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Iron Maiden have announced a North American 2024 tour, which will kick off in California in October.
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Maximizing player rest and limiting travel demands were again part of the NBA's formula for the coming regular season. That's what the league indicated Thursday when announcing the schedule for 2023-24. Teams have an average of 14 instances of back-to-back games this season, up slightly from last year's rate of 13.3 per team. But back-to-backs involving travel are down to 9.0 on average. The rate of those last season was 9.6 per team. No team will play the day before or after high-profile national television games, such as Christmas matchups and all ABC weekend matchups.
Bill Geddie, a legendary TV-news producer who was behind many of Barbara Walters' most notable efforts, including the long-running ABC daytime show "The View," has died of coronary-related factors, his family told Variety. He was 68. "He was a big deal in TV, but at home he was an even 'bigger than life' husband and dad," said Geddie's family in a ...
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The first dinner that Victor Wembanyama had in his new home city was filled with San Antonio royalty. Gregg Popovich was there, of course. So were Tim Duncan, David Robinson, Manu Ginobili and Sean Elliott. NBA champions, all of them. Wembanyama now starts his quest to join their club. The process of getting him ready for his first NBA season will start quickly. There are summer league practices starting in the next few days and his first game in a Spurs uniform, albeit just the summer kind, coming in early July at either Sacramento or Las Vegas.
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The chants from hundreds of fans, some of whom waited outside for hours in nearly 100-degree heat, started at the very moment Victor Wembanyama stepped out of the private plane that carried him to his new NBA home. And the NBA’s newest No. 1 draft pick reveled in his first San Antonio moment, waving at the fans and letting them know how much he was enjoying it all. Wembanyama arrived in San Antonio on Friday afternoon. He was a few hours behind schedule; Spurs fans had waited a long time for something like this, so a little more waiting did nothing to dampen their welcome.
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The NBA's oldest coach. The NBA's newest superstar. In an instant, the fortunes of the San Antonio Spurs changed in a big way. Victor Wembanyama is on his way to the NBA, and the coaching wins leader in Gregg Popovich will be waiting for him. The right combination of ping-pong balls gave the Spurs victory in the draft lottery on Tuesday night, meaning they'll have the No. 1 pick on June 22. That means they've won the Wembanyama sweepstakes, and that four years of losing in a way that had never before happened under Popovich has actually paid off.
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Actor Michael Douglas is a huge basketball fan. And he's become a big fan of Victor Wembanyama. Douglas and every other basketball follower in the world is about to find out where Wembanyama's NBA journey will begin. The NBA draft lottery is Tuesday night in Chicago. The team that wins the lottery gets the right to choose No. 1 overall in next month's draft. And they'll use that pick on Wembanyama, the 7-foot-3 French phenom.
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The NBA draft lottery has offered teams a quick path from bad to good for nearly four decades. The stakes this year are as high as they've ever been with French phenom Victor Wembanyama the top prospect. The lottery format has undergone a few changes since the New York Knicks won the first one in 1985. There were seven teams in the lottery then. There are twice as many now. The league will hold this year's lottery Tuesday night in Chicago, with the winner getting the No. 1 pick and the chance to select Wembanyama. Detroit, Houston and San Antonio all have a 14% chance of getting him. Here's a look at how the lottery works.
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Miami Heat forward Udonis Haslem is toward the end of what has been a 20-year NBA career. He spent it all with his hometown team.
