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Nets Forward Named 2024 NBA Summer League MVP
The 2024 NBA Summer League MVP is Brooklyn Nets power forward Jalen Wilson. Wilson averaged 21.8 points, 4.6 rebounds, and 1 assist in five games of Summer League action. Additionally, he shot 47.3% from the field and an impressive 55% from beyond the arc. Brooklyn selected Wilson with the 51st...
Three trades the Yankees should make before the deadline
After missing the playoffs for the first time since 2016 last season, the New York Yankees made a significant splash this past offseason, acquiring superstar outfielder Juan Soto to create MLB's top hitting tandem alongside Aaron Judge.The early results were extremely encouraging, as the Yankees looked the part of being the best team in baseball, posting a 50-22 record to start the season. However, a myriad of injuries, poor performances from key pieces and an overall lack of depth have caused New York to go 10-20 over its last 30 games.As the July 30 trade deadline rapidly approaches, it's clear...
Former Knicks All-Rookie Member Hopes To Get Back In NBA
Langston Galloway is no longer in the NBA, but he has to be enjoying his basketball journey at the moment. The 32-year-old was a part of the USA Select Team that got to have a three-day training camp with the Team USA men’s basketball team. That means playing with LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Anthony Edwards, Jayson Tatum, Joel Embiid, and other star players. He is still practicing with the team and even got to play against Serbia in an exhibition game (Galloway hit a three-pointer).
These sculptures changed what art could be, then changed themselves
NEW YORK, NY.- Eva Hesse, a German American artist, wanted her work to look “ucky,” and accordingly, many of her sculptures can make your skin crawl. They behave like skin themselves: irregular in texture, their craggy folds suggesting, unnervingly, something alive. Hesse, a post-minimalist of the 1960s (she...
Jalen Wilson named NBA Summer League 2024 MVP
Jalen Wilson turned in another phenomenal Summer League performance this year — but this time the league really noticed him. After averaging 21.8 points, 4.6 rebounds, 1.0 assists and 0.6 steals per game across Brooklyn’s five summer contests, Wilson was named Summer League MVP, the league announced Monday afternoon. Wilson also shot 47.3% from the field and a nuclear 55.0% from three, averaging 8.0 triples per game. He also led the Summer League with 22 3-pointers.
Counting Down the 10 Most Impactful Devils for 2024-25 – No. 8 – Brenden Dillon
Welcome to the The Hockey Writers’ Countdown of the 10 most impactful New Jersey Devils of the 2024-25 season. This is not a countdown of the 10 best but rather a list of players slated to have the biggest impact. These 10 players offer unique contributions, are difficult to replace, and are essential to the Devils’ quest to return to the postseason. The list continues with number eight, Brenden Dillon.
Queens pol pushes back against MTA plans to redesign borough bus routes
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2024. Donate today. A New York state senator is putting pressure on the MTA to incorporate more local feedback into a pending redesign of Queens’ bus routes. The MTA announced plans for a major redesign of Queens bus routes last...
Moving From The Big Apple to The Brotherly Love
Philadelphia, PA - “Nobody likes us; we don’t care.”. These immortal words championed by the Philadelphia Eagles during their Super Bowl victory parade in early 2018 sums up a city unfairly pegged as the “sixth borough” by New Yorkers. Philadelphia: The City of Brotherly Love and...
Police: Duo stole 280 iPhones worth $117K in NJ smash and grab
A Passaic man has been accused of helping steal a massive amount of iPhones from an Essex County wholesale electronics store three months ago. On April 18 around 2:24 a.m., Fairfield police were sent to investigate an alarm going off at United Tower Associates, which also operates as Digital World Shop, along Bloomfield Avenue.
Little League NYS All-Star 11s baseball: South Shore cruises into winners’ bracket final
South Shore Little League’s 11-year-old baseball squad has prided itself all summer on pitching and defense. The combo has been the ignitor behind the team’s District 24 and Section 3 South banners so far and it held up in a tight 2-1 NY State tournament opening win over White Plains on Saturday.
PS 25 students donate animal banner artwork to be displayed at Staten Island Zoo
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — It’s always good news when individuals step to the plate to benefit a Staten Island not-for-profit organization. No truer words were spoken last week, when the Staten Island Zoo became the recipient of original banner artwork, hand painted and donated by students from PS 25 South Richmond High School Seaview Academy.
NYPD: Man, 35, reported missing from Mariners Harbor
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The NYPD is seeking the public’s assistance in locating a 35-year-old man from Mariners Harbor who was reported missing. Darnell Louden was last seen leaving his Harbor Road residence on Sunday just before 3 p.m., according to a statement from the NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Public Information.
Yankees’ return to early-season selves must not be a one-off
The Yankees had been playing like a takeoff of a different Sinatra song, not the one that’s about being on top of the list and A-Number One, but the one about being on top of the world in April, May before being shot down in June and July. Something close enough to that.
‘Wolf of Airbnb’ Konrad Bicher sentenced to prison for illegal NYC sublet scheme
A flashy Florida man who claimed to be the “Wolf of Airbnb” was sentenced Monday to more than four years in prison after pleading guilty to illegally subletting more than 18 Manhattan apartments — and raking in more than $1 million in rental income while refusing to pay rent.
NYC councilman slapped with ethics complaint for mocking colleague who allegedly bit cop
These were some biting accusations. A New York City councilman was slapped with an ethics complaint for allegedly mocking a fellow council member accused of biting a cop during a protest against a homeless shelter. Brooklyn Councilman Justin Brannan allegedly referred to Councilwoman Susan Zhuang as “Susan Fang” and brought...
Masked gunmen on scooter behind fatal shooting outside NYC migrant shelter that may be tied to Tren de Aragua gang: sources
A pair of scooter-riding masked gunmen were behind a shooting outside a Brooklyn migrant shelter that left one asylum seeker dead and the other critical — in what sources said could be a Tren de Aragua gang-related hit. The gunplay erupted around 11 p.m. Sunday outside a shelter at...
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