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Kevin Durant is expected to commit to Team USA Basketball for next month’s Tokyo Olympics, Shams Charania reported for the The Athletic and Stadium.  Durant and the Brooklyn Nets were eliminated from the NBA playoffs in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals on Saturday night. With a shortened offseason as the NBA gets back to its standard season tip-off time following the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, many NBA stars may opt not to represent the U.S. this summer. Kevin Durant, Nets… Source link

Momentum’s a funny thing, isn’t it? Two games into their Eastern Conference semifinals series, the Brooklyn Nets were up 2-0 and weren’t even in their final form. Despite missing James Harden, the Nets had steamrolled the Milwaukee Bucks twice, and looked like the NBA’s presumptive champion. Two and a half games later, they were well into a downward spiral, down 16 at the half despite the return of Harden and on the verge of a 3-2 series deficit. And now, thanks to Kevin Durant‘s best… Source link

Anything is bound to happen in Milwaukee, from cringeworthy ankle sprains to fire alarms breaking out 15 minutes after a game. What’s been unexpectedly birthed after Sunday afternoon is a playoff series. Sure, the Brooklyn Nets and Milwaukee Bucks have been at this for about a week already, but the results appeared clear before the ball of Kyrie Irving’s right ankle basically touched the hardwood at Fiserv Forum: The Nets were superior and on the verge of sending the Bucks to a summer of… Source link

You can’t say “Mr. Wonderful” didn’t warn you. Shark Tank host Kevin O’Leary was among the first in the investment community to sound the alarm on bitcoin’s sustainability concerns, when he stressed as much, during an interview with Yahoo Finance at the beginning of May. Two weeks later, Elon Musk announced Tesla was reversing its stance on accepting the crypto as a form of payment, citing the same sustainability issues, sparking a 35% collapse in bitcoin’s price for the month. But… Source link

Kevin Durant and the Brooklyn Nets absolutely walloped the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday night, but the afterglow of that win didn’t last long for Durant. On Tuesday morning he saw something that annoyed him so much that he had to tweet about it.  What he saw appears to be a clip from ESPN’s morning show, “Get Up,” in which Jay Williams tells a story about Durant being upset that Williams compared him to Giannis Antetokounmpo. Apparently Durant was so angry that he confronted Williams about it… Source link

It’s Kevin Durant and everyone else in the race for NBA Finals MVP. Yes, the Finals haven’t even started yet. Heck, the conference finals haven’t even started yet. But Durant is now down to +150 at BetMGM after his Brooklyn Nets took a 2-0 lead over the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday night in their second-round playoff series. “Kevin Durant is the betting favorite to win NBA Finals MVP. BetMGM has received the most tickets and handle on Durant to win the award moving his odds from +700 to… Source link

Associated Press Never any doubt: Cambage all-in for Australia at Tokyo Games In the end, there appeared to be never any doubt WNBA star Liz Cambage would suit up for her third Olympics for Australia. Cambage was included Wednesday in the 12-women Opals team for the Tokyo Games, ending an earlier saga in which she first threatened to boycott the games but later changed her mind. Two-time Olympian Jenna O’Hea will captain the squad and Rio Olympians Katie Ebzery, Cayla George, Tessa Lavey,… Source link

TipRanks Billionaire Ray Dalio Pulls the Trigger on 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks There are experts out there in the stock market whose investing moves command respect. They’ve earned this through the long-term cultivation of a reputation for true savvy in finding solid returns – and few of these experts have the stature of billionaire financier Ray Dalio. Dalio got his start trading commodity futures on Wall Street, and in 1975 he founded Bridgewater Associates from his New York City… Source link

Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary may agree with billionaire investor Warren Buffett, and his right-hand man, Charlie Munger, on a number of things. The trading app Robinhood, isn’t one of them. The chairman of O’Shares ETF told Yahoo Finance Live, “I have ultimate respect for Charlie Munger. I’m a huge fan of his philosophy of investing. That doesn’t mean I can’t disagree with him on an issue like this.” At Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting in May, Munger tore… Source link

On this week’s episode of the “Posted Up with Chris Haynes” podcast, Cleveland Cavaliers forward Kevin Love revealed that it would be “special” if he had the chance to play for his hometown NBA team: the Portland Trail Blazers. “Who wouldn’t want to play with Dame Lillard, first of all,” Love said on “Posted Up.” “Dame, he’s special. He’s amazing. I claim Portland when they ask me where I’m from. It’s where I spent all of my formative years. I grew up in… Source link