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LeBron James: I SECOND THAT!!! Congratulations my fellow flag bearer @CocoGauff 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🤎

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“Basketball is the biggest sport we have in our country,” he explained, “Jokic is phenomenal. Honestly, what he does, how he does it. And also, the way he goes about his private life. People thought at the beginning that he was fake, that he was like not interested in anything except his family and his horses. But that’s really everything he is interested in, truthfully, honestly. I really respect that.” “He’s such a talent, he also works hard, and he has got a huge basketball IQ, and just to see him dominate with incredible athletes in American basketball is just something we are all very proud of,” he added, “We all support him.”

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LeBron James said he’s “happy to have helped” Mirra Andreeva win the Indian Wells title on Sunday after the teenage tennis sensation says she drew inspiration from one of his old interviews. The 17-year-old Andreeva beat world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in Sunday’s final to become the youngest woman since Martina Hingis in 1997 to win back-to-back WTA 1000 (previously Tier I) titles after also picking up the trophy at the Dubai Championships two weeks ago.

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Speaking to the tennis channel on Monday, Andreeva said: “I was listening to an interview with LeBron James and he was saying that even if you don’t play your 100% or even if you don’t feel you’re 100% physically, I’m going to choose to be 100% mentally. He said that’s what makes us champions, so I kind of tried to do the same. It didn’t really work in the beginning, but in the end, I managed to overcome that to really go for my shots and act like one of the legends.”

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Adam Zagoria: Jimmy Butler is in Qatar playing against and supporting his buddy Carlos Alcaraz who just beat Marin Cilic

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ClutchPoints: US Open Champion Jannik Sinner signed a tennis themed basketball for Steph Curry 🔥 (via @usopen )

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US Open Tennis: The stars are beginning to arrive! @StephenCurry30 in the house.

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NBA on ESPN: Some NBA legends spotted at the US Open 🎾🏀 ⭐ Tracy McGrady ⭐ Jalen Rose ⭐ Juwan Howard ⭐ Dwyane Wade pic.x.com/9ofmpgo1uv

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Defending U.S. Open champion Coco Gauff says it’s “really cool” that Cooper Flagg has signed with New Balance and is looking forward to watching the Duke freshman during March Madness.

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“That’s really cool,” she said in response to a question from NJ Advance Media after her straight-sets first-round win over Varvara Gracheva of France. “I know New Balance is trying to get more into basketball. That’s really exciting to have another person part of the family, and excited to see him do great things. Hopefully I get to meet him.”

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Wimbledon: Who better to welcome @russwest44 to SW19, than @DjokerNole 🏀🎾 #Wimbledon

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NBA: Curry x Djokovic 🏀🎾

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Novak Djokovic recalled watching Nikola Jokic play in Serbia once. And another time in Turkey, when Jokic was suiting up for the Serbian national team. But this was Djokovic’s first time rooting for his friend live at an NBA game. Jokic supplied 35 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists. So, as he was saying … “What he has done for not just Serbian basketball but European basketball in general is incredible,” Djokovic continued after Jokic turned the other way. “He has rewritten the history books in the last three years, and he just keeps going. He is in his prime. He’s the best. We’re super proud of him. I’m a great supporter of him, everything he does. We didn’t have too many athletes like him in the history (of Serbia), so he’s right up there. And he still isn’t finished.”

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Djokovic considers basketball the “No. 1 sport” in Serbia. He’s enough of a hoops fan to remember Jokic playing in the Serbian and Adriatic leagues as a fringe NBA prospect a decade ago. Eventually, as Jokic’s status grew, the two athletes met through mutual friends. They ran into each other at a couple of sporting events in Serbia. They developed a mutual fandom that extended to congratulatory texts from Djokovic to Jokic during the Nuggets’ 2023 playoff run.

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