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Kobe Bryant‘s father Joe “Jellybean” Bryant has died.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Warner Bros. Discovery is ready to call foul on the NBA. If the shrinking media giant has its way, athletes, influencers and others will begin to take to social media and other venues to criticize the NBA and Amazon for a new deal that will have the digital titan’s Prime Video stream dozens of professional basketball games starting in the 2025-2026 season.

, Caitlin Clark is taking a well-deserved vacation.The WNBA rookie is enjoying the league’s Olympics break in Mexico with her , and a couple of her Indiana Fever teammates, Katie Lou Samuelson and Lexie Hull, . On July 24, Samuelson shared a snap of Hull and Clark relaxing in the water on a floating mat with the caption, “just a couple mermaids.”, McCaffery and Clark have also shared some snaps of the trip to their Instagram Stories.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Warner Bros. Discovery took its efforts to keep NBA games on its cable and streaming properties to court Friday, filing a suit against the NBA in the Supreme Court in the State of New York.

Jeremy Allen White and Rosalia are still going strong, nine months into their relationship!

Tessa Thompson appears to be going strong with boyfriend Brandon Green, months after they were first spotted together!

It took 30 years after the Emmy Awards‘ Outstanding Director for a Drama Series category was launched for the first woman, Karen Arthur, to be nominated in 1985. And it took almost 40 more years for the first Black woman, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, to land a nomination in the field, something she accomplished last week. She did it for her work on HBO‘s Winning Time, which she also executive produced.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Three different media companies won new 11-year rights deals with the NBA on Wednesday. Only one of them is going to radically rework its business to accommodate the new agreement. NBCUniversal will, starting in late 2025, devote three full nights a week to NBA play during the league’s season, two of them on the NBC broadcast network and one of them on its Peacock streaming hub.

Angel Reese, one of the rookie stars of the WNBA, is signing with the Unrivaled 3-on-3 basketball league, which will play in the winter.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor The NBA has blocked one of Warner Bros. Discovery’s last shots on the clock. The basketball league on Wednesday rejected Warner’s effort to shoulder its way in to a new set of rights packages already crafted for Amazon, Disney and NBCUniversal that will generate an estimated $76 billion over an 11-year period All are slated to begin in the NBA’s 2026 season.

Aubrey Plaza was seen using crutches at the WNBA 2024 All-Star weekend in Phoenix, Arizona after tearing her ACL.Plaza sat courtside to watch the game on Sunday (July 21) alongside Megan Rapinoe ex-WNBA player Sue Bird, the latter of whom was shown on camera during the game tying Plaza’s shoe. They saw team WNBA defeat Team USA with a score of 117-109.Ironically, Plaza had sustained the injury while playing basketball.

J. Kim Murphy While Stephen Curry is about to jet to Paris for the Olympics, he’s also about to head to Peacock for his first scripted television role. The streamer has debuted the first trailer for “Mr.

against the US Olympic women's basketball team in the highly-anticipate in Phoenix, Arizona—winning the matchup on behalf of Team WNBA, which was voted on by fans, players, coaches, and members of the media.While there's no doubt that Dallas Wings player Arike Ogunbowale earner her title as MVP with 34 points, Clark and Reese delivered the team-up fans have been dying to see since their 2023 NCAA Championship sparked a major rise in viewership for the sport.WNBA fans need to hear this.Both Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark had an impact on the game as individuals, with breaking the All-Star rookie assist record and becoming the first rookie in the league to record a double-double during an All-Star Game. However, Clark earned one of her 10 assists by sending a a beautiful bounce pass to Reese, which the Chicago Sky player turned into a flawless layup.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Not bad for two players who have been at the center of since their college days—which has only gotten more amid their first WNBA season.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Warner Bros. Discovery won’t let the NBA go without one more drive to the net. The media conglomerate on Monday indicated it plans to work to match the terms of a package of NBA games the league is poised to award to Amazon, a last-ditch effort by Warner CEO David Zaslav to retain the rights to professional basketball that have helped his company thrive for more than three decades.

Los Angeles Lakers star and two-time Olympian gold medalist LeBron James has been named Team USA’s male flagbearer at the Paris Olympic Opening Ceremony on Friday. A female flag bearer to join James will be announced Tuesday.

It was like the South Sudan version of the movie Hoosiers. An African team of discards and college players was hammering Team USA, filled with the world’s best basketball players.

about Caitlin Clark is going viral—and people may be misinterpreting what she had to say.On July 20, the WNBA star rookies will to play against Team USA at the 2024 All-Star game. This team-up is perhaps even more anticipated than their face-off against the .

Sue Bird, a 20-year WNBA star, said that the alleged hate toward Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark is just trash talk that’s misinterpreted.

Rudie Obias editor If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. We’re into the halfway point of the 2024 WNBA season, and the league is heading into an extended break with the WNBA All-Star Game Weekend. It’s also going to be the first time that rivals Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese will play on the same team, as teammates on Team WNBA.

Brittney Griner and wife Cherelle are now parents!

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After scoring his first Emmy nomination for his work in the fifth season of FX‘s crime anthology Fargo, Lamorne Morris hopped on the phone with Deadline to tease Sony’s SNL 1975 and Prime Video’s Spider-Noir, also discussing his hopes for the future of his career.