NBA EPM wins added vs. salary last season What jumps out?

2016 Draymond Green That is all

The Los Angeles Dodgers are projected for a luxury tax bill of $182 million this season In 2022, the entire MLB's tax bills combined were $74 million

Larry Berg is 60. That's older than any other major U.S. commissioner was at the start of his or her tenure... Bettman (NHL) - 40 Garber (MLS) - 41 Goodell (NFL) - 47 Silver (NBA) - 51 Manfred (MLB) - 56 📈: @levakabas.bsky.social, @sportico.bsky.social

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SCOOP: Larry Berg will be the next MLS commissioner. More coming at @sportico.bsky.social via me and Scott Soshnick 👇

Alex Eala has arrived. She just took out Jessica Pegula in the Washington DC final to win her first WTA 500 title 🏆 She's the 8th most popular women's tennis player on Instagram. Six of the seven players above her have won a Grand Slam

Last season LeBron James averaged 20.9 points per game. Before him, no 41-year-old had ever averaged more than 10.1 What will he average this season?

LeBron James has more Instagram followers than Steph, Westbrook, Kyrie, Klay, Giannis, and KD combined

MLB games used to be longer than Oppenheimer Now, thanks to the pitch clock, they are only as long as The Dark Knight Rises!

LeBron James has made $581 million in salary over his career, $351 million of which came during his seven seasons with the Lakers

The Odyssey is one of the most Nolan-y Christopher Nolan films I think it checks off all but two of the boxes on this chart

The New York Mets are 43-60, the third worst record in the NL, despite having the highest payroll in MLB

The Boston Red Sox lost last night, ending their winning streak at 15 games Here's the longest streak for every NBA, MLB, NHL and NFL franchise ⬇️

World Cup players with 100M+ Instagram followers 1️⃣ Ronaldo - 677M 2️⃣ Messi - 515M 3️⃣ Neymar - 242M 4️⃣ Mbappe - 135M

2026 tennis prize money update 🎾💰🧵 Jannik Sinner ($11.6M) and Alexander Zverev ($9M) are way ahead of everyone else Read more: wp.me/pc2RuA-1lyXX4

Erling Haaland gained the most Instagram followers during the FIFA World Cup (+32.1 million) Next was Cape Verde goalie Vozinha, who went from a nobody to 29.4 million followers in just a few weeks

It's Odyssey day! Here's a 🧵 of Christopher Nolan data viz 🎥🍿📊 Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway are each making their 3rd appearance in the Nolan-verse with The Odyssey He worked with Michael Caine on 8 consecutive films

Christopher Nolan's highest-rated movie (adjusted average of IMDB and Letterboxd) is The Dark Knight, followed by Interstellar and Inception What's your Nolan movie ranking? Where will The Odyseey fall on the list?

Vinod Khosla, who has agreed to buy the Seattle Seahawks for $9.6 billion, would be by far the biggest Democratic donor among NFL owners Data 📊 and story ✏️ from me and @ebennovywilliams.bsky.social: wp.me/pc2RuA-1lzG6g

Argentina 🇦🇷, amazingly, has scored the majority of its goals after the 80th minute in this World Cup (Stoppage time goals plotted at 90' for simplicity)

The night the New York Knicks won the title, more New Yorkers took the subway between midnight and 5 am than on New Year's Eve!

The Home Run Derby still draws ~6 million viewers each year, even as All-Star Game viewership in just about every sport continues to decline precipitously

Tech billionaire Vinod Khosla and his family have reached an agreement to buy the Seattle Seahawks for $9.6 billion It’s the largest valuation ever for an NFL team in a control transaction, surpassing the Washington Commanders ($6.05 billion)

Jannik Sinner is a beast... now 172-8 in non Alcaraz matches since the start of 2024 He is your 2026 Wimbledon champion 🏆

Linda Noskova 🇨🇿 beat Karolina Muchova 🇨🇿 in an all-Czech women's Wimbledon final Czechia has produced six Grand Slam singles finalists in the past decade, plus doubles No. 1 Karolina Siniakova. Three other Czech women aged 20 or younger are already ranked in the top 50

Arthur Fery. Wimbledon semifinalist

Nordic combined skiing is OUT as a Winter Olympics sport in 2030 Freeride skiing & snowboarding is IN Synchronized skating ("Synchro9") will up the number of figure skating medal events from 5 to 6 Read more: wp.me/pc2RuA-1lzFRu

The NBA salary cap is double what is was a decade ago, but teams are spending significantly less in free agency There are a lot of factors at play here (increase in early contract extensions, harsher overspending penalties, etc.) but it shows how the NBA offseason has changed

"America thought this time would be different and that the USMNT could pull off a miracle. The World Cup doesn’t work that way... The U.S. just doesn’t have enough quality players" - Luke Cyphers for @sportico.bsky.social @lukecyphers.bsky.social ✏️: wp.me/pc2RuA-1lzFOu

Wimbledon rallies are more than a full shot shorter than Roland Garros on average Tennis surfaces are more similar than they were in the early 2000s, but the jump from clay to grass is still huge

Coco Gauff wins a higher percentage of 3-set Grand Slam matches than any other top women's tennis player