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The FBI is sniffing around Duke basketball

I've heard that the FBI is snooping around, sniffing around Duke.

Duke was never formally implicated or named in the 2017 FBI college basketball corruption scandal.

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Oct 18, 2017
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LeBron James travels and could learn how to establish a pivot foot from Gordon Hayward's injury

Hey, LeBron James, you could learn a lot from Gordon Hayward about how to establish a pivot foot. [LeBron] travels.

LeBron's traveling is a subjective, ongoing debate among NBA fans and media.
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Oct 18, 2017
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Kevin Durant lacks the clutch gene and will never win an NBA championship where he is the alpha on the team

Kevin Durant lacks the clutch gene. Doesn't get the ball off on time. [He will never win an NBA championship] where he's the alpha on the team. Beta ball.

Durant won back-to-back NBA championships and Finals MVPs in 2017 and 2018. While on a stacked team, winning Finals MVP twice directly contradicts the idea he couldn't win as the alpha.
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Oct 18, 2017
#1020
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The Yankees are going to win the World Series because they have 'the aura'

The Yankees, I think, are going to win the World Series. I'm actually going to say that right now. I think they have what we call the look. I was going to say the aura, actually. The aura.

The Yankees lost the 2017 ALCS in 7 games to the eventual champion Houston Astros.

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Tom Brady helping Mike Macdonald prepare for the Patriots would be a huge slap in the face to the New England region.

That would be egregious if that was true. I don't believe it is true. But if it were, that would be unforgivable. Not unforgivable. That would be a, a blemish, a big blemish. Big time. It'd be a slap in the face of the whole region.

Subjective opinion on how a hypothetical rumor would be perceived.
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Jayson Tatum is playing cute by claiming he found out about the Jaylen Brown trade on social media.

I'm sure he knew that he was on the trading block and he didn't know specifically when he got traded and he found out just like everyone else... all Brad Stevens, Jaylen Brown, they talked about how, you know, he was gonna be on the trading block and they were gonna try and move him. So I'm sure Jayson Tatum was also aware of that. But in terms of, he's probably playing a little, a little cutesy there where like no one specifically told him, 'Hey, this is the trade.' He found out like everyone else. But I'm sure he was not surprised and fully aware what the plan was.

Subjective interpretation of Tatum's PR framing.
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The Celtics have another major move coming following the Jaylen Brown trade

There's something going on here. I I said it to Max on the boat yesterday. I was like, Jalen Brown was getting traded. I could, I could just feel it. I could feel it coming... I feel like the Paul George thing is, there's the, like, they might be doing another trade. There's another move coming.

The trade just happened in the fictional 2026 timeline provided; further moves are pending.