win over the Clippers in Game 1 of their first-round rematch on Saturday, behind a triple-double from Doncic. The… Source link