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NBA top rookie Cooper Flagg got a fast ride on the track Sunday before the NASCAR race in Texas with another 19-year-old, Cup Series rookie Connor Zilisch. A week after being named the NBA Rookie of the Year, the Dallas Mavericks' 6-foot-9 forward was the honorary pace car driver for the race in Texas. But several hours before leading the 38-car field to the green flag at the 1 1/2-mile track, Flagg was the passenger in that 2026 Chevrolet Corvette. It was driven then by Zilisch, who is in his first full Cup season with Trackhouse Racing after winning 10 races in NASCAR's second-tier series last year. "We got going pretty fast, and I think half the ride I was more scared of what was going on," Flagg said. "I've never been in a car going that fast, so it was pretty cool."
Vernon voters elected what is likely their tallest mayor in history, a former NBA center who was billed as 7-foot-2: Greg Ostertag. Ostertag defeated the incumbent, Brad Hyman, by a total of 245 votes to 210. Ostertag, who has lived in Mount Vernon for 11 years, said he plans to focus on transparency and on bringing more visitors to town.
Derek Bodner: Joel Embiid describes his experience leading up to his emergency appendectomy. "They had me try some food from Texas. I thought it was a stomach virus or something...It got to the point where I couldn't sleep, and I was up until 4 am and I was like 'Yeah, I need help'." youtu.be/8KXs09HLCd0
Sean Highkin: Tom Dundon: "It's interesting, when I bought the hockey team, because I'm from Texas everyone thought we were moving the team to Houston. I never thought about that. You're welcome to write what you want if it gives attention to the Portland Trail Blazers."
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Marc Stein: Mark Cuban still owns 27% of the franchise so there are, based on what I've been told, local and Texas-based entities that have shown interest in bringing significant money to the table to theoretically combine with the 27% interest to see if majority control can be obtained. Now before reporting this I tried to ascertain is there any scenario where the team would be for sale? And as you guys saw in my report a source close to Patrick Dumont told me the family remains very excited about the future of the franchise, the Cooper Flagg era. Since my story went out, what has been relayed to me is that the prospect of would-be investors has only increased. I think there is significant interest among various parties that I frankly need to confirm to a higher level before I can start speculating on who those might be, but that want to see if this is even possible. it's not known if this is possible. It's not known would a bid even be welcomed or received.
League sources say that, since Monday's story, Cuban has only received increased interest from potential partners — from both inside and outside of Texas — who want to join forces with him in a bid to try to re-purchase the franchise he stunningly agreed to sell to the Adelson and Dumont families in November 2023 for a valuation estimated between $3.5 and $4 billion.
After getting fired by the Detroit Pistons following the 2023-24 season, Monty Williams decided to take the head coach position for TMI Episcopal High School, a small school in San Antonio, Texas., with a total enrollment hovering around 640 students. There, he gets to coach his two sons, Micah and Elijah Williams, with Elijah currently ranked as the No. 27 ranked prospect in ESPN’s top 100 recruits for the class of 2026. The team competed in the second game on day three of the Panini Hoophall Classic, falling to Blair Academy by a score of 78-52.
NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal is helping a young man chase his dream of becoming the tallest cop in Texas. Jordan Wilmore, 24, is an aspiring Kemah police officer. We first shared his story in September, before he entered the police academy. After completing the academy, Wilmore, who is 7 feet 3 inches tall, recently took his state peace officer exam and scored 69, just one point shy of the passing score of 70.
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Josh Lewenberg: Mo Bamba said he and the Raptors have been in talks since the G League showcase but things materialized over the last 48 hours. Flew to Toronto from Austin, Texas yesterday and didn't land until ~7pm. The airline lost his bag. "Something told me to take sneakers out. Got lucky."
In May I married the love of my life, Brunson Green, at a ceremony in Austin, Texas, that couldn't have been more perfect. In August, we were supposed to go to the US Open, just as every year, but when the car came to take us to the airport, I was nowhere near ready. And for the first time in decades, we missed the flight because I couldn't stay focused to pack. I had been having weird symptoms like this for a week or two, but unless something is really wrong, I'm going to push through. I'm an athlete. Something was really wrong, though. I was in the CT machine at UCLA for all of five minutes before the tech pulled me out and said they were going to have me see a specialist. I've had enough CTs in my life to know they last longer than five minutes and whatever the tech had seen on the first images had to be bad. According to my family, in hours, my mental clarity, short-term memory and comprehension disappeared -- turning into an NBA player's version of "Dory" from "Finding Nemo." Over the next few weeks we would find out just how bad it was.
You're from Dallas. What made you embrace this place [Detroit] immediately? Cade Cunningham: There were a lot of factors that went into it. I think the culture is number one. The city of Detroit just seemed like a place with a lot of cool people — you know what I'm saying? Like, they love the sports teams, they love the music, they love being from Detroit. And that's something I always found cool. Texas is a place where we’re super proud to be Texans, you know? And I think Detroit is the same way — people are just so proud to be from Detroit. That was something I wanted to be a part of. And the history of the Pistons is unmatched. I mean, Isaiah Thomas, Chauncey — there are so many guys who are just huge. They're legends in the NBA, you know what I mean? And this franchise itself is a legend of the NBA.
Jason Kidd confirmed that the Dallas Mavericks denied the New York Knicks’ request last summer to interview him for their head coaching vacancy, but the 52-year-old Hall of Famer said he never seriously considered leaving Texas for the East Coast. “I was never thinking about leaving Dallas,” Kidd said before Wednesday’s game between the Mavericks and Knicks. “I love working for (Mavericks governor) Patrick (Dumont). Understanding that we have a lot of work here to be done. I’m all in to be able to do that. I was drafted here. I have won here. I love the city. I love the fans. It never crossed my mind to leave Dallas.”