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Lendeborg joins Chamberlain and Barry: Dimitri keeps the pause before the name
With two games of at least 30 points in his first seven appearances, Yaxel Lendeborg joins Wilt Chamberlain and Rick Barry in Warriors history. His 37 points against the Clippers are the most by a Golden State rookie since Stephen Curry’s 42 in April 2010.
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LeBron James picks Philadelphia, Chantal wishes him someone for the key
LeBron James has finally signed with Philadelphia, after seriously considering retirement when the Lakers were eliminated by the Oklahoma City Thunder in the playoffs. He told the story to Steve Nash.
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Dunleavy calls Curry sport’s greatest franchise face, Dimitri wants the lights out
Stephen Curry has signed a two-year extension with the Golden State Warriors. General manager Mike Dunleavy said he has never seen a better face for a franchise in the history of professional…
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Jasikevicius says Fenerbahçe was poorly coached, Martine hunts for the column
Fenerbahçe beat Virtus Bologna 78-68 in Istanbul in their Euroleague opener, after trailing in the fourth quarter. Coach Sarunas Jasikevicius admitted a tactical error in defence.
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Three teams in under a year for D’Angelo Russell, Dimitri never got to announce him
D’Angelo Russell was waived by the Memphis Grizzlies on 25 September 2026 without playing a single game for them. In under a year he passed through Dallas, Washington and Memphis, and only…
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The Mavericks didn’t buy back the Flagg card, Darnell’s mother understands
Jason Williams, who paid 515 dollars for the Mavericks cards from three boxes opened online, turned down the franchise’s public offer to buy back a unique Cooper Flagg card. It sold for…
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Wembanyama’s Spurs head back to Paris, Darnell recalls his one-way ticket
The NBA confirmed on Tuesday that the NBA Paris Game and NBA Manchester Game 2027 are sold out. Victor Wembanyama’s San Antonio Spurs, who already visited Paris in 2025 against the Indiana…
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Adams predicts a November slump, Martine gets out her binder
At the Houston Rockets media day, Steven Adams joked about the effects of the GTA VI release in November, forecasting a general dip in form across the NBA, the NFL and other…
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Kukoc praises Jokic’s Balkan basketball IQ, Darnell’s mother approves
On the Croatian show Sport Nedjeljom, Toni Kukoc said Nikola Jokic and Luka Doncic have a high basketball IQ, which he credits to the European and Balkan school of fundamentals.
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Doncic writes a chapter in the Lakers’ book, Chantal has hers in a folder
Luka Doncic wrote a personal essay in the Lakers’ official history book, published by TASCHEN, saying he wants a title with the franchise he joined from Dallas in February 2025.
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Bryant ranks Hapoel Tel Aviv S-tier, Dimitri hunts for the missing jingle
Elijah Bryant, a player at Hapoel Tel Aviv, has posted his own ranking of all twenty EuroLeague clubs for 2026-27 on his YouTube channel, sorted into five tiers. He puts his own…
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Larkin swaps sides in Istanbul; Darnell’s mother recalls his 2000 bag
Shane Larkin joined Fenerbahçe Istanbul this summer, after eight seasons at Anadolu Efes Istanbul, its great rival in the EuroLeague. He hasn’t scored ten points or more against Efes in eight years,…
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Curry hasn’t signed, neither has Podziemski: Martine leaves two lines blank
Stephen Curry hasn’t signed a contract extension with the Golden State Warriors, though he can do so at any time during the season. Brian Windhorst (ESPN) repeated that he could still sign.
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Four columnists, zero press cards
Martine
Timekeeper at home and scorer away for a second-provincial club on the Herve plateau, since her son stopped playing. A game only exists through what is on the sheet, and the buzzer is always right.
Chantal
President of a second-provincial club in the Condroz, near Namur, “because nobody else wanted the job”. Reads NBA contracts in the only unit she knows: what they would be worth at her club, in raffles, minibuses and heating.
Dimitri
Announcer for a Brussels club in the Flemish second regional division, in both languages: the mic, the music and the introductions in the dark with the school-fair spotlights. Everything is a moment, and the NBA sometimes does too little.
Darnell
Arrived from Indiana in 2000 for one season in Charleroi, never left. Watches the NBA, his own country, like an exile who found something better: here people play defence, and check before they believe it.
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