Sam Cox

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🏀🏀 NBA 25/26 Predictions

Finals: Nuggets over Magic
MVP: Nikola Jokic
DPOY: Chet Holmgren
MIP: Ausar Thompson
Scoring Champion: Anthony Edwards

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I didn’t expect a particularly eventful offseason outside of a Giannis trade. It’s ended up being one of the wildest in recent history — Kawhi, LaMelo, Brown traded, Duren leaving Detroit, Lakers completely retooling.

Kessler is a Laker, Robinson is a Celtic.

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@kirkgoldsberry Things must’ve been really bad for Jaylen Brown in Boston.

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@WilliamHill #YourOdds Hamilton to win, Russell top 3, and Leclerc and Antonelli in top six

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@WilliamHill #YourOdds
Hamilton, Russell, and Antonelli top 3 at British GP

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@NickMiller79 He’s done a great job of showing he doesn’t know what any of them mean

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The way England are batting is like a full-on protest against whatever has pushed Stokes to this decision.

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Fair to question the timing, sure. I suspect it was to get out ahead of a leak.

And what do people actually want? I’d rather he’s honest with his team than anything else.

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‘If you take away the highs’ is a phrase I’ve already seen applied to Stokes numerous times. Hilarious, really.

Look at how his teammates speak about him. He is an all-time great and any other take is embarrassing.

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LaMelo and Ant? Should work. Will be fun to watch even if it doesn’t.

I like the patience from Charlotte.

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BREAKING: The Charlotte Hornets are trading star guard LaMelo Ball and Josh Green to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Naz Reid, a 2033 unprotected first-round pick, three first-round pick swaps (2028, 2029, 2030) and three second-round picks (2029, 2032, 2033), sources tell ESPN.

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@19_0app Fantastic.

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Test cricket is worse without Kane Williamson. Class act in every sense.

Equally strange to me to retire one match into a three-Test series.

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Enjoying the reaction to the Stokes dismissal. Yes, he has a knack to make ordinary deliveries look like seeds, but that has gone a long way off the deck and bowled top of off.

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Really poor Test match pitch. MCC have to sort this out.

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@thervd Agreed. It makes it a bit of a lottery.

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Enjoying all the raging reactions at England from people that had decided their conclusions before a ball had been bowled.

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@Ankaman616 Japan and Norway reach QFs. Oyarzabal top scorer. Canada top their group.

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Agreed. It’s also created chaos in the men’s draw. Anyone could win this from here!

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Could make a convincing case that losing from 6-3 6-2 5-1 up in R2 as a -300 favorite to win the entire tournament is the biggest collapse in the history of tennis

Essentially lost 0-6 1-6 1-6 from that point forward

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@ReubenPinder Seconded

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As I said above, I’d have Maguire in my XI. I also suspect the response to being left out from this squad will overshadow all the good he’s done for England.

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I am baffled by this England squad, but maybe I shouldn’t be given Tuchel’s history.