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The Utah Jazz are entering another NBA season ready for contention. The core of Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert has been together for a couple of years now and with Mitchell entering his prime soon, they must feel like time is running out. While they have had limited success in the last couple of years, […]

The Toronto Raptors had a very disappointing season in 2020-21. The squad never fully recovered after losing All-Star forward Kawhi Leonard and while they made the postseason in the NBA Bubble last summer, the season that just passed was a realistic showing of strength for the roster. Now, coming into this season, the only Canadian […]

The Washington Wizards are coming into the next NBA season after a very unusual past couple of years. The squad from the capital has been in disarray for a couple of seasons now, with increasing rumors about trading star guard Bradley Beal surrounding the team constantly. Additionally, now-former Wizards guard John Wall completely failed to […]

The New Orleans Pelicans completed another disappointing season, failing to reach the Playoffs for the third year in a row and the fifth time in six years. However, there is hope in Louisiana, as forward Zion Williamson finally played an extended number of minutes, without any major restrictions. Going forward, the Pelicans will need to […]

The Philadelphia 76ers disappointed their fans once again in April. A team that was being hyped-up for a very long time centered around Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons hit another roadblock in their path to a championship the city desires. However, rather than the roadblock being the Kawhi Leonard-led Raptors or a strong Boston squad […]

The Atlanta Hawks stopped a three-year playoff drought last season, surprising absolutely everyone with a run to the Eastern Conference Finals. There, the Trae Young-led team went to six games but ultimately could not deal with Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks. Still, for a team led by a soon-to-be 23-year-old in his third year […]

Manchester City reached the final of the Champions League last season for the first time in their history. The squad led by coach Pep Guardiola was dominant in England and in Europe, but had no response to the Thomas Tuchel-led Chelsea in the final. A few months later, the Citizens enter the competition as the […]

The Portland Trailblazers have made the last eight postseasons, and they became a very consistent team in the volatile and strong Western Conference. Unfortunately for Blazers fans, the team has only made it to the Conference Finals once, and past the first two rounds 2 other times. Their success came during the peak years of […]

Paris Saint Germain is entering the new season as one of the best squads ever assembled in the history of football. An already legendary attack of Kylian Mbappe, Neymar Jr. and Mauro Icardi was further strengthened by adding one of the greatest players in the world, Lionel Messi. A somewhat shaky defense was strengthened by […]

The Boston Celtics made the Eastern Conference Finals in three of four seasons prior to 2020-21, but things didn’t go as planned for them last season. The C’s were routed by the Kevin Durant-led Nets in five games, with only a gargantuan effort by Jayson Tatum in Game 3, when he scored 50 points, stopping […]

As the popular Christmas Carol says, it is the most beautiful time of the year, as soccer fans rejoice at the start of the Champions League. The biggest and the most prestigious club competition in the world has given us so many great memories in the last couple of years. One of these was the 2019/20 […]

Tyson Fury is one of the best boxers around. His record of 30-0-1 is iconic, and the two-time heavyweight champion of the world is definitely a legend of the sport. That’s not what this post is about, though. This is about Tyson Fury’s wife Paris Fury. While most is known about the Gypsy King, his […]

In less than a week, the world’s biggest club competition will start, as the best European teams will enter pitches around the continent to kick off the Champions League. The title holders, Chelsea, will start their campaign in London against Zenit St. Petersburg on September 14th, and the rest of their group is filled with […]

The UEFA Champions League is starting on the 14th of September and soccer fans worldwide are more than excited about who will raise the trophy in May of 2022. It will be a bombastic opening, with the first week featuring a rematch between Bayern Munich and Barcelona, after the Bavarians routed the Catalans out of […]

The New York Knicks ended a 7-year playoff drought last year, and while they did go out in the first round to the Atlanta Hawks, the storied franchise still made strides towards exiting their circle of incompetency. Additions of primarily Julius Randle, but also the likes of Derrick Rose, clearly pushed the roster ahead of […]

The USMNT secured a huge win away from home, beating Honduras 4-1 at the Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano on Wednesday night. These wins might end up being the difference between booking a ticket for Qatar next year and staying home. US took an early deficit through the goal of Brayan Moya but goals from Antonee Robinson, […]

Manchester United broke the internet during the last couple days of the summer transfer window. When it seemed like it was all said and done and their rivals Manchester City were getting the former United winger Cristiano Ronaldo, the Red Devils got into the deal at the last second, hijacking it completely and adding the […]

Serie A has been largely dominated by Juventus in the last decade, but a strong showing by Inter Milan last year has stopped Juventus for winning the title 10 years in a row. After an exciting season, the summer was equally exciting, with many teams trying to join the battle for a wide-open title race. […]

It is easy to forget that other players can win the Ballon d’Or given Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo dominated the field for such a long time. After the win of Luka Modric temporarily broke the domination in 2018 before Messi won again in 2019, all signs are pointing toward a new winner in 2021. […]

La Liga has gone through tectonic changes this summer. One of the best players of all time, Lionel Messi, could not continue at Barcelona due to financial issues the club is experiencing, and thus the Spanish top-flight lost a huge part of its draw. However, this does not mean that other teams were not active […]

The English Premier League is widely regarded to be the best league in the world, and the teams in England are working very hard to keep that reputation. Several teams from EPL were very active in the transfer window and improved their squads greatly. Here are the three best signings in the Premier League this […]

Real Madrid has had a very turbulent summer. The Spanish club led by Florentino Perez, a controversial figure in the footballing world, firstly lost their coach, after Zinedine Zidane decided that it is time for a break. Afterwards, Perez led the effort to start an alternative to the Champions League, the European Super League, and […]

Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the best players who has ever played the beautiful game. The Portuguese maestro has conquered Portugal, England, Spain and Italy with his football teams, and he also conquered Europe in 2016 with his national team. It seems like he has nothing to prove anymore. However, as everyone is aware, Ronaldo […]

After an incredibly busy summer, it seems like the Boston Celtics are slowly settling to the new state of their franchise. Former general manager, Danny Ainge, has left his post and he has been replaced by the former coach of the team, Brad Stevens. While it seems like all the moves have been done, it […]

The Ball family is an ongoing entertainment show. From the new Los Angeles Lakers guard Lonzo Ball controversially stating that old rappers are irrelevant, to his younger brother LaMelo getting signature sneakers and getting a Lamborghini for his 16th birthday, this family is worth following. As it was mentioned, LaMelo Ball has gotten signature sneakers […]

The whole Paul George saga of this summer was unusual from start to finish. The story started with reports coming out that George was not happy. Many team names were thrown around, yet the absolute outsider, the Oklahoma City Thunder, managed to snatch the All-Star forward from Indiana. To make things weirder, the package received […]

The story of the basketball summer, other than the Kyrie Irving trade drama, has been the EuroBasket 2017. While many NBA players decided to skip the tournament, such as Denver Nuggets young stud Nikola Jokic, others have joined their national teams. One pair of brothers never missed out on playing for their countries. Of course, […]

League of Legends is one of the most played games in the world right now. With over a 100 million users each month, the game has become an online phenomenon. There are tournaments around the world with multi-million dollar prize-pools, and there are serious teams out there which rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars […]

Houston Rockets guard Chris Paul is one of the best players in the NBA. He built up a reputation of being an amazing passer, great defender, and, in general, one of the best playmakers in recent memory. Paul has also done it for two different franchises over his whole career, which earned him a lot […]

San Antonio Spurs legend Tony Parker had a great postseason, but it was cut short by an left quadriceps muscle injury. The Frenchman averaged almost 16 points on 52.6 percent shooting in the postseason but fell with an injury in the second game against the Houston Rockets. While many analysts went as far as saying […]

New York Knicks forward Kristaps Porzingis has made the most of his summer by helping his native Latvia through the EuroBasket tournament, notching yet another win under his international belt. Porzingis shined against Great Britain despite an amazing run in the fourth quarter, helping his team survive the scare in a 97-92 win. Porzingis out-shined […]

The Philadelphia 76ers are one of the up-and-coming teams in the NBA. The team amassed talent over the last couple of years and now it seems like the team is ready for more success. With an amazing young core of Ben Simmons, Dario Saric, Markelle Fultz and Joel Embiid, the Sixers are ready to build […]

Marc Gasol is one of the best players in the history of the Memphis Grizzlies. The Spanish center is entering his 10th season in Tennessee, during which he established himself as one of the best centers in the league. He is a three-time All-Star, two-time All-NBA and a 2012-13 Defensive Player of the Year. Even […]

Russell Westbrook is one of the best players in the NBA right now. The reigning MVP is only the second player in NBA history to average a triple-double for an entire season, and that earned him the MVP award. Right now, Westbrook is in the midst of contract negotiations with Oklahoma City. He is under […]

Zion Williamson is one of the top prospects coming to the college scene this year. Williamson is a vicious dunker, an amazing athlete and is thought of as one of the top prospects for the 2019 NBA Draft, should he decide to make himself available. While he has not yet committed to a college, he […]

The Chicago Bulls dominated the NBA landscape in the nineties, winning six championships in two separate three-peats. The central figures in those amazing runs were Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen. Jordan is the consensus best player ever, and Pippen was the star who perfectly complemented His Airness. In 1998, after the team won the NBA championship, […]

NBA superstars do a lot of media appearances, using the air time to build their own brand. While most of them do it in the United States, some also promote their brand in other countries. Most notably, the region they choose is Asia where players have billions of potential new followers for products with their […]

A lot of NBA stars have amazing life stories. Most of them started with nothing, living in the worst part of their hometowns, sometimes without a parent or even both. Even if most stories are akin to that, some are even more amazing. One such story is that of former All-Star forward Caron Butler. Butler was […]

The Drew League is one of the most entertaining parts of the NBA summer. This league has some amazing NBA players participate in it each year, and this year was no exception. New teammates JaVale McGee and Nick Young were joined by Julius Randle and DeMar DeRozan in a very entertaining game. However, the game […]