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MMA Weekly UFC 259 bonuses all go to preliminary fighters Though UFC 259 features three championship fights, none of the athletes in any of those title fights earned UFC 259 bonuses. All of the UFC 259 official performance bonuses went to preliminary card fighters. UFC 259 Fight of the Night: Kennedy Nzechukwu vs. Carlos Ulberg Kennedy Nzechukwu and Carlos Ulberg each earned an additional $50,000 for their efforts in the UFC 259 Fight of the Night. Ulberg started things off with a brutal head… Source link

Blake Griffin cleared waivers and is expected to sign with the Brooklyn Nets, The Athletic’s Shams Charania reports. The 31-year-old power forward reached a buyout with the Detroit Pistons last week. The rebuilding Pistons reportedly attempted to trade Griffin prior to the agreement, but a contract that owed him $39 million next season proved prohibitive. Can Blake Griffin help the Nets? A six-time All-Star, Griffin will likely take on a bench role in Brooklyn for the first time in his career… Source link

Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Durant will have to quarantine for seven days after having close contact with a team employee who tested positive for COVID-19, Yahoo Sports has learned. On Friday, a team employee drove in a car with Durant three separate times — to the practice facility, back home from testing and to the arena for the game. Durant and the team employee were seemingly not wearing facemasks during these interactions. The team employee initially tested inconclusive, which led to… Source link

It took a wild rally in the final 10 seconds at Capital One Arena, but the Washington Wizards knocked off the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday afternoon. The Wizards, after Russell Westbrook and Bradley Beal hit a pair of clutch 3-pointers in the span of about four seconds, upset the Nets 149-146. “This was one of the craziest if not the craziest game I’ve ever been around,” Wizards coach Scott Brooks said, via The Athletic’s Fred Katz. Scott Brooks was later than usual to his postgame media… Source link

The new-look Nets barely won their first game on Saturday over an injury-riddled Heat team, 128-124. Miami, without Jimmy Butler, Tyler Herro, or Meyers Leonard, was within three points with 15 seconds to play. Steve Nash and his coaching staff have a lot to work on with the Kyrie Irving–Kevin Durant–James Harden Nets, and while that isn’t a shock so soon after the blockbuster trade for Harden, it’s been disappointing to see Brooklyn stumble through its last three games. The team fell to the… Source link

The James Harden era in Brooklyn has begun, and it already looks quite like the James Harden era in Houston. The star guard notched 32 points, 14 assists and 11 rebounds to record a triple-double in his debut with the Nets, who win 122-115 over the Orlando Magic. Kevin Durant also seemed to enjoy playing with Harden, dropping 42 points with plenty of help from his current and former teammate. Harden waited until late in the first quarter to score his first Nets points, employing his signature… Source link

Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal had plenty of thoughts about the blockbuster trade that sent Houston Rockets star James Harden to the Brooklyn Nets. The duo addressed the trade on “NBA on TNT” on Thursday night, and didn’t have much sympathy for Harden — especially after his exit. Shaq: ‘When it comes time to show up, he ain’t show up’ Barkley kept it simple, issuing a perfect new nickname for Kevin Durant’s new teammates — who he doesn’t think can live up to Steph… Source link

The curious case of Brooklyn Nets point guard Kyrie Irving is growing only more complicated. Irving has missed Brooklyn’s past three games for undisclosed personal reasons and has been ruled out for Tuesday’s game against the Denver Nuggets under the same circumstances. According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Nets also expect Irving to miss the team’s two remaining games this week, at a minimum. Meanwhile, the NBA is launching an investigation into a video of Irving allegedly… Source link

It wasn’t the exact spot, but the same gait, the same pace for Kevin Durant when he announced to the basketball world that the torch was his three years ago. That pull-up triple he hit in LeBron James’ face in the NBA Finals was easy money, be it with the Golden State Warriors or against them, in a crowded arena or an empty gym, at grand opening or grand closing. The reasons why Durant didn’t receive his due flowers are myriad, but mostly invalid. The fact he’s putting the world on… Source link

Suffice it to say, Charles Barkley isn’t a big fan of the Brooklyn Nets these days. Not only did he lay into Kyrie Irving on ESPN Radio Thursday for his recent treatment of the media, but Barkley also decided he wants to see James Harden join Brooklyn’s point guard and Kevin Durant — for essentially the opposite reason any Nets fan would. “I want to see James, KD and Kyrie together with that New York media. That’s just my dream scenario… I want that more than anything in the… Source link