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When Victor Wembanyama threw out the ceremonial first pitch at Yankee Stadium last summer, no one expected the No. 1 pick in the 2023 NBA Draft to make a baseball roster. But he’s done it, albeit in a non-traditional fashion. Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) has created All-Star dream team rosters based on the most-graded and popular baseball cards for each position during the 2024 season so far. The rosters for the National League and American League dream teams are stacked with MLB stars you’d expect to see like Bryce Harper, Mookie Betts, Aaron Judge and Mike Trout, but there’s a surprising player on the AL squad: Wembanyama.
There is certainly a sect of the NBA that is privately missing bubble life, even if no one enjoys the solitude of it. Numerous people of varying authority around the league have said in casual conversations with The Athletic that the way this season is playing out affects their feelings about returning to a bubble at some point, whether that’s at the end of the regular season or for the playoffs. Major League Baseball, for example, had a bubble in San Diego for the American League playoffs and one in Arlington, Texas, for the National League playoffs and the World Series.
Mexico City will have a G-League franchise in no more than two years, confirmed Arnon de Mello, vice president, and general manager of the League in Latin America, in an interview for the NBA portal in Mexico. "We are moving forward, but it is not easy because it will be the first time we will have a team from a great American League outside the United States and Canada. We are working to achieve it, we do not know if it will be for the next season, although that is the goal, "he said.
Jerry Reinsdorf’s story is as unlikely as it is encouraging, a Horatio Alger journey. A kid growing up in a Brooklyn apartment building scratching around and working odd jobs. Find the 50 cents to get into a Knicks game or $1.25 to attend a Brooklyn Dodgers game, ride the subway there and usually end up walking home because he didn't have a nickel left. A man who not only went on to a rewarding career in business and astonishing life in sports, but whose path illuminated a handbook for life. “I think about where I came from; who could even have dreamt this?” asks Reinsdorf. “But success is a combination of a lot of things. It’s working hard, being honest, surrounding yourself with the right people, being lucky, getting help from people. It’s the thing I’ve always agreed with President Obama about: If you’re successful, you didn’t do it yourself. You had to have had help. My whole life I’ve had help and luck. “Just coming to Chicago,” Reinsdorf notes. “I got mad at George Washington (University) because they reneged on a job offer. That wasn’t a rational decision to pick up and come to Chicago. Then when I got out of law school, the IRS would not let me go back to New York because the rules were you couldn’t work in your home state. So I stayed in Chicago. Then there was the American League turning down Edward DeBartolo Sr. (who had the first offer to buy the White Sox), then the dinner with Steinbrenner.
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