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2016 NBA re-draft has Sixers taking Brandon Ingram over Ben Simmons

2016 NBA re-draft has Sixers taking Brandon Ingram over Ben Simmons

Back in 2016, the Philadelphia 76ers held the No. 1 pick in a pretty deep draft. The Sixers were going to land one of the top talents and continue to grow their team for the future. They went with Ben Simmons out of LSU who went on to play four seasons with the Sixers, sitting out his first season due to injury and sitting out his last one due to a holdout and a back injury, before being traded to the Brooklyn Nets. He made an All-Star game three times, he won Rookie of the Year, he made it… Source link

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NASCAR driver at the center of ‘Let’s go Brandon’ may have to skip races in 2022 thanks to a lack of sponsorship

NASCAR driver at the center of ‘Let’s go Brandon’ may have to skip races in 2022 thanks to a lack of sponsorship

Brandon Brown’s embrace of the right-wing slogan that involves his first name hasn’t reaped any financial rewards in 2022. Brown is stepping out of his No. 68 car for Saturday’s Xfinity Series race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course and may not compete in many more races the rest of the season. Brown’s team is looking to field drivers who have sponsorship money after a deal with a now-defunct political cryptocurrency didn’t flourish. And that lack of sponsorship is why… Source link

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Nick Kyrgios admits he tanked 4th set vs. Brandon Nakashima, but ‘it worked’

Nick Kyrgios admits he tanked 4th set vs. Brandon Nakashima, but ‘it worked’

For better or worse, no personality has burned brighter at this year’s Wimbledon than Nick Kyrgios. That included his tactics in the fourth round on Monday. Facing unseeded American Brandon Nakashima, Kyrgios found himself grinding more than he previously had in the tournament, in which he has already notched arguably the biggest win of his career against No. 4 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas. Kyrgios was dropped the first set, won the next two, then fell behind a break in the fourth. Down 5-3 and… Source link

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Yahoo rejects GOP Senate candidate’s ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ ad, calls it ‘overly inflammatory and offensive’

Media top headlines January 13 In media news today, Associated Press tells staff to ‘avoid emphasizing COVID case counts, the Economic Council director urges the media to focus on wage increases instead of inflation, and the mainstream media drags Rand Paul for clashing with Dr. Fauci. Yahoo is rejecting a digital ad from Republican Senate candidate Jim Lamon for touting the widely-used anti-Biden expression.  Lamon, a businessman and Army veteran running in the GOP primary in Arizona,… Source link

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Brandon Brown embraces ‘Let’s go Brandon’ slogan

Brandon Brown is now choosing to embrace a right-wing slogan that took off after he won at Talladega in October. Less than two weeks ago, the Xfinity Series driver lamented to The New York Times that he was unable to get sponsorship because of the “Let’s go Brandon” meme that had become an inside joke in conservative circles. Thursday, Brown announced a sponsorship for his car from LGBCoin, a cryptocurrency with “no intrinsic value” that’s attempting to profit off of the slogan.  Brown’s… Source link

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