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Retired Los Angeles Laker legend Kobe Bryant knows what it's like to suffer a debilitating injury and face the daunting path back to an NBA court. He famously came back from an Achilles injury toward the end of his NBA tenure, never quite regaining his old form. Bryant Wednesday offered his thoughts and advice to Gordon Hayward, the star Boston Celtics forward who suffered a gruesome leg injury just minutes into his first game with his new team. Hayward's leg was contorted after it got stuck underneath his body after a collision during an alley-oop attempt. It's believed he dislocated his ankle and fractured his tibia. It seems unlikely Hayward will return this season.  Bryant posted a message Continue to Article

October 18, 2017 12:56:pm EST

Netflix entered the original content arena in 2013 with two homeruns. In the years since, other companies have "entered the content space"—most notably Amazon and Hulu—but none have had the success of Netflix. Continue to Article

October 18, 2017 12:17:pm EST

Oct. 17, 2017 at 5:31 PM In this bonus episode of The Lab, FiveThirtyEight’s NBA podcast, Lakers owner Jeanie Buss joins FiveThirtyEight’s Chris Herring to discuss the upcoming Lakers season. She talks about why she chose to fire her brother — and put longtime friend Magic Johnson in charge — just two days before last season’s trade deadline, plus discusses her initial response to the NBA’s tampering fine against the Lakers and how she still wonders how things might have been different had the Lakers brought Phil Jackson back to the team as a coach in 2012. Click the play button above to hear the interview. We’ll be back with another episode of The Lab later this week. Continue to Article

October 17, 2017 5:31:pm EST

It's long been rumored that LeBron James would leave Cleveland for Los Angeles when his contract runs out after this upcoming season. A story published by GQ magazine Tuesday, on opening day of the NBA season, will do little to quell the fears of Cavaliers fans that their star will leave town (again). The article's author, Mark Anthony Green, asked James about an infamous letter penned by Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert after the star left for Miami in 2010 (he'd return to Ohio in 2014). For the uninitiated, the letter slammed James personally, with Gilbert waxing on about the star's betrayal, cowardice and narcissism.  "Did you feel like Dan Gilbert's letter was racial?" Green asked (Gilbert, like Continue to Article

October 17, 2017 4:39:pm EST

Popovich, a 1970 graduate of the Air Force Academy who served five years, has hit out at Trump after the president accused his predecessors of failing to call the families of fallen soldiers. On Monday, while defending his slow response to the deaths of four U.S. soldiers in Niger, Trump said: “If you look at President Obama, and other presidents, most of them didn’t make calls. Continue to Article

October 17, 2017 3:53:am EST