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Harper, a 6-foot-4 guard who is projected to be picked No. 2 overall in next Wednesday’s first round, will throw out the first pitch at Yankees Stadium on Sunday, when the Yankees host the Baltimore Orioles. Bailey, the 6-foot-7 forward whose potential draft position is all over the map, will throw out the first pitch at Citi Field on Tuesday, when the Mets host the Atlanta Braves.
Rick Pitino on interest with Knicks job: 'Absolutely not'
On Wednesday night, Pitino threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the New York Yankees game. He then made an appearance on the broadcast and was asked about the job. Pitino didn't leave the door open at all. “Absolutely not,” Pitino said when he was asked about the Knicks job.
The Yankees were playing again Saturday on the other side of the country as the Knicks hosted Game 3 of the second round against the Celtics at the Garden, where they suffered a lopsided 115-93 loss. “It’s been tough to catch a game,” Judge said before Saturday’s 11-7 loss to the A’s at Sutter Health Park. “But I’ve been seeing the highlights, seeing what they’re doing. It’s impressive, especially going up against Boston. They just won it, the former champs. “And for [the Knicks] to have a two-game lead, it’s pretty impressive. They’ve been up. They’ve been down big. Come back with some great clutch plays at the end on the offensive side and defensive side. I wish we could catch a game.”
Sphere’s shares on Friday were recently up 10% at $29 on the news. The company confirmed the news, which was exclusively reported by The Post on Thursday, in securities filings before the market open. MSG and YES — which airs the Yankees and Brooklyn Nets — now partner on the Gotham Sports App, with access to both networks costing $41.99 a month. Customers can also elect to pay $29.99 a month for MSG or $24.99 a month for YES. MSGN had faced a deadline at midnight Monday to avoid bankruptcy, and got an extension to Thursday as the network and bank feverishly tried to hammer out a truce.
Grousbeck and partner Steve Pagliuca led a group that purchased the Celtics in 2002 for $360 million. Franchise valuations have since skyrocketed, with the Phoenix Suns being sold for $4 billion to Mat Ishbia in February 2023, the Milwaukee Bucks being sold to Jimmy and Dee Haslam for $3.5 billion several weeks later, and the Mavericks being sold to the Adelson and Dumont families for $3.5 billion in December 2023. The Celtics are one of the iconic franchises in professional sports, with an NBA record 18 NBA titles -- trailing only the New York Yankees (27) and Montreal Canadiens (24) among all North American professional sports leagues.
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"He was always a good guy to talk to," Albert said in our phone chat of Burke, who was previously president and CEO of the New York Yankees before moving into a similar role with MSG and the Knicks. "But he surprised me by saying: 'You know … we're trying to get Kareem.' " Burke surprised Albert again when the Knicks' radio voice asked him: "Can I use this on the air?" Invited to do so, Albert proceeded to break the story on WNBC-TV's 6 PM broadcast as the station's sports anchor, then discussed it further on the Knicks' radio pregame show that night as well as during a home victory over Portland.
Over his decades-long career, Trautwig covered the Knicks, Yankees, Rangers, New York Marathon and the Olympics. Trautwig worked for ABC and NBC, covering a total of 16 Olympics. He then went on to have a 30-plus year career as a studio analyst for MSG Networks where he was known for his unique approach to sports coverage and pregame shows for Knicks and Rangers games.
Unfortunately for Riley, he wasn’t able to put three-peat to use for his own team. While the Lakers made it to the 1989 NBA Finals, they lost to the Detroit Pistons. But it didn’t take long for Riley to profit. The Chicago Bulls, led by Michael Jordan, won the NBA Finals three years in a row from 1991 to 1993. Riley, in turn, earned licensing fees and, if negotiated, other types of revenue such as royalties and portions of profits, from sports apparel and merchandise companies that used “three-peat” in ways covered by the trademarks. Riley’s licensing take, ESPN estimated 20 years ago, was about $300,000 from the Bulls’ run. Riley earned additional compensation when the Bulls scored their second three-peat from 1996 to 1998, when the New York Yankees won three straight World Series from 1998 to 2000, and when Riley’s old team, the Lakers, won the NBA title in 2000, 2001 and 2002. Riley has said he’s given most of the three-peat money to charities.
Diablos Rojos is owned by Santiago’s father, billionaire and San Diego Padres part owner Alfredo Harp Helú. Diablos is a famous Mexican League baseball franchise that hosted the New York Yankees for a game during spring training last season and started a basketball franchise in the Mexican national league this year. Sources close to the Harp family said Santiago, who is being groomed by his father, has an interest in bringing an NBA or WNBA franchise to Mexico City.
The 2024 World Series might have been short, but the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees still proved they can draw viewers. Especially in Japan. This year's Fall Classic averaged 12.1 million viewers in the home country of Dodgers stars Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, MLB announced Friday. That's a larger audience than the 11.3 million viewers the 2024 NBA Finals averaged earlier this year, when the Boston Celtics defeated the Dallas Mavericks.
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While Michael Jordan and LeBron James receive high praise from Shawn Marion, while chatting on Scoop B Selects, Marion also shared love for the late great, Kobe Bryant. Marion shared that Bryant was one contemporary that he wished was his teammate. “I used to want to play with Kobe,” he shared. “I almost had a chance there too, but I really wanted to play with Kobe. Why not go to the Lakers in La-La Land? The Lakers and when you think about organizations in each sport, there are at least two organizations in each sport that stand out above everybody and that’s of course the Lakers and the Boston Celtics because of the rivalries they had history and then you go football, it’s the [Dallas] Cowboys and maybe the [New York] Giants and baseball it’s the Yankees and the Dodgers. And then you can look at hockey — I don’t know because I’m a Blackhawks fan, so I don’t care about all the other hockey teams that are supposed to be the “it” hockey teams! So you know, but every sport has the team ‘That always wins championships’ and they have more championships than others and those are teams that stand out more than everybody.”
With record attendance and record sponsorship, the 2023-24 season was a banner year for the NBA, producing some $13 billion in league-wide revenue. But that number could see another double-digit-percentage jump this season—and that doesn’t even account for the national media deals the league signed over the summer. (The new contracts take effect next season and come with a roughly $4 billion annual raise over the old agreements.) The relentless rise in revenue is sending the value of the league’s 30 franchises skyward, to an average of $4.4 billion, up 15% from last year. No team would sell for less than $3 billion, Forbes now estimates, and three clubs are worth at least $7 billion: the Golden State Warriors ($8.8 billion), the New York Knicks ($7.5 billion) and the Los Angeles Lakers ($7.1 billion). Only five other teams in any sport—the $7.55 billion New York Yankees and four NFL franchises, led by the $10.1 billion Dallas Cowboys—currently reach that lofty threshold.
Sean Cunningham: Kevin Huerter talks about his return to action following his offseason shoulder surgery, being ready for opening night on Thursday, being re-inserted into the starting five and his love of the New York Yankees in the World Series. pic.x.com/vQDyPQUSxV
Kevin Huerter talks about his return to action following his offseason shoulder surgery, being ready for opening night on Thursday, being re-inserted into the starting five and his love of the New York Yankees in the World Series. pic.twitter.com/vQDyPQUSxV
— Sean Cunningham (@SeanCunningham) October 23, 2024
Jerry Ferrara has a long list of names he wants to have appear on his new "Throwbacks" sports podcast with Matt Leinart ... but there's one person he's got highlighted at the very top of it -- New York Knicks superstar Jalen Brunson. TMZ Sports spoke with the former "Entourage" and "Power" actor about his project with the Heisman Trophy winner ... and he's excited to chat weekly with his cohost about all things sports and life in general. Ferrara explained it's not going to be all Xs and Os -- he's going to give the perspective of a true sports fan ... as he has a lifetime of experience from cheering for his beloved Yankees, Giants and Knicks.
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