José Volta e Pinto

The Dunker Spot hosted by Nekias Duncan and Steve Jones

BIG NEWS. very pleased to report that @nekiasnba.bsky.social and @stevejones20.bsky.social are bringing The Dunker Spot to Yahoo Sports. been a fan of their show for ages, now I get to work with them. new episodes starting today!

Mondo Duplantis on his way to gold

Mondo Duplantis: 6.30m

📸 Hannah Peters

They're all great people! (/s)

Just 30 minutes away from Portugal-Serbia, a matchup of the world's two best centers.

Portugal volta a vencer num EuroBasket, 18 anos depois. A Seleção Nacional bateu a Chéquia por 62-50, em Riga.

Neemias Queta fez história: primeiro jogador desde 1995 — ano em que a FIBA começou a registar ressaltos — a somar 20+ pontos e 15+ ressaltos na estreia na competição.

Neemias Queta led Portugal to a win in their EuroBasket opener. Monster game for Queta:

23 points on 11-for-15 shooting
18 rebounds
2 steals
4 blocks

He was easily the best player on the floor.

Happy Eurobasket to all who celebrate.

🏀 “Destino: Riga” – Neemias Queta em discurso direto Poste português fala do rótulo de “Cinderella story” atribuído pela FIBA, do reconhecimento da ESPN e da importância do torneio como laboratório antes de regressar à NBA.

À beira da estreia no EuroBasket 2025, Neemias Queta falou em exclusivo ao Borracha Laranja. Do rótulo de “Cinderella story” ao peso da camisola da Seleção, do reconhecimento internacional ao desafio de enfrentar Nikola Jokić, Alperen Şengün e o ex-colega Kristaps Porziņģis.

Entrevista completa:

Ah, the Betteridge's law of headlines strikes again

Fuzzy matching, but for concepts – Rui Barros There's a special kind of despair that comes with staring at two datasets that should obviously connect, but refuse to play nice. You know they belong together but no fuzzy matching technique can help...

How @zevolta97.bsky.social and I zero-shot our way through conceptual matching.

I second Anaheim! It looks like it, and if it's not that hot...

Joel Embiid sees you In what he's calling his "most important" offseason, Joel Embiid responds to his critics.

Incredible reporting and storytelling by Dotun Akintoye here. When I grow up I want to write something this good.

www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

Portugal's Diana Gomes ties it in the 89th minute

Roberto Baggio interview – ‘To entertain people… that’s what I lived for’ The great Roberto Baggio didn't do it for the money or for the fame - perhaps that's why the likes of Lionel Messi love him

“So I chose freedom. And that’s priceless.” ❤️

www.nytimes.com/athletic/645...

I reported a deepfake of Caitlin Clark on X. Instead of it getting removed, here's what happened | Sporting News Trying to get a Caitlin Clark tweet taken down turned into a deep dive on the growing problem of deepfakes on X

I reported an offensive Caitlin Clark fake video on X to try and get it removed. Instead, I saw how deeply the platform is letting women down.

My story on one of the most disturbing issues affecting women in the age of AI, and X's failure to curb it:

www.sportingnews.com/us/wnba/indi...

That's true! And another part of it is the fear that their ownership feels about the luxury tax. Combine both and boom - you get Brook Lopez: Electric Boogaloo in Milwaukee.

The Pacers might fear that Myle's performance has a strong "Halliburton boost" to it 👀

I'll never be able to watch There Will Be Blood the same way again. Thanks!

Oh, got it. Well, damn

I believe they post it later on

Congratulations to the OKC Thunder! Amazing season. SGA is a one of a kind player. One of the greats, already.

Very bittersweet (devastating, really) ending for the Indiana Pacers and Tyrese Haliburton. But we'll never forget this amazing run! May you come back stronger #NBAFinals

PSA for studio analysts: This is why you don't "just nut up and play" with a calf strain

if these bombs didn’t do anything significant to Fordow then I guess the Luka trade is the second worst deal the Adelsons made this year

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

ia disputar* 😬

YouTube video by Borracha Laranja Portugal x Bélgica - FIBA Women´s EuroBasket 2025 Watchalong - Triplo do Canto

A selecção feminina de basquetebol entra dentro de minutos em campo para a estreia absoluta em Europeus! Vou estar com o @j-pedro-barbosa.bsky.social e o @zeandrade.bsky.social a acompanhar jogo. Juntem-se a nós!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI89...

The hustle from Alex Caruso on this steal

It's a very strong candidate, for sure! Only Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever comes to mind. (We Are The Champions/ We Will Rock You has great entertainment value, tho)

SOS! the volunteers on 'Madleen' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces.
Pressure their foreign ministries and help us keep them safe!
E: alertes.cdc@diplomatie.gouv.fr & courrier.scec@diplomatie.gouv.fr

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Tyrese Haliburton in the on-court interview after his game-winner:

"Basketball is fun!"

He's absolutely correct! Basketball is THE BEST!