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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Klay roasts Eason after torching Rockets in Warriors’ win  Yahoo Sports Source link

Shares of Taboola.com Ltd. skyrocketed 53.3% to pace all premarket gainers Monday, after the provider of recommendations for online editorial content and advertisements announced an exclusive 30-year commercial agreement with Yahoo. As part of the agreement, Taboola will power native advertising across all Yahoo digital properties, which is expected to drive more than 800 billion impressions, and Yahoo will receive 24.99% of Taboola’s outstanding shares, which would make Yahoo the… Source link

Our sister website, HoopsHype, is wrapping up its rankings of the five primary position groups across the NBA entering the 2022-23 season, as voted upon by their team of writers and editors. This week, HoopsHype revealed its aggregated list of the best centers, which is where second-year big man Alperen Sengun — the No. 16 overall pick in the first round of the 2021 class — is expected to become a first-time starter with the Houston Rockets this season. On that list, Sengun checks in at… Source link

The Houston Rockets paid a healthy John Wall $44.3 million to sit on their bench last season. (Carmen Mandato/Getty Images) John Wall’s strange tenure with the Houston Rockets is coming to an end. The Rockets have agreed to a buyout of the final year of Wall’s massive contract, sources told Yahoo Sports, paving the way for the five-time All-Star to resurrect his career with a competitive team. Wall’s agent Rich Paul, CEO of Klutch Sports, is meeting with Rockets general manager Rafael Stone… Source link

The Houston Rockets offered the Los Angeles Lakers a deal that would have swapped John Wall for Russell Westbrook, but the Lakers declined to include a first-round pick, sources told Yahoo Sports. The discussion ended because of the refusal to include the draft pick, sources said. The Lakers did not make any moves before the trade deadline despite losing six of their last eight games. Now, the Lakers will look to the buyout market, sources said. However, that path also looks dim to bring in a… Source link

Tempers flared inside the Houston Rockets locker room on Saturday night. Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. and center Christian Wood reportedly got into a heated exchange with assistant coach John Lucas at halftime. Lucas, , called those two and others out at halftime for their poor play — which prompted Porter to throw something inside the locker room before leaving the Toyota Center completely. Wood stayed, but refused to sub into the game in the second half. The Rockets, after hanging with… Source link

Stephen Silas didn’t return to the bench after leaving Wednesday’s Rockets-Cavaliers game in the first half. (Alex Bierens de Haan/Getty Images) Houston Rockets head coach Stephen Silas left the bench during the first half of Wednesday’s road game against the Cleveland Cavaliers. He didn’t return. The Rockets told reporters on the scene that Silas was dehydrated and needed to receive fluids in the locker room. Silas got up from the bench during a break in first-quarter play and pointed to… Source link

John Wall‘s absence only benefits the Houston Rockets‘ ability to lose games. Unless you consider being paid $44.3 million to not play at some cost to his own legacy a benefit for the 31-year-old five-time All-Star. The Rockets and Wall met on Sunday to discuss his future, and they left with little more clarity beyond the veteran’s desire to resume playing to his capability. Public discourse on the issue — largely framed as a refusal from Wall to accept less than a starting job — has… Source link

The meme stock craze has found its latest target: video game hardware maker Corsair (CRSR). The company’s stock was up 31% when the market opened on Monday to $40.70, its highest price since late February, as mentions of the company on Wall Street Bets’ (WSB) Reddit pages have exploded. As of Monday morning, the stock was mentioned at least 1,180 times on WSB, according to Quiver Quantitative. Wallstreetbets Trackers, meanwhile, showed activity around Corsair up 17%. Corsair follows a… Source link

Dogecoin takes its name and logo from the Shiba Inu dog in the “doge” meme that became popular on the internet that same year. Photo: Yuriko Nakao/Getty Images Dogecoin (DOGE-USD) has soared almost 200% to a new-all time high of $0.3922 (£0.28), riding a broader wave of interest in cryptocurrencies that has been cresting in recent days. The cryptocurrency, which first started up as a joke in 2013, now has a market cap of $33.4bn thanks to the recent surge. It puts the coin in the top 10… Source link