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Once TNT agreed to televise more than 45 games on TNT, truTV and Max, all in prime time, for $100 million over six years (with a three-year out), the league was solid oak. A $7 million seed round turned into a $28 million Series A, with A-list investors such as Carmelo Anthony, Michael Phelps, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Marc Lasry. Ally (which will have its logo on the front of all jerseys) was joined by partners such as Ticketmaster, Miller Lite and Under Armour.
Richie first heard about Bryant from Mike Phelps, who was the winningest coach in California boys basketball history after eclipsing 829 wins in 2003 at Bishop O’Dowd. Phelps told Richie that instead of being at summer school, Bryant elected to play with the Oakland Soldiers in an AAU tournament in Las Vegas. The decision had made him ineligible for the first semester of the high school season in Bryant’s junior year. He graduated in ‘03. When Bryant returned from Vegas for the school year, Richie, a former guard at Clemson and UCLA, offered a deal. “I’ll train you and work you out if you let me show you how to become a student,” Richie said.
“It’s a team sport,” Edwards said. “If I wanted to punch my chest and do that, I’d go play golf or tennis or swimming like Michael Phelps. I’d go do something that’s an individual sport. But it takes five guys to win a basketball game.”
America’s fastest-growing sport continues to attract high-profile investors from entertainment and sports with Tuesday’s announcement of Major League Pickleball’s 12 new teams for 2023. Kevin Durant, Heidi Klum, Eva Longoria, Michael Phelps and Tom Ricketts are among the dozens of investors in the clubs.
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More than 115 different athletes, coaches and sports personalities from 13 different countries have joined together to raise money for a COVID-19 response fund aimed at providing assistance for individuals fighting the global pandemic. Simone Biles, Mark Cuban, Stephen Curry, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Tony Hawk, Rose LaVelle, Jack Nicklaus, Michael Phelps, David Ortiz and Michael Strahan are just some of the athletes from more than 20 different sports who have donated items that will be raffled off to donors who make a minimum $25 donation.
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Since Love last played a game, his promotional web series for Schick Hydro, in which he talks mental health with teammate Channing Frye, former NBA great Paul Pierce and Olympic legend Michael Phelps, has aired in its entirety. And now this. “There’s been so many movements — whether it be LGBT, civil rights, #MeToo,” Love said Thursday. “I feel like men are so far behind that we need to allow ourselves … to speak a different language in a way. And that’s being better men, holding ourselves accountable, but also to be vulnerable and to speak our truths. Because nothing haunts, nothing haunts like the things we don’t say.”
James had a two-hand hammer dunk early on in the fourth quarter of the Cavs' eventual 120-116 win and pointed to Phelps, who was sitting with his wife, Nicole Johnson, on the floor to the left of the basket on that end of the court. "It's just funny," Phelps told ESPN when asked about James' in-game acknowledgement. "I was just talking to people who were sitting around us and they were like, 'Did he just point at you or is he pointing at me?' And I was like, 'Yeah, I don't really know.' And then he drills a 3. It was awesome. Being able to come watch these guys play is always a treat and they gave us so much love over in The [Olympic] Games and being able to just come and see them when they're here in Phoenix is, like I said, a true treat to come and watch."
James collected 24 first-place votes, beating out a pair of Olympic legends: Michael Phelps (16) and Usain Bolt (9), the fastest men in water and on land who are not accustomed to finishing behind anyone. Chicago Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant, the NL MVP who led his team to its first World Series title since 1908, tied for fourth with Golden State star guard Stephen Curry, last year’s winner. Cristiano Ronaldo, Von Miller and Andy Murray also received votes. James joined Michael Jordan as the only NBA players to win twice. Jordan won it three straight years from 1991-94.
Three-time gold medalist and four-time Olympian Carmelo Anthony is one of five candidates for the USOC Male Athlete of the Olympic Games. Anthony averaged 12.1 points and 5.2 rebounds in eight games. Track and field’s Matthew Centrowitz, BMX cycler Connor Fields, wrestling’s Kyle Snyder, and swimming’s Michael Phelps are the other candidates
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