No words can ever define what you have meant to the Game, this City, and the Organization. You will always be 1 of 1.
Thank you for everything, Anže! 🖤 #11
I am grateful to the NBPA for advocating on my behalf and to the NBA for their fair decision. It was so important to me to be present for the birth of my daughter in December and I appreciate Mark, Jeanie, Rob, JJ, and the entire Lakers organization for fully supporting me and allowing me to travel to be there. This season has been so special to me because of what my teammates and I have been able to accomplish, and I am honored to have the opportunity to be considered for the league’s end-of-season awards.
"From the bottom of my heart, thank you very much! This has been my home for 20 years..." 🥹
Anze Kopitar speaks to the @LAKings' crowd after his final regular season home game.
🥉 The Prevc family ski jumping legacy continues! ⛷️
It's #Bronze for Nika PREVC [SLO] in the #MilanoCortina2026 ski jumping women's large hill individual event! ✨
Earning her third Olympic medal, she now stands with Anna Odine STROEM as the only women to win three Olympic ski jumping medals at the same Olympic Winter Games! 🤩
@FISSkiJumping | #MedalAlert | @TeamSlovenia | #Samsung | #OpenAlwaysWins
🥇 Domen PREVC [SLO] rules the ramps, winning #Gold in the ski jumping men's large hill individual event! 👏
It's his second gold of the Winter Games, and Slovenia’s first-ever Olympic gold medal in this event! 🎿
@FISSkiJumping | #MilanoCortina2026 | #MedalAlert | @TeamSlovenia | #Samsung | #OpenAlwaysWins
That is one talented family! 🤯
The four Prevc siblings that ski jump have now ALL won Olympic medals:
Nika 🥇🥈 Milano Cortina 2026
Domen 🥇 Milano Cortina 2026
Cene 🥈 Beijing 2022
Peter 🥇🥈🥈🥉 Sochi 2014, Beijing 2022
#MilanoCortina2026
From a set down to champion 🏆
Ziga Sesko defeats Keaton Hance 4-6 6-3 6-4 to win the Australian Open Junior Boys’ Singles title.
@wwos • @espn • @tntsports • @wowowtennis • #AO26
Men, beware of Kayla Nicole. She ain't just a crazy baddie, she a stage 5 clinger. Hats off to Kelce. That dude must have not only had king sized equipment but knew how to use it (and all the accessories) cause she still thirsting after him four YEARS later.
I just signed my extension with the Lakers. Excited to keep working to bring championships to LA and make Laker Nation proud. Grateful to the Lakers, my teammates and all the fans who’ve shown so much love since day one. This is just the beginning. 💜💛
Vamos, @RafaelNadal!
As you get ready to graduate from tennis, I’ve got a few things to share before I maybe get emotional.
Let’s start with the obvious: you beat me—a lot. More than I managed to beat you. You challenged me in ways no one else could. On clay, it felt like I was stepping into your backyard, and you made me work harder than I ever thought I could just to hold my ground. You made me reimagine my game—even going so far as to change the size of my racquet head, hoping for any edge.
I’m not a very superstitious person, but you took it to the next level. Your whole process. All those rituals. Assembling your water bottles like toy soldiers in formation, fixing your hair, adjusting your underwear... All of it with the highest intensity. Secretly, I kind of loved the whole thing. Because it was so unique—it was so you.
And you know what, Rafa, you made me enjoy the game even more.
OK, maybe not at first. After the 2004 Australian Open, I achieved the #1 ranking for the first time. I thought I was on top of the world. And I was—until two months later, when you walked on the court in Miami in your red sleeveless shirt, showing off those biceps, and you beat me convincingly. All that buzz I’d been hearing about you—about this amazing young player from Mallorca, a generational talent, probably going to win a major someday—it wasn’t just hype.
We were both at the start of our journey and it’s one we ended up taking together. Twenty years later, Rafa, I have to say: What an incredible run you’ve had. Including 14 French Opens—historic! You made Spain proud... you made the whole tennis world proud.
I keep thinking about the memories we’ve shared. Promoting the sport together. Playing that match on half-grass, half-clay. Breaking the all-time attendance record by playing in front of more than 50,000 fans in Cape Town, South Africa. Always cracking each other up. Wearing each other out on the court and then, sometimes, almost literally having to hold each other up during trophy ceremonies.
I’m still grateful you invited me to Mallorca to help launch the Rafa Nadal Academy in 2016. Actually, I kind of invited myself. I knew you were too polite to insist on me being there, but I didn’t want to miss it. You have always been a role model for kids around the world, and Mirka and I are so glad that our children have all trained at your academies. They had a blast and learned so much—like thousands of other young players. Although I always worried my kids would come home playing tennis as lefties.
And then there was London—the Laver Cup in 2022. My final match. It meant everything to me that you were there by my side—not as my rival but as my doubles partner. Sharing the court with you that night, and sharing those tears, will forever be one of the most special moments of my career.
Rafa, I know you’re focused on the last stretch of your epic career. We will talk when it’s done. For now, I just want to congratulate your family and team, who all played a massive role in your success. And I want you to know that your old friend is always cheering for you, and will be cheering just as loud for everything you do next.
Rafa that!
Best always, your fan,
Roger