Bryan Fonseca 🇵🇷

🏀 FIBA MONTH 🏀

I'll again be doing some independent international basketball coverage on YouTube.

We start Sunday at 10 p.m. ET where my guy
@joedellera.bsky.social will join to cover the Asia Cup, which begins Aug. 5.

⬇️ AfroBasket, AmeriCup & EuroBasket to follow ⬇️

WATCH: tinyurl.com/2s3tvwam

schedule via @fiba.basketball

The first of the men's FIBA Continental Cups begins in a week with the Asia Cup.

Starts Aug. 5.

Group A:
🇦🇺 Australia
🇱🇧 Lebanon
🇶🇦 Qatar
🇰🇷 South Korea

Group B:
🇯🇵 Japan
🇬🇺 Guam
🇮🇷 Iran
🇸🇾 Syria

Group C:
🇨🇳 China
🇯🇴 Jordan
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
🇮🇳 India

Group D:
🇳🇿 New Zealand
🇵🇭 Philippines
🇹🇼 Taiwan
🇮🇶 Iraq

Jamaica's group includes:

Mexico
Barbados
Costa Rica

Top two will advance, same goes for the other group, which is:

Cuba
El Salvador
Ecuador
Chile

These are pre-qualifiers, which is to say, they have to qualify just to qualify.

@worldcup.basketball qualifying windows begin in Nov.

🇵🇷 How Xander Zayas secured his first world title 🥊

TWO videos up now on Zayas' big win, plus what it means for boxing, for Puerto Rico and the 154-pound division.

WATCH: tinyurl.com/5dwpy6za

Are we sleeping on a Deuce McBride leap?

That and more from our first off-season mailbag, ICYMI.

@dhenrytv.bsky.social
@nypostsports.bsky.social

#Knicks

WATCH: tinyurl.com/2kzc9tcb

Xander Zayas and Jorge Garcia ringwalks coming momentarily.

At the MSG Theater for possibly the final Top Rank card on ESPN.

Let's see if Xander Zayas and Bruce Carrington will leave the night as champions...

wow...

Does Puerto Rican boxing NEED Xander Zayas to be the future?

Well, with his first world title shot coming this Saturday -- and following losses to Amanda Serrano and Edgar Berlanga -- the future might need to start now.

More on the state of Puerto Rican boxing: tinyurl.com/37pwthwp

REDUNDANCY.

open.substack.com/pub/hardwood...

bro 😂😂😂😂

lmao right

wow........

The Houston Rockets signed Josh Okogie and now they're like 20 deep.

This is crazy lol.

It was closer to a no because I said "idk if I'd say he's being used" as my initial reply to the other guy.

Semantics i guess lol.

I think we're saying the same thing?

Right... My understanding is that Hasan is cool with one or both of the Nelk Boys and was already streaming when this dropped.

They texted Hasan while he was talking about AOC, then they just joined him a little after. (Idk if I'd say Hasan was being used?)

Nelks def were though 100%...

Watching the Nelk Boys try to justify this was maddening.

This "content over everything" era has a cap.

Their own base was pissed off, as Hasan pointed out.

More on Oleksandr Usyk's spectacular win over Daniel Dubois... plus what this may mean for him -- and boxing -- historically...

Watch: tinyurl.com/57eu3n7w

Manny Pacquiao is back!

But why is he getting a title shot despite not having fought since 2021 and not having won since 2019?

Let's break it down...

More on Pacquiao's return bout against Mario Barrios here: tinyurl.com/hbxmskx3

I love the Nuggets this season

On the other app, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social badly ratioed Cuomo's campaign announcement 😂

Yeah... all the rich people ain't flocking away from the *finance capital of the world* lol.

I need BlueSky to have a live streaming function (from YouTube) tbh...

Cuomo, Adams and Sliwa will pander to the same audiences while Mamdani will be the only unique candidate by comparison.

This is good for Zohran.

Was Carlos Adames robbed against Hamzah Sheeraz earlier this year?

That and more in Part I of a two-part FILM STUDY for Sheeraz's bout with Edgar Berlanga this Saturday.

Both parts out now ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Part 1: tinyurl.com/5nb786nk

Part 2: tinyurl.com/55jdhuw9

Many felt that Amanda Serrano was robbed in her last fight with Katie Taylor (the co-main event before Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson).

Taylor and Serrano do it again Friday for the third time.

I'm back in the film room to break down part 2 and preview part 3

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMGb...

Later tonight...

Free Agency Day 3!

🏀 Mike Brown to the Knicks
🏀 Myles Turner to the Bucks
🏀 Damian Lillard WAIVED AND STRETCHED (‼️)
🏀 LeBron ⁉️⁉️

Plus more with @uptownsportstv.bsky.social ...

tinyurl.com/46vr7xwb

Mike Brown is a really good coach, so is Tom Thibodeau.

But this is about whether or not Brown is a better fit for the current Knicks roster than management felt like Thibs was.

There's no way of knowing right now, but we'll find out.