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The Houston Rockets paid a healthy John Wall $44.3 million to sit on their bench last season. (Carmen Mandato/Getty Images) John Wall’s strange tenure with the Houston Rockets is coming to an end. The Rockets have agreed to a buyout of the final year of Wall’s massive contract, sources told Yahoo Sports, paving the way for the five-time All-Star to resurrect his career with a competitive team. Wall’s agent Rich Paul, CEO of Klutch Sports, is meeting with Rockets general manager Rafael Stone… Source link

Jesse Powell is the founder and CEO of crypto exchange Kraken.Kraken Kraken’s CEO is offering four months’ pay for employees who don’t agree with his values to leave. The program is dubbed “Jet Ski,” and employees have until June 20 to take part, the New York Times reported. “We want it to feel like you are hopping on a jet ski and heading happily to your next adventure!” read a memo about the project. Kraken, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, will pay employees four months’… Source link

A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that more than 6 in 10 Donald Trump voters (61%) agree that “a group of people in this country are trying to replace native-born Americans with immigrants and people of color who share their political views” — a core tenet of the false conspiracy theory known as the “great replacement.” Less than a quarter of Trump voters (22%) disagree with that statement. So-called replacement theory has been covered extensively in the days following the May 14… Source link

Jaire Alexander broke a few records with the shiny new extension he reportedly signed on Monday. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Alexander and the Green Bay Packers have agreed to a four-year, $84 million contract extension. Schefter reported that the 25-year-old Alexander will receive a $30 million signing bonus, a record for defensive backs, and will be paid just over $1 million in salary this season so his cap number can be as small as possible. His average yearly salary will be around… Source link

A member of Reddit asked if Google search was becoming worse and thousands of others responded overwhelmingly that Google search was not showing what they were looking for. The SEO community on Twitter picked up the discussion and largely agreed. Google Search Quality Has Declined, According to Users? While a few members of Reddit (referred to as Redditors) said that Google search used to be worse and asserted that Google was better now, those that defended Google Search were in the… Source link

The Las Vegas Raiders and their quarterback Derek Carr have reportedly agreed to a three-year, $121.5 million contract extension. Carr is the longest tenured quarterback in the AFC, and now he’ll be extending his stay to at least 2025. According to NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo, Carr is now set to make over $140 million in the next four years, with $100 million coming to him in the next three. He also reportedly has a no-trade clause. Carr, 31, had reportedly been on the trade block several… Source link

Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is airborne. That simple declaration from the White House is what some experts around the world have known since 2020 — and it could have major implications for U.S. businesses and organizations. Dr. Alondra Nelson, head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and deputy assistant to President Joe Biden, announced the highly-awaited words in a recent statement. “The most common way COVID-19 is transmitted from one person… Source link

Investors are still reeling from a roller coaster ride — attempting to price in a bewildering array of sweeping sanctions against Russian entities with all its attendant knock-on effects. There’s a growing divide on Wall Street, with some saying that the worst is over and investors should buy the dip while others are saying investors should be cautious and concerned about lingering tail risks. Dominic Wilson of Goldman Sachs’ global markets strategy team is wary of both surging oil prices… Source link

It’s hard to imagine much bipartisan cooperation coming in 2022. President Joe Biden said Wednesday the strategy of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is “to do anything to prevent Biden from being a success.”  And speaking to Yahoo Finance the next day, Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) shot back by saying, “We haven’t had a single invitation to sit down, from this president or Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi.” Despite the gridlock, Brady mentioned four areas he believes both parties could agree… Source link

The Denver Nuggets are signing DeMarcus Cousins to a 10-day contract on Friday, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported. It’s the center’s fourth team in two years since coming back from an ACL injury that kept him out of the 2019-20 NBA season.  The 10-day contract covers six games on the Nuggets schedule. Denver (23-20) hosts the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday night and the Detroit Pistons on Sunday. They begin a six-game road trip with a trip to Detroit on Tuesday.  Cousins, 31, was released by… Source link