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Kevin Durant was the best player on the court Friday night in Boston. That should scare the hell out of the rest of the East and the NBA. It was his second game back after missing 18 months and an entire season with a torn Achilles, and while he was not moving at pre-injury speeds, Durant is still a 7-foot sharpshooter with a release over his head covers up any step he may have lost. And he may not have lost that much, against Boston (and against Washington earlier in the week) Durant showed… Source link

The NBA’s vaunted free-agency class of 2021 is not so vaunted anymore, especially now that Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo has signed a supermax extension well beyond the coming year. For the few teams that felt they had a realistic shot at convincing the two-time reigning MVP to join them — namely the Miami Heat, Dallas Mavericks and Toronto Raptors — all that planning goes by the wayside. The salaries that were shed, the contracts that were not extended beyond this… Source link

A healthy Karl-Anthony Towns could be the No. 1 overall fantasy pick. (Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images) Special to Yahoo Sports Separating players into tiers is a popular method of draft prep, and it de-emphasizes the idea that you must draft a player because his projections come out slightly more favorably than those of another player. Often, the difference between a player ranked, say, 30th, and a player ranked 45th is smaller than you think. Tiers help account for those discrepancies by… Source link

Fifteen years after Ike Diogu was a first-round NBA draft pick, Nigerians are setting records. Diogu was the lone Nigerian-American among a group of international players selected back in 2005. This year, a whole starting five and then some could be built from all the picks with Nigerian ties. ”I saw the wave that was coming, but I was just happy the rest of the world got to see it,” said the 37-year-old Diogu, the captain of Nigerian national team. The NBA hailed last week’s draft as… Source link

The Telegraph How Diego Maradona’s life spiralled to leave him a hobbling, arthritic shadow of his former self The final moments of Asif Kapadia’s magnificent film Diego Maradona are almost too painful to watch. To a soundtrack of an interview conducted when he was at the peak of his powers in Napoli, when he talks of the football pitch being a refuge, a sanctuary, a place of freedom where he could express himself without fear, we see Maradona in his late fifties attempting to play… Source link

Free agent center DeMarcus Cousins has agreed to a contract with the Houston Rockets, The Athletic’s Shams Charania reports. ESPN’s Tim McMahon reports that the deal is for one year. Can Cousins rebound after rash of injuries? Cousins, 30 hasn’t played since the 2019 playoffs with the Golden State Warriors during their run to the NBA Finals against the Toronto Raptors. A four-time All-Star and two-time All-NBA player, Cousins’ career has been derailed by injuries since he suffered an… Source link

MMA Weekly UFC 255 results: Valentina Shevchenko continues to dominate flyweight division UFC flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko passed a strong test from Jennifer Maia at UFC 255 on Saturday in Las Vegas. Though Maia was tough and pressed Shevchenko, the champion proved why she is considered one fo the top fighters on the planet. Shevchenko has been stellar during her UFC tenure. Though she lost one time – to Liz Carmouche – prior to stepping into the Octagon, the only fighter to… Source link

NBA veteran Wesley Matthews is leaving one contender for another. The 34-year-old sent a picture of a Los Angeles Lakers jersey to Yahoo Sports’ Chris Haynes as soon as free agency opened on Friday evening. Matthews intends to join the defending champion Lakers on a one-year, $3.6 million deal, per The Athletic’s Shams Charania. The 6-foot-4 wing played for the Milwaukee Bucks on a veteran’s minimum contract last season, starting 67 games and averaging 7.2 points on 36.4% shooting from… Source link

At any given time, around 15% of NBA rosters are made up of guys who went undrafted. These are really talented guys — Jeremy Lin, Udonis Haslem, JJ Barea — that teams just had not caught up with. Or who had questions about parts of their game but go on to prove they can fix or overcome those issues. That was also true of the wide-open 2020 NBA Draft; some outstanding players got passed over. Here are five players to watch who went undrafted. • Devon Dotson, 6’2″ point guard, Kansas.… Source link

ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports NFL Week 11 picks My two-game lead has been squandered. A pathetic 6-8 performance last week in the straight-up category, coupled with MDS going 9-5, gives MDS a one-game edge through 10 weeks. He also picked up three games against the spread, 7-6-1 vs. 4-9-1. MDS is now 92-57, and I’m 91-58. Against the spread, I’m still holding a [more] Source link