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The BetMGM bonus code NYPNEWSGET guarantees a welcome offer for Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday.
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‘SVU’ fan favorites Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni cheer on Knicks together at NBA Finals Game 3
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The former co-stars were spotted hugging each other on the Madison Square Garden Jumbotron as the New York-based team played the San Antonio Spurs.
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Rabid NY Knicks fans tear Wemby jersey into rags — nearly two dozen arrested in rowdy watch party clash
Dozens of enraged Knicks fans surrounded a Spurs fan on the streets and tore apart his Victor Wembanyama jersey after Monday night's squeaker loss.
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What ESPN star ‘suspects’ happened before Mike Brown’s angry NBA Finals officiating rant
The Knicks' front office may have given Mike Brown the green light.
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The NFL’s antitrust exemption is a win for fans
Critics have long argued that the NFL gets an unfair pass under antitrust law. The Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 allows the league to do things that would normally raise legal red flags, including pooling all 32 teams’ television rights and negotiating media deals as one entity. That kind of coordinated behavior is exactly what the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was designed to scrutinize.But measured by what matters most under modern antitrust law — consumer welfare — the NFL’s exemption looks far less like a sweetheart deal for billionaires and much more like a good deal for fans.The irony of stripping the NFL’s exemption in the name of protecting fans is that fans would likely end up worse off.Antitrust law generally asks a simple question: Does the challenged conduct hurt consumers? By that standard, the NFL’s model holds up well. Fans have more access to games at lower real prices, even as league costs have risen sharply, including large inflation-adjusted gains in player salaries.Hometown fans can watch every one of their local team’s games free over the air each season. The typical fan can access more than 100 games a year without paying for cable or a streaming bundle. Even the avid fan who wants every regular-season game can, according to research by LightShed Partners, watch all 272 games in 2026 for less than $600.That comes to less than $3 per game.Compare that with 2006, when full coverage required paying roughly $60 a month for DirecTV plus $290 for Sunday Ticket. Adjusted for inflation, that is more than $1,600 in today’s dollars. In other words, the real cost of watching the full NFL season has fallen by more than 60% over the past two decades.That is not what consumer harm usually looks like.Some critics argue that if the NFL lost its exemption, individual teams would cut their own media deals and fans would benefit from more competition. In practice, that would likely mean 32 teams signing separate deals with different streaming services, regional networks, cable channels, and digital platforms. Fans who wanted to follow the whole season would have to assemble a patchwork of subscriptions, apps, logins, blackout rules, and geographic restrictions.That would not help fans. It would make watching football more expensive and more frustrating.European soccer offers a warning. Leagues there have spent years fighting over collective television licensing, and fragmented rights have often made the product harder for ordinary fans to follow while enriching a handful of powerful clubs. The irony of stripping the NFL’s exemption in the name of protecting fans is that fans would likely end up worse off.The NFL also differs from ordinary industries in a deeper way. In most markets, antitrust law assumes independent competitors produce better outcomes than coordinated actors. A dominant firm may seek to squeeze out rivals, raise prices, and control the market. But professional sports do not work like normal markets.The NFL’s “product” requires competition among many teams. A single team cannot produce a season. Fans do not merely want great franchises; they want close, unpredictable games. If the same teams win every year and the outcome seems predetermined, people stop watching.RELATED: Sports broadcasting blackouts are killing American culture PRANGKUL RUANGSRI/iStock/Getty ImagesThat is why the NFL needs coordination in a way most industries do not. Revenue sharing, pooled media rights, and coordinated scheduling are not tricks to suppress competition. They help preserve competitive balance. When money flows from richer franchises to smaller-market teams, the league prevents a handful of clubs from dominating year after year.Few industries operate by having winners subsidize losers. In most markets, that would look suspicious. In professional football, it helps create the product fans want.Antitrust law usually assumes cooperation among competitors harms consumers. In the NFL, cooperation among competitors helps produce better competition on the field.The Sports Broadcasting Act is not a dusty relic or a lobbyist favor from another era. It reflects a real difference between sports leagues and ordinary industries. Coordination can benefit consumers when the product itself depends on balanced competition, shared scheduling, broad access, and national distribution.The data supports that conclusion. Fans are paying less in real terms for more access than ever, despite rising league costs. Blow up the current system in the name of a simplistic demand for “more competition,” and the likely result would be higher prices, fragmented access, and a worse viewing experience.Antitrust law exists to protect consumers, not to punish cooperation for its own sake. In the NFL’s case, coordination lowers prices and improves the product by giving fans more football, broader access, and closer games.
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3-time Trump voter fears one recent move shows he's 'burning it all down'
A three-time Donald Trump voter expressed concern that the MAGA movement he built won't last beyond him.Melik Abdul, a D.C.-based public affairs professional and Republican strategist, published a column for Newsweek sounding the alarm on a recent move made by the 79-year-old president he supports that threatens his political movement and the GOP itself."Watching him hand the nation’s spy agencies to Bill Pulte this week, a housing official with no intelligence background, I keep landing on a harder question: What’s left of Trump's legacy if he’s willing to burn it all down?" Abdul wondered. "That’s the part getting lost. Trump wasn’t elected only to win. He was elected on the promise that a working-class, multiracial coalition could outlast him and remake the Republican Party for good."Abdul argued that Trump was the first generational figure the GOP has produced since Ronald Reagan, but he expressed doubts that his MAGA movement would endure for decades the way the 40th president's conservatism defined the party until Trump came on the scene."The trouble isn’t that the base has soured. It hasn’t," he wrote. "The trouble is that the administration has turned inward, chasing fights that thrill the faithful but build nothing durable. Renaming the Kennedy Center. A transgender service ban. Tariff brinkmanship. These play well with the people who were never going anywhere. They’ve done little for others in that 77 million Americans who actually put Trump back in office, most of whom don’t treat any of it as an existential crisis.""That’s the cost of governing by applause," Abdul added. "You spend capital on symbols and end up with a second term carrying more asterisks than the first."Most of those fights have ended in losses, Abdul pointed out, and he flagged other "self-inflicted damage" the president has caused."Voter ID and proof of citizenship are genuinely popular ideas. But Trump turned the SAVE Act into a loyalty test he knew the Senate would never pass," Abdul wrote. "There were never 60 votes, and no appetite to end the filibuster to find them. It was red meat. And it helped end John Cornyn’s career. Cornyn’s sin wasn’t disloyalty; he co-sponsored the bill. His sin was not being MAGA enough, fast enough."Trump punished the GOP incumbent by endorsing his scandal-plagued rival Ken Paxton, throwing the Senate race into doubt for November, and he may have stalled his agenda by engineering primary losses and adding more members to the pool of lame-duck Republicans who have no reason to stick with him."A lame-duck senator who’s been told he isn’t wanted owes the White House nothing," Abdul wrote. "That isn’t loyalty. It’s leverage, and Trump just handed it away."Pulte is the most glaring example, Abdul wrote. His resume might qualify him to run a housing agency, which he currently does, but he lacks even the most marginal background in intelligence or national security, and Trump must spend massive political capital to get him confirmed as director of national intelligence."Movements built entirely around one man don’t survive him," Abdul wrote. "A movement that can’t name a successor isn’t a realignment. It’s a personality. And personalities expire."Trump's coalition appears unlikely to survive him, Abdul warned, because he has shrunk the GOP down to himself and his personal grudges and priorities."You don’t protect a legacy by burning down everything around it," Abdul wrote. "You protect it by naming an heir—and so far, the only one Trump has named is himself."
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'Did he fall asleep?' Morning Joe host calls out Trump for napping at NBA game
President Donald Trump was spotted dozing during Monday night's NBA Finals game after disrupting the arrival of thousands of fans and even commuters outside the event.The 79-year-old president's attendance necessitated enhanced security throughout New York City, and ticket holders waited in line for hours to get inside Madison Square Garden and watch parties were canceled outside the arena, but Trump was spotted nodding off as the New York Knicks saw their 13-game postseason win streak snapped by the San Antonio Spurs."There's a huge subplot to this game is that the Knicks went into it with a 13-game winning streak," said "Morning Joe" co-host Jonathan Lemire. "Sort of remarkable, and people are like, what could possibly disrupt them for their rhythm? Well we have an answer – oh, President Trump." "Did he ruin everything?" asked co-host Mika Brzezinski."He showed up last night, creating a huge security perimeter," Lemire replied. "Fans had to stand in line for hours. There was a lot of grumbling when they showed him on the jumbotron during the National Anthem. Mind you, was probably intentional to try to put down the boos. Well, it didn't work. It was thunderous boos from those inside, from both the pool reporter in the building, and you could hear it on the TV broadcast as well. They were very, very, very loud.""I enjoy that our show notes here that were prepared, it says, you know, 'Trump was there on the same night the Knicks' 13-game winning streak was snapped, parentheses," Lemire added. "There is no evidence of correlation between the two circumstances. I don't know. I think there are a lot of Knicks fans that would beg to differ.""Did he fall asleep?" Brzezinski interjected.Lemire agreed there was video footage of Trump dozing, which was shared by the right-leaning New York Post on social media."He did not shut down New York and disrupt this game to fall asleep at it," Brzezinski marveled. "The New York Post Twitter account has footage of Trump pretty clearly falling asleep at some point in the second half," Lemire said. "No, it can't be," Brzezinski deadpanned. "Not with all that 'Sleepy Joe' stuff. I mean, you can't.""Well, he managed to find a way," Lemire replied. "He was there, he was booed and now, Game 4 is so gigantic." - YouTube youtu.be
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Trump ridiculed for insisting he wasn't booed by NBA Finals crowd: 'Sure Donald'
President Donald Trump faced another round of jeers after insisting that he was not booed during a performance of the National Anthem at Game 3 of the NBA Finals.The 79-year-old became the first sitting president to attend an NBA Finals game Monday night at the Madison Square Garden, where his hometown crowd booed him lustily before the New York Knicks lost their first game in the postseason, but Trump afterward insisted he heard only cheers when his face was shown on the screen inside the arena."I thought it was very good," Trump told reporters. "It was certainly amazing. I think mostly cheers. It was loud, and it was very enthusiastic."Social media users pounced on his claim as delusional."Sure, Donald, sure," posted widely followed X user Laura Reiser."Few things here," speculated HuffPost's Brandi Buchman. "He either: 1) knows he was booed and is saying this to infuriate people because their rage is his oxygen 2) has dementia 3) is a sociopathic narcissist with dementia 4) a mix of all of the above since he is psychologically and physically incapable of honesty.""Alternative universe," noted the widely followed Patriot Takes account."He should be in a maximum security prison and throw the key into a volcano but he's funny as f--- for this," opined writer Kylie Cheung."He's literally doing this," pointed out political analyst Drew Savicki, adding a "Simpsons" gif where the Mr. Burns character is assured a crowd is not booing but chanting his name as "Boo-urns.""Loud and very enthusiastic booing," agreed popular X user Annalea. "He doesn’t live in reality.""Which US president has ever talked like this openly in such a narcissistic, self-centered, self-serving way, like a common 12 year-old? Honestly," wondered Asia strategist Tom Logan."This man is a pathological liar," stated writer John Ledesma."Me me me me me me me. When is this going to end?" wondered retired solicitor Clive Wismayer.
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A new White House enemies list names just 3 people. It's terrifying
The juvenile delinquents who have been put in charge of the White House website and social media have officially gone full Nazi by creating an “Enemies List” of “Leftist Influencers” on WhiteHouse.gov The list is fairly short for now, but the fact that it exists at all is proof that the Trump-controlled government is continuing to follow a propaganda playbook that was originally written in German in the 1930s. It was then later translated into Russian before finally reaching our shores and becoming a hybrid of their most horrifically successful tactics, with just enough of The Handmaid’s Tale for good measure added in over the last few years.All of which has been boosted by MAGA-dominated social media for more than a decade. Trump’s attacks on the press began almost exactly 11 years ago, when he first descended the tacky gold escalator in his tacky gold tower to fling his loaded diaper all over our political norms. It was then that he began poisoning the vernacular with the term “fake news media,” which is now so common that it’s used by Republican members of Congress who allowed themselves to be compromised thanks to blackmail (Russian Tactics 101, for those of you who are new to the subject). Those who once spoke out against Trump are now fully owned by him, as is the right-wing media, which helps boost his lies instead of exposing them. CBS News has already fallen to him, but that’s not enough. Hitler had his Lügenpresse; Trump has “Fake News Media.” Which is full-on projection language, considering he’s been abetted by Fox, Newsmax, and OAN, along with “MAGA journalists” like Nick Shirley, who are on the White House payroll to create distractions from the Epstein Files. THIS is what the real Fake News Media looks like.Why yes, that’s my tweet from October 2025, when these kids with cameras in their phones were calling themselves “journalists” because it would continue to delegitimize the work done by actual, real journalists who were exposing the truth about the Trump administration.Like everything else Trump does, that move came with a body count in Minneapolis. I’ve written here before about his specific attacks on women in the media, which happened yet again this week when he attacked CNN’s Kaitlan Collins during a press briefing in the Oval Office--before she had even said a word.Trump’s attacks on the media have escalated drastically over the last few months as both his mental and physical health have been rapidly declining in front of the entire world. Interestingly, the “Leftist Influencers” who are being targeted have all reported on Trump’s health. David Pakman, Ed Krassenstein, and Brian Tyler Cohen are all on the WHITE HOUSE WEBSITE, each of them being made out to be enemies of the State. They’re all essentially being doxxed by Donald Trump, all for daring to always tell the truth about him. A quick word about Ed Krassenstein and his brother, Brian. They’ve had a bad rep for being opportunistic grifters for as long as I can remember. They claim to be Democrats, but have tweeted support for Trump in the past, and have even justified buying a Cybertruck. These aren’t all of the things about them, but this is my way of saying that they are not universally beloved by liberals, and that would include me. Also, not all liberals are Leftists, just to be clear. Anyway, any controversies connected to the Krassensteins are besides the point; neither of them deserves to be targeted by the White House as a distraction from the Epstein Files. Freedom of the Press is guaranteed by the Constitution, as is Freedom of Speech. Any attack on any member of the press is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. Those of us who’ve also been writing the truth about Trump for a long time are wondering when we’ll be added to that list. It’s not as if we don’t have digital footprints like those I’ve mentioned; some of us have larger platforms than others. And a few of us are blocked by Trump on Twitter. I’ve been blocked since August 2015, which is why I’m probably not on the list yet.But it’s not just those “influencers” being targeted for talking about Trump on their podcasts. The White House is now also threatening people for simply posting on social media about Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and Melania. Writer Anthony Andrews tweeted on Saturday that he had received a “cease and desist” order for his Twitter posts and shared screenshots from the order. I don’t care if you voted for Trump three times; that should make you furious. MAGA tweets far worse things than that about Democrats all day, every day. I’m especially rolling my eyes at the “GOVERN YOURSELF ACCORDINGLY” part, considering that Andrews was doing exactly that. He was exercising his Constitutional right to free speech, which includes being able to openly criticize any member of the United States government. He was sharing knowledge about the Epstein Files.
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