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The longest field goals in NFL history, updated after Justin Tucker’s 66-yard game-winner

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Justin Tucker now has the longest field goal in NFL history.

Two kickers attempted to break the NFL record for the longest field goal ever in Week 3 of the 2021 NFL season. One attempt ended in disaster, while the other sailed through the uprights and now sits at the top of the league’s record books.

Arizona Cardinals kicker Matt Prater attempted a 68-yard field goal just before halftime against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Prater’s kick was short, and Jacksonville’s Jamal Agnew fielded the kick and returned it 109 yards for a touchdown. Nathan Vasher did it first. Agnew’s return tied the record for the longest touchdown in league history, a distinction he now shares with Cordarrelle Patterson and Antonio Cromartie. Cromartie’s score also came off fielding a missed field goal.

Shortly after, the Baltimore Ravens lined up for a 66-yard field goal in the final seconds while down two points against the Detroit Lions. Justin Tucker knocked it through for the win. Tucker now holds the record for the longest field goal in NFL history.

Here’s a list of the longest field goals the NFL has ever seen.

There have been five 62-yard field goals in league history

Prater did it himself in Week 2 of the 2021 NFL season:

MATT PRATER 62-YARD FIELD GOAL. #AZCardinals : #MINvsAZ on FOX : NFL app pic.twitter.com/2FtVIQksx1

— NFL (@NFL) September 19, 2021

Brett Mower hit twice from 62 yards out for the Dallas Cowboys in 2018 and 2019. Stephen Gostkowski of the New England Patriots hit a 62-yarder in 2017, and Matt Bryant of the hit a 62-yarder in 2006 for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

There have been six 63-yard field goals in NFL history

Maher hit a 63-yarder for the Cowboys in 2019. He’s 3-for-3 in his career from at least 60 yards.

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Sebastian Janikowski of the Raiders in 2011, Graham Gano of the Panthers in 2018, Jason Elam of the Broncos in 1998, Tom Dempsey of the Saints in 1970 and David Akers of the 49ers in 2012 all also hit from 63 yards out.

Matt Prater’s 64-yard field goal is the now the second longest in NFL history

You can watch Prater’s 64 yarder here.

Justin Tucker’s 66-yard field goal is now the longest in NFL history

Not only is Tucker’s kick the longest in league history, he also made it as time expired to give his team the win. What an incredible moment.

Justin Tucker is the greatest kicker in NFL history. We will NEVER see anything like this again. pic.twitter.com/nKUOPjMGhd

— SB Nation (@SBNation) September 26, 2021

Off the crossbar and in. It was meant to be.

Tucker is 16-for-16 on field goals in his career in the final minute of regulation. There were some amazing reactions in Detroit as the kick sailed through.

Priceless reaction through the goalpost on Justin Tucker’s 66-yarder. A Lions fan and a Ravens on either side of the aisle, experiencing their polar emotions pic.twitter.com/xM8A0rP59G

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) September 26, 2021

Justin Tucker took the soul out of every Lion fan at Ford Field. Lmaooo pic.twitter.com/OVpFstyeSD

— Kip Smithers (@Chughes612) September 26, 2021

The longest field goal in college football history is 69 yards

And it was set in 1976! By Abilene Christian!

Justin Tucker’s incredible game-winning kick sets an NFL record, but remains just shy of the collegiate record set by Abilene Christian’s Ove Johansson in 1976 of 69 yards.

— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) September 26, 2021

The longest field goal attempt in league history is still held by Janikowski at 76 yards. He didn’t even come close.

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Michael Jordan’s Air Jordan 1s Sell For $560K After ‘Last Dance’ Doc Wraps, But His Chicago Mansion Slashed To Half Its Original $29M Asking Price

A pair of Nike Air Jordan 1s sold for a whopping $560,000 after Michael Jordan's 10-part “Last Dance” docu-series wrapped up. Meanwhile, MJ is having a hard time unloading his Chicago mansion. More inside…

Michael Jordan’s name still rings bells and can still get folks to cough up hella cash.

After the end of his HIGHLY buzz worthy 10-part “Last Dance” docu-series aired this past Sunday, a pair of the NBA icon’s sneakers sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars. According to reports, a pair of his Nike Air Jordan 1s – that were signed and worn by him – were auctioned off (via Sotheby’s) for a whopping $560,000. Sotheby’s didn’t disclose the name of the buyer or seller, but said bidding came from four continents.

#MichaelJordan’s game-worn and autographed Air Jordan 1s have sold for $560,000 USD. This #Sothebys auction sets a new world record for the highest price sold for any sneaker, surpassing the previous record of $437,500 USD for #Nike’s Waffle Moon Shoe. Photo: Sotheby’s pic.twitter.com/5tw2lv5J1d

— HYPEBEAST (@HYPEBEAST) May 18, 2020

The sought out sneakers sold for three times their original value and set a new record as the most expensive sneakers ever sold. The new record surpassed the previous record holder, which was a pair of 1972 Nike Waffle Racing “Flat Moon Shoes” that went for $437,500 in 2019.

The mega sale coincided with the last episode of MJ’s hugely popular ESPN “The Last Dance.”

“This shows not only the incredible appeal of Michael Jordan as one of the most recognizable and legendary athletes of all time, but also that sneaker collecting is truly a global and growing market,” said Brahm Wachter, Sotheby’s director of e-commerce development.

The sale comes 35 years after the release of the first Air Jordan.

The Chicago Bulls player wore the red, white and black sneakers in 1985. They are signed with a bold, black permanent marker, which was rare since Jordan typically signed with a ballpoint pen.

Oh, and get this. For most of Jordan's career, he wore mismatched shoes, so the left sneaker is a size 13 and the right is a size 13.5.

The NBA GOAT has been trying to sell his mansion in Chicago for the last eight years, but has been unseccuessful. Now, the property is reportedly being listed for half of the original $29 million asking price.

Michael Jordan has unsuccessfully tried to sell his Chicago area home for the last eight years. It started at $29 million. It is now listed for $14,855,000.

1+4+8+5+5 = 23 pic.twitter.com/YwwpREwU0h

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) May 18, 2020

The mansion is 56,000 square-feet was originally listed for $29 million in February 2012. It's now reportedly listed for 14,855,000. And get this, if you add up the the digits in the asking price, it equals 23, MJ's jersey number. People love a number conspiracy, don't they?

Also, the annual property taxes on the mansion totals more than $124,000. Sheesh.

Good luck, MJ!

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It’s official: Disney has acquired the film and television arms of 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion.

Assuming regulators allow the deal to go through (it’s expected to take at least a year to close), Disney will own the rights to everything from the Avatar movies to FX’s The Americans. Fox, meanwhile, maintains the rights to Fox News, the Fox broadcast network, Fox Sports 1, and the gigantic Fox studio lot in Los Angeles. One of the six core studios that make up Hollywood has effectively been gobbled up by another, the biggest deal of its kind in decades (probably since the 1955 dissolution of RKO, since by the time MGM finally disappeared, it had been ailing for decades, unlike Fox). Variety marks it as the second-biggest merger ever after AOL-Time Warner.

Much casual interest in the sale has been driven by the fact that Disney will now own the film rights to the Marvel comics characters associated with the X-Men and Fantastic Four, which Marvel sold off to Fox long before either was a Disney subsidiary. (Marvel still doesn’t entirely own film rights to the Hulk — solo Hulk movies have to be produced with Universal, which is probably part of why there haven’t been any recently.) But Disney also now owns the rights to a bunch of other well-known cultural properties, including The Simpsons, the Alien franchise, and Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Considering that Disney has proved so capable at turning beloved cultural properties into blandly effective hit-producing machines, there are a handful of reasons to be at least cautiously anticipatory about what it might do with all of its new toys.

But for the most part, this deal is a little terrifying. There are myriad reasons, but here are five that are most distressing to me — and only one of them is the incredibly troubling march of further media consolidation!

1) It’s entirely possible the Fox TV network will slowly wither away

One of the assets Disney couldn’t buy from Fox was its broadcast network of the same name, home to everything from The Simpsons to New Girl to The X-Files. The network launched in 1986 and was largely seen as a folly, but by the mid-’90s, it was a mainstay in most American homes, breaking the hegemony of the big three networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC.

Federal Communications Commission regulations state that no one company can own more than one broadcast network, and Disney already owns ABC. This would be fine if Rupert Murdoch and News Corp were simply going to keep running the Fox network as it’s been run until now. But in 2017, there are essentially only two ways to make money as a broadcast network: make it a home for programming already owned by the network’s sister studio (meaning ABC airs mostly programming made by ABC Studios or other Disney sister companies), or make it a home for ridiculously cheap programming (meaning reality shows and news). So it seems unlikely they’ll stay the course, even though early reporting suggests Fox TV will exist much as is for now (though scripted product is expected to decline).

Fox, in essence, can’t pursue option one. If the deal goes through, all of Fox Television’s other assets — including its studio and attached cable networks, of which FX is the most prominent — will belong to Disney. And while there are a few programs on the network that are money-printing machines and will thus continue for at least a little while (The Simpsons and Family Guy chief among them), and a few other programs that it’s in Disney’s best interests to keep going (like the Marvel co-production The Gifted), there’s no reason for the Fox TV network to keep airing almost everything on its lineup if it won’t be collecting revenue from those shows via other means, like international sales or streaming sales. (Broadcast networks make almost all of their money from selling advertising space, a shrinking market in an era of ratings diminishment; essentially every other revenue stream is funneled toward the studios that produce TV shows.)

Now, there are ways that Fox could largely continue as-is. Disney could cut it a huge deal to carry many of those old Fox shows cheaply, figuring that they’re worth more to Disney as part of a huge streaming library and, thus, worth losing a lot of money on for a while. It’s also theoretically possible that Fox could sell off its TV network to another major studio that produces its own TV but doesn’t have a natural home for all of it (in essence, Sony or Warner Bros.). It could even become a glorified CW, should a studio like Sony team up with another player to share the cost of the network. (The CW is a joint venture between CBS and Warner Bros.)

But consider this: One of the key reasons to invest in the Fox network is that it holds NFL rights to broadcast NFC games, as well as the Super Bowl every third year. While NFL ratings have slipped, they’re still by far the biggest game in town, and if Fox really is refocusing on news and sports, letting NFL rights slip away wouldn’t make a lot of sense. And when you further consider that Fox has a longstanding relationship with (and share of) the reality TV producer Endemol Shine, it seems all the more likely that the network will continue to exist but mostly become a clearinghouse for reality programming, sports, and news content. This evolution, barring a sale to a different studio, seems inevitable. The network will still be Fox, but essentially a halfhearted version of itself.

Disney announces it has reached a deal to acquire 21st Century Fox, as predicted by a Simpsons episode that first aired on November 8, 1998. http://pic.twitter.com/kzloJQHeM8

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) December 14, 2017

2) Hulu will almost certainly become a Disney property

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One of the things keeping Hulu from truly taking on Netflix and Amazon for streaming network superiority has been its strange ownership situation, in which it is owned in part by Fox, Disney, NBCUniversal (an investor in Vox Media), and Warner Bros. When Fox sells its 30 percent share of Hulu to Disney in this deal, Disney will become the majority shareholder in Hulu. It remains to be seen if NBC will sell off its 30 percent stake, or Warner Bros. its 10 percent stake, but I think such a deal is likely.

Disney has been looking for a streaming platform with which it can strike back at Netflix. It made noise about creating its own platform, but just buying Hulu outright makes a certain sense. Hulu, after all, is already built and simply needs to go international. (Currently, Hulu is only available in the US.) And considering that Disney will now control the considerable TV library of Fox — as well as the smaller but still impressive Disney TV library — it will have a substantially advantageous position to turn Hulu into the Netflix competitor. (Disney is still said to be looking at building streaming platforms for sports programming, and then for its Marvel and Star Wars properties, but it’s also easy to imagine these proposed services becoming pricey Hulu add-ons.)

There are a handful of exciting things about this from the point of view of TV fans, like the idea of better integration between Hulu and FX, for instance. But one of the things that’s made Hulu work is its unstable ownership situation, which has essentially given the service access to almost all of the good TV, with packages that allow you to include even more TV networks to your Hulu bundle as add-ons. That’s led to a neither-fish-nor-fowl problem here and there for Hulu, but it’s also led to a massive library of TV shows, as well as the first drama series Emmy for a streaming service with The Handmaid’s Tale. It would be a shame to see that turned into another arm of the Disney monolith.

3) Wherever Rupert Murdoch ends up, he’ll have $52 billion more to play around with

The real wild card in this deal is what happens to Rupert Murdoch. He and his family now own 5 percent of Disney and will hold seats on the company’s board of directors. But Murdoch, by most accounts, has always preferred the worlds of news and sports to the world of movies and scripted TV.

The important thing is this: Murdoch has long wanted to take Fox News international, previously via a furtive, aborted attempt to port the model to the UK. The jury’s out on whether he can actually accomplish this (the network may simply be too wedded to the US Republican Party in the eyes of overseas viewers), but it’s not as if socially conservative, jingoistic nationalism can’t gain a foothold in other countries. One hitch in this is that Fox sold off many of its international TV assets in the Disney deal. Yet if any media platform can figure out a way to make that work, Fox News seems as likely as anybody else.

Couple that with the Fox broadcast network’s need for cheap programming (which would likely include news programming) and Fox Sports 1’s inability to get out of the shadow of Disney-owned ESPN, and you have what amounts to a company that exists largely to keep the Fox News business humming along. (News Corp, of course, still owns a number of print publications, including the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal.)

Of my five points, this is by far the most speculative. To be sure, it’s unlikely this will happen overnight, and it might take as long as a decade or two. But the successful future of the Murdoch empire is now tied largely to the successful expansion of Fox News. And the most likely path to chart leads out of the US and overseas.

4) 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight at least tried making films for adults. They now belong to a company only interested in making blockbusters.

The Post is one of several Oscar-friendly films Fox released this year.

Niko Tavernise/Twentieth Century Fox

This is, in comparison to most of these other points, ultimately a somewhat minor concern. But it’s true that Disney doesn’t make many movies per year, and those movies are almost always aimed at the blockbuster audience — which is to say families and young men in their early 20s and late teens. Disney is, in a real way, in the blockbuster business, making lots of Marvel, Star Wars, and animated films while rarely straining for much more.

Consider, for instance, that the studio is pumping a lot of money into an Oscar campaign for its Beauty and the Beast live-action remake because it … doesn’t have much else (though the strong reviews for the latest Star Wars film may give it another competitor). In contrast, Fox has many of the year’s most Oscar-friendly films, with two released under its Fox Searchlight banner, The Shape of Water and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and one from Fox proper, The Post, combining for 19 Golden Globe nominations just this week. Add in scattered nominations for the studio’s Battle of the Sexes, The Greatest Showman, and Ferdinand and Fox’s total rises to 27 nominations in total.

This isn’t a one-off, either. Fox Searchlight is fairly consistently in the Oscar hunt, and 20th Century Fox might not win awards as consistently, but it still continues to produce films aimed at adult audiences, like the surprise success Murder on the Orient Express or the less successful The Mountain Between Us.

Fox certainly tries to play the blockbuster game, but most of its major franchises, from X-Men to Planet of the Apes, have seen stronger box office returns in the past. While it might be worth it to Disney to get the X-Men and Fantastic Four back in the Marvel fold, Fox itself doesn’t bring a ton of great franchise assets to the table (though the Avatar sequels, slated to begin arriving in 2021, are a huge wild card in this equation). And though Oscars may not be incredibly important to Disney, it’s not as if the company wouldn’t like to win a Best Picture trophy someday (remarkably, a Disney film has never won Best Picture, though the former Disney subsidiary Miramax won a couple of times), which Fox Searchlight might help with. Indeed, Disney’s early messaging around Fox Searchlight has been largely positive, and it’s expected the division will continue as it has, for the most part.

But in order to not trip up antitrust regulators, it’s most likely Fox itself will have to reduce overall output. (It released 16 movies in 2016 and 13 in 2017.) So will Disney allow Fox to continue making movies aimed at a wide variety of audiences, some hitting and some flopping? Or will it push Fox into the same box as its other subsidiary studios, like Marvel and Pixar, responsible for a certain number of films per year, all of which are expected to set certain box office benchmarks? If that’s the case, then film fans will have lost something.

5) Yeah, media consolidation is bad, and it’s only getting worse with this deal

The quick and obvious take on the Disney-Fox deal is that media consolidation, already bad, is only getting worse. It’s been ages and ages since a major Hollywood studio just … disappeared, and now one that seemed pretty healthy from all evidence has been consumed by a bigger corporation. The big fish are eating each other, and soon there may only be one left.

The standard rebuttal to this concern is that tech companies can come in and “disrupt” the entertainment industry and media and shake things up to create room for new voices. And maybe this will happen! Certainly Netflix has become a Hollywood heavyweight in record time (even if it still struggles to draw interest to its films).

But for the most part, tech companies have built really great aggregators of content that comes from elsewhere. Outside of Netflix’s TV division, there aren’t any real roaring successes out of the tech industry — and you can’t create great art, or even popular art, simply by throwing money at it, something Hollywood knows all too well.

But if Fox is now part of Disney, then it’s hard to imagine that we’re not heading toward a universe where essentially all of the major media providers in the world are owned by three or maybe four companies. And while the most obvious issues with that stem from how media consumers are able to get news that takes on corporate interests, there are a host of others that range from the political to the artistic.

Suffice to say that having one less major studio isn’t a great sign for the health of the American entertainment industry, for the future prospects of film lovers, and for anybody who read the David Mitchell novel Cloud Atlas and recoiled a bit when learning that his futuristic, dystopian society where humans are literal corporate cattle described movies as “Disneys.”

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The youngest and oldest player in the NBA.

Isaac Bonga (18) born November 8, 1999

Vince Carter (41) NBA debut February 5, 1999

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The Alliance of American Football Needed a Week Two Bailout

You watching the AAF?

It’s been pretty entertaining. Last night some dude threw a no-look, behind his head pass that actually resulted in a completion:

They're throwing no-look passes in the AAF

(via @CBSSports) pic.twitter.com/WhEzfWzlPO

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) February 18, 2019

Problem with the AAF is that the league is already struggling financially, just two weeks into the season.

According to David Glenn at The Athletic, the league was dangerously close to not being able to pay its players:

…The league was running short on cash, and quickly. Without new investors, there was a good chance it was going to miss payroll last Friday.

On Tuesday, multiple sources told The Athletic, the AAF will announce that Carolina Hurricanes majority owner Tom Dundon, a self-made billionaire from Dallas, has become that nine-figure investor. Dundon will be introduced as the league’s new chairman after last week’s commitment of $250 million enabled the AAF to meet its obligations.

That’s a lot of money. A quarter of a billion dollars for a fledgling football league that might not even have long-term viability? Dundon is going to remain in his role with the Hurricanes but is now the de facto AAF king as well.

More on the payroll issue from Darren Rovell:

The AAF missed payroll in Week 1. They told agents that it was a glitch with switching to a new administrator. They told players would be paid by today the latest.

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) February 19, 2019

No word yet on week two AAF ratings, but the league did well in week one, with a CBS game beating a Rockets/Thunder game that was airing on ABC. I’d expect that to drop off, but I don’t think you can underestimate the demand for year-round football, and if the audience is there, Dundon might have made a smart investment here.

The AAF features eight teams across the country and includes a number of former Eagles, such as Greg Ward Jr., Dexter McDougle, DeVante Bausby, Ed Reynolds, and Josh Huff.

Check out Huff on this jawn:

Wolford to Josh Huff, 64 yards!!!! pic.twitter.com/tOPRSiXfFi

— #NobodyDied (@ftbeard_17) February 17, 2019

Chip Kelly, that’s your boy.

Michael Vick is the Atlanta Legends’ offensive coordinator and most of the coaches are former NFL guys.

Should Philadelphia have an Alliance of American Football squad?

610-632-0975, we’ll take your phone calls after the break.

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junker-town · 5 years ago

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Henry Ruggs III’s bathrobe was peak draft day fashion

It’s called fashion.

It’s called fashion, honey, look it up. When wide receiver Henry Ruggs III’s name was called Thursday night during the NFL Draft, he was gloriously rocking a robe in his living room. Ruggs, who was selected at No. 12 overall by the Las Vegas Raiders in the first round, answered the call from Jon Gruden wearing a white bathrobe:

THE MAN WORE A BATHROBE TO HIS OWN DRAFT PARTY pic.twitter.com/iaJrG827fV

— Christian D'Andrea (@TrainIsland) April 24, 2020

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As it turns out, Ruggs’ decision to wear the robe was part of a sponsorship with Old Spice. During an on-air interview with Rece Davis on ABC, Ruggs mentioned he had a partnership with the deodorant brand. The receiver is wearing it to highlight Old Spice’s donation to United Way:

It’s not to be comfortable. Raiders pick Henry Ruggs III got paid to wear that bathrobe. He’s wearing an Old Spice robe to call attention to the company's $320,000 donation to United Way on behalf of rookies from all 32 NFL teams to kickstart their community efforts. pic.twitter.com/qNAe5AAlim

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) April 24, 2020

You can see the red Old Spice logo on the side of it:

Let’s be honest... Henry Ruggs isn’t the only one watching the draft in a robe tonight. pic.twitter.com/ZGiIqLYD7p

— Bears Talk (@NBCSBears) April 24, 2020

Sure, this was part of an Old Spice deal, but Ruggs’ quarantine fashion choice is one we can all relate to. I’ve worn real clothes like once since I’ve been at home, and if I was getting drafted I’d probably choose to be comfortable, too.

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Butler sees championship potential, bright future with Sixers

The commerce speak is lengthy behind Jimmy Butler. Now, he is able to get began with the Philadelphia 76ers and seeing how far he, Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons can take the staff.

Butler was launched to the media on Tuesday morning, a day after his commerce from the Minnesota Timberwolves to the Sixers was made official. Butler and Justin Patton had been traded to Philadelphia, in alternate for Robert Covington, Dario Saric and Jerryd Bayless together with a 2022 second-round draft choose. Butler is anticipated to debut together with his new membership Wednesday at Orlando (7 ET, NBA League Cross).

“The previous couple of days have been shifting so extremely quick. I believe I am that man who needs to win and compete at a really excessive stage,” Butler mentioned Tuesday. “I don’t assume I’m a foul teammate, however individuals get no matter they need to say out. I believe I’m an unbelievable human being, teammate, and I’ll present that to the fellows right here.”

“I believe I am an unbelievable teammate and I will present that to the fellows which might be right here.”

– Jimmy Butler on what he’d like Philly followers and his new teammates to find out about him pic.twitter.com/3jVYFZNNwr

— NBA TV (@NBATV) November 13, 2018

Butler was dealt after two months of commerce hypothesis surrounded him following his demand to be dealt days earlier than the Timberwolves’ coaching camp opened. Whereas a number of offers had been bandied about since then, the Sixers ended up with the four-time All-Star Butler within the first blockbuster commerce of the 2018-19 season.

“I made this transfer as a result of I consider it is what’s finest for our staff,” Sixers GM Elton Model mentioned Tuesday. “We now have a championship window and it is necessary that we do no matter it takes to capitalize on it. This commerce gave that chance so as to add an elite participant like Jimmy Butler. Jimmy’s on of one of the best gamers within the league fingers down. With Joel, Ben and Jimmy and the remainder of our dynamic roster, we now have a robust mixture to tackle one of the best groups within the NBA.”

GM Elton Model explains why the Sixers traded for Jimmy Butler.

Total, Butler is worked up about teaming up with Simmons, Embiid and the remainder of Philadelphia’s roster. The Sixers are off to a 9-6 start after Monday night’s win against the Miami Heat — a game in which Embiid went for 35 points and 18 rebounds. Butler said he watched that game and is excited about a new “Big Three” in Philadelphia.

“I like the sound of it,” Butler said of the Sixers’ new Big Three. “Now, we’ve got to go out there and make things happen. Talk is just that: talk. I think that when guys get out there and know how to play basketball — which everybody on this roster does — it’s all going to fall into place.

How will adding Jimmy Butler alter team chemistry for Philadelphia in 2018-19?

“I think I can put the ball in the basket … we’ll find ways to make things work. I know what I’m capable of doing out there on the floor. I think it’s going to be easy to play off the guys we have … I don’t think the offense is going to be a problem at all.”

Brand said when he first found out Butler was available, he reached out to the Wolves about acquiring him. He spoke often with Wolves GM Scott Layden and once the trade “had some legs”, team owner Josh Harris spoke with Wolves owner Glen Taylor. Harris and Taylor then thought the trade could be done, and Brand and Layden worked out the particulars.

Butler said found out about the trade in a series of text messages from friends before hearing from “two people” he was waiting to hear from — which presumably were Layden and Timberwolves coach and president Tom Thibodeau.

With this new start before him, Butler praised the Sixers for liking players who “grind” and wants to do “whatever it is the team asks for me to do” to help Philadelphia realize its championship dreams.

“They play so incredibly hard.”

Jimmy Butler is excited to get to work with Joel Embiid, Ben Simmons and the @sixerspic.twitter.com/NiRp0kehi5

— NBA TV (@NBATV) November 13, 2018

“It is above any and every thing,” Butler mentioned of the pursuit of an NBA title. “That trophy, getting that ring, all I ever wished to do is win. I’ve a brand new alternative right here. That is the aim. That may all the time be the aim.”

The commerce speak surrounding Butler introduced an finish to his time there and with Thibodeau, who additionally coached Butler when each had been on the Chicago Bulls.

“Thibs is my man. The world is aware of that. that. It was laborious going via that with Thibs, however he knew what it was for probably the most half,” Butler mentioned. “I’ve a lot respect for him and the group they’ve … it simply didn’t work out. I want them one of the best.”

Mentioned Sixers proprietor Josh Harris: “I and our staff will do our greatest to carry a championship to town of Philadelphia. For my part, we now have three of the highest 20 gamers within the NBA.”

The @sixers press convention for Jimmy Butler contains…Jimmy Butler on the donuts. pic.twitter.com/IERMbKU4Wv

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) November 13, 2018

The 76ers received 47 video games in a three-season span between 2013 and 2016. They received 28 in 2016-17, made the leap to the playoffs at 52-30 final season and now can be thought of an much more severe menace to emerge because the East rep within the NBA Finals.

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NFL Football Prospect Born With One Hand Bench Presses 225 Pounds 20 Times So Inspiring!

This is amazing, and SO inspiring!

Shaquem Griffin is a football player from the University of Central Florida who is hoping to play in the

Oh, there's one other thing about Shaquem Griffin that you should know: because of a congenital defect, he was born with only one hand. But don't think for a minute that's ever stopped his football career!

Griffin is going viral right now because, out at this NFL Combine, he's bench-pressing 225 pounds with only one hand! Superman!!!

Ch-ch-check this out on video (below)!!!

Shaquem Griffin just benched TWENTY REPS at 225 lbs. with a prosthetic hand. (via @thecheckdown) pic.twitter.com/OKse67VQ8b — SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) March 3, 2018

Shaquem Griffin, who has only one hand, just posted 20 reps on the bench press.

What an absolute inspiration. — Ricky Henne (@ChargersRHenne) March 3, 2018

20 reps from Shaquem Griffin. Without one hand. Monster! pic.twitter.com/95N9FQLNmx — Sam Monson (@PFF_Sam) March 3, 2018

Shaquem Griffin just did 20 reps of 225 pounds on the bench press. He has one hand. — Will Brinson (@WillBrinson) March 3, 2018

At 10, Jim Abbott didn’t listen when he was told he couldn’t play baseball w/o a hand. Had a 10-year MLB career, threw a no-hitter. At 8, Shaquem Griffin didn’t listen when he was told he couldn’t play football w/o a hand. Played LB on 13-0 UCF, had 20 reps on combine bench press pic.twitter.com/dP7qcGP3fj — Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) March 3, 2018

That a boy, Shaquem!!!

So inspirational!!

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