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NBA Crushes Clippers After Kawhi Leonard Investigation

https://defector.com/nba-crushes-clippers-after-kawhi-leonard-investigation
The NBA has concluded its investigation of the Los Angeles Clippers and Kawhi Leonard, and the punishments are major. The league announced Wednesday that the independent probe, conducted by the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, uncovered “a pattern of misconduct and multiple significant rules violations by the Clippers organization, a prior offender of…

Thank god. The league needs to do a better job punishing folks who blatantly break the rules. It's been the Wild West for too long as a big reason why 90% of the league jogs up and down the court and doesn't care during the regular season, but is happy to cash their $60 million + salaries.

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sportsball /// terminal app Featured Post

https://codex.humdrum.me/r/sportsball
A terminal dashboard for live sports — Plain Text Sports meets Golazo, as a Bubble Tea TUI.

Been working on this one for a bit, but it's basically ready for primetime now. I took inspiration from Plain Text Sports and the Golazo TUI and built out my own terminal TUI for all sports. You can follow scores live, see past scores, upcoming games, favorite teams, and see standings - all from the terminal. Installable via brew.

Soccer is truly spectacular, in spite of itself

https://fivepoints.mattglassman.net/p/soccer-is-truly-spectacular-in-spite https://publicannouncement.org/
This is also why youth and amateur soccer, as a game, can be more fun to watch than pro soccer. The comparative lack of skill and relative inability to control the ball create a situation where it’s strategically less rewarding to be passive, and the continual turnovers create opportunities for profitable aggressive actions. You lose the world-class athletes doing world-class athlete things. But the trade-off is it’s just more continuously exciting.

A truly insane take.

NBA Europe draws host of bids, including $1 billion offers

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7162301/2026/04/01/nba-europe-investment-adam-silver-billion/?source=user_shared_article
The NBA was said to be seeking a sliding scale of investment, depending on the market, between $500 million and $1 billion for a “license,” or permanent entry into the new European league, and two sources familiar with the bids said several came in meeting or exceeding the $500 million threshold.

I'm a bit nervous about American sports ruining some of the tradition in Europe. I'm not sure how basketball leagues works today, but relegation is incredibly important to soccer. The NBA expanding to Europe probably won't have relegation—If anything, we should bring relegation into our sports. If you want to prevent people from tanking, that's the perfect way.

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