Rumors

Shams Charania: Walter has been a minority stakeholder in the Lakers since 2021 and has interests in multiple professional sports organizations, including the LA Dodgers, WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks, the Billie Jean Cup, Cadillac Formula 1 team and the Professional Women's Hockey League.

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The league will comprise six men’s and six women’s teams, with games played in eight cities around the world with two weeks in each city, the people said. The global rotation is modeled on a similar schedule to that of Formula 1 races. Singapore is one of the markets where games will be played.

Bloomberg

This weekend's Celtics-Nuggets games are the biggest yet the NBA has staged at Etihad Arena on Yas Island, part of a sparkling sports and entertainment complex that has amusement parks, a golf course that hosts a DP World Tour golf playoff event and a racetrack where the Formula 1 season culminates each year. Over the past three years, six NBA preseason games and four Team USA exhibition games have been played in Abu Dhabi. The crowds are large and diverse, made up largely of expats and tourists. In July, a record crowd of more than 12,000 fans attended a Team USA exhibition game against Australia, thousands lining up in the midsummer heat just to watch the Americans warm up. The NBA has more preseason games in Abu Dhabi on the way in the future as part of a long-term contract signed in 2021.

ESPN

Indiana Pacers: Pascal Siakam attended the @F1 Austrian Grand Prix today and helped present the trophy at the podium 🏎️🔥

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O’Neal also expressed an interest in investing in F1, “even though I can’t fit in one of those damn cars,” he said.

Bloomberg

Last year, at the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix, Martin Brundle thought he got Patrick Mahomes for a prerace interview. Instead, among the crowd, Brundle was actually interviewing Paolo Banchero. Banchero, at first, ignored Brundle. Not surprising if someone is trying to get your attention by calling you by the wrong name. But Banchero had a laugh, and Brundle got roasted for the gaffe.

Awful Announcing

For this year’s race, Brundle found Banchero on the grid and caught up with him in a much better interaction than last year.

Awful Announcing

TSN Sports: Joel Embiid’s reaction to Max Verstappen winning the F1 title

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Formula 1: Roll up, roll up! @SHAQ arrives to the podium in an EPIC longhorn car to present the trophies #USGP #F1

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Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll have won £15,000 for charity by winning a free-throw contest as Formula One and NBA stars linked up ahead of the United States Grand Prix. F1 comes to town in Austin, Texas this weekend, with Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton first and second after first practice.

Daily Mail

The pair sunk nine out of 20 free throws to win a contest between several Formula One teams They took part alongside NBA legends Dikembe Mutombo, Chris Bosh, Sean Elliott and Fabricio Oberto in the paddock at the Circuit of the Americas, the venue of the race, on Thursday.

Daily Mail

The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Formula 1® (F1) today announced a first-of-its-kind content and promotion partnership to bring together the broad, global fanbases of the NBA and F1 in celebration of the NBA’s 75th Anniversary season and the return of F1 to the U.S. at the 2021 FORMULA 1 UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX™ on Sunday, Oct. 24 in Austin, Texas.

NBA.com

On Thursday, Oct. 21, ESPN will host F1 drivers as they battle it out off the track in a free throw challenge at an NBA 75th Anniversary-themed basketball half-court within the Circuit of the Americas paddock. NBA legends will be onsite to meet the drivers and provide shooting tips as they compete to make the most free throws out of 10, with $20,000 up for grabs to be donated to the winner’s charity of choice.

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