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Kendrick Perkins: When I arrived, I saw separation. I came from a contending team with the Celtics, where everybody was united. I got there, and they had three separate groups. This group didn’t vibe with KD, and KD didn’t vibe with this group. There was so much tension that when we went on road trips, KD brought his boys because nobody on the team would go. I’m like, “We can’t win like this.” I started a group text: “KD, you’re a Redskins fan. Russ, you’re a Cowboys fan. I’m a Cowboys fan. We’re going to talk about the football games in this group message.” We actually went to a game together in Dallas, on a private jet, where the Redskins played the Cowboys in a suite.

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While Michael Jordan and LeBron James receive high praise from Shawn Marion, while chatting on Scoop B Selects, Marion also shared love for the late great, Kobe Bryant. Marion shared that Bryant was one contemporary that he wished was his teammate. “I used to want to play with Kobe,” he shared. “I almost had a chance there too, but I really wanted to play with Kobe. Why not go to the Lakers in La-La Land? The Lakers and when you think about organizations in each sport, there are at least two organizations in each sport that stand out above everybody and that’s of course the Lakers and the Boston Celtics because of the rivalries they had history and then you go football, it’s the [Dallas] Cowboys and maybe the [New York] Giants and baseball it’s the Yankees and the Dodgers. And then you can look at hockey — I don’t know because I’m a Blackhawks fan, so I don’t care about all the other hockey teams that are supposed to be the “it” hockey teams! So you know, but every sport has the team ‘That always wins championships’ and they have more championships than others and those are teams that stand out more than everybody.”

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With record attendance and record sponsorship, the 2023-24 season was a banner year for the NBA, producing some $13 billion in league-wide revenue. But that number could see another double-digit-percentage jump this season—and that doesn’t even account for the national media deals the league signed over the summer. (The new contracts take effect next season and come with a roughly $4 billion annual raise over the old agreements.) The relentless rise in revenue is sending the value of the league’s 30 franchises skyward, to an average of $4.4 billion, up 15% from last year. No team would sell for less than $3 billion, Forbes now estimates, and three clubs are worth at least $7 billion: the Golden State Warriors ($8.8 billion), the New York Knicks ($7.5 billion) and the Los Angeles Lakers ($7.1 billion). Only five other teams in any sport—the $7.55 billion New York Yankees and four NFL franchises, led by the $10.1 billion Dallas Cowboys—currently reach that lofty threshold.

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For one extreme example of the impact a new arena can have, consider the Warriors, the NBA’s most valuable team for the third straight year, who posted an estimated $440 million in local revenue in 2018-19, their last year at Oracle Arena in Oakland. Last season, Golden State racked up more than $700 million in local revenue at its new home, the Chase Center in San Francisco. The club’s total revenue, including central league revenue and netting out arena debt service and revenue sharing, hit $800 million in 2023-24. Only four other teams in the world—the Dallas Cowboys, Real Madrid, Manchester City and Barcelona—have reached that milestone.

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“CD,” as he was known in the basketball world, was universally loved. His funeral service drew a significant Mavericks’ connection, including Del Harris, who worked for the organization for two decades and helped lead the Rockets to the NBA Finals in 1981 with Dawson as his assistant. Former Mavs’ general manager Donnie Nelson was there, too. Everybody knew CD, who was born in Alba, was a standout player in the 1950s at Baylor, coached the Bears, worked for the Dallas Cowboys, then became a fixture with the Houston Rockets as an assistant coach, general manager and guiding light for that franchise since 1980.

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The new outlet — DLLS, according to Pompliano — will be highlighted by longtime NBA insider Marc Stein. Stein confirmed the news on X on Monday. Sources tell Awful Announcing that DLLS poached Mavericks writer Tim Cato from The Athletic and Bobby Karalla from Mavs.com, as well as local radio hosts Kevin Gray to cover the Mavs and Jeff Cavanaugh to cover the Cowboys.

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Sportico: NBA Valuations 🚨 The @NBA average team is worth $4 billion, up 33% from last year. The Warriors rank as the second most valuable team in sports behind the Cowboys.

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It isn’t immediately known what the Sands entity intends to do with the property, but the city of Irving has long sought a marquee project for the site. Texas Stadium, the former longtime home of the Dallas Cowboys, was demolished in 2010 and the site has since been used as a highway construction staging area.

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“I don’t want to end up in another situation like we had when the Cowboys were considering Fair Park,” said Gracey, referring to when the Dallas Cowboys expressed interest in moving from the Texas Stadium in Irving to build a new $650 million stadium in Dallas’ Fair Park in 2004. The team ultimately ended negotiations with Dallas County over not agreeing on a vision for the new stadium, which would have included $425 million in public money. The Cowboys moved to AT&T Stadium in Arlington. “We should do what the voters want,” Gracey said. “But within reason, I think we should try to do what we can to keep the Mavs here.”

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Dallas Mavericks governor Mark Cuban reached an agreement this week to sell a majority stake in the franchise to Miriam Adelson. Count Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones among those who approve of the deal. “They’re fine people,” Jones said during his weekly interview on 105.3 The Fan (KRLD-FM) on Friday. “She’s outstanding. She’s a doctor, she came from Israel as an adult, is savvy, savvy, savvy. And she’s got a good organization with her there and will unquestionably do a great job.”

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In a series of posts, the former Dallas Cowboys star wrote, “@malika_andrews you went out your way to crucify Brandon Miller on draft day over something he didn’t even do. Why haven’t you said nothing about Josh Giddey. I advise you not to make this a black or white thing.” “Your parents really raised you wrong and just because you went to a private school don’t make you better,” he went on. “You appeal and I know your kind. You just a puppet. I dont know how a former or current nba player could sit there across from you and look at you with some kind of respect.”

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Clutch Points: LeBron James says he's no longer a Cowboys fan and is now a Browns fan 👀 (via @NFLonPrime) pic.twitter.com/qhAsQGEpGI

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When three veterans of legendary NFL agent Leigh Steinberg’s firm broke away in 2001 to launch their own talent agency, Athletes First, their plan, as the name suggests, was to put the needs of players over those of agents and teams. In the next two decades, it grew from a three-person shop in a Southern California living room to the largest talent agency in pro football, with a staff if 55 and sprawling offices in the posh Los Angeles suburb of Laguna Hills. Its 20 agents represent 300-plus players, including Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott and Los Angeles Rams All-Pro defensive tackle Aaron Donald. Athletes First has negotiated more than $11 billion in contracts since its founding, including the richest guaranteed-money deal in league history: $230 million over five years for Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson. Today, the founders are set to announce that venture capital firms Mastry Ventures and General Catalyst are buying a majority stake. The new owners plan to bring a VC mindset to the agent business, says Mastry co-founder Rudy Cline-Thomas, helping players set up off-field ventures in addition to representing them in negotiations with teams. “We think we can build formidable businesses with these athletes, individually and as an aggregate, across industries,” says Cline-Thomas. “We’re turning them from players to owners.”

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Former NBA journeyman Matt Barnes spit on his fiancée’s ex-husband at the 49ers-Cowboys playoff on Sunday. Video published by TMZ shows Barnes approaching David Patterson Jr. shortly before kickoff, spitting on him and getting in his face. The men were separated.

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