Mike Vorkunov
@MikeVorkunov
Basketball reporter @TheAthletic. Co-founder @30newsletter. Host of Business Decision. Daily Targum alum.
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New Business Decision episode with @YaronWeitzman
Do you wanna buy a piece of the Knicks or Rangers? The friendship that saved the Knicks.
Which NBA coach uses AI?
More big day games!
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New Business Decision episode with @YaronWeitzman
Do you wanna buy a piece of the Knicks or Rangers? The friendship that saved the Knicks.
Which NBA coach uses AI?
More big day games!
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Caleb Wilson: “I've never been a loser in my whole life, so I'm gonna try my best to make sure that doesn't happen. I'm not ever gonna accept being a loser, and this is my job to be a leader on this team.
“We're the Chicago Bulls. I feel like it's unacceptable to be losing like we are.”
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The NBA season is on its 11th day and already 9 All-Stars have suffered multi-week injuries:
Chet Holmgren, Jalen Williams, Kawhi Leonard, Tyrese Haliburton, Jaren Jackson Jr., Anthony Edwards, Jalen Duren, Ja Morant, and Paolo Banchero.
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According to a source with knowledge of the situation, Josh Kushner and Mark Walter agreed on all remaining business in regards to the Lakers scheduled $12.5 billion sale. @ramonashelburne was first.
Posted 50+ #journalismjobs#, like:
• National sports reporter
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Jobs at Vanity Fair, The 19th, New York Times, WIRED, Vogue, The AP, People, Fortune, Houston Chronicle, Cosmo & Seventeen, and more:
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The Boston Globe is taking applications for its summer 2027 internship program. The salary is $772.50 per week. Apply by Nov. 1 at 11:59 pm ET.
The NBA won the TV viewership numbers this year with the Finals. MLB won last year with the World Series. Here are the average viewership numbers for the NBA Finals and World Series since 2016👇
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The NBA won the ratings battle this year. The Finals and World Series both went to 5 games. The average viewership number for each championship clinching Game 5:
NBA Finals: 24.5 million
World Series: 12.2 million
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The NBA won the ratings battle this year. The Finals and World Series both went to 5 games. The average viewership number for each championship clinching Game 5:
NBA Finals: 24.5 million
World Series: 12.2 million
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The NBA and MLB both had a Game 7 for its championship this year. Both games were dramatic. The average viewership numbers weren't close:
NBA Finals: 16.61 million
World Series: 25.98 million
This is amazing. I am riveted.
Budda Baker fielding trade deadline questions with a full Halloween costume on is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen
LeBron James, of course, has his own deal with Polymarket. He also has his famous deal with Fanatics (which is sports betting and definitely not the same as prediction markets). Will LeBron have to start pulling a Jordan on the podium in the 1992 Olympics to manage all this?
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The Philadelphia 76ers have struck a multi-year deal with Kalshi to make Kalshi its official prediction market partner. Sixers say they're the 1st NBA team to name an official prediction market partner, and are following in the footsteps of the NBA's deals this week.
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The Philadelphia 76ers have struck a multi-year deal with Kalshi to make Kalshi its official prediction market partner. Sixers say they're the 1st NBA team to name an official prediction market partner, and are following in the footsteps of the NBA's deals this week.
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The NBA has reached deals with Kalshi and Polymarket to make them the league's preferred prediction markets partners. The companies can now use NBA IP on their platforms, while the NBA gets right of approval on markets that they offer. That and more:
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What a kicker...
"I never thought you'd do it to me"
The Joe Buck-Troy Aikman divorce ... and ESPN has chosen Buck.
Details ....
This is such a bleak story about what it's like to try to land a job right now.
Here's Mazzulla in full describing how he uses Claude:
The record for largest halftime lead in a WNBA Finals game is 22 points. Oddly enough it's been done twice and in two different Sky-Mercury games: Sky over the Mercury in Game 3 in 2021 and Mercury over the Sky in Game 1 in 2014.
h/t @Stathead
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The Dream really trying to make sure there's a Game 7 and those Valkyries fans start drinking before noon.
Hell of a story @ByMcCullough on the new World Series champions in Milwaukee
NBA now has public-facing shot data. This was the field goal attempt least likely to be made last night. RJ Barrett's shot here had a 12.1 expected FG%
I think Joe raises a good point here
Joe Mazzulla has never understood the phrase “double-edged sword.”
“Aren’t all swords double-edged?” he said.
