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Yahoo Sports will keep you updated nightly on the NBA playoff race during the last two weeks of the regular season. Check back daily for the latest movement in the standings, what to watch for and teams securing their 2020-21 playoff berths. Saturday’s standings Eastern Conference 1. Philadelphia 76ers (48-23) 2. Brooklyn Nets (47-24, 1 GB) 3. Milwaukee Bucks (46-25, 2 GB) 4. New York Knicks (40-31, 8 GB) 5. Atlanta Hawks (40-31, 8 GB) 6. Miami Heat (39-32, 9 GB) Play-in tournament 7. Boston Celtics… Source link

PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — Police are reaching out to villagers in northern India to investigate the recovery of bodies buried in shallow sand graves or washed up on the Ganges River banks, prompting speculation on social media that they’re the remains of COVID-19 victims. In jeeps and boats, police used portable loudspeakers with microphones asking people not to dispose of bodies in rivers. “We are here to help you perform the last rites,” police said.  On Friday, rains exposed the cloth… Source link

Vanessa Bryant spoke on behalf of her late husband Kobe Bryant. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images) It’s impossible to fantasize what Kobe Bryant would’ve said at his Hall of Fame speech Saturday night, the way the gifted storyteller would’ve narrated the ending to his basketball life, the tone it would’ve taken and the reaction from the audience. Vanessa Bryant, not only speaking as his wife but as the person who knew him best — at the simplest and most complex levels — was the fitting… Source link

InvestorPlace SafeMoon, Shiba Inu, Dogecoin: The 2021 Crypto Bubble Is Unlike Anything We’ve Seen On Wednesday, Ethereum (CCC:ETH-USD) co-founder Vitalik Buterin donated some $1 billion in Shiba Inu (CCC:SHIB-USD) crypto to help India fund its Covid-19 response. Source: shutterstock.com/JFunk The strange thing? Buterin never bought the Shiba coin himself. Instead, the Shiba community had gifted him the crypto as a joke. By sending him 50% of the outstanding coins, the gag went, the currency… Source link

It has been 15 months since Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash, but his Hall of Fame enshrinement was no less emotional. Vanessa Bryant, the wife of the Los Angeles Lakers legend, accepted the honor on behalf of her late husband on Saturday, one year later than planned due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Her speech was preceded by the rest of the greatest Hall of Fame class in basketball history and she was escorted by Michael Jordan, but the moment was firmly her’s as she again eulogized a man… Source link

It’s Storm season. The Seattle Storm picked up right where they left off in the “wubble” with a rout of the Las Vegas Aces, 97-83, who they swept in the 2020 WNBA Finals. Breanna Stewart, who won two titles with her UMMC Ekaterinburg team in the Russian Premier League and EuroLeague in April, only began practicing with the Storm this week. She finished with 28 points and 13 rebounds. Sue Bird passed Lisa Leslie (6,263 points) on the career scoring list and moved into seventh all-time. Late… Source link

The Los Angeles Lakers are in for a very emotional 36 hours. If they win on Sunday and the Portland Trail Blazers lose, they’ll secure the No. 6 seed and avoid the play-in tournament. But before that, on Saturday evening, Kobe Bryant is being inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.  Bryant, who died in a January 2020 helicopter crash along with his daughter Gianna and seven others, was an iconic Laker, and the players have been asked about him leading up to the ceremony… Source link

TipRanks 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks Insiders Are Snapping Up Recent market volatility is enough to make your head spin, and can cause plenty of confusion for retail investors seeking a solid market strategy. It’s tempting to look to the experts, but that raises another question: which experts are the best to follow? There are plenty to choose from. Wall Street’s corps of professional stock analysts provide frequent and relevant commentary on hundreds of publicly traded stocks, but some… Source link

Albert Pujols has found a new home, and he didn’t have to go far.  Pujols is reportedly in agreement with the Los Angeles Dodgers on a contract for the rest of the MLB season. According to Jorge Castillo of the Los Angeles Times, Pujols will be playing for the Dodgers and not one of their minor league affiliates.  Pujols, 41, spent the last nine seasons with the Los Angeles Angels, and had played about five weeks of his 10th season before he was abruptly released on May 6. The reasons for… Source link

When in February Glauber Contessoto decided to invest his life savings in Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE), his friends questioned his mental soundness. Now that this decision has made him a millionaire (on paper), many may also be bewildered by his decision to not liquidate the investment. What Happened: Contessoto told The New York Times that his friends and family called him “crazy” when he made the decision that made him a millionaire. “It’s a joke coin. It’s a meme. It’s going to crash,” he… Source link