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Russell Wilson is retiring from the NFL and taking a broadcasting job with which network?

THE BREAKDOWN

Brunson’s 4th Quarter Heroics Lift Knicks To Game 1 Win

What Happened: By stealing Game 1 on the road, the New York Knicks now have history on their side. But we’ve seen San Antonio respond this postseason.

Why You Care: Win Game 1 and the title is yours. At least that’s what NBA history tells us — the team that wins the opener of the Finals is 55-24 for a 70% winning percentage. The reason the Knicks are in this advantageous position and the Spurs are playing catch-up already? How each team’s star player down the stretch.

The game’s first three quarters were ugly for Jalen Brunson. The southpaw shot 7-for-22 from the field, including a brutal 1-of-8 from deep. At one point, Brunson was forced to head to the locker room to get his knee checked out and got his ankle stepped on by 7’1”, 250-lb. Luke Kornet. The Knicks star was getting bumped around physically and it seemed to be effecting his shooting touch.

The fourth quarter? A different story. Brunson erupted in the game's final frame, netting 13 points on 5-of-9 shooting. Of course, when it mattered most Brunson had the ball in his hands and made it count. Brunson buried a three-pointer just past the 2:00 minute mark to give the Knicks a two-point lead. It was time for the Spurs to answer. It did not go well.

Victor Wembanyama capped off a poor performance by losing the ball with under a minute to play and his team down four points, following free throws from Mikal Bridges. With Karl-Anthony Towns looking to avoid a fifth foul, Wemby needed to be aggressive, to attack his defender and get to the rim. Instead, he dribbled the ball off his foot and turned it over. One mid-range jumper from Brunson later, the Knicks were up six with a half a minute to play. Game over.

Neither Wemby nor Brunson had a very good game. But Brunson was able to shake off all those early misses and ice the game when the opportunity arose. Wemby ended up 6-of-21 shooting (2-of-9 from deep) and racked up a game-high six turnovers. Defensively he affected plenty of shots, but Towns, his main defensive assignment, shot almost 50% from the field on his way to 18 points. Josh Hart somehow pulled down 15 rebounds. Wemby simply didn't impact the game the way he needed to.

His supporting cast didn’t step up either. Julian Champagnie nailed five 3s on six attempts in the game’s first half, then went 0-for-4 the rest of the way. Devin Vassell, De’Aaron Fox, and Dylan Harper combined for 11 second-half points.OG Anunoby, New York’s third option, had 12 by himself.

The Knicks’ depth shined long enough to let their star shooter close out the game, while San Antonio’s cast wilted around its leader. Jalen Brunson could be better this series, but Victor Wembanyama needs to be if the Spurs are going to even things up.

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A.J. Brown’s knee, which doesn’t sound like it’s in great shape.

Eliot Wolf, the Patriots' GM even if they won't call him that, confirmed that Brown, his shiny new trade acquisition, has a "degenerative knee condition" that the team isn't too worried about.

So Brown, who will be 29 years old for the 2026 season and just posted his lowest yardage total since an injury-shortened 2021 with the Titans, has a knee issue that’s basically guaranteed to get worse? Gee, I wonder why the Eagles were so eager to ship him out of town and draft a replacement for their star receiver.

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Steph Curry just signed a sneaker deal reportedly worth $400M with what company?

Li-Ning — 33%

1K+ fans weighed in

Not Nike! Curry called it quits with Under Armour after 13 years to ink a lucrative deal with Li-Ning, a Chinese company with a bigger hold in the badminton space than on the basketball court. It’s a big, global swing from Curry, but I don’t think the cool kids are gonna be wearing Li-Nings anytime soon Steph.

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""Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.""

— Naomi Shihab Nye

Naomi Shihab Nye (born 1952) is an American poet, essayist, and novelist of Palestinian-American descent, often called a "wandering poet" for her deep engagement with the places and people she encounters in her writing. Born in St. Louis and raised in both Jerusalem and San Antonio, she has published more than thirty books of poetry, picture books, and anthologies. She served as Young People's Poet Laureate for the Poetry Foundation from 2019 to 2021. Her work is known for its precision, tenderness, and refusal to look away from difficulty — qualities that make her one of the most widely taught poets in American schools and one of the most beloved.

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This line comes from Nye's poem "Kindness," written after a traumatic experience while traveling in Colombia, when everything she and her husband were carrying was stolen. Left with nothing, stranded in a foreign country, she found that something shifted. The poem she wrote from that moment is not about loss or recovery. It is about what becomes possible on the other side of having nothing left to protect. Nye's argument is structural: kindness is not a personality trait or a choice made in comfort. It is a capacity earned through grief, built from the inside of hard experience. You cannot give what you have not yourself received in some form — and sorrow, in her framing, is one of the most honest forms of receiving. The poem ends with the line "Kindness is the only way to get here." She means it literally.

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What I have carried through grief, I now carry as depth — and it makes me more useful to others.

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Think of the most significant loss or sorrow you have moved through. What did it teach you about other people's pain that you could not have understood before? In what way did that knowledge make you more capable of genuine kindness — the kind that costs something rather than the kind that costs nothing?

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Find a copy of Nye's poem "Kindness" and read it slowly today — the whole thing, not just this line. It is short. Then identify one person in your life who is currently in a sorrow you have already survived. Reach out to them this week not with advice or optimism but with the specific knowledge of what that particular kind of hard actually feels like from the inside. Nye's poem is clear about what makes kindness real: it is not warm feeling. It is the recognition that you have been in the same place.

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