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🏀 Hello everyone, but above all to …
The no. 2 Duke Blue Devils … and university basketball fans
He’s back, baby! Vital dick will Back to the dissemination of university basketball Saturday for N ° 2 Duke in Clemson. This is the first vital show since 2023. He has fought four different cancers in the past four years. He announced that he was without cancer on January 8, but his return initially scheduled last month was delayed by an accident at home.
I understand that Vitale is not everyone’s favorite advertiser. But everyone should appreciate their verve, their love for the game and their determination to come back. It is early February. Maybe the season looks like a brake because March Madness is still several weeks and a half. But Vitale is an energizing rabbit. It illustrates the joy that sport can bring.
And in which team he will come back. Duke won 15 games in a row, his last flight victory North Carolina. Trey Scott writes that the Blue Devils are much more than Cooper Flagg.
- Scott: “Up 47-25 to start the second half, Kon KNUPPEL made a verification of vibrations with Cameron Crazies to Short Half. “Ready, let’s go,” he said. The dam that followed Knueppel – a dunk, a 3 -point, free throws, a rider and a lay -up, all in the next four minutes – extended the advance to 62-34. … Jon Scheyer Clearly accomplished what he decided to do last spring by stripping Duke of any part which could not perfectly adapt to Flagg, to prioritize the size, the length and the defensive ability. “”
😊 Honorable mentions
🏈 And not so good morning for …
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Cleveland Browns
Last week, Brown GM Andrew Berry says he would not exchange Myles Garrett At any rate. Garrett, apparently, is ready to test this. The reigning defensive player of the year and the quadruple first All-Pro team asked for a job on Monday. Browns do not intend to nod.
Garrett, 29, is phenomenal. The distinctions speak for themselves and it is on a path of the temple of fame. This season, he has become the fourth fastest player in NFL history to hit 100 career bags. He plays a leading position and the other 31 teams should be interested. Tyler Sullivan A potential landing points If a business should occur.
But exchanging it will not be easy.
- Exchanging it before June 1 would leave Cleveland with an accusation of a dead ceiling of $ 36 million.
- The exchange after June 1 would leave a dead ceiling of $ 14.8 million and save nearly $ 5 million. But that, obviously, would be after the draft of the NFL, which means that Cleveland could not obtain the choices before the draft of 2026.
- Cleveland costs around $ 60 million on the 2025 ceiling, largely a disastrous product Deshaun Watson Trade / contract. Watson Re-A-Touch his Achilles last monthputting its 2025 season in doubt.
This could be a push for a new contract – he is the highest seventh defender in the league on an annual basis – but anything, Cleveland is somehow even more difficult than before.
😔 Not so honorable mentions
🏈 Rams to exchange Cooper Kupp: where could he land?
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THE Rams Plan to trade CooperThe wide receiver announced Monday evening on X Monday evening. This is a decision with which he does not agree, he said, but he understands “there is so much that are out of your control”.
- Kupp, 31, won the triple reception crown in 2021 with 145 catches for 1,947 yards and 16 affected. He was an attacking player of the year and MVP LVI of the Super Bowl.
- In three seasons since, however, it has an average of 67 catches for 753 yards and less than six affected. He has also only played in 33 of the 51 potential games in the regular season in the last three seasons, with significant injuries in the knee and ankle.
- Kupp said he was currently “very motivated, as healthy as ever, and that I can’t wait to play elite football for the years to come”.
Even by putting aside the drop in performance and injuries, money is a problem. KUPP is due to $ 20 million next year – an alignment bonus of $ 7.5 million and a base salary of $ 12.5 million – and the former players agent Joel Corry thinks that ‘a job might have to wait Until the fifth day of the year of the year of 2025 championship, when $ 7.5 million is due.
Bryan Deardo broke down potential landing points.
🏀 NBA trade deadline: should warriors be on Kevin during?
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We have already seen Several moving stars In the past few days, and now a new big name is on the market. THE Sun – should be a buyer on the deadline for trade, potentially a Jimmy Butler Buyer – are actually Listen to calls concerning Kevin during. Which includes those of Warriorsthat would be in each star.
Brad says It is a desperate movement come soon after Stephen Curry said the team should not do a “desperate” trade.
But there is a means that a meeting of Curry of Durant is in sight. Sam has Mock trades against duringincluding …
- Suns receive: Andrew Wiggins, Jonas Valancunas, Jonathan Kuminga, 2026 Pick of Première Ronde (via Warriors), 2028 Pick of first round (via Warriors)
- The warriors receive: Kevin Durant, Patrick Baldwin Jr.
- The wizards receive: Dennis Schroder, Kyle Anderson, the protections modified on the existing choice of first round in 2030, the Warriors must (from top-20 to top-6).
“Phoenix transforms a star into three useful players here. Wiggins can immediately slide like the kind of versatile wing that was missing. Valancunas is at least one center usable in small doses. The Suns would have a certain level of interest for Kuminga. is the upward game for them here. “
In the meantime, the Luka Dovantic-Anthony Davis trade Reverberations are always felt around the league.
🏈 Classify each Super Bowl starter, plus the reflections of the opening evening
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The Super Bowl produces improbable heroes. Last year, Hardman guy caught the winning touch of the game. The previous year, Skyy Moore And Kadarius Toney played huge roles. Who could he be this year? Pete Prisco Classified the 44 startersAnd here are two underestimated guys, I think, could surpass their ranking:
- “”28. Milton Williams – This pending free agent is one of the guys under the radar on the defense of Philadelphia. He is small for a low line player, but he has great speed that makes him a threat of passage. “”
- “”39. Marquise Brown – Since returned from a shoulder injury at the end of December which limited him to two regular season games, Brown added a certain speed to an offense that needed it. “”
Only Chris Jones Had a higher pressure rate in the defensive tackle than Williams this season. This offseason will be paid.
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Meanwhile, the festivities started in New Orleans with the “opening evening” on Monday. Here are some protruding facts:
📺 What we look at Tuesday
🏀 N ° 11 Marquette at n ° 12 St. John’s (M)6.30 p.m. on FS1
🏀 Vanderbilt at No. 6 Florida (M)7 p.m. on the dry network
🏀 N ° 14 Kentucky at n ° 25 Ole Miss (M)7 p.m. on espn
🏀 Celtics at Cavaliers7:30 p.m. on TNT / TRUTV
🏀 Oklahoma at n ° 1 Auburn (m)9 p.m. on the dry network
🏀 Baylor at n ° 13 Texas Tech (M)9 p.m. on ESPN2
🏀 Lakers at Clippers10 p.m. on TNT / TRUTV
