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1 week ago | 
essentiallysports.com | Ashmit Kumar |Geisha Pulimoottil Don
“Oh my goodness itty bitty Diddy wants me D—, I have to lay low, ☹️I think I’m gonna hide out at the playoff game tonight. LOL,” wrote renowned rapper 50 Cent in a recent Instagram post. The 49-year-old has been making headlines over the last few days due to his involvement in the ongoing trial of Sean John Combs, better known as Diddy.
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1 week ago | 
essentiallysports.com | Ashmit Kumar |Geisha Pulimoottil Don
“It was like every season, I felt we were right there — but there was this one missing piece. We needed a point guard. And I mean a TRUE point guard, you know what I’m saying? Turns out…… we got the truest,” said Indiana Pacers star Myles Turner recently in praise of Tyrese Haliburton. Gone are the days when this individual was being named amongst the most ‘overrated’ players in the league.
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1 week ago | 
essentiallysports.com | Ashmit Kumar |Geisha Pulimoottil Don
“Leave me alone this summer,” said Stephen Curry to conclude his end-of-season presser. After 7-8 months of playing a sports tournament and constantly remaining in the public spotlight due to it, anyone would want to take a break from the media. To not have your private moments be broadcast for the whole world to see. Unfortunately, we live in the age of social media, where nothing remains secret for long.
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1 week ago | 
essentiallysports.com | Ashmit Kumar |Geisha Pulimoottil Don
“Steph Curry is the reason I play basketball. Steph Curry is my guy. I’m kind of like the security for the superstar,” said Andre Iguodala back in 2019. 6 years later, that level of respect that the former player holds for the veteran has not gone away. Though he may no longer be with the Golden State Warriors, Iguodala continues holding Curry in high regard.
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1 week ago | 
essentiallysports.com | Ashmit Kumar |Geisha Pulimoottil Don
The end of the ongoing NBA tournament will certainly leave a sour feeling in the minds of fans, but which will be the most bittersweet moment? For many, including me, it would be the end of ‘Inside the NBA’ on TNT. For more than a decade, Shaquille O’Neal, Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley, and Kenny Smith not only provided in-depth analysis but also entertained fans with jokes, pranks, and their bond.
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2 weeks ago | 
essentiallysports.com | Ashmit Kumar |Geisha Pulimoottil Don
“It’s always been a passion of mine. To be able to have that part of myself back has been so nice,” said Ayesha Curry back in March 2024, when describing what it was like to get back into the field of acting. Along with managing her culinary empire and managing her and Stephen Curry’s ‘Eat.Learn.Play’ foundation, the ‘momtrepreneur’ also recently returned to acting after a 6-year hiatus, giving her a chance to revisit one of her passions. You know who else has a passion for acting?
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2 weeks ago | 
essentiallysports.com | Ashmit Kumar |Geisha Pulimoottil Don
“I definitely gotta shoot more. I only took 13 f—— shots,” said Anthony Edwards after the Timberwolves’ Game 1 loss against the Oklahoma City Thunder. That’s it. That’s all that Anthony Edwards needed to say to incur a $50,000 fine for using “profane language” during a media interview! Just one f word, and the player had to pay more than what many people earn in a year.
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2 weeks ago | 
essentiallysports.com | Ashmit Kumar |Geisha Pulimoottil Don
Have you ever marked a major achievement in your life by wanting to celebrate it by going all out? Perhaps you treated your family or friends after getting good marks in the exam, or gave out gifts to them after marking a promotion at work? You don’t have to necessarily do it, but it certainly makes you a bigger person when doing so.
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2 weeks ago | 
essentiallysports.com | Ashmit Kumar |Geisha Pulimoottil Don
“We had a situation some years ago, and it’s personal. The league knows, everybody knows, and it’s been a meeting and all that,” said Chris Paul back in November 2023, about the feud between him and famous NBA referee Scott Foster. Sports Illustrated reporter Chris Mannix had gone on to describe it as amongst “the most bizarre player-referee rivalries in sports history …”. The player seldom shied away from making his criticism about the 58-year-old known.
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2 weeks ago | 
essentiallysports.com | Ashmit Kumar |Geisha Pulimoottil Don
“We’ve got to be more aggressive, take what the defense gives us, but also impose our game on them,” said Anthony Edwards after the Game 1 loss against the Oklahoma City Thunder. This, along with the advice to himself to shoot more, was one advice the star player was looking to put out to not repeat what the Timberwolves did in Game 1.
