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The auction of Bill Russell memorabilia was a runaway success.  The 87-year-old civil rights icon and 11-time NBA champion auctioned over 400 items from his long and storied career at the TD Garden on Friday. When the auction closed and the dust settled, the total came to over $5 million. In fact, the top 18 items in the auction brought in over $5.3 million just on their own.  The biggest seller was the jersey Russell wore at Game 7 of the 1969 NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers. That… Source link

Officials are continuing to raise concerns over the recent rise in COVID case numbers across the country. Not helping matters is the still large number of people who remain unvaccinated. “It is a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ) said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “It is literally 99.99% likely that the folks who are in the hospital are unvaccinated.” Some states have reached a point in which their elected officials are imposing vaccine mandates for state… Source link

Even in one of the most surreal seasons in NBA history, the New York Knicks are still finding ways to remind us that they’re the Knicks. One such reminder came early in Saturday’s game against the Philadelphia 76ers, in which two players — Mitchell Robinson and Reggie Bullock — took the floor wearing the No. 23. It didn’t take long to figure out what happened. Robinson usually wears No. 23. Bullock usually wears No. 25. Bullock accidentally got the wrong jersey number, on his back at… Source link

Rep. Matt Gaetz. Getty Officials from New Jersey and New York slammed Rep. Matt Gaetz for attending a mask-less gala on Thursday with 150 people convening in close proximity in a restaurant. New Jersey Mayor Steven Fulop shut down the Maritime Parc, the restaurant that hosted the event, on Friday. The event was an annual gala for the New York Young Republicans Club that was originally supposed to be held in a Manhattan venue, which declined to host the event. The governors of both New Jersey and… Source link

The most expensive high school basketball jersey ever sold at auction doesn’t belong to Michael Jordan. Or LeBron James. Kobe Bryant? Larry Bird? Kareem Abdul-Jabbar? None of the above. No, the most expensive high school basketball jersey reportedly comes from a man who logged zero NBA minutes in his basketball career: Barack Obama. The Punahou School jersey of the 44th President of the United States sold for a whopping $192,000 at auction on Friday. According to seller Julien’s Auctions,… Source link

Colin Kaepernick may be years removed from his last game in the NFL, but he remains among the most famous football players in the world. Especially at the auction house, apparently. The San Francisco 49ers jersey worn by Kaepernick in his NFL debut on Oct. 2, 2011 sold for $128,000 on Friday, according to Reuters. The auction house, Julien’s Auctions, reportedly claims the sum makes Kaepernick’s jersey the most expensive NFL jersey ever sold at auction. SOLD for $128,000! The 49ers jersey… Source link

The Telegraph Masters 2020 tee times for the first round, including Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau Tee-off times in the first round of The Masters, Augusta National, United States on Thursday November 12 (all times GMT): USA unless stated, (a) denotes amateurs. Starting at hole 1 12.00 Lucas Glover, Corey Conners (Can), Cheng-Tsung Pan (Tai) 12.11 Brandt Snedeker, Charles Howell III, Jazz Janewattananond (Tha) 12.22 Larry Mize, Andrew Landry, (a) Lukas Michel (Aus) 12.33 Matt… Source link

The Golden State Warriors honored one of their most famous fans after her historic moment on Saturday. Kamala Harris became the first woman and first Asian American to be elected to the vice presidency when the Associated Press projected she and former Vice President Joe Biden won the election. Harris, who became a senator for California in 2017, grew up in Oakland and is a well-known Warriors fan. The organization honored the moment with a message on its new “Oakland Forever” jersey from… Source link

“If I wasn’t who I was today, I’m no different than anybody else of color.” That was part of Jimmy Butler‘s logic for requesting a blank nameplate on the back of his jersey during the restart in Orlando, as Butler told Vincent Goodwill of Yahoo Sports. The idea of the blank nameplate has not cleared by the NBA “as of now”, reports Tim Reynolds of the AP (the Heat are prepping a “Butler” jersey currently, reports Ira Winderman of the Sun-Sentinal). Per sources, it appears as… Source link