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Well, Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade didn't exactly shut down any ongoing speculation. "It's a business," he said in a recent interview. Wade, of course, would not go out and say it is for sure rigged, "because I'm not a witness in it." "But this is a business that we are a part of. And I think people forget that in the competition of sports and what we love, because we grow up playing sports, and it's not a business when we grow up. But when you're in the NBA, it's a business. And the business has to do its best job to make sure that, you know, it's taken care of," he said.
Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla was asked about the declining ratings, and one would think the coach of the reigning champions would defend his game — but that was not the case. "I add to that I don’t watch NBA games. I’m just as much of a problem as everyone else," Mazzulla admitted, adding he'd "rather watch something else. "I don't like watching the games."
Trinity, who plays for the Washington Spirit of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), reflected on the strained relationship she has with her father, despite his efforts to help maintain a close public image. She insisted she finds it "frustrating" whenever she is doing interviews and is asked about her father, due to the "trauma" that she has held inside about him. "I think we never want to make him look bad, and that is at the cost of kind of holding in a lot and a lot of issues that we’ve gone through and just trauma per se," she said in the episode. "I just feel like I’ve been in a place of going through interviews where people are like, ‘Oh, was your dad there? What’s your dad feeling?’ and I feel like I try to make it obvious that I don’t know."
"It's just hard because it's like even now I'm trying to be honest about it, and I'm still giving him sympathy, which is frustrating for me because in reality, I think he's an extremely selfish human being," she said. "I think everything has always been about him. He's gone through s---, but at the same time, I'm like, he loves the spotlight. He loves the cameras. He loves bringing his children on stage and being like, ‘Oh, these are my kids.’ All that stuff and even the mind… the mind f---, but like, for me emotionally, he's put me through like, oh my gosh."
Trinity added that she doesn't have her father's number saved in her phone and that they will often go months without talking at all. But despite their long gaps in communicating, she claimed that he will still reach out to her to invite her to appear in a reality TV show alongside him.
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O'Neal then mentioned Curry specifically. "Steph Curry and those guys messed it up. I don’t mind Golden State back in the day shooting threes, but every team isn’t a 3-point shooter. So, why everybody has the same strategy? I think it makes the game boring," O'Neal said. "The game has already been perfect ever since Naismith created it," Shaq added. "This new era of humans f----d it up. … Golden State came in and changed it.
Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers gave his thoughts on Donald Trump's election win, saying Americans must stand behind the next president. "Donald Trump is our president, and we're going to have to support him. We want him to do the best job for the country at the end of the day," Rivers told reporters after practice Wednesday. "Do I like some of the things that he does? No. But now he's getting a second chance to be a better president than he was the first time, and I hope he is. I'm cheering for him. I really am."
Ballsack Sports, which FOS profiled last year, saw its manufactured quotes from athletes and coaches boosted as actual news by ESPN, Fox News, and other outlets. The man behind Ballsack Sports sounded like a proud father when talking about NBA Centel. “Centel has a knack for going viral consistently,” the Ballsack Sports founder, who wished to remain anonymous, recently told FOS. “I think you have those 5% of users that are well-versed on the inner workings of the basketball Twitter space and are ‘in’ on the joke. Then you have the rest of that 95% that probably aren’t as engaged with the app and so are more vulnerable to the bait.”
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"When we heard Minnesota, it was pretty shocking," she said in a video posted to her TikTok account. "Although we were so ready to leave New York. Living in a condo with two kids is so hard."
Kendra also noted that a move to the Midwest or another part of the U.S. was already under consideration, citing the Randle family's openness to a different lifestyle. "It was a great experience, but we were already looking to move outside of the city," she explained. "It was just getting so hard and overwhelming for us because my husband's from Texas, and I'm from Kentucky, and that's just not how we grew up."
He admitted, with a smile, that it "hurt" to see some players receive arguably undeserving deals. Oden said he probably made around $24 million in his career. "The year I retired was the year Timofey Mozgov – no disrespect – got that $50 million. I wanted to kill everybody in the f---ing world," Oden said. "I hated life. I was depressed. If they threw him $50 mil? I was like all I need to do is be on the team and that's $20 million easy. It hurts my heart talking about it."
Mark Cuban, a billionaire and investor on reality television show Shark Tank, says he would be interested in purchasing both Fox News and X—with some caveats. Cuban expressed his interest in an interview with Wired, after writer Lauren Goode asked him about the boomer generation, or, as he calls it, the “Fox News” generation. “You buy Fox News,” Cuban said when asked how the generation could be fixed. “If I had enough money to do it, which I don’t, I’d buy it in a heartbeat.” He posits that it would take between $15 and $20 billion to turn the network around, and he simply doesn’t have the cash.
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