Polish javelin thrower Maria Andrejczyk auctioned off her Olympic silver medal to help send an 8-month-old boy to Stanford University for heart surgery.
Polish store chain Zabka won the auction with a bid of $125K, then returned the medal to her 🥈
Paul George:
“Late in the game. We out of timeouts, I look at Steven Adams and he’s scratching his face hard as f***. I’m like what are you doing? ‘Oh mate, we don’t have a timeout, I’m trying to bleed.’”
(via
@PodcastPShow
, )
Only
@russwest44
would be able to truly confirm this, and I doubt he will, but I'm told that he left a $8,000 tip for the Grand Floridian housekeepers when the
@HoustonRockets
left the NBA bubble.
Moreover, I'm told, he left the room virtually spotless.
“I just wanted to do something for my family. ... buy a house in Japan.”
#Wizards
rookie Rui Hachimura when I asked him about the
#NBA
lifestyle and the first thing he wanted to purchase after signing his rookie deal
@CNBC
#SportsBiz
🎥
MUST READ!
How Rui Hachimura is impacting the business of Monumental Basketball in Japan and worldwide.
#BeMonumental
FORBES: The NBA’s Most Marketable Rookie Not Named Zion
A wave of NBA players are switching numbers to honor Kobe Bryant & while
#Wizards
rookie Rui Hachimura saw Kobe as a role model he’s keeping his No. 8 for now
The number has family significance as ‘8’ translates to ‘Hachi’
Rui wore 8 in HS & last summer w/ Japanese nat’l team
The Warriors call a hammer okay where Wiggins was screening for Klay. Lebron sniffs this out immediately and directs AD to switch. What Draymond did getting stuck in the air with no pass means they don’t deserve to win this game.
"Pop came to my room, we were in Atlanta, and he told me that they traded me to Boston. I was pretty shocked. I didn't see it coming." - former Spur D. White on getting traded
#porvida
#BleedGreen
#nba75
Pop politely declined to talk about closing in on Don Nelson for the most career regular season NBA coaching wins.
Reporter shifts to asking Pop what his key to success has been.
Pop's reply: "Key to success? Draft Tim Duncan. After that, stay alive."
In a private ceremony w/my wife & close friends A.Mourning
@AnnMeyers
@billwalton
& others I accepted my
#HOF
ring. In ‘75 I refused being the 1st black player to go into the
@Hoophall
I felt others before me should have that honor. Good to see progress; ChuckCooperHOF19
@NBA
In an Instagram post, Dejounte Murray shows him reconnecting with his father for Father's Day after years of being apart.
"I just want a relationship with my dad before it's too late and not have one of us living with regrets of not being a man and fixing the problems we had."
but this is the best Vince Carter stat ever:
Carter has played with or against 38% of all players who have EVER PLAYED in the HISTORY of the NBA.
He's been teammates or matched up against 1,672 of the 4,509 players who have played in the league.
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