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Welcome back to the club, afi100guy.

Happiest of birthdays to you, @TheDeuce!

There's a pulse! The last couple of nights LeBron Jr. has put up some decent stats.

- I can accept Phelps as number one. Much of his accomplishments are because of longevity (most medals), but he is certainly decorated. My big issue with him was always he never won gold in the 100 M Free Style. That's like arguing person X is the fastest person in the world yet didn't compete in the 100 M dash. What Usain Bolt did going three consecutive Olympics winning the 100M and 200M dash is more impressive. For Phelps, I also think back to the historic comeback win in the 4 x 100 M freestyle over France (watched it again last week, it still gives me goosebumps). Part of the reason it was an epic comeback was because he put the team in a hole. I know, I'm being picky. Plus if you add in his "Pan Pacific" and "World Championship" accomplishments he has about 574,940,403 medals. - LeBron being over Brady might be the biggest joke on here. - I'm confused that my favorite all-time athlete Roger Federer is ahead of Djokovic and Nadal. - For some reason, they must have ignored the 2000s rule with Zinedine Zidane. The dude was peak in the mid to late 90s. - Aaron Donald at 20? Is there another Aaron Donald I'm not aware of? - No way on earth Kobe should be that high.

ESPN has released their ranking of the top 100 athletes of the 2000s. They've done these rankings before, but the catch this time is it includes international competitors. Only performance from the 2000s is counted, so any stat before that time is not used in their evaluation criteria. I've only put the top 50 below so that we may properly laugh at these together. 1.Michael Phelps 2.Serena Williams 3.Lionel Messi 4.LeBron James 5.Tom Brady 6.Roger Federer 7.Simone Biles 8.Tiger Woods 9.Usain Bolt 10.Kobe Bryant 11.Novak Djokovic 12.Rafael Nadal 13.Cristiano Ronaldo 14.Stephen Curry 15.Katie Ledecky 16.Tim Duncan 17.Shaquille O’Neal 18.Patrick Mahomes 19.Lewis Hamilton 20.Aaron Donald 21.Diana Taurasi 22.Sidney Crosby 23.Kevin Garnett 24.Albert Pujols 25.Floyd Mayweather 26.Peyton Manning 27.Randy Moss 28.Nikola Jokic 29.Michael Schumacher 30.Mike Trout 31.Clayton Kershaw 32.Marta 33.Miguel Cabrera 34. Tamika Catchings 35.Dwyane Wade 36.Maya Moore 37.Ichiro Suzuki 38.Barry Bonds 39.Kevin Durant 40. Justin Verlander 41.Dirk Nowitzki 42.Giannis Antetokounmpo 43. Alex Rodriguez 44. Mikaela Shiffrin 45. David Ortiz 46. Max Scherzer 47.Jimmie Johnson 48. Thierry Henry 49.Aitana Bonmati 50. Zinedine Zidane

The WNBA has secured a new deal that will triple their media rights, with the potential to be more. Thank God for Angel Reese!

I believe they get it out of the way early on and send him to the G-League for the rest of the year. It's kind of sad to see him being used as a pawn, but here we are.

I saw some kind of bet site that you could take Bronny over/under 2.5 threes for yesterday’s game. He went 0-3 of course (scoring only 2 points in the game), but I have to ask, what are we doing here? You go to NBA or ESPN twitter and they’re showcasing his lone bucket and a deflection he made. A DEFLECTION. With every response people are laughing, and then you have the aggregator sites and bots pumping him up. The world is obsessed with clicks. LeBron Inc. has become Kardashian-like.

Reed is gifted at timing and anticipation getting his hands on the ball. But yeah, manning up is going to take some time. Maybe Bronny is listening to some of these pundits that believe he is a cross between Jrue Holiday and Avery Bradley. If players produced in line with the same expectations he is getting as a second round player (especially the 55th pick that would have gone undrafted without his name) the NBA would have 50 franchises because the talent would be so deep.

Updated all-time Houston Rockets players: 1) Hakeem Olajuwon 2) Moses Malone 3) James Harden 4) Reed Sheppard 5) Elvin Hayes

The depth of this team is practically insurmountable for any other country. Canada has the best shot and I am also interested in how France looks. I wish USA Basketball had an age limit. It's great and all that Curry, LeBron, KD, and any other older player wants to partake in the festivities, but I like allowing some younger guns to shine.

Interesting. I've heard of Johnston but have never done much of a deep dive. Johnston's life was tragically cut short at the age of 49, succumbing to a heart attack.

Yes, he has. DeRozan has had an odd career. Good, but not a great player up in Toronto. Leaves for San Antonio and it seems like his career is on the downswing. Gets to Chicago and he balled out.

I like this. This does not improve their defensive weaknesses, but it provides a reliable threat that should compliment Fox well.

With the slight salary reduction, the Lakers can potentially pick up another ok piece in free agency. The tradeoff in the LeBron "reduction" was LA drafting Bronny and him inking a 4-year 7.9 million dollar deal.